Oakland Journal Number 16: Winter 2009
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Item Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 table of contentsItem RachThree Rocks Meadowbrook: A Retrospective Review(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Brockman, Chris; Nixon, Jude V.If aesthetic experiences ever come up in a conversation (and they do occasionally), I am ready to recount my greatest one of all. It happened at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, August 30, 1969, and it was hearing and seeing Andre Watts play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Detroit Symphony, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.Item Deconstructing Collaboration(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Smydra, Rachel; Miree, Cynthia; Nixon, Jude V.Corporations acknowledge that products and solutions generated collaboratively are often successful because team players must consider diverse opinions and options from an array of contributors. The reaping of these same types of benefits found in the workplace is why collaboration is an important part of academia.Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 contributors listItem Statement of Purpose(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 statement of purposeItem Matthew Stanley’s Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide- A Review Essay(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.The relationship of science to religion and literature continues to be an issue of vexation, especially here in the U.S. A logical way, perhaps, to begin this review essay on a late Victorian, early-modern work integrating science and religion is by observing that in this period the walls between science and other epistemics were quite porous.Item Item He Dressed the Part(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Horning, Alice; Nixon, Jude V.He dressed the part of the consummate English professor, but more than that, he lived the part and taught me most of what I know that really matters about what makes great teaching, what is important for students and how to achieve excellence in the classroom. Though I still find his talent somewhat mysterious, my four years of college study with this gifted teacher have inspired my teaching and shaped my career.Item Memoir Construction(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Shepherd, Gordon; Nixon, Jude V.Advice on writing memoirs, and reflections on the author's own memoir, created as a response to a survey.Item Item Archives(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Item The Nursing Shortage: True or False? Notes from the Dismal Science(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Nixon, Jude V.Item Item In Memorian: Robert G. Hoopes(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Murphy, Brian; Nixon, Jude V.Memorial tribute to Robert G. Hoopes, long time faculty member of the Department of English at Oakland University.Item Item My Euler Tour(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Benefiel, Jonathan; Nixon, Jude V.An essay describing an undergraduate's experiences on the Mathematical Association of America's mathematical study tour in 2007, in conjunction with Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday.Item Religion and Science: Two Peas in a Pod or Fruits of Different Vines(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Dow, James W.; Nixon, Jude V.This essay deals with the difference between religion and science. Émile Durkheim and other nineteenth century social philosophers thought that science was a child of religion and that the two belonged to the same family of collective representations. I would like to offer an opposing opinion from the point of view of cultural anthropology.Item Cosmology, Doom, and Gloom: Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.If population growth is unchecked, or not sufficiently checked, there are any number of things that could cause a catastrophic collapse and extinction of the human species. These include (but are not limited to) worldwide famine, pandemic disease, global warming, all out nuclear war, and mass extinction of species leading to large scale collapse of ecosystems. Human history would thus consist of three periods, a long period of very low population, followed by a short period of exponential growth, followed by extinction.Item A Teacher’s Reflections on Artistic Intelligence(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Wermuth, Mary L.; Nixon, Jude V.An essay on the relationship between various forms of artistic expression.Item Brushes and Rushes(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Byrne, Bill; Nixon, Jude V.My wife reminds me, whenever I mention my brushes with the famous, that I am “star struck.” It’s her way of keeping me from making too much of myself or parlaying my brief encounters, my space and timeshare with some newsheadliners, into anything more that what it is—mostly happenstance, “a mere bagatelle,” or more appropriately, a series of them.