Oakland Journal Number 16: Winter 2009
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Item Archives(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.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.Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 contributors listItem 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 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 Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 editorial notesItem Forum: Mathematics on Probation(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Kruk, Serge; Nixon, Jude V.An essay addressing the myth that the mathematics department of Oakland University is on probation.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 Hello Sociology(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Shepherd, Gary; Nixon, Jude V.The story of all success is typically sprinkled with good fortune—being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people who can help. But prior to being in that right place and time, there has been a preparation process, an accumulation of knowledge, skills, insights, attitudes, and values that you have picked up along the way.Item In between Where It Started and I Began(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Butwin, Carla; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem 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 Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Presidential Politics in 2008 and 2009(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Dulio, David A.; Trumbore, Peter F.; Nixon, Jude V.In this article, as the title suggests, we will take a brief look back at the 2008 election and consider why it turned out the way it did, and look ahead to 2009 and beyond to consider the prospects for the new Obama Administration in both domestic and foreign policy.Item 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 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 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 The Nursing Shortage: True or False? Notes from the Dismal Science(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Nixon, Jude V.Item Poems: Olives, Oil, and Bread, On Becoming, Peaceful Complexity, Spicy Spaces(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Hay, Kellie; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem