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    • The Raccoon 

      LaFemina, Gerry (Oakland University, 2002-04-01)
      Poetry

    • RachThree Rocks Meadowbrook: A Retrospective Review 

      Brockman, Chris (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)
      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 ...

    • Racial Profiling 

      Meehan, Albert J.; Ponder, Michael C. (Oakland University, 2002-04-01)
      We have three goals for this presentation: 1) to briefly review why racial profiling-specifically driving while black-catapulted to national attention in the 1990's; 2) to present our research which focuses on the importance ...

    • Radiation - Risks and Rewards 

      Sevilla, Michael D. (Oakland University, 2000-10-01)
      Scientists have investigated the effects of radiation now for over 100 years and while much is known about the biological effects of radiation there still continues controversy about the risks of low radiation doses in ...

    • Rail car in snow 

      Unknown author
      Three men standing in front of rail car on plowed road in winter.

    • Railroad conductors 

      Unknown author
      Group of men, two wearing conductor's uniforms, standing on platform attached to rail car.

    • Railway station building postcard 

      Unknown author
      Postcard of wooden railway station building and tracks.

    • Real Assessment 

      Light, Pamela (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)
      Poetry

    • Reconciliation in South Africa: Mandela’s Legacy 

      Khapoya, Vincent B. (2000-10-01)
      Experiences and observations in post-apartheid South Africa from a member of the United Nations Observer Mission, one of 64 Americans chosen by the State Department and the United Nations to observe the historic elections ...

    • Reflections on a Fulbright Year at Oakland University 

      McGuire, David (Oakland University, 2004-10-01)
      Observations on race relations in the Metropolitan Detroit area by a visiting Fulbright scholar.

    • Reflections on Creationism 

      Clampitt, Philip T. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Creationism, as represented by the book Scientific Creationism reviewed here,14 does not qualify as science. It starts with conclusions based on Biblical evidence, and then attempts to gather data in support of those ...

    • The Relative Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Nicaragua 

      Porter, Sean (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)
      Over the past two hundred years, Nicaragua has experienced colonialism, invasion and widespread destruction, primarily at the hands of the United States Government and client regimes. While Managua’s successive involvement ...

    • Religion and Science: Two Peas in a Pod or Fruits of Different Vines 

      Dow, James W. (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)
      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 ...

    • Religion and Society: A Discussion with Dr. Stephen Prothero 

      Giberson, Greg; Horning, Alice; Tess, Jessica; Prothero, Stephen (Oakland University, 2010-10-01)
      On November 9, 2009, Dr. Stephen Prothero, former chair of the religion department at Boston University and New York Times’ bestselling author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know—and Doesn’t, visited the ...

    • Remarks to the Board of Trustees 

      Russi, Gary (2003-04-02)

    • Remembering A Wartime (1944) USO Hospital Tour 

      Thomas, S. Bernard; Thomas, Evelyn (Oakland University, 2001-10-01)
      Letters written to family by Evelyn Thomas during a USO-sponsored national six-week tour of military hospitals during World War II.

    • Remembering John Cameron 1931–2007 

      Wood, Susan (Oakland University, 2008-01-01)
      A tribute to long-time professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Oakland University.

    • Remembering Kiichi Usui: A Tale of Two Paintings 

      Murphy, Brian F. (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)
      Kiichi Usui (1931–2001), was the Curator of Oakland University’s Meadow Brook Art Gallery from 1967 to 1997, and was also—almost secretly—a wonderful painter.

    • Remembering Robbin 

      Ozinga, James R. (Oakland University, 2000-10-01)
      Essay in remembrance of Robbin Hough, long-time chairman of the economics department of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oakland University.

    • Remembering Seamus Heany: Poetry and the Historians 

      Moran, Seán Farrell (Oakland University, 2015-01-01)
      Tribute to poet Seamus Heaney