Browsing Oakland Journal Number 09: Fall 2005 by Issue Date

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    • Haiku for The Modern Academic 

      Folland, Sherman T. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Poetry

    • The Academic Bill of Rights: Leadership in an Era of Legislative Oversight 

      Packard, Sandra (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      A non-binding resolution, the Academic Bill of Rights encourages all public institutions of higher education and those private institutions that present themselves as canons of academic freedom to establish an institutional ...

    • Table of Contents 

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      Oakland Journal Issue 9 table of contents

    • Editor's Notes 

      Folland, Sherman T. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Oakland Journal Issue 9 editorial notes

    • Cover 

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      Oakland Journal Issue 9 cover

    • The Two Owens 

      White, Gertrude M. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      The Owens brothers were born in Shropshire, in western England on the Welsh border of a cultivated but impoverished middle class provincial family. One of them would come to be among the most important English language ...

    • Imported Instructions, or, “The Almighty Switch” 

      Byrne, Bill (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Unintentional humor in product manuals created in countries other than the USA

    • The Garden of the Forking Worlds: Borges and Quantum Mechanics 

      Rojo, Alberto G. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      How the writing of Jorge Luis Borges relates to quantum mechanics.

    • Is There Really a Crisis in Health Care Spending? 

      Stano, Miron (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Health care analysts are fond of saying that one-third of health care spending is unnecessary or wasteful—the problem is finding out which third. As an extension, one can add the problem of whose third.

    • Genetic Mapping: Implications for Organizational Behavior 

      Markel, Karen S.; Barclay, Lizabeth A. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Genetic testing has many advantages, but is also open to abuse.

    • Notes from the Dismal Science: My Theory of How Brilliant People Can Say Stupid Things 

      Folland, Sherman T. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Brilliant people can say very stupid things when they talk outside of their area of genuine expertise.

    • The Impact of Genomics on the Future of Health Care 

      Williams, Lynne (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      There is no question that the practice of medicine in the post-Human Genome Project (or “Genomic Health Care”) will be significantly different from the current practice of medicine....The real challenge facing the health ...

    • TOJ Notes With Interest: Environmental Explorations 

      Hansen, Fay M.; Severson, Mark (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      A campus-wide committee, consisting of students, staff, faculty, and administration, has been planning for months to bring a wide variety of Environmental Explorations to the OU campus, including internationally known ...

    • Why Is the Use Of Steroids Taboo for Professional Sports? 

      Medalia, Nahum Z. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Pros and cons of the use of anabolic steroids by professional athletes.

    • 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 Blank Slate 

      Shantz, David W. (Oakland University, 2005-10-01)
      Book review

    • Contributors 

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      Oakland Journal Issue 9 contributors list