Spring 2005

• Cover page
• Table of Contents
• Editorial Notes
• Fay M. Hansen, Saving Open Spaces and Special Places
• Juliette K. Roddy, The Role of the Economist in Environmental Issues: Uses and Abuses of the Benefit Cost Analysis
• Simon J. Ren and Donna Folland, Current Environmental Initiatives at Oakland University
• Claudia Grimberg and Wiebke Nieman, Two German Girls: Claudia and Wiebke, Exchange Students, Provide Their Impressions of Oakland University
• Robert Justin Goldstein, Systematic Evaluation of University Administrators: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (And is Long Overdue)
• Natalie B. Cole, Ricochet's Hard Boiled Bounce: Review of Sue Grafton's R is for Ricochet
• Stephanie Bohde, The Underground Railroad Quilt Code: A History of African-American Quilting from Ancient Practices to the Civil War Times
• Chris Brockman, Behind Every Poem a Story
• Sherman Folland, Gas Prices, What's Real and What's Not? Notes from the Dismal Science
• "The Flicks": Oakland University's Prospective Regular Cinema: TOJ Notes: The Editors
• Contributors to this Issue
• How to get the Oakland Journal
• Call for Papers

Fall 2004

• Contents
  
  • Inside Cover
  • Briefs
  • Editorial Note
  • Todd A. Estes, The Blue States and the Red States: Scouting the Electoral map at the Outset of the 2004 Presidential Campaign
  • Dick Goody, Opening Up to Contemporary Art
  • James W. Dow, The Evolution of Religion: Modern Anthropological Theory
  • David P. Doane, Students Must Evaluate Faculty
  • Interview with Larry Lilliston, What Do Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness?
  • Max Brill, Oakland Undiapered…Diapered
  • James D. Graham, The Revolution Was Not Televised: Perspectives from the Banks of Beer Lake, 1969-1975
  • David McGuire, Reflections on A Fulbright Year at Oakland University
  • Gottfried Brieger, Pierce the Pig

• From the Dismal Science
  • Sherman T. Folland,"…And, where all the college teachers are above average"

• Reviews - "The Passion of Christ", Mel Gibson
  • Peter J. Bertocci, Why Mel Gibson Fails
  • Charles Mabee, "The Passion of Mel Gibson"
  • Brian F. Murphy, Some Uses of Christ’s Passion: Three Modern Instances and a Medieval Example

Winter 2004

Winter 2004

• Contents
  • Editorial Notes
  • Donald O. Mayer, "Corporate Governance and Enron Ethics"
  • Paul J. Kubicek, "Iraqi Nation-Building in the Honors College"
  • Brian F. Murphy, "Remembering Kiichi Usui: A Tale of Two Paintings"
  • Paul and Alice Tomboulian, "The Matilda Wilson College Proposal of 1956"
  • Alice M. Carleton, "Basic Training"
  • Gertrude M. White, "Living with a Bibliophile"
  • Sean Porter, "The Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Nicaragua"
  • Susan E. Wood, "The Looting of the Baghdad Museum"
  • Scott Irwin, "A Bugler of Words: Ellison's Musicality and the Jazz/blues Tradition in Invisible Man"

• From the Dismal Science
  • Sherman T. Folland, "My Theory of the Oakland University Parking Problem"

• Review
  • Daniel J. Clark, "American Vanguard: A History of the United Auto Workers, 1935-1970"

• Poems
  • Pamela Light, "Real Assessment"
  • Pamela Light, "This Must Be Heaven"
  • Pamela Light, "Hope"

• Other
  • Contributers

Spring 2003

• Contents
  • David C. Bricker, "Student Autonomy as a University Objective"
  • Brian Murphy, "A Success This Week: Virgil Thomson in Time"
  • Susan M. Awbrey, "Making the “Invisible Hand” Visible: Dialogue About Academic Capitalism"
  • Kieran D. Mathieson, "The Corporate Model at Oakland University"
  • Duncan Cardillo, "The Historical Jewish Ghettos of Venice"
  • Leonardas V. Gerulaitis, "Bibliophily in the USA"
  • Abraham R. Liboff, "Semon, Schrödinger, and Repressed Memory"

• From the Dismal Science
  • Sherman T. Folland, "Growing and Shrinking University Budgets: Go Ask Alice"

• Ask the Professor
  • Mohamed A. Zohdy, "Genetic Algorithms"

• Short Story
  • Jesse Malouf, "The Sidewinder (the devil and a blue note)"

• Other
  • Contributors

Spring 2002

• Contributors
• Editorial Note
• Carl F. Barnes Jr, Memories at Vezelay
• Johnathan Bowen, Detroit : Techno
• Jane Donahue Eberwein, Forum - What's Good for the University
• Sherman T. Folland, Passing Cats
• Sherman Folland, What Profiteth the Not-for-Profit University?
• Gerry La Femina, The Raccoon
• Albert J. Meehan and Michael C. Ponder, Racial Profiling
• Sean Farrell Moran, Memory and the Dark Dream of Irish History
• Barbara A. Oakley, Hair of the Dog
• Stafford C. Rorke and Brian R. Goslin, Wellness, Health Promotion, and Injury Prevention Advocacy
• Mary Ann Samyn, Beneath Speech
• Robert T. Eberwein, The Contributions of the Jam Handy Organization to American Commerce and Culture
• Susan Wood, Fashion and Politics - How Roman Women Groomed their Public Images

Fall 2001

• Contents
  • Linda Benson, "Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China"
  • Donald E. Morse, "In Xanadu I Had Such Friends: Teaching the Literature of Anticipation"
  • S. Bernhard and Evelyn Thomas, "Remembering a Wartime (1944) USO Hospital Tour"
  • Peter J. Bertocci, "A Sufi Movement in Modern Bangladesh"

• On Hamlet: A Symposium in Print
  • Brian F. Murphy, "Introduction"
  • Niels Herold and Joe Kelty, "Interminability and Overdoing in teaching Hamlet: An Exchange of Views"
  • Pamela T. Mitzelfeld, "'The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time' Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet'"
  • Brian F. Murphy, "And Now This Latest"

• Forum
  • Ronald M. Horwitz, Sharon L. Howell, Frances C. Jackson, David R. Maines, Virinder K. Moudgil, Kevin J. Murphy and Mary L. Otto, "What's Good for the University?"

• Views
  • Michael D. Sevilla, "Is Science a Religion?"
  • Sherman T. Folland, "The Soda Pop Monopoly, or How I Learned to Love Pepsi: Observations from the Dismal Science"

• Feature
  • David Garfinkle, "Ask the Professor: How Can There Be Action at a Distance?"

• Humor
  • Mark R. Ludorf and Kathleen Rountree, "Presidential Searches-Survivor Style"

• Poems
  • Thomas Fitzsimmons, "The One-Eyed Boy at the Wall"
  • Thomas Fitzsimmons, "The One-Eyed Boy by the Cave"
  • E. Haworth Hoeppner, "True Romance"
  • E. Haworth Hoeppner, "Opening Curtain"
  • Joann L. Washington, "Pearls"

• Other
  • Contributors

Fall 2000

• Contents
  • Vincent B. Khapoya, "Reconciliation in South Africa: Mandela's Legacy"
  • Louisa C. Ngote, "Art in Rome: 313-1300 A.D."
  • Mary C. Karasch, "Bartering Books: Doing Research in Central Brazil"
  • James R. Ozinga, "Remembering Robbin"
  • Michael D. Sevilla, "Radiation: Risks and Rewards"
  • Chaundra L. Scott, "A Model for Student Experiential Learning "
  • Richard J. Burke, "Woody Varner"

• Reviews, Humor
  • Sheldon L. Appleton, "Dutch, Edmund Morris, New York: Random House, 1999"
  • Carl F. Barnes, Jr., "Questions for the Candidates for the Modernist Position"

• Fiction, Poems
  • Kim Johnson, "Just For You"
  • James Hoyle, "Comedy, Tragedy, Theology"

• Other
  • Contributors

Spring 2000

• Contents
  • Gordon and Gary Shepherd, "The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement"
  • Karen A. Morgante, "Louis Betts, Portrait Painter of High Society"
  • Tadeusz Malinski, "The Vital Role of Nitric Oxide"
  • Jane Donahue Eberwein, "A Century of Dickinson Scholarship: Reflections of an Encyclopedist"
  • Frances A. Jackson, Stephanie Schim and Sonia Duffy, "Cultural Influences on End-of-Life Decision Making"
  • Paul and Alice Tomboulian, "The Oakland Chronicles: A Sampler"

• Reviews
  • Dick Goody, "Is This Art? Do You Appreciate It?"
  • Richard B. Stamps, "Historical and Cultural Preservation of Resources in Oakland County"

• Opinion
  • Abraham R. Liboff, "On the Value of Excess"
  • David R. Maines, "Thoughts of the American Dream and Its Future"

• Letters
  • S. T. Folland, "A Reply to Professor Liboff"

• Poems
  • Chris Brockman, "Youth Movement"
  • Ken Hightower, "Lost Sight Of"
  • Jeff Vande Zande, "A Bus"

• Other
  • Contributors

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