Managing Editor, Oakland Journal
The Writing Center
212 Kresge Library
100 Library Drive
Rochester,
MI
48309-4479
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Archives
Here you will find an archive of past Journals.
Winter 2016 - Issue Number 26
- Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents - Issue 26
- James Quinn, Book Review of University Ethics
- WISE@OU, Multiple Paths to Full Professor
- Jennifer McQuillan, Room 568
- Andy Bird, Prospero's Penitentiary
- Steven Wynne, An Intellectual Revolution
- Yeaton Clifton, My Study of a Dismal Scientist
- Laura Gabrion, The Impact of Short Message Services on Writing
- Timothy Pontzer, Learning Through Service
- Gottfried Brieger, The Books I Wanted to Write
- Gottfried Brieger, Should We Apologize for History?
- Bill Byrne, Oh Doctor, My Doctor
- Bill Byrne, A Bridge Too Far
- S. Bernard Thomas, A Fifty Year Remembrance of Jack Barnard
- Contributors - Issue 26
Winter 2015 - Issue Number 25
- Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents - Issue 25
- Sean Farrell Moran, Remembering Seamus Heaney : Poetry and the Historians
- Brian Connery, Bar Scene - A One Act Play
- Charles B. Lindemann, a review of Three Steps to the Universe : From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter by David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle
- Feliece Turner, I Am Not My Hair : A Black Woman's Struggle with Identity Through Hair
- Sherman Folland, What Return On Their Investment Can Oakland Students Expect?
- Judith Brown, The Way We Were
- Yeaton Clifton, Visitation of New Hope
- Katie Lieder, You Created Us This Way. Incomplete : Anima/Animus and the Fluidity of Sexuality and Race in Craig Thompson's Habibi
- Fabio Iunes Sanches, Individual Decision for a Science Education : Path for Growth
- Contributors - Issue 25
Winter 2013 - Issue Number 24
- Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents - Issue 24
- David Jaymes, Book Secrets
- Zan Giese, The Soul Bone
- Ashley Liening, Not Your Grandfather's Sherlock Holmes
- Benjamin Eveslage, Empowering Women in the Global Community: An Oakland University Symposium
- Sean Farrell Moran, For the Good of America and For the Growth of Liberty and Opportunity
- Kieran Mathieson, Dolfinity: A New Model for Blended Learning
- Rob Delvillano, An Interruption
- Vagner Whitehead, Gold Code Series
- Brian Figurski, We Are In Hell
- Allyson Knirk, The Image of Satan in the 1688 Edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost
- Bill Byrne, An Invitation to "Unserville"
- About Water : An Interview with Jerry Dennis (interviewed by John Freeman, Janae Greene, Catherine Haar, Alice Horning, Beth Kraemer, Gary Sherherd, and Josephine Walwema)
- Frank Lepkowski, "When I Was Clifford"
- John Corso, Art Review: Michael McGillis at Public Pool
- Waldemar Semrau, Medical Matters: Response to Reflections of An Anatomy Lab
- Contributors - Issue 24
Fall 2012 - Issue Number 23
- Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents - Issue 23
- Don Matthews, How Does a Gangster Regime End? The Uprising in Syria
- Andrea Eis, An Entanglement: Ancient Texts, Old Marginalia, and Contemporary Art
- Jenifer DeBellis, The Things We Buried, Two Poems
- Pamela Mitzelfeld, Everyone Goes to Hollywood
- Stem Cell Research, Promise and Potential (Multiple Authors)
- Susan M. Awbrey, The Responsive University: A Cautionary Tale
- Lynn Galbreath Fausone, "Talk" Drawing Series - Artist's Statement and Images
- Elizabeth Frazier, "Slender firm strokes of the pen" : The Unspoken Words of Women Writers in Edith Wharton's Fiction
- Paul Kubicek, Steven Pinker Speaks at Oakland University
- John Cohassey, Roaring Twenties, Troubled Times: Writers' Impressions of Detroit
- Brooke Biaz, My Bicycle Is Getting Taller
- John Corso, Art Review : Clinton Snider at Suzanne Hillberry
- Lauren Mecca, Medical Matters : Medical School in Year One : Case #1
- Sherman Folland, Notes from the Dismal Science : A Beautiful Economics Story : A Review of Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar
- Contributors - Issue 23
Winter 2012 - Issue Number 22
- Cover, statement of purpose, table of contents - Issue 22
- Alberto Rojo, Physics and Poetry
- John Cohassey, In Duchamp's Shadow : Dadaist in the City of Machines
- Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Five Poems
- Hunter Vaughan, Why Bridesmaids Was Better Than Tree of Life; or, How I Learned to Stop Taking Myself So Seriously at the Movies
- Austin Murphy, Update on the Financial Crisis of 2008 to ???
- Cody VanderKaay, Messages from Invisible Sources
- Doris Plantus, Lucky Fish - New Fiction
- Ashley Liening, Transients and Dreamers in The Metanarratives of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
- Mary Bee, Stephanie Schley, and Adam Weiner, Medical Matters: Reflections on An Anatomy Lab
- Sherman Folland, Notes from the Dismal Science : What Have We Learned About Our Economy?
- Robert Conner, Adams and Jefferson : Personal Politics of the Early Republic
- Contributors - Issue 22
Fall 2011 - Issue Number 21
- Covers, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents - Issue 21
- Pat Piskulich, Holocaust Aesthetics : Four Films
- Michael Pytlik and Richard Stamps, In the Valley of Elah : Two Seasons of Excavations in Israel
- Annette Gilson, The Book of Mirrors : an Excerpt
- John Conner, Adams and Jefferson : Personal Politics of the Early Republic
- Jeffrey Insko, The Culture of Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
- Jason Storm, Poems
- Susan Walsh, Man, Metal and Metaphor
- Jennifer Van Vliet, The American Family Saga in Middlesex and Freedom
- Ashley Cerku, Poem: Road
- Laura Riggs, The Responsible Philanthropy of Matilda Dodge Wilson
- Joseph Dement, The Quarrel
- Barbara Joyce, Medical Matters : Do No Harm
- Alice Horning, Amanda Deschamps, Dana Driscoll, Kasia Kietlinska, Interview : Professor Timothy Wu
- Sherman Folland, Book Reviews : When Colleges Don't Teach & Students Don't Learn
- Geoffrey Brieger, Opinion Forum : Why I Can't Be a Native
- Contributors - Issue 21
- Archives - Issue 21
Winter 2011 - Issue Number 20
- Cover - Issue 20
- Statement of Purpose - Issue 20
- Contents - Issue 20
- Ronald Rapin, New Day in a Troubled Land: Cambodia Rising
- Todd Estes, What We Think About When We Think About Thomas Jefferson
- Interview : Regina Carter
- Susan Hawkins, The End of the World As We Know It
- Hye Seung Chung, Monster and Empire: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host (2006) and the Question of Anti-Americanism
- John Cohassey, Offbeat on Campus
- Niels Herold, Ironic Pedagogy: Teaching Sacred Texts in an Academic Setting
- Sally Schluter Tardella, Directions : Artist’s Statement: The Wardrobe Project
- Lauren Sanchez-Murphy, The ABC's of Law School
- Sherry Wynn Perdue, Beyond the Secret Decoder Ring
- Linda G. Sisson, Lizabeth Barclay, and Karen Markel, University Students with Disabilities
- Joseph Dement, The Winner
- Gottfried Brieger, Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System
- Bella Schanzer, M.D., Medical Matters: “When They Are Us”
- Bill Byrne, An Acorn No More
- Letters to the Editor - Issue 20
- Kieran Mathieson, Making Teaching a Priority
- Sherman Folland, Book Review: “SuperFreakonomics”
- Contributors - Issue 20
Fall 2010 - Issue Number 19
- Cover - Issue 19
- Statement of Purpose - Issue 21
- Contents - Issue 19
- Natalie Kzirian and Mary Bee, Cadavers: Touching Lives After Death
- Timothy G. Larrabee, Equality for LGBT Faculty
- Susan Wood, Saving a Haitian National Icon
- Charles Lindemann, A Wondrous Tale of a Sperm Tail
- Stafford Rorke, World Cup Fever
- Sumit Dinda and Rasul Chaudhry, Meeting Report : The First Midwest Conference on Stem Cell Biology and Therapy (SCBT)
- Jeffrey S. Chapman, The Restaurant
- Susan Evans, Natives : Ambrotypes from the Digital Frontier
- Chris Clason, City Life and Feline Opinions: The Tomcat Murr and Hoffman's Urban Landscape
- Kyle Allkins, "Those Things" and "You People" : Issues of Racism in Zombie Cinema
- Robert Anderson, "So." : The Worlds of Oral Performance
- Bill Byrne, One Man's Part in "The Rising"
- Rachel Smydra, Academic Service Learning : Moving your Students Outside of the Classroom - Literally
- Greg Giberson, Alice Horning, and Jessica Tess, Religion and Society: A Discussion with Dr. Stephen Prothero
- Forums
- Sean Moran, Creating a University of Distinction
- Sherman Folland, Is America Smart Enough to Lead the World?
- Contributors - Issue 19
Winter 2010 - Issue Number 18
- Cover - Issue 18
- Statement of Purpose - Issue 18
- Contents - Issue 18
- Sherm Folland, When Lying is the Ethical Thing to Do, and When There is Too Much of It
- Paul Kubicek, The "Wall in the Mind" and Nostalgia for Separation
- William Hogarth (Courtesy of the Carl Barnes Collection), "The Distrest Poet" An Engraving
- Gladys Cardiff, Four Poems
- Kathleen Pfeiffer, Headnote to the "N" Word Essays
- Adam Cherry, Chelsea Cook, Liz DePaoli and Brian Rick, The "N" Word - Four Essays
- Natalie B. Cole, Headnote to the Strike Blog
- Brian A. Connery, Strike Blog
- Keith Gottschalk, "A Star of David Fell From Heaven" - Poem
- In Memoriam Gertrude White, Professor Emerita
- Archives - Issue 18
- Contributors - Issue 18
Fall 2009 - Issue Number 17
- Cover - Issue 17
- Statement of Purpose - Issue 17
- Contents - Issue 17
- Editor's Notes - Issue 17
- Gordon Shepherd, Here Comes the Sun
- Gary Shepherd, Blood on Blanket Hill
- Bill Byrne, How to Tawk Noo Yawk
- Pamela Light, Shot Through the Heart
- Austin Murphy, An Analysis of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Causes and Solution
- Sherman Folland, Whats the Matter with the Mill?: A Perspective on the Economic Disaster
- Sean Kilpatrick, Recession, Monologue, Tiny Violins (three poems)
- Dolly Kefgen, Signing Statments: History and Issues
- Sherman Folland, Universal Health Insurance : A Guide to the Debates
- Archives - Issue 17
- Contributors - Issue 17
Winter 2009 - Issue Number 16
- Cover - Issue 16
- Statement of Purpose - Issue 16
- Contents - Issue 16
- Editor's Notes - Issue 16
- David A. Dulio and Peter F. Trumbore, Looking Back, Looking Ahead : Presidential Politics in 2008 and 2009
- Alice S. Horning, He Dressed the Part
- Gary Shepherd, Hello Sociology
- Gordon Shepherd, Memoir Construction
- Bill Byrne, Brushes and Rushes
- Rachel Smydra and Cynthia Miree, Deconstructing Collaboration
- Gerald Rice, to you, The Dead Bird
- Mary L. Wermuth, A Teacher's Reflections on Artistic Intelligence
- Chris Brockman, Rach-Three Rocks Meadowbrook : A Retrospective Review
- Carla Butwin, in between Where It Started and I Began
- Alice Carleton, Inauguration Day January 20, 2009 - Prayer of Hope
- David Garfinkle, Cosmology, Doom and Gloom : Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings
- Kellie Hay, Olives, Oil and Bread, On Becoming, Peaceful Complexity, Spicy Spaces
- Sherm Folland, Notes from the Dismal Science : The Nursing Shortage : True or False?
- Pamela Light, Spring
- James W. Dow, Religion and Science : Two Peas in a Pod or Fruits of Different Vines
- David Garfinkle and Jude V. Nixon, Mathew Stanley's Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A.S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late-Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide - A Review Essay
- Serge Kruk, Forum - Mathematics on Probation
- Jonathan Benefiel, My Euler Tour
- In Memorian : Robert G. Hoopes
- Brian Murphy, William F Buckley's Dangerous Moment at OU
- Brian Murphy, Review of American Cultural Rebels
- Contributors - Issue 16
- Archives - Issue 16