Michigan Academician articles from June 2004

Michigan Academician archives from June 2004

An anatomy of the judicial writing of Justice John D. Voelker.
June 22, 2004... This article examines the judicial writing of one of Michigan's finest writers. Born in 1903, John Donaldson Voelker lived virtually all of his 87 years in Ishpeming in the Upper Peninsula. He loved life in the U.P. and left only for three...

It takes a village: cultural border crossings in Rue Deschambault and Ces enfants de ma vie by Gabrielle Roy.
June 22, 2004... Throughout Gabrielle Roy's short stories, characters frequently confront cultural differences. Whereas some may approach this task from a global perspective, the most effective and accessible means to this end typically finds itself on a local...

The first years of term limits: an initial analysis of the effects on the Michigan House of Representatives.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT In response to complaints about unbeatable incumbents, sixteen states now have some form of term limit legislation. Among the claims of term limit proponents is that by largely removing the power of incumbency and essentially...

Herpetological assemblages of the Michigan Regional Landscape Ecosystems.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT The herpetofauna of each of the four Michigan Regional Landscape Ecosystems (Region I, southern Lower Peninsula; II, northern LP; III, eastern Upper Peninsula; IV, western Upper Peninsula) was determined based on museum specimens...

Pleistocene vertebrates from the pre-late Wisconsinan Mill Creek site, St. Clair County, Michigan.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT Fossil remains of five fish and eleven mammal taxa are described from sediments underlying tills at the Mill Creek site, northwest of Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan. Prior to the discovery of this site, twelve of the...

Distribution of reptiles and amphibians on the islands of eastern Lake Michigan: summary and analysis.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT We studied the island biogeography of reptiles and amphibians in the Lake Michigan Archipelago, which is composed of twelve major islands in eastern Lake Michigan. We created an updated distributional record of reptiles and...