Michigan Academician articles from September 2004

Michigan Academician archives from September 2004

G. Mennen Williams and Rhodesian independence: a case study in bureaucratic politics (1).
September 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION November 11, 2005, marks the fortieth anniversary of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), the first and only time since the American Revolution that a British Colony declared its independence from the...

Biologic living and rhetorical pathology: the case of John Harvey Kellogg and Fred Newton Scott.(Biography)
September 22, 2004... In the thirty-one years of his directorship, Dr. Kellogg had transformed the San, as it was affectionately known, from an Adventist boarding house specializing in Graham bread and water cures to the "Temple of Health" it had now...

A comparison of scientific and literary perceptions of pre-European settlement forests in Michigan.
September 22, 2004... ABSTRACT In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans viewed pre-European settlement forests as untouched preserves of large trees and abundant wildlife. Scientists have been testing this view of pre-European settlement...

Michigan's common law right to government financial information.
September 22, 2004... Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power and to withhold from them information, without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge...

Short-term military needs or long-term curricular reform? The impact of World War II on California Community Colleges.
September 22, 2004... According to Gerald D. Nash, World War II transformed the American West from a "colonial economy" emphasizing raw materials extraction into a diversified economy emphasizing agribusiness, industry and technology. Military spending was the...