As we congratulate Egyptians on their newfound freedom, we encourage students to follow the coming events in the Middle East as the call for democracy that started in Tunisia and grew in Egypt is bound to mature in the Middle East.
It’s that time of year: Elections and campaigning. It seems to be taking off a bit slower than last year, but Oakland University is surely about to get hit with at least a month of avid campaigning for the positions of student body president and vice president.
University to shut down at 5 p.m. tonight.
Boy am I glad I didn’t grow up under the iron fist of an Amy Chua-esque Asian “Tiger” mother. Also, I don’t think she is a mother at all. In a Wall Street Journal piece entitled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Chua explains her parenting skills and how everyone could use them to ensure their children become math and music phenoms. The way the Professor of Law at Yale Law School handles parenting is actually a hands-off approach, believe it or not.
Serious conversations about better assessing campus safety began at Oakland University well before Jared Lee Loughner’s troubled past and displays of erratic behavior on an Arizona community college campus were brought into the public eye. According to OUPD Chief Samuel Lucido, a joint recommendation from the Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education was given in 2004 to establish threat assessment teams at schools. This sparked a national conversation about how to better evaluate minor problems before they became major incidents.
Nearly 400 OU employees are eligible for an early retirement package being offered by the University. Proposed at a Dec. 2 finance, audit and investment committee meeting, the Employee Severance Plan is designed to be a cost-cutting measure for the Oakland University administration. The plan was approved at the Dec. 9 board of trustees meeting before it was offered to employees.
Facebook creeping: We’ve all been guilty of it. While you’re used to actively clicking in order to see your friend’s pictures with one another and seeing their posts to each other via the news feed, Facebook has taken it one step further by adding the “see friendship” function.
Corey Dwayne Jackson, 19, of Warren died on the campus of Oakland University Tuesday, Oct. 19.
About 500 members of the Oakland University and surrounding communities congregated outside Vandenberg Hall at 10 p.m. Wednesday to honor the memory of Corey Jackson.
Oakland University students, staff and faculty are gradually learning more about the student suicide that occurred Tuesday. Members of the campus community are mourning the loss of Oakland University student Corey Jackson, 19. Students, staff and faculty were notified via e-mail around 7 p.m. Tuesday of an apparent suicide. The OU Police Department began investigating [...]
