Rory McCarty
Senior Reporter

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Latest posts by Rory McCarty:
National ‘Awareness Month’ Awareness Month

National ‘Awareness Month’ Awareness Month

Be aware: bowels, brain damage, apathy, and other really meaningful reasons to celebrate

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Student Program Board presents ‘Casino Night’

Picture a room lined with blackjack tables manned by dealers with painted faces and masquerade masks. The house band the Swing Kings play to a crowd of people eating catfish fingers and coconut shrimp and standing in front of Tomb Raider slot machines.
A man walking on stilts weaves through [...]

By Rory McCarty Read

Sheriff Bouchard pays a visit

Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard spoke in front of a room full of Oakland University students on Monday as part of his campaign for governor.
In the Oakland Center’s Fireside Lounge, Bouchard gave a brief speech about what he hopes to achieve in his gubernatorial campaign, and then answered students’ questions for the rest of the [...]

By Rory McCarty Read

Campus community comes together for blood drive

The Red Cross will be collecting blood donations through Thursday, Jan. 28, in the Oakland Center.
Bridget Tuohey, communications manager for the Red Cross, said that downturn in economy has affected the donations they normally get from companies like the “Big Three” automakers.
They’ve turned to college students increasingly to pick up the slack and she says [...]

By Rory McCarty Read

Keeper of the Dream kicks off African American celebration

People lined the walls and filled the seats in the banquet room to hear Susan L. Taylor’s speech at the Keeper of the Dream celebration Monday.

By Rory McCarty Read

Carrying out a legacy: Three students to become ‘Keepers of the Dream’

Almost 47 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his momentous “I Have A Dream” speech, the full impact of King’s struggle is so extensive that it’s nearly unimaginable what the world would be like otherwise.
The three students being honored this year with the Keeper of the Dream award are but a few of those [...]

By Rory McCarty Read

Who's Leading OUSC?

Greeks: A sliver of student body, a chunk of Student Congress

By Rory McCarty Read

Campus Briefs

Sociology Club is hosting an event rallying the university to allow Micah Fialka-Feldman to live on campus. “Rallying for Micah’s Dream” is at 12:15 p.m. Nov. 18 in front of the Oakland Center. Its goal is to build support for Fialka-Feldman’s effort to sue the administration for the right to live in university housing. Fialka-Feldman [...]

By Rory McCarty Read

Catch a whiff of Vandenberg

Investigation into the odor in Vandenberg.

By Rory McCarty Read

Looking back at last season in a summer daze

While some of the more studious among us are spending the summer taking general education classes or working to build resumes at internships, the rest of us are too busy living our lives to even think about those things.

By Rory McCarty Read




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