Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave her last state of the state address Wednesday night live on television and in front of a friendly crowd of legislators and business leaders. Even her frugal Republican mom and dad who flew in for $20 from California were in the audience, which Granhom turned into a lesson: pinch pennies. Granholm [...]
By COLLEEN J. MILLER Editor in Chief The tree lighting in Detroit’s Campus Martius park this Friday reportedly didn’t light up as planned. If you read this week’s editorial in The Oakland Post, you might think that the editorial board had something to do with that. No, of course we didn’t, but I couldn’t help [...]
At the recent funeral visitation of a dear aunt, a television showed a slide-show montage of pictures of my aunt, her children and grandchildren and her many friends. Accompanied by a recording of some of her favorite songs, the images replayed across the screen and provided a small glimpse of her full life and courageous [...]
By COLLEEN J. MILLER Editor in Chief This is certainly an exciting time to be a part of the student media at Oakland University. From the strike and controversial contract negotiations to the upcoming vote of no confidence against President Gary Russi, which caused him to set a number of promises for specific changes. There’s [...]
By ALEXIS TOMRELL Scene/Mix Editor Fashion magazines are known for pushing the envelope. They often take their photo spreads to the controversial cliff in the name of “avant-garde” and being forward-thinking. I applaud them for that. The fashion industry produces some of the best modern art, in my opinion. But, what French Vogue commercialized on [...]
Friday’s Midnite Madnezz marked the official start of the 2009-10 basketball season. Hundreds of green glow sticks covered the O’Rena as the Grizz, and the cheer and dance teams, welcomed Oakland’s sports teams into center court. Each player on the men’s and women’s basketball teams were introduced one by one as they ran through the [...]
BY Brad Slazinski Staff Reporter For the second year running, the Brooksie Way took place on October 4th. I decided to run it again, despite training very little in comparison to last year. I decided to do the race again because I’ve enjoyed running for a long time and it would be a quick way [...]
Since the bike share program kicked off a few weeks ago, Oakland University’s campus has been littered with bicycles, some of which broken and just plain unsafe. The idea of the program is for students to take the bikes from here to there, never having to sign them out, just grabbing them and going. Photographed [...]
By Erik Anderson Oakland Post Technology Blogger Apple Computer recently released a major update to its Macintosh operating system. Mac OS 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, is a recommended upgrade for Apple Computer users who are currently running the older Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard). For the most part, Snow Leopard is an “under the [...]
BY Caterina Passarelli Guest blogger Do you ever notice that women at the gym tend to use the cardio machines like the treadmill and the elliptical, and that men are usually in the weight room? That’s because somewhere along the line women got the idea that lifting weights would “bulk them up.” I am here [...]
