On Monday, the Student Program Board brought in ‘Teen Mom’ reality star Maci Bookout to speak at Oakland University. Yes, this is the same Bookout from the MTV show, which documents the glorified life of teenage moms. It’s ironic that 200 years ago, someone would be given a scarlet letter for having premarital sex, but now they’re getting television shows and money for it.
Most Oakland University students are required to take an internship at some point in their college career. Though there are a select few paid internships, there are a lot of unpaid ones.
Oakland University is located in Rochester, Mich. It has been since Matilda Dodge Wilson first donated the property and $2 million dollars to the piece of land that eventually became OU in 1957.
Last fall, 100 male students were relocated to the Homestead Suites Apartments on University Drive due to a housing overcapacity at Oakland University. They lived there for the duration of the semester. Today, students are encouraged to attend the Board of Trustees meeting — located in the Elliot Hall Auditorium at 2 p.m. — to help push to approve plans for a new housing facility.
It’s that time of the year again. Oakland University Student Congress elections are in progress and on March 26, you will be voting to elect your next student government.
Started three years ago by members of the Oakland University Student Congress, a division of Student Affairs, University Housing and Campus Recreation in 2009, the Bike Share program has had problems with bike mortality rates.
OU is a commuter school. One would think parking would be a primary concern of the university’s administration. Apparently, it’s not.
As journalism students, we are taught the importance of remaining objective in every one of our classes. However, it is hard to remain objective when we see so many professional journalists butchering a story about our university.
Though we usually try to write about concerns often relating to stories in the current issue, we aim to write about what we think is important and significant.
Last semester, OUSC spent $10,800 of their $86,301 fall budget on giveaways and $32,950 on events. A grand total of $43,750 on programming alone, according the “draft” budget they gave to The Oakland Post.
