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Students get a “Taste of Africa”

Students get a “Taste of Africa”

Ariel Themm, Staff Reporter February 6, 2018

The Center of Multicultural Initiatives (CMI) hosted its “Taste of Africa” event on Friday, Feb. 2 in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms as part of African-American Celebration Month. The event featured...

Police Files Feb. 7, 2018

Mary Siring, Staff Reporter February 6, 2018

Basketball brawl An individual arrived at the Oakland University Police Departments’s station to report he had been assaulted by another male while playing a pickup game of basketball at the Oakland...

National Survey of Student Engagement to be offered to students

National Survey of Student Engagement to be offered to students

Trevor Tyle, Editor-in-Chief February 6, 2018

The biennial National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) will be emailed to freshman and senior undergraduate students on Feb. 15. The survey is offered at universities around the country and is used...

Muslims In America: The Canary In The Coal Mine

Muslims In America: The Canary In The Coal Mine

Mary Siring, Staff Reporter February 6, 2018

Islamophobia is seemingly a modern American issue, but the roots of this hatred and fear highlight a larger flaw. Professor Saeed Khan discussed Islamophobia on Feb. 1 in O’Dowd Hall, introducing the...

Kindness Week comes to campus

Jordan Jewell, Staff Intern February 6, 2018

Kindness Week is a yearly event at Oakland University put on by the Center for Student Activities. Between Feb. 5 and Feb. 9 student organizations will be putting on activities for students that encourage...

Michigan universities work together toward more state funding

Simon Albaugh, Social Media Editor February 5, 2018

Michigan universities have come together on one of the most pressing issues to a healthy, functioning public university system: state appropriations. Universities depend on the Michigan government to...

OU goes back to the ‘20s for this year’s Meadow Brook Ball

OU goes back to the ‘20s for this year’s Meadow Brook Ball

Jessica Leydet, Social Media Editor January 30, 2018

This year’s Meadow Brook Ball, “An Evening at Gatsby’s,” gave guests the chance to fully immerse themselves into the lavish lifestyle of the 1920s, a time when “a little party never killed nobody.”...

The rise of tuition and college competition

The rise of tuition and college competition

Simon Albaugh, Social Media Editor January 30, 2018

Since 2002, Oakland University’s tuition has more than doubled, when accounting for rising levels of inflation. But this doesn't seem to be contained by the rate of falling state appropriation funds,...

Examining the “Science of Hope”

Examining the “Science of Hope”

Ariel Themm, Staff Reporter January 30, 2018

Research has found toxic stress typically developed through constant stressors from childhood can lead to an early death. “Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope” further explores...

Go Red Week previews heart-health initiatives to come

Go Red Week previews heart-health initiatives to come

Laurel Kraus, Managing Editor January 30, 2018

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in American women with over 250 thousand deaths attributed to it in 2013 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While Oakland University...

Soundings Series: Dr. Barbara Oakley discusses the power of learning

Soundings Series: Dr. Barbara Oakley discusses the power of learning

Katarina Kovac, Campus Editor January 30, 2018

The popular Soundings Series presented by The Oakland University Research Office on Jan. 24 featured Dr. Barbara Oakley, a best-selling author and co-creator of “Learning How to Learn,” co-teacher...

Engineering and Computer Science Day returns to OU

Engineering and Computer Science Day returns to OU

Ariel Themm, Staff Reporter January 30, 2018

The annual Engineering and Computer Science Day returned to Oakland University on Saturday, Jan. 27. From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., prospective students were given information on the programs OU has to offer...

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