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A postcard from Paris: from the Seine to the sea

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor July 30, 2025

Étretat “I need to get out of the city,” I said, huffing to my friend, gripping the germ-filled metro pole. It was true: Paris is a lot. I’ve started to tune out the constant alarms coming...

Why do people protest?

Why do people protest?

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor July 23, 2025

With the first half of the year gone by, the U.S. witnessed 14,713 protests just in the first five months — 1,000 more protests than those that occurred in the same days of Trump’s previous administration....

A postcard from Paris: Bingo, FlixBus and a broken elevator

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor July 23, 2025

A new routine I've finally started to fall into a good routine in Paris. The initial overwhelm and chaos has faded. I (mostly) know my way around the city. Tuesday dinners are now reserved for Taco...

The dying art of the meet-cute

The dying art of the meet-cute

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor July 23, 2025

“We met on Hinge,” you say, holding your fiancé's hand while introducing him to your grandmother. It’s oddly unromantic. In an age of digitalization, it makes sense that our romantic lives...

A postcard from Paris: Bonjour!

A postcard from Paris: Bonjour!

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor July 14, 2025

For the first time in six weeks, I finally have the time to sit down and write for The Oakland Post. In May, when final exams ended, I packed up a suitcase and headed to Paris for the first half of my...

Suzanne Spencer-Wood: A feminist time machine

Suzanne Spencer-Wood: A feminist time machine

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor July 9, 2025

A question about 19th-century ceramics can only turn into an hour-long explanation of the historical ideology of the sacredness of motherhood by the hand of Anthropology Professor, Suzanne Spencer-Wood....

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Corrido Censorship: The paradox of funding and criminalizing cartel stories

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor July 9, 2025

July first became a paradoxical Groundhog Day as Natanael Cano, one of the pioneers of the corrido tumbados genre — Mexican folk songs revamped with trap — released his latest album, “Porque La Demora”...

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Czech please: Tales from a summer in Prague

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor June 4, 2025

If you’re reading this now: I’ll be in Paris. My entire closet is on the floor. Three sundresses are packed into my suitcase, and everything else is scattered on my floor in chaotic piles. I’m...

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Freedom and heated seats: A love letter to my 2016 Chevy Equinox

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor June 4, 2025

My car is broken. My beautiful 2016 Chevrolet Equinox is currently sitting in the garage, with her hood popped open. It’s like I’m looking at an operating table. My dad is in cargo shorts and a...

Breakups, heartbreak and getting through it all

Breakups, heartbreak and getting through it all

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor May 7, 2025

To put it simply: breakups are awful. It is like someone ran you over with a truck – and then reversed the truck and ran you over again. As someone who has experienced the breakup of a multi-year...

Behind the bear: OU student Colin Taylor-Johnson unveils life beyond the mascot

Behind the bear: OU student Colin Taylor-Johnson unveils life beyond the mascot

Ava Webb, Photographer May 2, 2025

The OU student behind the university's Grizz character is set to graduate in a few short weeks. He is now reflecting on his time in — and out of — the bear suit.  Colin Taylor-Johnson, who is a...

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A swing and a miss

Mallory Waligora, Content Editor April 23, 2025

I'm currently working on my backswing – and my love life. Let me set the scene: I’m in Washington, D.C., for the week, representing Miss New Hampshire on a random side quest. My week was a blur...

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