Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor
June 6, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
It feels like the Oakland Center has been under construction for 30 years.
While that is a slight exaggeration, it is starting to get hard to remember what the OC looked like before construction started in April 2017, or why...
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
April 10, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
In April 1963, the first graduates of Oakland University received their diplomas. 148 students were part of this charter class.
Not only was this class remarkable in their ability to make it through Oakland’s rigorous grading...
Patrick Sullivan, Staff Reporter
March 20, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
Cable television is a service that residents living in Housing on campus are all entitled to today. Whether residents use their box to follow the news, keep up with March Madness, watch reruns of Rick and Morty at 3 a.m., or if it...
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
February 13, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
Today, we all have portable computers. Whether it be a laptop, tablet or phone, many of us have technology right at our fingertips. The hardest part of course registration is waking up on time to get in the classes that you want....
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
January 30, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
The rumor many of us have heard is that the very first Meadow Brook Ball was for the first class of graduates, where Matilda Dodge Wilson graciously gave all in attendance the cost of their class rings back.
This, however,...
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
January 23, 2018
Filed under Looking Back
In 2001, the basement of the Oakland Center had a different inhabitant: a bookstore known as Wallace’s.
This bookstore used to be a franchise known by former Kentucky governor Wallace Wilkinson. However, in Feb. of 2001, he...
November 28, 2017
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
November 14, 2017
Filed under Looking Back
College newspapers are meant to challenge what is expected from a news organization. But, most people don’t expect to be confronted with a cover story featuring a female student taking her top off.
Well, that’s exactly w...
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
November 7, 2017
Filed under Looking Back
No one was allowed to have fun in 2005, it seems.
No dancing on campus
In 2005, Oakland University inplemented a dancing ban. Much like the famous flick “Footloose,” this prevented dances from happening on campus for the ...
Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor
October 31, 2017
Filed under Looking Back
According to “Today I Found Out,” the concept of the modern-day practice of trick-or-treating began sometime in the 1920s and has been an American tradition ever since.
Oakland University is no stranger to this holiday....
