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Looking Back: Bookcenter transitions to Barnes & Noble store

Looking Back: Bookcenter transitions to Barnes & Noble store

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor February 27, 2019

The campus Barnes & Noble Bookstore is an important aspect for Oakland University students — it’s where students can buy apparel and rent or buy books for classes. Barnes & Noble first gained...

Looking Back: Swim Club told to repair pool in 60 days

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor February 13, 2019

The Swim Club was given 60 days to find a way to repair its pool without using the university’s money on Jan. 8, 1992. According to Robert McGarry, then vice president of finance and administrations,...

Looking Back: Problems with the construction of ODowd

Looking Back: Problems with the construction of O’Dowd

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor February 6, 2019

As O’Dowd Hall was being built, there were a series of strikes from carpenters and electricians delaying the completion, which was set to be in June of 1980. As fall rolled around, Oakland University...

Looking Back: Fire at the Student Enterprise Theater

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor January 31, 2019

The barn theater used to be home for many student performances, mostly from the Student Enterprise Theater, until it was burned down in a fire on Aug. 17, 1987. It also was used as a meeting place for...

Looking Back: Students hold Handicap Awareness Week

Looking Back: Students hold Handicap Awareness Week

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor January 23, 2019

Some students can take their abilities for granted — the ability to walk easily to class and fully understand the professor is something people never really think about as lucky. In 1991, Oakland University...

Looking Back: Projector thieves steal almost $30,000 worth of equipment

Bridget Janis, Managing Editor January 16, 2019

Projectors are used in virtually every classroom as a tool to help teach students. However, thieves 18 years ago did not see them as a tool, but instead saw them as a quick cash grab. Four projectors...

Looking Back: God comes to OU, and Oakland Student gets shot at after failed drug deal

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor December 5, 2018

God Comes to OU September, 1988 A 19 year old Rochester Hills man was arrested on campus in August 1988, after allegedly assaulting a police officer. That man had no identification and refused to tell...

Looking Back: Student Congress President resigns after arrest in university bookstore

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor November 28, 2018

An Oakland University Student Congress president resigned from his position after being caught attempting to shoplift at the university bookstore in September 1982. Zachary Shallow, the then Student...

Looking Back: No skiing, sledding or tobogganing

Looking Back: No skiing, sledding or tobogganing

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor November 14, 2018

With the sudden snowstorm that we had last week, it seems that Oakland University is soon going to be absolutely covered in the cold, white fluff for the next few months. While it can be fun to build...

Looking Back: Arson in the 70s

Looking Back: Arson in the 70s

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor November 7, 2018

There were 175 residents evacuated from Van Wagoner House on Feb. 20, 1979 for the second time in a week after a shower curtain was set on fire on the building’s sixth floor. This was the second fire...

Looking Back: Library heist of $73,500 worth of books

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor October 24, 2018

Espionage, execution and the promise of a sweet payday. When people talk about heists, they often imagine the target being a bank somewhere, or some rich snob who deserves a comeuppance. What they don't...

Looking Back: OU employee charged with embezzling in 1995

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor October 16, 2018

A previous employee of Oakland University’s Graham Health Center (GHC) was sentenced in April 1996 for four counts of embezzlement from the medical center. In the summer of 1995, an internal audit...

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