The Oakland Post

Former OU student featured in documentary about intellectual disabilities

Former OU student featured in documentary about intellectual disabilities

AuJenee Hirsch and Patrick Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief and Web Editor October 10, 2018

Hard working, humorous, determined, empathic, wise, not afraid to ask for help. These are all words to describe Micah Fialka-Feldman, a former OU student with an intellectual disability. Fialka-Feldman...

Looking Back: Past Problems with Hazing and Oakland

Looking Back: Past Problems with Hazing and Oakland

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor October 3, 2018

Hazing in different Greek Life organizations is an issue that has not been tolerated at universities across the nation for years. If a sorority or a fraternity is found hazing its members, that association...

Looking Back: WXOU’s 20 year battle

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor September 26, 2018

For more than 20 years, students have been able to tune in to 88.3 FM to listen to WXOU, the student radio station on campus. But in order to get to that point, the campus station had to struggle for years...

Looking Back 9/19/18

September 18, 2018

Three bombs set by a former Oakland University student went off on Oakland’s campus on January 10, 1990, prompting a panic from students and faculty. Jerry Guglielmello, former student from the fall...

A student gets hypnotized into holding up a board at the beginning of the fall semester in 1985.

Looking Back September 12 2018

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor September 11, 2018

With all of the Golden Grizzlies either returning to campus or arriving for the first time this week, Oakland offered many different programs and parties that students could go to and have fun. This...

Looking Back: The Tisch Amendment

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor September 5, 2018

State funding is crucial to the upkeep and operating of Oakland University, but there was a brief time in the fall of 1980 when that funding was threatened by a tax change known as the Tisch Amendment. The...

Looking Back: The alcohol policy on campus

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor August 1, 2018

Being told that alcohol is on a college campus wouldn’t shock or bewilder anyone. The combination of students coming of age and also becoming independent for the first time, along with the stereotype...

Looking Back: The 1991 Student Congress Election

Looking Back: The 1991 Student Congress Election

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor June 26, 2018

The 1991 Oakland University Student Congress election at Oakland University reads like a story out of a fictional political thriller. Racism accusations, misuse of congress funds and possible election...

Looking Back: Oakland Center Construction

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor June 6, 2018

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...

Looking Back: The first graduating class

Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor April 10, 2018

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...

Looking Back: Four years later, the car in the lake

Looking Back: Four years later, the car in the lake

Cheyanne Kramer, Managing Editor April 3, 2018

It's April 2, 2014. Most would see the headline and assume this was a late April Fool’s joke. However, a red Chrysler Sebring being towed from the frozen Bear Lake was no joke. The Oakland Post's...

Looking Back: Cable TV comes to the residence halls

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor March 20, 2018

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...

Load More Stories

Comments (1)

All The Oakland Post Picks Reader Picks Sort: Newest
Activate Search
A Trusted Source of Independent Student Journalism since 1987.
Looking Back