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Budget dining: not ‘Good Eats’

By Dan Simons September 29, 2009

DAVID AND GOLIATHa burger of biblical proportions, with armageddon-like repercussionsThis caloric colossus is the result of a marriage made in McDonalds. Take the bottom slices of the buns from a McDouble...

Reporter’s got beef with PETA

By Mas Rahman September 22, 2009

Dear People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,You're doing it wrong. Your "Cash for Cluckers" program is a clucking disaster.Emulating a car company's last-ditch-effort to get people to buy new cars...

Swine Flu: Oink, squeal, spew

By Dan Simons September 16, 2009

What do coughing cougars, Elmo and beer pong have in common? Swine flu has gotten to them all.While it is in ridiculously poor taste to joke about a potentially fatal illness, laughter is the very best...

Slacking satirist starts strike!

By Dan Simons September 10, 2009

That's it, I can't take it anymore. I'm going on strike.I'm just one man with only one page, people. How can I be expected to mouth off when so much is going on? This last week has turned the Post's office...

Looking back at last season in a summer daze

By Rory McCarty September 2, 2009

While some of the more studious among us are spending the summer taking general education classes or working to build resumes at internships, the rest of us are too busy living our lives to even think...

The new semester shakedown

By Dan Simons September 2, 2009

As the new semester kills off the summer, students gather mournfully and prepare themselves for another go at academia. With the start of every new semester, there comes an odd and unique phenomenon that...

TV preview should cancel itself

By Colleen Miller July 16, 2009

They didn't use my credit cards to buy plane tickets, they didn't post my face on somebody else's naked body all over the Internet, and they didn't con me into sending thousands of dollars overseas as...

Etiquette for smoking, even if it kills you

July 14, 2009

ALEXIS CHINONIS-TOMRELL/The Oakland PostDuring a stressful production day at the paper, Editor in Chief Colleen J Miller thought a cigarette might be the cure. Managing EditorKatie Wolf went outside for...

We put the “OU” in “IOU”

By Dan Simons June 9, 2009

Dan SimonsA university must convey to people that it is a place of higher learning, cultural diversity, athletic excellence and breakthrough innovations. To attract new students and professors, to make...

Littlest known secret: campus housing

By Postie Editors June 9, 2009

Dan GliotAs I was reading this wonderful publication's online edition, I ran into an interesting blog called the Commuter Diaries. This is where one of the approximately 16,000 commuter students at Oakland...

Walkers, stalkers take heed

By Postie Editors May 12, 2009

By CHRIS HAGANGuest ColumnistIt's acceptable to have a stalker nowadays at Oakland University. Finishing my junior year, I've already had more than I can count. I've been stalked leaving Pawley Hall, Dodge...

Road trippin’: I gotchahome

April 14, 2009

By Tim Rath and Joe GuzmanWeb Editor and Senior ReporterThe end of the winter semester means many different things to different people. For some, it signifies the beginning of an arduous journey of summer-specific...

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