Oakland University is electric. Students scuttling across campus in sandals and shorts, Frisbees flying across rolling green lawns, hammock-seated scholars swaying in the breeze, unicyclists speeding over...
I remember a time when you actually had to interact with someone in person to resolve an issue. For me, this usually ended in a bloody nose and running home to my mother.Now every intimate debacle is...
Oakland University's Bike Share Bikes have seen a 60 percent loss rate. They say don't criticize unless you can offer a solution, so I was hoping to use this week's Mouthing Off column to suggest some...
Dear Facebook user,Facebook is a lot of things. Facebook is a virtual meeting place. Facebook is something to do during a quick study break. Facebook is, depressingly enough, a way for people to hear major...
A few weeks ago, I was pulling out my hair, nauseated by the trend that was known as “Linsanity.” Jeremy Lin was mentioned on nearly every TV station, not just ESPN. But when Linsanity was dying down,...
I’m not exactly sure when I became a grumpy old man — the kind waving a jagged stick and shouting at those damned kids for hanging out in front of the strip mall stirring up a ruckus, but the (d)evolution...
I remember when I got my first bicycle. Jet black Mongoose, 18 gears, sweet neon lighting bolts attached to my spokes. When I felt like making a racket, I even stuck a holographic Charizard Pokémon card...
“I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here, I don’t belong here,” Radiohead – CreepI could probably stop writing at this point and be perfectly content with getting my point...
There are a lot of things on campus that need to be tended to with funding — parking lot problems, new building, finding a funny Mouthing Off writer, digging a moat, so on and so forth.Wait, what? A...
There has been quite a roar about the Oakland University Student Congress.After forgetting to dangle the deadline for submitting candidacy, the circumstance has been labeled everything from ‘sloppy’...
It’s that time of year again – sitting around with loved ones, stuffing your palette with regrettable choices and screaming obscenities and commanding death to others.Nope, not Christmas part zwei....
Man overboard! It’s all the rage these days, like dubstep or planking. It’s so booming that even the captain of the ship is jumping for joy, or for his own greedy safety.Last week, the cruise liner...