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Weather forecasts the end of times

By Brian Figurski March 27, 2012

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...

The Internet is no place to air your dirty laundry

By Brian Figurski March 22, 2012

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...

Forget the Bike Shares, let’s get ferries

By Kevin Graham March 21, 2012

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...

Use caution when posting online

By Dylan Dulberg March 21, 2012

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...

Stop with Kony

By Justin Colman March 15, 2012

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,...

Victim of an Irish Holi-daze

By Brian Figurski March 14, 2012

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...

Where are all of the bright pink bicycles?

By Brian Figurski March 6, 2012

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...

Sounds like the 15 minutes of fame are running out

By Brian Figurski February 29, 2012

“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...

A moat? Why is Oakland University building a moat?

By Brian Figurski February 15, 2012

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...

Your ticket for a kind of brighter-ish future

By Brian Figurski February 7, 2012

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’...

Know your sport: The Super Bowl for dummies

By Brian Figurski January 31, 2012

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....

Abandon ship or abandon all hope

By Brian Figurski January 24, 2012

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...

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