It’s no question that the creation of the new chief operating officer position and subsequent hiring of Scott Kunselman has created a good deal of conflict at Oakland University. I am not sure what...
In my 41 years as a professor on this campus (I retired in August, 2012), I expected only one thing of the upper administration, namely, that they play by the same rules that govern all employee groups...
Last week in one of my classes, the topic of OU’s new COO was brought up and it led to an interesting conversation. I, like most of the students I have talked with, had no idea about the recent hire. ...
On some issues we can no longer divide ourselves on one side or the other. With the issue of the environment, the facts are clearer than before. Yet still, the issue of the environment is divided among...
The fall semester of my sophomore year in 2014, I was walking to the restroom in Elliott Hall before my morning class. I held the door for a woman in a wheelchair because there was no automatic button...
As I read the text from my father, I thought to myself, “I don’t want to do this again today.”“10 dead, 20 wounded in a shooting at a college in Oregon,” the message said.I packed up my bag and...
It’s time to voice my unpopular opinion — I support the tuition raise. Before you yell at me, hear me out. This past week, President Hynd addressed state lawmakers in Lansing about the 8.48 percent...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of...
Black lives matter because America tends to forget. All lives matter, you say?All lives do matter, but not equally.When protests and unrest erupted in the streets of Baltimore earlier this year, it happened...
Hello everyone, I would like to formally introduce myself as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Oakland Post for the year.I’m honored and excited about this position, but my first editorial is not about...
Heavy metal. The world of headbangers and one of the most misunderstood music communities out there. As a metalhead myself, I would like to shed some light on our community. People call us "satanic...
When former Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown was banned from the statehouse floor for saying the word “vagina,” that should have turned some heads.Mind you, when this “shocking” and “blasphemous”...
