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Student Statesman: Call it what it is

Let’s say that you’re the leader of an organization, for instance, the president of a company that makes cars. Let’s say that there’s a group of people who, for whatever crazy reason, hate cars...

Perspective: philanthropy is essential to OUs makeup

Perspective: philanthropy is essential to OU’s makeup

By Daskyra Hood March 2, 2015

Philanthropy. It means a lot to me as an Oakland student. Matilda Wilson’s philanthropy is the foundation of Oakland University and it is important to who we are. Students come to Oakland because they...

Brian’s lying, the media’s crying and we’re just sighing

By Kaylee Kean February 11, 2015

Brian Williams, 57, started working with NBC News in 1993 as an anchor for the Weekend Nightly News. He is now the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, and in the 11 years since he came into...

OU alumnus Kryssy Becker plays the lead role of Wendla Bergmann.

Theatre alum has ‘Spring’ in her step and voice

By LeeAnn Brown February 10, 2015

Almost springThis weekend, millions of cheesy cards will be exchanged. CVS will turn a large profit on those gyrating stuffed animals that dance and sing at you in robotic voices, “Come on, baby, light...

Perspective: Brian Williams can’t handle the truth

By Nick Walter, Student Statesman February 9, 2015

I would be surprised if any of you regularly watched the nightly news on NBC. After all, we’re the generation that gets its news from social media and Jon Stewart, not traditional broadcast anchors that...

Professional Readiness Examination presents problems to education students

Contributed by Alicia Pemberton January 27, 2015

The Professional Readiness Examination (PRE) is a test that most education students, including myself, are stressing over.I feel like I am a capable student and will one day be a capable teacher, but I...

Student Statesman: Free speech matters

Who cares about Argentinean politics? Anyone? I would be surprised if there was even one student here at Oakland who gives a snap of their fingers about the subject. Good grief, I can hardly get you all...

Perspective: one of the lucky few

By Kaylee Kean January 21, 2015

Andrew Clissold said he considers himself to be pretty lucky, but I consider myself to be even luckier.I’ve been at Oakland less than he has, or Taylor Boddy has, or Kaitlyn Keith has. This is my third...

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: ‘Are we just as intolerant as them?’

As I read the Letter to the Editor section of last week’s Oakland Post, I asked myself one startling question: Are we just as intolerant as them?Since the summer of 2012, Chick-fil-A has been at the...

Oakland Posts Web Editor is an advocate for freedom, speech rights and all things American.

The value of free speech

By Sean Gardner January 13, 2015

In times like this, it is important to reflect on the world and think about the things which makes us special.Freedom of speech is one of these things, something many may take for granted.With events such...

War on Terror: Incomplete

Nick Walter, Student Statesman January 12, 2015

Anyone remember reading how much everyone loved Vietnam? The unity of the American people, the strength of the political response to North Vietnam, the ease with which our unrestricted military struck...

Hansen: A pioneer among us

By Christopher Harris December 2, 2014

If you received credits in college for just being yourself, would you fail? Have you ever felt you needed to conform to another person’s perspective to succeed? Were you ever forced to learn about something...

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