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Student Statesman: Just let us be friends

By Nicholas Walters December 2, 2014

When I was a child, nobody told me that Ade Olaniran was different. Nobody told me that he was better or worse than I was, privileged or non-privileged, higher or lower. If somebody had said any of these...

Going with the flow

By Andrew Wernette November 30, 2014

I never totally knew what I was doing.When my mother told me all those years ago that I had received a decent scholarship to attend Oakland University, I shrugged my shoulders indifferently and said, “Okay,...

In the race to be the best,  OU has its priorities straight

In the race to be the best, OU has its priorities straight

By Kaylee Kean November 19, 2014

The cost of college is climbing too much, and may no longer be worth it for students and society. Or at least that’s what “Ivory Tower,” a documentary from producer and director Andrew Rossi, suggests.Set...

Bearing the weight of success

By Erica Marracco November 18, 2014

When I walk around campus, I notice how students either carry their backpacks with the confidence of Paris Hilton toting around her little Pomeranian, or slouched over with back pain that just writes “mental...

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Editorial: Regulated we stand, monopolized we fall

By Oona Goodin-Smith November 12, 2014

What are you willing to pay to Google a cat meme? How about to stream that full season of American Horror Story on Netflix?  The next time you log on to Moodle, have your wallets at the ready, OU. As...

Student Statesman: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses … legally

By Nick Walter November 10, 2014

Our southern border is experiencing a flood of illegal immigration. The illegals are coming not only from Mexico, but also from other Latin American countries. According to the BBC there has also been...

Letter to the Editor: Don’t live here

By Aspen Grezeszak November 10, 2014

I've recently moved into Beacon Hill Apartments, which seemed like, DUH, a smart move- so close to campus and seems to be so nice too! Wrong. Upon moving in, our schedule move was pushed back a day because...

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Don’t rely on the classroom

By Kaylee Kean November 5, 2014

There are roughly 175 students majoring in journalism at OU, according to Garry Gilbert, head of the journalism department. Less than a quarter of those students are involved outside of the classroom.Brian...

Nothing’s scarier than voter’s apathy

By Oona Goodin-Smith October 29, 2014

Rubber bats and synthetic spider webs dangle from doorways as the squirrels have begun their yearly assault on porch jack-o-lanterns and flocks of the fearless venture to haunted houses. The Halloween...

Student Statesman: Vote right on your final midterm

By Nicholas Walter October 27, 2014

Knowing the horror we students have of midterms, it is with some caution that I write a column on midterms. But this is a different kind of midterm. A midterm that doesn’t use Scantrons, No. 2 pencils,...

Letter to the Editor: Note to Self cartoon

October 26, 2014

Hello, I must say that I am a little disappointed that the Post regrets running the Note to Self cartoon.It's just a cartoon and anyone looking that hard to be offended by it really has too much time...

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Spread the facts, not rumors

By Kaylee Kean October 22, 2014

On Thursday, Oct. 16 a female student was attacked around 10 p.m. as she was walking outside of the Kresge Library. Her attacker is said to be an “unknown male wearing a dark ‘hoodie’ style sweatshirt,”...

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