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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
