BY ALANA HARTLEY OU News Bureau The words used to write a Facebook post are different than those used in The New York Times. Why is this? Why do we write differently than we speak? Why do we use slang words at all? In casual conversation, people might use words such as ain’t, um or [...]
BY MADELINE LOSHAW OU News Bureau The recent rise in temperature has pulled Oakland University students off their couches and outside to longboard, toss Frisbees and sway on the hammocks by Beer Lake. Along with this increase in activity has come an increase in creativity. During the past two weeks, chalk drawings of Pokemon characters [...]
BY BREANN DOTSTRY OU News Bureau Danielle Lepine has spent the last few years reading food labels and not enjoying fast food like many people her age. Food allergies are rare, and only about 4 percent of adults develop them. Lepine is in that select group. The 23-year-old Lepine of Rochester Hills, who has had [...]
BY KELLI WARSHEFSKI OU News Bureau A wet nose and a wagging tail can deliver a special therapy all its own. The people at Pet-A-Pet offer animal therapy to hospitals, nursing homes and schools in metro Detroit. March 21, Pet-A-Pet volunteers went to Farmington Public Schools and visited Cloverdale School, which houses a program for [...]
BY DANIELLE KOPACKI OU News Bureau Without peg legs, parrots or a pirate ship, people across the world are taking part in a modern treasure hunt: geocaching. Armed with a GPS or smart phone, and online clues provided by the hider of the cache, geocachers use coordinates to find caches that range in size from [...]
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BY RACHEL ZYNEL OU News Bureau Nestled on the west side of Detroit’s industrial district, an old glove factory continues to tell stories every day. John K. King Used and Rare Books now inhabits the former Advance Glove factory. Owner John King, a book and antique connoisseur, moved his collections there in 1983. King opened [...]
BY RACHEL ZYNEL OU News Bureau The typical college student views class from behind a desk. However, a growing number of students are getting a new perspective on learning — and it comes from the front of the room. Allison Hallman, 19, is a teaching assistant at Oakland University. She is part of a program [...]
BY BREANN DOTSTRY OU News Bureau On a “Dr. Phil” show earlier this month, the psychiatrist turned the spotlight on parents who are overly involved in their child’s sports. Kia, a mother whose out-of-control behavior got her banned from her daughter’s practices, told Dr. Phil that other parents do not sit near her or speak [...]
BY ALYSSA McMILLAN OU News Bureau Each year, hundreds of thousands of families work with adoption agencies in hopes of finding a child. The 2000 Census reported 1.3 million households included at least one adopted child under age 18, and at least 17 percent of adoptions were interracial — known as transracial. Transracial adoption refers [...]