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SEPTEMBER THE OAKLAND POST 21 OAKLAND UNIVERSITY’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 2016 ACTIVE GRIZZLY. HOMECOMING. NEW BEGINNING. Earn rewards for Calendar of sports and Meet the latest getting involved entertainment events swim team recruits PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 13 RUN GRIZZLIES RUN STUDENT ORG SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK: RUNNING CLUB PAGE 5 Photo by Dongfu Han / The Oakland Post ontheweb Online update on the Student Veterans of Oakland University’s Road March to End Hunger, which took place Sept. 9 and doubled last year’s donations thisSeptember 21, 2016week // Volume 42. Issue 4 www.oaklandpostonline.com POLL OF THE WEEK Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting a divorce. Thoughts? A Love is dead and 2016 is cancelled B My heart will go on . C Literally, who cares? D [GIF of Jennifer Aniston laughing] Vote at www.oaklandpostonline.com LAST WEEK’S POLL What’s your opinion on pumpkin spice? A) #sickofit 13 votes | 24% B) It runs through my veins 15 votes | 28% PHOTO OF THE WEEK C) I’m indifferent 14 votes | 26% TEACH ME HOW TO DOUGIE // Several students competed in a dance-off on the foam-covered floor at Housing’s D) Where’s my peppermint mocha? annual Midnight Block Party last weekend. Participants were given 30 seconds to show off their best Dougie, 12 votes | 22% and a winner was selected based on the crowd’s cheering. MARY MITCHELL // The Oakland Post Submit a photo to [email protected] for a chance to be featured. View all submissions at oaklandpostonline.com THIS WEEK IN HISTORY SEPTEMBER 30, 1966 Oakland University announced a plan to provide transportation to Rochester, Birmingham, the Pontiac Mall, and Northland. Today, we have the Bear Bus. SEPTEMBER 15, 1967 Dorm curfew hours were officially lifted for female students over 21 or with sophomore status. Since the creation of the university, female students had an 5 9 14 earlier curfew than male students. RUNNING AROUND STAYING SHARP OLIVIA NASH GOES PRO SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 Looking for something to do on A Microsoft study reports that Catch up with Oakland alumna An Oakland Post test revealed that at least three of campus? Check out the Running humans now have shorter attention Olivia Nash as she prepares for the 10 blue light stations on campus were not working. Club in this week’s Student Org spans than goldfish, thanks to her post-graduate career playing The problems in 2002 mirrored a similar problem a few Spotlight. technology and multitasking. basketball in Finland. years back that has since been fixed. Photo / Dongfu Han Photo / Mary Mitchell Photo / Nowshin Chowdhury BY THE $7 billion 85% 850,000 9 million 12,000 raised for charities each year of Fortune 500 executives hours volunteered students take part in undergraduate chapters NUMBERS by U.S. Greek organizations were Greeks in college by Greeks annually Greek Life each year in the U.S. and Canada GREEK LIFE www.njit.edu/greeklife/directory/facts.php http://college.usatoday.com/2012/05/08/examining-the-benefits-of-greek-life/ Looking Back The history of Bear Lake: THE OAKLAND POST Campus “water wonderland” Address 61 Oakland Center 312 Meadow Brook Road Cheyanne Kramer fulfilled his promise. It took him three attempts Rochester, MI 48309 Web Editor to recover the bowling ball from the lake. Phone (248) 370-4268 In 1968, the Oakland County Department of Web www.oaklandpostonline.com ear Lake is a landmark on Oakland Uni- Health stated that Beer Lake was “unsuitable as Email [email protected] versity’s campus. Between Vandenberg a public bathing beach.” BHall and the Oakland Center, the bridge The reason? The water could be unsanitary -be editorial board connecting Vandy and the OC has actually been cause of possible pollution from a county drain there longer than the lake itself. and the effluents from the heating system in Wil- Paige Brockway Editor-in-Chief The mud pit used to be home to campus events son Hall. [email protected] like tug-o-mud and a famous mud fight. In addition, a preliminary study conducted by (248) 370-4268 Back in May of 1966, the area where the lake two OU students said that bacteria of the family Grace Turner is used to be a giant mud hole. There were no Enterobacteriaceae were inhabiting the water. Managing Editor plans for the lake to be home to any wildlife, and This type of bacteria can cause serious intes- [email protected] it was explicitly forbidden for students to boat on tinal disorders like typhoid. At the time, William (248) 370-2537 the lake. By 1967, the lake had been stocked with Forbes of the biology department said Beer Lake Nowshin Chowdhury Cheyanne Kramer fish. was poorly planned, and that there should have Photo Editor Web Editor Originally, the lake was to be finished when been more consideration for the risk of pollution. [email protected] [email protected] construction was finished on Vandenberg, but He said the lake could be a danger to anyone in (248) 370-4266 union strikes halted the completion of the lake. the surrounding area. The original Oakland Observer article unveil- But bowling balls, sinks and beer cans weren’t editors copy & visual ing the lake’s plan called it a “water wonderland,” the only thing to be found at the bottom of the Shelby Tankersley Campus Editor Megan Carson Chief Copy Editor and a “scenic lake.” The lake was part of a univer- lake. Numerous cars found themselves taking [email protected] Brian Curtin Copy Editor sity-wide attempt to “beautify” the campus. swimming lessons after rolling out of the OC’s Nicholas Kim Copy Editor By September of ‘66, the lake had taken up the parking lot. Faith Brody Life Editor Lizzie Novak Copy Editor name “Beer Lake.” The story goes that a student Most students remember the car that rolled in [email protected] Sarah Lawrence Graphic Designer threw a beer can into the mud and christened from P2 in 2014, but did not know the history be- Sam Schlenner Sports Editor Bohdanna Cherstylo Photographer the area Beer Lake. The paper called the finished hind the lake’s many victims. [email protected] lake a “swale-hole.” One story stated that George Between 1980 and 1985, three cars found their Elyse Gregory Photographer Dongfu Han Photographer Karas, the director of the physical plant, had no way into the lake in the exact same spot. In 2002, John Bozick Social Media Editor Mary Mitchell Photographer knowledge of the lake being called Beer Lake. another car found its way there. [email protected] Abigail Zmikly Photographer At the time, rumors were circulating that there The Oakland University Alumni Association were surveying stakes in the water to “pierce the Facebook page recently posted a photo of a Big Olivia Krafft Web Designer first unsuspecting swimmer.” Boy statue found in the lake. This, of course, was only a rumor. The wa- “I woke up in the morning and looked out my writers advertising ter, according to the article, came from surface dorm room window, it was foggy but there rising Robert Andrews Staff Reporter Hailee Mika drainage and was “anything but polluted.” out of the fog in ‘Beer Lake’ was Big Boy,” alumni Amy Swanson Staff Reporter Ads Director And those weird cement structures still in the Marshall Copeman was quoted on the page. KeyVonna Taylor Staff Reporter [email protected] water today? They are to regulate the water level (248) 370-4269 Melissa Deatsch Political Columnist of the full lake. Jacob Semanco Ads Assistant A year later, a rumor circulated that Vanden- Alex Stevens Political Columnist Kurtis Sexton Ads Assistant berg Hall was slowly sinking into Beer Lake. Another rumor was that there was a sink from a distribution advising junkyard sitting at the bottom of the lake. Garry Gilbert Beer Lake was also known for students playing Jacob Chessrown Distribution Director Medina Taylor Distribution Manager Editorial Adviser ice hockey on it. But in the winter of 1966, two Hanna Boussi Distributor (248) 370-2105 students fell through the ice. At one point, the ice Rachel Burnett Distributor thawed enough for goalie nets to sink to the bot- Chistrian Hiltz Distributor Don Ritenburgh tom, but they were eventually recovered. Lauren Osgood Distributor Business Adviser Maxwell Pelkey Distributor (248) 370-2533 Another rumor was that a student promised Theo Price Distributor that if his bowling team won a tournament, he Oakland Post Archives Nicholson Reed Distributor would drop his bowling ball off the seventh floor This photo of Vandenberg Hall and “Beer Lake” was Ian Scott Distributor of Vandenberg. They won the tournament and published in the May 27, 1966 issue of The Observer. follow us on Twitter Corrections Corner @theoaklandpost On Sept. 14, we published an titled “OU Art Gallery exhibits prints donated by DIA.” The prints were actually find us on Facebook loaned, not donated, to the gallery by the DIA. The Oakland Post apologizes for the error. facebook.com/theoakpost find us on Issuu The Oakland Post corrects all known errors of fact. issuu.com/op86 If you know of an error, please email [email protected] or call (248) 370-4268. You can also write us at 61 Oakland Center, 312 Meadow Brook Road, Rochester, MI 48309. www.oaklandpostonline.com The Oakland Post // September 14, 2016 3 Campus Career Services now offering tips and a better Handshake Shelby Tankersley personnel to facilitate employer engage- Campus Editor ment and facilitate new partnerships,” Thibodeau said. “I felt a strong need to put n the hopes to better help students and people in those two biggest schools that Icreate more Oakland University success have permanent focus on bringing em- stories, Career Services has made several ployers here.” changes to their model.