THEOAKLANDPOSTOakland University’s Independent Student Newspaper Volume 44 Issue 22 Mar. 13, 2019 l l NEURO-WHAT? It’s Brain Awareness Week Page 10 CLASS CREDITS LT. GOVERNOR SHOT DOWN OU considers changing course Garlin Gilchrist talks Michigan’s Men’s basketball loses in last credits from four to three future in technology second at LCA PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 7 GRAPHIC BY PRAKHYA CHILUKURI MARCH 13, 2019 | 2 THIS WEEK PHOTO OF THE WEEK THEOAKLANDPOST EDITORIAL BOARD AuJenee Hirsch Laurel Kraus Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor [email protected] [email protected] 248.370.4266 248.370.2537 Elyse Gregory Patrick Sullivan Photo Editor Web Editor [email protected] [email protected] 248.370.4266 EDITORS COPY&VISUAL Katie Valley Campus Editor Mina Fuqua Chief Copy Editor [email protected] Jessica Trudeau Copy Editor Zoe Garden Copy Editor Trevor Tyle Life&Arts Editor Erin O’Neill Graphic Designer [email protected] Prakhya Chilukuri Graphic Assistant Michael Pearce Sports Editor Ryan Pini Photographer [email protected] Nicole Morsfield Photographer Samuel Summers Photographer Jordan Jewell Engagement Editor Sergio Montanez Photographer [email protected] PRIDE MONTH SPEAKER Poet and educator J Mase III opens Pride Month with pow- REPORTERS DISTRIBUTION erful slam poetry about his experiences being black and transgender, and talks about Benjamin Hume Staff Reporter Kat Malokofsky Distribution Director Distributor combating white supremacy and false allyship. PHOTO / NICOLE MORSFIELD Dean Vaglia Staff Reporter Alexander Pham Jonathan Savich Staff Reporter Bridget Janis Staff Reporter Taylor Crumley Staff Reporter Devin Boatwright Staff Reporter ADVISING Alyssa Ochss Staff Reporter Garry Gilbert Editorial Adviser [email protected] ADVERTISING 248.370.2105 Angela Gebert Ads Director Don Ritenburgh Business Adviser Janae Nelson Ads Assistant [email protected] 8 14 15 Whitney Shelby Ads Assistant 248.370.2533 WOMEN’S SWIM TEAM FUN BUT FLAWED SATIRE Freshman swimmer named “Captain Marvel” has heart, Take notes on how to Vote and connect at: Athlete of the Month. but plays it safe. survive St. Patrick’s Day. Photo courtesy/OU Athletics Photo courtesy/IMDB Graphic/Prakhya Chilukuri oaklandpostonline.com POLL OF THE WEEK LAST ISSUE’S POLL HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU WON TICKETS TO THE WILL YOU BE CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH? KYLE & BLACKBEAR SPRING CONCERT? A) THRILLED! B) I ALREADY HAVE TICKETS. 41% 31% 21% 7% C) I HOPE I WIN! A) YASSSS OF B) NOT AT ALL. C) I’M ALWAYS D) WHAT’S D) WHO ARE KYLE & BLACKBEAR??? COURSE! PRIDEFUL. PRIDE MONTH? SPRING CONCERT CONTEST: The first 3 people to bring in a completed copy of the puzzles page on Tuesday, April 19, at 12:30 p.m. will win 2 free tickets to the Blackbear and KYLE concert on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. Students must present their OU ID to receive the tickets. MARCH 13, 2019 | 3 LOOKING BACK Recycling Task Force creates campus recycling plan and chairman of the chemistry department at the time. cling plan was that each office may use a 90-gallon In 1990, he coordinated an informal 30-40 member cart on wheels to collect office paper in a desig- Recycling Task Force made up of students, staff and nated recycling area. Then, the materials would be faculty that created the recycling plan draft for campus. picked up and taken to receptacles provided by the Before creating the campus-wide effect, they had contractor. This ended up being approved by both to work out a couple of bugs, including finding the task force and Moore. locations for drops areas, obtaining funds for re- On Feb. 1, 1991, an office paper recycling site cycling and transporting recycling materials from was added in North Foundation Hall. The program buildings. began to limit the campus’ effect on landfills and According the Richard Moore, director of Build- lower the school’s disposal cost. ings and Grounds at the time, the contract bidding North Foundation Hall was the task force’s test for waste disposal was prolonging the program’s site for the program and plan that would soon hope THE OAKLAND POST ARCHIVES implementation. to go campus-wide. Amy Marcus using a recycling bin in North Foundation Hall. At the time, the university’s dorms were the only “If it isn’t going to work in your top adminis- buildings recycling, which was started by Senior trative building, how is it going to work anywhere Kathy Terbrack. She said recycling in the dormi- else?” Moore said then, explaining why they chose BRIDGET JANIS tories was easy because white paper, grocery bags, to start with North Foundation. Staff Reporter cardboard, metals and glass went in one bin where The program started off working on a volunteer it would then be picked up by Bushman Disposal basis and was using two 50-gallon barrels every With global warming becoming a hot topic over the Service and sorted. day for North Foundation. It was also up to indi- past few years, recycling has been taken more seri- “I believe recycling is important because there is viduals to take their papers to the east side of the ously. no need for us to waste natural resources,” Terbrack building and sort them into the according barrels, Oakland University has been seeing recycling as a said then. “We need to increase student awareness with white, colored and computer paper being the necessity since the beginning of 1991, with a recy- about recycling. In addition to increasing aware- only options. cling task force that submitted a plan to OU admin- ness, they need to get involved.” Since these events, OU has only grown and im- istration. The university was paying $73,000 a year for disposal proved its recycling habits, making recycling easier The plan was to bring a recycling system cam- at the time, with the cost of recycling being unknown. and the process smoother and creating an overall pus-wide, according to Paul Tamboulin, a professor The early draft of the Recycling Task Force recy- greener OU for the past few decades. 4 | MARCH 13, 2019 CAMPUS Class credits at OU might change from four to three Other schools follow the three credit system but will it improve or hurt our scores? DEAN VAGLIA tani, business student, said. “Exams happen just as can Association of University Professors chapter Staff Reporter often, but it is easier to keep up with the content.” (OUAAUP), bringing another set of concerns to A concern faculty members have had is how this the table. change would affect students already taking class- “I simply want to make sure whatever changes The idea of changing the credit number for base es. are being made are going to be in the best interests classes from four to three has been floating around “Other schools that have done this,” Hitt said. of the faculty as a whole,” Discenna said. “We are at the provost and chair faculty level for quite a “There was no problem for the students that were in no way, shape or form opposed to this. It is sim- while. Back in December 2018, the Oakland Uni- almost finished. There was no problem for the ply a matter of how do we do it best so everybody versity Senate voted to lower the minimum number students that have not started. The students that can end up winning.” of credits to graduate from 124 to 120, which is are most impacted by the change actually are the Ryan Fox, president of OU Student Congress, is divisible by three. ones that are in classes... because they are the ones more skeptical. According to interim associate provost Anne Hitt, where the courses are going to go from four to three “If there is science that shows [a three-credit sys- the move from a four-credit system to a three-credit [credits].” tem] is better for students, then I would say ‘let’s system would make OU competitive with other lo- Despite this issue, members of both administra- do it,’” Fox said. “If that does not exist, then I cal universities. Hitt believes students would likely tion and faculty have found the idea of switching would be very cautious to switching to it.” take more classes, and have more exams but the appealing. Fox’s biggest concern is how OU, which he sees classes would be more specialized. “As a faculty member of the Department of Com- as decentralized, would implement and communi- There are two schools on campus that already munication,” Thomas Discenna said, “our depart- cate the change. This concern comes from the re- have three-credit systems: the School of Business ment has a masters program that is at a competitive cent change from a numeric to letter grading scale, and the School of Health Sciences, despite the 124 disadvantage with other masters programs within a change Fox saw as poorly communicated. credit minimum. our area because our credit hours are at four rather Despite Fox’s concerns, Hitt said this change will “[Winter 2019] is the first semester I have had than three, so I can see the advantages to switching not take place anytime soon. There is no set propos- mostly three-credit classes, and I have found the from four to three.” al for the senate, and it would still take three years workload to be a lot more manageable,” Sanjay An- Discenna is also president of the OU Ameri- after passing to go into effect. Classifieds Rates: POLICE FILES 63 Oakland Center $0.35 per word ($7 min.) 312 Meadow Brook Road Unlimited Frequency Chair Bandit Rochester, MI 48309 STUDENT DISCOUNTS A student in Varner Hall came to Oakland University Police Department to report an attempted larceny on Saturday, Feb.