JANUARY THE OAKLAND POST 11 OAKLAND UNIVERSITY’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 2017 CHANGE IN MICHIGAN MINIMUM WAGE RAISED TO $8.90 PER HOUR, WILL CATCH UP TO OU’S $9.25 MINIMUM IN 2018 PAGE 7 ON THE HUNT. POLICE BUSINESS. LEADING TEAM. Presidential search committee Reports show a decrease in Men’s basketball (4-0) gets holds open forums Jan. 10-11 in the officer recruits across Michigan, two wins on the road against Oakland Center Banquet Rooms including state police and OUPD UIC and Valparaiso PAGE 4 PAGE 9 PAGE 15 Photo by Taylor Stinson / The Oakland Post ontheweb Check out our photo album from GrizzFest 2 on our Facebook page. Student organizations gathered in the Oakland Center to show their stuff and decorated for the winter carnival theme. PHOTO / Elyse Gregory thisJanuary 11, 2017 // weekVolume 42. Issue 14 www.facebook.com/theoakpost POLL OF THE WEEK How was the first week of classes? A It was k B Trash C I have 53 questions already D The professor didn’t show up Vote at www.oaklandpostonline.com LAST WEEK’S POLL What was your favorite memory of 2016? A) Zika virus 9 votes | 11% B) Political corruption 20 votes | 24% C) All the celebrity deaths PHOTO OF THE WEEK 7 votes | 8% D) When it ended . UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT // The Residence Hall Association put on Open Mic Night in the Vandenberg Dining 49 votes | 58% Center at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5. Students, who had just moved back into University Housing this week, got on stage to sing, dance, rap and recite poetry. ELYSE GREGORY // 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 JANUARY 9, 1984 There was a bomb threat on Dec. 11 in South Foundation Hall, postponing final exams for more than 200 students. A trial date was set for Paul Gunther, an international management major who was charged with filing a false bomb threat. The misdemeanor carried a 90-day jail term. JANUARY 10, 2001 The Fiscal Year 2002 Capital Outlay Budget Request was voted on, pushing Varner Hall renovations and additions to a lower priority. The BOT decided an Automotive Technology Facility 8 11 16 should take precedence over the Varner project. MAGIC ON STAGE STICKY NOTE WAR PROGRESSES NEW COACHES IN TOWN Students studying opera present SATIRE: Roommates Francine Men’s basketball has welcomed JANUARY 12, 2011 Mozart’s fairy tale“The Magic Freshman and Suzy Psychopath a new associate head coach and Days after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona, reporter Flute”Jan. 12, 14 and 15 in Varner struggle to adjust to each other’s an assistant coach to work with Sarah Wojcik wrote a perspective piece on news organizations’ Hall. Student tickets cost $12. lifestyles in their shared space. longtime Head Coach Greg Kampe. premature reports of her death. “I find it both surprising and PHOTO / Oakland University ILLUSTRATION / Nowshin Chowdhury PHOTO / Ian Levinson disheartening that news organizations could fall prey to such widespread folly in this day and age,” she wrote. BY THE $8.90 19 $3.38 29 $9.25 NUMBERS Michigan’s minimum states raised their Michigan’s tipped states have their own minimum Michigan’s minimum wage wage as of Jan. 1, 2017 minimum wage employee minimum wage wage higher than the federal beginning Jan. 1, 2018 MINIMUM WAGE beginning in 2017 as of Jan. 1, 2017 rate, including Michigan www.michigan.gov www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx Looking Back THE OAKLAND POST Address 61 Oakland Center 312 Meadow Brook Road Rochester, MI 48309 Phone (248) 370-4268 Web www.oaklandpostonline.com Email [email protected] The Oakland Post Archives editorial board Paige Brockway Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Professor offers perspective (248) 370-4268 Grace Turner Managing Editor [email protected] on communism in China (248) 370-2537 Cheyanne Kramer venge” if this were the case. one billion people by 1980. Nowshin Chowdhury Cheyanne Kramer Web Editor Another proposed belief is He wasn’t far off. The actual Photo Editor Web Editor that there will be a “trade war” population of China in 1980 [email protected] [email protected] (248) 370-4266 n 1962, a professor of his- between the U.S. and China was almost 974 million people. tory at Oakland University over comments Trump has He said the biggest challenge Igave a World Report lecture made about the trade policies that China would face would editors copy & visual on Chinese industrialization. currently in place between the be trying to feed all of these Shelby Tankersley Campus Editor Megan Carson Chief Copy Editor In his lecture, he predicted two countries. According to a people, citing the examine of a [email protected] Brian Curtin Copy Editor four things. The first was that CNBC article, he promised to famine between 1959 and 1961, Nicholas Kim Copy Editor China would not likely be make these reforms concerning during which up to 30 million Faith Brody Life Editor Kelsey Neveu Copy Editor [email protected] “overwhelmed” from within. Chinese trade on day one of his people died of hunger in China. Elyse Gregory Photographer The second, Beijing would not presidency. He also hypothesized that Melissa Deatsch Sports Editor Ian Levinson Photographer be overwhelmed from within. Despite beliefs that differing the “traditional” lives that many [email protected] Mary Mitchell Photographer The third was that the Chinese opinions between politicians Chinese people lived would be John Bozick Social Media Editor would not start a war, and the would be the downfall of Bei- changed by the communist Olivia Krafft Web Designer [email protected] fourth was that communist jing, Hucker believed that these party’s efforts to change from a Sarah Lawrence Graphic Designer China would be successful in disagreements between lead- village setting to a more urban their economic development. ers actually made the regime one focused on economy. One hypothesis that Dr. stronger, rather than weaker. However, today, China’s one- writers Charles O. Hucker had was that Furthermore, he hypothesized child policy, initiated in the Simon Albaugh Staff Reporter one of the biggest threats to that China would not start a 1970s, is harming the nation’s AuJenee Hirsch Staff Reporter advertising China would be the U.S. In ad- war because it did not have the economy. According to a 2015 Laurel Kraus Staff Reporter Hailee Mika Ads Director Christian Miller Staff Reporter [email protected] dition, The Republic of China economic means to do so. PBS article, by 2035, almost 20 (248) 370-4269 (more commonly known as Hucker outlined major things percent of the population will Gina Navaroli Staff Reporter Robert Ogg Staff Reporter Caroline Wallis Ads Assistant Taiwan) and the Soviet Union China would have to accom- be over the age of 65, meaning Amy Swanson Staff Reporter posed threats as well. However, plish to obtain the means to there will be significantly fewer he hypothesized that the U.S. instigate a conflict and have people in the workforce. Drew Hagge Music Columnist and the Soviet Union would economic prosperity. Ironically, Mao Zedong, for- not have the motivation to pick The first was the problem mer chairman of the Commu- distribution a fight with China, and he be- of having resources. Because nist Party of China, encouraged lieved that Taiwan would not China was still industrializing population growth leading up advising Medina Taylor Distribution Director Garry Gilbert Editorial Adviser Hanna Boussi Distributor have the means to instigate a at the time, the economic capi- to the famine in order to gener- Rachel Burnett Distributor [email protected] fight. tal needed to come from within ate more laborers for economic Christian Hiltz Distributor (248) 370-2105 Malik Horner Distributor This year, after President-elect the country, not from outside prosperity. Donald Trump tweeted about trade, as Hucker said it was “It is not enough that the Maxwell Pelkey Distributor Don Ritenburgh Business Adviser Theo Price Distributor accepting a phone call from “unlikely” for China to receive masses merely accept the re- [email protected] Nicholson Reed Distributor the president of Taiwan, many such foreign aid. gime, but rather it is necessary (248) 370-2533 Ian Scott Distributor suspect he will be giving up the Second, Hucker said there that they support it enthusias- “One China” policy. A state-run was a population crisis in Chi- tically in order to provide the newspaper in China reported na. He guessed that the Chi- necessary man hours,” Hucker follow us on Twitter that Beijing would “take re- nese population could reach said at the end of his lecture. @theoaklandpost follow us on Snapchat Corrections Corner theoaklandpost follow us on Instagram The Oakland Post corrects all known errors of fact. @theoaklandpost In our Jan. 4 article “Online campus magazine set to launch,” we referred to the new student find us on Facebook magazine as Grizzly Outlook. However, since the publication of the article, student organization has renamed it Gold Magazine. facebook.com/theoakpost find us on Issuu 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. issuu.com/op86 www.oaklandpostonline.com The Oakland Post // January 11, 2017 3 Campus Survive and thrive with OU resources Presidential Stay academically strong search forums with various helpful continue locations on campus Paige Brockway Editor-in-Chief Ethan Fogle Staff Reporter hair of the Oakland University CBoard of Trustees and presiden- or students who are in their first tial search committee, Richard De- year to those who have senior sta- Vore, released a schedule on Jan.