Oakland University’s Independent Student OAKLANDTHE Newspaper POST Oct. 3, 2018 ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? How to register before deadline PAGES 8 & 9 REGISTERED BEREAVEMENT BANNED BOOKS OKTOBERFEST OU adopts an official policy for Kresge Library celebrates The festival came to downtown grieving students controversial novels in the US Rochester this past weekend PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 10 Illustration by Prakhya Chilukuri / The Oakland Post ontheweb Former candidate for governor, Abdul El- Sayed returns to OU after eight months. PHOTO/ Elyse Gregory thisweek www.oaklandpostonline.com October 3, 2018 // Volume 44 Issue 5 POLL OF THE WEEK Are you excited for October? A Yes! It’s spooky month! B You mean midterm-tober? C No, I’m too sick to feel emotion D Oh yeah, free candy!! Vote at www.oaklandpostonline.com LAST WEEK’S POLL What would it take for you to run a marathon? A) Absolutely nothing, I’d die 15 votes | 39% B) Eight coffees and a shot of testosterone PHOTO OF THE WEEK 8 votes | 21% C) What does the word “run” mean? THINGS ARE GETTING SPOOKY // In the true spirit of Hallow’s Eve, the first day of October 8 votes | 21% got spoooooky, and what a better way to welcome the classic holiday than with a heavy fog. The fog settled across Oakland County letting everyone know ghouls and goblins will D) A piece of cake at the finish line soon be on the streets. SAMUEL SUMMERS // The Oakland Post 7 votes | 18% Submit a photo to [email protected] to be featured. View all submissions at oaklandpostonline.com THIS WEEK IN HISTORY OCTOBER 2, 2002 OU faculty and students attend an anti-war demonstration to protest the war in Iraq. OCTOBER 6, 1986 Campus parking spaces increased, as 7 14 15 administration created more than 700 spaces. EATING HEALTHY BRETT KAVANAUGH GRIZZ MADNESS OCTOBER 6, 1980 Check out where to get the Staff reporter Ben Hume With basketball season around Students form a new club at Oakland, best and healthiest food gives his take on the Senate the corner, students will fill the the skateboarding club. options on campus. hearing that took place on O’rena to celebrate. Photo/Nicole Morsfield Thursday. Photo/Oakland Post archives. BY THE 28% 23% 56% 74% NUMBERS of young adults aged of adults aged 18- of young adults 18-29 of “seniors” say MILLENIALS 18-29 say they will 34 participated in think they “might” they will vote in absolutely vote in the 2014 midterm vote in the 2018 the 2018 midterm AND VOTING midterm elections elections midterms elections www.vox.com Looking Back OTHE OAKLANDTHE P POST Address 63 Oakland Center, Rochester, MI 48306 Hazing plagues Phone 248.370.2537 or 248.370.4268 Web www.oaklandpostonline.com Email [email protected] campus in 1990s editorial board AuJenee Hirsch Editor-in-Chief [email protected] 248.370.4268 Laurel Kraus Managing Editor [email protected] 248.370.2537 Elyse Gregory Patrick Sullivan Photo Editor Web Editor [email protected] [email protected] 248.370.4266 The Oakland Post archives editors copy & visual Patrick Sullivan late night activities that take away from a stu- Katarina Kovac Campus Editor Katie LaDuke Chief Copy Editor Web Editor dent’s ability to sleep or study. [email protected] Mina Fuqua Copy Editor Even after this event, hazing continued to Alexa Caccamo Copy Editor Trevor Tyle Life Editor Jessica Trudeau Copy Editor azing in different Greek Life organizations [email protected] happen on OU’s campus. In November 1996, a Erin O’Neill Graphic Designer is an issue that has not been tolerated at little more than six months after Phi Beta Sigma Prakhya Chilukuri Graphic Assistant universities across the nation for years. If was suspended for hazing, the sorority Chi Upsi- Michael Pearce Sports Editor H [email protected] a sorority or a fraternity is found to be hazing its lon was suspended for hazing as well. Ryan Pini Photographer Nicole MorsfieldPhotographer members, that association will be punished and According to a former president of Chi Upsi- Jessica Leydet Social Media Editor Samuel Summers Photographer possibly expelled from its university. lon, Stephanie Maximuk, in 1997 some active [email protected] Oakland University has had its fair share of members of the sorority wanted pledges to sleep Sergio Montanez Photographer Greek societies that have been guilty of hazing. outside a cabin in Grayling during initiation. writers distribution In April 1996, Phi Beta Sigma had hazing report- When this was found to be possibly liable, the Jordan Jewell Staff Reporter ed by its own vice president at the time, Kenneth sorority tried to find solutions around this being Benjamin Hume Staff Reporter Kat Malokofsky Distribution Director Briggs. seen as hazing. Kaley Barnhill Staff Reporter Alexander Pham Distributor Briggs went to the Oakland University Police Some options that were floated out included Taylor Crumley Staff Intern Department after a pledging student came to giving the pledges a mattress and a number of Dean Vaglia Staff Intern him seeking advice. He reported that two frater- blankets, but even with these options the event Clare Sabelhaus Staff Intern Bridget Janis Staff Intern advising nity brothers, one of them being an OU student, could still be seen as a form of hazing. Garry Gilbert Editorial Adviser were paddling him, sometimes between 30 and This was not the only hazing issue of which advertising [email protected] 248.370.2105 50 times a day. Chi Upsilon was guilty. According to Maximuk, Whiteney Roemer Ads Director “This incident will not change anything,” other hazing examples included having pledges [email protected] Briggs said in an Oakland Post article. “If an- perform a scavenger hunt on a busy highway, 248.370.4269 Don Ritenburgh Business Adviser ything, people are going to talk down because taking shots of Jack Daniels and sleeping in a [email protected] 248.370.2533 someone sold out. They want to keep it under garage. Angela Gebert Ads Assistant the table.” “I don’t intimidate easily… but I didn’t know Within the week, Phi Beta Sigma was suspend- what to do at that point,” Maximuk said regard- follow us on Twitter follow us on Snapchat ed by its national office, and the chapter faced ing the different hazing rituals in an Oakland @theoaklandpost theoaklandpost sanctions except for, surprisingly, Briggs. Briggs, Post article. “It was all about trust.” a member of Phi Beta Sigma for two years and Other fraternities that were suspended for follow us on Instagram vice president of the chapter, was not officially hazing include Sigma Alpha Epsilon for making @theoaklandpost registered for the fraternity and had never paid pledges stand in the middle of a ring of fire in find us on Issuu his membership fee. December 1993. “I don’t want this to be a thing about Kenneth “Hazing has become a national concern, but issuu.com/op86 Briggs,” Briggs said. “I want this to inform peo- generally speaking, our groups have worked find us on Facebook ple about the wrongness, the serious nature of hard to eliminate hazing,” the then-Dean of Stu- facebook.com/theoakpost hazing.” dents David Herman said. “Students are here Some other examples of hazing include mem- for their studies, and pledging shouldn’t detract bers yelling at pledges, underage drinking or from that.” Corrections Corner: A story about women’s soccer in the Sept. 26 issue and a story about club hockey in the Sept. 19 issue contained inaccurate quotes. The stories have been removed from our digital media presence. We regret the errors and the reporter responsible for the errors in both stories is no longer a member of The Oakland Post staff. Know of an error? Let us know at [email protected]. www.oaklandpostonline.com The Oakland Post // October 3, 2018 3 Campus National community engagement survey to be offered Trevor Tyle reflected that community involvement Life Editor could be difficult for students due to busy work schedules. he National Assessment of Ser- “OU students work a lot,” Condron vice and Community Engagement said. “We realize that’s a barrier, but T(NASCE) will be offered to Oak- even just trying to get people involved, land University undergraduate students even for one or two hours a month—any beginning Monday, Oct. 8. little bit can really help.” Developed by Siena College Research The NASCE asks students about their Institute Drs. Don Levy and Mathew John- experience in community service projects son, the survey is intended to measure the across nine different domains of human community engagement of universities need—civic, economic, environmental, across the country. It was last distributed health, youth, homelessness, elder care, to OU students in 2015, receiving nearly hunger and religious. Many of these do- 2,500 participants—16 percent of the over- mains, Condron said, are already a part of all student population. many students’ daily lives. The survey also fulfills one of the goals “Students may not really be thinking of the Office of the President’s strategic about all that they’re doing to support plan—“become a leader in serving the their community, both the OU communi- Photo courtesy of Office of Institutional Research and Assessment needs and aspirations of our communities ty and the broader community in which The National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement was last issued at OU in 2015. and region through expanded community they live or where they work,” she said. relationships, institutional reputation and “It’s an opportunity for students to reflect OU qualify for the Carnegie Community life for you, and you can understand visibility, and engagement.” on all of the ways that they are contribut- Engagement Classification, which rec- the importance of trying to create a Since the NASCE was last distributed, ing and giving back, when they might not ognizes universities’ commitments to world where these things are not such several efforts have been implemented on be consciously thinking of what they’re community engagement.