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RE: Kaleb Perry gone?
(07-26-2016 12:35 AM)The Colonel Wrote: (07-25-2016 02:57 PM)toddjnsn Wrote: Quote:I don't worry about the choices she makes, but I do about the elements of a college campus and college life in general. Oakland, though, is a pretty safe campus; particularly when compared to most others.
I always figured Oakland was a place many people go to while working or living in the surrounding area, hence lacking in the typical party-craze atmosphere.
I lived across the street from Oakland for a number of years. 20 years ago, Oakland was almost exclusively a commuter school. To their credit, Oakland has worked very hard over the past decade or so to shed that reputation by building a number of state-of-the-art dorms on campus. IMO the old reputation isn't entirely gone, but Oakland certainly has much more on-campus life and more of a campus feel today.
That said, I agree with Brovol's assessment of Oakland as a "safe" (tame) campus compared to others, and with Todd that Oakland lacks the typical "party-craze" atmosphere. Unlike WMU, there's only one bar even remotely close to campus. Fraternity and sorority life at Oakland mainly consists of two or three total houses off of a residential (family) main road. I found that, as recently as a few years ago, very rarely was there much excessive noise coming from the dorms across the street.
I grew up about fie miles from Oakland , and three of my sisters went there. It has really changed over the past several years, and has really becom a state of the art campus, with very nice new buildings, excellent dorms, and has also developed a nice reputation academically. It is also one of the best value schools around. Rochester is a nice place to be too, although it's also not far from Pontiac, so there is that.
No football team kind of eliminates the traditional Fall college campus feel, but Oakland does a nice job with other ports programs, and particularly basketball. It has a great basketball facility to watch a game. My daughter likes it, and that's the main thing.
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RE: Kaleb Perry gone?
(07-26-2016 03:01 PM)brovol Wrote: I grew up about fie miles from Oakland , and three of my sisters went there. It has really changed over the past several years, and has really becom a state of the art campus, with very nice new buildings, excellent dorms, and has also developed a nice reputation academically. It is also one of the best value schools around. Rochester is a nice place to be too, although it's also not far from Pontiac, so there is that.
No football team kind of eliminates the traditional Fall college campus feel, but Oakland does a nice job with other ports programs, and particularly basketball. It has a great basketball facility to watch a game. My daughter likes it, and that's the main thing.
Oakland does have many new buildings in addition to the new dorms, and the new medical school has been a boost. The move to the Horizon League has helped their athletics tremendously, providing more regional opponents as opposed to the South Dakotas and Southern Utahs of their earliest D-I leagues. Oakland has positioned itself nicely as an attractive option in SE Michigan in competition with EMU, U-D, and Wayne State. Rochester (in particular, the fantastic downtown area) is a good 8-10 minutes from campus, but so is Pontiac. Auburn Hills is basically a buffer between the two, and the Auburn Hills area is attracting lots of companies and businesses.
All of that said, there's still definitely something lacking in terms of the feel of a college area. When you drive into, say, Mount Pleasant or Bowling Green, you know you're in a college town. Obviously, the university defines those two communities, so it's probably not the fairest comparison. In comparison, say, Kalamazoo and Toledo are bigger towns, but one definitely gets the vibe (in, at least, a large section of town) that they are in a college town.
Whether you drive around Rochester, Auburn Hills, or Pontiac (or any other neighboring suburbia areas), you still don't get any comparable sense of being in a college town. On campus? Yes, much improved from years past. Off campus, though, Oakland still has a long way to go.
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2016 04:30 PM by The Colonel.)
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