By the late 1950s the authority of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) was waning, so Oakland University did not bother to apply for a hood lining assignment from the Bureau; instead, the university independently began using a hood lined black above old gold, divided per chevron. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard for Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) erroneously described the hood lining as white above old gold, and when the IBAC transcribed this information into its records for a 1972 publication it, too, mistakenly listed the hood lining colors as white and old gold. To avoid duplicating the hood lining pattern of Wofford College (black above old gold, divided per chevron), Oakland’s hood lining colors have been divided per reversed chevron.