Oswego State ranks No. 2 in drug arrests
New data from Project Know and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education ranked Oswego State at No. 2 for drug-related arrests nationwide. Oswego State ranked only behind SUNY New Paltz, with approximately 12 narcotics arrests made for…
SA vice president resigns, Kranz steps up
Jillian Kranz, the Student Association Rules and Judiciary Committee chair, became the new SA vice president at the beginning of this semester. “It was a seamless transition,” SA President Tucker Sholtes said. “As soon as the semester started, Jillian hit…
SUNY presses state for bigger budget
SUNY leaders asked for a bigger budget in their testimonies to the New York State Assembly Committees on Ways & Means and Higher Education and Senate Committees on Finance and Higher Education in Albany last Tuesday. In November, the SUNY…
ResLife begins new housing selection rule
This year when students begin the room selection process for housing next year, they will notice a new step. Students now wishing to live anywhere on campus will have to complete mandatory in-person, pre-registration. Marie Driscoll Germain, the associate director…
Gillibrand persists fight on sexual assault
Recently, U.S Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised a national initiative in President Barack Obama’s budget to put more than $30 million in new resources to combat campus sexual assault. That amount would help fund an additional…
This Week in SA
The Student Association held its 13th meeting of the academic year Tuesday evening. The number of senators needed to make quorum was satisfied. One new student, Alex Sharpsteen, was sworn in as a senator and took the oath of office…
Discount cards help students, businesses
A deal between the Oswego State Student Association and local businesses has created a discount card for students to use while they attend Oswego State. The program for the cards, which began on Feb. 2, offers student discount cards in…
Students find opportunity at Job-A-Rama
New employment opportunities became available to hundreds of Oswego State students at the Job-A-Rama event held in the Marano Campus Center on Wednesday. Job-A-Rama, an event organized by the Career Services, was held in the Swetman Gymnasium for students…
‘Cuse imposes self-ban on postseason
Syracuse University has self-imposed a ban on postseason play for the 2015 men’s basketball team. The ban comes as a result of player violations not being appropriately handled from the years 2007 to 2012, according to ESPN. Players had been…
Brian Williams’ lie revealed
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been caught in a lie. Williams’ defense is that he misremembered what happened, but don’t buy into that. Williams is just lying about lying. Since March 2003, Williams has told several different stories…
