By: Adam Wolfe - Staff Writer

Oswego’s Office of Community Development meets with the city’s small business owners every week in hopes of spurring commercial growth downtown through microenterprise loans. The group of Community Development leaders and business owners holds...

By: -Press Release

The Oswego circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, has partnered with the Oswego Middle School in hopes of lighting some inspiration in a group of at-risk eighth graders. The project, titled “Take the Lead—Strengt...

By: Kaline Mulvihill - Staff Writer

The Rave Guardian program is receiving a second look as data shows that as few as 300 to 500 students may be utilizing the safety initiative, which replaced the campus’s iconic blue lights. According to Oswego State University Police (UP) the system...

By: Erin Marulli - Staff Writer

Graduate school classes are being held at the Metro Center in Syracuse due to the location and proximity to a majority of the students, which causes some distress for those students closer to campus. The Metro Center opened in May 2007 and has had steadil...

By: Johanna Rosario - Staff Writer

The Oswego State committee in charge of plagiarism has begun a search to form a centralized way to handle cheating on campus. The committee is looking for a way to provide faculty with the tools to prevent it from happening. “One charge was to revie...

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The engagement of Oswego State’s students in the community and professors’ use of service learning in classes have again earned the college recognition on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Corporation for...

By: Keith Edelman - Editor-in-Chief

Three years after its official completion, the Campus Center is going through some growing pains as it undergoes a complete room renumbering and several aesthetic changes this semester and into the summer. Effective immediately, all Campus Center departme...

By: Keith Edelman - Editor-In-Chief

Oswego State’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts (SCMA) Interim Dean Fritz Messere has been named a finalist in Ithaca College’s search for dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Messere is one of three finalists for the d...

By: Elizabeth Sauchelli - Asst. News Editor

Student Association presidential candidate Michael Johnson withdrew his grievance from the S.A. Supreme Court last week that claimed the S.A. Constitution unfairly mandates a GPA requirement for the position. Johnson originally filed a grievance against A...

By: Kaitlin Provost - Staff Writer

Limited interest in six-person housing in The Village and problems with the lottery system used to place students caused minor problems with the selection process earlier this week. A technical problem with the software used to generate lottery numbers ne...

By: Diana Gerstacker - Staff Writer

As soon as fall 2010, Oswego State students could be checking mail and receiving status updates via a somewhat “lighter” campus e-mail system. The Campus Technology Advisory Board (CTAB) has made the decision to host the college’s e-mail...

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The American Marketing Association presents the Battle of the Bands 2010 on Thursday, March 4. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and music is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Hewitt Union Ballroom. Six local bands will be battling it out for the chance to per...

By: Jessica Pett - Staff Writer

Oswego State’s Possibility Scholarship promises new opportunities for students in the Syracuse and Oswego area this coming fall. The scholarship will provide tuition, full room and board and a study abroad research opportunity for students in the sc...

By: Jessica Jackson - Staff Writer

Oswego County is now in search of the next great idea. Fair warning though, they will only accept the greatest one. The Next Great Idea competition created by Oswego County businesses and banks to support business development and economic growth in Oswego...

By: Adam Wolfe - Staff Writer

Right now an Asian carp is barreling toward Lake Michigan, and the only thing stopping him is an electronic fence. Were he to make it past, his progeny could reach the shores of Lake Ontario within 10 years, with officials predicting disastrous results fo...

By: Kaitlin Provost - Staff Writer

Fort Ontario may be closing following a budget cut made by Gov. David Paterson late last week, which was designed to help close an $8.2 billion deficit. The fort is one of 79 state parks and historic sites affected by the budget cut. The plan will complet...

By: Elizabeth Sauchelli - Asst. News Editor

In a week full of speculation about Student Association presidential candidate Michael Johnson’s campaign status, he has announced that he is staying in the race. “I am definitely still in the race,” Johnson said. “I’m here f...

By: Ken Sturtz - Staff Writer

Not every college has their own ambulance service on call. It’s also possible that without the creation of Oswego State’s own SAVAC, the landscape of college ambulance services could be entirely different from what it is today. The Student Ass...

By: Kaline Mulvihill - Staff Writer

Oswego State has suffered from significant budget cuts in the past few years and yet, has still maintained the most current technology available for students. How is this possible with the budget restraints? The Student Computing Access Program [SCAP], wh...

By: Melissa Yeaple - Staff Writer

With the current number system for classrooms in the Campus Center still leaving students and visitors wandering through the facility with confused looks on their faces, officials are investigating the possibility of coming up with a new method of numberi...