Meditation workshop offers breath of fresh air, clear outlook
In Zen, meditation helps return a person to oneness and suppress the ego. More than 100 students crammed into room 114 of the Campus Center for a Zen workshop instructed by Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, abbot of the Zen…
Students scale Africa’s highest peak
It’s 7 a.m. on a cold, November morning and behind Funnelle Hall on a steep hill several students and faculty at Oswego State are running hill sprints. Every Thursday morning before sunrise, students and faculty participating in the Winter trip…
Into Oswego: Safe Haven
Most Americans go through their entire lives never learning how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted 1,000 World War II refugees asylum at Fort Ontario. “Usually, their first reaction is they’re shocked they never heard of this,” said Kimberly Steele, three-year…
Oswego refugee legacy
Most Americans go through their entire lives never learning how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted 1,000 World War II refugees asylum at Fort Ontario. “Usually, their first reaction is they’re shocked they never heard of this,” said Kimberly Steele, three-year…
Italy, Greece facing dismal economics, Spain speculated as next to fall in Eurozone crisis
In the ongoing European debt crisis, Italy’s economic woes now rival that of Greece, and these overseas problems could spell trouble for the United States. While yields on Greek debt have reached levels well beyond what Greece could ever afford…
SUNY Briefs 11/18/2011
SUNY Twenty-one SUNY schools across New York state participated in an online event called College Week Live on Tuesday. College Week Live is a virtual college fair designed to help international students seek an education in the United States. The…
Journalism eats world
What I’m about to say won’t be on the nightly news. It won’t run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You won’t hear about it on CNN and pundits will not sit at a round…
Mass media forget fundamentals
The media is slowly becoming less and less definable. Year after year, new technologies and advances in old ones increase the size and scope of the media. It’s gotten to the point where any person with an email address and…
College benefits might be worth high costs, debts
By the time I graduate from Oswego State, I will have accumulated $44,000 in federal loans. As an independent student I qualify for more loans than most students and as an out-of-state student I certainly need them. I often find…
Video games not cause or fault
Video games and cable news networks seem to go together about as well as orange juice and toothpaste. For some reason, both liberal and conservative media outlets have turned their eyes to video games as a modern boogeyman responsible for…
