Tech Ed Department students compete in Virginia Beach competition
Seventeen members of the Oswego Technology Education Association (OTEA), all students in the department of technology, traveled to Virginia Beach, VA for the Technology and Engineering Education Collegiate Association’s (TEECA) Eastern Regional Conference/Competition. While there, the Oswego State team divided…
Greene’s hosts first wing-eating contest
Greene’s Ale House held an inaugural wing-eating contest on Nov. 13. Sean Ohnmacht, owner of the bar and grill, said Greene’s had been represented in the Oswego County wing eating contest for the past two years and won both times….
Waterbury nears start of renovations
At the end of this semester, Waterbury Hall will have no vacancies as renovations begin, leaving some residence displaced into other resident halls. Waterbury residents were informed of the renovations in early spring 2014 and advised to decide their choice…
Meningitis annual concern for colleges
Winter is coming. That means so is sickness. Many illnesses share common symptoms, so it can be difficult for students to know if they simply have the common cold or something more serious. This year, there was a case at…
Boeheim visits Oswego on book tour
Legendary Syracuse Orange men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim was at the River’s End Bookstore in Oswego on Nov. 17, signing copies of his new autobiography, “Bleeding Orange: Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, and Syracuse…
Old threats exist between U.S., Russia
We recently just saw the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War, the quarrel that defined the second half of the 20th century. Though the Soviet Union has ceased to exist…
New no-texting initiative
The last time I sat down to watch TV was about a week ago and I saw a commercial that has the potential to change the U.S. Demi Lovato, the famous actress and singer did a commercial to support safe…
Anti-semitism continues to linger
Lately, there have been many reports of increasing anti-Semitism around the world, especially in Europe. I cannot help but find this anti-Semitism shocking and disheartening–but most of all, alarming. Surely no one could forget what sparked the horrific event that…
Kim Kardashian reveals all in spread
Kim Kardashian has never let her fans down, even with one scandal after the next. On Nov. 12, Kardashian “broke the Internet” with 6.6 million views on Paper Magazine. Her seductive, provocative and rather controversial photographs created a stir of…
Inclination to write continues
For better or worse, The Oswegonian has played a major role in my life for most of the last five years. It was the first student organization I joined back in the fall ‘10 semester, and it’s by far the…
