Students chalk up Tyler Hall for Banned Books Week
With some chalk and a little bit of elbow grease, students blanketed the Tyler Hall wall on campus with a variety of challenged and banned book covers. While some may feel censorship is becoming a thing of the past, Amy…
Porn star Ron Jeremy to debate anti-pornography speaker at Oswego State
Student Association Programming Board is presenting a Debate on Pornography on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. in the Hewitt Union Ballroom. The debate will feature former porn star Ron Jeremy and Canadian author and activist Susan G. Cole. Jeremy…
âWorst Hard Time,â ORI book author Timothy Egan visits Oswego State
Timothy Egan, author, journalist, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and opinion columnist for The New York Times, visited Oswego State on Wednesday to speak about his book, âThe Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great…
UP, Lifestyles combat drug abuse on campus
According to the annual crime reports for Oswego State, the amount of incidents on campus involving drug possession/abuse has neither increased nor decreased. But, with this stabilization in the trend, along with a crackdown on drug abuse and distribution in…
Oswego bars take to social media to bring in customers
Tweeting out nightly specials and new drinks on tap, bars around Oswego have started to use social media platforms to draw in customers, attracting thousands of likes and follows. Hurricaneâs, a bar located on Water Street, uses a Facebook account…
Meth arrests bring attention to Oswego
The discovery of a mobile meth lab Sept. 15 in the Loweâs parking lot in Oswego is the latest incident in a string of meth related problems in the region. Methamphetamine incidents have also been reported in Mexico, Williamstown, Hannibal…
COM 211 hosts panel of students from business department
The School of Business at Oswego State is now requiring freshmen to take COM 211: Strategic Communication in Business as its first choice course, which teaches students writing and speaking skills. Professor Sarah Bozek created COM 211 after the Business…
First fall TED Talk proves successful
On Sept. 23, Ranjit Dighe, chair of the department of economics, gave a lecture titled âInequality & Perceptions of Fairnessâ in Campus Center room 132. Dighe said in the lecture that inequality has been pervasive nationwide since the 1960s. The…
Around Oswego State community
Shipwreck discovered A team of undersea explorers out of Rochester discovered a 123-year-old wrecked ship on the depths of Lake Ontario near Oswego on Sept. 19. Jim Kennard, Roger Pawlowski and Roland Stevens, historic shipwreck hunters, found the ship, a…
ALANA Conference week kicks off
[slideshow_deploy id=’13686′] The ALANA Multicultural Leadership Conference started off with a bright display fashion Saturday night, during the 27th annual ALANA Fashion Show. For show featured students from different cultural groups performed using traditional clothing as a part of a…
