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Businesses to replace JCPenney in Oswego Plaza

The recent announcement of the addition of a Hobby Lobby and Texas Roadhouse to Oswego Plaza provided some answers to the questions about the potential closing of JCPenney.  Rumors of JCPenney’s closing have been circulating since 2020, as both the…

Emergency Preparedness Training released to campus on Brightspace

SUNY Oswego’s Campus Safety Advisory Committee released the SUNY Oswego Emergency Preparedness Training on Feb. 1 to all students, faculty and staff via Brightspace. The training provides information about the Standard Response Protocol (SRP), a program used in schools across…

Jewish Life club reflects on removal of holidays

SUNY Oswego is the latest member of the SUNY system to remove observance of Jewish holidays from its calendar after allotting a one week break to Thanksgiving this year.  The reasoning behind this change has been stated in vague language,…

Honoring Veterans Day: local women, men reflect on time spent in service 

  Veterans Day, previously known as Armistice Day, was established by President Woodrow Wilson on Nov. 11, 1919, a year after World War I ended. The goal was to remember and commemorate the dead troops of World War I for…

Vote Oswego talks elections

SUNY Oswego has encouraged students to not only register to vote but also go to the polls and fill out absentee ballots for the 2022 midterm election. Vote Oswego is a campaign run during election years that reaches out to…

“The Golden Cage” performing on campus

Waterman Theatre will host “The Golden Cage,” an operetta originally written and performed by WWII refugees living at Fort Ontario, on Nov. 12 and 13 for its first performance since 1945.  “The Golden Cage” tells the story of the 982…

From the news desk: editor bids farewell

The time has finally come for me to say farewell to The Oswegonian and my time as news editor. I started writing for paper two years ago. I was a sophomore broadcasting major who had just transferred to Oswego only…

What the Environmental Bond Act of 2022 would do for New York

Obscured by the governor’s race and other state elections, many New Yorkers may be unaware of another item on this year’s ballot: the $4.2 billion Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022. But what is…

Unprecedented inflation causes hardships for college students 

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released new data about the current situation in the American economy. In September 2022, the U.S. annual inflation rate decreased for the third consecutive month to 8.2%, the lowest level in seven months,…

Campus News News

Thanksgiving break travel preparations

Thanksgiving break is nearly two weeks away and SUNY Oswego is helping students prepare for transportation and housing plans.  The campus dorms will close on Nov. 19 at 10 a.m and reopen on Nov. 27 at 12 p.m. Students who…