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SUNY Oswego lifts mask mandate effective March 4

By John Custodio SUNY Oswego has ended their mask mandate on March 4 for students and faculty that have completed a full COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot series, in an email sent by Officer in Charge Mary C. Toale. In…

Student poet Rickey Strachan published

By Brandon Ladd SUNY Oswego student poet Rickey Strachan published his second book: “What I Did With Those Words.”  This book serves as a sequel for Strachan’s first publication “Things Cupid Whispered” which he published in 2021. The first book…

City of Oswego Police launch new task force

By Spencer Bates A new Drug Task Force within the Oswego City Police Department has been announced that will fight the increase of illegal drugs within the city.  On Feb. 24 Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced that in order to…

$1 billion in funding to clean Great Lakes

By Natalie Bardan $1 billion from President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be dedicated to restoring Lake Ontario and the other Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie. The majority of the funding will be used by the U.S….

SUNY Oswego professors host “Ukraine Under Siege”

On March 1, SUNY Oswego history professors Dr. Courtney Doucette and Dr. Murat Yasar held “Ukraine Under Siege: The Past and Future of War in Europe” in the Marano Campus Center. The presentation sought to explain the historical context of…

New tech security protects against identity theft

SUNY Oswego Campus Technology Services (CTS) is adding a new layer of security for all students, faculty and staff beginning March 14. “Passwords by themselves are no longer considered to be the most secure way to protect data and digital…

Waterman Theatre to host “Imagining Kerouac”

By John Custodio Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre will be hosting “Imagining Kerouac” on March 8 as a celebration of the poet and novelist Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday on March 12. Kerouac, born on March 12, 1922, was a poet and…

SA President candidate, Ehrhard has vision

By Brandon Ladd The only candidate running for the upcoming SUNY Oswego Student Association President’s election is sophomore Thomas Ehrhard.  Ehrhard is a politics, philosophy and economics major, who is on a political economics course in that major. He also…

State Singers are performing compositions

By Hayden Wentworth The SUNY Oswego State Singers are getting a chance to perform original compositions created by Instructor Caryn Patterson based on poems by Robert Frost. “So it’s three short little Robert Frost poems that I set to short…

SUNY Oswego hosts annual Rail Jam event

By John Custodio The SUNY Oswego Ski and Snowboard Club hosted the 2022 Rail Jam event in the SUNY Oswego Academic Quad on Feb. 18 and are glad to be back after a two-year gap despite unfavorable conditions. Between Hewitt…