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Students Face Unprecedented Circumstances in Isolation, Quarantine

With over 150 students in on-campus quarantine and isolation, the care for these students in unprecedented times falls on Oswego State and its faculty and staff. The college is attending to its students, offering daily phone calls, three meals a…

ALANA Conference Kicks Off with Little Rock 9 Speaker

The 34th annual ALANA Student Leadership Conference began on Wednesday night with a keynote address by Minnijean Brown-Trickey. As a member of the Little Rock Nine, Brown-Trickey made history in 1957 when she and eight other students desegregated public schools…

Oswego State Professor Presents on COVID-19

Peter Newell presented Science Today “Biology of COVID-19: Symptoms, Treatments, Vaccines” to Oswego State over Zoom on Sept. 22.  Newell is a professor in the department of biological sciences at Oswego State. He calls himself an “armchair immunologist” to not…

Week in SA

While The Oswegonian is financed by the Oswego State Student Association, all reporting of SA is unbiased through reporting of facts. SA meets virtually every Tuesday at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Meetings can be accessed with the following link: https://zoom.us/j/91262556247…

Oswego Sub Shop employee tests positive for COVID-19

The Oswego Sub Shop announced in a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon that one of its part-time employees tested positive for COVID-19, as first reported by WTOP-10 TV’s Zac Case on Twitter. Sub Shop owner Bill Greene confirmed that the…

‘Abundance of caution’: Oswego State put on pause before 100 cases to contain spread

After the announcement from Oswego State President Deborah Stanley that in-person classes and extracurricular activities would be placed on pause for a 14-day period, Stanley, alongside SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras and Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow, held a press conference Friday…

Oswego State to enter 14-day pause of in-person classes due to COVID-19 numbers

With 82 positive COVID-19 cases toward the New York State 100-case threshold in only the first week, Oswego State officials have temporarily paused in-person classes for 14 days, starting Saturday, Sept. 19, according to an email sent from President Deborah…

‘This is our shot’: Oswego State places more restrictions, harsher penalties

After numerous concerns on Saturday about in-person classes at Oswego State despite 124 active cases, President Deborah Stanley has increased the severity of punishments and added several new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 on-campus. With the guidelines set…

Oswego State classes to resume Monday despite high numbers

Despite 124 active COVID-19 cases at Oswego State, the school will still host in-person classes on Monday due to the interpretation of New York State’s guidelines. Oswego State’s first 14-day period lasted from Aug. 28 to Sept. 11, recording 82…

Sustainability efforts put on pause due to COVID-19

With current efforts to keep the campus at limited rates of COVID-19, and to remain sanitary and healthy, some are questioning the effects this may have on the environment and whether it is possible to be sustainable campus-wide. Since Oswego…