âLate Nightâ takeover hits ground running
For the first time in 22 years, the âTonight Showâ aired without its usual host, Jay Leno. Instead, it was young comedian Jimmy Fallon who took the stage, succeeding Leno as the âTonight Showâsâ host on Feb. 17. Dressed in…
Volunteering can help loans, communities
If you didnât already know, some student loans can be forgiven through volunteer work. There are a couple different forms of volunteer work, like AmeriCorps, one can do to receive loan forgiveness, according to finaid.org. If you serve for 12…
Professional sports role models are relics of the past
Hall of Fame basketball player Charles Barkley famously stated, âI’m not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.â After it was stated that former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper was…
Patience, commitment made Utley perfect professor
The ideal professor is a beacon of knowledge that has the answers to all of your questions. They take difficult concepts and break them down to be understandable. They prepare you for life after college. Garrick Utley was the ideal…
Pay attention to your fees
Our plan for this weekâs Vox Pop was simple. The student activity fee students are charged each semester is going up for a vote: should it be voluntary or remain mandatory? We asked students what they thought of the fee…
Knowing yourself inside, outside
The amount of women I have met that do not know what their private areas look like is staggering. Iâve had friends who simply feel âafraidâ to look at whatâs down there and how it works. Sounds ridiculous? Well, this…
Making friends takes time, courage
Friendships are very important to most college students. At a time when we are away from home and doing things that do not involve our families, friends are all we have to keep us treading the waters of college. People…
Keep it together teach’
If college fees are about to put us into debt for the next 10 yearsâand for most of us, they willâwe had better be getting our moneyâs worth. Though this conservation rightly gravitates around a concern for how our degrees…
Oswego State lands itself in high company
There is nothing that started to ruin my respect more for my SUNY peers than working the overnight shifts at the west side McDonaldâs. I would get spit at, hit on and would take orders for students who could barely…
Jeter leaves blueprint of excellence
In the classic 1993 baseball movie âThe Sandlot,â a timeless quote is made regarding the main characterâs favorite player, Babe Ruth. The quote says, âPeople say he was less than a god but more than a man. You know, like…
