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‘Late Night’ takeover hits ground running

For the first time in 22 years, the “Tonight Show” aired without its usual host, Jay Leno.  Instead, it was young comedian Jimmy Fallon who took the stage, succeeding Leno as the “Tonight Show’s” host on Feb. 17. Dressed in…

Opinion

Volunteering can help loans, communities

If you didn’t 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…

Opinion

Professional sports role models are relics of the past

Hall of Fame basketball player Charles Barkley famously stated, “I’m not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” After it was stated that former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper was…

Campus News National Issues Opinion Uncategorized

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…

Opinion Staff Editorial

Pay attention to your fees

Our plan for this week’s 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…

In the Office Opinion

Knowing yourself inside, outside

The amount of women I have met that do not know what their private areas look like is staggering. I’ve had friends who simply feel “afraid” to look at what’s down there and how it works. Sounds ridiculous? Well, this…

Campus News Opinion

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…

Campus News Opinion

Keep it together teach’

If college fees are about to put us into debt for the next 10 years—and for most of us, they will—we had better be getting our money’s worth. Though this conservation rightly gravitates around a concern for how our degrees…

Campus News Opinion

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 McDonald’s. I would get spit at, hit on and would take orders for students who could barely…

National Issues Opinion

Jeter leaves blueprint of excellence

In the classic 1993 baseball movie “The Sandlot,” a timeless quote is made regarding the main character’s favorite player, Babe Ruth. The quote says, “People say he was less than a god but more than a man. You know, like…