Food for soul
Let me confess something: I have never heard of the Oswego Farmers’ Market. Another fact is that I am also in my fourth and last year as an undergraduate. Still yet, not many people I’ve talked to have heard about…
Trials and tribulations of introverts
I have always felt I lived on a detached and drifting island, riding a current that had no regard for the usual checkpoints in life, leaving friends behind as they rejoiced in their sunbathed localities, as I continued northbound into…
College athletes deserve payday
College football is back and everyone knows what that means: more scandals and stories that undermine its integrity. Every few weeks, ESPN and the other major sports media break a story about how some major college sports program allegedly violated…
Living in Village encourages culinary independence
Yet another summer is gone and I have finally finished unpacking the enormous amount of stuff I brought with me this year. This being my third year in college, I am well acclimated to the way college works and what…
My summer nightmare, not too scary
After every return to school, I am asked – as I am sure everyone else is – what I did with my summer. The idea of summer is either an idyllic scene of beaches and relaxation, or the drudgery of…
Staff Editorial 9/9/11
“9/11 changed everything.” Fifty years from now that phrase will be in every history book of every social studies class in America. But when it appears there, it will not express a continuing truth. Instead, the phrase will appear to…
Be involved, be happy
"It’s that time of the year where the next batch of young adults go into the real world and are forced to face an uncertain future. With this, there is a sudden need for nostalgia and reflection over the past…
Machines make life easier, not better
"I have a profound fear of tomorrow’s innovations. Transhumanism, the technological and philosophical transformation of humans into posthumans, strikes me as a not-so-distant reality. "We have already conquered many of our environment’s physical challenges, and now we are attempting to…
Student work ethic underestimated
"I was sitting in my senior capstone class, fighting to stay awake during a guest speaker from the career services office. At the front of the room stood the same cookie-cutter, rah-rah motivational speaker I had seen hundreds of times…
Many still ignorant of struggles with autistic disorders
"With April coming to a close, many people probably don’t realize that April is Autism Awareness Month. Other special months such as Black History Month in February get a lot of recognition and for good reason. However, I believe that…
