The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

Opinion

Disney+ proves to be unaffordable

After Disney+ went live on Nov. 12, yet another streaming service has added to the reason to cut the cable cord for most consumers. But is Disney+ helping or hurting? With all of the major streaming services totaled together, including…

Carrying guns everywhere unnecessary

Two more school mass shootings flooded the news last week. One took place in Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California before classes started on Thursday, Nov. 14. The second one on Saturday, Nov. 16 during a football game in…

Chick-fil-A attempts to manipulate consumers with empty promises, false activism

Chick-fil-A has been boycotted by many people because of its political views and donations to anti-LGBTQ+ groups. A few days ago, the company came out and said that they would no longer donate to the groups that people were upset…

In The Office: NCAA takes 2 steps backwards

On Oct. 29, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors voted to allow players to profit from their own name, image and likeness once the three divisions can reach a decision on how exactly this will work. The NCAA…

Staff Editorial: Nov. 15, 2019

On Nov. 5, Northwestern University’s student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, covered a protest when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to speak at the university. The editorial staff sent one reporter to the protest and a photographer; the other reporter…

Trump deserves every boo he receives

 An email sent to University of Alabama students warned that any disruptions during the upcoming football game would not be tolerated and that the punishment for misconduct would be banning violators from the student sections for the remainder of the…

Russian athletes drug problem

Russia is now in a race against time to prove itself compliant with clean sport with less than a year to go until next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. For a long time now, the country has…

Tokyo weather bad for Olympics

When Tokyo was selected for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, little was known in terms of the impact of heat on competing athletes. However, in the past year the organizing committee’s measures to combat the aforementioned have been…

Sex workers should not be punished

There is very little that the United States government likes more than trying to tell uterus owners what they can and cannot do with their bodies. From reproductive rights to freeing the “female-presenting” nipple, the government and those who help…

Studying abroad incredible experience

This past May, after enrolling in a fourth quarter English and political science Study Abroad course, I flew from New York City to London Heathrow Airport to spend eight and a half days overseas in the United Kingdom with 12…