Textbook cost lacks value
   Syllabus week typically entails students eyeing new peers, getting a sense of their professors and being overwhelmed by the total price of their textbook shopping list.    According to the National Association of College Stores, the average…
Students struggle with commuter parking
   There are so many perks to living off campus. The biggest one is the fact I can actually afford to still go to school here. However, there is one glaring flaw: the commuter parking.    For the…
‘Free Week’ frustrates gym regulars
   At the beginning of each semester, Oswego State offers a free week for students and faculty at Cooper and Glimmerglass fitness centers. The fitness centers are non-profit facilities that run primarily on the membership fees from students…
Therapy pets annoy students
   Pets on campus are involuntary participants in a scheme of emotions.    Oswego has a formal residential policy prohibiting pets in residential communities, except for fish in aquariums of up to 20 gallons.    However,…
Trump makes immigration speech
   On Aug. 31, Donald Trump delivered his much-anticipated immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, a state with a burgeoning immigrant population and possible swing state come November.    It doesn’t seem long ago that the media laughed…
Kaepernick exercises First Amendment right
   Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, recently struck conversation all over America.On Aug. 26, Kaepernick refused to stand up during the National Anthem and again on Sept. 1, when he took a knee instead.  …
MyOswego improves profile layout
   With the first few weeks of classes behind us, students are debating which classes they want to drop because they find the workload for a class to be too much or they’ve waited for the right moment to…
Obesity sky rockets, epidemic on rise
Obesity is a much bigger problem than society lets on. For the first time in history, obesity rates are higher than underweight rates. There are a number of factors that can contribute to this. Energy balance, for example: the calories…
Nurse from Fulton surrenders license
A Fulton nurse went a little too far when it came to giving a patient a close examination. If you did not hear the story or see it trending on Facebook last week, nurse Kristen Johnson was arrested after she…
Wendy Bell creates racial controversy
In today’s rapidly changing society, Internet norms are being introduced daily and social media sites are flourishing with new account members and praise from around the globe. However, after a racially offensive Facebook post from a Pittsburgh anchorwoman left thousands…
