Alternative breaks gain momentum
Over 100 Oswego State students and faculty will be donating their spring breaks to help communities around the country with Alternative Spring Break. Students will be volunteering to help build houses, work on tiger rescue property and volunteer with children…
Off-grid homeowner to speak
The developer of his own sustainable community will be visiting Oswego State after spring break. Jim Juczak has become an expert in sustainable living, by developing a living community called Woodhenge. “He most notably made this off-grid community called Woodhenge,”…
SUNY Briefs 03/02/2012
SUNY Eight schools will participate in SUNY’s Central New York Regional Showcase at the Comstock Ballroom in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center on March 5. The eight schools sending representatives, which include SUNY Cortland, Cayuga Community College,…
Oswego State’s Other Championship Sports Team
As I sat in the stands of the Max Ziel Gymnasium last Saturday, watching the Oswego State men’s basketball team defeat Cortland for their first SUNYAC championship since 1965, I couldn’t help but think to myself, why aren’t more people…
‘Wrecking’ addresses American turmoil
Throughout his legendary career, Bruce Springsteen has made his most vital music when he chronicles the lives of American people at a time of crisis. The workers lamenting broken dreams on 1978’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” the scattered,…
Secondhand bookstore has tea, cozy atmosphere
Time & Again Books and Tea is a cozy secondhand bookstore with the added bonus of selling delicious tea as well. Located at 18 E. Utica Street, it is a bit off the main drag, but has continued to draw…
Dirty Paris jams fusion
Old City Hall was busier than usual when they hosted two bands that attracted music lovers from across the state. The band Dirty Paris from Albany, stopped at Old City for its first appearance last Saturday. Accompanied by House on…
New extreme with ‘Jam’
Winter sports enthusiasts flocked to the quad Saturday for an afternoon of dubstep and Red Bull-fueled competition in Oswego State’s inagural Rail Jam contest. The competition, hosted by the Ski and Snowboarding Club in coordination with the Lifestyles Center, Outdoors…
New, improved ‘Syndicate’
Back in 1993, Bullfrog Productions released a strategy game, which was named “Syndicate,” based in a cyber-punk future where corporations replaced countries and told a tale of corporate espionage. In 2012, Starbreeze Studios, creators of the Riddick games and the…
Real soldiers prove not to be real actors
The new military thriller, “Act Of Valor” can be summarized in one word: Propaganda. Directed by former stunt men Mike McCoy and Scott Wagh, the movie supplies impressive action sequences, but fails in every way needed to make a memorable…
