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Rising Student Artists: Punk band members reunite for EP

By day, dedicated students and a brave service member, by night recording musicians. Oswego punk band Afterthoughts’ debut release, “Where You Belong EP,” is anything but the title of the intro track’s name, “One-Dimensional.” “Where You Belong” has a little…

Laker Review Reviews

‘Prisoners’ offers audience suspenseful, crime-filled mystery

Boasting a stellar cast of Academy Award-nominated actors, “Prisoners” is an intense, yet strangely quiet crime thriller. The film, focused on two families dealing with the disappearance of their two young daughters and the detective in charge of the investigation,…

ALANA Week kicks off with fashion show

The Nature’s Essence ALANA 2013 Fashion Show show was held in the Waterman Theatre at Tyler Hall on the Oswego State campus Saturday, Sep. 21. The fashion show kicked off ALANA week on the Oswego State campus with scenes performed…

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Oswego State mirrors nationwide trend with tuition increases

Jaclyn Hart, an Oswego State junior broadcasting major, said she was driven since she was young to go to college by her mother, who was able to receive a bachelor’s degree from Siena College and a master’s degree from Union…

Archives The Beat

Fall concert location moved

The SAPB concert performance of the indie rock band, Walk the Moon, has been moved indoors in anticipation of bad weather Saturday. Instead of the usual stage set up on the lawn between Campus Center and Funnelle and Hart Hall,…

Campus News News

Proposed presidential plan’s effects monitored by Oswego State

President Barack Obama unveiled a proposal for changes to higher education in a series of speeches over this summer. He outlined student loan plans and how he sees colleges improving the learning experience as a whole. Should parts of the…

Nostalgia meets digital at Midway Drive-In

[slideshow_deploy id=’13431′] For most students the question isn’t “have you ever been to the Midway Drive-In theater?” But rather, “have you ever been to a drive-in theater at all?” If you haven’t been to one at all, you are in…

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Premier Living Suites increases prices $500 after 1 year

Despite already being known as a more expensive option for off-campus housing, the Premier Living Suites have increased their cost for the 2014-2015 school year. Last year, PLS sparked a lot of interest in students who were looking to live…

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Novelty ice creams no longer provided in dining halls

Some students love having ice cream at their fingertips in the dining hall – or at least last year they did. This year, students returned to school to find all the ice cream freezers removed. Craig Traub, director of resident…

Opinion Staff Editorial

Are loans worth debt?

Whether they attend a public or private institution, the majority of college students in the United States have one thing in common: they’re in a lot of debt. We do not know about you, but we sure feel buried from…