Porn discussion fills up Hewitt
Former porn star Ron Jeremy and feminist author and activist Susan G. Cole debated the virtues and vices related to pornography on Wednesday to a packed crowd in the Hewitt Union ballroom. The debate, presented by the Student Association Programming…
Gov. shuts down; Oswego braces for future effects
The U.S. government is currently shut down due to a lack of bi-partisanship in Congress, resulting in the furlough roughly 800,000 federal employees. The government closed Oct. 1, the first day of federal fiscal year. It is the responsibility of…
Nature program educates about project
Last Saturday, Oswego State held the naturalist-led walk event, Rice Creek Restored and Running Free, for visitors from the Oswego community to take a hike to Rice Creek and discuss the Fallbrook Pond Dam Removal Project. This event was the…
ALANA Networking Fair closes week-long conference
After a week of events celebrating the different cultures at Oswego State, the ALANA Multicultural Leadership Conference came to an end on Saturday. The conference ended with the ALANA Alumni Networking Fair held near The Point in Campus Center. At…
3 SUNY schools scrap mandatory SAT scores for applicants
Average SAT scores around the United States have remained stagnant over the last five years, spawning a movement to rely less on its numbers when evaluating a student’s academic standing. In 2013, only 43 percent of the test-takers met or…
CampusSafe mobile application proposed to replace current RaveGuardian at Oswego State
Rave Guardian is the widely-unknown smart phone application used for student safety that Oswego State currently subscribes to, but the Student Association is looking into a new application to replace it: CampusSafe. The president of Oswego State’s Student Association, Anthony…
Explore options abroad
Studying abroad is not just a ‘vacation’ as some might assume. Studying in another country helps students in multiple ways. From taking on a new language, to interning in an overseas business, to enrolling in a foreign university, studying abroad…
Inform yourself so you can take action
There is no reason for the government to shut down. That is something that I’m sure most of us can agree upon. As American citizens, let’s ask ourselves a few questions. Do we know the who, what, when, where and…
Student shares experience
I am one of those people who, when watching a movie, cries whenever an animal dies and am stone-faced when a person dies. It does not matter what kind of animal, wild or domestic—when they die in real life or…
Give books real chance
According to National Endowment for the Arts, 33 percent of young adults never read a book again once they graduate from high school. That means that one-third of the students here at Oswego State have not read anything since they…
