This Week in SA
The Student Association Senate met for its third official meeting of the semester on Tuesday. Twenty senators were present. The senate began the meeting by approving the minutes from the previous meeting and the agenda for the day. There was…
DIVERSITY KEY TO EDUCATION
College is supposed to be a transformative experience. Beyond the educational value, the idea is for a student to be pushed to grow by being put in unfamiliar social situations. Such is the value of a diverse campus. Many students…
Story of struggles with rare disease
In July 2012, my sister, Alyssa, was preparing to move out of our family home and into an apartment with a friend from high school when she called down to me from her room upstairs and asked if I could…
In-Klined to Speak
If there’s one thing I hate being asked to do, it’s to describe myself in one word. Why? Because who I am seems to change on a regular basis these days, to the point that trying to break down and…
Letter to the Editor
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, is a day that will be etched in the history of Oswego State’s programs for Black History Month. On this day, the Black Student Union (BSU) presented to us Maarifa-Knowledge, an independently student-organized symposium/conference. Nineteen students…
Fools dare to wear shorts in wintry tundra
For sane people, winter means bundling up and trying, unsuccessfully, to fight off the cold. But there are a select few who roam the Oswego State campus who do not conform to reason. These deranged individuals go against the grain,…
STEM majors keep love in their work
Last July, physicists and physics lovers were worked into a fever pitch of excitement. They traveled from around the world to Geneva to watch a presentation of the latest evidence for the existence of the Higgs Boson, a theorized but…
Student bares all in editorial
Education in the U.S. is climbing up in price and people are looking for ways to pay off their loans. In response to an op-ed by, Lauren A. a student at Duke University who is paying for college by making…
‘Late Night’ takeover hits ground running
For the first time in 22 years, the “Tonight Show” aired without its usual host, Jay Leno. Instead, it was young comedian Jimmy Fallon who took the stage, succeeding Leno as the “Tonight Show’s” host on Feb. 17. Dressed in…
‘Pompeii’ melts viewers’ hopes for good film
Ancient Rome and Greece are no strangers to the silver screen. “Troy,” “300,” “Spartacus” and “The Gladiator” are among the thousands of films that share the setting, each with their own unique way of manhandling the history and mythology of…
