The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 22, 2024

Month: November 2011

News

Italy, Greece facing dismal economics, Spain speculated as next to fall in Eurozone crisis

In the ongoing European debt crisis, Italy’s economic woes now rival that of Greece, and these overseas problems could spell trouble for the United States. While yields on Greek debt have reached levels well beyond what Greece could ever afford…

News

SUNY Briefs 11/18/2011

SUNY Twenty-one SUNY schools across New York state participated in an online event called College Week Live on Tuesday. College Week Live is a virtual college fair designed to help international students seek an education in the United States. The…

Opinion

Journalism eats world

What I’m about to say won’t be on the nightly news. It won’t run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You won’t hear about it on CNN and pundits will not sit at a round…

Opinion

Mass media forget fundamentals

The media is slowly becoming less and less definable. Year after year, new technologies and advances in old ones increase the size and scope of the media. It’s gotten to the point where any person with an email address and…

Opinion

College benefits might be worth high costs, debts

By the time I graduate from Oswego State, I will have accumulated $44,000 in federal loans. As an independent student I qualify for more loans than most students and as an out-of-state student I certainly need them. I often find…

Opinion

Video games not cause or fault

Video games and cable news networks seem to go together about as well as orange juice and toothpaste. For some reason, both liberal and conservative media outlets have turned their eyes to video games as a modern boogeyman responsible for…

Opinion

Gingrich beats others as most seasoned GOP contender

First, it was Mitt Romney, then Rick Perry, followed by Herman Cain and now it’s Newt Gingrich. Is Newt a viable contender for the Republican nomination or just the flavor of the week? Newt Gingrich’s poll numbers have been rising…

In the Office

Personality shifts between home, school

I live a double life. I don’t fight crime on weekends, as my “Kim Possible” ringtone suggests, but rather I am a completely different person during the summer months than I am here at school. During the school year, I…

Staff Editorial

Internet Under Firewall

The Internet can sometimes seem like a lawless place. Indeed, many things some people consider to be wrong can be expediently accessed on the Internet – theft, violence, immoral sex, you name it, it’s on there. But, fundamentally, the Internet…

Sports

Lakers muster tie against Mustangs

The Oswego State men’s ice hockey team rallied from a three-goal second period deficit to send the game into overtime, but was unable to net the game-winning goal, as the Lakers settled for a 3-3 tie against Morrisville State College…