The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 23, 2024

Month: April 2012

Opinion

Being with God together

Tack, Tack, Tack! Hammer hits nail, piercing through paper, effectively attaching the papers to the large wooden door of the Church Witenberg. The papers which hang from the nail contain 95 theses against practices of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther’s…

Opinion

Five things to do before you graduate

As a tour guide going on three years of giving tours to sometimes surly, other times overenthusiastic families, I get asked why I came to Oswego State. They usually follow up my answer with ‘well it sounds like you really…

Opinion

You pay for Obama admin’s hookers, vacations

Graduation is just around the corner for many of you and with the uncertainty of the job market and the high cost of perusing higher education, and it is causing anxiety. For those of you who still have time left,…

News

Rising gas prices hit hard

Consumers nationwide are feeling the pain of higher gas prices, and the truth is that the world market price of oil has even hit Oswego. In just a month, according to Gasbuddy.com, the average retail price chart for Oswego showed…

News

SUNY Briefs 04-20-2012

Cortland Stacey Watson, co-founder of Drop-in Nation, will speak at SUNY Cortland on April 20 to spread the importance of holistic curricula. Drop-in Nation was founded in 2004 to help at-risk students get their GED and develop knowledge in the…

Opinion

Through years, many changes in school, self

I’ve been a student at Oswego State for some time. But contrary to popular belief among my friends, my freshman year was not 1998, it was 2007. There have been some minor changes to the school since I came here,…

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor 4/20/12

Dear Adam Wolfe,   This letter is in regards to your recent article, “New Guide for Gays” in the April 13, 2012 edition of The Oswegonian, as well as a previous article in which you expressed your “baby” ambitions. As…

Opinion

Graduation items overpriced as we seem underappreciated

The “Grad Finale” event took place April 17 in the Hewitt Union Ballroom. It was a meeting place for students who wanted to take place in the commencement ceremony to buy memorabilia and various items needed for the graduation ceremony….

In the Office

Student involvement needs remedy

It is a fairly common complaint on campus that our student body is apathetic. A customary claim made in Student Association elections is we need more student involvement. Most people that know about campus would agree it would be a…

Staff Editorial

FINALS COMING: GET SLEEP

If you approached someone on the street and asked if they would like to be made unconscious between four to nine hours, during which they would not be able to move, complete tasks or respond to stimuli, they would be…