Lakers stay hot in winter
A holiday and a new year has came and gone for the Oswego State men’s basketball team. When Oswego State students packed up and left for winter break, the team was 6-1. After 10 hard fought, empty games, when those…
Lakers vastly improved
Quietly having its best season in six years, the Oswego State women’s basketball team has the third-best record in the SUNYAC, has clinched its twelfth-consecutive playoff birth and takes a two-game winning streak into the final weekend of the regular…
Fitting in with new team
Transferring to a university as a junior can be difficult. One has to acclimate to new classes, professors and friends, which can be the toughest of all, since most students in one’s age group have already established friend groups. For…
Festival warms up city
The cold wintry weather did not stop Drew Pascuzzi and other local residents of Oswego from enjoying the jam-packed events of this year’s Warm Up Oswego Festival. “It breaks up the cold weather and lets people get out of the…
Blue Light phones on campus broken, need replacement
Oswego State students coming back from a late-night study session at the library have good reason to be nervous while walking back to their dorms. All four of the Blue Light emergency phones on the school’s campus are currently out…
Freshmen, transfers decline in fall 2012
An increasing number of colleges and universities are facing declines in enrollment according to a recent New York Times article. Moody’s Investor Service, a credit ratings agency, released its annual survey on higher education, which stated that half of the…
Campus drug arrests rise
Over the last three years, drug-related arrests by the Oswego State University Police have nearly doubled from the previous three-year total. From 2010-2012, U.P. reported a total of 322 drug-related arrests, up from 170 total from 2007-2009, according to reports…
Brazil, Spain favorites for 2014 World Cup
Brazil, a celestial, yet recently shaky soccer team and host of the FIFA World Cup in 2014 has automatically qualified, however; other fearful countries such as, Spain, Italy, France Germany, the Netherlands and Argentina are slowly proving themselves to be…
Second Amendment outdated, NRA wrong
“The right to bear arms.” Five words that people like Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, live their entire life by. LaPierre and his colleagues believe that this statement has so much to do with the liberty and protection that…
Protein should be consumed through foods, not shakes: Real Talk with Shelly & Ted
Shelly Sloan is the health promotion coordinator and Ted Winkworth is the alcohol and other drug program coordinator. You can find them at The Lifestyles Center in Walker Health Center. Shelly received her master’s degree in community health education and…
