The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 23, 2024

Month: February 2014

Basketball Sports

Lakers lose overtime thriller

Senior Night for the Oswego State women’s basketball team lived up to the hype on Saturday night, but the Lakers dropped an overtime thriller to SUNY Cortland, 72-66. Oswego State’s Brittany Pachard, Lauren Nunziato, Paula Egleston and Jenn Robbins each…

Hockey Sports

Freshman makes impact

Despite being a freshman, Kendall Appelbaum has already established herself as one of the most tenacious players on the Oswego State women’s hockey team. She has performed well in her first season with the Lakers, having recorded with 11 points…

Laker Review Reviews

Broken Bells comeback album falls flat

Four years can feel like a decades’ worth of time in the music world, something especially true for indie supergroup Broken Bells. When the duo, comprised of Shins’ frontman James Mercer and mega-producer Brian Burton, or Danger Mouse, came together…

Laker Review Reviews

Clooney, company not so monumental

“The Monuments Men” is a badly paced, old man version of “Saving Private Ryan,” and not just because Matt Damon is in it either. Both of these World War II flicks are based around the question: “What is a man’s…

Laker Review Reviews

Bombay Bicycle Club reinvents its sound one more time

After years of exploring and constantly trying to redefine its sound with each successive album, English indie pop-rock quartet Bombay Bicycle Club has finally found its musical niche. The band has forgone the ho-hum guitar melodies and opted for samples…

Laker Review Reviews

‘The Lego Movie’ surprises, delights audiences of all ages

“Everything Is Awesome”. It’s a song that will stay in your head long after the end credits roll on what is probably the first truly good movie to come out of 2014. It’s also a great way to define the…

Campus Events Laker Review

Rising Student Artists: ‘4 Guys in a Booth’s’ farewell season

Four Oswego State students are sending their voices over the WNYO airwaves for the last time as they enter their eighth and final season. The show is “Four Guys in a Booth.” The guys are John Mongiello, Allen Wengert, Adam…

Laker Review

Creative Writing

I’m casually desperate and indefinitely different Born to be a failure and an outclassed outcast I lead the parade for the doubled-crossed Trapped in the pages of a notebook feeling homesick Writing “Paint me in your favorite lipstick” I’ll call…

Laker Review

This Week’s Horoscopes

Aries:  Your stars are unaligned right now. You may feel off kilter until next Friday, but things can get better. Someone in your life wants to tell you something, so try and get them to talk.   Taurus: There’s not…