Yik Yak raises campus safety concerns
College campuses across the country have banned or considered banning Yik Yak in an effort to deflect the negative effects of the anonymous social media app. Yik Yak is an anonymous social media app that all posts, called Yaks, can…
WebAssign causes students to petition
This semester, all labs for college physics and general university physics classes adapted the online homework system WebAssign for the pre-lab assignments. The new assignments have upset some students in the course, which is the largest in the physics department…
This Week in SA
The Student Association held its eighth meeting of the semester Tuesday evening. The number of senators needed to make quorum was satisfied. One new senator took the oath of office on the SA constitution and was sworn in to the…
Staff Editorial: Vote to bring change immediatly
Election Day may be behind us, but that does not mean that politics end until 2016. A deplorable number of people showed up on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Now, the Republican Party controls the U.S….
Though high rates of teen pregnancy, no sex-ed in schools
How did you learn about sex? Was it good, bad or indifferent? Was it through friends, films and TV, older brothers or sisters, personal experience, or did you get sex education at school? Perhaps it was from your mom or…
Gun purchases should require testing
In the wake of several school shootings, many college students across the country have asked for gun ownership reform. However, the majority of college students who ask for this kind of reform don’t understand that these people are not what…
Hazing on, off playing field
There are many reasons people participate in clubs or sports teams. Some do it for the sake of meeting new people and exploring a new activity, while others do it as a résume builder. Regardless of the reason, the main…
Sen. Gillibrand aims to ban microbeads
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand recently visited the port of Oswego to discuss urging Congress to pass new legislation to ban plastic microbeads in personal care products that are frequently found in the water of the Great Lakes. Microbeads are the…
Digital voting offers new possibilities, chance to make it count
If you didn’t vote, you can’t be unhappy with election results. That’s what most people say. It can be difficult to vote while at college because most people are not registered to vote in their college towns. Students are registered…
Life after college scary without help
I’m graduating college in May. Boom. I said it. I’m still a little bit in denial, thinking that after 17 years of education, I’ll be handed a college degree, the university’s way of telling me I’m ready for the world….
