Don’t just float, swim
One band that I really developed a strong attachment to over my five years at Oswego State is R.E.M. I had heard of them all through high school, but it wasn’t until my freshman year that I became fully entranced…
Facing graduation, dreams in reach
In just a few weeks I will say goodbye to my second home for the past four years. The time passed between being an unknowing freshman to a seasoned senior was filled with the highest of highs and the lowest…
If you want to get somewhere in life, do everything it takes
This goes out to the kids with the awkward smile, the ones who got picked last in the kickball line up and the ones who sat in the back not to be cool, but not to be seen. This is…
Experience laughs, action, thrills during summer movies
Nick Graziano Incoming Managing Editor ngrazaino@oswegonian.com Earth’s mightiest heroes will come together for the first time in Marvel’s newest movie “The Avengers.” Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., “Sherlock Holmes 2”), Captain America (Chris Evans, “What’s Your Number?”), Thor (Chris Hemsworth,…
Consumer previews top summer video games
With the end of the school year and E3 just around the corner, it’s time to take a look ahead at titles to keep an eye out over the next few months. With a slew of new releases coming, some…
White riffs breakup tunes
Over the last 15 years, Jack White has been rock ’n’ roll’s ultimate Renaissance man, a virtuosic talent who has too many ideas for one band to hold. There is the brutally simplistic garage rock of The White Stripes, the…
Edwidge Danticat – “Brother, I’m Dying”
“Brother, I’m Dying” is an autobiographical novel and account of Edwidge Danticat’s diaspora from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to America. This novel and commentary on U.S. Immigration and world policies received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Danticat is also…
Surveying takes first steps in renovating Tyler Hall
A program study has recently been completed to map out the space needs and program needs for the renovations to Tyler Hall, home of the arts, music and theatre departments, as well as art galleries and Waterman Theatre. Associate Vice…
Growing a community
“You guys are really building a garden here?” asked a boy in his early teen years, as he approached Tom Collette at the Oswego community garden’s East Schuyler street location. “Yea,” Collette said. “I wonder how long that’s gonna last,”…
Campus offices attempt to deter risk of suicide among students
There are roughly eight suicides per 100,000 college students or more than 1,000 suicides of college students in the U.S. annually, a study by the American College Health Association (ACHA) estimates. Another study co-sponsored by the National Mental Health Association…
