COM 211 hosts panel of students from business department
The School of Business at Oswego State is now requiring freshmen to take COM 211: Strategic Communication in Business as its first choice course, which teaches students writing and speaking skills. Professor Sarah Bozek created COM 211 after the Business…
First fall TED Talk proves successful
On Sept. 23, Ranjit Dighe, chair of the department of economics, gave a lecture titled “Inequality & Perceptions of Fairness” in Campus Center room 132. Dighe said in the lecture that inequality has been pervasive nationwide since the 1960s. The…
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Shipwreck discovered A team of undersea explorers out of Rochester discovered a 123-year-old wrecked ship on the depths of Lake Ontario near Oswego on Sept. 19. Jim Kennard, Roger Pawlowski and Roland Stevens, historic shipwreck hunters, found the ship, a…
ALANA Conference week kicks off
[slideshow_deploy id=’13686′] The ALANA Multicultural Leadership Conference started off with a bright display fashion Saturday night, during the 27th annual ALANA Fashion Show. For show featured students from different cultural groups performed using traditional clothing as a part of a…
Assaults on campus rare occurrence
In November 2012, a student was walking alone through the Oswego State campus late at night, when he was approached by five assailants. The student was assaulted, an event that led to an email being released to all students. The…
Opera house fundraiser
Oswego Opera Theater is hosting a Chicken Barbeque and Lottery Tree Raffle on Sunday, Sept. 29 at The Oswego Elks Club Lodge located at West Bridge Street and West 5th St. An organizer of the fundraiser, professor from the Communications…
3rd Annual ALANA Peace Walk held from City Hall to Quad
On Sunday, Sept. 22, Oswego State held its 3rd annual ALANA Unity Peace Walk. ALANA, the African, Latino, Asian and Native American organizations, grouped up with an eclectic crowd of other student organizations participated, including Black Student Union, Oswego Going…
‘V’ robs nation of sleep with gaming realism
Grand Theft Auto V, released Sept. 17, became a trending topic to the point that gamers everywhere made sure to line the corners of their local GameStop or other retail store where it was sold. This latest version of Grand…
Drake stays agressive without excess features
The old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and that seems to be Drake’s mentality when he makes music. If one goes into the artist’s third studio album, “Nothing Was the Same,” thinking it is going to…
Birdy thrives with original sounds
Birdy, a 16-year-old Brit who became famous in the U.S. after her rendition of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” went viral on YouTube, released her second album on Sept. 23 in the U.K. The new album, entitled “Fire Within,” is Birdy’s…
