The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 24, 2024

Samantha Flavell

Oswego State receives at-large bid, bye week in NCAA Tournament

When the Oswego State men’s hockey team fell to SUNY Fredonia in the SUNYAC semifinals last season, former captain Mitchell Herlihey was uncertain if that game would be the last of his collegiate career. The team’s fate was left to…

Lawson, van Reenen on ballot in SA presidential election

Oswego State will choose between two candidates to select who will be the president of Student Association for the 2019-2020 school year. Omar van Reenen, the current president of SA, is running for reelection in hopes of continuing the work…

Oscars pander to audience, should be more definitive in values

            The 91st Academy Awards will broadcast on Feb. 24, and it has been one problem after another. It all started back in February, when the Academy announced it would be adding a Most Popular film category to its traditional…

Zal’s Thoughts: comparing last season to this season

It is sometimes unbelievable how much change can happen over the course of a year, but as is the case with just about everything, some things stay the same. For the Oswego State men’s hockey program, all it will take…

Men’s hockey looks for revenge on Plattsburgh

At the end of the 2017-2018 regu- lar season, the Oswego State men’s hockey team fell to Plattsburgh State. Just a week later, the Lakers lost to SUNY Fredonia during the SUNYAC semifinals, ending their season on Feb. 24, 2018….

Men’s basketball host conference tournament

The Oswego State Lakers will be playing their first game of the SUNYAC championship on Friday Feb. 22 against the SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons.  The Lakers and the Red Dragons have split their two games in the regular season. The…

Tall task ahead of Lakers as they take on dominant Cardinals in NEWHL

After dropping the second of two games against SUNY Potsdam, Oswego State finds itself in a tough position in the NEWHL playoffs. It now sits at the No. 4 seed and has a tough task ahead against the No. 1-seeded…

Government shutdown does not affect financial aid

Dec. 22 marked the beginning of what has become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. As a whole, the partial government shutdown lasted 35 days, affecting 800,000 federal workers as well as thousands of federal contractors, according to The…

Science Today lecture explores plastic waste

Chemistry professor Matthew Baker told students that the world produced over 448 million tons of plastic in 2015 at a Science Today lecture on Tuesday. “If that seems like a lot, it is. It’s almost incomprehensible,” Baker said during his…

New campus printing system introduced to Oswego State

Beginning this semester, a new system was put in place to allow students to print out assignments and other school-related content. The new system, known as “LakerPrint,” is meant to encourage an environmentally friendly and convenient method of printing to…