Respect your space, be considerate
Most people come to college knowing for the next four (or five) years that they will more or less have to take care of themselves. And for most people, living in dorms isn’t much of a challenge. Doing your own…
Remember manners, respect classes
Professors have the right to be as formal or informal as they would like in the classes they teach. They can demand absolute authority in their classroom, they can be their students’ best friend in and out of class, or…
Draconian law is disgrace to country
The Dominican Republic Constitutional Court recently passed a ruling that will strip the citizenship of thousands of children of migrant workers. The ruling will affect those born to immigrants without a residency permit since 1929. The people most affected by…
Inform yourself so you can take action
You hear your phone vibrate with incoming texts, you constantly check Twitter, take frequent glances at Tumblr and spend hours scrolling through the never-ending “news feed” of Facebook. We know the second that a celebrity dies, how our favorite television…
Inform yourself so you can take action
There is no reason for the government to shut down. That is something that I’m sure most of us can agree upon. As American citizens, let’s ask ourselves a few questions. Do we know the who, what, when, where and…
Waterbury provides fond memories
Even though I have never been a resident, nor have I ever spent a single night in Waterbury Residence Hall, “the Burr” will always and forever be near and dear to my heart. Since my first days as a freshman,…
Loans become more than numbers
Student loan debt must be one of those things that doesn’t hit you until senior year. I’ve been at Oswego State for three entire years and before my fourth and final year began this August, I was mostly concerned with…
As seasons change, life does as well
How great is this time of year? Everyone is back in the swing of things here, football is back, Major League Baseball playoffs are right around the corner, whatever non-sports fan activities are probably happening and, most importantly, the heat…
Take more chances, you never know
Opportunity is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a good chance for advancement or progress. In life, opportunities are not always granted; sometimes they happen by chance. Chance. Something happening, almost always, unpredictably and sometimes without a cause. By chance,…
Racism still found around Oswego
Smooth hip movements and laughter followed the clack of high heels that made their way to the empty D-Bus. We were having a good time. “We” being a group of diverse, curvaceous “colored” females. An uncommon sight in the county,…
