Longboarding coasts onto campus
The Oswego State campus has found a new trend that is sweeping, or rolling, through its walkways. Students are abandoning their cars, bikes and scooters for longboards, essentially a surfboard with wheels. Longboarding, a variation of skateboarding, involves more speed…
Putting the Tea in teachable
In the past year or so, the Tea Party movement has made its voice known with cries of "take America back"(from what? I’m not completely sure). With the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck leading the charge, the movement…
Walk aims to increase suicide awareness
Oswego State will hold its first "Out of the Darkness" suicide prevention walk on Oct. 2, starting at 11 a.m. Over 100 people are currently participating in this walk and, together, have already raised over $5,000, which will be donated…
ALANA Conference examines diversity, equality, prejudice
Students of diverse cultures came together for an annual conference that included numerous interactive events designed to bring an understanding and appreciation to different groups of people at Oswego State. The African, Latino, Asian and Native American (ALANA) Student Leadership…
Price named Lakers’ new softball head coach for 2011
Following a dismal 5-27 season for the Oswego State women’s softball team, the university has hired Casey Price as the team’s new head coach. Price replaces Chyrisse Conte, who compiled an 82-204 record in the final nine years of her…
Lakers sweep Utica in straight sets
The Oswego State women’s volleyball team had little trouble defeating visiting Utica College, sweeping the Pioneers in three sets. This lopsided result was expected when Utica entered Max Ziel Gymnasium on Wednesday night. Utica entered the match with a 1-11…
iTunes U grows in popularity
In fall of 2009, Apple-produced iTunes U made its debut at Oswego State with little attention. It wasn’t until this fall that the school began to emphasize the tech giant’s educational version of iTunes, which has already been embraced by…
Levy, Crunch return to Oswego
Professional hockey will return to Oswego State when the Syracuse Crunch and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins play on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at the Campus Center Ice Arena for the fourth annual Shapiro Motor Sales of Oswego Classic. Former Oswego State forward…
Students receive grant to chase snowstorms
An $86,000 grant that will enable Oswego State meteorology students to chase lake effect snowstorms with new and improved data has been passed. The snowstorms will be tracked with a Doppler-On-Wheels, a dual polarimetric device that sends out radio waves…
Tea Partiers often mad as a hatter
In my opinion, midterm elections aren’t the most exciting part of the political calendar. Mostly because the congressmen and senators running aren’t as nationally known as the present and, other than a few exceptions, their political influence doesn’t have very…
