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VOLUME LXXXI ISSUE VI SINCE 1935Friday, March 13, 2015 • THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF OSWEGO STATE UNIVERSITY • www.oswegonian.com
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Oswego StateKimberlyn BaileyStaff [email protected]
Adjuncts consider salaries unfairSome Oswego State professors still not tenured after years of teaching multiple classes
Christina Madera Staff Writer [email protected]
Adjunct professors make poverty level wages while college tuition con-tinues to rise annually.
Adjuncts, or part-time professors, make up around 76 percent of all college professors, according to the American As-sociation of University Professors.
Adjuncts are typically allowed to teach two to four courses per semester for an average pay of $2,700 per three-credit course. At Oswego State, an adjunct professor is typically limited to teaching two courses a semester at $2,952 per course. That totals to an an-nual salary of less than $12,000, which is right along the lines of minimum wage employment.
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Rep. Katko visits Oswego; talks economyLuke ParsnowNews [email protected]
Centro officials are considering eliminat-ing some bus services to amend for a $4.5 million budget gap, including some services offered to Oswego State students through Centro’s yearly contract with Oswego State.
Centro has contracts with Oswego State, Syracuse University and Le Moyne College. Oswego State’s yearly contract with Centro, however, is the most extensive of the three.
Students’ yearly $97 Student Associa-tion fee allows students the privilege to a green sticker on their IDs that serves as their boarding pass for numerous services. Students get rides included in the SA fee around campus and around the city of Oswego, and free express rides to and from Syracuse Tuesday through Friday on the 446X route and Thursday through Sunday on the 246 route.
Although routes around campus are of-ten overcrowded, routes to and from Syra-cuse are rarely even half full. The 246 route is only used by a few students except before breaks and on weekends. The 446X route started this year to accommodate students taking courses at Oswego State’s Metro Center in downtown Syracuse, and rarely transports more than a handful of students.
Despite the extent of services offered to Oswego State students and how under-uti-lized they are, service cuts will not drasti-cally affect students. According to the pro-posed cuts, however, there could be some noticeable changes.
Commuting students from Mexico and Fulton might feel some impact. Mexico and Fulton services might be consolidated, leading to less frequent trips for commut-ing students from those areas.
Sunday services connecting Oswego, Fulton and Syracuse via the 246 route could be cut altogether. Sunday services are su-perfluous to many students, amounting to little more than a way to get to Destiny USA and back on a Sunday. Many students, however, use Sunday services to come back from weekend train trips to their home-towns via Syracuse’s Regional Transpor-tation Center. This could force students to take overnight train trips to Syracuse on Sundays to catch a Monday morning trip to Oswego to be on time for class.
Centro officials could not comment on whether Sunday service cuts would make an exception to accommodate the commute for
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Rep. John Katko held a listening session in the city of Oswego last Wednesday, who along with a group of local panelists, addressed eco-nomic development in Oswego County.
Moderator Jim Grimshaw, the direc-tor of the Office of Business and Commu-nity Relations at Oswego State, opened the discussion by welcoming Katko and the four featured panelists. The panelists consisted of Zelko Kirincich, the executive
director of the Port of Oswego Authority, Theresa Himes, owner of Bosco and Geers Food Market and Pat Carroll, business manager at United Association of Plumb-ers and Steamfitters Local 73, and Michael Treadwell, executive director of Operation Oswego County.
Katko then made an opening statement, saying he had made a campaign pledge to make an appearance in the area more often and he wants to maintain that pledge.
“I think economic development is the
See KATKO, A4Lily Choi| The Oswegonian
President Stanley hears out student-related issues Students attend first-of-its-kind conversation with the president; more planned in futureBrian KroskyStaff [email protected]
See STANLEY, A5Taylor Clock | The Oswegonian
President Deborah Stanley made an appearance last Monday to ask students what their on-campus concerns were.
contingent officer and visiting assistant professor at Oswego State’s campus, Cynthia Fuller graduated from Oswego State, started teaching on the campus in 1992 and is still not on the tenure line.
“I was asked to teach one class. Then it turned into two, three, and then four,” Fuller said. “So I am considered to be a full-time contingent faculty member... that means you can’t have tenure. So you’re going by semester or one year contracts as I’ve got.”
Oswego State’s teaching staff is com-prised of 227 or about 39 percent adjunct professors who teach one to three classes per semester, about 12 percent are con-tingent or “visiting assistant professors” who teach four classes per semester and about 50 percent are tenured professors.
Last Monday night in the Marano Cam-pus Center Auditorium, Oswego State President Deborah Stanley hosted her first “Conversation with President Stanley,” which lasted just over an hour-and-a-half.
“It’s important to hear the voices of the students directly,” Stanley said. “We give students a lot of ways to give feedback, but a direct student-to-administrator conversa-tion, there’s nothing like it.”
Present with Stanley were many of her colleagues, including the president’s council.
Students who attended were a mixture of
upper and lower classmen, and they asked a variety of questions that had to do with many on-campus events.
One of the main topics discussed was the spring concert this year, and the univer-sity’s attempt to try and strip away the no-torious culture of Bridge Street Run. After last year’s chaos that ensued in the town of Oswego, including multiple injuries, 27 arrests and three Oswego State student deaths from heroin overdose, the Oswego Common Council voted to ban Bridge Street Run for 2015.
“The Bridge Street Run culture we don’t want that on campus,” Stanley said.
Stanley continued to say that she wanted
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Patrick Boyzuck, 36, was arrested on March 5 at 6:13 p.m. at 169 W. Second St. for petit larceny and conspiracy in the sixth degree.
Breanna Ouderkirk, 24, was arrested on March 6 at 4:45 a.m. at 1913 Mexico St. for working in concert with another to possess a fully functional methamphetamine lab as well as 4.7 grams of methamphetamine with intent to sell the same.
Alan Willcox, 60, was arrested on March 6 at 4:45 a.m. at 1913 Mexico St. for working in concert with another to possess a fully functional methamphetamine lab as well as 4.7 grams of methamphetamine with intent to sell the same.
Joseph Ritz, 53, was arrested on March 6 at 10:58 a.m. at 174 W. Bridge St. for petit larceny when he placed three beers in a bag, avoided all points of sale and attempted to leave the store.
Eric Blaha, 21, was arrested on March 7 at 12:26 a.m. at the corner of West Third Street and West Bridge Street for an open container violation.
Jeffrey Bolster, 24, was arrested on March 7 at 2:17 a.m. at the corner of West Schuyler Street and Ontario Street for assault in the third degree after he punched and kicked the victim in the face, causing him to lose consciousness.
Tyler Purchas, 22, was arrested on March 7 at 2:17 a.m. at the corner of West Schuyler Street and Ontario Street in the third degree after he punched and kicked the victim in the face, causing him to lose consciousness.
Kenneth Duffy, 48, was arrested on March 7 at 2:37 a.m. at 140 W. Second Street for public urination.
Zachary Smith, 19, was arrested on March 8 at 1:25 a.m. at the corner of Market Street and Water Street for public urination.
Jennifer Gilbo, 32, was arrested on March 8 at 8:16 p.m. at 179 E. Seventh Street for grand larceny in the fourth degree for stealing and using the victim’s credit card.
Jessica Yerdon, 32, was arrested on March 8 at 8:27 p.m. at 169 W. Second Street on a bench warrant.
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THE OSWEGONIAN— Rep. John Katko, 24th district congressman
We’re not going to wave a magic wand and make everything beautiful, but we are going to try very hard.”
Guest discusses U.S.-Japanese relationsAkita International University professor speaks at Oswego State on lecture tour
Luke ParsnowNews [email protected]
Japanese professor and journalist Michio Katsumata visited Oswego State last week to speak about the history of U.S.-Japanese relations.
Katsumata is currently a professor at Akita International University. He spent about two weeks in the U.S. on a lecture tour to schools and universities across the country. Just prior to Oswego State, his last stop before returning to Japan, he spoke at Alverno College in Mil-waukee, Wis. and the University of Kentucky at Lexington. His mission is to spread knowl-edge of and interest in Japan and possibly of studying at Akita International University or other places in Japan.
“We are partnered with Akita University so their students can go here and we can go there,” saidStephen Roscow, an Oswego State professor in political science. “So he goes to give lectures at their partner universi-ties. And when they contacted us, and some-one with his expertise, we tried to see if we could get him to give some lectures.”
Katsumata discussed the “drama of con-flict and alliance” relations Japan and the U.S. have experienced over a 160-year period.
Japan had been an isolated country until 1854, when American Commodore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the U.S. Navy, helped es-tablish the Convention of Kanagawa (Treaty of Peace and Amity). This was done with the Japanese government. This treaty opened up Japanese ports to the U.S. Navy for trade.
“That is the first encounter for Americans in the Japanese government,” Katsumata said. “Japan was forced to open doors, to end its closed door policy. It made a dramatic change from the old feudal system. Japanese historians don’t like using the word ‘revolu-tion’ or ‘Meiji restoration’ because it’s not a turnover from an old regime. It’s the start of
Japan’s modernization.”The Meiji Restoration helped restore im-
perial rule in the 1860s and reverse the coun-try’s ambition from isolation to expansion.
Over the next few decades, Japan worked on building up its navy, which as the British had showed the world, helped build an empire.
At the close of the 19th century, Japan emerged onto the world stage when it went to war with China and won.
“This came a mighty surprise for Europeans and America as well,” Katsumata said. “Theo-dore Roosevelt understood that Japan was an interesting country to have good relations.”
President Roosevelt became a major player in building a partnership with Japan. During his presidency, Japan engaged in war with Russia.
“At that time, all people in Europe and America believed Russia was this big bear and a tremendous threat to Europe,” Kat-sumata said. “So, European countries and America thought it’s nice to support Japan to weaken Russia. But they never expected Japan would win the war.”
After a year and a half of conflict, Japan won the war, making it the first time in his-tory that an Asian country had defeated a European power. Roosevelt served as mod-erator for the Russo-Japanese peace confer-ence at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kit-tery, Maine. Japan went on to fight alongside the Allies during World War I.
Katsumata then pointed out that from about 1910 to 1945, “things quickly changed, a complete 180 degrees.”
After restricting the wave of Chinese im-migration that came to the West Coast in the mid-1800s, the U.S. extended that restriction on Japanese immigrants in 1924.
“The anti-Japanese campaign was espe-cially done by William Randolph Hearst in New York and California,” Katsumata said. “They really pushed it. A lot of congress peo-ple and corporations preferred trade with China at the time because China had been an
attractive place for investment and trade and Japan was not so good as a trade partner.”
Anti-Japanese attitudes continued into the Great Depression. Angry people out of work often targeted Asian immigrants as a blame for job loss.
“These types of things would cause these two countries to make a collision course to Pearl Harbor and war,” Katsumata said.
After Japan surrendered to the U.S. in 1945, American troops occupied the Japa-nese Islands until 1952. Katsumata said a lot of the Japanese public feared the Americans, but soon welcomed their friendly attitudes. Over the next few years, Japan reformed its militaristic society and established they must be a peaceful nation from there on out.
“This reconstruction quickly helped make Japan a power without relying heavily on military power,” Katsumata. “They want-ed to focus less on the military and more on modernizing, on industrializing.”
U.S.-Japanese relations improved more during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, with Japan supporting American interests there. This support helped increase Japan’s business production, which carried into the late 1980s.
From the early 1990s to the current day, the relationship between the U.S. and Japan has been relatively strong. During the Gulf War oc-curred in 1991, Japan contributed $30 million to the U.S.’s ambitions there, which according to Katsumata, was more than 10 percent of what the U.S. spent on the entire war.
Katsumata said citizens in both coun-tries approve of the corporation the two have. He noted that Japanese opinion polls constantly report that roughly 70 percent of Japanese people approve of the relationship the U.S. and Japan have. Eighty percent of Americans feel the same about Japan.
“That relationship is a good thing and it continues up until today,” Katsumata said.
Katsumata then addressed questions that students and faculty had regarding his talk.
The Student Association held its 17th meeting of the academic year Tuesday eve-ning. The number of senators needed to make quorum was satisfied.
Two new students, Kaitlin O’Connor and Aleyah Johnson were sworn in as senators and took the oath of office on the SA constitution. The minutes from last meeting and the agenda for the current meeting were both approved.
There were two guests to the Senate. Bar-bara Shaffer, the coordinator of reference ser-vices in Penfield Library, spoke to the Senate about a five-year strategic plan to update the library concerning technology, services and resources. She asked the Senate if they had any ideas about updates they would make. The Senate offered suggestions such as later library times, eco-friendly water dispensers and more outlets and tablets being available for students to check out. Shaffer wants to get students involved in committees to further plan the improvements to Penfield Library.
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Professor Michio Katsumata addresses students and faculty last Monday on the history of the relationship between the U.S. and Japan over a 160-year period.
Lisa Evaneski, the Title IX coordinator, informed the Senate about the ins and outs of Title IX, the Clery act and VAWA, all con-cerning the policies on sexual assault. She explained the resources on campus and the definition of affirmative consent. The Senate also asked Evaneski questions concerning the discloser of cases to the rest of the cam-pus. Evaneski said the campus is notified if the administration feels there is any danger to the rest of the campus community. She also mentioned how the administration con-sidered the victum’s confidentiality and that the administration does whatever they can to help the victim. Evaneski encouraged the senators to understand and inform people about what Oswego State’s policy is on sexu-al assault. She also shared that there is more information for students on the website.
In public comment, Emily Nassir, cur-rent senator and vice presidential candidate spoke to the Senate about the points she is
running on, the improvements and changes she wants to make and took any questions from her fellow senators.
In executive reports, Tucker Sholtes, pres-ident of SA, informed the Senate that there has already been 650 tickets sold for the spring concert and that they are still work-ing out what will be happening during the day as a part of Ozfest. He also mentioned they are looking for student volunteers to help with the setup of the concert, although they did not yet come up with the number of students they need to help with the concert.
Sholtes reminded the Senate of the Lead Conference coming up on the weekend of April 10. He also said the “Conversation with President Stanley,” last Monday had a decent turnout for the first time for this event. Ac-cording to Sholtes, President Stanley wants to host similar events once every semester and is looking to see how to improve the way it is run. He also informed the senate he is
working with WTOP-10 on their upgrade to high definition.
Jillian Kranz, SA vice president, was dis-appointed in the senators for their lack of participation at the Conversation with Presi-dent Stanley event when only three out of the 16 senators showed up and spoke. Kranz said all senators should have been there, and that they are supposed to be fixing problems on campus. If they aren’t there to hear what students’ problems are then senators are letting the students down. She stressed her overall disappointment with the senators be-cause of the lack of motivation to volunteer for tabling or writing bills.
Kranz reminded the Senate that the elec-tion is this week until Tuesday at 6 p.m. they already received more of a voter turnout than last year.
Elena Sanchez-Freeman, SA director of finance, informed the Senate that the budget council met three times this week for about
two hours each time. SA apparel order forms were collected by
Ryan Hopf, Sholtes’ chief of staff. There were no special or general orders.
In new legislation, the bill for the Clay Bodies Ceramic Art Conference was dis-cussed to provide the Clay Bodies club with funding to attend a conference in order to meet professionals and bring back new tech-niques to students interested in joining Clay Bodies. They requested $537.50. The bill was passed by general consent.
The African Student Organization Child Exploitation Awareness Bill was discussed in order to fund ASO with the money to pur-chase 125 t-shirts to hand out for free in the Marano Campus Center on March 26 to pro-vide awareness of child exploitation. They requested $565.00. The bill was passed by general consent.
SA meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Lani-gan 102. All meetings are open to the public.
Centro officials ask for more fundingto prevent cutting vital routes to Syracuse
Alex Simone | The OswegonianOswego State students board a Centro bus, a company whose certain routes may be in jeopardy due to budget cuts.
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these students in next year’s Centro-Oswego State contract.
On the whole, the Centro-Oswego State contract is not a financial burden on Centro.
“It’s a break-even operation,” said Steven Koegel, Centro’s vice president of business development and corporate communica-tions. “None of Centro’s bus routes make money. We are subsidized by New York State and the federal government to provide public bus service. Passenger fares make up about 25 percent of the cost of operating our buses the rest comes from subsidies and some smaller revenue sources such as adver-tising on our buses.”
Ideally, the transit authority’s finances should have a “break even operation” for all bus routes. But with rising costs, the Centro-Oswego State contract seems to be the excep-tion rather than the rule.
“As of April 1, we will hit a wall,” said Centro Executive Director Frank Kobliski to state lawmakers in Albany last month. “If there is no change to our revenue stream, we will have no choice but to cut services in the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County.”
According to Syracuse Post-Standard, with few sources of revenue despite grow-ing costs, Centro is in financial straits. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s funding proposal for the authority has remained the same for the past few years. Centro takes a quarter of a percent of mortgage taxes, but Syracuse’s flat hous-
ing market will take an estimated $700,000 out of the budget this year.
Expenses have jumped due to high op-erating costs for Centro’s new transit hub in Syracuse, increasing union wages, medical costs and worker compensation claims, older buses in need of maintenance and increases in Kobliski’s salary.
The proposed changes are preliminary. Pro-posed cuts would not go into effect until May 11. With the semester ending slightly after that date, changes effecting Oswego State would be delayed until after the semester is over.
“Centro would honor all existing con-tracts and re-evaluate all contracts upon their expiration,” Koegel said.
Although the changes would minimally affect Oswego State, how the proposed cuts could affect Syracuse residents has been a heated topic for the past few months. Public hearings, meetings and coverage by Syracuse news outlets have highlighted how changes could drastically hurt the lower classes of Syracuse. As a result, the Onondaga County comptroller has begun to work with Centro to provide audit services and financial review.
Centro’s work with the Comptroller could save Syracuse and Oswego State from the proposed cuts. But Koegel recommends concerned students get involved.
“I would encourage any student to write a letter to your New York State assemblyman or New York State senator to support efforts to structurally change the manner in which transit is funded in Upstate New York,” Koegel said.
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A ride along with University PoliceCongressman plans to improve Oswego’s port, historic legacy Breakwall repairs, Fort Ontario preservation, improving manufactoring in Fulton among issues discussed at session
most important here in Oswego because we know that economic development is not ex-actly robust here these days,” Katko said. “And we have to change that.”
Katko said he is excited about several things that are being planned over the next few months in the area, including repairing the break wall, dredging the port and highlighting the business of Novelis. lighting the business of Novelis.
“You’ve got some great things here, but you need more,” Katko said. “And we need more economic development, we need more can-do spirit, more excitement because we are going to change things here. It starts with listening, so that’s why we’re here tonight.”
The first issue that was brought up for dis-cussion was the Port of Oswego and its use.
“I looked at where that port is on a map
and realized that this is the first deepwa-ter port in all the Great Lakes,” Katko said. “And why in the heck are boats going past this port going further to other ports when they could unload everything right here? We have the ability to do it right here.”
The congressman said that in speaking with engineers, $1.28 million is going to be applied toward dredging the port and re-pairs on the breakwater wall will begin in July. There was also talk of the railway sys-tem that extends around the port.
“The governor’s trying to push some money this way, but I think we need the fed-eral government to step up and push that button here,” Carroll said. “Don’t forget about the communities above I-90.”
Katko announced that Oswego will host a committee of the Transportation and Construc-tion Committee hearing in August so the com-
mittee members can observe the area to see the need for such construction. Katko noted that it’s easier to get funding the district needs if the committee members can actually see the area.
Following the Port of Oswego, the next topic up for discussion was Fort Ontario, a place Katko is planning to give a lot of atten-tion to in the future.
“I took a tour of the fort last summer and I was overwhelmed by its history,” Katko said. “I think, if I’m not mistaken, that it’s the only fort in the entire country that’s been involved in ev-ery single war since the French and Indian War in the 1700s. Now think about that. That’s pretty remarkable. A lot of the structures are still stand-ing and the basic structure is still there.”
Along with defense measures, Fort Ontario was also the only Holocaust survivor sanctu-ary in the United States during World War II.
Katko said he personally believed the area should be declared as a national park and should be preserved accordingly.
“This is something our kids need to know we did,” Himes said. “It was a great thing we have and the fort has been the cornerstone for the community since the community be-gan. If we don’t promote it, we’ll lose it.”
Moving south, the discussion turned to the economic situation in Fulton. Katko ac-knowledged that as bad as Oswego is, Fulton is probably in worse shape.
“Fulton is a manufacturing town, I’d say,” Katko said. “I’d like to see manufacturing grow again here. And what we hope for in Congress is, there is real talk about fundamentally chang-ing the tax code. And it’s bipartisan talk.”
A lot of businesses have been mov-ing overseas because of the high tax rate for manufacturing in the U.S. According to Katko, the tax rates for businesses in this country range from 30 to 39 percent, whereas Ireland has about half that amount, and the United Kingdom recently lowered its rates to around 20 percent. Katko said companies based here cannot compete with those rates.
Treadwell noted that upstate revitaliza-tion funds, a part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2015 opportunity plan, could be applicable to places like Fulton and the surrounding areas.
“We know we have this tremendous competition coming out of the state of New York in the upstate revitalization funds,” Treadwell said. “There may be an opportu-nity to structure something, some potential massive project to make that a component to enhance Central New York’s chances in get-ting some of those funds.”
The conversation then turned to the weather, as there have been questions raised on funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with snow problems in Central New York. Katko was
actually in contact with FEMA, saying it didn’t make sense there were no funds for the Oswego area, a place that has a 14.5 per-cent poverty rate.
“FEMA can go to an area, declare a natu-ral disaster, allow funds for it, and two years later, before the funds are spent, they can pull it back and say, ‘We changed our mind, you don’t need it now and we’re going to send it somewhere else,’” Katko said. “And this is absolutely ridiculous.”
Lastly, the panel discussed that economic opportunity is necessary because it is the thing that keeps a population in Central New York.
“If you want to have the family stay to-gether in Upstate New York, you’ve got to have economic opportunity,” Katko said. “You can’t have kids paying student loans that are double the rate it costs for someone to get a 30-year mortgage on a home.”
Katko said young people shouldn’t have to move away from the area to be able to make a living and pay the bills, but they need to have a reason to stay.
Katko finished off the discussion by vow-ing to return to Oswego soon and that he will continue working to improve the economic situation in Oswego.
“We’re not going to wave a magic wand and make everything beautiful, but we are going to try very hard,” Katko said. Peter J. Hanley | The Oswegonian
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Rep. John Katko stops in Oswego for one of the listening sessions he has held throughout Central New York.
Rep. John Katko (left) speaks to attendees with Jeff Grimshaw (center) and Zelko Kirinciche (right) regarding economic development in Oswego County.
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Like any Saturday night at the Oswego State University Police station, this night was very unpredictable. Riding along with Lt. Da-vid Miller and Officer Thomas Marrone, there was a better understanding of the day-to-day activity in the University Police department.
“You never know what can happen,” Miller said. “Saturday night can be the busiest night with anything from drunken people to you name it. It can be anything, or it can be com-pletely dead and Monday night can be busy.”
In the department there are a total of 14 pa-trol officers, four lieutenants, one investigator, one assistant chief and one chief, as of October 2014. They usually come out of training or local police academies. Patrol officers’ responsibilities are to be on the road, inside buildings and to take all of the calls. Lieutenants are shift supervisors who oversee patrol officers, but typically don’t respond to calls. The dispatcher is responsible for helping anyone who comes into the station, keeping tabs on the camera monitors, listen-ing to the radio, answering the phone and dis-patching the calls to other departments such as SAVAC, the fire department or other officers when necessary.
On an average day, UP has two 12-hour time shifts a day, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day. For every 14 days, an officer works seven days of them.
Long and unusual hours are part of the job. Before going on a shift, officers go on what they call a “pre-shift briefing.” It is roughly 15 minutes, and the officers from the previous shift will give the next group of officers a rundown of what happened during the their shift.
During that time, before going out on the road, the lieutenant will go through training in different topics they are given. The ad-ministrative lieutenant is in charge of all the training records for the department, and they are responsible for coming up with a training module for everyone. The training sessions in the beginning of every shift can range from an active shooter incident to how to wear a seat
belt properly. Some officers are certified to train others in specific equipment. For exam-ple, UP is trained in how to use a tourniquet in order to stop blood flow when someone is shot and how to use narcan, which coun-teracts a heroin overdose. According to Lt. Miller, training is a constant process.
Starting off a shift, officers patrol all of the area that is considered part of the cam-pus including all of the campus roads includ-ing Route 104, Rice Creek Field Station and
Fallbrook Recreation Center. It depends on where the individual officer decides to patrol.
According to Lt. Miller, UP is constantly switching up its route because they never want anyone to figure out the pattern in what they do. They do not want people to be able to figure out where they could be when UP is not.
“We try to be really proactive,” Officer Marrone said. “Whenever we can stop some-thing before it happens is always good. You
never really know, you can stop someone for speeding and give them a ticket. They could have killed someone next week.”
In a typical patrol car, there is a laptop with a reporter system that is an Internet report program for the officers to write all incident reports with. Also featured on the laptop is a database where they document all traffic tickets and accident reports. The police equipment includes a radar scanner in the front panel to detect the speed of a
passing car. License plate readers are fea-tured in the back of the police car. It scans all the surrounding license plates and com-pares them to a database. Any car that was stolen or suspended will flash. Each car also includes safety equipment, a ram to knock down doors, a fire extinguisher and a patrol rifle. All officers communicate on a radio that is connected to each officer and their vehicle.
As a part of their uniform, a UP officer car-ries a gun, a baton, pepper spray, flashlight and at least two pairs of handcuffs. According to Lt. Miller, the protocol in order to use these acces-sories is governed through Article 35, which is the use of force, and Standard Operating Pro-cedures. In order for the police to use any of their equipment, the subject has to be resisting. It also depends on the way the subjects are re-sisting, and the police will act accordingly.
At around 12:37 a.m., the UP responded to “an intoxicated female” in Seneca Hall. The dis-patcher sent notice to SAVAC although UP were the first ones to respond. When arriving at the scene, the police asked the female to identify herself and to get any basic, useful information that would help. Overall, the officers were not fazed by the incident and responded calmly.
“There is always new stuff that you wouldn’t expect to happen, but I don’t want to say anything shocks me,” Lt. Miller said. “There is always something new that you haven’t seen, but you just go with it.”
At 1:09 a.m. Officer Marrone responded to a loud party complaint at Cayuga Hall. As UP responded to the scene they were informed that there was underage drinking and that resi-dents were not letting the resident assistants into the room. When the police came, however,, the residents were instantly more compliant.
According to Lt. Miller, this night in par-ticular was considered slow, but when refer-ring to any incident, UP keeps a mentality to resolve, diffuse any situation and get it over with as quickly as possible.
“We are just normal people. We have a job to do and obviously that affects people in a negative way some of the time,” Lt. Miller said. “We are not there trying to make peo-ple’s lives harder on them, but we just have a job to do and we are going to do it.”
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The Great Lake Review held its second an-nual slam poetry competition on March 7 in the Lake Effect Café.
Approximately 60 students attended to cheer on and vote for their favorite performanc-es, as the 11 performers stood in front of the room and read or recited their poems.
Each performer had an individual style and rhythm as they presented.
“It’s not even really so much about poetry, it’s a performance,” said Great Lake Review editor-in-chief Ethan Gormley. “It’s more than just reading a poem, it’s feeling a poem.”
The first slam poetry competition, “Speak Up and Slam,” was held last year, and Gorm-ley was impressed with the turnout. Gormley, a senior creative writing major, had the idea for “Speak Up and Slam” during his literary citi-zenship class last year.
“I thought this was a good way to reach out into the writing community and provide a fun event that has some competition to it,” Gormley said.
A wide range of topics were discussed, from love and betrayal to body image and race.
“These people put their heart and soul into it, and they’re willing to get up in front of a microphone and say that,” Gormley said. “I wouldn’t be able to do that; I don’t know a lot of people that could.”
Justin Brantley, an Oswego State senior, has been writing poems for almost three years. He performed his poem “I Pledge Allegiance to the Struggle.” The poem was a “tribute to some of the fallen soldiers over the past year from police brutality,” Brantley said.
Ryann Crofoot’s poem, “To the Future Hus-band,” won first place in the competition. Cro-foot is a junior at Oswego State and has been writing poetry since her freshman year. The inspiration for her poem came from one of her
favorite poets, Sarah Kay. Crofoot said she was very nervous to per-
form, as it was her first time presenting a poem outside of the classroom.
“I thought, ‘I hope I don’t mess everything up and make a fool out of myself,’” Crofoot said. “I was really impressed by how many people came and how many people read. I was kind of shocked that I won.”
Crofoot’s prize was a $75 gift certificate to the river’s end bookstore in Oswego.
“There are a couple books in series that haven’t been released yet, so I might hang on to it until then or I might just go blow it right now,” Crofoot said.
Many attendees came to enjoy the perfor-mances and to deepen their appreciation of the craft.
“It’s really impressive because I can’t do it,” said Eloise Colson, a junior chemistry major at Oswego State. “It’s not something you hear a lot, so I would say it’s nice to discover.”
Many students appreciated the talent and perspectives offered by the performers.
“It was cool to see the community that’s here; there’s definitely a diverse group of people,” Brantley said.
Colson was also impressed by the diversity at the event.
“There was not just one type of people. They were all doing the same thing, but they are from different backgrounds.”
Funds from the Great Lake Review are al-ready set aside for next year’s “Speak Up and Slam” competition. Brantley said he would rec-ommend the event to his friends to attend and consider participating in.
“Any poetry event helps you kind of think about yourself introspectively and see the talent we have at Oswego,” Brantley said. “It’s impor-tant to know what’s going on in your school and it’s a good opportunity to kick back and relax.”
The Great Lake Review publishes a literary magazine every semester for Oswego State. The magazine features students’ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and art.
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The University Police Department is located below Pathfinder Dining Hall where officers patrol the campus after they are briefed and trained at the start of every shift.
President Deborah Stanley answers a student’s question.
to replace the bar crawl tradition with a real experience for all students, and not just have an annual drinking activity.
That’s why this year is the first implemen-tation of an annual Ozfest, where the Student Association will provide a day full of activi-ties and a concert for students to draw atten-tion away from Bridge Street Run.
Despite the $45 ticket for the concert, before spring break, SA President Tucker Sholtes said he did a lot of research to de-termine a fair price for the students. He said $45 would be the average price of a ticket for one of the guests, and it wouldn’t be a
very good seat. He said for all four acts indi-vidually, the price would be between $180 to $230, so he felt the students of Oswego State were receiving a very good deal.
“Students selected the artists,” Sholtes said. “Over 2,300 students completed the survey.”
That answer was in response to a question about choosing the artist and appeasing to all students’ preferences.
Sholtes mentioned that throughout the day there would be local acts of country and rock music to ensure diversity through all genres.
Another important topic that was brought up was raising awareness for sexual assault on campus.
“We have done more preventative
awareness raising,” said Lisa Evaneski, student conduct & compliance director and Title IX coordinator said. “We know, nationally, people are underreporting, and we want to create a culture of reporting it. We’re putting the policy out there, and peo-ple are starting to notice. You can’t just say it was a misunderstanding.”
Evaneski and Stanley both talked about the recent “Yes Means Yes” campaign, rather than the popular slogan “no means no” for sexual assault. This slogan requires both parties to be “affirma-tive, unambigious and in conscious decision.”
Evaneski also touched on how she’s begin-ning to teach younger people about awareness.
“I’ve recently been training for four school systems in the Oswego County, because they are also supposed to follow Title IX and we’re struggling because we’re dealing with a popu-lation that can’t give consent,” Evaneski said.
Near the end of the meeting, Stanley alluded to future construction on Penfield Library.
“Next year, we’re devoting about $300,000 to get the design in place,” Stan-ley said. “We’ll then be putting those ideas into the hand of an architect, who will tell us what we can and cannot do.”
Stanley then said the construction of Pen-field Library would occur in 2017.
As for these “Conversations with Presi-dent Stanley,” she said she hopes to do one to two every semester.
“I don’t think I’ll get another one in this semester, but I’ll certainly get one in the beginning of fall, around October af-ter people have gotten their feet on the ground,” Stanley said.
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Fuller conducted a lunch-in and an online survey for National Adjunct Walk Out Day, which occurred on Feb. 25, in order to collect statistics from the adjuncts at Oswego State. No adjuncts participated in the walk-out because it is illegal for New York state public employees to strike due to the Taylor Law, which defines rights of New York unions. The survey demon-strates that adjunct professors often have to bal-ance multiple jobs in order to make ends meet.
“Some of them go here, to Cayuga, Jeffer-son Community College, Onondaga Commu-nity College, and Syracuse… a lot of running around … [they] must be hoping in the future something will happen to make it a better place for them,” Fuller said.
Of the total 227 part-time professors, about half completed the survey. The survey shows that about 30 percent of adjuncts consider their position at Oswego State their main source of income. Of those respondents who have a sep-arate job elsewhere, 15 percent work at a high school, 20 percent work at another college and 50 percent work in another field.
Each campus in the SUNY network can de-termine how much an adjunct in their institu-tion will get paid per course, but “there is no distinction between a Ph.D. and a bachelor’s degree,” Fuller said. “It should be across the board according to your degree and how many years of experience that should be the deciding factor of how much you get paid.”
The starting salary is the same for all adjunct professors who teach one or two courses a semes-ter regardless of degree or years of experience.
The United University Professions President Lori Nash at Oswego State compared being an adjunct professor to being at the very bottom of the hierarchy. When tuition increased in the 2012-2013 academic year, the money was divid-ed among various academic and nonacademic requirements. The $2.3 million from the tuition increases was used for the following:
• $750,000 for nine new full-time fac-ulty members
• $500,000 for the difference that the Col-lege covered for the TAP students
• $480,000 restored to utilities
• $450,000 for student scholarships• $40,000 for one position added in admis-
sions• $98,000 for increasing the starting salary
of adjuncts from $2,604 to $2850The $246 increase per course was appre-
ciated; however, it was not enough to get ad-junct professors out of poverty. Some adjunct professors across the country live at home with their parents or apply for food stamps in order to get by.
“In my case, I make about $32,000 and that’s with teaching and [being] the chapter president, but for someone who is just teach-ing, they would make a lot less,” says Nash. “The goal is for $5,000 per course.”
Then there is the problem of where the money comes from.
“It is easier to get people to donate for a scholarship or for an endowed professor-ship,” Nash said. “It is not as easy to get people to donate for adjuncts. People look at the university as a whole. If the students are not directly being affected and the school continues to build its reputation, then why would anyone want to change the system that doesn’t seem to be broken?
“I had no idea my professor was an adjunct until it came up in conversation,” Oswego State student Natalie Santiago said. “She is very good professor, always willing to meet af-ter hours for review sessions. She is very sweet and enjoys getting to know her students on a personal level. You would’ve never guessed that she makes such a lousy wage.”
Many students admit to not being aware that some of their professors are part time. The ad-juncts work to prove that they can do the work of tenured professors even without the pay.
“They suffer in secret,” Nash said. Nash also said when she first started teach-
ing in 2002, she had to share a very small office space with three other instructors and that ten-ured professors would use the term “adjunct” degradingly. Overtime, adjuncts have earned the respect of their colleagues but they are still in a constant battle to protect their positions.
“There is no job security. You’re only given temporary appointments, if they don’t need you, you get 45 days notice and you’re done,” Fuller said.
Adjuncts are not allowed to be members of committees or advisers.
“[This adds] more work on the full-time professor,” Fuller said. “If they [adjunct pro-fessors] can’t serve on committees and they can’t advise students, then full-time profes-sors have to take on that responsibility and have more to do as a result, which is not good for anyone.”
One benefit of being an adjunct at Oswego State versus another institution is that if he or
she is in the SUNY system and teaches two courses, he or she has access to benefits like health and dental care.
“You’re going to find that at some colleges people don’t get any benefits at all,” Nash said.
Nash added that adjuncts are putting to-gether a Contingent Employment Committee and are looking to try and increase the salary of adjuncts at SUNY Oswego.
At the statewide level, UUP “is looking to press for more full-time positions,” Nash
said. “It’s called The Higher Education Endowment. UUP wants to increase the number of full-time positions and move adjuncts into these positions.”
“As adjuncts we should be teaching the future generation that the world is equi-table,” Nash said.
Both Nash and Fuller hope that bring-ing awareness to the matter will help peo-ple not only care for the university as a whole, but begin to care about the individ-
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On the morning of March 9, the NCAA Div. III men’s ice hockey tournament se-lection committee gave Oswego State new life. Now it is time to step up or go home.
The Lakers were No. 1 in the nation heading into the final weekend of the regular season before going 1-2-1 in the four games that followed, which includ-ed that final regular season weekend and the SUNYAC tournament. The team was on the bubble, but the committee decid-ed its body of work showed it deserved to keep playing.
Now, it truly has become a win or the season is over situation. There are no more safety nets and no more second chances to be given. When the Lakers lost to SUNY Potsdam on Senior Night, there were still the SUNYAC playoffs to rebound in. After losing to SUNY Plattsburgh in the confer-ence finals, there is still the NCAA tourna-ment. A loss now and the season, which showed so much promise, is over.
Behind newly-named league MVP Shawn Hulshof, his linemates Mike Montagna and Mitchell Herlihey, strong defensemen and goalie Matt Zawadzki, Oswego State became a front-runner to make a trip to Minneapolis in a field with-out a dominant team. Head coach Ed Gos-ek’s team appeared one of a few teams to be getting hot at the right time.
Since the Feb. 16 polls came out, inju-ries and lack of intensity, as well as des-peration, have plagued the team at certain points. Now, it sits an underdog on the road at Hobart College this weekend and in the tournament as a whole. But, that’s the way the team likes it.
Last season, the Lakers were road war-riors in the postseason winning at SUNY Plattsburgh and SUNY Geneseo in the SUNYAC tournament as a lower seed. Then, they were the lower seed going into Babson College knocking off the Beavers to reach a fifth straight Frozen Four. There is doubt once again that they can win on this stage yet again, and the doubt is just what they need.
This past Saturday, the Cardinals played with desperation, as they knew a loss to Oswego State would end their sea-son. They out hustled the Lakers and won with solid defense and timely scoring. The chip on the Lakers’ collective shoulders currently will push them all to play with intensity and desperation.
Oswego State defeated Hobart College in Oswego on Jan. 9 in a high-scoring affair highlighted by scoring runs by each team. While the game is in Geneva this time, it may work to the Lakers’ advantage since they tend to play simpler on the road. Not to mention, the Statesmen’s rink (“The Cooler”) only seats 1,000. Many of those fans on Saturday will be rooting against the Lakers, only driving them to want to win more.
Then, a few more wins means on to Adrian, Mich. and Minneapolis where less and less Oswego State faithful will be able to travel. Usually, the more hos-tile the crowd the more the team rises to the occasion.
The team has a core of five seniors in the starting lineup trying to extend their collegiate careers as long as possible. If their heart and passion can spark the en-tire lineup, watch out. A team putting ev-erything it has on the line every second of a game, in combination with a goalie like Matt Zawadzki, tends to be the formula for a deep postseason run.
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The men’s ice hockey team slipped into the 2015 NCAA Tournament field with the final at-large bid and now has second life as it heads to Geneva on Saturday.
Despite losing two of its last four games, the selection committee believed the Lakers’ body of work put them ahead of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) tournament cham-pion Wisconsin-River Falls and WIAC member Wisconsin-Eau Claire. That be-ing said, the road ahead is not easy.
Oswego State’s next opponent, Ho-bart College, is the ECAC West regular season and tournament champion and is currently on a 10-game winning streak, only losing once in 14 games since fall-ing to the Lakers on Jan. 9 at the Marano Campus Center Arena.
The Statesmen were awarded home-ice advantage for the NCAA first-round contest sending the Lakers to a building
where their opponent is 12-2 on the sea-son. However, it is also of note that the Lakers are 7-1-1 on the road during the 2014-2015 season.
Each side enters Saturday’s game heading in opposite directions. Hobart College is on a substantial winning streak, while the Lakers have fallen flat
in their last four after losing just one of their previous 15. But, the slate is now wiped clean.
Laker head coach Ed Gosek has his highly talented defensive core back as well as goaltender Matt Zawadzki, recently named to the second team All-SUNYAC. Gosek also continues to shake up his forward lines, trying to spark the team’s fourth-ranked offense in the nation, as well as finding forward lines that play well together in their own end.
Solid play in the defensive zone will be crucial to Oswego State’s success against the Statesmen. The hosts for this weekend’s game are outscoring op-ponents three goals to one during their current winning streak. Oswego State’s ability to hold Hobart college’s offense at bay will be crucial, as goals will most likely be few and far between against Hobart’s talented freshman back stop.
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Lakers' top scorer Brian Sortino shined down the stretch, leading them to NCAA tournament bid. Junior transfer Alex McCarthy has enjoyed some early success in the Lakers No. 1 singles position.
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The Oswego State men’s tennis team heads into the spring season in pursuit of an-other historic season. After an 8-5 record last year, the Lakers feel like they can compete among the elite.
Oswego State started its spring season last weekend with a 9-0 win over D’Youville College and a 5-4 loss to Elmira College. The Lakers also went 2-2 in their fall play which, though added to their overall record, is treated as their exhibition season.
The team was eager to get back to compet-itive play with practices almost every day in February. Co-captain sophomore John Stan-ford said everyone has taken this extra time to work on what was needed for each of their individual games. They have also accom-plished a lot thus far and are moving ahead as a group.
This program has been in the moving for-ward attitude for quite some time now. After
years of struggling, the Lakers put together a successful season last year with a group of up-and-coming freshmen, along with a few seniors leading the way.
With the loss of those seniors who played at the top of the lineup, many would think the team would take a step in the wrong di-rection. Then along came junior transfer Alex McCarthy who made an impact right when he stepped on the court in Oswego.
Just three weeks after move-in day back in the fall semester, McCarthy was put in the number one singles spot in the Lakers’ first match of the season. He won that match 6-2, 6-2 and has not looked back, winning five of his six singles matches, and also winning four matches so far with his partner, freshman Brian Lyudmer.
Head coach Bob Friske said there is no question talent-wise that McCarthy is the best player on the team. In terms of stepping right into that role as the No. 1 player, Friske be-lieved McCarthy handled it very well.
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The Oswego State men’s basketball team bowed out of the NCAA Tournament on March 6 in the first round, but the SUNYAC Champions will head into the offseason with a sense of accomplishment.
The Lakers had a strong campaign in which they were consistently on top or near the top of the SUNYAC before just missing out on a first round bye, finishing with the third seed. They defeated tough competition in the conference tournament and were deserving champions.
Head coach Jason Leone was named the SUNYAC Coach of the Year and led the Lakers to the SUNYAC crown for the second time in just his first four years with the program.
“It’s very satisfying," Leone said. "This team really maxed out on what they were ca-pable of. I thought mentally what they did to get to the end of the year they really did every-thing that we asked them to do.
“I had fun going to practice every day, it
was just the group of guys genuinely cared for one another,” Leone said.
Brian Sortino was the Lakers’ leading scor-er and named to the All-SUNYAC first team for the first time in his brief college career. The sophomore averaged 16.5 points per game on 44.2 percent shooting from the field. His scor-ing ability can be attributed to his good perim-eter play with a solid mid-range shot as well as his fearlessness when driving and cutting to the basket to score while taking contact.
“It was a great season," Sortino said. "I don’t think other coaches expected us to win it all this year.
Sortino was the recipient of the SUNYAC Tournament MVP award, which recognized him as the best player in the tournament. He recognizes the contributions of his teammates, however, and acknowledges that the champi-onship was through hard work and dedica-tion of the entire team.
“It’s basically just having my teammates trust me with the ball in the games and I’m just
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The Lakers continued their sea-son with a win over Houghton Col-lege on Saturday by a score of 18-6 and then lost on Tuesday to Clarkson University, 11-10. In the win, fresh-man Gemma O'Kane scored five goals while junior Erannan Shattuck and sophomore Briana Kimble each recorded six points in the game. In the loss, senior Mackenzie Kjerstad scored four goals for the Lakers, im-proving her total to a team-leading nine on the season. Juniors Em-ily Lange and Esther Gabriel also picked up two goals apiece. Their record currently stands at 2-2 overall.
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Oswego State began their season this past weekend against Maritime College and United States Merchant Marine Academy. The Lakers won both games, 8-1, 6-5 respectively. In the win over Maritime College, senior Connor Khammar, junior Troy Crevi-er and freshman Luke Krizman each scored two goals. In the win over the Marine Academy, senior Matt Palmer picked up a hat-trick with the most important goal coming with 42 sec-onds left to earn the victory.
Oswego State started their sea-son down in Virgina Beach, Va. this weekend with two doubleheaders against nationally ranked Rowan University. In the first doubleheader on Saturday, the Lakers won 3-0 and 10-2. In the first game, senior Bren-dyn Karinchak pitched eight shu-out innings with eight strikeouts. In the second game, junior Miles Kelly pitched eight innings, allowing only two earned runs with seven strike-outs. Then on Sunday the Lakers split the doubleheader losing 3-2 and winning 9-8. In the second game, after allowing Rowan Univer-sity to score seven straight, Oswego State scored one each in the eighth and ninth innings to comeback and secure the victory. Junior Kyle Sim-mons scored the game-winning run on a wild pitch.
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Women's ice hockey looks back After another historic season Oswego State celebrate accolades, but still hunger to take down eliteSam WatkinsStaff [email protected]
On Saturday, March 7, the Oswego State women’s ice hockey team saw its season end at the hands of the SUNY Plattsburgh Cardinals, in a 4-2 loss in the ECAC West semifinals.
But, what could be viewed as an end to the season could also be viewed by others as the continuation of something much greater: the continued development of this hockey pro-gram, winners of 19 games this year, into a Div. III force.
The Lakers held the lead twice in Satur-day’s defeat to the Cardinals, fighting through-out against a nationally ranked team, and what can be said for that game could be said about the Lakers’ outlook as a whole: They are right there.
Silencing questions about the graduation of nine seniors, the team introduced 11 new play-ers this season, including nine freshmen, who raised the standard of play with every victory.
Crowding the stat sheets, the new Lakers went on to score 41 of the 71 goals for the team this year.
A season crowded with questions to start quickly became about the present, and no lon-ger about the past. And now, the future.
Diane Dillon, who earned her 100th win as Laker head coach this season, could not help but be surprised by the team’s success follow-ing such a massive overturn of players.
“This team surpassed my expectations by far,” Dillon said. “Graduating nine, bringing in 10, with so many young kids in the lineup, having only one senior, while I hoped we would do well, I never could have expected that we would exceed our win total from the previous season.”
The team also possessed the best penalty kill in Div. III women’s ice hockey, which was a high point for Dillon.
“Being the top penalty killing team in the country, that was certainly not something I saw coming,” Dillon said. “But as the season went on, and we saw what this team was made of, it was well deserved.”
Well deserved, but any team consisting of 10 new members needed the right amount of leadership for such success to ensue, and the Lakers were not lacking in that category either.
Wearing the “C” on her jersey for the first time this season, alongside assistant captains ju-
nior Lizzy Marks and senior Bridget Smith, ju-nior Tori Trovato embraced the role change pre-sented with her before the start of the season.
“You have to have a different attitude as a captain,” Trovato said. “You have to step up in some circumstances that you normally wouldn’t. But as far as major changes go, I think for myself and the other captains, we’re still the same players we’ve always been.”
As her coach knocked on the wooden desk in front of her to prevent future jinxes, Trovato calmly expressed her confidence in this team going forward.
“We were right on the brink this year,” Trovato said. “After three years, I think we’re ready now. We are right where we need to be.”
Trovato will play in her final season next year, before she walks across the graduation stage with, hopefully, a national ring on her fin-ger and the Laker hockey program will be left in the hands of the talented underclassmen.
Perhaps one of the most talented is Olivia Ellis, the Laker freshman who took the Ma-rano Campus Center Arena by storm with her breakout season. Ellis led the Lakers in points this year with 27, as well as assists with 15, and tied the team lead with 12 goals.
Ellis always saw herself being a successful member of the team, but even she could not have expected the tremendous output she pro-duced in her rookie year.
“I was hoping I would be successful, but
Though the Lakers were not able to reach their goal of winning a conference championship, senior Bridget Smith (30) would not change her career for the world.
I didn’t think I would do as well as I did,” El-lis said. “It always helps when you have line mates like Rachel [Lenard] and Andrea [Noss] feeding you the puck. We all just built a great relationship from the beginning.”
Entering next season, Ellis will have the at-tention on her, and she acknowledges that this offseason will be important for the develop-ment of her game.
“I’m going to hit the gym a lot,” Ellis said. “I’m still trying to work on my shooting, and my stick skills off the ice. There are always places to improve.”
Ellis can look forward to three more suc-cessful years on the ice for Oswego State, but for senior Bridget Smith, this spring will be a different one, as she no longer prepares for a return to the ice next season.
Smith went out on a high note, however, earning tremendous praise and attention for her success in the net for the Lakers and re-cording the third-highest save percentage in Div. III women’s ice hockey this season. The lone senior for the Lakers also earned the honor of being named to the first team All-ECAC West.
Smith acknowledged the pressure that was on her this season, especially as expec-tations mounted. But she always remained focused on making the most of her opportu-nities as a Laker.
“It did get stressful at times when peo-
ple began expecting more out of you,” Smith said. “But I always told myself to just have fun with it, to enjoy it and to just take it one shot at a time.”
Now that the season is over, Smith could not be more grateful for the atten-tion her play received this year.
“It’s an honor, it really is,” Smith said. “It’s a lot to take in, and we’ve come so far in the four years that I’ve been here. It has been so great to be a part of it, and I just wish I could stay longer to see where this team goes.”
Smith deserved the spotlight sur-rounding her this season, but now that her Laker career winds down, only one word was needed to describe her four years on the ice.
“Unbelievable," Smith said. "I wouldn’t change it for the world."
The Lakers would not have gotten to this level of success this season without Smith or many of the individual players. But as the coaches and players continue to preach game after game, one does not win without a team, or in this case, a family.
As the curtain closes on another spec-tacular season for the Oswego State Lakers, the bitterness of a loss still rings throughout. But it will not be long before their skates hit the ice once again, looking to finish what they started.
Students make memories through shared interestFishing club leads to formed friendships as people from all backgrounds learn from one another
The group from the Oswego State fishing club that traveled up to the Thousand Islands in February poses with some of the best catches they had.
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For more than two years now, Oswego State students that have the passion of casting their lines to reel in a big one have been able to come together and make some memories in the fishing club.
Former President Josh Collette was the one who started it and it soon gathered attention from other students. Senior Phil Jenkins saw a flier for it and quickly want-ed to join as he had been fishing ever since he was a little boy.
Jenkins is from Central New York and he did not have the knowledge to fish suc-cessfully in the area, but with the knowl-edge that the other members brought, they started going out on trips to the Oswego River and to the Salmon River in Pulaski. Jenkins enjoyed being in the club right from the start.
“It was cool to meet other people on campus that liked fishing,” Jenkins said.
Fast forward to this year and the club is now run by President Kyle Kelly. Accord-
ing to Jenkins, Kelly is very committed to the club, and with him being a technology education major, he also is a good teacher to those who do not have a strong history of fishing.
Something special about this year is the fact that the club brought in some interest from overseas in international student Elo-ise Colson, who is a native of Paris, France.
Colson found out about the fishing club at the Student Involvement Fair at the be-ginning of the year. She had never fished before, so when she saw a club for it, she thought she’d try something new.
At first, Colson was intimidated on her first trip, as she had no idea what she was doing. But with the help of Kelly and the other members, she began to enjoy it.
With going out on the trips with the club, she became the first-ever interna-tional student to be actively involved in the club.
The club is, for the most part, run by the students. They pool together gas money to travel to the places and buy their bait. This year was actually the first year they had funding, which they used to buy waders
and poles for members who did not have the equipment.
But the club also does have an adviser, Michael Huynh, who helps out when he can. He also works with the Newman Center and other organizations, so he is usually quite busy, but he is also a New York State official fishing guide, so he brings much knowledge to the group.
One of their bigger trips this year was back in February when they went up to the Thousands Islands and stayed at the club’s former Vice President Dan Eggert’s camp. The trip was an ice fishing trip, something they try to do almost every weekend. But getting to go up to different waters is enjoyed by all involved.
Jenkins said this was the third an-nual trip of this event for the club, but the first time he was a part of it. He said that though the fishing was great, the mo-ments he will remember is hanging out with the rest of the members and frying up some fish.
Those memories are something that make the fishing club so great for all those involved, bringing people together that
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have the same interests and having some good fun together.
One memory that Jenkins and Colson recalled was one when they were at the Salmon River, where the salmon are sev-eral feet long. Colson caught one, but be-cause the river was so fast, it dragged her with it and the entire group had to go and chase it down to bring it in.
Colson, who did not have an interest in fishing before she came to Oswego, said having organizations like these to join is an opportunity that students at her school in France do not get. She was astounded with the experiences Oswego State has to offer.
“I just think it’s amazing what we can do for basically no cost,” Colson said.
For both Colson and Jenkins, their time with the club is coming to an end. Jenkins will be graduating in May, and Colson will head back to France after the semester ends. Jenkins knows he will be fishing for the rest of his life, while Col-son thinks she will try to do the best she can with trying to fish in France.
Jenkins also thinks he will come back to join the members of the club one week-end for a day of fun; something that peo-ple like Colette and Eggert have done in the past.
Colette, who now goes to a school in Maryland, actually started a fishing club at his new school and even plans to possibly bring them up to Central New York and fish in the very unique bodies of water.
One thing is for sure, no matter how many fish are caught, a lot of memories will be made.
But there are still more memories to be made this year as well with more trips planned in the future. As the weather gets warmer and the ice starts to melt, trout start to come in to the stream. The club also plans to take trips where they will be going after types like carp and bullhead.
The club is always looking for new members and will even have open offi-cer positions next year that anybody can run for.
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EMILY LANGEWomen's Lacrosse
Junior, Saratoga Springs
Lange was one of the key cogs in a week where the Lakers went 1-1. In Wednesday's loss against the Rochester Institute of Technology, the junior put up two goals while also controlling five draws. In Saturday's victory over Houghton College, Lange continued to show off her offen-sive skill set as she scored three goals and picked up two assists. The Saratoga Springs native also controlled three draws in that contest. In total she collected four ground balls between the two games as well.
MYLES KUTSCHERBaseball
Sophomore, Glen Head
Kutscher played, and started, in all four games for the Lakers this weekend, as Oswego State went 3-1 against the No. 13 Rowan University Owls. The sophomore batted .389 (7-for-18) during the four-game series, earning a team-high eight RBIs along the way. He also recorded a two-RBI double in the 10-2 win on Saturday. The Glen Head native also had eight putouts in the left field position over the weekend.
8: Women's Lacrosse fresh-man Gemma O'Kane is off to a great start in her career at Oswego State. Through four games she already has eight goals, second best on the team in the category. O'Kane scored six of her eight goals in just the past two games, five of them coming in the Lakers' 18-6 win over Hougton College. Setting the bar for the most goals in a game so far this season.
12: Women's ice hockey freshman Olivia Ellis scored two goals in the Lakers 4-2 lost to SUNY Plattsburgh in the ECAC West semifinals. Ellis finishes the seasons with 12 goals. Becoming the first, along with sophomore trans-fer Brianna Rice, to score that many in their first year at Oswego State.
16: Men's basketball se-nior Rashawn Powell played in his final game at Oswego State in the Lakers' 78-69 lost to Calvin College in the first round of the NCAA tourna-ment. Powell scored 11 points and picked up 12 rebounds for his sixth double-double of the season. He ends his ca-reer with a total of 16 double-doubles.
Having the amount of success McCar-thy has had already is something the Lakers have not seen from a No. 1 singles player in a very long time. This makes the team much more competitive as it does not give away points at the top of lineup, and causes play-ers to be able to play at positions where they are more comfortable.
“It really gives us a fighting chance to win against teams we never had a chance against before,” assistant coach Geoffrey Sawyer said.
Stanford said McCarthy is the type of player whose play improves as the match goes on.
“He’s a machine,” Stanford said. “Once he gets going, it’s hard to stop him.”
Along with McCarthy, the Lakers brought in six new players in the fall to a team that only had four returning players from last year. One might worry about the team’s ex-perience, but Oswego State then added two players back from previous years in sopho-more Ryan Korn and senior Sam Moores.
Korn played in the fall semester of his freshman year and competed at the No. 1 sin-gles spot in each of the three matches he was part of the squad. While Moores played in both his freshman and sophomore years and was part of the squad for parts of his junior year, even playing at the No. 1 singles spot in a match last February.
Having players come back after leav-ing might seem unusual, but both were welcomed back with open arms as junior Justin D’Antonio said they fill in the cracks in the lineup.
D’Antonio was actually the one who in-vited Moores to come back and play. Moores was honored by the invitation and accepted it right away as a chance to play the sport he is been playing since he was three, for Oswego State once again, in his final semester as a stu-dent. The two have already meshed well to-gether on the court, winning at third doubles against Elmira in a close one, 7-5, 7-6.
The fact that Korn and Moores bring that talent with the experience makes the Lakers even better as Friske said coming into the year they looked very young, but now af-ter the experience the younger players have
amounted in the fall and the addition of Korn and Moores, the team looks like a well-round-ed, veteran group.
That veteran mentality is key when it comes to confidence and the level of play each player brings.
“Experience always plays a factor, seems like they keep a more level head in matches,” Stanford said. “Once everyone has that experi-ence, they seem to just raise their game.”
Two veterans who have been playing with that experience for a while now are co-captain sophomore Spencer Thorn and senior Tim Van Hine. The pair also has a special bond as they have been doubles partners since Thorn came to Oswego State last year.
Now that this is going to be Van Hine’s fourth and final season, Thorn said it is sad to think they will not be playing together any-more after this season, but that it motivates them to end their career as a pair in a great way.
Thorn also said it will be important on how they start their matches, something that they were successful in the D’Youville match, but not so much in the Elmira match.
Sawyer agrees with that statement, as he knows how well the two play together. Their chemistry and Thorn’s knowledge of doubles play, which he said is best on the team, has led
him to set very high standards for them. “They mesh beautifully together, they just
need to perform better in the start because they play so well coming back,” Sawyer said. “So if they can get a better start there, I expect them to be undefeated for the rest of the season.”
With all these great players, and only six individual starting spots in both singles, and doubles. It creates a lot of competition among them. The Lakers have been playing count-less challenger matches against one another coming into the season to earn these starting spots and it only has them becoming better and better.
“We’re trying to beat the other team, but we have to beat each other to get there,” D’Antonio said.
One thing all the players can agree on is the impact Sawyer makes on them. A class of 2011 graduate of Oswego State, Sawyer spent all four of his years playing with the tennis program. He then was invited by Friske to be a volunteer assistant coach for the 2012-2013 sea-son. The following season he took on the role as the official assistant coach.
Friske and Sawyer have history together as Friske’s first year as head coach was Sawyer’s senior year. Friske’s invitation to Sawyer to be on his coaching staff has paid off, as he comes
with the experience of playing at Oswego State, has helped provide stability with his knowledge and his passion for the game that shows no bounds.
Sawyer remembers how Friske came into a program that struggled with having a consistent coach. But with each other’s help, they have brought this program to a point where they consider themselves one of the best that they compete against.
Among the best that they compete against is St. John Fisher College, who is next on the schedule for the Lakers on March 26. The Cardinals have a history of dominating the Lakers as they went six straight years shutting them out 9-0 in each contest every year. That ended last year when the Lakers were able to pull out two wins with Thorn and D’Antonio win-ning at fifth and sixth singles, respectively.
Thorn believes this history between the Lakers and Cardinals might actually be to the Lakers’ favor as the Cardinals could be overlooking them, which could lead them to pulling out the victory.
With each of them, and everyone on this team, having more experience from last year, the Lakers go into the match for the first time in a long time with expecta-tions of a good result.
D’Antonio knows it will be tough to pull out a win, but to be able to make it a good match shows the progression of this program. As was the case against Elmira, where they only lost by a point, the first time they made it that close against the Soaring Eagles since 2009.
“Whether we win or not we want to let them know we are coming up behind them really fast,” D’Antonio said.
But if the Lakers are able to pull off the upset, Sawyer believes it could launch the program into new heights.
“A win against them… would be a huge stepping stone for the team,” Sawyer said.
It is that kind of goal that has the entire Laker squad all hungry for another im-pressive season and to prove to their com-petition that they will no longer be a team that will go down easily. They have all the pieces in place, now it is time to show it on the court.
Formerly struggling program ready to make splashWith strong leadership, new additions, all involved are foreseeing big things from this season
Asst. coach Sawyer has high expectations for doubles in Tim Van Hine (left) and Spencer Thorn (right).David Armelino | The Oswegonian
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trying to do whatever I can to help us win,” Sortino said. “We came together as a group after the Cortland loss and said we don’t want to lose anymore, we knew we had to win those three games.”
The Lakers finished the regular season schedule with an overall 16-9 record and a 12-6 record in conference play. The SUNYAC remained a conference that has tough com-petition within itself. Combined with the fact that the Lakers are a young squad, there were few people that thought the Lakers would pose a legitimate threat to the rest of the conference before the season started. The Lakers would quell those doubts with a 7-1 start in conference play.
Aside from the scoring prowess of Sor-tino, another player who stepped up in a big way this season was junior guard Walter Sampson, who saw himself inserted into a starting role after not starting a single game his first two seasons in the program. Samp-son started all 29 contests the Lakers partici-pated in this season. His ability to dictate the offense and finish around the rim helped him be the second highest scorer on the team behind Sortino. He averaged 10.3 points a game on 48.7 percent shooting. He sees the potential for the squad next season.
“I’d say it’s a big stepping stone for our
team," Sampson said. "A lot of guys put in a lot of work this offseason just for these mo-ments. It was a big step for the program and a big step for this team that is so young.”
Despite the Lakers hot start to the cam-paign, they hit a rough patch at the end of January and it continued into February, as they lost three of five games. They won the next two matches, but a loss at home to SUNY Plattsburgh drove them out of the top overall seed in the conference playoffs.
The Lakers would split the last two games to enter the playoffs with the third overall seed, and though their regular sea-son finale against SUNY Cortland was a defeat, the game before on the road against SUNY Geneseo is what led the team to be-lieve that they could accomplish what they set out to accomplish.
“I thought the best thing I could say about the guys this season is that we were undefeat-ed in game after losses, we never had a losing streak,” Leone said. “That is a tribute to the players responding when adversity hit. We always responded well when things didn’t go our way.”
Rashawn Powell, the lone senior on the team this season, leaves the team having played harder than anyone. He finished the season as the team’s leading rebounder with 7.6 boards per game while also averaging nine points a game, the fourth highest per
game total on the team.“This season meant a lot to me," Powell
said. "We got a lot accomplished. We had a great group of guys who never took no for an answer and fought through injuries and the ups and downs.”
“We clicked at the right time, I guess," Powell said. 'The team just made decisions collectively that helped us win the SUNYAC. After losing to Cortland in what was our se-nior game, we didn’t want to take any more losses after that. We knew we had to win a certain number of games to win the SUNYAC and get to the NCAA Tournament.”
Though his numbers decreased from last year, his contributions to the team were sig-nificant. After finally getting the starting job last season, he made the most of his big-man role despite his relatively short height in com-parison to other big men in the conference.
During the SUNYAC Tournament, all three of the Lakers’ opponents were teams that played them tough during the sea-son. The SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons and Oswego State were involved in two tightly contested overtime affairs at each other’s home grounds. The Lakers were able to over-come a rough start at home in the Max Ziel Gymnasium in the playoff contest and held on to a slim lead in the end to win, 68-59.
The Lakers then traveled to SUNY Plattsburgh for the semifinals and final, at
Younger squad proved talent to rest of conference; ready for more milestones
the gym of the rival Cardinals. They played their semifinal matchup against the SUNY Geneseo Knights.
The Lakers relied on a heavy scoring output from Sortino and Kyle Covley. Cov-ley had been struggling mightily down the stretch. But he came up big when it count-ed, as he finished with 18 points to help the Lakers to a 72-61 win.
The SUNYAC Championship game saw the Lakers take on the SUNY Plattsburgh Cardinals. The Lakers started on a 17-2 run to open the game and never looked back. They trailed as they held on to secure themselves an NCAA Tournament bid.
“A strength of ours this year was that we had a really good leadership group,” Leone said. “I just thought they had great leadership throughout the year.”
The Lakers faced the Calvin College Knights in the first round of the NCAA Tour-nament and were eliminated after they fell behind early and only managed to take a slim lead late in the game before succumbing to the Knights offense, 78-69.
The Lakers will head into the offseason with only one member, Powell, graduating. That means next season the current players will be another year older and will look to make another run at the conference champi-onship, and opponents will be on the look-out for them.
Senior Rashawn Powell was proud of how the team was able to overcome at the right time in the season.
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This past week in intramurals, the broomball tournament concluded with two championship games. Both the men’s and Co-Rec champions were decided March 8 with two great games.
The men’s broomball tournament came to a close this week with Snipe Chirp Cele and Stop n Dump facing off in the finals. Snip Chirp Cele was able to take home the victory with just one win, while Stop n Dump needed two wins.
The game started out slow with nei-ther team getting many scoring opportu-nities. The game was scoreless heading into the second period.
To start off the second period, captain Chad Smith got a quick early goal for Snip Chirp Cele, scoring the game’s first goal. This got Snipe Chirp Cele off to a strong start for the period. From there, the game became extremely competitive, however, neither team was able to connect with the back of the net for the rest of the period.
Starting in the third period, the num-ber of shots on goal picked up on both sides. Play was intense throughout the period, but near the end of the period junior Dylan Holden sealed the deal for Snipe Chirp Cele with a goal of his own.
“It felt good to win, especially with the change and style of the game to full ice this semester," Smith said. "It was
very competitive with the size change and made the game more fun.”
Snipe Chirp Cele took home the cham-pionship T-shirt and the men’s broomball tournament title with a 2-0 victory.
In the second game of the night, the Crimson Panthers and the Iceholes faced off for the Co-Rec Championship. The Crimson Panthers were looking to defend their title from last year, while the Iceholes were looking to knock them from the top.
The game remained extremely close the entire time and was hard fought from both teams. The game remained scoreless through the second period.
Both teams had many opportunities to score throughout the first two periods but neither team was able to finish with a goal. In the end, it was Holden who led his team to victory, scoring two goals for the Crim-son Panthers during the third period. This gave the Crimson Panthers a 2-0 victory.
It was sophomore Brenna Kenney’s first intramural experience and championship.
“My friends Dylan, Brianna and Ash-ley really got me wanting to do it,” Ken-ney said. “I thought it was just going to be a fun thing to do, I wasn’t expecting to go all the way to the championships and we did. It was so exciting. The other teams put up a good fight and were re-ally fun to play against because it was a challenge.”
With that, the Crimson Panthers took home the Co-Rec Championship title for the second year-in-a-row.
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The Oswegonian was the first thing I stuck with. I gave up the Oxford com-ma, Wednesday and Thursday nights, hundreds of dollars in late-night snacks, countless hours of sleep and a few A’s on
my transcript. In return, I got some of my best friends, an impressive LinkedIn pro-file and resume, a career path, a loving and fulfilling romantic relationship and the sense that when I graduate in May, I’ll be ready for anything.
I’m not trying to recruit for The Oswe-gonian here, I swear. (But by all means, feel free to join!) The Oswegonian was just one of the many paths I could have taken. I got so much out of it not only because it is an exciting, challenging and stressful place to work, but because I never gave up on it. From there, all the good, totally unexpected things in my life sprung forth: All because I said yes, and didn’t quit.
What your guidance counselor, your family, the Laker Leaders and this col-lege’s administration and faculty said from the start was true: Getting involved in college matters. Join something new and don’t give up on it just because it’s hard. You’re not just here to go to class and get a degree. You’re here to start your life, and the first step to that is to find something you want to pursue when you leave here.
A lot of my friends are feeling direc-tionless as graduation looms. I’m scared, but at least I know where I’m going.
Four years goes by fast. Start looking.
David Armelino | The Oswegonian
As we head into spring break, some students prepare to head on vacation with trips to warmer climates to escape Oswego’s melting frozen tundra and take some time to refuel for the final stretch of the semester.
Unfortunately, not everyone can hop on a plane and head to Florida or somewhere like it. All is not lost for these students. There are still ways to enjoy your break.
In most places, it is St. Patrick’s Day weekend and festivities will lead into the holiday starting with this weekend. Why not celebrate during the time of year that everyone becomes just a little bit Irish? Go to your local parade and have a good time with friends.
If you’re not working, or really do not have anything to do, plan a small day trip. New York state has plenty to offer in terms of excursions. There’s Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which is a nice small town on Otsego Lake.
There’s Letchworth State Park just south of Geneseo, which is known as the Grand Canyon of the East. Getting out
and seeing what nature has to offer just as spring welcomes us with its presence is the perfect remedy for anyone who has a bit too mush stress on their shoulders after midterms.
spend break with family and friends who are important to you. It’s an opportunity to see people you have not been able to be around since winter break. Even if it’s just going out for lunch, it can go a long way. Catch up with that friend you haven’t seen in a while.
Maybe take some time to volunteer for a charity. There’s potentially a lot of free time to be had during the week ahead, so why not spend it doing something nice for people who need it most? Help out at the local food shelter or walk dogs at a local pound. Do something nice for someone without expecting anything in return.
Take the second weekend of break to gear yourself up for the sprint to the fin-ish line. Make sure you stock up on sup-plies and set yourself up for success as we approach the end of the semester. Those graduating in May should be in the midst of their job search or hearing from gradu-ate programs.
No matter what, we hope all students at Oswego State have a safe and enjoyable spring break.
It was ingrained in me from a young age to help those in need. My mother of-ten returned from an outing with a story about someone she helped. The most memorable was when she saw a young man on the side of the road looking des-titute. She picked him up, brought him to McDonald’s for a meal and dropped him off at a shelter.
No one in the family thought her ac-tions dangerous. We felt nothing but pride and respect for her. So if anyone is to blame here, it is my mother.
My tale begins with a trip to the doc-tor’s office. I just moved back to Oswego for the start of the school year and I had to drive the hour to Syracuse for a final examination of my wrist, which I broke earlier in the summer.
I was greeted with bad news. I could not be seen by the doctor that day due to an insurance mix-up. Upset I drove an hour only to be turned away, I stopped at a Starbucks to treat myself to some caf-feine therapy.
As I was paying the parking meter, a woman in her mid-40s dressed in scrubs came bounding toward me, yelling for help. She told me she just got off her shift at the hospital and her car broke down be-fore work. She was out of gas and needed to get back home to her kids and mother in the hospital. She asked me if I could give her a ride to the nearest gas station and give her money for gas since all of her money was tied up in hospital bills.
I was raised to be a “Good Samari-tan,” so I gave her a ride. She told me how proud my mother must be of me and that the world needed more people like me. I thanked her; I was glad to help.
When we passed by the first gas sta-tion and she directed me to keep driving,
I started to have doubts. She told me she needed to pay the babysitter first and di-rected me to a dilapidated house. I pulled up to the curb. She got out with the mon-ey I gave her for gas.
I then realized what was going on. Be-fore I could drive away, she got back in the car. She told me to drive her to the convenience store at the end of the street and asked for more money. I was too scared to say no. She got out at the end of the road, told God to bless me over and over, then left.
I drove the car a few blocks, pulled over and wept. I was trying to be a good person and this woman played me like a fool. I was broke, yet I gave the little mon-ey I had to a cheat. I was embarrassed, disheartened and angry.
In need of comfort, I called my mother and told her what happened. She couldn’t have been more proud because I did it all out of kindness. That’s what she had been teaching me all along.
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Unfortunately, not everyone can hop on a plane and head to
Florida or somewhere like it. All is not lost for these students. There are still ways to enjoy
your break.”Break is a time to wind down for a brief
period in time before making one last push to finals and onto summer break. Take the time to relax, lounge around for a day and do absolutely nothing. There’s nothing wrong with that.
More importantly, take the time to
OPINION FRIDAY, March 13, 2015THE OSWEGONIAN
Tip of the hat...
◊... to the weather for showing us a little mercy.
◊... to spring break for finally arriving.
◊... to U.S. employers for continuing to add new jobs.
◊... to bullies because that’s not cool.
◊... to the NCAA for their harsh penalties on the Syracuse athletic teams.
◊... to potholes for ruining our cars.
Wag of the finger...
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New issues in FergusonJustice for Brown’s family could soon happen
Job increase benefits college students
‘Cuse will overcome harsh sanctionsDespite being handed down numerous penalties, the Orange can prevail
Emily StaskoStaff Writer
David ArmelinoOpinion Editor
In a season of trials and tribulations facing the Syracuse University men’s basketball pro-gram, the NCAA came down with a series of punishments regarding violations from previ-ous years within the Orange’s athletic programs.
These sanctions have been met with much criticism from those involved with the university and general public opinion.
According to ncaaupdatesyr.com, an official Syracuse University-monitored website detail-ing the findings of the NCAA, on Feb. 4, the university announced a number of self-imposed penalties stemming from an eight-year inves-tigation conducted with the NCAA involving impermissible benefits to student-athletes, aca-demic integrity matters and drug violations.
The penalties included most notably, a self-imposed postseason ban for the 2014-2015 men’s basketball season, including all three of the major tournaments at the end of the regular season: the ACC Men’s Basketball Conference Tournament, the NIT and the NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Also included in the self-imposed punish-ments were a loss of one scholarship for the 2015-2016 men’s basketball team, 24 vacated men’s basketball wins from the 2004-2005 and 2011-2012 seasons and 11 football wins from the 2004-2005, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons.
This evidently wasn’t enough to sway the NCAA to lighten SU’s punishment, however, as the penalties inflicted on the university are what can only be described as a trimmed-down version of the “death penalty,” meaning the pro-gram will suffer years of inadequacy due to the lack of resources used to produce a competitive team. Syracuse hasn’t quite been given the death penalty, but it’s as close to it as it can get.
The NCAA announced on March 6 that its investigation of Syracuse University had been completed, and a number of penalties were announced.
The three most notable infractions included in the 94-page report were the suspension of head coach Jim Boeheim for the first nine confer-ence games of the 2015-2016 season, the reduc-tion of three scholarships for the men’s basket-ball team for each of the next four seasons and the vacation of wins that included ineligible players, which add up to 108 victories. This last implication drops Boeheim from the No. 2 most winningest coach in Div. I men’s basketball his-tory down to No. 6. Boeheim previously boasted 966 wins under his tenure, which will now be reduced to just 858.
This is an absolute absurd conclusion to draw from this evidence. Wins should only be taken away if the athletes in question used performance-enhancing drugs during the times in question. If the players were on an even playing field with every other team, wins should not be affected.
The NCAA concluded in their findings that Boeheim failed to control his staff in an orga-nized fashion and provide a work environment that was sufficient. ESPN stated that Boeheim and the school vehemently expressed their dis-approval of the NCAA’s research, with Boeheim personally being quite critical.
In a prepared statement on the infractions, Boeheim heavily criticized the sanctions of the NCAA. He noted the reasoning behind the pen-alties were a former employee of the YMCA and the former director of Basketball Operations at SU taking secretitve action behind closed doors to give benefits to athletes.
The former YMCA employee Boeheim refer-ences is the supposed booster who gave a com-bined sum of more than $8,000 to student-ath-letes on the men’s basketball team and football team for volunteering to fulfill credits needed to graduate, according to ESPN.
In the end, only Boeheim will know what he was aware of during this time. However, I find
it highly unlikely he was mindful of every occur-rence happening under his regime. Even if he did know about any wrongdoings, the matter at hand is trivial at best. The debate on whether student-athletes should be paid is one that will never reach a true resolution that will please everyone.
I believe athletes should receive compensa-tion for how much money they help bring into the school for their performance as student-athletes. These individuals are not allowed to hold jobs while on a team that earns more than $2,000 per year, according to NCAA rules.
Even if they were to hold a job while playing their respective sport, the time it requires to be able to compete at the Div. I level does not dictate holding employment. Meanwhile, the “student” aspect of student-athletes would suffer more than it already had been. Juggling work, school and being as close to a professional athlete as possible isn’t an easy task. The amount of mon-ey being brought in from sporting events and merchandise is staggering, with college-licensed merchandise being marketed at approximately $4.59 billion in 2013. Syracuse was ranked 33rd in top-earning universities.
Current student-athletes on the men’s bas-ketball team were mostly mum when asked about the actions of the players who came be-fore them, however they did provide some opinion on the matter.
Junior sharp shooter for the Orange Trevor Cooney said it was a shame it had to happen be-cause the players simply wanted to “play bas-ketball and get an education,” according to The Post-Standard.
Phil D’Abbraccio, sports editor of The Daily Orange, quoted senior center Rakeem Christ-mas on his Twitter page. Christmas was noncha-lant when asked about former players receiving academic assistance.
“It’s not that hard, you can do it. I guess people needed help, I don’t know,” Christmas said.
Things looked bleak for the Orange after the announcement of the postseason ban. Fans and analysts were wondering if Syracuse would still show the will to compete and play as if they were still fighting for a seed in the NCAA tournament.
The Orange did this and then some.Winning 18 games, while losing only 13, in
a difficult conference such as the ACC, is a testa-ment to how hard the Orange worked on and off the court. The Orange surprised many after wins against the likes of No. 12 Louisville and No. 9 Notre Dame.
So, what does the future look like for the Or-ange? Next season is shaping up to be quite pros-perous, believe it or not.
On March 8, Boeheim spoke at a local banquet that was open to the public for the first time since the NCAA laid down their penalties, according to The Post-Standard. Boeheim simply said, “I came here in 1962. I’m not going anywhere.”
Although Boeheim will be forced to watch the first nine conference games next season away from the bench, assistant coaches Mike Hopkins and Gerry McNamara, both former players for Boeheim, are more than competent to take his place. Hopkins has been a part of SU’s coaching staff as an assistant since 1995, according to his bio on cuse.com, and has been the head coach in-waiting for a number of years now. McNamara became a full-time assistant in 2011 and was a key component during his four years at Syracuse, be-ing a part of the school’s only National Champion-ship team in 2003.
Aside from the coaching staff being set for next season, the players need to be ready as well. Christmas will be heading to the NBA after
graduation, however he may be the only one the team loses.
Michael Gbinije and Chris McCullough are the only other players in question to leave for the NBA. After posting career numbers in his junior season, rumor has it that Gbinije might apply for the draft. However, a Post-Standard report refutes this saying he is “more than likely” to stay next season.
Gbinije is making a safe call with this de-cision, as it is never guaranteed he will be picked, being a player who doesn’t quite fit the NBA mold. Gbinije had a breakout year, averaging 12.7 points and five rebounds per game, according to his ESPN profile, so if he were to enter the draft at any point, it should be now. He is already 22 years old and coming off the best season of his career. There is also no promise he will replicate or improve upon this next season to build up his draft stock. Al-though once he commits to the draft, there is no going back.
McCullough has also confirmed he is staying for his sophomore season, accord-ing to sports blog College Spun, after whis-pers from analysts had him going as an NBA lottery selection.
McCullough is making the right call here. He played up to a high standard as a fresh-man, but did not make as much of an impact as a player such as fellow freshman Jahlil Oka-for did for Duke. Also, he experienced a seri-ous knee injury, something that will turn off al-most every team in the NBA come draft time.
With two of their best players coming back next season, things are finally leaning in Syracuse’s favor. Also, expect other current players from the Orange to have successful seasons as well.
Three-point specialist Trevor Cooney will finish his career strong as a senior. Guard Ka-leb Joseph will polish his game in his sopho-more year by improving his handles, passing and outside shot. B.J. Johnson in his junior campaign will contribute just as C.J. Fair did in his third year. Junior guard Ron Patterson will give an extra lift to the offense as a sixth man. Forward Tyler Roberson will mold his mid-range shot and post moves as a junior. Lastly, imposing big man DeJuan Coleman will fi-nally see significant minutes, being a redshirt junior, and will make the most out of them.
The 2015-2016 squad will be poised to make a run in the NCAA tournament with this group of players alone.
What isn’t factored in, however, is the in-coming class of talent SU has up its sleeve. Ac-cording to NBC Sports, four coveted four-star recruits will honor their commitments to the program despite the penalties bestowed upon the school.
This is a welcome surprise, as these young men could’ve simply walked away from Syra-cuse after hearing of the numerous sanctions against the university. This only covers next season, however, as NBC Sports mentioned the loss of scholarships won’t take effect until the 2016-2017 season, which will begin the loss of three scholarships for the next four years.
Despite the NCAA’s exceedingly harsh punishment of Syracuse’s men’s basketball program, the future looks much brighter than how it is being perceived. With Boeheim poised to appeal his suspension, according to ESPN, and a slew of fresh players coming in with veteran leadership by their side, expect the Orange to turn some heads next season and well into March.
Senior Rakeem Christmas provided a spark for the Orange throughout the season, leading to 18 wins.
Photo by Michael Davis of The Syacuse New Times
Unemployment rates have been an issue in our economy for a significant amount of time now. U.S. employers, however, have been making strides, especially in the month of February, when unemployment jumped down from 5.7 percent to 5.5 percent, ac-cording to The Wall Street Journal.
This past February, 295,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy, which helped us to decrease the unemployment percentage. This is excellent to see, especially from a col-lege students’ perspective.
As we attend school, where we will end up after school is a frightening thought. We are told to join the nation’s workforce and to avoid certain careers, even if it is something we are interested in.
It makes it a little less stressful to see that there is an increase in jobs. Though the wages stayed consistent with just a 0.1 percent increase last month, it is still better than having a decrease in jobs and wages.
This increase in jobs is the positivity that people in our society need to see. It is dis-
appointing to see a decline in our economy. This will only increase the nation’s optimism about jobs and the future. For so long, we have been disappointed with the decrease of jobs and wages along with the increase of layoffs in companies. Perhaps we are on an upward spiral and will make it out on top.
Doug Castro, a freshman at Oswego State, said he felt encouraged by the decrease in unemployment.
“We are taught as college students that jobs won’t be waiting for us right out of col-lege,” Castro said. “This makes our chances for finding a job a lot better.”
It is refreshing to see our economy going in the right direction. In 2008, many fami-lies were affected by the delicate state of the economy. The thought of not knowing if a bill will be paid on time is a scary one, to say the least. Now, families can take advan-tage of the extra opportunity and worry less about money.
Increase in employment is one big step forward in our economy’s health. As a na-tion we will hopefully continue to move for-ward and soon have even higher wages. We no longer have to fear the possibility of not getting a job.
The family of Michael Brown might soon be granted justice for the his death.
Darren Wilson was cleared of a poten-tial indictment by a grand jury in Novem-ber and the Department of Justice this past week decided there is not enough evidence to charge officer Wilson with Brown’s death. The parents of Brown will now file a civil suit against Wilson for the wrongful death of their son.
According to CNN, a civil suit has a higher likelihood of sticking because the jury won’t need absolute certainty beyond any reasonable doubt as to whether Wilson is guilty. The jury will only need sufficient enough evidence to suggest Wilson is re-sponsible for the death of Brown.
Nick BrownStaff Writer
providing different stories probably would have hurt the chances of Wilson being put behind bars. However, some accountability should come out of the civil suit.
Despite not being able to charge Wilson, the DOJ did find substantial evidence to prove systemic racism within the Ferguson Police Department. According to CNN, 85 percent of people subject to vehicle stops were black, while 93 percent of people ar-rested during these stops were black. Nine-ty-five percent of jaywalking tickets were given to black people. When the Ferguson Police Department used force against a sus-pect, 88 percent of the people were black.
Black people make up just 67 percent of Ferguson’s population overall, so these outlying statistics are impossible to ignore. Racist emails mocking President Obama and jokes erroneously belittling the work ethic of people of color were also found on the computers of employees in the Ferguson Police Department. Two officers have sub-sequently resigned from the Department within the last week.
When an unarmed black teenager ends up with six bullets in him from a police offi-cer who is a part of an undeniable racist sys-tem, there needs to be some accountability.
The Brown shooting cannot be treated as an isolated incident. Maybe Wilson did shoot in self-defense. However, this is unclear. Either way, a public service job, such as a police officer, cannot be soaked in racial bias.
The family of Brown and all citizens of Ferguson should be able to trust that their police department is operating without a predisposition for hate. I wish Brown’s fam-ily well in their civil suit and I wish the citi-zens of Ferguson well in their attempt to fix a broken system.
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College students can rest easier knowing there is a better chance a job will be waiting for them out of school.
The Ferguson trial is still a ways away from a solution, but it could reach a turning point soon.Photo provided by loavesofbread via Wikimedia
The fact that Wilson was not even in-dicted in February is absolutely absurd. An indictment is not a guilty verdict. Letting Wilson walk without even a proper trial was extremely irresponsible on behalf of the grand jury. However, I believe it would have been hard to prove Wilson guilty in a crimi-nal court case. A handful of eye witnesses
Photo provided by loavesofbread via WikimediaThe Ferguson riots were a spectable of violence.
xFRIDAY March 13, 2015INSIDE ‘Focus’ tries to pull off a
difficult balancing actWill Forte’s zaniness in ‘The Last Man on Earth’
C5C4C2 Madonna reinvents herself again on ‘Rebel Heart’
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SPRING MASTER OF ARTS EXHIBITIONDate: Friday, March 13Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Location: Second floor, Penfield Library
ART EXHIBITION: “TRANSITIONS”Date: Friday, March 13Time: 12 - 5 p.m. Location: Oswego State Downtown, 186 W. First St
SPRING MASTER OF ARTS EXHIBITIONDate: Tuesday, March 24Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.Location: Second floor, Penfield Library
ARTIST TALK: MATT HERRONDate: Tuesday, March 24Time: 7 - 9 p.m.Location: Auditorium, Room 132, Marano Campus Center
PERFORMANCES BY TROMBONE QUARTET MANIACAL 4Date: Wednesday, March 25Time: 12 - 9 p.m.Location: Marano Campus Center and various locations on campus
MOVIE: “ZWEI LEBEN”Date: Wednesday, March 25Time: 7 - 9 p.m.Location: Auditorium, Room 132, Marano Campus Center
Events CalendarFriday, March 13 through Friday, March 20
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Madonna’s rebellious, cold digital soulHeather ClarkAsst. Laker Review [email protected]
The Queen of Pop has done it again. Madonna released her 13th studio album, “Rebel Heart,” on March 6.
The Detroit-born singer, song-writer, actress and business-woman attended the University of Michigan School of Music, The-atre and Dance. After graduating, Madonna moved to New York City to pursue a career in mod-ern dance. In 1982, she released her self-titled debut album which peaked at number eight on Bill-board Magazine’s charts. Since the beginning of her career, Ma-donna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide mak-ing her the best-selling female artist of all time, while constantly reinventing herself.
Much like her earlier albums, Madonna had a hand in writing every song on “Rebel Heart.”
“I used to handwrite every-thing in the computer, and I just sit there with my little laptop on my lap and write things,” Madon-na said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine.
The lead single off “Rebel Heart,” “Living for Love” is an upbeat track about losing love but having the strength to go on.
This funky dance tune is sure to be claiming a spot on everyone’s spring playlists. Beginning with soft beats and building to a climax of dance-worthy beats and fun hooks. The lyrics are appealing and great to listen to if you’re in the midst of a breakup.
The second single off the al-bum, “Ghosttown,” is a soft and slow track about holding on to that one person, even when ev-erything else has gone awry. The slow, piano notes that flow throughout the song set a steady pace for the overall song. A pow-erful pop ballad, “Ghosttown” contains heartfelt lyrics that speak to those going through tough times whose love for someone
perience evolved into something quite crazy,” Madonna said in an interview with The New York Times. “A strange artistic process, but a sign of the time. We’re all digital, we’re all vulnerable and everything’s instant — so instant. Instant success and instant failure. In-stant discovery, instant destruction, in-stant construction. It’s as splendid and wonderful as it is devastating.”
The lyrics on “Rebel Heart” have a reoccurring theme of love and los-ing love. While the topic of heartbreak typically is not fun, Madonna’s timeless voice and the upbeat music help to turn the heavy topic around and make it easier. Overall, Madonna’s latest album is a great album for anyone just getting out of a relationship and teaches those listening to have the strength to go on.
is strong enough to help them through anything.
“HeartBreakCity,” a sad and haunting ballad, is a track where the listener can picture the teen-age heroine of a teen drama star-ing out a window at the rain as the love of her life leaves her. A steady marching beat along with hard-hitting piano lets the lyrics have the floor. The lyrics are high-ly showcased in this track instead of the music in the background. Madonna’s voice carries amazing low notes that push the song until the very end.
The digital revolution also had an influence on “Rebel Heart.”
“What started out as an invig-orating, life-enhancing, joyous ex-
Though filled with earnest emotion, Madonna steps into her third decade of music making with a frigid new album.Photo provided by i-d.vice.com
Weekly EP Revue: Genevieve shows her colors
In a time when indie-pop might as well be known sim-ply as pop, many female art-ists have found their place. Individualistic and bold singers such as Lorde and the ladies of HAIM have all found themselves among some of music’s biggest pop divas ranging from Britney Spears to Katy Perry. As these genre lines continue to blur, many newer artists are attempting to find their place on the spectrum.
Genevieve Schatz, known simply as Genevieve, is one of these musicians. Both pop and indie, the former Com-
pany of Thieves front woman is nothing short of creative. With memorable, danceable hooks, paired with star vocal stylings, Genevieve’s debut EP “Show Your Colors,” is a slick, borderline mainstream compilation of soul-search-ing tunes and self-finding musical experimentation.
The debut single off the EP is “Colors.” Resembling Charli XCX in rawness and beat, this synth-heavy track dips into Top 40 construc-tions just enough to draw in mass appeal. With sugary lyrics and upbeat tempos, “Colors,” is entertaining and light-hearted.
“My Real Name” is one of the fieriest tracks off Genevieve’s EP. Like an ac-tual flame, each moment of “My Real Name” grows.
Its climactic and rambunc-tious ending is one that will satisfy listeners and critics alike. Exuding confidence and emotional runs, Gen-evieve’s triumphant track works well.
Just when Genevieve seems to make the move toward pop-based funda-mentalism, she utilizes her talents for the sonically pe-culiar with “Human Again.” With experimentation simi-lar to the works of Kerli and Björk, “Human Again” is a drawing track filled with talent and potential. Its moving message added di-mensions to the EP, and art-ful use of instrumentals is atmospheric and starry.
On “For You,” Gen-evieve presents a som-ber, raw ballad that will
absorb listeners. It is a rare moment of noticeable, prob-able stardom. Like what Banks’ “You Should Know Where I’m Coming From” did for her al-bum, Genevieve’s “For You” acts similar in that it creates an added, and welcome perspec-tive to a piece filled with very different beats.
While Genevieve may never experience the same type of heightened exposure and fame of artists like Marina and The Diamonds, her work deserves some recognition for its ability to further blur the lines of sin-gular-genre music. “Show Your Colors” is a positive start in the right direction. With piec-es of synthetic-electronic, pop and singer-songwriter genre-like beats, Genevieve’s culmination of talents becomes visible.
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Weekly EP Revue: Genevieve shows her colors‘The Following’ still filled with bizarre cult drama, intrigueBryan KroskyContributing [email protected]
Just as it seemed all had been solved at the end of season two of “The Following,” season three con-tinues with the same action-packed drama that draws the continuous eyes of America.
After FBI Agent Ryan Hardy, played by Kevin Bacon (“X-Men: First Class”), finally locked up Joe Carroll, James Purefoy (“John Cart-er”) to what seemed to be the end of their twisted, yet almost friendship-like at one point, relationship. Hardy had been chasing after Carroll and his followers for months on end, af-ter Carroll escaped from prison after serving for multiple murders.
While locked up, Carroll had nu-merous people and former students visit him where he convinced them to join his cult, which was derived from the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and Carroll uses Poe’s image of death as
an art and brings it to real life, as his murders are often very planned out and artistic, representing the twisted beauty of the crimes.
Throughout numerous plot twists, deaths and multiple near-death experiences, Hardy and his sidekick Agent Mike Weston, played by Shawn Ashmore (X-Men: Days of Future Past”), are now having to deal with the aftermath of Carroll’s arrest, his followers that continue to haunt the FBI and another cult that is led by Mark Underwood, whose mother was affiliated with Carroll.
At the end of season one, Hardy tracked and found Carroll in a boat-house and started a fire that blew up the house, and thought he had killed Carroll. However, Carroll escaped and used his twin brother’s DNA to cover up his escape, and went undercover until his existence was made public.
Hardy and Weston are the main focal points of the show, and are the top two agents and sources on the job. Both agents were joined in sea-son two by Hardy’s niece, Max, who
Kevin Bacon plays the complicated yet determined FBI Special Agent Ryan Hardy.
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also dated Agent Weston at one point during the show.
One of the main characters, al-though she has yet to appear in season three, is Claire Matthews, Carroll’s ex-wife. One of Carroll’s fol-lowers, Emma Hill, was the babysit-ter of Matthews’ and Carroll’s son, Joey, and abducted him to bring him to Carroll after he escaped.
Matthews and Hardy also had a relationship before Carroll’s escape from prison, and in season two they deal with having to try and find Joey, while also dealing with the personal issues they’ve had in the past.
Bacon only adds another brilliant performance to his resume. It looks as if he hasn’t aged since “Footloose” and brings a very serious tone to his character, one that has struggled with an alcohol addiction, a heart problem and the mental fortitude of doing the job that’s at hand.
The overall acting for all charac-ters is above average. Hardy does what he has to do for his job, but sometimes steers into a different path and will often bend the rules to get
what he wants. The actors that por-tray Carroll’s followers combine the task of living their everyday life as a “normal” person and the convoluted second-life of murders and cults.
The producers and writers of the show said they plan on focusing the third season more on the psychology of the characters, and how it impacts
each person in their life. Hardy and his agents continue the struggle of trying to wipe out the cult, while the remaining leaders of the cult have to remain hidden and plan out each at-tack, without the guidance of Carroll.
The first episode premiered on FOX on March 2, and runs weekly ev-ery Monday night at 9 p.m.
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‘Chappie’ thought-provoking, devoid of any real humanityElliott AltlandStaff [email protected]
A disappointing conclusion to Neill Blomkamp’s South African trilogy (“Elysium,” “District 9” and “Chap-pie” all represent sci-fi interpretations of South African social issues, “Chappie” is a flawed film with wasted potential. While the film raises deep and thought-provoking questions surrounding con-sciousness and humanity, the heart of the film fails to keep the audience emo-tionally engaged or entertained.
Like his films before, “Chappie” is the imagining of a near future South Africa. “District 9” introduced aliens to represent South African apartheid; “Ely-sium” introduced medical advance-ments to highlight the growing gaps between the rich and poor; “Chappie” introduces artificial intelligence to both demonstrate growing crime and the dangers of a robotic police force.
Taking place in the near future, “Chappie” introduces us to a crime-riddled and gang-controlled South Af-rica. In order to fight against these ruth-less criminals, the police partner with Tetravaal, a private cooperation that constructs advanced robotics. Called scouts, these advanced robotics serve as military-like forces and nearly elimi-nate crime throughout the country. The
introduction to “Chappie” very quickly immerses us into this world.
What would later be one of only two action sequences in the film, the introduction throws the audience into the violence and chaos of the nation. The action in the film is fast paced cou-pled with great CGI and special effects; watching the robot force work in tan-gent with South African police was en-gaging and immersive, laying an effec-tive framework for the movie to build off. Unfortunately for “Chappie,” once the narrative was turned over to the pri-mary cast, the film slowly fell apart.
The world building and sci-fi action are captivating, but the primary cast is so unlikeable, that it forces a barrier between the viewer and film. “Chap-pie” effectively makes all of its char-acters unlikeable, both ruining viewer immersion and making the film drag. Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and Hugh Jackman (“X-Men & Days of Fu-ture Past) are introduced as the uncon-trollable inventor and jealous soldier respectively, but these roles become stereotypical archetypes as the movie inches forward.
Coming off the great opening ac-tion sequence, we are introduced to Deon (Dev Patel), inventor of the ro-bot force. Deon aspires to create fully functional artificial intelligence that can both feel and learn as humans do. After developing this technology, and being denied by his boss, Sigourney
Weaver (“Avatar”), Deon steals a robot and brings it to life. Up to this point in the film, Deon is an innovative, though uncontrollable scientist that just wants to push the limits of technology. The viewer is made to root for Deon, but it’s almost impossible to do so be-cause his actions are ineffective and endanger humanity.
Jackman’s role as the stereotypi-cal macho and jealous ex-soldier with an incredibly large ego is much worse. A talented actor, Jackman’s character is given no depth or complexity. He stands opposite of Deon both as the villain of the film and as the human that sees ar-tificial intelligence as a potential end to humanity. While his complaints about the dangers of artificial intelligence are more than justified, the viewer can’t get behind Jackman because his actions stem purely from a place of inferior-ity and jealousy. Jackman’s character is boiled down to an egotistical muscle-head desperate for success. Powerful films have both an engaging protago-nist and villain; “Chappie” has neither of these.
Finally, we move onto the worst part of “Chappie,” the supporting cast of Af-rican gangsters. Actors Ninja, Yo-landi Visser and Brandon Auret aren’t just unlikeable in their roles as street thugs, they are near unwatchable. The charac-ters are painfully overwritten and over-acted, to the point where it became dif-ficult to sit through their scenes. Ninja
and Yo-londi serve as mother and father to “Chappie” giving the two untalented actors way too much screen time. Auret (“Elysium”) serves as the one-note vil-lain of the film, his only goals being to cause destruction and get paid.
While the heart of the film is brought down with script and act-ing issues, the robot at the center of the film makes the movie somewhat bearable. Watching the artificial intel-ligence learn and grow in a child-like way is engaging, is a lot of fun and has emotional depth. Watching him learn to paint and understand the world around him shines a different light on the human perception of the world. Coupled with this, watching his pure and innocent nature slowly corrupt
because of humanity is the film’s greatest strength.
“Chappie” came out of the gate fir-ing on all cylinders, successfully deliver-ing a creative and engaging world with stylish action and a compelling narra-tive. Along its journey the film raised many questions, making the viewer ponder over human consciousness and our definition of humanity and life. Un-fortunately, these moral questions and the development of Chappie himself are overshadowed by one-note under-developed characters with no complex-ity and subpar acting talents. The poor script and character creation coupled with poor casting create a movie that slowly drags to a great conclusion, but ultimately isn’t worth the ride.
Though life-like, “Chappie” ultimately lacks a pulse through its characters.Photo provided by moviepilot.com
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After critically successful releases of “Seven Pounds” and “I Am Leg-end,” Will Smith took a significant amount of time off only to return to screens with “After Earth” and “Men in Black 3.” Unfortunately neither film found the critical or commercial suc-cess that the actor had been known for. So enters “Focus”; marketed as the gritty character driven return to form for the blockbuster actor, “Focus” fails to deliver more than your average romantic comedy.
While “Focus” started off as a fun and entertaining con movie, it’s hard to recommend because it loses steam and narrative focus down the stretch of its two-hour run time. Initially I found myself thoroughly enjoying the film; it begins with a charismatic and charming Smith training a young and inexperienced con-woman, played by Margot Robbie (“The Wolf Of Wall Street”). This early narrative fol-lowed our characters through vari-ous cons and heists with light pacing and a story that does not take itself too seriously.
The film develops an entertaining tone that keeps the viewer engaged
and laughing. To complement the light and upbeat script, Smith and Robbie both give great performances. Charming, charismatic and funny.It’s easy to fall for the main charac-ters even though they are robbing in-nocent people. Robbie comes off as inexperienced and youthful, success-fully winning over the viewer with her sly smile while Smith boasts a troubled and complicated past evok-ing a deeper sense of empathy. Un-fortunately, despite how successful the two lead actors were at establish-
ing interesting characters, this is done away with when the narrative turns into nothing more than a formulaic romantic comedy.
As we transition into the second half, “Focus” loses its grasp on this en-tertaining and engaging atmosphere instead focusing, almost entirely, on the relationship between Smith and Robbie. This, in theory, could have been done successfully; in execution though “Focus” handles the relation-ship in a sloppy manner taking a large time jump, which kills all character de-
velopment. “Focus” isn’t a bad movie because it decided to have the roman-tic relationship take center stage; it’s a bad film because of how jarring the change in tone is.
The lead actors, along with a strong supporting secondary cast in Adrian Martinez (The Amazing Spi-der-Man) and Brennan Brown (“The Black List”), successful draw the au-dience in providing frequent laughs with a good amount of tension and drama. Transitioning into the second half of the film, Focus takes a much
darker tone replacing the successful secondary characters with a new cast featuring Gerald McRaney (“The Best Of Me”) and Rodrigo Santoro (“Rio 2”). This new entourage does just fine in their roles to support the film and its leads, but the new narrative direction of the movie never comes together.
Too timid to embrace its new dra-matic tone and too desperate to hold onto the fun and light pacing of its be-ginning, “Focus” flounders about in its second half. While the new cast and storyline are suitable for a dramatic con movie, the film attempts to grasp onto the energy and pacing established ear-ly on, creating a jarring experience for the viewer. Ultimately, the second half of the film can’t decide what it wants to be, and Smith and Robbie couldn’t keep it afloat on charm alone.
In the end, “Focus” is not the revi-talization of Smith’s once great career. He and Robbie shine in their roles, but they are brought down by uneven tone and a poor narrative. Early on, the film set itself up for greatness engag-ing and immersing the audience in its light and fast-paced con narrative. As the film developed though, the direc-tor focused more on a dramatic tone while attempting to hold onto the comedy that came before. Focus is fun at first, but ultimately transforms into a film that is worth neither the time, nor money to see in theaters.
Elliot AltlandStaff [email protected]
‘Focus’ loses sight, uneven tone prematurely kills film
Will Smith and Margot Robbie play romantically entwined grifters in the visually, sleek neo-con man movie “Focus.”
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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ refreshing, off-beat comedy
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” might just be the most unique fish-out-of-water story ever told. The new Netflix original series, spear-headed by “30 Rock” creator Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, has all of their signature comedy hallmarks of bizarre and over-the-top ridiculous and also jokes that pack a punch and make the audience think.
While the show is undeniably hilarious, especially for fans of Fey’s particular brand of humor, the sub-ject matter is surprisingly dark for a comedy show. Four women were kidnapped and kept in a bunker by Reverend Wayne, who believed the apocalypse was going to happen on June 6 2006. The four women are forced to be a part of his doomsday cult, believing that the five of them are the only ones left alive.
In the pilot episode, the four women are finally found and freed from the bunker. The series is about
these four women adapting to life outside. They are labeled “The Mole Women.”
Ellie Kemper (“Bridesmaids”) stars as the titular character who de-cides to stay in New York City and not return home. However, Kimmy was kidnapped when she was in eighth grade and never received a high school education. She is in a city where she knows no one and has not been outside for 15 years. The first episode is all about Kimmy starting her new life and trying to leave be-hind being a Mole Woman and her identity as a victim.
Rounding out the cast are oth-ers one might recognize from “30 Rock” such as Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess. Krakowski is play-ing a very similar role to Jenna from “30 Rock” in that she is very vain but also wildly insecure. Still, it’s a part Krakowski plays well and is hilari-ous. Burgess plays Kimmy’s room-mate, an aspiring actor who spends his days in Times Square as a knock-off Iron Man.
The most refreshing thing about “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is
that the main cast is diverse, consist-ing of all women and people of color. The series is dominated by women and, of course, Burgess. The chem-istry between the main cast is great, whether you have Kimmy and Titus or Kimmy and Krawkoski’s Jacque-line playing off each other. Every character is weird in their own way, so they go effortlessly from funny man to straight man given the situ-ation. It would have been easy to make Kimmy the straight man to the wild New York characters, but because of her background, Kimmy herself is just as odd.
While binge-watching this show on Netflix can make it harder to spot weaker episodes, there were a few plotlines that were disappointing. The son character, Buckley (Tanner Flood, “Moonrise Kingdom”) all but disappears after the first episode, despite the fact that Kimmy’s job is to watch him. There’s also quite a few romantic subplots that feel a bit shoehorned in, like the love triangle between Kimmy’s rich, new boy-friend and her study buddy for her GED class.
Maureen DiCosimoStaff [email protected]
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” may have a few shortcomings, but overall the show is a great new effort from Fey and Carlock and a won-derful follow up “30 Rock.” The cast is bringing its A-game every epi-sode and Kemper is a charming yet naïve lead. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has a lot to say about ce-lebrity and victimization while also delivering quite a few laugh-out-
loud moments each episode. There are a lot of fun cameos throughout the first season while the emphasis stays on the three main leads.
Wholly original and also smart, there is nothing like “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on television or the Internet right now. Luckily, Netf-lix has already ordered a second sea-son and will hopefully order more in the future.
Photo provided by adultswim.comThe Office’s Ellie Kemper gets her day in the sun on “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
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darker tone replacing the successful secondary characters with a new cast featuring Gerald McRaney (“The Best Of Me”) and Rodrigo Santoro (“Rio 2”). This new entourage does just fine in their roles to support the film and its leads, but the new narrative direction of the movie never comes together.
Too timid to embrace its new dra-matic tone and too desperate to hold onto the fun and light pacing of its be-ginning, “Focus” flounders about in its second half. While the new cast and storyline are suitable for a dramatic con movie, the film attempts to grasp onto the energy and pacing established ear-ly on, creating a jarring experience for the viewer. Ultimately, the second half of the film can’t decide what it wants to be, and Smith and Robbie couldn’t keep it afloat on charm alone.
In the end, “Focus” is not the revi-talization of Smith’s once great career. He and Robbie shine in their roles, but they are brought down by uneven tone and a poor narrative. Early on, the film set itself up for greatness engag-ing and immersing the audience in its light and fast-paced con narrative. As the film developed though, the direc-tor focused more on a dramatic tone while attempting to hold onto the comedy that came before. Focus is fun at first, but ultimately transforms into a film that is worth neither the time, nor money to see in theaters.
‘Focus’ loses sight, uneven tone prematurely kills film
The Office’s Ellie Kemper gets her day in the sun on “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
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Lush, family music business drama on FOX’s ‘Empire’Riley AckleyPromotional [email protected]
When FOX debuted “Em-pire,” a television series that fol-lows the fictional and conflict-filled Empire record label, it is hard to believe that it would have amounted to the level of success as it has. As the show fol-lows the corporate-heading Lyon family through the inner work-ings of the hip-hop/R&B music industry, viewers have become instantly attached to the multi-dimensional character construc-tions, dramatic, break-stopping moments and juicy plot lines.
One of the most appealing pieces of “Empire” is the diverse set of characters. This show is also one of the few shows on net-work television, especially a net-work with such a spotty and tep-id record as FOX, that features a cast made up predominantly of people of color. This inclu-sive element to the show brings in big ratings on a weekly basis. With the show teeming with star-studded performances, viewers
will be drawn in no matter the episode’s focus.
One character in particular, Cookie, is important to note. The ex-con and ex-wife of former singer and current mogul of Em-pire, Lucious Lyon, Cookie is the television show’s greatest inclu-sion. With moments of hilarity, this vulnerable and still power-hungry member of the Lyon fam-ily showcases strong talents in music production and manipula-tion. Played by Taraji P. Henson (“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”), the Oscar-nominated actress is unafraid and absolutely unstoppable as Cookie.
Other characters include Ja-mal Lyon, the gay, aspiring singer and son of Cookie and Lucious, who offers the show a sympa-thetic hero to root for. Viewers will be interested in his search to find his place in the industry and where his estranged relationship with his powerful father will end up.
The plotline of the show is just as absorbing as the characters. With the movement toward an initial public offering imminent and family drama that would make the family from “August: Osage County” uncomfortable,
audiences will be enthralled into a world of crime and blurred lines of morality. They will pick favorites in the challenges of power and will inevitably be upset by plays made by some over others.
For some audiences, the only visible setback of “Empire” can be found in some overly dra-matic moments. With melo-
dramatic statements backed by corny musical numbers, different pieces of this otherwise terrific and masterpiece of a show are tarnished. However, even this cannot rescind the show’s must- watch abilities.
The debut season of “Em-pire” is a strong one. With char-acters as passionate and fiery as they are, each moment will be
like watching the Super Bowl of the music industry and family relations. “Empire” showcases characters that are human and crazy and complex; this alone should make people want to tune in. “Empire,” which is an obvious early pick for great-est breakouts in 2015, will close out its premiere season on March 18.
Academy Award nominees Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard play troubled members of a family of musical royalty.
Forte’s ‘The Last Man on Earth’ daringly surreal, still hilariousMorgan AltlandStaff [email protected]
“The Last Man on Earth” pre-miered Sunday, March 1 on FOX.
It had 5.75 million viewers and was the highest rated series for the 18-49 adult demographic. It’s the most original program FOX has aired in years, with a different feel and production style than any other show on the network.
The show is about Phil Miller, played by Will Forte (“Saturday Night Live”) as the last person on Earth after a disease wiped out the rest of the world. Forte not only stars in the show, but created and wrote the first episode. His comedic style is apparent from the beginning of the show. The show starts with Phil driving around the country looking for any other survivors asking, “Hello? Hello? Chinese hello?”
We also see the show poking fun at and referencing “all alone” films. Like Will Smith in “I Am
Legend” Phil falls for a female mannequin in a store after ac-cepting that she would be his best source for female companionship. On top of that, we see Phil yelling at the movie “Cast Away” about how ridiculous the idea of talk-ing to volleyballs was, then after a few months he fills his favorite bar with various balls all with faces draw on them.
The show also features a lot of nonverbal physical comedy. Being the last man on Earth, Phil takes the time to do everything he wants. He takes art and memora-bilia from around the country, he bowls with fish tanks as pins and turns a pool into a toilet. If anyone other than Forte was playing the character this might be dull or not as effective, but he does an amaz-ing job of showing us who Phil is and how he wants to spend his time alone. Plus we get Phil trying to stay active, playing racket ball inside his house with 10 different balls at once and him working on building the largest Jenga tower.
Although the program is called “The Last Man on Earth,”
Phil Miller is not alone. The show also stars Kristen Schaal (“Bob’s Burgers”) playing Carol Pilbasian, the last woman on Earth. Carol is something the show needs to work on. She is a one- note character, at least when seen in the first two epi-sodes. Right now the whole point of her character is to be the opposite of Phil. She is clean,
organized and obsessed with grammar. The writers need to try to develop Carol more as a character to serve as a better counterpoint to Phil, whose end of the world mentality makes the show.
The show is definitely some-thing to check out. The originali-ty, the writing and Forte’s unique stylings grab you and make you
want more from the get-go. As the show continues, hopefully we can see more from Schaal, and her character ’s personality. If she changes and Forte keeps up his incredible comedic style, this show will be FOX’s best live action comedy in years.
The show is an incredible ex-ample of what can happen when a network takes a risk.
Photo provided by fox.comWill Forte seemingly does the impossible by holding our attention with his weird and hilarious ways to spend time alone.
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You’re always tired but you stay up too late
and drag yourself out of bed too early
and lather and rinse and repeat.
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to make the circles under your eyes go away,
or maybe fix the paleness of your hands,
or the slight yellow of your teeth,
but then you say, “f*** it,”
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Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size nine shoes. What does he weigh?
What is it that no man wants to have but no man wants to lose?
It has plenty of backbone, but doesn’t have a leg. It peels like an orange, but it comes from an egg. What is it?
What is as big as you are and does not weigh anything?
Where can one stand up straight but still be considered sideways?
I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?
Although it is neither big nor small, nor liquid, solid or gas, it can be broken without being dropped. What is it?
You could find that you are drawn into vacation a little too hurriedly, thanks to a very subtle yet flighty vibe this week. It’s a day where you may not be as diligent as you nor-mally are, especially in the morning. You might get away with slacking off as long as no one is reliant on you.
Cooperative influences will start to make themselves known this week. Flexibility will grant you time to explore other matters. Look out for potential moments in which you will be inclined to join in on activities with big time commitments. Do not question changes; take advantage of opportunities.
This week is a week where standing back and judging complex situa-tions first will benefit in the long run. There is a slightly inconsistent vibe present where the resolutions are possible, but might be a little more intricate than expected. Evalu-ate what needs your focus first this week.
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