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:::Winter
War:::
OSWEGO’S
AUXILIARY SERVICES WORKFORCE TACKLES SNOWSTORM
HEAD ON
Vehicles disappeared under a blanket of white
and students armed themselves with shovels to
tackle the six feet of snow that fell on the SUNY
Oswego campus during a weeklong
snowstorm from Feb. 5 to 10.
"The biggest snowfall was about a 12-hour
period from Monday night to Tuesday morning when
about 30 inches fell," said Assistant Meteorology
Professor Scott Steiger
’99.
However, that didn’t stop the Auxiliary
Services workforce from keeping students fed.
Some employees walked through the blizzard from
as far away as the Oswego Speedway in order to
provide students with food during the storm.
“It was a little scary,” Hewitt Union
dining service worker...MORE
:::Continuing Education:::
SURVEY
FINDS MORE OSWEGO ALUMNI HEAD TO GRAD SCHOOL
Graduate and professional school is an increasingly
popular option for students as they complete their
bachelor’s degrees at SUNY Oswego, a new
survey shows.
Each year the college’s Career Services
Office surveys a recent class of graduates. In
the latest survey, the percentage of graduates
reporting that they continued their studies immediately
after leaving Oswego rose from 19 percent for
the class of 2004 to 26.3 percent for the class
of 2005.
Behind that change, SUNY Oswego Director of Career
Services Bob Casper said, may be Oswego’s
increasing efforts to encourage students to consider
graduate school and...MORE
:::Around the World:::
OSWEGO
SIGNS EXCHANGE AGREEMENTS WITH CHINESE UNIVERSITIES
SUNY Oswego has new exchange agreements with six
universities in China, and its 13-year-old agreement
with Capital Normal University in Beijing has
been renewed.
Walter Opello, associate provost for international
education and programs, announced the agreements
on the return of a campus delegation to China.
Opello, along with SUNY Oswego Dean of Business
Lanny Karns and Xiaoqin Sun Irminger of the School
of Education, visited all seven universities in
January. As China’s global impact grows,
Opello said, “We thought it would be a good
idea to have...MORE
:::Academic Honors:::
OSWEGO
STUDENT SELECTED AMONG NATIONAL ‘ACADEMIC ALL-STARS’
USA Today has
named SUNY Oswego's Nadia
Dropkin ’07, to its prestigious All-USA
College Academic Team, honorable mention.
Dropkin is the first Oswego student to make the
highly selective list of outstanding undergraduates
across the nation.
The annual USA Today
list includes a total of 80 high-achieving undergraduates,
20 each on the first, second, third and honorable-mention
teams. Students were selected from about 600 students
nominated by their schools.
The 20 making honorable mention this year come
from...MORE
:::Top Talent:::
SUNY OSWEGO
HAS TWO OF FIVE FINALISTS FOR NATIONAL STUDENT
PR AWARD
Every year, five finalists from across the country
are chosen in the PRWeek
Student of the Year competition. This year, two
are SUNY Oswego students.
Public relations majors Melissa
Andrews ’07 and Leila
Boukassi ’08 competed in the finals
Jan. 28 and 29 in New York City. They will learn
how they placed at an awards dinner March 8 at
Tavern on the Green in New York City. “Everyone
in the industry is going to go,” which will
make it a great networking opportunity, Andrews
said.
Andrews and Boukassi prepared a 10-page campaign
plan for Motorola in Professor Tina Pieraccini’s
“Advanced Public Relations” class,
which included an entry form for...MORE
:::Center Stage:::
SUNY OSWEGO
STUDENTS STAGE ‘DORA’ IN NORTHEAST THEATRE COMPETITION
While many SUNY Oswego students were on winter
break, some theatre students were pursuing a big
break, presenting “Dora: A Case of Hysteria”
at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Region II Festival competition.
Only six productions from the mid-Atlantic region
were selected for full performances at the event,
Jan. 15 to 19 in New Paltz.
SUNY Oswego’s Trevor
Franklin ’07 directed the student
honors production, a dark comedy about one of
Sigmund Freud’s most infamous case studies.
Franklin said...MORE
:::Curtain Call:::
WRVO BUSY
BEHIND SCENES OF UPCOMING PRODUCTION
An ongoing behind-the-scenes series on public
radio station WRVO tunes into SUNY Oswego’s
development of an original multimedia production,
“Lost in a Viral Paradise.”
A collaboration between students and faculty from
Oswego’s art, music and theatre departments
with Squonk Opera, the project will culminate
with performances in Tyler Hall’s Waterman
Theatre starting March 2.
Producer Mark Lavonier of the WRVO stations, a
National Public Radio affiliate based at SUNY
Oswego, has been creating and hosting a series
of...MORE
:::Helping Hand:::
SHAFER
CONTINUES TO EDUCATE WITH GIFT
Ed Shafer ’70
has spent his entire career educating young people.
So for him, it was a logical step to donate $10,000
to endow a scholarship for education majors at
Oswego.
Shafer is the executive director of Pathfinder
Village, which serves 80 Down syndrome children
and adults. It’s modeled after a little
New England village and sits in a rural area between
Utica and Cooperstown.
“I know every story,” he says. “I’ve
got 80 people I’m responsible for and they’re
all interesting and fun.”
Shafer joined Pathfinder after a 30-year career
in education, which began at...MORE
:::Dining in Style:::
FROM
VINTAGE TO MODERN, LAKESIDE GETS NEW LOOK
After more than five years of planning, Lakeside
Dining Hall is being upgraded and restored from
its original 1960s vintage to a modern, culturally
diverse facility to serve hundreds more of Oswego’s
students.
Director of Resident Dining Craig Traub and his
Auxiliary Services staff are looking forward to
the completion of the new facility, as it will
offer students a whole new dining experience.
“The servery will be very different in that
it will be stations,” Traub said.
Compared to the current dining halls on campus
that operate on a...MORE
:::Wild Card:::
TWO WRESTLERS
QUALIFY FOR NCAAS
The Oswego State wrestling team had two wrestlers
qualify for the NCAA Tournament via wild-card
selection, following the completion of the Empire
Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships.
The tournament was held Feb. 17 at Ithaca College.
Jake Taylor ’07
finished second in the heavyweight class, and
Derrick Smith ’09
was third in the 141-pound weight class. Both
were wild-card picks for the NCAAs and will compete
in the NCAA Division III Championships March 2
and 3 in Dubuque, Iowa.
Taylor was the top-seeded heavyweight and pinned
Micah Vore of RIT in the...MORE
:::Swim to Success:::
TEAM
SUCCESS LEADS TO INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION
The Oswego State women's swimming and diving team
won its third straight SUNYAC Championship and
had seven student-athletes named to the All-SUNYAC
Swimming and Diving teams. Oswego State also had
five honorees on the men's all-conference teams
including the Outstanding Male Swimmer and Outstanding
Male Diver of the year. Oswego State Head Coach
Kami Gardner was named Women's Coach of the Year
for the seventh year in a row.
For the Laker women, Leslie
Simrell ’07, Patricia
Connolly ’07 and Meredith
Thomas ’09 were on the first team.
Simrell won the 1,650 free and was also honored
with the Grace Mowatt Award, which is presented
to a female swimmer or diver for outstanding athletic
and...MORE
:::Welcome Back:::
MAKE NEW
MEMORIES WITH OLD FRIENDS AT REUNION
Don’t miss the fun! Reunion 2007 is just
around the corner – June 8 to 10. Reunion
class volunteers have been hard at work planning
events for classes and mini-reunion groups! For
the most up-to-date information on Reunion 2007
check
out a tentative schedule of events, accommodation
information, mini-reunion schedules and much more.
Along with the Reunion events, there are many
exciting new building renovation projects for
you to see on campus. Alumni can stay in the newly
renovated —and air-conditioned— Johnson
Hall. Check out the new communication studies
studios in Lanigan Hall, our state-of-the-art
School of Business in Rich Hall and WRVO’s
new location in...MORE
:::Upcoming Events:::
MARK
YOUR CALENDARS FOR MARCH ALUMNI EVENTS
Oswego graduates will have the opportunity to
gather with fellow SUNY alumni at several special
events this March.
RSVP dates are approaching, but it’s not
too late to register
for the Charlotte, N.C., All-SUNY Alumni Reception
Tuesday, March 13.
Also, available for immediate registration
is the Boynton Beach reception. Join Vice President
Kerry Casey Dorsey ’81
and Alumni Director Betsy Oberst Wednesday, March
14. Florida alumni and friends are invited to
attend a gathering at...MORE
:::Information Age:::
EXPLORE
THE TRANSFORMATION OF NEW MEDIA ON SOCIETY
As part of the State University of New York’s
Conversation in the Disciplines program, the Center
for Communication and Information Technology at
SUNY Oswego will host a conference March 30 and
31 titled, “At the Intersection: A Conversation
Between Art and Science on Information Visualization.”
The conference will bring together researchers
and artists from the fields of art, graphic design,
human computer interaction, information science,
technology and other related fields working with
interactive integrated media design to stimulate
discussion centered on how digital imaging technology
has transformed the ways to communicate information
visually.
Advances and breakthroughs in computer graphics
have made...MORE
:::Member Benefits:::
ALUMNI SAVE WITH LIBERTY MUTUAL
Since 1999, the Oswego Alumni Association has
endorsed Liberty Mutual’s Group Savings
Plus® program, and the response from members
has been tremendous. Oswego alumni greatly value
Liberty Mutual’s competitive, discounted
rates, and exceptional service and claims handling.
SUNY Oswego alumni receive an additional 10 percent
discount on car insurance and 5 percent on home
or renters insurance*. That’s a $100 savings
on your car insurance alone, if you’re paying
an average premium of $1,000 per vehicle (or more
in New York!). Auto policyholders also can receive...MORE |
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