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Fantasy writer gets realHeartbleed computer bug compromises privacy

A critical hole was found in the coding of the Internet’s iron wall, potentially causing security breaches for millions of websites.

This hole has been named the Heart-bleed bug and affects websites using OpenSSL to protect their encrypted data like passwords and other crucial informa-tion users enter. OpenSSL is an open-source toolkit that implements secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols, according to the OpenSSL web-site. The heartbeat portion of the SSL keeps a connection alive for a short period of time after the connection is closed. The plan be-hind this is for one party to be able to tell if another party is still connected or not.

Michale Pisa, associate director of in-frastructure for Campus Technology Ser-vices, said that the school has made the proper steps to secure their servers.

“We’ve identified and patched four boxes and expect minimal impact [from the bug],” Pisa said. He said that by 7 p.m. Thursday night all campus systems should be updated.

Heartbleed’s impact

A list of the top 10,000 websites were scanned for vulnerability on Tuesday. This scan, conducted by GitHub user Mustafa Al-Bassam, revealed that 5,683 websites had no SSL, 630 websites were found to be vulnerable and 3,687 were found to not be vulnerable. Among those 630 were Yahoo.com, Weather.gov and RollingStone.com. Sites like Google.com, Facebook.com, YouTube.com, and Twitter.com were not vulnerable at the time of the scan. These websites either fixed the issue before the public found out or have since patched the bug.

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Bruce Coville, best-selling author, stepped away from his usual writing persona during his Quest day speech on Wednesday to discuss reality and the influence an individual can have each day.

“It’s a great honor,” Coville, a 1973 gradu-ate of Oswego State, said. “I’m a fantasy writer but in my wildest dreams it didn’t occur to me that I would come in this position, given hon-ors like this. It’s a wonderful surprise.”

Coville has written 102 books for children and young adults in his career, but for his speech, he turned the focus away from his works. Coville, in his speech titled “Ripples

Become Waves: How What You Do Now May Mean More Than You Can Guess,” instead fo-cused on how each person can do something in life to make an impact.

“I have found that one of the reason I think my speeches work is because I try to talk straight from the heart and sometimes I’m willing to do what some might call ‘sap-py,’” Coville said. “My wife heard me speak once and said, ‘your mother got her wish. You’re a preacher.’”

One of the first bits of advice Coville shared was that the job of each person is to “keep kick-ing those doors open saying, ‘I can do this.’”

He spoke of a professor he had while at-tending Oswego State named Helen Buckley Simkewicz and how she gave him one of the greatest gifts he has every received by believing

in him.From there, Coville gave the audience a

list of 12 pieces of “off the wall” advice, rang-ing from sillier things such as “marry rich” to more serious pieces such as “don’t be afraid to show your heart” and “embrace the unfin-ished chord.”

Coville captivated the audience with his passion for what he was saying as well as with the humor he added to a speech on a more thoughtful topic. He had the nearly-filled Campus Center auditorium fully en-grossed with what he was saying right down to his final words, “may you cherish your work so when you go to heaven you don’t see a difference.”

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Children’s author Bruce Coville, a 1973 graduate, spoke about how he found success in his Quest keynote speech in the Campus Center Auditorium.

Despite recent spate of shutdowns, nuclear facilities deemed safe by NRC

CTS advises students on avoiding phishing scams

Children’s writer Bruce Coville gives life advice in Quest keynote speech

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Early this semester, Oswego State stu-dents were targeted in an online phishing scam. The scammers posed as Campus Technology Services employees, sending an email to an undisclosed number of stu-dents.

The well-presented email stated the recipient’s Lakernet account had been ac-cessed by a third-party. Recipients were asked to provide their Lakernet login infor-mation through a link included in the email, allegedly to restore full-access to their ac-count. The message warned the recipient’s account would be suspended or deactivat-ed if they did not comply within 48 hours.

The email was convincing and the mes-sage-format appeared authentic. However, the urgency and spontaneity of the email prompted many suspicious students to con-tact CTS.

After thoroughly analyzing the email, CTS confirmed it was a phishing scam. Stu-dents who gave their Lakernet login infor-mation were told to change their username and password immediately.

Fortunately, CTS says any acquired Lakernet account information would be used to gather a mailing list for spam, which, although irritating, is harmless in most cases.

On the other hand, more severe phish-ing scams seeking personal and financial in-formation could result in fraud or identity

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Nine Mile Point, seen from the campus lake shore.

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The commercial nuclear reactor in-dustry safety in the United States im-proved overall in 2013, according to an annual report by the Union of Con-cerned Scientists, despite 10 incidents that occurred throughout the country.

The report states that these inci-dents mainly show inconsistent safety enforcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and lapses at the nation’s commercial reactors. The NRC is a third-party organization set up by the federal government under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 that regulates and ensures safety measures at all nuclear power

plants in the U.S.“We have resident inspectors at all

of the operating nuclear power plants,” NRC Public Affairs Officer Neil Sheehan said. “They are assigned to those plants full time and they serve as our eyes and ears at the plants. They walk the plants everyday.”

There are three nuclear facilities with-in six miles of the city of Oswego, with the two-unit nuclear power plant Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, in Scriba being the closest. Nine Mile Point is operated by CENG, which is a subsidiary of the en-ergy corporation Exelon. CENG owns all of Unit One and 82 percent of Unit Two, while Long Island Power Authority owns the remaining 18 percent, according to the

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Noelle Crocetti, 21, was arrested on April 6 at 1:17 a.m. at the corner of West Second Street and West Bridge Street for an open container violation. Crocetti was released on an appearance ticket.

Michael Webber, 33, was arrested on April 5 at 6:23 p.m. at 341 State Rt. 104 for petit larceny. Webber was released on $250 bail.

Ralph Parsons, 35, was arrested on April 5 at 1:59 a.m. at the corner of East Albany Street and East Third Street for driving while intoxicated.

Mathew McIntosh, 23, was arrested on April 4 at 4:35 p.m. at 169 W. Second St. on the execution of a bench warrant. Mc-Intosh was released on $100 bail.

Kenneth Williams III, 27, was arrested on April 4 at 1:59 p.m. at the corner of State Route 481 and South First Street for possession of a narcotic drug with intent to sell.

Kalee Polisse, 29, was arrested on April 4 at 1:59 p.m. at the corner of State Route 481 and South First Street for possession of a narcotic drug with intent to sell.

Pedro Moreno Jr., 30, was arrested on April 4 at 1:59 p.m. at 7300 St. Route 104 on the execution of an arrest warrant.

Tonya Kelsey, 47, was arrested on April 4 at 2:13 a.m. at the corner of East 10th Street and East Utica Street for driv-ing while intoxicated.

Scott Seiter, 21, was arrested on April 4 at 12:36 a.m. at the Water Street park-ing lot for public urination. Seiter was re-leased on an appearance ticket.

Courtney Cirello, 18, was arrested on April 3 at 11:07 a.m. at 244 Syracuse Ave. for robbery and conspiracy.

Michael Castiglia, 24, was arrested on April 3 at 9:08 a.m. at the corner of Bunner Street and Robinson Street for aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

Ryan Gibbs, 24, was arrested on April 3 at 2:01 a.m. at the corner of West Utica Street and Liberty Street for driving while intoxicated.

Angel Endres, 36, was arrested on April 2 at 5:04 p.m. at 13 Lincoln Ave. for endangering the welfare of a child less than 17 years of age.

Vernell Wilson, 69, was arrested on April 2 at 1:59 p.m. at 169 W. Second St. for criminal posession of stolen property.

Keep kicking those doors open saying, ‘I can do this.’”

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The AgendaOur weekly list of what to do in Oswego

Go to the softball game versus Geneseo on Saturday at 12 p.m. at Laker Softball Field.

Check out “Spring Fling,” coordinated by Vega, the women’s honor society on Sunday at 12 p.m. at the

activity court in Campus Center.

Attend the men’s lacrosse game as they take on Elmira on Monday at 4 p.m. at the South

Athletic Field.

Go see an artist talk by Edward Mayer, an installation artist on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the

Campus Center room 132.

- Bruce Coville, Oswego State class of ‘73 and Quest keynote speaker

See the discussion “Can Silicon Valley Save the World?” by Charles Kenney from the Center for Global Development on Wednesday at 4:35 in

Campus Center room 132.

Attend the sceening of the documentary “Tapped” on the bottled water industry and climate change

on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Park Hall.

Check out the screening of the 1999 film, “Todo Seobre Mu Madre” directed by Pedro Almodovar on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Campus Center room 132.

PRSSA asks students ‘What’s Next?’

Registrar’s office, students give quick tips for registration

Chloé LarsenStaff [email protected]

The Registrar’s Office at Oswego State is preparing for the fall 2014 registration season and students are encouraged to start preparing for it.

Come the registration period which began on Monday, students attempting to register for classes could encounter many roadblocks such as prerequisite errors, restrictions and closed courses. Here are some helpful tips to make sure registra-tion goes as smoothly as possible.

Two different schedules.

Registration Supervisor Casey Walpole has been helping students handle registration for over 30 years. She said a common problem she sees is students not being prepared.

“I always tell students to make their sched-ule well ahead of time, and make an alternate schedule as well so you have a backup if some classes don’t work out,” Walpole said.

Even if a single class on a schedule closes, it could throw off a student’s entire plan for next semester. A second schedule allows a better chance of getting into all the necessary classes.

Check for holds.

Holds that prevent registration can be placed on students’ accounts for multiple reasons, and students may not even know they have one.

Holds may be placed on students due to unpaid tuition bills or fees, unpaid parking tickets or overdue library books.

To check for holds, look under the registration tab on myOswego and click on “view holds.”

If you plan to change your major, do so before registration.

Some classes are limited to students with specific majors. To avoid any restric-tions, complete a change of major/minor form which can be found in the academic departments and the Registrar’s Office. Once filled out, return it to 301 Culkin Hall.

Check for prerequisites on each class you plan to take.

“Look on Course Availability and make sure that nothing will prevent you from getting into your classes on the first try,” Walpole said.

Many classes have certain requirements that students must fulfill before they can take them. Some require students to get the

permission of the instructor, while others re-quire them to have upper-division standing. It’s common for advanced classes to have a lower-level class as a prerequisite to prepare students for more challenging work.

Move fast.

Oswego State student Sarah Brown is a sophomore and has been through the pro-cess of registering for classes multiple times.

“My second semester freshman year, I waited a while to register because I was think-ing about changing my major,” Brown said. “Once I finally decided to register, a lot of the classes I wanted to take were full.”

Advanced registration continues through April 25. The date students register depends on how many credits they have, with seniors getting the first pick of classes. Students can look on myOswego under the registration tab and click “check your regis-tration status” to find the specific date and time they are eligible to register.

The Registrar’s Office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to help all students that need assistance. The office can be reached by calling 315-312-2136 during these hours, or by emailing [email protected].

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Public relations majors came together Mon-day in Lanigan Hall to hear from professionals in the field.

The theme of this year’s event, called “What’s Next” and run by the Public Relations Society of America, was themed “Finding your Niche in the PR Puzzle.” Speakers addressed how they found their place in the professional world and what kind of skills are needed to work in the field.

PRSSA is the Oswego State chapter of the na-tional organization, where students learn about public relations and practice public relations skills, as well as meet public relations professionals.

Godnick said this year’s topic was chosen “since PR is such a diverse profession that is need-ed in every kind of organization from consumer goods producers to government agencies.”

“In the past, discussions have been geared toward interviewing skills and applying for jobs,” Godnick said.

The speakers for this event consisted of Leila Karkia, corporate social responsibility and events coordinator at O’Brien & Gere; Michael McDougall, president of McDougall Communications; Crystal Smith, director of integrated media for public rela-tions at Strategic Communication; and Sara Wal-lace, Director of Marketing at Destiny USA.

The speakers gave suggestions about both undergraduate and graduate school, and ex-plained that it is not necessary for a prospective employee to have background in public relations or communications to get a position in that field. Many times, those hired are experienced in a wide range of fields.

McDougall also explained that sometimes employees can wait a few years to go to graduate school to ensure that students get masters in the field that you will be working in. Smith added that companies will sometimes even pay for an employee to get their master’s while working for the company, which is a win-win situation because employers may have more sympathy while assigning workloads, plus the student ben-efits from a free extended education.

The panel discussion was followed by a net-working session and refreshments where the

audience was able to interact with the speakers.The majority of students who attended this

event were either public relations or communica-tions majors who said they were there were great networking opportunities. The attendees had very positive reactions to the event, and were glad that they were able to go.

“I learned a lot of interesting things about PR and communications because they do go hand in hand,” said Kate Newman, a communications major. “It was really interesting and exciting to explore different parts of communications that I wasn’t aware of.”

Kaylee May, a PR major and member of PRSSA explained that she came for the “good networking,” and was not disappointed.

PRSSA leaders said they are looking to host more events, including future “What’s Next” networking sessions.

Chloé Larsen | The OswegonianThe panel at the PRSSA event spoke about the various positions withing field of public relations and gave advice on how to break into the industry.

The Student Association senate met again Tuesday for the 49th Legislative Session.

Neely Laufer, vice president of SA, led her second senate session of the term. There were 14 senators present, one a new addition to the senate.

The minutes and agenda were quickly approved to begin the meeting. There were no guests to the senate and no one to make public comment.

President Tucker Sholtes spoke to the senate and began with an apology for not being present the week prior. He was out of town at a competition for ENACTUS. Sholtes handed out information on SA director positions as he will be adding some new ones

such as chief of staff. While he has not finalized the positions, he wanted the senate to have an idea what he is looking for. He also encouraged senators to set up times to meet with him for 30 minutes so he could get to know them.

Laufer discussed attending SUNY

SA in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She told the senate about her experience and how at one point the voting members debated whether to hold a vote in or-der to vote on whether to end the meet-ing. She noted that Oswego State’s SA has more senators than most. She said that they would most likely return in the fall because they learned a lot dur-ing their trip.

Hassan Al-Shareffi, the director of fi-nance, said he has found three quality candidates to replace him for next year. He said he will have the candidates shad-ow him to see how they handle some of the responsibilities of director of finance. However, the final decision is left up to Sholtes as to who takes over the role. Al-Shareffi said he hopes to have a bud-get proposal to show the senate soon to have it finalized. He said he will send the budget to the senators in a spreadsheet for them to review before the meeting where it’s discussed. He plans to have everything budget-related handed in by Friday. Al-Shareffi also said to the senate that after things are finalized, they can make changes, possibly provide some new computers for executive offices and

others in The Point. Senators also will be provided a free ticket to the SAPB spring concert if they want to attend. Laufer also said Oswego State could possibly host SUNY SA next year.

There were no committee reports this week.

Rules and Judiciary have decided to meet biweekly as stated in the SA code and have moved the meeting time to 3 p.m. on Thursday in Campus Center room 137. There is still continued stress on recruiting two more senators to join the senate so they can meet the neces-sary quorum and to have more club in-volvement with SA.

The senate had one bill to review

at the meeting. The bill was to fund the event titled Speak up and Slam to be hosted in Lake Effect Cafe later this month. Ethan Gormley was represent-ing the event organizers who were ask-ing for $212.94, which will come out of the joint organization fund. The event will showcase a mixture of slam poetry, short fiction and other literary styles. Gormley said that the event has the full backing of the Creative Writing, English and Cinema and Screen Studies depart-ments. Al-Shareffi supported the event to be funded in full by SA, something he said he rarely does. The bill passed unanimously 14-0-0.

The next SA senate meeting will be held on Tuesday in 102 Lanigan at 6 p.m.

Chloé Larsen | The OswegonianMembers of PRSSA and the panel from the discussion pose together after the event in Lanigan Hall.

Speakers provide insight into the future of communications, PR

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Quest Day 2014

Students listen to Bruce Coville in the Campus Center Auditorium on Quest day. Coville was the keynote speaker for the day-long symposium.

War of 1812 Symposium held to remember historic battleWeekend-long event celebrates, brings attention to second war for independence

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A presenter at the War of 1812 Symposium, put on by the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center, displays items that soldiers would have packed with them during the war.

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Zach Roberts presents “Eye of the Ukrainian Storm” on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. He was sponsored by Cristina Dragomir of the political science department.

From left to right, President of SA Tucker Sholtes, Chief Justice of SA Luke Carbonaro, President Emeritus Anthony Smith, Vice President Neely Laufer and SA Adviser Michael Paestella pose for a photo outside The Point after reenacting a swear-in ceremony.

Jamie Garcia presented her poster titled “Play Therapy: Effective Treatment for Children Suffering from Trauma” from HDV 380: Global Sports and Play.

Ryan Kiely presents “The History and Implementation of Basketball’s Triangle Offense” in Campus Center room 225 for the history and honors programs.

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Chad Cook, senior and creative writing major at Oswego State, spent a month and half working on a twelve-page research paper and presentation for a vigorous panel of scholars. Cook wasn’t the only student who stood before the panel of his-torians with presentations on the War of 1812. Mary Kate Clerkin, senior history major and Megan Winnick, senior history and anthropology majors, also brought their pieces to the conference.

to discuss topic ideas and what type of sources they would need to use. The stu-dents plunged right into the research from there. This was Weyhing’s first year of in-volvement in the symposium. It’s only his second year teaching at Oswego State.

“The important thing we got going here is that Paul and I will be working toward this in the future and getting more students involved in the fort and make sure we keep getting more and more students working over the fort in related events,” Weyhing said.

The lecture/conference room was filled with those interested in learning about the significance of the War of 1812, and how Oswego and Lake Ontario played a sig-nificant role in the war. Lear and Weyhing arranged for free entrance for students. Weyhing’s own research and teaching revolves around the early region of the Great Lakes and the colonial settlements during the time of 1812.

Cook wrote his paper on the Battle of the Iroquois during 1812. He did a great deal of research tracking the influence of the Iro-quois all throughout different parts of the northeast and tells the grand story of how the American forces had to transport their supplies along the shores of Lake Ontario.

The symposium was set up with booths around the outside, showing off different artifacts. There was a stage on which his-torians took turns presenting their specific topics. One booth was set up with replicas of common items that a soldier might carry on his person, like a razor, picture of a loved one or a book. Other artifacts included a showing of weaponry and smoking items.

One speaker, Deborah Trupin, was the only non-historian to attend the confer-ence, but she was happy to talk about the two most important artifacts. Trupin is a textile conserver. She conserved two of our nations’ flags, the 1809 Fort Niagara Gar-rison flag, which had been captured by the British in December 1813, as well as “Don’t Give Up The Ship,” a flag flown on the USS Lawrence during the 1813, Battle

The Lake Ontario Event and Confer-ence Center held a three-day event called “The Oswego War of 1812 Symposium,” which brought historians from through-out the region to share their knowledge. Friday night the Oswego State students presented their research to the panel.

“I think what I was most impressed by was the papers were judged by a panel of very important scholars. They really grilled the students and asked them some tough questions about their research,” said Richard Weyhing, the students’ adviser and coordi-nating assistant professor. “In such a short period of time, they put together papers that

were a success and that stood out to critiques by visiting scholars.”

Weyhing is a history professor, with a concentration in Early America, Native American history, comparative history of European empires and colonies in the ear-ly modern Atlantic world. Paul Lear, Su-perintendant of Fort Ontario State historic site in Oswego, reached out to Weyhing with a request for student presentations. This is the fourth year the symposium has been held, but the first year that Lear re-quested student presenters.

Weyhing met with Cook, Clerkin and Winnick in the middle of the semester

of Lake Erie. Trupin walked the audience through the particular and highly special-ized steps that were necessary to conserve these flags. The flag from Niagra Garrison had actually been saved from a burning building, making it even more difficult to revamp without endangering the original piece. This flag is 24 feet by 28 feet, and so heavy it takes a group of people to move it from one room to the next.

Following Trupin was Keith A. Herka-lo, who presented “British plans to End the War.” Herkalo began by explaining why the war broke out to begin with. He was able to show the audience the root of the war, clearing up any question an audience member might have had. Herkalo explained his views on how and why troops acted the way they did, and showed letters and evidence to support his beliefs in the intentions of American war leaders from 1812.

“I think it’s fun, but I’m a history nerd,” Cook said. “Others are dressed and they hate it. Cook also said that his personal aca-demic goal is to expand his paper and po-tentially publish it for future symposiums.

“I’m not a historian by trade, but there’s a lot I can learn from them [the judges],” Cook said.

Consequently, historians and non-his-torians were all able to take away some-thing from the symposium that really hits home, especially for those who live in Os-wego and other parts of the region.

“It’s a packed house,” Lear said. “We have the best speakers in the world on the War of 1812. We have people from Canada, Maryland, Vermont and about 40 students.”

Most educators at the symposium are concerned with getting students involved in the history of Oswego.

“It was a great start regarding the long ongoing relationship between fort Ontario and Oswego,” Weyhing said. “We’re going to get more projects to enlighten students and bring out their intellectual horizons.”


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Students told to look out for any email that asks for private informationMisspellings, oddly-worded sentences also telltale signs of “phishy” email, according to CTSPHISHING from COVER

theft, a major problem for misled recipients who give any requested information.

The recent scam was not a one-time occurrence. Phishing scams and similar fraud-related cases have been reported on campus in the past.

CTS online security and Google Apps — which hosts Oswego State’s email ac-counts through Gmail — maintains a pow-erful security network which blocks out any spam, phishing scams and other fraudulent messages before they’re delivered to an email’s inbox. However, the network is con-stantly bombarded with a large volume of these messages and a few manage to break through now-and-then.

If one receives a suspicious email, one should take several steps to check its au-thenticity. A message containing multiple spelling mistakes, grammar issues, typos and inaccurate information are all explicit red flags. However, scammers’ messages of-ten seem authentic and convincing, contain-ing little or none of these errors. These mes-sages will typically include a link, which often reveal the message as phony.

“If you put your cursor over the link, it will display a bogus web address,” Ni-cole Decker, assistant director for user support at CTS said.

“Emails asking to provide a username and password usually include links to web-sites, and the links may look legitimate,” Decker said. “However the links will often lead to a bogus website.”

Even if the scam seems foolproof, all phishing scams of this kind contain one dead giveaway.

“CTS and any legitimate company is not going to ask for passwords and other impor-tant information,” Decker said.

Decker advises students to remain on-guard if an email asks for information of any sort.

“Anything asking for passwords, user-names or any personal information, be

highly suspicious. Then call the help desk to verify the email, so CTS can determine whether it is phishing scam,” Decker said.

When a scam has been identified, stu-dents can then report the scam using Gmail’s report phishing tool. Google reviews any scam threat, and has the resources to shut-down the scam and track-down the source.

While the campus security network does a good job blocking out large volumes of scams, CTS offers several resources to stu-dents for staying up to date on any recent scams, in addition to instructing how to spot scams and how to protect important information online. In the rare event a scam breaks through the security network, these

resources are valuable tools. Students can keep up to date on any

recent phishing scams through the CTS Facebook page. Pictures of the scam will be posted on the page’s timeline, so stu-dents know what to look out for. The most-recent scam can be viewed on the page and is dated Feb. 20.

Students can also receive valuable on-line-security instruction through the CTS On-Demand training page, located on the school’s website. Under LakerApps-Gmail on the on-demand page, students can watch a training video titled, “Detecting and Re-porting Spam and Phishing with LakerApps Gmail.” The 21-minute long video includes examples of spam and phishing scams, in-cluding instruction on how to detect them.

“It’s important for everybody to know how to detect these issues instead of relying solely on CTS,” senior Erick Towers said. “If students were more knowledgeable it would take pressure off CTS.”

While these resources can teach stu-dents how to detect scams, students say remaining cautious with personal infor-mation online goes hand-in-hand with on-line security training.

“Students should have the common knowledge not to just give out any per-sonal information,” Towers said. “How-ever they cannot be held fully accountable if they are not fully educated on how to detect fraudulent messages.”

“It’s a matter that needs to be taught, be-cause you can’t just assume that every stu-dent knows how to detect Internet fraud,” junior Joe Spataro said. “But most of the time I rely on the fact that if it’s to good to be true it probably is.”

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Web server developers Apache and ginx are most known for their use of OpenSSL. A Netcraft survey for April 2014 shows that 66 percent of all active websites use these servers. A simple way to find out if a website has fixed the bug is through the Heartbleed test, found at filippo.io/heartbleed. Once at this page, users can search the website in question and it will say if that site is vulnerable or not. Going even further, LastPass.com has released a similar service, which shows what type of SSL is being used by the server in question.

When run through the LastPass Heartbleed checker, Oswego.edu SSL certificate shows as dating back to Aug. 2, 2013. Since this is from be-fore the Heartbleed bug was made known pub-licly the website could have been compromised. However, login pages for Angel and MyOswego have come up with results showing they are not vulnerable. Pisa said the Oswego.edu site is in-cluded in the security updates being applied to campus systems, but impacts for students run beyond campus.

“There’s an impact overall,” Pisa said. “There’s potential significant impact anywhere in your life.”

The problem, according to Visiting As-sistant Professor Gary Ritzenthaler, is for those users who utilize the same password for multiple accounts.

“If someone managed to get hold of a pass-word, one of the more common methods of iden-tity theft is if you find one password that person uses it for everything,” Ritzenthaler said. “Let’s say you find a Gmail password, you change the Gmail password so they can’t get in again, look through all their email to find out what else you can find you about them and then start trying that password plus whatever else you know on more important sites.”

Ritzenthaler compared the security prob-lem to being in a hospital during an outbreak of a virus.

“Right now you’re walking through a hos-pital ward where everyone is sick,” Ritzenthaler said. “Are you going to get sick? You don’t really know until you do. You do as if you were walking through a hospital ward, you be careful what you do and then watch for signs of being sick.”

Discovery of the bugThe Heartbleed bug was first found by a

team at Codenomicon along with a member from Google’s security team. The bug was then report-ed to the National Cyber Security Center Finland to let OpenSSL know about the security failure. Codenomicon’s website states the company “le-verages its in-depth understanding of infrastruc-ture, network and application protocols, flaws

and test methodology to provide a simple yet unparalleled security and robustness assurance solution.” It uses a software called DEFENSICS, which tests various systems for security issues and improves them.

According to Heartbleed.com, a website launched by Codenomicon for the announce-ment of the bug, the name comes from a bug orig-inating “in the OpenSSL’s implementation of the TLD/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520.)” The website con-tinues to explain that the error comes from a pro-gramming mistake which is allowing encrypted data flow from the server being contacted (a web-site) to the client (or person visiting the website.)

The bug came about two years ago, making the problem so large-scale and not as simple as just changing a few passwords. Since the bug has been out on the Internet, anyone could have found this information and just had not said any-thing. No one knows if this hole has been used to gather data, as there would be no evidence left behind when someone launched an attack.

Fixing the problemSince encryption codes are leaked through this

bug, each code will need to be deactivated and replaced with a new one. However, this cannot be done until a patch in the OpenSSL is released. Fortunately, a patch was released by OpenSSL on Monday, the same day the bug was announced to be an issue. Once the individual servers update their OpenSSL versions they must revoke their certificate keys, according to Heartbleed.com, which explains that once each encryption code is revoked a new one must be put in place. How-ever, they say that any data taken in the past is still vulnerable to decryption.

“The issue is if they’ve actually been compro-mised,” Ritzenthaler said. “There’s two issues, both of them have to do with identity theft. Essen-tially it’s the same way you would protect your-self against identity theft.”

To ultimately restore the users’ security, pass-words must be changed. However, these changes should not be made unless users know that the Heartbleed problem was fixed with that par-ticular website. According to MIT Technology Review, “if it had a problem and was fixed, you should change your password.”

Pisa reccomends that students change their passwords, since the problem has been around since 2012 in a covert form.

“There’s no way to track if someone has infil-trated you,” Pisa said.

Ritzenthaler suggested that students refrain from doing private things on the Internet.

“For things that require a password, try and do as little as possible and for things that have a fix, change your password,” Ritzenthaler said

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NRC. Nine Mile Point is also the second oldest running nuclear power plant in the U.S.

According to Sheehan, due to un-planned shutdowns at Nine Mile Point’s Unit One in 2013, additional oversight and inspections by the NRC will be added.

“We use inspection findings and performance indicators to guide us as far as what our level of oversight for each plant is going to be,” Sheehan said. “And so, in the case of Nine Mile Point, one of these performance indicators has to do with the number of unplanned shutdowns per 7,000 critical hours, in other words, 7,000 hours of online op-eration. So Nine Mile Point exceeded that in the third quarter of 2013.”

Sheehan also said the neighboring Fitzpatrick Nuclear Generating Sta-tion had issues with unplanned power changes and problems with the station’s power condenser. According to Shee-han, additional oversight and inspec-tion work by the NRC at the facilities are meant to help the energy companies understand these past incidents and for the NRC to assess what the companies are doing in response.

Senior Resident Inspector of the NRC, Kenneth S. Kolaczyk, who over-sees regulation at Nine Mile Point, said that there are many safety measures in place and the requirements by the NRC are regulated strictly to ensure safe nu-clear power activity.

“The NRC color-codes things at dif-ferent levels, based on importance,” said Kolaczyk. “And mostly defined is-sues at Nine Mile are considered green, which is low level.”

Kolaczyk said safety inspections in place by the NRC at Nine Mile Point include protective construction require-ments, safe design and operation stan-dards, drug and alcohol testing of plant staff and periodic oversight of the en-tire plant. Kolaczyk, referencing a prior incident in December 2013, said that the incidents posed no major threats.

“In December a plant was shutting down, some of the circulation pumps that circulate water through the reac-tor tripped offline,” Kolaczyk said. “It’s not as scary as it sounds because

the plant is actually designed to have natural circulation, so that if you don’t have pumps, water will still circulate through convection.”

Regarding these low-threat inci-dents, student residents feel the pub-lic needs to be more aware about the nuclear power activities in the area and the safety precautions residents should keep in the back of their minds.

“It’s a little freaky that so many peo-ple aren’t very informed about what happens over there, it seems so detached from our lives,” Oswego State senior Danielle Limer-Nies said. “But I mean,

it’s a nuclear plant right on our coast.”Other residents feel that public offi-

cials should make nuclear safety a more popular topic and that the information provided should be periodically dis-tributed through emails, pamphlets and possibly informative meetings.

“I feel like we should know what to do,” said city resident Leanne Cole. “Maybe just in the beginning of the year, sending out like emails, notifying people that we are so close to it and like what happens if ‘this’ happens or maybe have meetings in the beginning of the year too, so that you’re aware. Just in case.”

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Three Oswego County school districts only in state to lose funds$1.3 billion increase in state funding for public schools, includes funding for BOCES; 8.1 percent increase for Oswego School District

Three school districts in Oswego County are the only schools in Central New York that will see decreases in state aid under New York’s budget this year.

Altmar-Parish-Williamstown School Dis-trict will see a decrease of 3.6 percent in state aid, Mexico schools 2.3 percent and Hanni-bal School District will see the biggest de-crease at 5.6 percent. These figures exclude construction aid to the three schools.

“Hannibal has a lot of children spread throughout the three schools we have that deserve to receive an increase, not a decrease,” Hannibal resident and school parent Renee Dulin said. “When we lose that much in a decrease, then

other programs at our school will suffer or have to be cut out of the budget to make up for the decrease. I personally do not feel this is fair to the kids in our school system and should be revised.”

There are some faculty and communi-ty residents wondering why these three school districts are seeing decreases when by contrast, Oswego School District will see a state aid hike of 8.1 percent.

“Our school district takes a long-term focus when developing a solid financial plan,” Mexico School Board of Educa-tion member Dennis Brooks said. “One that has the ability to absorb losses in revenue, like state aid. For 2014-2015, we were anticipating a drop in aid due to our wealth-aid ratio increasing.”

According to the New York State Department of Education, the Board of

Regents adopts a state aid proposal an-nually that includes funding recommen-dations to the governor and legislature reflecting its policy goals. In the last few years, the proposal has included a major reform of a “foundation formula,” which is based on the cost of educating students in successful schools.

This has a lot to do with what is called the “gap elimination adjustment,” funds that are promised to state aid that is de-ducted to decrease the budget deficit. The proposal outlines “the financial as-sistance needed to provide an adequate basic education, so that all students at-tain proficiency on the state’s learn-ing standards and to close the achieve-ment gap for students with the greatest educational need and the least resourc-es,” according to the state aid group.

The regents’ proposal on state aid to school districts recommended a total increase in school aid of $1.3 billion for the 2014-2015 school year. This includes a $719 million transitional operating aid that adheres to the original principles of the foundation aid formula and ad-dresses the impact of several years of gap elimination adjustments. In addi-tion, the proposal includes $281 million in aid increases for reimbursement based programs, including transportation aid, building aid and BOCES aid based on ex-isting law.

“I am glad to see that our legisla-tors are moving toward reducing the gap elimination adjustment,” Hannibal Board of Education President Erin Hess said. “We also need to see a movement toward restoration of foundation aid in

the future. These are the two most press-ing issues facing our education funding system at this time. I believe that a fo-cus on these items will bring about more equal educational opportunities for our students statewide.”

It is still in question how these de-creases will exactly impact the three Oswego County schools next year and years following.

“We have prepared financially to off-set decreases in state aid to protect our educational program for 2014-2015,” Brooks said. “Should our state continue to decrease aid to school districts and/or continue with property tax cap legis-lation, it becomes increasingly difficult to balance the educational needs of our students with limited resources for the long term.”

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The Oswego State men’s lacrosse team dropped its first SUNYAC match of the season to The College at Brock-port on April 4, 8-3.

Oswego State got on the board first, just minutes into the game after an un-assisted Connor Khammar goal. The Golden Eagles evened the score with a goal from Steve Brissette and gained momentum. John Countryman gave Brockport the lead just 42 seconds later when he beat Oswego State’s goalie, freshman Wyatt Russo.

It looked as though the Golden Eagles would take their 2-1 lead into the break, but Oswego State knotted the score at 2-2 after Connor Khammar beat Brockport’s net-minder Conor Nowak with just six seconds remaining in the quarter.

Poor field conditions started to play a factor during the second quarter, cre-ating a slow and muddy playing sur-face, which slowed down the game. However, the Golden Eagles were able to retake the lead 10 minutes before the half on Countryman’s second of three goals on the night.

The second half began with Brock-port ahead 3-2 and Oswego State came out strong. The Lakers managed to even the score at 3-3 at the 7:54 second mark of the third period on a high shot from Matt Palmer, with the lone assist going to Khammar.

With the score even, the game was ripe for Oswego State’s taking, but the Lakers struggled to put the ball in the net despite finding several good looks. Oswego State managed to rattle off 10 shots after scoring its third goal, but could not tack on another goal.

Meanwhile, the Golden Eagles added five more goals, four of which came in the final quarter. Justin Cook recorded the quarter ’s first two goals before Coun-tryman padded the Golden Eagles’ lead after adding his third and final goal of the game.

Riley Austin tallied Brockport’s fourth goal of the period and eighth goal of the game, allowing the Golden Eagles to secure the win.

Despite the loss, the Lakers had a slight statistical advantage over the Golden Eagles in offensive categories, registering more shots, groundballs and face-offs. However, Brockport held a strong defensive advantage, almost dou-bling the Lakers in clears and forcing more turnovers. This advantage in pos-session showed in the goal column at the end of the game.

The Lakers were scheduled to have its second SUNYAC bout on April 9 against SUNY Cortland, but the game was can-celed at the last minute, with official re-ports citing Oswego State’s sloppy field conditions as the reason behind the can-cellation. The game has been resched-uled for Thursday, April 10 and will be played in Cortland.

Oswego State will look to keep up with conference teams with SUNYAC ac-tion underway.

Cortland and SUNY Oneonta both hold a 2-0 record in league play and sit atop the conference standings. Cortland, the defending SUNYAC champion, has played to an 8-3 overall record this sea-son, more often than not outscoring their opponents by large margins.

In Cortland’s second division game against SUNY Plattsburgh, the Red Drag-ons survived a closely contested game, winning by just one goal against their

SUNYAC rival, giving testament to the skill level of the teams in the conference this season.

Plattsburgh, SUNY Geneseo and Brockport are all 1-1 in the division, while SUNY Potsdam and Oswego are both 0-1 in conference play this season.

Other than the Brockport game, the Lakers have not faced another SUNYAC team and with spurts of strong and decisive play so far this season, there is much to be anticipated from the Oswego State squad.

The Lakers have shown an offensive prowess so far this season, tallying 77 goals on the year. Junior Nick Giampaolo leads the team with 14 goals and three assists for 17 total points.

Freshman Brady Hoose, younger brother of junior captain Cody Hoose, has nine goals and 12 points in his first year at Oswego State and seems to have found his place on the starting attack line for the Lakers.

Sophomore Troy Crevier has a 64 per-cent face-off win percentage this season with a demanding presence on the draw.

While Oswego State has progressed this season, the team, like any other, has had to deal with its fair share of injuries. Starting long stick midfielders Brian Slat-tery and Mike Galka sustained season-ending injuries right at the start of play this year, leaving a weaker transition presence for the team.

Underclassmen, including Luke Bender, have stepped up immensely thus far. Goal-tender Wyatt Russo has also been a shining

example of this as well, as the freshman has stepped in on short notice for in-jured senior net-minder Bryan Martin.

Russo holds a 4-3 record with a .602 save percentage and 80 saves so far this season.

The Lakers will play four of their remaining seven games on the road, with the only home conference game set for April 23 against SUNY Potsdam. Oswego State has an up-hill challenge after suffering an early SUNYAC loss to the Golden Eagles.

The Lakers’ next home game is April 14 against Elmira College, which comes two days before a home bout with SUNY Canton. Faceoffs for both games are set for 4 p.m. on the South Athletic Field, next to the Romney Field House.

Most of the games during the sec-ond half of the season carry a higher win value, however, as five of the seven contests are SUNYAC matchups start-ing versus Cortland on Thursday. Win-ning conference games gives teams a better chance to climb the conference ladder as the postseason is starting to enter the picture. This year’s SUNYAC tournament has been the team’s aspira-tion since the beginning of the season, especially after barely missing out on a bid for the playoffs last year.

Oswego State will look to continue its quest toward the SUNYAC tourna-ment when the squad takes the field in Plattsburgh on Saturday. The game is slated to begin at 1 p.m.

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Oswego State preps for OneontaBaseball ready for three-game series at Red Dragons after taking 2 of 3 from New Paltz

Starting this Friday, the Oswego State baseball team will travel to SUNY Oneonta for a three-game series against the Red Dragons.

The Lakers will look to take advantage of this set with the Red Dragons, who are cur-rently last in the SUNYAC standings after sporting an 8-14 overall record (3-1 in-confer-ence) through their first 20 games.

Oswego State, meanwhile, will look to continue its climb up the rankings, as their 12-5 (3-3 in-conference) record currently puts them behind just SUNY Cortland and The College at Brockport in the SUNYAC.

The two teams are both coming off series wins against SUNYAC opponents. The Lakers took two of three from SUNY New Paltz and the Red Dragons did the same against SUNY Plattsburgh last weekend.

The Lakers nearly came away with a sweep of the Hawks at Loren Campbell Me-morial Field and would have done so if not for a four-run seventh inning for New Paltz in the second game of the April 5 doubleheader.

The first game of the doubleheader, how-ever, saw a terrific pitching performance from junior Brendyn Karinchak who tossed a com-plete-game shutout (nine innings) en route to a 4-0 victory. Karinchak’s performance led to him being named Oswego State Athlete of the

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for Oswego State, which rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Hawks, 7-6.

Trailing 6-4 heading to the ninth, junior John Rauseo tied the game with a two-run home run. After loading the bases, Oswego State freshman Eric Hamilton drove home the winning run, plating Mike McMullen to give the Lakers the victory.

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the series, the Lakers also wreaked havoc on the base paths throughout, stealing nine bases against New Paltz.

Oswego State may look to continue its suc-cess on the base paths this coming series, as the Red Dragons have allowed more stolen bases (62) than any other SUNYAC team.

Senior Scott Buniak has been on fire lately, hitting .415 on the season, good for second in the league, as well as swiping 12 bases.

Oneonta’s clear weakness all season long has been its pitching staff, which has sported a 7.14 team ERA thus far, giving the Red Dragons the worst mark in the conference.

Oswego State, which is hitting .305 as a team, will look to capitalize on Oneonta’s poor pitching heading into the series.

The biggest upcoming challenge for the Lakers will likely be slowing down the heart of Oneonta’s batting order. Matt Mastroianni (.370), Casey Kies (.361), and Christopher Or-lando (.342) have done a ton of damage with the bat so far this season for the Red Dragons.

Orlando, the Red Dragons’ shortstop, was recently named the SUNYAC Baseball Player of the Week after hitting .556 and driving in 14 runs last week. The Lakers pitching staff will look to cool down Orlando and the rest of the Red Dragons’ bats in order to continue to build on their 10-4 record.

The two teams are scheduled to play at 3 p.m. on Friday before playing a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon.

5: The baseball team has just five home games remaining on the season. The Lakers have yet to play a game in Oswego.

7: A total of seven play-ers on the men’s lacrosse team attended West Genesee High School in Syracuse.

8.89: The women’s lacrosse team is averaging 8.89 goals per game this season, which is the lowest average in the SUNYAC.

1:07: Junior men’s track and field captain Nick Montesano shaved 1:07 off his previous personal record in the 10,000-meter run at the Rochester Alumni Invitational this past weekend.

42: The baseball team has not played a home game this season, having gone 42 days without playing in front of a home crowd at Laker Baseball Field.

1: Junior Alexandra McKay has the softball team’s lone home run of the season, which came on March 14, Oswego State’s first game of the season.

17: Juniors Nick Gi-ampaolo and Torry Whitcher have each recorded 17 points on the season to lead the men’s lacrosse team.

11: Freshman Dana Taglioni and seniors Katie Bredin and Sammie Schroeter each have 11 hits on the season thus far, plac-ing the trio in a tie for the second-most hits on the team.

Men’s rugby braces for spring season amid changesClub team looks to incorporate youth, new leadership as new chapter begins for Wizards

The Oswego State men’s club rugby team is returning to action this weekend in Philadelphia to begin a spring sched-ule full of tournaments, both in and out of New York.

The Wizards will look to erase the sting of last season’s playoff loss after a successful regular season that saw the team clinch a home-field postseason game against Niagara College.

“Last season we went 5-2 and made it to the playoffs but, unfortunately, we lost in the first round to Niagara [College],” senior outgoing captain Tyrell Moore said. “We lost by two points and it was a dev-astating loss because we knew we were the better team going in... We knew that we could exploit them, especially outside, but it was just an unfortunate loss. We didn’t have the intensity and physicality that game and that’s why we lost.”

With last season in the rear-view mir-ror, Moore and the Wizards are excited for what the spring season has to offer, which, among other things includes breaking in new recruits. The team spent the winter looking for potential players and uses the spring season to bring the rookies’ rugby knowledge up to par.

“Basically, we want to be able to tutor the rookies,” Moore said. “We also want to get the [veterans] who are going to be here next semester to play well and to learn different aspects of the game.”

Another important aspect of the spring season is breaking in the new captains,

who were voted into leadership by their teammates after the fall season. The spring season offers the captains a chance to work on enhancing the traits that make a good leader, according to Moore.

“We have a group of guys that can lead this team. They’re very vocal and very team-oriented and that’s what you need as a captain,” Moore said. “The most im-portant characteristic of being a captain is to listen before you lead and lead by ex-ample so they’re working on that.”

As an outgoing captain and a four-year veteran, Moore said the spring semester is an important time for the team.

“When I first got here, it was a great learning experience,” Moore said of the spring season. “It’s a great way to build team camaraderie because we go to differ-ent tournaments, play different teams and see different places.”

While the spring season has a lot to of-fer, Mother Nature has done her best to keep the Wizards off the field. The team has not been able to practice on its nor-mal pitch due to poor field conditions. However, Moore said that has not slowed down the team.

“We haven’t been able to practice on our fields yet, which I don’t like at all,” Moore said. “But we can teach anywhere. We can teach in the parking lot, anywhere. It’s all about the listening capabilities of some of the younger players. It doesn’t matter where we practice, it’s about how well we’re teaching and listening and that’s the most important aspect.”

In terms of playing games, Oswego State has yet to see any action this spring, as its first scheduled tournament in Clarkson was

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Oswego State will be traveling to Phil-adelphia for a tournament this weekend, something Moore said the team is looking forward to.

“We’re going to be playing top-notch teams,” Moore said. “We are going to be subbing in some new guys and mixing them in with some vets… I expect them to keep the games close and play physical.”

Moore said he is not worried about the result of the game, as the spring semester is about incorporating the new pieces into a team with championship aspirations.

“We are in the building phase of Oswego State rugby right now,” Moore said. “There are a lot of roles to be filled, but this team that we are building right now is a championship-caliber team.”

Oswego State students and alumni will get a chance to see the Wizards in ac-tion on April 26, when the team hosts its 25th annual Greased Weasel Tournament at the Hidden Fields on campus.

“The Greased Weasel is our home tournament and it’s been going on for 25 years now,” Moore said. “The at-mosphere is different than any other tournament that I’ve ever been to. You have alumni there and people who love Oswego rugby who come out to support the team.”

While Moore said he is excited for the new era of Oswego State rugby, he said he has mixed feelings about the spring season, which will be his last as a mem-ber of the Wizards.

“It’s not a good feeling to know that you’re leaving a team that you’ve been with for four years,” Moore said.

The Oswego State men’s club rugby team is set to embark on its spring season as it breaks in a new roster.

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KRISTEN HARRIGANWomen’s Track & Field

Junior, Buffalo, N.Y.

Harrigan recorded a new school record in the long jump, breaking a record which stood for 11 years. With a leap of 5.18 meters (16’11-3/4”), she beat the old record by one centimeter and finished fifth in her event. She also led off in the women’s 4x400 meter relay as they finished second and recorded an ECAC quali-fying time of 4:02.17.

BRENDYN KARINCHAKBaseball

Junior, Walden, N.Y.

Lakers prepare for tough stretchSoftball set to continue campaign with six games scheduled in three days this weekend

Karinchak had an impres-sive outing at SUNY New Paltz on Saturday afternoon. The junior led the Lakers to a win in the first game of the doubleheader split with the Hawks, throwing a shutout. In nine innings, he allowed nine hits, walked one and struck out five as the team won 4-0.

The Oswego State softball team con-tinues to deal with untimely weather since coming back from its spring break trip in Clermont, Fla.

The Lakers have played only four games – in two doubleheaders – since returning, both coming on the road. Two games were played at SUNY Oneonta on Saturday and at SUNY New Paltz

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With the poor field conditions of Laker Softball Field, members of the softball team have practiced indoors to stay sharp and prepare for upcoming games.


on Sunday. The team lost both games against the Red Dragons while spitting the two contests at the Hawks.

The games, which were to be held at home on Tuesday against Wells College and Wednesday versus Utica College, were postponed due to weather and poor field conditions.

Head coach Casey Price described the shortage of games as both frustrating and toilsome.

“Just being stagnant has been tough,” Price said. “The kids have been fine.

We’ve been trained to work on things that we saw in Florida and some team dynamic things, but it’s been tough go-ing back in.”

Senior outfielder Sammie Schroeter calmed down during the four-game road stretch after a red-hot start, going a com-bined 2-for-11.

However, Schroeter continues to hold the fourth best average on the team, bat-ting .367 on the season.

Meanwhile, senior second baseman Katie Bredin had a successful road trip.

Bredin went 7-for-15, which is good for a .466 average in the four games, bringing her average up to .289 on the season.

The Lakers will have their hands full this weekend if weather holds up, play-ing six games inside three double head-ers. They will play these games in a neutral site that will serve as their home games as the field continues to recover from its poor conditions.

The two games against The College at Brockport will be played at Hopkins Road Park in Liverpool at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively, on Friday.

On Saturday, the Lakers will travel to Baldwinsville to match up against SUNY Geneseo, with first pitch for game one scheduled for 12 p.m. and the second game slated to begin at 2 p.m.

On Monday, Oswego State is scheduled to play SUNY Plattsburgh, with games be-ginning at both 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Price said it is disappointing to play scheduled home games at a neutral field, as the team loses the home-field advantage the fans who come out to support the team usually provide.

However, Price said the team is just ea-ger to get back on the field.

“The kids just want to play,” Price said. “At this point it doesn’t really mat-ter where it’s at.”

The team has yet to play at Laker Soft-ball Field this season and is not sched-uled to do so until April 20, when they are scheduled to host a doubleheader against SUNY Potsdam.

In addition to the six games sched-uled this weekend, the Lakers are slated to play four more games before their games on April 20. Oswego State has doubleheaders against SUNY Fredonia and Buffalo State.

Lakers drop Bengals Tuesday following weekend loss to CortlandWomen’s lacrosse posts rebound victory at home against Buffalo State three days after falling to Red Dragons

The Lakers recently spilt a pair of SUNYAC games, losing 13-3 against SUNY Cortland on Saturday before defeating Buf-falo State 6-5 on Tuesday.

Lindsey Eggers and Emily Lange were clutch on Tuesday against Buffalo State, as they connected to score the winning goal with 1:19 left on the clock in the second half. Eggers found a streaking Lange off a free po-sition to secure the win for the Lakers.

Erannan Shattuck helped Oswego State stave off multiple rallies from the Bengals by scoring three goals, all of them in the second half. Shattuck leads the team in overall scor-ing with 29 points and is tied for the team lead in goals with Lange – both have 16.

The game did not start out well for the Lakers. Buffalo State junior attacker Kendra Thomas kicked off the game’s scoring with a goal at the 24:56 mark of the first half. A little over a minute later, junior midfielder Meghan Farrell scored her 22nd goal of the season, with the assist Thomas picking up her 12th assist of the season.

Senior midfielder Candace Tarana got the Lakers on the board with her third goal of the year at the 17:17 mark, with Lange tallying the assist.

Senior midfielder Brittany Koelmel scored her fourth goal of the season with just over three minutes left in the first half to draw the Lakers even.

Shattuck’s three goals, plus a goal from Buffalo State’s Alexis Wilensky gave the Lakers a 5-3 advantage. The Bengals fought back though, as Thomas capped a three-point game with a goal at 9:59 of the second half.

Twenty-four seconds later, Buffalo State

attacker Sarah Lorusso scored on a free pos-session to tie the game, setting the stage for Lange’s game-winning goal.

The dramatic win improved the Lakers record to 6-3, while Buffalo State fell to 7-4 on the season.

On Saturday, second-ranked Cortland defeated Oswego State, 11-3, off the strength of an eight-goal second half. Red Dragon sophomore midfielder and co-captain Tara Monaghan paced the team in goals, scoring three, all of which came in the second half.

Sophomore attacker Erica Geremia had more points than the entire Laker team, with five (1 G, 4 A). Geremia leads the Red Drag-ons in scoring with 24 goals while recording 48 points on the season.

The Lakers kept themselves in the game during the first half against nationally-ranked Cortland. The Red Dragons, who are averag-ing over 17 goals per game, only managed to put three behind Laker’s senior goalkeeper Nikki Greco in the first half.

“We played our game,” head coach Bran-di Lusk said, referring to her team’s first half performance. “[Nikki Greco] had phenomenal saves and we were just playing smart.”

Kristen Ohberg led off the scoring for the game at 27:08 with her 14th goal of the season for the Red Dragons.

Senior midfielders Mackenzie Kjerstad and Brittany Koelmel scored for the Lakers to give them a 2-1 lead before Geremia scored to tie it.

Oswego State sophomore and co-captain Esther Gabriel scored her 14th goal, which was unassisted, at the 4:24 mark to give the Lakers their last lead of the game at 3-2.

The Red Dragons took control of the game, scoring the final nine goals of the contest. Lusk said the Lakers simply did not play their game in the second half.

“We sent them to the line way too many times,” Lusk said. “We gave them too many

meter shots. You can’t send a team like that, the second team in the nation, to the line.”

Marilyn Farrell started the second half bar-rage for Cortland. Farrell got free and made a cut across Greco’s net after the Lakers shifted the defense to the right side of the cage. She flagged down a pass from Ohberg and buried it past Greco.

In the 10 minutes that followed, Cortland scored four goals, three of them coming from the stick of Monaghan, en route to the win.

Cortland head coach Kathy Taylor said she was impressed by the Lakers’ performance in

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the first half and admitted that her team was forced to make adjustments.

“I got to give a lot of credit to Oswego,” Taylor said. “This is the best Oswego team I ever remember playing. They were winning draws and being really stingy. Their goalie played very well. So what we tried to do was make our offense a little bit bigger and more dynamic. Instead of dodging, we started looking for more assisting sets.”

Cortland had the upper hand in al-most every statistical category. The Red

Dragons collected 11 more ground balls (25-14), won more draws (9-6) and turned the ball over only 14 times com-pared to the Lakers’ 21.

After the loss, Lusk said she was confident in her team’s ability to bounce back against Buffalo State.

“If we play like we did today,” Lusk said. “We’ll do great.”

The Lakers will continue SUNYAC play on the road at SUNY Potsdam on Tuesday and at eighth-ranked SUNY Geneseo Thursday.

Sophomore Jayme McCreary (right) attempts to turn the corner and blow past a Buffalo State defender during Oswego State’s 6-5 win over the visiting Bengals.


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The Oswego State softball team has recently been practicing inside the Romney Field House. The Lakers have seen six straight home games postponed due to weather and will play six games over the next three days.

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The open recreation floor hockey started this past weekend and will take place in Swetman Gymnasium on Satur-days from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Interested participants need to bring their Oswego State I.D. Equipment will be provided.

The Delicious Nutritious Cooking Class will take place on April 25 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hewitt Union kitchen. The event will be directed by Sara Formoza, Registered Dietitian and is cosponsored by Campus Recreation and Auxiliary Services. Registration ends Tuesday, April 22.

Don’t forget to sign up for the Color Oswego Fun Run and Walk! The online registration deadline is April 30 and is limited to the first 300 participants. On-site registration takes place May 2 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and the event starts at 4:30 p.m. outside of Glimmerglass Fit-ness Center. There is a $3 fee, which can be paid for at the event.

As for current intramural sports, the

men’s competitive team handball league provided an intense set of games in the Romney Field House on Sunday night.

Phi Tau started off the night with a 9-2 victory over #SenecaBoyz. Joseph Patyi led the offense for Phi Tau with six goals, followed by Greg Finger, who add-ed three. Team captain Niko De Lauren-tiis and Tyler Perez each scored a goal for #SenecaBoyz.

Lee Hall Legends outlasted The Guild in a tough battle, earning a hard-fought 9-6 victory. Quinn Rasmus Joe Fabian scored four and two goals, respectively, for Lee Hall Legends.

Gerald Holmes, Daen Riviere and Daniel Ross also contributed to the scor-ing. Matt Sheffer led The Guild with three goals, followed by Dave Russell with two and William Reese with one.

In the next game, Scott Van Pelts de-feated Whoskerdoos, 6-3. Scott Van Pelts’ offense was led by Ryan Thayer and Tyler Wilch, each scoring two goals.

Josh Stuper and Andrew Malaney also added goals. For the Whooskerdoos, Mat-thew Brooks, Kevin Dennis and Dan Ho-gan each scored one goal.

Rolltiders faced off against Chode Face

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Oswego State students gather on the basketball court in Swetman Gymnaisum for the 3-0n-3 basketball tournament. Easy 1st Round won the championship.Photo provided by Campus Recreation

Killaz and grabbed with an 8-4 win. Cap-tain Paul Hamish and Griffen Sheridan led the Rolltiders with three goals each. Jackson Haber and Josh Argus each scored two goals for Chode Face Killaz.

In the final game of the night, The An-cient Hawaiians grinded out a 4-3 win over team Rockets. Mike Cocozza and Tanner Stewart of The Ancient Hawaiians scored two goals apiece. For the Rock-ets, Daniel Karleski scored two goals and Dylan Kohlman scored one.

Meanwhile, Campus Recreation host-ed the 2014 Hot Shot and Dunk Contest last Thursday in Swetman Gymnasium. The Hot Shot contest was the first event of its kind for Campus Recreation.

Participants had one minute to score as many points as possible with access to only two basketballs. Among the four-teen participants that registered, senior Ryan Dadey took the crown.

“I didn’t really prepare,” Dadey said. “I just came in and wished for the best.”

In the slam dunk contest, three par-ticipants faced off for the T-shirt prize. Senior Bobby Nollet used his 360-degree dunk to take the championship.

“I just came in, warmed up, and went

The Oswego State men’s and women’s track and field teams sped off to a great start this past weekend at the Rochester Alumni Invitational.

The men’s team finished in a three-way tie for eighth place, out of 23 teams. Junior Matt McDorman put himself at the top of the SUNYAC standings in the javelin throw after recording a throw of 44.10 meters.

Adam Crumb set a personal best in the long jump with a jump of 6.51 meters, which placed him second in the competition.

On the distance side of the track, se-nior Damian Archie led the way for the Lakers in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 32:59:85. With this time, he qualified for the SUNAYCs.

Also qualifying for the SUNYACs in the 10,000-meter run was junior captain Nick Montesano with a time of 33:09:58, which is also his personal best.

In the sprints, Brandon Comden ran a time of 23.17 in the 200-meter dash, earn-ing him a spot in the top 15, finishing in 12th place.

In the 400-meter dash, Ethan Green ran a time of 53.51, finishing in 17th place in the contest.

Alek Janiga finished in the top-10 for the 110-meter hurdles and also finished in the top-10 in the 400-meter hurdles.

The relay teams for the men’s track and field team also ran exceptionally well,

as the men’s 4x400 meter relay team fin-ished in first place out of 18 teams.

Meanwhile, the Oswego State wom-en’s track and field team also had a great day of performances, a week after having a tournament canceled in Ithaca.

One of the big highlights of this invi-tational was setting new school records. In the long jump, junior Kristen Harrigan set a school record by finishing in 5th place with a jump of 5.18 meters.

The previous record stood for 11 years, according to the Sports Informa-tion Department.

Abigail Boyce also finished in the top 10 in the long jump with a jump of 4.90 meters.

On the sprinting side, captain Maris-sa Pariseau also set a new school record when she finished in second place out of 46 runners in the 400-meter run, finishing with a time of 58.51.

In the 800-meter run, senior captain Katie Bott placed second after posting a time of 2:15:94.

In the 1500-meter run, sophomore Ka-tie Laris finished in 16th place with a time of 4:59:69.

Junior distance runner Brittany Lamie ran the 10,000-meter race and placed sixth with a time of 43:52:95.

The women’s 4x400 meter relay also had a great race, finishing in second place out of 16 teams.

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams will head back up to Rochester this weekend, as they are set to compete in the Nazareth Roc City Challenge on Saturday.

Track and Field teams turn in solid

Campus Recreation: handball jump starts

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for it,” Nollet said after the contest. “I could do it in high school, so I thought I would give it a try now.”

In the 3-on-3 tournament, 23 teams registered in hopes of cutting down the net. Thirteen teams were in the competi-tive bracket and 10 teams took part in the recreational bracket.

In the recreational bracket, Easy 1st Round held tough through the bracket, taking down Ball Is Life in the champi-onship match. The team consisted of Dan Grossman, Ryan Haas and Justin Rodrigez.

In the competitive bracket, Lee Hall Leg-ends proved they were basketball’s elite. After a first round bye, the Legends worked their way through the bracket to meet the Jellyfish in the championship game.

After a tough battle, the Lee Hall Leg-ends took the crown. The team consist-ed of Scott Seiter, Gerald Holmes, Alex Reyes and Jahmeer Rollin.

For more information regarding all Campus Recreation news and events visit oswego.edu/campusrec or call Lee Hall at (315) 312-3114.

OPINION

“I went out and rode my long-board all day long for the hell of it.”

Joe Pertonneaeufreshman, chemistry major

“I used the day to get some work done and catch up.”

Tristan Brownjunior, graphic design major

“Schoolwork.”

Hamza Khansenior, software engineering major

“I didn’t really have a day off since my classes were during the evening, so I did work.”

Devon Hugrad student, graphic design major

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“I had a presentation on studying abroad and stayed for a few presentations about studying abroad.”

Alicia Daddariojunior, broadcasting and mass communications major

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What did you do on Quest day?

Tip of the hat...

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◊...to everyone who presented this past Quest day.

◊...to Stephen Colbert, congrats on the new gig.

◊...to this warm weather. We missed you, baby.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

IN THE OFFICE

Tom KlineStaff Writer

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Currently, my senior friends are freaking out about cap and gown costs, graduation lo-gistics and their post-grad plans. Talk of loans and senioritis and nihilistic apathy fill the air and comments about how college was noth-ing but a waste, the job market is terrible and the world isn’t fair are quite prevalent.

I hate it. I despise cynicism. It wastes time, it’s not

productive and it generally brings everyone down. While I totally understand the reasons why things like the job market and paying off debt are important to consider, I gener-ally find a vast majority of graduating seniors just moaning and groaning and making the world a more miserable place for everyone around them.

I’ve seen this behavior every year for the last four years running and quite frankly,


I’m irritated.Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing bad

about taking the future into consideration. But there’s a difference between putting pro-ductive thought into one’s future plans and whining about how you’ve been bamboozled because you aren’t able to get the kind of job you feel you were entitled to just because you went to college.

Here’s a reminder to everyone out there who may (but shouldn’t) need it: the world is not fair. There’s nothing you can say or do to deny or change that. Whether you like it or not, you won’t always get to have things your way. Ideally, you should’ve learned this in preschool, but perhaps now you can admit you really did learn something in college, can’t you?

I’m willing to bet the majority of people who whine and complain about how terrible post-grad life will be all have one vital thing in common.

They have nothing to be passionate about.It may not seem like it, but of all the things

to learn about in one’s college years, passion is the most important, hands down. It’s a bit of cliched to say, but having something you’re passionate about is what differentiates living from merely existing.

What does it mean to be passionate? It means finding something in life to get excited about, something that energizes and arouses and engages you. It means being excited

about being alive.Passionate interests keep a person’s life in

perspective. They give a person a reason to get up in the morning, regardless of how de-pressed or exhausted they may be. And even if they’re not at the center of one’s life, they allow for a sense of inner peace even in the worst of times.

Passion is magnetic and contagious. It represents a level of vitality that so many of us lack.

Unfortunately, as a society, we have a bit of a double standard when it comes to be-ing incredibly passionate about something. We’re taught not to pursue things like the arts, because there’s supposedly no money in it, and yet we actively praise those who are passionate and driven enough to pur-sue their interests. We both honor passion-ate people and shun their lifestyles. They’re brave for sticking their necks out and living on their own terms, which is precisely why we ridicule them.

It’s a tragedy that, even in an age where we use social networks designed by college dropouts who end up having countless books and movies made about their lives, so many people are still afraid of pursuing their pas-sions. Too often we find the science or math major, whose parents decided their majors for them with the goal of making them desirable job candidates, and are thus unsatisfied with a major they hate.

To these people I offer a challenge: don’t give in. Find something that you really care about and pursue it to the end. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t lose faith.

Because the worst tragedy in life isn’t hit-ting rock bottom: it’s hitting rock bottom and staying there.

Technology growth pushes passion

Devon NitzCreative Director

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As a graphic design major, keeping up with technology is essential. Falling behind on the latest trends of anything relating to your livelihood is never a positive thing. Technology is constantly moving forward, with no intention of stopping.

Growing up, there were never smart phones or iPads. But today I heard that third graders have iPhones - and it boggles my mind. When I was a kid, I could never have imagined relying so heavily on technology, let alone having my major and career depend

on it. In fact, when I applied to Oswego State, I was a marketing major – which is not close-ly related to design and technology at all.

When I was a senior in high school, I de-cided to get into graphic design. On a whim, I decided to take a three-period a day class that was solely focused on graphic design and other skills, because it looked interesting and I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do otherwise. That class changed not only my major, but my perspective and appreciation on design; how it is constantly around us, whether we realize it or not. Whether it be for creative purposes or the design of the objects we use everyday. As technology continues developing and changing, so does design, and we as people have to adapt with it.

This past week I was introduced to some-thing that could potentially change my edu-cation choices once again. A presentation was given to my web design class on a grad-uate program here at Oswego State, the Hu-man Computer Interaction program. Human Computer Interaction, or HCI, is the study, planning and design of the interactions be-tween people and computers.

This type of education would not have been considered 10 or 20 years ago. From what I’ve been able to see, this field and others like it will only continue to grow.

The presenter discussed technologies such as projection laser keyboards and cell phone screens, and said that desktop com-puters may eventually be out-dated. Im-mersive video game and simulation experi-ences put the game into your living room in a three-dimensional environment. Using technologies similar to the Kinetic (for Xbox) for medical procedures to allow surgeons access medical files without leaving their patient. There are even robots doing recre-ational activities. These types of technologies are in development and are possibilities for our future.

Before listening to this presentation, I was planning to go right into the work world di-rectly after my undergraduate degree. How-ever, this type of program makes me recon-sider my decision. Working with design and focusing on the interactions between people and computers is a step further into what I’m studying now.

For now, I’m still considering my options, but who knows? Faced with the future and how fast-paced technology is constantly moving, the limit seems almost endless. The question of how advanced technology will grow within my lifetime is one of the un-knowns in my future that I, for one, am look-ing forward to seeing.

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This is a sentence that, in Oswego, must come with a fair deal of hedging. But, winter, might (maybe, perhaps) finally be over.

Given students may soon finally have the chance to get outside, it’s time for our friend-ly, slightly buzzkill, reminder to students to be conscious of their surroundings when spending time outdoors.

Most students, and members of the com-munity, remember the incident at Flat Rocks following Harborfest. It was an embarrass-ment to our school and an insult to the com-

KEEP OUR COMMUNITY CLEANmunity we adopt as home for two-thirds of the year. Let’s not let an incident like that happen again.

Littering is illegal, bad for the environ-ment and a sure way to anger your neigh-bors. Yet this doesn’t seem to hinder many Oswego State students. If the beaches aren’t covered in ice, then odds are they are cov-ered in beer cans and food wrappers.

This campus is our home and we are coming up on the few months of the year we get to enjoy it in bearable weather. It’s hard

to enjoy, however, when sidestepping the trash left behind by less thoughtful students.

This spring, let’s be mindful of the way we treat our surroundings and avoid any more incidents like Harborfest. Trash cans are not hard to find; garbage is not hard to carry.

Students can also be proactive and pick up trash when they see it. Much as we’d like to think it’s avoidable, there will always be students who leave it behind. If you see it, take care of it.

Connor Gannan | The Oswegonian

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Last-minute motivationTips to keep you going as another strenuous semester wraps up

Kimberlyn BaileyStaff Writer

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Semesters are like marathons, and we’re in the middle of the worst of it.

We’ve run off the adrenaline we had at the start, but we’re not far enough to catch sight of the finish line that will help us push through. There are a few thoughts to keep in mind, however, which will help you stay focused without frying your neurons or flunking your classes.

Try to remember that this is your least busy week of the rest of your semester. You probably think this week is already busy enough, but at some level, you all know it’s only going to get a lot worse before you turn in that last exam. There is a fixed amount of work that you have left to do, but a shrinking block of time in which to do it. The only thing you can control is how you use that block of time. Giving yourself this visual reminder can

help you use the most recent shavings off that block wisely.

In Oswego, the end of the dreary winter feels like the end of an era, but despite the new season, the old semester is still with us. It only makes it that much harder to keep focused.

But you can combine both your stud-ies and the outdoors by bringing your books outside. Just make sure your chosen spot isn’t

too busy with people, wildlife or Lake On-tario wind that could distract you or scatter your notes.

If the temptation to start enjoying all your summer plans still persists, allot yourself short breaks in which to plan what you’ll do after the semester ends. You may have noticed – and studies have confirmed – that much of the enjoyment people get out of something is anticipating it. Use this to your advantage by waking up your brain with these short study breaks.

Most importantly, you need to know what your academic goals are, and find sources of motivation necessary to make the end of the semester a successful step toward those goals.

These last few weeks can be what de-termine whether handing

in that last exam feels like crossing a finish line, rather than an opportunity

to slump into bed.”

Fear and adrenaline are powerful motiva-tors. Make them work for you. Review your transcripts and CV, and compare them to people who are doing the thing you aspire to do. Follow their blogs, learn about what filters they needed to pass through. Are you awe-some enough to get there too? Can you really afford a C in Calculus this semester? If not, there is still time to turn things around.

These last few weeks can be what deter-mine whether handing in that last exam feels like crossing a finish line, rather than an op-portunity to slump into bed. Summer vaca-tion is far sweeter when it feels well deserved. Keeping the sweetness of that post-semester feeling in mind can help make the rushed flow of these next few weeks make sense in your head.

Fear and picturing the feeling of success are two powerful sources of focus, but for many of us, there’s a third key source: elimi-nating distractions. If you’re hooked on social media, try installing Self Control for Macs or Freedom for PC’s – programs that will block any website you choose for a chosen length of time. Make sure to do a force refresh to block out content from other sites on your blocked sites by holding shift and then clicking the re-fresh button.

You could also try to make 24-hour spread-sheets and mark down when you’re produc-tive and when you’re not. Seeing all those waited hours on your timetable can really help you realize how much underutilized time you’ve got.

We’ve only got four weeks of class and fi-nals to go. Now is the time to picture the finish line in your mind and run toward your goals.

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It was announced last week that leg-endary late night television host David Letterman will be retiring by 2015.

Letterman has been on late night for 31 years and has been known to be one of the best hosts in history. When Letterman announced his retirement during a tap-ing of his show last week, his bandleader, Paul Shaffer jokingly said, “Do I have a minute to call my accountant?” The two have been together since the beginning of Letterman’s career.

“I just want to reiterate my thanks for the support from the network, all of the

Letterman era on “Late Show” to endpeople who have worked here, all of the people in the theater, all the people on the staff, everybody at home, thank you very much,” Letterman said.

Letterman was supposed to host “The Tonight Show” on NBC after Johnny Carson retired, but the network decid-ed to go with Jay Leno. Letterman was given the opportunity to have his own late night show on CBS and has been in

competition with Leno up until Leno re-tired this year. Letterman brought a new light to late night hosting and revamped the way it works. His questions and his segments, like “Top Ten,” will always be remembered.

The news that Letterman is retiring is heartbreaking to his audience because so many have grown up watching him. They have watched him grow and become one of the most beloved late night hosts.

Quest for new knowledge

As a senior (with one more semester) my perception of certain events and quirks of our campus has changed. Eating alone isn’t as scary as it used to be, going out isn’t as important and taking an 8 a.m. class is not a good idea. Quest day is definitely one of those things that has changed for me. As a day committed to academia and the work of students and staff, it’s an interest-ing opportunity to share what you worked so hard on.

When I was a freshman, Quest day was just another day for me. The idea of going to the building I worked in and took classes in on a day off just didn’t make any sense to me. My roommate and I both woke up late, sauntered over to our friend’s room and basically treated it like a Saturday. There’s nothing wrong with using a day off as a recharge day from your busy schedule, but let’s remember, I was a freshman. The worst thing about this is I’m not alone.

It’s more than common knowledge that Quest day is really “Questmas” to us in Oswego and “Questmas Eve” is a night to celebrate, and there’s nothing wrong with that. There isn’t really a good chance I’ll be convinced out of going out when I get a day off, but getting me to come to school is a little tougher. Like I said, this is a pretty conventional thought for the student popu-lous, but it’s kind of a shame.

This past Quest day, there were presen-tations on every subject possible. It’s truly

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amazing. Admittedly, I paid a lot closer attention to the presentations, since I presented this year. One constant thing kept striking me as I watched the presen-tations by my fellow peers was, “I would never have saw this if it wasn’t for Quest day.” Even though this is a simple thought, it’s so true. A friend of mine turned a paper about “Space Jam”— yes, the Michael Jordan and Looney Toon classic—into an amazing presentation and another shared her short film about the strength of the women in her family.

Normally papers are written, graded and then

they collect dust. This moment is what Quest

is all about. As students, we do work all semester long and Quest allows you to get some face

time for that hard work.”

Normally papers are written, graded and then they collect dust. This moment is what Quest is all about. As students we do work all semester long, and Quest allows you to get some face time for that hard work. Another great aspect of Quest is the presentation of capstones. It’s sad to think about all the people who put so much work into their capstones and no one hears about it. It’s really the little things like these that make Quest great.

While I understand that not every-one is going to come out for a sympo-sium dedicated to students, faculty and staff, I can’t help but stress how special the chance really is. We have some tal-ented people on this campus and thank-fully an administration that understands that they deserve their dues. Quest day isn’t a day to waste. Think about this: if it wasn’t for Quest, I wouldn’t have read about a zombie grandma or be able to understand the ins and outs of shield laws in journalism.


Ninety-one dollars. That’s what it costs me to walk at my graduation ceremony in May. Ninety-one dollars for a cap, gown and cord. But it must have been a good deal because I got a “free” T-shirt with my order, right?

After (almost) four years of rigorous course work and dean’s list achievements, I am finally ready to say goodbye to col-lege and move on with my life. I am ready to walk with my fellow classmates across that stage and accept that well-earned di-ploma in front of friends and family. But those four years all come down to 10 sec-onds of fame, as my name is called and I make my way across the stage wearing a $91 designer cap and gown.

And you certainly can’t walk across that stage without that designer gown.

But there isn’t one set fee for everyone. You’re graduating with honors? That’s an extra $30. You’re taller than the average human being? That’s an extra fee. You’re shorter than the average human being? That’s also an extra fee. You’re the average human being? That’s standard price, but you may want to purchase a fancy cord, so that’s extra.

Some of my friends purchased their de-signer cap and gown for a mere $81, some of them purchased theirs for $130. This material, so gentle and flattering, is the mandatory attire needed to walk across the

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stage on May 17. This gown, also seen on the runway during Fashion Week in Paris, is surely worth the money.

Students who have worked so hard to graduate with honors look forward to set themselves apart from a sea of black silk and wear a pure gold cord around their neck. But you need to pay for that cord. Yes, you stayed up countless days to hand in that assignment to keep your GPA up. Yes, you passed on spending time with friends on a Friday night so your work is immaculate for your hon-ors courses. And you deserve to be rec-ognized. For $30 extra, you can.

We’re constantly being sent emails to donate money to the school after we graduate, because four years at Oswe-go State doesn’t cost enough money to begin with. These donation tables are strategically placed in the same room where you purchase your designer cap and gown. Once you’re done spending that $91, you can also donate money to the school. Perhaps while you pay off your loans, you can also send that donation check.

Ultimately, we all work hard toward the same goal: get the diploma. We earn it, we pay for it, we deserve it. We de-serve to walk across the stage and be handed a blank sheet of paper that doubles for a diploma. We deserve to sit through two hours of speeches and promises about how we will succeed in the future. But all of this comes down to buying the attire to attend the ceremo-ny. Because without the attire, there is no ceremony.

So while we all sit in the Campus Cen-ter Ice Arena and we listen to speeches, line up to walk across the stage, flash smiles and wave to our parents, we should forget that the school managed to squeeze the last pennies it can ever gain from us before we leave to cover our high-end designer silk cap and gowns.

Except the tag says “Sizes 5’4-5’6.” Is that a new designer?

Even though there have been some nega-tive rumors about him in the past, he will be re-

membered as one of the greatest talk show hosts

all time.”

Even though there have been some negative rumors about him in the past, he will be remembered as one of the greatest talk show hosts of all time.

On “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last week, Fallon paid homage to Letter-man by performing a “Top Ten” of his own. He did the top ten reasons why Letterman was retiring. Even though it poked fun at him, it was a great tribute to Letterman.

It is the end of an era. Letterman and Leno have passed down the torch to the younger generation. It was announced on Thursday that Stephen Colbert, current host of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, will be the new host of the late night show. But the “Late Show with Da-vid Letterman” will always be just that – no one will ever be able to truly replace Letterman and all that he has accom-plished in his career.

School grabs for every last penny

The last few months have been a big year for remembering the Civil Rights Movement. After all, 50 years ago last August, Martin Luther King Jr. made his historic “I have a dream” speech, a new amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution in February ending the poll tax and Thursday, President Obama honored the 50th anniversary of Pres-ident Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act into law.

Obama paid tribute to the law that changed 300 years of American history, ended segregation in the United States forever and completely transformed the political demo-graphics of the U.S. that had been set in place since the country’s inception.

On this historic landmark, I’m reminded

Preservation of natural rights, constitution exploredthat there was a lot of talk not that long ago about abolishing the law because it had be-come obsolete and further pushed punish-ment on Southern states that was longer valid.

Yes, things are a little different now. Ra-cial tensions are nothing like they were in 1964, even in the South, but discrimination is far from being eliminated in American society today.

The more I think about it, the more I be-lieve how silly a motion like that would be. Things are definitely not like they were once before, but that’s never a good enough rea-son to abolish such a law. Millions of Ameri-

cans count on many laws, including the Civil Rights Act, so that the government can forev-er ensure their safety to exercise their natural-born rights.

The same can be said for many such laws. How about the U.S. Constitution itself? What if we just got up one day and said, “You know, this has been around for over 200 years, it’s outdated, everyone knows how to follow the rules, let’s just get rid of it?”

How well would that go over? Do you

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The founding fa-thers knew that rights

were important to people and wanted them on pa-per and not assumed.”

think you would still be entitled to the Bill of Rights? Would you count on the government to protect you and your right to speak freely, bear arms and receive a speedy trial solely on its good intentions?

To know the answer to that, you only have to look back a few years. In the height of the Great Depression, New Deal legislation cre-ated the Glass-Steagall Act, a law that forbade banks from engaging their funds for commer-cial purposes, in essence, from gambling with money they received from depositors. For 60 years, the law held tact, until in 1996 when the Clinton administration deemed the law was no longer appropriate.

Just 12 short years later, the government had to bail out the banking system to prevent a financial collapse that could’ve been worse than the Great Depression. There is a lot of speculation that the Glass-Steagall Act’s re-peal was largely responsible for the banking crisis in 2008. There are a thousand variables of course, but it’s something I think about.

The founding fathers of this country knew that rights were important to people and wanted them on paper and not assumed. This is why a majority of the original states refused to ratify the Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was added.

Things like this are just like a contract. If it isn’t on paper, it doesn’t mean anything, no matter how obvious or obsolete it might be. And we all know that rights like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are important. We wouldn’t be celebrating its passing if it wasn’t.

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U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors performance

ARt ExhIbIt: GENERAtIoNS IvDate: Friday, April 11Time: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.Location: Tyler Art Gallery, Tyler Hall

ARt ExhIbItIoN: tRADItIoNAl IlluStRAtIoNDate: Friday, April 11Time: 12 - 5 p.m.Location: Oswego State Downtown, 186 W. First St.

PERFoRMANCE: bASh thE tRAShDate: Saturday, April 12Time: 2 - 3:30 p.m.Location: Ballroom, Hewitt Union

SPRING FlINGDate: Sunday, April 13Time: 12 - 3 p.m.Admission: Two toiletry items for charity donationLocation: Ballroom, Sheldon Hall

PlANEtARIuM ShowDate: Sunday, April 13Time: 7- 8 p.m.Location: Shineman Center, second floor

PENFIElD lIbRARY booK SAlEDate: Monday, April 14Time: 9 a.m.- 6 p.m.Location: Basement, Penfield Library

INtERNAtIoNAl CoFFEE houRDate: Monday, April 14Time: 3 - 4:30 p.m.Location: Room 255, Campus Center

tAlK: ARtISt EDwARD MAYERDate: Tuesday, April 15Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.Location: Auditorium, Campus Center

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Army’s Jazz Ambassadors captivate crowdtoo, and it’s a great morale boost-er for the other soldiers.”

Goewey was also reunited with Colonel Timothy J. Holtan, the commander of the Ambassa-dors. Holtan served as Goewey’s first commander in the Army.

The Jazz Ambassadors’ con-certs feature a wide range of jazz sub-genres. This particular program was Holtan’s favorite because it featured the most solo-ists. The concert began with the band playing an up-tune (a fast piece) to introduce their com-mander. Shortly following that, featured vocalist Master Sgt. Marva Lewis came on stage to sing “The Star Spangled Banner.”

The first piece was entitled “Flight of the Foo Birds,” a piece written by Neal Hefti for Count Basie and his orchestra. A swing-ing up-tune, the piece began with a piano solo by Master Sgt. Young, and moved into full en-semble. It also featured Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Fox and Master Sgt. Andrew Layton on alto saxo-phone, as well as a solo for Mas-ter Sgt. Michael Johnston.

Following this number, Holtan gave a brief introduction, as well as prepared statement dedicating the concert to the vic-tims and the families of the re-cent shooting at Fort Hood.

The next two pieces were fast big band blues charts. The first was a Duke Ellington alto sax feature for Layton, “Jeep’s Blues,” which rose to fame af-ter a performance at the famed 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. The second was a bluesy chart called

On April 3, Oswego State was treated to the U.S. Army’s Jazz Ambassadors from the U.S. Army Field Band. In this current tour, from March 11 to April 16, the Ambassadors are attend-ing SUNY schools, theaters and high schools.

This concert was very kind to the students of the music de-partment. Earlier in the day, four members from the band, Sgt. 1st Class Bradford Danho, tenor saxophone, Sgt. 1st Class Liesl Whitaker, trumpet, Staff Sgt. Sean Casey, bass trombone and Master Sgt. Tim Young, piano, at-tended the school’s Jazz Ensem-ble rehearsal and practiced with their respective sections.

Music majors Alison Cra-mer, trombone, and Corey King, trumpet, as well as accounting major and economics minor Derek Holden, saxophone, were given the opportunity to play with the Ambassadors on a piece called “Lilly’s Song,” which was arranged by Staff Sgt. Paul White for his daughter.

The fourth student, Cheryl Goewey, had a deeper connec-tion to the Ambassadors. Goew-ey joined the Army in September 2007 and served for the Army playing flute in Fort Drum 10th Mountain, as well the South Korea 8th. Goewey said she loves the Ambassadors and the various Army bands because it “shows that soldiers are people

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“The Study Was Done,” by Carl Murph. Both pieces featured very exciting playing and tight blues harmonies.

Lewis would then take the stage for three songs. The first was a pleasant big band version of “Hello, Dolly!” a song that rose to fame after Louis Arm-strong’s Grammy-nominated 1965 version. Lewis showed strong jazz vocal technique, giv-ing the song a slight bebop feel. She then played “Feelin’ Good,” originally by Nina Simone, and, to wrap up the vocal pieces was a big band arrangement of Marvin Gaye’s Motown hit, “How Sweet It Is.” The arrangement was a combination of jazz, pop, and rock Motown. The song really took off after a screaming, shred-ding solo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Epley on guitar.

During the break, Holtan made some announcements regarding their tour, their Face-book page and gave thanks to their sponsors. He also recog-nized other soldiers that were formerly under his command, including Goewey.

The next piece was a feature

for the trombone section, an arrange-ment, “Sunny Side of the Street.” The section switched smoothly and effort-lessly between playing in unison and in harmony and featured trombone solos from Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Adams and Staff Sgt. Luke Brimhall.

Then, the student performers joined together for “Lilly’s Song,” ac-companied by a drumroll by Sgt. 1st Class Todd Harrison. It was a smooth, grooving Latin piece that featured a baritone saxophone solo by Staff Sgt. Dustin Mollick.

In a fun treat for the audience, the majority of the band took a break when the Jazz Ambassadors became a Dixieland group called the “Erie Ca-nal Ramblers,” which saw a rhythm section and a trombone, trumpet, and clarinet took the stage. The piece was a fun stylistic shift as the audi-ence got to experience soloing in a pre-bebop style.

When the rest of the band re-turned, they played what Holtan said was his favorite part of the show—a jazz medley of all the Armed Forces’ songs, during which veterans and sol-diers stood and saluted. The Ambas-sadors ended the concert with Lewis again taking the stage to sing “Proud To Be An American.”

weekly EP Revue: Scavenger hunt’s alternative pop melodiesRiley AckleyStaff [email protected]

In 2011, Dan Mufson, a Phila-delphia composer and producer, moved out to Los Angeles to further pursue a career in mu-sic. Later that year, Mufson met singer Jill Lamoureux. Together, the pair formed a four-piece band known as Scavenger Hunt. With a name chosen based on the concept that life is a scavenger hunt, the band began delving into synth-pop sounds and swirl-ing beats. The band will have a national tour with Capital Cities

on the heels of its debut, title-less EP released this week.

Like many synth-pop/alter-native groups before them, Scav-enger Hunt’s debut work hopes to make a turn in the music in-dustry to a new era of ethereal voices and fabricated beats. With its debut EP, the group does just this. With a sound similar to that of HAIM, Ms Mr and London Grammar, Scavenger Hunt will be able to offer everything fans of the subgenre love. However, un-like these groups, this still-small-time band may have trouble be-coming a breakout success.

“Lost,” the album’s lead track, is a somewhat appealing, some-times unappealing track filled

with various vocal inflections and falsettos. It’s repetitive, un-original and as it rides a border between upbeat, fast-paced pop music and slower ballads, “Lost” may leave some more confused than it does satisfied.

“Bones” is the EP’s best track. With harsh beats slamming be-hind Lamoureux’s gloomy voice, this track is quite beautiful. “Bones” is softer than the other tracks on the EP and provides a more simplistic and basic sound that Scavenger Hunt seems to manage much better than some of the more complex, messy tracks like “Lost.”

“Dreamers,” is one of four original tracks that will fill

synth-pop fans with satisfac-tion. Like Betty Who’s “Some-body Loves You” mixed in with HAIM’s “Let Me Go” this song is a dreamy ‘90s concoction. It’s danceable and fun, yet endearing and sweet.

Finally, there is “California Waiting.” On this track, London Grammar is definitely a go-to comparison. Showcasing Lamou-reux’s graceful vocals, “Califor-nia Waiting” is a fascinating mix-ture of spacey instrumentals and lucid singing.

Ultimately, Scavenger Hunt’s debut does not add anything new to the subgenre. That being said, fans of synth-pop should appreciate some of the tracks to

a certain degree. But this is not the groundbreaking crossover type of music that will appeal to a large range of audiences, and so success may not be achieved on a large scale.

Photo provided by facebook.comScavenger Hunt’s new EP is perfectly accessible to new fans of the genre.

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Chuck Inglish’s debut album “Convertibles” is a hedonistic, playful collection of songs that are perfect to listen to with the top down. Featuring Chance The Rapper, Mac Miller, Ab-Soul, and Action Bronson, ‘Convertible’ is a must-listen for summer 2014.

Photo provided by oswegocountytoday.comFour students from Oswego State had the opportunity to perform with the U.S. Army’s Jazz ambassadors from the U.S. Army Field Band.

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for the trombone section, an arrange-ment, “Sunny Side of the Street.” The section switched smoothly and effort-lessly between playing in unison and in harmony and featured trombone solos from Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Adams and Staff Sgt. Luke Brimhall.

Then, the student performers joined together for “Lilly’s Song,” ac-companied by a drumroll by Sgt. 1st Class Todd Harrison. It was a smooth, grooving Latin piece that featured a baritone saxophone solo by Staff Sgt. Dustin Mollick.

In a fun treat for the audience, the majority of the band took a break when the Jazz Ambassadors became a Dixieland group called the “Erie Ca-nal Ramblers,” which saw a rhythm section and a trombone, trumpet, and clarinet took the stage. The piece was a fun stylistic shift as the audi-ence got to experience soloing in a pre-bebop style.

When the rest of the band re-turned, they played what Holtan said was his favorite part of the show—a jazz medley of all the Armed Forces’ songs, during which veterans and sol-diers stood and saluted. The Ambas-sadors ended the concert with Lewis again taking the stage to sing “Proud To Be An American.”

Photo provided by facebook.comScavenger Hunt’s new EP is perfectly accessible to new fans of the genre.

Currently in its sixth season, NBC’s The Voice is one of the most watched shows in the U.S. With many different rules, stages and genres rep-resented, this season has been one of the most confusing, surprising and best seasons in its history.

The Voice, which is currently in the new playoffs stage of performanc-es, is down to 18 contestants. From Team Blake Shelton, three artists have already been picked to represent their coach in the live rounds. In the follow-ing two episodes, the other coaches will each pick their top three as well.

Team Blake

The two front-runners are Si-saundra Lewis and Jake Worthing-ton. Both have been selected, along with Audra Mclaughlin, to go to the live rounds to represent the country superstar.

With Sisaundra Lewis, Shelton’s team may be the strongest. Her vocal range is nearly unparalleled. After her second battle, where she sang James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World,” Lewis showcased an amaz-ing ability to perform long vocal runs. She also will be strong going forward as she will have the support of Celine Dion, who Lewis acted as vocal direc-tor for previously.

Then there is Worthington. An as-piring young country singer himself, Worthington is a front-runner largely because of his laidback personality. In season five, Worthington had tried out for the show but did not turn chairs. Now that he is back he seems to be an early favorite.

Team Shakira

The two contestants that will make the live rounds are Dani Moz and Patrick Thomas.

Moz is a favorite because of her powerful voice and stage presence. After beating out early favorite Cla-rissa Serna in the Battle Rounds Pt. II, Moz has proven herself a strong contender.

On the opposite side of the spec-trum is Thomas with his gritty, down-to-earth vocal prowess. From the beginning, Thomas picked up niche fans on social media. Thomas is so well-liked that after being knocked out in the first battle rounds, Shakira stole him from Adam Levine.

Team Adam

The frontman of Maroon 5 has found himself quite the eclectic grouping of contenders. From softer

singers like Jake Barker to pow-erhouse pop vocalists like Chris-tina Grimmie, Levine has ensured himself a strong standing moving onto the live rounds. And, while nothing is locked yet, the two are surely front-runners.

Barker, a newbie in the music in-dustry, is somewhat of a dark horse candidate for a frontrunner. In his au-dition, Barker was hardly noticeable. But during the battle rounds when he faced off against Stevie Jo singing Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” he came into his own.

Grimmie however, is far from new to the industry. An early favor-ite and most likely the future win-ner of season six, Grimmie entered the show with the largest fan base of any previous contestant. With over 2 million fans on Facebook, as well as millions of YouTube subscribers, many wonder why this pop vocal-ist is even a contestant. But no one can deny that she has exploded the stage with renditions of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” and OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars.”

Team Usher

This season, the R&B artist has collected a team that is largely cen-tered around one contestant: Bria Kel-ly. However, Stevie Jo may give Kelly a run for her money.

A self-proclaimed R&B artist, Jo won his battle against Barker and since then has proven himself worthy of Team Usher. His original and rec-ognizable look makes this young art-ist a shoe-in for the live rounds.

Finally, there is the bluesy rocker Kelly, perhaps the one contestant that may swing the votes away from Grimmie. She has a small existing fan base from a short stint on “America’s Got Talent” and her intense rendition of James Taylor’s “Steamroller Blues,” and an equally impressive one of Ja-nis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart,” have shown Kelly’s voice is raw and un-controlled. Out of the shows’ six sea-sons’ worth of contestants, Kelly may be in a league of her own.

For the casual hip-hop fan, the name Chuck Inglish may not imme-diately ring a bell.

Even if you’re a real aficionado of the genre, the work of the Chica-go-based rapper might have passed under your radar. Inglish is one half of the underground hip-hop duo, The Cool Kids, and while they have several perfectly good EPs and mix-tapes to their name, they weren’t ex-actly at the top of the charts. Inglish was known for throwing his name on a few features, but had nothing substantial in terms of a solo effort.

Inglish has now broken out on his own and is determined to rise out of the middling levels of notoriety of the mixtape game and has made a singular statement for himself with his debut album, “Convertibles.”

“Convertibles” is incredibly playful and its lush production dis-plays a laid-back swagger that will be perfect in the upcoming sum-mer months. Inglish made sure the sounds of the album came first and made sure to defer to his many col-laborators on the album, but is never outshined by outside talent.

The album is packed with col-

laborating performers like Chro-meo, Action Bronson and Chance the Rapper. They each get their mo-ment to shine on the album. One of the more surprising tidbits about “Convertibles” is that guitarist Mike Einziger of Incubus co-produced the album with Inglish. This revelation initially makes no real sense as the album has more in common musi-cally with Pharrell, N.E.R.D., and Dam Funk than it does with any-thing Incubus ever did.

This becomes irrelevant as you learn that the album is more about blurring the lines between genres and breaking down expectations of what a hip-hop album should sound like.

The opener, “Elevators” featur-ing Buddy and Polyester the Saint is a light, funky track that evokes the G-funk era of hip-hop along with “Swervin,” with Sir Michael Rocks of the Cool Kids making an appear-ance. The equally-as-groovy Chro-meo-helmed “Legs” is the perfect mix of neo-funk and hip-hop that would turn a party out.

“Prism” features newcomer Jade Hurtado crooning over smooth,

airy bass lines reminiscent of indie R&B sensation, The Internet. Jazzy, Pharcyde-esque live instrumen-tation is the treat of the album’s closer, “Glam,” featuring Chance the Rapper.

Inglish’s roots as an under-ground rapper come through the most on the back of boom-bap beats on “Attitude,” “Money Clip” and “Game Time,” featuring Action Bronson on a beat that seemed al-most tailor-made for him. The only song on “Convertibles” that isn’t working is “Mas o Menos.” Even though “Convertibles” isn’t trying to be hard-hitting or socially-con-scious hip-hop, it’s a bit difficult to take the song seriously. It’s passable as a booming party song but only because the party would drown out the lyrics.

The album’s gems lie on “Dream,” the aforementioned “Swervin,” and “Came Thru/Eas-ily,” featuring West Coast upstart Ab-Soul and Pittsburgh’s comeback kid Mac Miller. “Convertibles” is Inglish showing off musically and he does so in fantastic fashion. It’s entirely frivolous, hedonistic and filled to the brim with a kind of ear-nest bravado that hip-hop has been missing lately.

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Photo provided by soundisstyle.comChuck Inglish’s debut album “Convertibles” is a hedonistic, playful collection of songs that are perfect to listen to with the top down. Featuring Chance The Rapper, Mac Miller, Ab-Soul, and Action Bronson, ‘Convertible’ is a must-listen for summer 2014.

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‘The Winter Soldier’ packs action with character developmentMaureen DiCosimoStaff [email protected]

Unlike the first “Captain Amer-ica,” which ultimately felt like a setup for “The Avengers,” “Cap-tain America: The Winter Soldier” feels much more like a story for the character.

Now that the origin story is out of the way, we finally get to see Steve Rogers (Chris Evans, “The Avengers”) be Captain America. He definitely delivers in what is arguably the best post-Avengers Marvel film.

“Captain America: The Win-ter Soldier” picks up with Rog-ers working for S.H.I.E.L.D. alongside Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson,“Her”).

As a man out of his time, he struggles to fit in the modern world with a set of values, different from his own. He’s joined by S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson,“Robocop”) and newcom-er Falcon (Anthony Mackie “Run-ner Runner”). Together they must

fight against The Winter Soldier, a ghostly assassin who is an equal match for Captain America.

The entire cast has great chem-istry, but it is the relationship be-tween Rogers and Black Widow that ultimately stands out. Evan and Johansson are wonderful to-gether. They exchange banter and their friendship is enjoyable to watch. Mackie is a great addition and brings a lot of humor to his role. Jackson is, as always, perfect as Fury, bringing the right amount of finesse and enigma to the char-acter. All the side characters add a lot to the film, and not one of them felt out of place or shoehorned into the movie.

Unlike the first “Captain Ameri-ca” where we got to see very little of the Captain doing his thing, we get plenty of it this time around. The action is impressive. It’s well-shot and choreographed, and shows off Captain America’s talents.

There are also quite a few heart-breaking moments in the film, con-sidering that most of the people Rogers knew in the first film are dead. As a character, Rogers has had a fairly depressing past. The film doesn’t shy away from these

tearjerker moments, instead em-bracing them as part of the story and they are very effective.

The Russo Brothers, Anthony and Joe, were an interesting choice to direct seeing as they’ve mostly worked in television on shows like “Community” and “Arrested De-velopment.” Still, their direction was spot-on, handling both the big fight scenes and the smaller per-sonal scenes well. They didn’t shy away from the more intimate parts

of the film, giving us much more than just a mindless action film.

This film is a step up from the first “Captain America,” with higher stakes. We get to see Rog-ers develop as a character and see his relationships with the people around him grow. The Winter Sol-dier was a great antagonist to Rog-ers. The story was complex but not convoluted, and kept the audi-ence in suspense while delivering the action.

As part of Marvel’s ongoing universe, it was nice to see a film that tied into the world, but was ultimately a personal story about Rogers. The film didn’t feel like it was setting up the next Avengers, but had finally given Rogers his time to shine in a movie that was equal parts thrilling, heartbreak-ing and action-packed. “Captain America: The Winter Solider” has everything you could want in a film.

Photo provided by marvel-movies.wikia.comChris Evans and Scarlet Johansson form believable chemisty and friendship in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

Refreshing surprises in Kaiser Chiefs’ ‘Education & War’

Bryan KastelanContributing [email protected]

If you’ve been following The Kaiser Chiefs since their first

album, 2004’s “Employment,” then you’ve come to expect a

sharp, poppy formula from the group. They have remained one of my favorite bands for their consistency. However, after four albums, the element of surprise has worn thin. I didn’t expect the group to genuinely surprise listeners ten years into their ca-reer with their newest release.

Contrary to expectations, the group released a thrilling fifth album. In the past three years, The Kaiser Chiefs have under-gone major changes. They lost a lead songwriter, replaced their drummer and have become pub-lic figures on British television. These are all factors that could easily tear a band apart. This, however, has not been the case with The Kaiser Chiefs. It has led to a re-birth for the group. These obstacles have encour-aged them push harder. On “Ed-ucation, Education, Education & War,” they have traded in their jeans and T-shirts for suits and ties. Though in the past their songs were breezy radio-ready hits with snarky surface level messages, their newest outing sees them replacing that with new wit and charm.

Photo provided by rollingstone.comIn “Education, Education, Education & War,” the Kaiser Chiefs develop a more professional and mature sound.

Upon hearing the title of the album, you could assume that the band equates growing up with tackling politics. Much to my surprise, the war alle-gories on the album are subtle and effective without coming off as preachy. The album starts off with “The Factory Gates,” which has the group return with the energy they left off with, but also with an infusion of smart social commentary.

For the first time, the group manages to write touching ma-terial that isn’t forced into a party album. “Coming Home” is the most gorgeous song that the group has offered. “Roses”

closes the album on a positive note, pulling it all together. It is the most naturally structured and complete offering from the group. The battle of going through hell and back is one that we can all relate to. The Kaiser Chiefs have nailed the ups and downs of the human condition.

“Education,” has some of the band’s best hooks and surprises. “One More Last Song” and “My Life” offer surprisingly charm-ing and clever messages with solid hooks to back them up. Having lengthier songs finally gives the band breathing room to explore and craft pleasant melodies, where normally they would be cut short.

If you have come to expect a certain flavor of The Kaiser Chiefs, “Education, Education, Education & War” will certainly be a struggle upon the first lis-ten. However, if you let it sink in with repeated listening, you will appreciate how it’s much more than what you have to come to expect from this band. “Education,” is a welcome tran-sition record of experimentation with positive results.

Though in the past, their songs were breezy radio-ready hits with snarky surface level messages, their newest outing sees them replac-ing that with new wit and charm.”

Amanda BintzChief Copy [email protected]

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‘The Winter Soldier’ packs action with character development

Photo provided by marvel-movies.wikia.comChris Evans and Scarlet Johansson form believable chemisty and friendship in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

Inaugural ASO fashion show gives local designers spotlightAmanda BintzChief Copy [email protected]

Though it didn’t go off entirely without a hitch, the African Student Organization’s first fashion show was a promising start to what will surely become a staple of Oswego State’s campus arts events.

Battle of the Designers, hosted by Eniola Alawoya, a junior education major, and Abdulai “Flex” Kamara, a 2013 Oswego State graduate, not only showcased budding student designers, but also the talents of the ASO Dancers and R&B/hip-hop trio A’won Boyz.

Set to begin at 6 p.m. last Friday in the Hewitt Union Ballroom, the show’s biggest blunder was that it didn’t start until 7:45. However, the event’s organizers were apologetic and the audience was patient. The ballroom was a full house by the time the show kicked off.

Alawoya and Kamara strut-ted onto the stage with style, confidenceand a demand for audience participation.

“Africa has been on top of the fashion world for a long time,” Ala-woya said in her opening remarks. “We are trying to bring Africa back to Oswego.”

The hosts then listed countries in Africa, calling on the audience to clap and cheer for the country they hailed from, which started the night off with a sense of community and pride. Ala-woya and Kamara then introduced the five judges, whom Kamara said each represented a different country: Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, the U.S. and Ghana.

The six scenes put on by the de-signers were presented in three sets, between which A’won Boyz and the

ASO Dancers performed. The first three scenes were Af-

rique Stylish, Je Suis Design and De-sire by Denise.

Afrique Stylish was an edgy col-lection that combined classic black pieces with bright African fabrics. This fabric was used in bags, bow ties, slacks and blouses. Another standout set of pieces in this collection was a pair of two hoodies, one black and one red, with a white outline made up of squares of the African continent emblazoned on their fronts.

Je Suis Design, a more subdued scene, began with a short film. “Fash-ion doesn’t always have to scream,” the video proclaimed as it showed simple, everyday scenes of life in the city. The models walked on stage to sound effects of the city. Bright pat-terns were once again featured in this collection, but in more colors like yel-low, purple, green and orange. The most notable pieces of this collection were bold dresses, half a solid bright color and half a bright pattern, split vertically down the middle.

The third scene, Desire by Denise, featured only clothes for women. Though this collection covered less ground than the other two because of this, the clothing was varied and daring enough to make up for it. The dresses had unexpected touches like halter fronts, long sleeves with open backs, long skirts with wide, high side splits, high collars and unusual cutouts. There were also bandeaus, skinny trousers, crop tops, skirts and a bikini. The female models ended the scene in impressive fashion as well, all dancing and moving in synchronized lines back onto and off of the stage.

After this scene, Alawoya and Kamara introduced the musical act of the night: A’won Boyz.

Three Nigerian brothers from Brooklyn who called themselves Mel, Muk, and JR, A’won Boyz sang two songs, one of which they said was brand new and had not yet been re-leased, and got the audience up on their feet dancing and singing along. The models from the previous scenes also joined in on the performance, act-ing as backup dancers.

The next scene, Rue Fashion, fea-tured more formal designs. Slacks, button-downs, jackets, pencil skirts and blouses were the main pieces worn, but it was not boring formal wear by any means. There was little disparity in the level of femininity or masculinity of the outfits, so the male and female models who came on stage in pairs looked well-matched. Plenty of the pieces were in neutral colors, but they also featured pops of pattern, the colors of which were

also subdued. The ASO dancers performed next.

There was plenty of dancing through-out the night: models, hosts and even members of the audience danced on stage, but the ASO dancers blew them out of the water. Audience members got up out of their seats to better see the dancers or to dance along with the music that the ASO dancers moved so expertly to.

The second to last scene was The Grunge Project. Although the clothes in this collection, featuring lots of loose tops and metallic fabrics, were designed well, they were not present-ed well. The lights were set low and the stage was dim during this scene, which may have been an attempt at the club-like atmosphere this design-er’s clothes seemed to be inspired by or meant for, but this made it difficult to see the clothes in detail.

The last scene, The Royal Try, was the most casual collection. It mainly consisted of long-sleeve T-shirts, hoodies, sweaters and hats all fea-turing the same graphic, possibly an attempt at a clothing line that would have immediate brand recognition. The colors of the later pieces of the collection that were a little less casual were fun, happy and fit well with the coming spring atmosphere.

The last scene finished at 10:30 p.m., a half hour past the planned end time of the show. By the time the judges finished their deliberations and an-nounced the winners, half the audience had left.

The winning designers were, in order of last to first, Desire by Denise, The Grunge Project and Je Suis Design.

Alawoya, who was chosen as a host because of her previous involve-ment with ASO’s e-board, said she thought the show went well for a first-time event.

“I know it started late, which you know, could have definitely been avoided,” Alawoya said. “I think it definitely could have been more or-ganized. But for the first time, it went really well. The designers all were great. And there was a lot of great audience interaction.”

Regardless of the few minor setbacks, ASO’s first fashion show accomplished what Alawoya said at the beginning they set out to do: bring Africa back to Oswego.

“I think ASO is doing a great job,” Alawoya said. “This is our 10th year on campus and I think it’s in-spiring to see an organization actual-ly growing. I hope to see it get bigger and better.”

Tasigh Greenidge-James | The Oswegonian

Eniola Alawoya hosted the competition.

David Armelino | The OswegonianDesire by Denise featured designs only for females and placed third in competition.

Tasigh Greenidge-James | The Oswegonian

Je Suis Design featured a city atmosphere and won first place in the competition

A’won Boyz performed several songs accompanied by the ASO dance team.Kadeem Watts| The Oswegonian

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Treat yourself this week Capri-corn, because the coming weeks are only going to get harder. Take a day off this weekend to relax and let your creativity flow−it’ll allow for some great ideas to be brought into your mind.

Keep an eye on your wallet this week. You’ll have the urge to splurge on some things you’ve had your eye on, but make sure you don’t spend all your money in one place- you do have to eat sometime.

Don’t stop the music this week, Pisces. You’re going to find a new band you’ll be play-ing on repeat for the coming weeks that’s out of your normal musical tastes. Remember that change is never a bad thing.

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