By Jackson Berner
For all of the hockey fans in Oswego County, your months-long wait is finally at it’s end. Laker hockey returns this weekend with exhibition games for both the men’s and women’s programs. on Saturday the women’s team faces the Toronto Midget Arrows and are looking to improve upon last year’s successful regular season that saw them knocked out of the ECAC West Championship chase in the first round.
The men might have an even more bitter taste in their mouth after last season which they’ll begin to cure on Saturday against the CCHL all-graduate team. They went 21-6-1 en route to the first overall seed in the conference…only to lose at home to Plattsburgh in the SUNYAC Championship. From there they went on to get knocked out of the NCAA tournament in the first round by Hamilton. The games start at 3 and 7 p.m. respectively.
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Operation HD Upgrade: Complete
Just months ago we began our conversion to high definition quality. After all the hard work from the Diversified team and the WTOP members who helped, our studio has completed its conversion to HD.
Part of the control room
On Saturday, October 22 we pulled off the first of our HD broadcasts. Both the women’s and men’s ice hockey game presented the entire crew with the challenge of using equipment that no one was familiar with.
There was barely a single seat open during the men’s ice hockey game
Members will continue to practice on the new equipment with upcoming broadcasts such as our “Media Summit Red Carpet Show” and “Election Night in Oswego” coverage. A goal is to continue to learn how to make sure the live stream is up and running and that the audio during the hockey games is up to par.
After a successful Facebook Live and live Twitter chat about the upgrade, we were able to get followers and viewers attention days before the upgrade was completed. There for the reaction to our first HD broadcast from alumni and viewers via social media was awesome! We appreciate all of those who tuned in for the hockey kickoff.
Alumnus Lou Borrelli commented on how “fabulous” our HD quality is
Now we move onto training week and run through week. “Those who were apart of the hockey broadcasts have a little advantage because they’ve already worked with the new equipment” Taylor Ksiazek, ‘18 says.
Ian Dwyer, ‘17 teaches members how to use the new Ross XPression Graphics system
Ryan Berger ’18, shows a crew member how to use our new HD cameras
Thank you to everyone who has followed along during this crazy, awesome experience! We are all very excited to reign in a new era of WTOP and face the challenges of learning and working with all the new equipment throughout the rest of this semester!
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Mighty Taco Makes A Long Awaited Comeback
Mighty Taco will be making an appearance again in Central New York.
Last Friday, Mighty Taco announced on Facebook that they will be opening a new location in Cicero, NY. The food chain will be taking the place of an old Tim Horton’s.
Mighty Taco is a Mexican style restaurant that started in the city of Buffalo in 1973 and it has been a fan favorite ever since it started and has spread out to, with the addition of this new location, 24 locations.
Mighty Taco is primarily based around the Buffalo area and western New York, and the new location will now be the farthest east of any of the other Mighty Taco locations. It is also the second time the franchise tried starting up in the Syracuse area.
The last time Mighty Taco was in the Syracuse area was when it had a location in Carousel Center, now known as Destiny USA.
Given the continuous growth, Mighty Taco believes they are now ready to take on the challenge of starting up in Syracuse.
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Earth Week
Earth Week may be coming to a close, but what did you miss? Quite a bit tobe frank. This past week SUNY Oswego celebrated everything that earth does for us and demonstrated support for environmental protections. This week the campus celebrated and presented the contributions that students and faculty have made thus far in order to preserve our schools beauty and environment.
On Monday we discussed how the removal of plastic and wastes from around campus and the dining halls has genuinely made a big impact on the amount of plastic that is discarded on a day to day basis.
On Tuesday we participated in reducing car usage by being able to use amenities provided to us through the Sustainability office such as bike share where you can rent a bike from the office located in Hewitt and bus share which provided alternate transportation for commuter students.
On Wednesday a climate change panel co-hosted by the Environmental Advisory Council and the Sustainability office discussed the challenges within the concept of climate change which will feature multiple different faculty members all representing a different program of study at Oswego.
On Thursday we focused on using alternate search engines that give back to the planet such as Ecosia which has been using their profits since 2009 to plant trees which has resulted in over 54 million trees being planted. We also focused on our new printing program Lakerprint which is projected to save around 120,000 sheets of paper a year due to getting rid of banner pages and sheets with our names.
However on Friday Lucas Grove a senior philosophy-psychology major will present the progress he has made in the “Fresh Water for All” project.
If you would like to learn more about Earth Week or simply would like to get involved around campus you can email the Director of Sustainability on campus Jamie Adams at jamie.adams@oswego.edu or call the office at 315.312.2500.
