By Nick Schmidt,
This past week, Lakers defender Kate Randazzo earned herself the NEWHL player of the week. Randazzo tallied four assists in Friday’s 5-0 rout of New England College. On Saturday, Randazzo netted the overtime game winner against Castleton with 39 seconds left in the overtime period. Randazzo and the Lady Lakers return to the ice this Saturday to take on Elmira College.
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Oswego Nightly News – Wednesday March 6th 2019
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Diversity Speaker Series: Kevin Powell
by Ilyssa Weiner
Oswego, NY- Writer and Humanitarian Kevin Powell spoke at SUNY Oswego’s Sheldon Hall Ballroom on Feb. 16 as part of the school’s “I Am Oz” Diversity Speaker Series.
Powell stressed the importance of education and history to his audience. His mother, who only had an eighth grade education, pushed him to do well in school.
“She kept saying to me when I was a child ‘You’re going to go to college. You’re going to go to college. You’re going to go to college,” Powell said.
Powell went to Rutgers University. However, his love for reading and writing came at an early age when his mother took him to the library.
“She allowed me to roam around the library,” he said. “That’s how I ended up falling in love with books and eventually decided as a young person I wanted to be a writer.”
After his time at Rutgers, Powell joined the cast of the very first season of MTV’s The Real World. At the time of taping, he and the rest of the cast had no idea how successful the show was going to be. Because of the show’s success, Powell was able to dig deeper into the world of pop culture.
“I love pop culture,” he said. “I think it’s a useful tool for reaching people and talking about serious issues.”
In 2011, Powell co-founded Building Knowledge (BK) Nation, a progressive non-profit organization focused on civil and human rights. The organization has worked on several racial profiling cases, including the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases, and was also a deep supporter for the recent Women’s March.
Despite being the co-founder of the organization, Powell doesn’t believe in titles beyond that.
“We’re all equals and all our voices matter in the organization and that’s how we operate,” he said.
Powell’s most recent book, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood, is available on Amazon.
Powell autographed copies of his latest book after his speech was over.
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WTOP 10 News – Quest Day Spring 2010
This edition of Quest was produced by Michael Hirst in the Spring 2010 semester. From his Youtube:
“To my knowledge this is the only full news broadcast in WTOP history to be done entirely outside. This was a LIVE production and took a lot of people to successfully execute. My thanks to Barry Wygel for giving me the idea to do a special Quest show, and all the cast and crew that made this truly innovative concept a reality.
The mission of WTOP 10 News is to be a reliable source of news to all those in the viewing area and to do so with journalistic integrity. We show our commitment to the stories we cover, while helping members become better journalists and to prepare them for a job in television news.”
