Oswego, NY- Amruta Pital visited SUNY Oswego as part of the Artswego program to showcase her work as a graphic novelist. The event was hosted by Professor Ulises Mejias.
SUNY Oswego is one of many stops Amruta Pital is making. In 2017 Ms. Pital visited Brazil and is planning to visit South Korea in 2019.
At the event, Pital addressed her childhood in India and its influence on her work.
Pital’s book can be found on Amazon or the campus bookstore.
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SUNY Oswego Cancels Afternoon Classes
As of 9:30 this morning SUNY Oswego has cancelled all afternoon classes due to inclement weather. This entails all classes that begin at or after noon anywhere on the SUNY Oswego campus.
Heavy snowfall and blowing snow combined with frigid temperatures have prompted the school to take this action. Safety is the main concern for students and faculty as they head from building to building for class, as well as for those faculty and students who commute to the campus.
Visibility is limited and walkways are barely identifiable all across campus and Oswego as a whole. Campus officials are making efforts to clear the snow as quickly as possible, but with some reservation, as to protect themselves and students in the low visibility conditions.
The National Weather Service is calling for a 100% chance for Lake Effect Snow all across Oswego and has issued warnings out all across Central New York. The snow is expected to continue into tonight with a slight tapering off in the later evening. Accumulation is expected to reach 3-5 inches, and temperatures are ranging from, 5-10 degrees. With winds out of the Southwest at 10 to 15 mph and gusts up to 30 mph the temperature feels more like a frigid -3 degrees.
Take a look at what walking around campus is really like with this short clip.
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SUNY Oswego’s College Republicans Club uses beach ball to promote free speech
by Briana Watson
OSWEGO, NY – On Wednesday October 25th, the College Republicans Club at SUNY Oswego put up a 8-foot beach ball in front of Penfield Library to promote free speech. The beach ball was used as a medium to encourage students to write anything they wanted whether they were political views or their Instagrams.
President of the College Republicans Club Tyler Toomey said that using the beach ball as a medium for free speech is an event that is being held on other campuses along the east coast.
“It’s a pretty big event through some nonprofit organizations nationwide so we got in contact with them and they actually drove the ball from D.C down to us last night,” Toomey said.
Student Shelby Stewart took the opportunity to express her political views.
“I wrote that I support Trump…because a lot of people wrote a lot of liberal things and I feel like there’s not very many Republicans on campus,” Stewart said.
Stewart said she hopes that by having the beach ball present that it will inspire unity on campus.
“I think if anything it’s going to unite everybody because they see that the College Republicans aren’t just saying, ‘You can’t write anything on it if it’s not Republican’. So I think hopefully, it just going to unite campus and show that people can get along,” Stewart said.
For more information on the College Republicans Club visit the Oswego College Republicans facebook page or their Laker Life page.
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Student dead after heroin overdose
One SUNY Oswego student is dead and two are hospitalized due to allegedly lethal heroin.
Students were alerted early Saturday morning to the potential danger of the heroin by the New York state mass alerting system.
“Danger; Oswego heroin may be lethal. One is dead and two are hospitalized since early this morning,” the call said, “please beware.”
Students are urged to call University Police at 315-312-5555.
The names of the students have yet to be released, but WTOP will keep you updated with the latest information.
