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SUNY Oswego holds school safety gun violence presentation
By Fan Shi
OSWEGO, N.Y.– SUNY Oswego Public Justice Professor Jaclyn Schildkraut, recognized expert on the topic of mass shootings, gave the presentation “We Need To Talk About School Safety” on Nov 7.
“There is not a full law that we can necessary to use to stop it, but what we can do is to guard ourselves and protect our community safer,” Schildkraut said.
Some people have different views on how to guard themselves during this situation.
“I know a couple of my friends back home were shot and killed because of gun violence. Even when I go out, I still carry a pocket knife with me,” Rebecca Velez said.
Student Gianna Perri believes guns can protect her safety. There is still someone like Meghan Harrington who has a mixed opinion on guns.
“I understand why people would like to have guns. I understand people feel safer. But I don’t feel super comfortable around guns,” Schildkraut said, “There are numbers of things that has to be considered when determining whether to allow for concealed carrying in certain places. For instance, if the law enforcement comes in and citizens are engaged with the shooter, law enforcement will not goanna know who the shooter really is.”
Not all license types allow unrestricted concealed carrying. The license must specify whether it is issued to carry on the person or possess on the premises. Not all of these laws apply to the New York city. In New York City, all firearms need to be registered and there is stricter limitation to carry firearms.
For more information on gun laws, visit https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/.
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Lakers defeat Fredonia in comeback fashion
The Oswego State men’s ice hockey team won a thrilling game over the Fredonia State Blue Devils by a final score of 5-3. The Lakers improve to 5-1-0 on the season while the Blue Devils drop to 3-3-1 overall.
Lakers’ forward Cameron Berry opened the scoring late in the first period thanks to a pass behind the net from Joseph Molinaro. With the goal, Berry extends his point scoring streak to five games.
What followed was three straight goals by Fredonia. Then in the third period the Lakers cut the Blue Devils’ lead to one. Aaron Huffnagle fed Tanner Spink who cashed in on the two-on-one opportunity.
Oswego was not done yet. They added two power-play goals from Huffnagle and Josh Zizek. Then Zizek iced the game with an empty net goal.
Cedric Hansen tallied 19 saves in his third start of the season for the Lakers.
Oswego takes the ice next on Friday, Dec. 1 when the travel to face Geneseo at 7 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Ferial Govashiri
by Michael Reilly
Oswego, NY- A former personal aide to President Barack Obama will be visiting Oswego State this Friday. Ferial Govishiri will be the keynote speaker of the Student Leadership Conference. Her speech will center around finding and focusing on one’s passion in life.
Govashiri was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was six months old.
This Friday, a very special event as well as exciting opportunity will be taking place here at SUNY Oswego. Former personal aide to President Barack Obama and active member of the Iranian American Women Foundation Ferial Govashiri will be speaking on campus at the auditorium in Marano Campus Center around 7:30pm. She’ll be holding the position of keynote speaker which is being put on by the division of student affairs and enrollment management. Her talk will be free and opened to the public, in other words a perfect way spend a Friday evening to kick of the weekend.
Now a fact about Govashiri some may not know is that she was actually born in Iran
Of course as most are aware, President Trump has recently issued a temporary travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim majority countries including Govashiri’s home country of Iran.
