The student body at SUNY Oswego voted on the student association fee this week. The fee was passed by 87 percent. Students had mixed opinions however. Our Savannah Strait spoke to some students about the benefits and difficulties this fee causes. In the survey that was held this past week, the total passed with 815 votes approving and 115 votes non approving. The next Student Association campus wide vote will take place Spring of 2018.
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Student Protest
by Lauren Toscano, WTOP10-TV
Wednesday morning, SUNY Oswego students took to the campus grounds to protest issues regarding Tuesday night’s presidential results. The protest began in the quad on campus around 10 a.m. Students held signs and chanted, walked across campus entering dining halls, residence halls, the Marano Campus Center, and ending back in the quad mid day. University Police was not involved and there has been no official email regarding the incident.
Following the protest, students met in a Marano Campus Center classroom to continue their talk on the election results. The meeting was led by SUNY Oswego’s Black Student Union and African Student Organization. During this open forum, many students were outraged with Tuesday night’s results and expressed their concerns for their future. An anonymous protestor commented on Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency stating, “Allowing him into office is policing us not only as people, but as a nation.”
This has been a trend across the United States in the past 24 hours. According to CNN.com, protests have broken out in major cities across the U.S. since the final polls were released Tuesday night. From New York City to Los Angeles, thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest of Donald Trump and in promotion of social movements.
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2-Time Tony Award Winning Brian Ronan Interview
WTOP10 Reporter Shanna Fuld interviews 2-time Tony Award winner Brian Ronan.
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48-hour Genre Film Festival
by Frederick PrinzivalliOswego, NY- The Oswego Film Club recently held their annual 48 Hour Genre Film Festival. In this event, teams were assigned a film genre and had two days to produce a film. The resulting short films were screened Saturday and awards were given to the best ones. These awards included audience choice, best performance, best editing, and overall best film.Brandon Cortes participated in this event and had this to say, “The film festival was always fun, of course its competitive, I’m competitive, my team and I we tried for it but didn’t win anything.” participant Brandon Cortes said. “But it was still fun to see everyone’s films and projects, everyone tries hard.”Cortes went on to explain his strengths and weaknesses when it came to creating his team’s film.“The most difficult was the acting because the acting, believe it or not, is actually the most important part of the movie itself because its better for one person to show what they have out there and whatever you have in your script, the actor reads off of that. They make the story come to life,” he said.For more information about how to get involved with next year’s festival, like the Oswego Film Club’s Facebook page or follow them on Twitter at @ozfilmclub.
