SUNY Oswego’s improvised comedy club, the Shawn Cassidy Fan Club, hosts weekly shows every Saturday night at the Marano Campus Center Auditorium at 8 PM.

Kayla Bonasera is the club president.

“Every Saturday night we do live improve comedy performances where we have sketch-based comedy that revolves around the suggestions that we take from our audience,” said Kayla.

In the darkness of this room not only the bracelets glow, but some of the worst humor also comes to surface, which is why they must censor some parts of the show.

“It does get crazy. During the parents weekend show we censor it. We actually allow one swear word,” said Carl Neff, who is treasurer of the club.

But not only the local students and their parents come to the shows. One example is Spanish exchange student Andrea Rodriguez.

“I think the most exciting thing about this performance is that they all act natural,” said Andrea.

If you are looking for something fun to do on the weekends here on campus, the troop practices every Sunday night and performs the skits on Saturdays.

McDonald’s has been a long time staple of American culture. In Oswego, New York, the restaurant branch on Bridge Street is experiencing some difficulties. Multiple incidents have been reported to police authorities concerning college students causing disruption during the night shift of the weekends. In order to solve this predicament, the branch made the conscious decision to hire security to stand guard at the door during these hours.

Management claims that the hiring has had a great effect on the decrease in misbehavior in the establishment. Before the hiring, some employees made claim that some customers have even tried to climb over the counter and assault employees. After the appearance of security, no such incident has been reported. Conor Rielly, a Broadcasting major at SUNY Oswego, shared his thoughts on the employment of security, “I think it’s a smart idea. You get a lot of drunk and disorderly people who come through there every night and I think some get too rowdy and you need to kick ‘em out. I think it’s a good idea.”

With the positive results of this new change, it’s expected that we’ll be seeing security in this McDonald’s branch for a long time.

Reported by: Brian Doolittle

Tyler Hall, the home of the Theater and Art Departments at SUNY Oswego, has been closed for the past two years for remodeling. Shifting from Tyler Hall to Hewitt-Union was definitely a challenge for the Theater Department.

Theater student Taylor McCown spoke about how the Waterman Theater was the main theater where plays and musicals were at. She spoke about how shifting to the Hewitt-Union Ballroom was a challenge because they had to build their own stages when performing shows in there compared to Waterman Theater that had the stage set; just needing to set up the sets.

Instructor Greg Brewster has been associated with Tyler Hall ever since he was a student at SUNY Oswego. He spoke about how he went there as a student with lighting and sets in shows and he returned to Oswego with teaching in the same field.

Brewster also had some involvement with the remodeling of Tyler Hall. He spoke about where different things were going to go, such as lighting, and speakers in the theater itself.

Everyone in the departments are definitely interested in seeing the different changes that Tyler Hall’s going to offer. Taylor spoke of how there’s supposed to be an extra row in the Waterman Theater as well as different extensions to make shows a lot more interesting. She said that although most of the Theater Department will be returning to Tyler, the Costume shop will be temporarily remaining in Hewitt-Union for a while.

Tyler Hall will be reopening this summer to begin the Fall 2016 semester.