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Friday, Feb. 14, 2020 VOLUME LXXXV ISSUE II SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
SA President gives annual address Takeena Strachan explains vetoing bill, other timely topics
Hannah Leonard Asst. News Editor hleonard@oswegonian.com Glad to see so many new and present senators, Takeena Strachan, president of the Student Association at Oswego State presented her State of the Association Address. Strachan covered issues ranging from women’s reproductive health, the Food Bill and a trip to the State Capital. Vice President Matthew O’Donnell explained that due to recent renovations in Mary Walker, the area that formerly hosted women’s reproductive services will be used for something else, leaving SA to decide if they would like to cancel the contract or find
a new place to provide such services. Strachan called upon the senators to express their opinion on this issue. “We fought tooth and nail to get pads in the bathroom,” Senator Maryjay Olalekan said, “I feel like we have a lot of space on this campus that is not being used. We can find somewhere where we can set up shop.” The remaining senators agreed with Olalekan making the decision to find a new place to host women’s reproductive services, unanimously. Strachan then expressed her reasons for vetoing the Pizza Bill. The Pizza Bill or Food Bill was a recently passed set of stipulations and consequences a club would face for hosting a failed catered event. The senators participated in a
Oswego Pizza Hut closes, unable to compete financially
lengthy debate over the past few weeks about the consequences of a club and it’s Executive Boards for failing to hold an effective catered event. Senators Nathaniel Goldstein and Olalekan had contrary views. Goldstein felt that after two failed events the club’s account should be frozen and reopened the next academic year as to not punish a new E-board for the previous E-board’s failures. Olalekan found that freezing a club’s account would damage the club irreparably. Before the bill passed the senators came to the conclusion that accounts will not be frozen for a club’s failure to hold a successful catered event. However, the amendments made to the Pizza Bill were not
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SA President Takeena Strachan’s cabinet gave their executive orders in front of the senators and any audience members who attended.
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The city of Oswego now carries one less pizza shop, after Pizza Hut closed its doors for good on Monday. Company officials announced on Friday, Feb. 6, that the restaurant located at 303 West Seneca St. would be closing in just four short days from the announcement via press release. National pizza chains, such as Domino’s and Little Caesars, are still running. Other local shops like Pizza Villa, Bridge Street Pizza and The Pie Guys are also open. After 42 years in business, District Manager Randy Kline said in the press release the “growth in sales has not kept pace with the growth in expenses” in recent years, not providing “for a sustainable business.”
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“We are proud to have been a part of the Oswego community as your home town Pizza Hut,” the press release said. “There have been many memories created here.” The closing of Oswego’s Pizza Hut is also part of a mass shutdown of up to 500 locations of the pizza chain around the nation, which the company announced in August 2019. Other local Pizza Huts in DeWitt, Nedrow and Chittenango were all closed before the announcement in May 2018. The Fulton Pizza Hut, which has the same operator as the Oswego location, DeLand Corporation, is staying open. A DeLand spokesperson told The Palladium-Times that the company is planning on selling the property just off of Highway 104. “All team members at the Oswego location have been offered the opportunity to transfer to the
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