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The Oswegonian Friday, April 24, 2015

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VOLUME LXXXI ISSUE X SINCE 1935

OzQuits continues to advocate for campus clean air Tatyana Bellamy-Walker Incoming Asst. News Editor news@oswegonian.com The Oswego State Clean Air Committee commemorated the 2015 tobacco-free policy on Earth Day with an anti-smoking demonstration in the Marano Campus Center. “I hope we are reminding everybody on this Earth Day that this is our college policy and we expect everybody to abide by it,” said Barbara St. Michel, the associate director of Campus Life and head of the Clean Air Committee. Peer Advocates from the Lifestyle Center provided students and faculty with Stash-the-Ash pamphlets, free healthy snacks and OzQuits bracelets to promote the smoke-free policy enacted this year. According to a 2013 report by OzQuits, a tobacco-free educational program developed by the Clean Air Committee, only 15 percent of the 1,526 students surveyed use tobacco products. Of the 235 students, more than half were either already planning on or willing to quit. St. Michel explained that the smoke-free initiative has inspired a culture change, and step by step the college community is attempting to kick the habit. “It takes time,” St. Michel said. “A lot of people expect that we flipped a switch and all of sudden, we are going to be tobacco free. It takes time for people to understand the new policy... cultures just don’t change overnight.” Before the policy was enacted in January 2015, the college allowed smoking only at a 25-foot perimeter around building entrances, exits, windows, loading docks and air intakes. Across the U.S., cigarette smokers account for one-third of college students, according to

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Sustainability Office measures food waste in dining halls Student interns put forth effort to create eco-friendly campus by raising awareness JoAnn DeLauter Incoming News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com Readily available food in dining halls comes with being a student at Oswego State, but this service comes at a price to the environment when students waste the food they do not consume.

According to the Oswego State Office of Sustainability, the average Oswego State student wastes approximately 0.99 pounds of food per day at three meals a day in the dining hall. Peterly Jean Baptiste, freshman and Office of Sustainability intern, said that this semester, the Office of Sustainability, with the help of Dining Hall Services, measured the

amount of students’ food and paper waste in the west campus dining halls this semester. “If we take that number into consideration and try to reduce that, we might make an impact somewhere else by reducing the amount of waste in general,” Baptiste said. Baptiste is among other student interns that promote sustainability and an eco-friendly environment on campus. The

amount of waste in the dining halls was first measured in the spring 2014 semester in Cooper Dining Hall, a project headed by juniors Nick Ransburg and Irene Putzig, “I believe an individual should care about the amount of waste they produce because it begins to really add up when

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Former professor killed in US strike Counterterrorism operation results in death of two al-Qaida hostages in Pakistan Seamus Lyman Editor-in-Chief slyman@oswegonian.com The White House announced Thursday that a drone strike in January on al-Qaida accidentally resulted in the death of two hostages. One of those hostages was former Oswego State professor Warren Weinstein. The other was Italian Giovanni Lo Porto. Weinstein, 73, was kidnapped by al-Qaida in August 2011 from his home in Lahar, Pakistan. He was working for J.E. Austin Associates in the region on contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Lo Porto, 37, was kidnapped in 2012 while working in Pakistan for Welthungerhilfe, a German non-governmental organization. Weinstein earned his doctorate from Columbia University and then became a professor in the political science department where he taught Oswego State students until 1979, when he went Photo provided by BringWarrenHome.com to work in economic development for Elaine Weinstein (left) and husband Warren Weinstein (right), who was held hostage for four years by al-Qaida. the federal government.

President Barack Obama apologized on Thursday for the death of the two men. “As a husband and as a father figure, I cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the Weinstein and Lo Porto families are enduring today,” Obama said. “I realize that there are no words that can ever equal their loss. I know that there is nothing that I can say or do to ease their heartache and today I simply want to say this: As president and as commander in chief, I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovanni. I profoundly regret what happened.” The counterterrorism operation occurred in mid-January and information on the drone strike was classified until Thursday. Obama said the reason for declassification was because the families of the victims “deserve to know the truth.” The strikes occurred in the border region of Pakistan and

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Penfield Library opens computer lab as another 24-hour room for finals After high demand from students, more spaces will be available all day long from May 3 at 10 a.m. to May 15 at 4:30 p.m. Sarah Guidone Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com

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With finals week approaching, students are beginning to feel the end of the semester crunch. Penfield Library on Oswego State’s campus is opening the computer lab as another 24-hour room starting May 3. Barbara Shaffer, Penfield Library’s director, took into consideration suggestions from students over the past few years of expanding the 24-hour room space and found it to be in a great need.

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“It seemed that adding computer availability as well as more space was ideal, so we approached Campus Technology Services who oversee the lab and began a discussion about this possibility,” Shaffer said. In the 2014 fall semester, this idea was tested and, according to Shaffer, was well received by students. With the computer lab remaining open, more computers and space will be available to students. “The availability of two spaces also allows us to offer both quiet and group study spaces, which was not possible in the past,” Shaffer said. “We ask that students using the computer lab work quietly and those

studying with their classmates use the 24hour room.” According to Shaffer, the beginning of the 24-hour room expansion will begin Sunday, May 3 at 10:00 a.m. and will run until Friday, May 15 at 4:30 p.m. “During this time, the 24-hour room and library computer lab will remain open all day and all night,” Shaffer said. “For those same dates, we also have extended hours for the whole library, which include early weekend openings and staying open until midnight Sunday through Thursday.”

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Taylor Clock | The Oswegonian With the need for more computer availability, the computer lab will be open 24-hours during finals weeks.

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