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Men’s club sports take budget cuts SA makes funding changes to avoid Title IX violation Kassadee Paulo Incoming News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com Oswego State Student Association voted to approve next year’s budget for clubs April 18, but with a major change to the funding for club sports teams: the men’s and women’s teams of the same sport will receive the same amount. Men’s club sports teams have historically been funded more than their counterparts, resulting in the Equal Pay for Equal Play movement, which d e m a nd s e q u a l o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r women in athletics and in general. This year’s budget granted $37,500 to men’s club ice hockey and $7,200 to women’s club ice hockey, which is a difference of $30,300. The change in the budget took the funding from this year for both teams, added them together and then split the funds in half to dole out to both teams. This caused the men’s club ice hockey team to lose $8,500 and an increase of $22,199 for women’s club ice hockey from the amount they received this year. Both teams will now receive $29,399 for next year, which is $19,601 less than what the men’s team had requested for next year.
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Men’s club ice hockey head coach Christopher Timmons expressed concern with the cut in the budget. Timmons said the players for his Div. I team already pay dues, and this will cause them to have to pay more out of pocket to cover for officials and ice time. “We don’t want to take anything away from women’s club hockey at all; we would love to see them keep growing as an organization,” Timmons said. “We are behind [gender and pay equality] 100 percent, but when it comes to club sports, we felt as if it should be based more on the investment of the club and its mem-
bers within it.” The team must follow standards set by the league it is part of, which costs more than not being part of a league. Timmons said although they have adjusted their budget, he sees the budget cut as an injustice. “We believe that the prior evaluation of club sports was pretty accurate, based on the size of the club, how much was invested into certain clubs,” Timmons said. “For us, it’s kind of eye-opening because other clubs don’t charge player dues.”
Rita Coburn, Francisco Suarez: diversity speaker program ends Jessica Wickham Incoming Chief Copy Editor jwickham@oswegonian.com Education and inclusivity were key themes at the press conference held with documentar y filmmaker Rita Coburn and Oswego State assistant professor Francisco Suarez at 5:30 p.m. on April 17. Coburn’s most recent documentary, “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” was the result of a long career spent working with Angelou for Oprah Radio. The film was shown to Oswego State students at 6 p.m. on March 27 and discussed as part of Tuesday’s “Voices of Diversity” speaker series on campus. At the press conference, Coburn said the numerous perspectives that each person provides requires acceptance to make progress. “We have to be diverse because we have so many points of view,” Coburn said. “Until we have many of those points of view out in the media and out in the communications world, we have a skewed picture of who we are as a people.”
Francisco works in the Department of Communication Studies at Oswego State and organized the main event for the evening. He echoed Coburn’s message and said the current climate has become divisive in an unproductive way. “We live in a world, in moments, that are ver y difficult for ever ybody, where we don’t seem to have the willingness to really listen to each other,” Suarez said.“When we lo s e t h a t w i l l i n g n e s s , w e a re i n trouble.” Education is the solution to this issue, Coburn said, and Angelou is emblematic of this concept. “Maya Angelou never attended c o l l e g e ,” C o b u r n s a i d . “ S h e w a s largely self-taught, but she so believed in education, and I too feel that education gets us past the squalls of life.” Coburn said what inspired her to tell Angelou’s story, and others like it, through her work in radio and film was the desire to bring minorities into media.
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Sustainability Office celebrates Earth Week, not Day Oswego students reach out to peers to share ways to help save planet Colin Hawkins Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com
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April 22 is Earth Day, but on campus, the Sustainability Office is holding Earth Week at the Marano Campus Center from April 23 to 27 to honor Oswego’s commitment to sustainability. E a r t h W e e k i s a “c e l e b r a t i o n of [Oswego’s] yearly accomplishments,” said Peterly Jean-Baptiste, campus outreach intern at the Sustainability Office. Jean-Baptiste said the focus is on the impact of our programs such as Bus Share and Save The Trees. T h ro u g h o u t E a r t h We e k , e a c h day will focus on a different college sustainability program. Monday will feature Save The Trees, where the office asks students to fill out a pledge to reduce paper waste on campus by digitally submitting assignments or reusing old papers for notes. One way the Sustainability Office suggests saving paper is to
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microwave your notebook. With the product Rocketbook Wave, a special notebook that allows users to scan their pages to a cloud service of their choice can be microwaved up to five times to remove all highlighter, marker and cer tain pen inks from the notebook pages. These notebooks are a personal favorite of Theresa
Personna, the public relations intern at the Sustainability Office. “I get so hyped by not only informing people about this groundb re a k i ng [ no t e b o ok ] b u t a l s o f o r the look on their faces when I talk a b o u t p u t t i ng t he ph y s i c a l b o ok in the microwave,” Personna said.
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Maria Pericozzi | The Oswegonian “Voices of Diversity” program came to a close with the visit to Oswego by Rita Coburn (left) .
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Peterly Jean-Baptiste (right) speaks to an Oswego student about Sustainability Office programs while tabling.
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