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Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 VOLUME LXXXIII ISSUE I SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
Bernice A. King speaks at Oswego State celebration Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter visits campus for annual event Tatyana Bellamy-Walker Asst. News Editor twalker@oswegonian.com
Photo provided by the Office of Communications and Marketing Bernice A. King discusses social and economic disparities of today while encouraging people to be involved.
Administration, students reflect on smoke-free first year Travis Clark Managing Editor tclark@oswegonian.com
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January 2016 marked the one-year anniversary of Oswego State’s transition to a smoke and tobacco free campus. According to the Smoke Free/Tobacco Free Policy that can be found on the Oswego State website, the policy is intended to “prohibit smoking of any kind and other uses of tobacco products on campus, at extension campuses, at all indoor and outdoor events, college sponsored programs and activities off campus, in personally owned vehicles parked on campus and all vehicles and equipment owned, leased or operated by the College and its affiliate organizations.” Since the policy was implemented last year, students, faculty and staff have been encouraged to abandon their smoking habits in order to promote a more healthy and clean environment on campus. However, according to some Oswego State officials, the policy is expected to be “self-regulated,” with faculty members and the campus community telling each other to put out their cigarettes if they happen to pass by someone who is smoking. This means that University Police and Residence Life staff, such as Resident Assistants, are not required to enforce the policy throughout campus. “Our only involvement was being on the committee,” said University Police Chief John Rossi. “We are not taking enforcement action on violations of the policy and we have not received any complaints since it was initiated.” Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Jerald Woolfolk, took over as chairwoman of the Smoke and Tobacco-Free committee in January 2014. The committee, according to Woolfolk, was made up of students, faculty,
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Rev. Bernice A. King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., hopes Oswego State can build upon her father’s legacy. Since 1986, Oswego State has held more than a dozen Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. “It doesn’t require another Martin Lu-
ther King,” King said. “But people who are willing to study the blueprint left by [an] architect to change our world.” Oswego State President Deborah Stanley said “in the land of Oz” students are the “laborers” of this blueprint. For years King, a chief executive director of the King Center in Atlanta, has advised students to facilitate diversity. Last Friday, she served as a keynote speaker for the Oswego State’s 27th annual Martin
Blizzard of ‘66 Oswego facing mild winter 50 years after devastating snow storm
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his past December was the warmest on record. Flashback to 50 years ago in 1966, winds increased to a gusting 60 miles per hour, temperatures dropped to about 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and Oswego experienced 102 inches of snowfall on Jan. 27.
“It started so slowly and beautifully,” said Deborah Hill, a 1966 alumna. “And then, ka-boom!” The three-day snowstorm crippled the city of Oswego for a week but lasted in the memories of students and residents for years to come. At the time, cell phones, Internet and Doppler Radar were nonexistent and, although snow storms are a common winter occurrence in the Oswego area, many people were left unprepared.
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“We don’t remember hearing anything and of course it is not like nowadays when you turn on the news or your phone,” Hill said. “It just happened.” Jim Farfaglia grew up in the bordering town of Fulton and was 10 years wold at the time of the blizzard of 1966 and was so amazed by the storm that, last year he published a book entitled “Voices in the Storm: Stories from the Blizzard of ’66.” Farfaglia found in his research that
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Luther King Jr. celebration. Sponsored by the Oswego State Division of Student Affairs and the Enrollment Management committee, hundreds of students, faculty and community leaders like Mayor William “Billy” Barlow filled the audience. Meanwhile, at the podium, King wore a black beaded necklace and a bronze patterned suit, mirroring the stance and raw vo-
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Student Association president accepts job in Baltimore, resigns JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com Student Association President Christopher Collins-McNeil officially resigned Tuesday after accepting a fulltime paid position in Baltimore, leaving SA Vice President Emily Nassir to be sworn in as the new SA president. This is the third consecutive year the SA vice president’s position has been available for the spring semester of the academic year. According to the order of succession in the SA constitution, the pro tempore is the rules and judiciary committee chair. Upon refusal, the opportunity for the vice president’s seat passes to the finance committee chair and is then open to an election within the Senate. After Sen. Sarah Woods, rules and judiciary committee chair, and Sen. Alex George, finance committee chair, declined, the position continued to an open election. Sen. Ryan Cobane nominated Sen. Shelby Gallaro, student involvement committee chair, for pro tempore. After questions and debate, Gallaro was elected SA vice president. Sen. Himberger, Sen. Vital, Sen. Christ and Sen. Bennett run for the new Student Involvement Committee chair. After introdutions and debate, the senate elects Sen. Christ is elected the new Student Involvement Committee chair. Collins-McNeil said he applied to jobs during winter break but never expected to be presented with a job opportunity before completing his degree or finishing his term as SA president and couldn’t pass up the opportunity. “I wasn’t able to finish my term but
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