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OzFest price released SA, SAPB drop host Lil’ Duval from original lineup, affecting ticket cost
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JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com The second annual OzFest concert will come at a price of $15 for all students after the Student Association and Student Association Programming Board decided to drop celebrity comedian Lil’ Duval from the lineup. According to SAPB Director Imani Cruz and SA President Emily Nassir, everything came together at the right moment.
While SA and SAPB’s goal was to keep the ticket prices as low as possible, complaints of Lil’ Duval’s humor being inappropriate and discriminatory came trickling in from a number of students. This ultimately made SA and SAPB come to the conclusion of dropping him from the lineup and announcing ticket prices during Tuesday night’s senate meeting, according to Cruz. “If we brought him here, a lot of women in particular might feel uncomfortable and we don’t want that,” Cruz said. In replacement of Lil’ Duval, DJ Kobe
from HOT 107.9 Syracuse is hosting the concert on May 6 at 8 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center Arena. “We want to provide students with a more comfortable and judge-free zone when they come to this concert,” Nassir said. In regards to the price, SA Finance Director Matthew Peters said SA wanted to put on a show that is affordable for students and does not break the bank for them financially. Last year at the first annual OzFest
Oswego State students work hard to prepare for upcoming Quest presentations Natalie Brophy Copy Editor nbrophy@oswegonian.com Quest is a much-anticipated day for Oswego State students every year. Those who are presenting look forward to sharing their hard work with the college community and for those who are not presenting, the day is filled with sleeping in, catching up on homework, binge-watching Netflix, hanging out with friends or drinking the day away. Quest provides students from all different departments the opportunity to share what they love and get experience presenting in front of an audience. Matthew Doyle, Naomi Castillo-Lugo, Kate Baile and Vincent Debiase are among many that will all be presenting at this year’s Quest. Doyle is a graduate human-computer interaction student. He will be graduating with his master ’s degree in May 2016. Doyle’s presentation is about using robots to make Mars an inhabitable planet for humans, a concept known as terraforming. This would be done through telepresence, meaning humans living on Earth would control the robots. “I think it’s really important that we start thinking about these things,” Doyle said. “I love space and I enjoy trying to conceptualize large problems into smaller ones that may be more manageable with our current technologies.” Doyle has been researching this topic on his own since September. Although he
has presented at Quest twice before, once as an undergraduate student and another time as a graduate student, Doyle is excited to finally present a project that is all his own. “I think what I will be presenting this year is incredibly important, so I hope to spark the interest of someone so that they can maybe continue this work after I graduate,” Doyle said. To ensure that he is prepared for his final Quest presentation, Doyle said he plans to go over his research with his advisor and by himself. He does not like to use note cards during presentations, so he prepares by rehearsing what he is going to say a few days in advance. “I am very excited, this will be my last [Quest presentation] since I am graduating and I personally feel this is my best work,” Doyle said. “I enjoy the Quest symposium very much and I think it’s a great opportunity for students to showcase their work.” Castillo-Lugo is a senior with a double major in sociology and Spanish. She will be presenting a Spanish poem along with three of her classmates for her Spanish senior seminar class, which focuses on Paraguayan culture. Castillo-Lugo and her classmates will be reading the poem “La Historia Empieza en Altos,” which means “History Begins in Altos” in English, from the book “Poemas y Canciones / Poems and Songs” by Juan Manuel Marcos. According to Castillo-Lugo, the poem is about a war in Paraguay. “[The poem] is about a guy and his role in the war and how his goal was to end the war and
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Unusual April weather not so unusual in Oswego Mild winter, snowy spring proven normal by forecast history of central New York JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com
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Coming back from spring break, many Oswego State students were greeted by temperatures in the 60s and sunny skies, yet it soon turned as Mother Nature planned her April Fool’s joke that ended in chilling temperatures during the following weekend. During the weekend of April Fool’s Day, Oswego was blanketed by 5.2 inches of snow within one night, which was then garnished by another light dusting of snow the very next day. Even when the snow stopped falling, the cold temperatures remained
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with overnight low temperatures getting as bitterly cold as the teens. This drastic change in the weather pattern caught some students completely off guard, including junior Pedro Gomez. “It’s baffling to see these conditions come out and sneak up on us when we were more than convinced the snow had run its course,” Gomez said. Even those who aren’t usually surprised by the roller coaster weather patterns that Oswego has become infamous for were still surprised to see nearly half of a foot of snow on the ground in April including senior Tiffany Carr. “I know this is Oswego, but I still wasn’t expecting to have anything more than just
flurries in April,” Carr said. According to associate Professor of Meteorology Scott Steiger, snow in April is common for Oswego and central New York in general. “It has been a season where pretty much all normal expectations can be thrown out the window,” Steiger said. He said this area of the country sees a few inches of snow in April on average and that spring altogether is an “up-and-down” time. Growing up in Rochester before coming to Oswego State as a student, Steiger’s well-versed in the climate here. So much so, that he would not be surprised to see more
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