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VOLUME LXXXII ISSUE III SINCE 1935
SUNY adopts new diversity policy
Oswego hosts 2nd annual pride parade, festival Governor Cuomo initiates standards to implement inclusion for all campuses SUNY wide Tatyana Bellamy-Walker Asst. News Editor twalker@oswegonian.com Last weekend over a hundred Oswego County residents twirled rainbow flags in the air as they marched to celebrate the city’s second annual pride festival. “In a town that’s more conservative, it’s important we have a festival,” said senior and Oswego State Pride Alliance President Juanita Diaz. “[It] is showing that there are people that are accepting to being cool to everyone.” Senior and Pride Alliance member Corrine Bottelsen agreed that having the parade and festival shows Oswego’s acceptance. “Everybody knows [they] have a place to be who they are,” said Bottelsen. The parade started on the corner of Lake Ontario Street and ended in the parking lot of the Railroad Museum on 56 W. 1st St. Rainbow painted faces and Oswego pride parade T-shirts covered the crowd that marched to the Veterans stage at West Linear Park on 138 W. 1st. St. “Even though there are a lot of issues
Shea O’Malley Contributing Writer news@oswegonian.com Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy for all 64 SUNY schools. New York State is the first in the nation to implement this type of policy. Adopted by the board of trustees on Sept. 10, the plan will include implementing a chief diversity officer on every campus, as well as plans to increase cultural awareness among students, faculty and staff. “New York has a long and proud history of embracing diversity,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Our world-class SUNY system is no exception. With this new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy, we are once again sending a strong message that the Empire State is a national leader and a beacon of inclusion for all students.” According to Cuomo, diversity is allinclusive and includes students from all minority backgrounds. “The new policy broadly defines diversity,” Cuomo said in a statement. “To include race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and expression, age, socioeconomic status, status as a veteran, status as a student with a disability, first-generation and
Elijah Vary | The Oswegonian updated at the start of each semester. There are seven that students can choose from for sexual orientation: man, woman, transman, transwomen, genderqueer/ gender-fluid, questioning, unsure or an unlisted identity.
“With these actions, SUNY makes another clear statement that it is a welcoming place for members of the LGBTQ communities,” said SUNY Trustee Richard Socarides, a nationally-recognized LGBT rights
Oswego State plans to revive homecoming tradition
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international students or those transferring between colleges.” According to Cuomo, students will now have the option to voluntarily self-identify their gender identity and sexual orientation or other status if they choose to. This can be
Campus celebrates pride with school spirit events in the return of 40-year-old custom Tatyana Bellamy-Walker Asst. News Editor twalker@oswegonian.com
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After over 40 years, the Oswego State Alumni Association will return the homecoming tradition to campus on Nov. 14. “I am excited to be coordinating the reestablishment of our Homecoming program which will build traditions amongst the SUNY Oswego community, while helping to bridge connections between our current students, faculty and staff and our alumni and community members,” said Laura Kelley, SUNY Oswego Director of Alumni Relations. As spirited activities kick off in the Marano Campus Center, hundreds of Oswego State alumni are expected to attend the day-long festivities. “We are hoping that this event will engage many of our Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) alumni and athletic alumni,” Kelley said. In hopes of improving alumni-student relations, Kelley explained that the program will establish networking possibili-
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Photo provided by the Alumni Association Oswego State aims to bring back a tradition from the 1960s where the campus united in festivities surrounding school sports and alumni during Homecoming weekend.
ties for undergraduate students during the GOLD scholarship breakfast. President of the GOLD Leadership Council and alumnus of 2010, Austin Byrd
explained that the activities will create unity between current and past students. “The reunion is fun, but it's over the summer when the campus is dead,” Byrd
said. “There is something special [about] coming back to campus when it's alive with students.”
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Sustainability has shown a presence on Oswego State’s campus, with the progression of the new addition of the Permaculture Living Lab. The Permaculture Living Lab is the garden located between the Shineman Center and Lee Hall, on what used to be a construction site. It is designed to maximize interactions among plants, insects and animal species. This “edible forest landscape” aims to function as a natural, productive learning space. Over the past year, students and staff have put in their time and physical labor to get the Permaculture Living Lab where it is today. The term “permaculture,” a mash-up of the words “permanent” and “agriculture,” is a branch of sustainability that is intensely focused on self-regulation, self-regeneration and resiliency. These pillars are significant because they allow an ecosystem
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