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Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE XIV SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
Campus receives first snowy day, some unprepared for flurries
Nicole Hube | The Oswegonian Oswego State experienced a snowfall on Thursday, with the weather catching some off guard.
Colin Hawkins News Editor chawkins@oswegonian.com
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While many students dreaded the first significant snowfall of the season on the Oswego State campus, some were excited to start the winter season. On Thursday, a rainy morning at Oswego State turned to frozen precipitation and by afternoon, large snowflakes drifted onto the campus. Student reactions were as mixed as the freezing precipitation, though most focused on the relatively cold temperatures and snow that seemingly marked the end of warm weather for the year. While most students seemed prepared with winter coats and boots, some students wore only light jackets or wrapped themselves in blankets to brave the cold temperatures and gusting wind as they made their way across campus. “This is the only coat I own, and I’m already cold,” Adrianna Dio-
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dato, an Oswego State freshman said outside Marano Campus Center. “Now it’s snowing, and I wasn’t prepared for this because it doesn’t snow where I live.” Diodato was with two other freshmen, Hallie Rapisarda and Jess Silver, as they walked from Marano Campus Center to “someplace warm.” “I just had my mom send my jacket up. It’s getting too cold, I need it already, thank God,” Rapisarda said. The three students are from Long Island and this is their first winter in Oswego. “This is just really early and it never snows at home,” Silver said. “I feel like [the snow] has gotten considerably harder since we’ve gotten outside.” The snow was cause for excitement, however, for students in the meteorology program at the Shineman Center.
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Oswego adds counselors
Counseling Center hires additional staff to meet demand Rachel McKenna Chief Copy Editor rmckenna@oswegonian.com
The Counseling Services Center of Oswego State has recently added four new temporary counselors to its team to accommodate students who are on a long waiting list to be seen. The waitlist for a student to get an appointment with a counselor has been stacking up since September, and has once gone over 70 students waiting on it, Director of Counseling Services Center Katherine Wolfe-Lyga said.
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