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VOLUME LXXXII ISSUE I SINCE 1935
Waterbury Hall re-opens after renovations
Lakeside residence hall premiered its new design this past August but continues to keep its close-knit community strong Kaylyn Izzo Contributing Writer news@oswegonian.com If you search “Waterbury Hall” on the Oswego State website, you’ll find the hall, according to students, described as having a friendly and positive atmosphere with a close-knit community, and it seems this environment has been preserved with the new renovations. A senior, Conor Smith, lived in Waterbury three years ago as a transfer student. He says he made a lot of friends in Waterbury his first year at Oswego and is still friends with most of them today. “I met a lot of nice people, and although it was a run-down building, I had a good time,” Smith said. “It was a free flowing place where you ran into the same people over and over again.” However, he now lives in Seneca Hall where he says the atmosphere isn’t quite the same. “It’s harder to meet people, a passing ‘hello’ is really it,” Smith said. “People don’t really hang out in the lounges in Seneca.” Justie Impolyte, a sophomore, is a current resident of Waterbury Hall. “I met a lot of people in my wing and everyone’s really friendly,” Impolyte said. “All the RA’s are nice and everybody smiles.” Although Impolyte has only been in Waterbury a few weeks, she is enjoying it so far and says there is nothing she doesn’t like about the renovations. The Keith Amundsen | The Oswegonian Waterbury Hall made improvements by incorporating lounges on every floor, a computer lab, individualized bathrooms, a 70-inch screen television in the main lounge and an eco-friendly design.
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Administration issues campus-wide State van unexpectedly catches fire safety alert, later modifies notice Vehicle fire occurs outside of Moreland Hall for reasons unknown JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com
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Oswego State administration issued a safety notice on Aug. 23 raising awareness to an unknown suspect involved in a sexual harassment case. Three days later, the college revised its original statements. Oswego State reported that a freshman female resident of Seneca Hall was sexually harassed and later recanted, according to the campus-wide safety notices. The first campus announcement, sent at 10:21 p.m. on Sunday, stated the female student was “accosted and subjected to unwanted physical touching” by an unknown male student during the early morning hours of Aug. 22 and
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again on the morning of Aug. 23. According to New York State Penal Law 130.52, the term “forcible touching” is when a person “intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person; for the purpose of gratifying the actor’s sexual desire.” According to Director of Communication and Marketing Julie Blissert, the campus-wide email was sent because the incident fell under federal law known as the Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities, both public and private, participating in federal student aid programs to disclose campus safety information and imposes certain basic requirements for han-
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JoAnn DeLauter News Editor jdelauter@oswegonian.com An Oswego State van caught fire after two on-campus plumbers arrived for a job at Moreland Hall on Aug. 28 around 12:30 p.m. The residence hall was evacuated and University Police dispatchers were called at 12:59 p.m., according to University Police Chief John Rossi. No injuries occurred. Plumbers Fred Madison and Mike Bareham smelled smoke as they exited the vehicle near the SAVAC garage in Moreland Hall’s back parking lot when the Oswego State vehicle went up in flames. According to Oswego Fire Department
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Photo provided by Oswego Fire Department Oswego State van catches fire near the SAVAC garage in the back parking lot of Moreland Hall.
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