The Oswegonian 11-1-19

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Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE XVIII SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com

Taco Bell opens in Oswego

Oswego State students critical of college, SA after campus free speaker

Ben Grieco Managing Editor bgrieco@oswegonian.com

Ericka Solomon Contributing Writer news@oswegonian.com

After delays, popular fast food restaurant arrives

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After being announced more than a year ago, the city of Oswego finally has its own Taco Bell after the grand opening on Wednesday. The new Taco Bell, located on the corner of Route 104 and George St. on the eastern side of Oswego, opened after construction began on May 1. After some setbacks, the fast-food restaurant, which was originally planned to open in late summer, opened at 7 a.m. Wednesday. Hospitality Syracuse, Inc., owns and operates the Taco Bell in Oswego, as well as the Taco Bell located in Fulton, which opened in the middle of January this year. Jessica Woodburn, marketing director for Hospitality Syracuse, Inc., said in an interview earlier this year that there was “a huge want” for the Taco Bell in Oswego. Woodburn mentioned that with the establishment of the Taco Bell, there were at least 60 local jobs created. Woodburn was not sure if any of those jobs were opened to college students, since she does not work at the store-level. “It was a no-brainer to go to Oswego, especially with the college and the high demand for Taco Bell,” Woodburn said. “We’re just excited to be [in Oswego] and be open. The welcome we’ve received by the community has been fantastic.” While the restaurant opened earlier in the day to be able to serve breakfast, Taco Bell’s ribbon-cutting ceremony was not until 10 a.m. The first group of patrons showed up at 6 a.m., which included Oswego State senior Anthony Notaro. Showing up extremely early “started off as a joke,” he said, but during the week the group was actually debating showing up at 6 a.m. “Being able to actually say I was first at Taco Bell sounded too good to pass on,” Notaro said. Notaro said the only negative to showing up so early was that Taco Bell only serves breakfast until 9 a.m, limiting what he could

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On Wednesday, Oct. 16, traveling preacher Jessie Morrell visited the Oswego State campus leaving many students feeling uncomfortable and confused about who is allowed on the Oswego State campus and what they can say. Morrell upset some students by preaching his beliefs regarding same-sex marriage and confronting a same-sex couple who kissed in front of him. “I felt that his intentions may have been a little bit misguided and that he feels very strongly in something and that he is pushing his opinions on people that he knows don’t care to listen,” sophomore political science major Rylee Collea said. Collea is friends with the couple who was confronted and believes

that more should have been done to stop the harassment. “I think the school should say, ‘Hey you can’t say those kinds of things to students here who are paying for an education,’” Collea said. “It would be nice to have that kind of voice from an institution that we pay to go to.” The Oswego State Student Association drew criticism during public comment at the Oct. 29 meeting, where senior anthropology major Chelsea Scott called on SA to do more to protect Oswego State students from harassment. In an email interview, Scott pointed out that, “the school states on their website that the best way to handle a bias related incident is by filing a police report as this will ensure proper investigation. There is no police report and the police refused to allow any report of harassment to be made.”

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choose off the menu. “I got a breakfast sausage crunch wrap and a Baja Blast that I mixed with Red Bull because I was exhausted and had school soon,” Notaro said. Even Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow was in attendance for lunch, grabbing his “favorite meal,” which included a box of tacos and a Mountain Dew Baja Blast, a staple drink from Taco Bell. “Between people in the SUNY community and people who just overall love Taco Bell and are tired of driving to Fulton or North Syracuse to get it, I think they’ll do really

well,” Barlow said. Woodburn said there has been a lot of questions whether or not Taco Bell will deliver within Oswego with the chain’s national partner, Grubhub. However, since Grubhub has not established itself in Oswego quite yet, there will be no delivery. Starting next week, both the Taco Bell app and website will allow people to order from their homes and “avoid the line,” Woodburn said.

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