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Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 VOLUME LXXXVIII ISSUE XII SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
Oswego State professor writes Christmas movie
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Kassadee Paulo News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com Juliet Giglio, an Oswego State screenwriting assistant professor, had her most recent project, “A Very Nutty Christmas,” brought to life by Lifetime after just 10 months of writing, revising and production. Giglio co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, Keith Giglio, Syracuse University Newhouse associate professor. After a six-year recess of years writing together to focus on their teaching careers as professors, the two began collaborating once more. Together, they worked on “Noah,” “Pizza My Heart,” “Return to Halloweentown” and “Tarzan,” among others. “We bounce stuff off each other very well,” Giglio said. “The great thing about working with a writing partner is if you write something that is funny and they laugh, then you know it’s funny, and if they don’t laugh, you know it’s not funny.” She said in the beginning of their careers, they faced challenges with writing together because they did not quite trust each other entirely in terms of writing yet. But, with this project, they trusted each other’s writing abilities completely and enjoyed the writing process.
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Poet documents SA fails to meet quorum environmental Low numbers of senators result in temporary recess Julia Tilley Asst. News Editor jtilley@oswegonian.com The Oswego State Student Association meeting on Nov. 27 was forced to recess after not having enough senators to meet quorum. They had 12 out of 18 senators present at the beginning of the meeting, so they were able to begin discussing what was on the agenda. However, one senator left in the middle of the meeting, so Vice President Edward Kelly had the meeting go to recess. “The way that it’s working right now is we’re in recess, so we can now discuss really about anything, so if you have questions for bills or legislation, you can still address those to Miranda [Kryskow, director of finance],” Kelly said. Without the minimum 12 senators present, no business can be voted on. So, although the senators could have discussed what was on their agenda, they were
unable to take action on it and would need to re-discuss it the following meeting, which was moved to Thursday. Without 12 senators present, they were not even able to officially adjourn the meeting, so the meeting is technically in recess until they have at least 12 senators present to adjourn it. During the meeting, President Omar van Reenan stepped in to give his suggestions to Kelly. “They can ask Director Kryskow any questions they would like to and have the committee meetings, and on Tuesday, we continue the Senate, and then the Senate can decide [on the bills],” van Reenan said. Some senators were disappointed with not being able to finish their business during the meeting, as the semester is coming to an end. “In my three years of Senate, this is the first time to happen, though we have had to start meetings late due to senators being late,” said senator and president
pro tempore Andre Nichols. “A lot of times, I’ve seen us meet the bare minimum for quorum, which is also an issue.” In order to discuss what was meant to be discussed on Tuesday, Kelly called a special meeting on Thursday to debate a club sport funding bill. On Tuesday, senators had different ideas about what should be done about not meeting quorum. Nichols said he credits some of the quorum to the dedication of the current senators and has a solution to this problem. “We need to have senators that are truly committed to this organization, as I feel some do not take this issue as seriously as others,” Nichols said. “I am also hoping to present a constitutional amendment next semester that will grant unelected Senate seats to members of different student organizations, such as club sports, academic clubs and affinity organizations, like Black Student Union or Caribbean Student Association.”
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Julia Tilley | The Oswegonian Student Association did not meet the minimum of 12 senators to continue Tuesday’s session and had to recess until Thursday to make quorum.
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Jessica Wickham Chief Copy Editor jwickham@oswegonian.com Poet Rebecca Dunham visited the Living Writers Series class on Nov. 26 as part of the Fresh Water Initiative on campus, where she talked about her creative process and advice for students on writing about depressing material. Dunham spoke on her most recent poetry collection, “Cold Pastoral,” for an audience of students and visitors at 3 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center auditorium. Her book was introduced to the class for the Fresh Water Initiative, a campus-wide effort dedicated to the study and awareness of fresh water projects locally and throughout the world. In her presentation, Dunham explored possible answers to the question of an artist’s role in an environmental crisis, along with the role she chose of research and documentary poetry. “She does not look away,” said Laura Donnelly, professor of the Living Writers Series class. “She does not document from a distance. Instead, she meets with and listens to and carries forth the voices of the people and places most effected.” “Cold Pastoral” is a collection of poems tackling environmental themes, mostly centered around the BP oil spill in April 2010. The spill remains the largest accidental oil spill in history, and Dunham said it was the first photo that came out of the disaster that drew her to her research project.
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