The Oswegonian 2-15-19

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Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE II SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com

Ladies Home shuts down, relocates current residents Samantha Flavell Editor-in-Chief sflavell@oswegonian.com The Ladies Home on 43 E. Utica St. in Oswego is closing its doors after a total of 146 years of service. The residential care facility for senior citizen women dates back to 1872 when a group of 24 women joined to address concerns about the care for the less fortunate women who were in need in the community and had no support. The home dates back to a time when there were nogovernment agencies in place yet to assist in elderly care. The Oswego Ladies Home was erected on Feb. 14, 1875, just three years after the original idea. On Feb. 7, the board of directors for the Ladies Home of Oswego released a statement saying the home would close “by the end of the month or soon thereafter [and] that current residents can be relocated.”

The statement goes on to say that the decision was reached based on a number of economic factors such as ongoing financial difficulties due to increasing costs and the dwindling number of residents who are interested in living in the congregate housing. Many Oswego students volunteered at the Ladies Home and were saddened to hear it would be closing. Oswego State senior Cliff-Simon Vital reminisced about past community service projects he had done for the Ladies Home with Alpha Phi Omega, a national community service fraternity on campus. “It’s really sad to hear that a pillar of the Oswego community is closing,” Vital said. “Getting involved in Alpha Phi Omega … gave me the opportunity to write cards to the ladies. It is sad to think that I won’t have the opportunity to make their days anymore.”

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SA, clubs propose new flags Petitioned additions to be discussed at next SA meeting Jamie Aranoff Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com Different Oswego State student organizations have petitioned for the addition of flags in Marano Campus Center representing other groups and countries to represent diversity and inclusion on campus. The flags, hung since 2007 usually above the student media hallway, have been taken down for maintenance since fall 2018. Their re-introduction to campus has received backlash from many different clubs and organizations over what each believes is acceptable to fly. According to the Student Association resolution, the flags petitioned to be added are the new Philadelphia pride flag, transgender pride flag, Black Lives Matter flag, Pan-African flag, Palestinian flag and the Iroquois Native American Tribal flag. The proposal for these flags was scheduled to meet on Tuesday at the weekly SA meeting, but due to the weather, the meeting will take place

Maria Pericozzi | The Oswegonian Among the proposed flags is the Philadelphia pride flag which adds black and brown stripes.

next week. Student Association President Omar van Reenen is welcoming comments, questions and concerns from all students and organizations, and he said, along with the senate, he speaks on behalf of students and

gives them a voice. Some of the students voicing their concerns about the flags are those from the Young Americans for Freedom association.

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University Police uses body cameras

Officers commence recording incidents while on duty Kassadee Paulo News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com

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After 146 years of service, The Ladies Home will close its doors to senion citizen women.

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Beginning this month, University Police at Oswego State started using body cameras on officers while on duty. Oswego State’s UP joined the upgrade with Syracuse University and seven other SUNY schools, including SUNY Oneonta, which began using body cameras in 2012 “to document their interactions with community members for purposes of accountability,” according to SUNY Oneonta’s 2020 Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan. Oswego Police Department also outfitted their officers with body cameras last December.

Maria Pericozzi | The Oswegonian Body cameras charge their batteries in the University Police office, located on West Campus.

“We are constantly looking to new technologies to assist us in keeping our community safe,” said University Police Chief John Rossi. “The cam-

eras will help by giving a much more accurate account of an incident.”

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