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Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE III SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
Proposed flag resolution tabled until next week Kassadee Paulo News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com Sixteen members of the Oswego State community spoke their beliefs and opinions on Feb. 19 at the public comment portion of the first Student Association meeting of the spring semester. The topic of the debate is rooted from the proposed resolution, “Amandla, Awethu!: Power to the People.” This resolution proposes to add five new flags to the collection that has been hung in the Marano Campus Center since 2007 but has been removed for cleaning and review. The proposed flags include the Philadelphia pride flag, transgender pride flag, Black Lives Matter flag, Pan-African flag, Palestinian flag and the Iroquois Native American Tribal flag. While a majority of the people speaking at public comment agreed
with the resolution, some spoke on the reasons of why they oppose it, specifically the Palestinian flag. Some Jewish students, such as Jewish Life Treasurer Nathaniel Goldstein, spoke on why flying this flag would make him feel uncomfortable. “I fully support Pan-Arabian heritage and welcome those students with open arms,” Goldstein said. “However, I do not believe the proposed flag is the best one to represent Pan-Arabian people nor it should be hung in Marano Campus Center.” Also representing those opposing the resolution was a former senator-at-large, Connor Douglass, who spoke for students who do not want the resolution to pass but did not feel comfortable standing in front of a room of people who for the most part are in strong support of it. Douglass said the Black Lives Matter flag has political values and could cause controversy.
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SA passes, signs in Period Act Free menstrual products to be available in bathrooms Colin Hawkins Asst. News Editor chawkins@oswegonian.com Student Association passed a resolution Feb. 19 to provide free tampons and menstrual pads to all women’s restrooms, genderneutral restrooms and one third of men’s restrooms on campus. The Women’s Center Period Act: Free and Equal Access to Menstrual Products was passed unanimously Tuesday night. The bill was written by SA President Omar van Reenen and Lizbeth Ortega-Ramirez, SA director of gender equality and women’s affairs. The resolution will provide $500 drawn equally from the SA president’s executive civic engagement fund and the SA contingency fund. These funds will go toward the products as well as the installation of menstrual dispensary waste bins in genderneutral restrooms and the men’s
Photo provided by Omar van Reenen SA President Omar van Reenen (middle) signs in The Women’s Center Period Act resolution.
restrooms that will supply menstrual products. “The point is to make [menstru-
al products] largely available,” van Reenen said at the SA meeting.
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Pizza Villa plans to move locations
City of Oswego grants funding for pizzeria expansion Samantha Flavell Editor-in-Chief sflavell@oswegonian.com
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Members of the Oswego State community attend Student Association to debate the resolution.
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On Feb. 12, Mayor Billy Barlow announced Pizza Villa, the oldest pizzeria in the county, will be receiving a $25,000 grant to help it move to its new location on 145 W. Bridge St. Pizza Villa, established 53 years ago in 1966, will be moving into the vacant red-and-white Stone’s Candy Shop building on Oswego’s main strip. The grant will be used to initiate the start of Pizza Villa’s expansion project, which will include the purchasing of the new building and the remodeling of a new façade, along with plans to offer dining room seating, patio seating, a parking lot and equipment upgrades. The grant that Pizza Villa is receiving is part of a discretionary
Maria Pericozzi | The Oswegonian Pizza Villa, located at 101 1/2 W. Bridge St., will be moving down the road to a bigger building.
fund and was afforded to it by the city, according to Victoria Usherwood Gailinas, the project manager
for Pizza Villa’s expansion project.
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