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Author explores identity, gender, sexual orientation Jessica Wickham Chief Copy Editor jwickham@oswegonian.com “Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality,” headed by author Robyn Ochs on Feb. 26, led Oswego State students and other attendees through interactive presentations and activities to explore traditional and nontraditional expressions of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation. Ochs said she has used her experience as a bisexual woman in her 60s to educate students and others around the world and to increase awareness and understanding across identities and social movements. Her presentation focused on the evolution of gender identity and sexual orientation labels with the aim of showing how labels are as complex as the individuals who choose to use them. “Identity is complicated,” Ochs said. “It’s hard sometimes to know
what to call yourself or how to label yourself or which of many options to use. I personally believe that people are too complicated to fit neatly into simple classification systems, except for maybe ‘human’ and ‘not human.’” Through her work, Ochs has helped to reform the traditional Kinsey Scale, the sexual-orientation categorizing system developed by Alfred Kinsey in 1948, to include numerous and fluctuating gender identities and orientations. “If you don’t fit neatly into someone else’s frame, the limitation lies with the frame, not with you,” Ochs said. To demonstrate how complex even new labels can be for people and how simple numbers of classification do not tell the whole story, Ochs had students fill out an anonymous survey and participate in an interactive activity.
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SA passes flag resolution Senators vote on individual additions, amendments Kassadee Paulo News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com After much debate, Oswego State’s Student Association voted to pass the resolution to request the Flag Policy Committee add five new flags to the Marano Campus Center when the other flags return from being cleaned and renewed. While not nearly as many community members attended this week’s SA meeting as they did the previous meeting, a few members of the public spoke to the senate as to why they do or do not support the bill. Rabbi Yossi Madvig spoke on behalf of concerned people in the Jewish community of Oswego in regards to the addition of the Palestinian flag. Madvig said he does not oppose hanging the flag itself, but rather the wording used in the resolution about why it was chosen. According to the original resolution, “the Palestinian flag (Appendix F) represents Pan-Arabian heritage and
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is a symbol of hope for a people’s group whom in a modern society face secondclass citizenship status and are subject
to brutal Apartheid oppression based on religious affiliation.”
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UP advisory board searches for members
Representatives to connect with University Police Peter Humpfreys Contributing Writer news@oswegonian.com
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Author Robyn Ochs discusses the evolution of gender, sexuality and sexual oritentation.
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Oswego State University Police are seeking to expand their current community policing strategy through the introduction of an advisory board. This board is a new way for students to connect with UP surrounding any arising issues around campus communication. The first meeting is scheduled to take place in March. The newly instated advisory board will consist of one representative from each residence hall, one representative from the Student Association and numerous members of any student organization on campus that would like to participate. The board will also include a representative from
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the professional staff and a faculty representative. This group will meet on a monthly basis to discuss recent concerns between the
connection of students, faculty, staff and UP.
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