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Jerald Woolfolk, VP of Student Affairs, to leave Oswego State Cole Parzych Editor-in-Chief cparzych@oswegonian.com Lincoln University has found its new president from within the Oswego State faculty. Jerald Woolfolk currently serves as the vice president of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management as well as the interim chief diversity officer at the end of the spring semester. June 1 will mark her first day on the job at Lincoln University. Woolfolk has received plenty of congratulatory sentiments from students and faculty since the news was announced by the school. “I’ve been hugging a lot of people
over the last two weeks,” Woolfolk said. Woolfolk has been working at Oswego State since Januar y 2014 and has made many great memories here with not one regret. Her son, Brandon, graduated from the college last May. “I’ve had a wonderful run here at Oswego,” Woolfolk said. “I love this community. I love the students. It’s been just fantastic. I’ve developed very strong relationships with students.” Prior to coming to Oswego, New York, for a string of interviews, Woolfolk had never seen the Oswego State campus. She met President Deborah
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Photo provided by the Office of Communications and Marketing Woolfolk (center right) poses with students at the 2017 Welcome Picnic, which welcomed students back for fall semester.
Women’s Center marches for equality Attendees protest gender inequality on Oswego State campus Kassadee Paulo Asst. News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com Women and men gathered by the dozens to march around Oswego State’s campus and advocate for equal rights between genders on Wednesday March 21. O r g a n i z e d b y t h e W o m e n ’s Center, the Women’s March drew in students who wanted to voice their concern with inequality that women still face today. Despite the chilly weather, the students marched on with their signs, their voices shouting chants of female empowerment and solidarity. “We seek equality in the SUNY Oswego community and beyond through engaging discussions on social justice, joining others in the fight against sexism, racism, c l a s s i s m a n d a l l o t h e r o p p re s sions, and offering a safe space for all genders,” according to the Women’s Center Laker Life page. Emely Curiel, vice president o f t h e O s w e g o S t a t e Wo m e n ’s C e n t e r s ay s t h a t t h e Wo m e n’s Center has been working toward amplifying their voice and making themselves known
on campus. “I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback. A lot of people didn’t know what Women’s Center was a semester ago, a year ago, and today, you can ask people on campus and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, I know about them,’” Curiel said. “That was really our goal, to get up here and bring awareness to who we are and what
we do.” Some of the chants included: “Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes, and no means no,” “Women’s rights are human rights” and “Love, not hate, makes America great.” The event highlighted the difference in wages
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Student Association election season begins Candidates for president, vice president to debate before election April 17-18 Alexander Gault-Plate News Editor aplate@oswegonian.com
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The election season for Student A s s o c i a t i o n p re s i d e n t a n d v i c e president has officially begun, and the two candidates for president are Andre Nichols and Omar van Reenen. Both candidates are current members of SA, with Nichols serving as a senator and attorney gene r a l f o r t he 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 a c a d e m i c year and van Reenen ser ving as a s e n a t o r, d i r e c t o r o f d i v e r s i t y, e q u a l i t y a nd i nc l u s i o n , a nd S U NYSA representative for Oswego State and other four-year colleges in the SUNY system. The election this year will feature two debates. One, held on Thursday, was between vice presidential candidates Catherine Millington and Edward Kelly. The presidential debate will be held at 5 p.m., April 5,
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in Shineman 172. At these debates, candidates are asked questions, of which they have no prior knowledge, relating to the way they hope to run SA and how they will approach certain campus issues.
This election is the first in at least two years to have more than one candidate for the office of president. Last year’s election saw current
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Van Reenen (left) and Nichols (right) are the candidates for SA president for the upcoming election.
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