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Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE XIII SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com

Free fall concert announced

Musical act confirmed for outdoor event during homecoming

Julia Tilley Asst. News Editor jtilley@oswegonian.com

Colin Hawkins News Editor chawkins@oswegonian.com

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Oswego State will have a free outdoor concert for homecoming this year on Oct. 4, hosted by the Student Association Programming Board. The concert will feature hiphop artist Young M.A, a nationally renowned rapper from Brooklyn, New York. Oswego State has hosted fall concerts in the past, but according to Director of Campus Life Daniel Roberts, the fall concert fell to the wayside compared to the spring concert. “This is sort of a rekindling of a tradition that used to exist at SUNY Oswego,” Roberts said. “Way back when, almost a decade and a half ago at this point, SAPB would sponsor a free outdoor fall concert and a free spring concert the following semester.” Roberts said that after OzFest, the end-of-year event and concert in spring semester, the fall concert became less of a priority until it eventually faded away. Young M.A is a rap artist out of Brooklyn recently acclaimed for her freestyle and cool charismatic flow. The abbreviation in Young M.A stands for “Me Always.” One of Young M.A’s top tracks, “OOOUUU,” released in 2016 and has since gone tripleplatinum. “OOOUUU” has been remixed and sampled by hip-hop artists such as Eminem, Nicki Minaj and 50 Cent. While she has been an active artist since 2012, her first full album is scheduled to release on Sept. 27, just ahead of the Oct. 4 concert. The outdoor homecoming concert is free, but tickets are required due to zoning and consideration for a rain location, according to Roberts. Tickets are limited to about 1,400 and are available starting Sept. 20. The venue, the lawn behind Swetman Gym near the outside entrance to The Space,

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Club sports budget procedure changes, SA establishes championship fund Club sports teams have a new fund they can use in the event they make it to a championship level, due to a new budgeting system put in place last year. Last year, Student Association allotted $10,000 for their contingency fund. This fund serves as almost “extra funds,” in the event that an on-campus organization may need additional funding during the year. In order for an organization to ask for and receive more money, they need to have representatives present what they want and why in front of the senate at a Student Association meeting. Two senators then write a bill for the organization, and senators later vote on whether or not the club will receive the money they asked for. This year, due in part to the work of Director of Campus Life Dan Roberts and the 2018 - 2019 Director of Finance Miranda Kryskow, this year’s contingency budget has seen a vast change. This year, there is $20,000 in the contingency fund, and a separate $20,000 for club sports, in the event they make it to the championship level of their season. The way the sports budget has been decided in the past was completely revamped, and last year’s Equal Pay for Equal Play move-

ment had a hand in encouraging the change. “What that really did unveil was that there wasn’t just a large funding discrepancies in overall budget, but price per participant, which is what Title IX kind of really looks at when they look at equity across sports funding and things like that, was way out of whack, too,” said Roberts. “SA agreed that the administrative function of the club sports budget process needed to be contracted with and passed off to an administrative entity like Campus Life.” According to Roberts, that is a common trend among other universities across the United States. When researching and surveying around 50 other colleges to decide what method to implement during budget planning, almost every other school has their student government allot funds created by the student activity fee to campus sports and organizations, but then contract with an administrative office, such as Campus Life or Campus Recreation, to supervise the disbursement of the rest of the funds. Starting in January of last year, Kryskow and the club sports graduate assistant held workshops with the club sports teams about the new budget process, which included submitting an online form. The form allowed teams

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Image provided by SAPB Brooklyn hip-hop artist Young M.A will headline the free outdoor concert during homecoming.

opens at 7 p.m. with the show starting at 8 p.m. The location, Roberts said, should highlight the beauty of upstate New York and Lake Ontario in autumn. “We’ll have some opening acts,

we’ll have some music playing, people will be able to come and enjoy what will hopefully be a beautiful upstate New York sunset just before Young M.A hits the stage,” Roberts said.

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