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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF OSWEGO STATE UNIVERSITY • www.oswegonian.com
VOLUME LXXX ISSUE V
Increasing sexual assault reports show growing awareness
Cuomo proposal Study shows only 30 percent of incidents are reported; campus works to break trend with education to bring higher ed Aimee Hirsch reported crimes. According to One in Four good thing. Lisa Evaneski, associate dean of banned sex discrimination throughout the to state prisons Editor-at-Large ahirsch@oswegonian.com According to the Clery Report, six cases of sexual assault were reported on the Oswego State campus in 2012. This is the highest number in several years, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Sexual assault is one of the most under-
USA, a nonprofit group dedicated to rape prevention, only 30 percent of rape survivors report the incident to the police. If the six cases of sexual assault reported on Oswego State’s campus represent 30 percent of the actual number of incidents, there would be 14 cases that went unreported in 2012. That means more reported cases is a
students and Title IX coordinator at Oswego State, attributes more reported cases to increasing awareness. “I think the number reported is still low, but yes, I think our efforts in talking about this with students and employees, we have seen the number rise (which is good!),” Evaneski said in an email. Since it was passed in 1972, Title IX has
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college and campus community. And while many people associate it with gender equality in athletics, it also prohibits sexual harassment, including sexual violence, on campus. Title IX requires the college to investigate sexual assault cases that are reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Compliance,
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School plans to go tobacco-free by 2015, missing original 2014 time-frame planned by SUNY Ryan Deffenbaugh Editor-in-Chief rdeffenbaugh@oswegonian.com Oswego State intends to be a tobacco-free campus by January 2015, a measure that would come a year later than the SUNYwide goal, but make the school among only a handful of SUNYs to adopt the policy on its own. Jerald Woolfolk, vice president for student affairs and enrollment, said the university will begin to release marketing materials on the initiative over the next 90 days. “You’ll begin to see a lot of messaging in the form of digital, posters, letting everybody know that by January ‘15, we will be a smoke and tobacco-free campus,” Woolfolk, who is the current chair of the campus Clean Air Committee, said. See TOBACCO, A4
Unopposed SA leadership candidates hold debate
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Student Association presidential candidate Tucker Sholtes and vice presidential candidate Neely Laufer participated unopposed in the only SA election debate that will take place this campaign season. Both candidates were welcomed and introduced to those who attended the Wednesday night event in Johnson Hall. Sholtes, a junior president of both the business organization Enactus and Community Services and treasurer for ONE at Oswego, and Laufer, a current SA senator, first made their introduction statements. Sholtes began with discussing one of his
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Students weigh in on Ukraine crisis, coverage in media Daniel O’Connor Copy Editor doconnor@oswegonian.com
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David Armelino | The Oswegonian Tucker Sholtes, far right, discusses plans for his tenure as SA president, including improving involvement.
were not a lot of senators and those who were senators weren’t really involved. This resulted in a flood of freshman senators swearing in to the senate as the fall semester progressed. “I think a problem is that people hear
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that they can make some money off the senate and join it just because of it,” Laufer said. “I think our biggest problem is that senators aren’t really involved as much as they should be. Now we have a great group
more unique features in that he has no previous SA experience.
“I believe I can bring a lot of outside, unbiased opinions to SA since I am not as familiar with how things operate in SA,” Sholtes said. “So I hope that is able to be leveraged in my favor.” Laufer began her introduction with discussing her freshman standing, but how in her short time as a senator, she has taken a lot of action. “I’ve written a lot of legislation and most of it has been passed,” Laufer said. The two candidates then moved into the question segment of the debate. Laufer was asked about the problems that SA currently faces. Laufer said when she came into the senate last fall, there
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in late February a launch of a statewide program that would fund education in prisons so inmates could receive a college degree. The program is set to begin in the fall and will take place at 10 state prisons, one for each region of New York. Cuomo’s hope is that the program will help decrease the state’s high rates of recidivism, those who turn back to crime after release. Right now, it costs $60,000 per year to incarcerate one person and about $3.6 billion in total costs for prisons, with a 40 percent chance of an inmate becoming a repeat offender, a Cuomo spokesperson told CNN. “Albert Einstein had that famous definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,” Cuomo said at the news conference where he revealed his plan. “But for years, my friends, we have been doing the same thing over and over, and we have little to show for it. It’s time we try something new.” The program would offer both associates and bachelor’s degrees and would generally take two-and-a-half to three years for inmates to complete. The state issued a request for proposal on Monday that began the recruit-
On Saturday, Russian troops were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, amid the ‘Euromaiden’ protests that have swept the nation since Dec. 1, 2013. Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe bordering Russia to the east and the European Union nations of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania to the west. Ukraine has been experiencing civil duress over the past four months concerning which way the country would align itself politically and economically; either pro-Russian or pro-European Union. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had promised stronger relations with the EU over Russia, but instead abandoned a far-reaching European Union partnership deal in November, inciting major protests across the country. The protests led to the deaths of at least 88 people, the
Sholtes, Laufer discuss plans for improving SA; will focus on engaging students, changing image Luke Parsnow Asst. News Editor lparsnow@oswegonian.com
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