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Friday, Nov. 15, 2013

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VOLUME LXXIX ISSUE XI

myOswego bugs, crashes hamper RHAB attempts to balance student safety and right to privacy with campus-wide proposal spring registration Luke Parsnow

Presence of surveillance cameras in dorms to increase Asst. News Editor lparsnow@oswegonian.com

Plans are in place for installing surveillance cameras in various places in residence halls at Oswego State. A series of cameras have already been placed in the tunnels connecting Seneca Hall to Cayuga Hall and Onondaga Hall to Oneida Hall. The proposed cameras would be placed in tunnels, lobbies, secondary entrances, stairway landings, laundry rooms and elevators in each of the 13 residence halls, and possibly

parking lots. The student-run Residence Hall Advisory Board sent a proposal to Resident Life and Housing in April requesting the cameras because of growing concern over student safety and security. The request gathered momentum in response to the string of vandalism last fall and thefts that occurred in several residence halls last spring. But Richard Kolenda, assistant vice president for Residence Life and Housing, said that the cameras proposal is not the result of any specific event. “It’s something that students are very concerned about,” Kolenda said. “The

RHAB wanted to have, for safety and security reasons, to have these surveillance cameras that would be available for their own safety and security.” RHAB took the issue to a general assembly meeting where all hall representatives were present and said that the vandalisms and thefts had a negative impact on the financial budgets of ResLife and the individual residence halls themselves, particularly on West Campus, according to former RHAB Vice President Trevor Bacon. The proposal was passed with more than threefourths of residents’ approval. “We were informed after the propos-

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al that the cameras will not be monitored regularly, but they will be utilized when there is a vandalism or theft incident and there needs to be someone held accountable for that incident,” Bacon said. Senior Christina Grehlinger was one of many students victimized by a nighttime theft in Funnelle Hall in February. She had her cellphone stolen from her bedside while she slept. “If cameras had been there that night last year, there would’ve been solid proof of a person breaking into many, many

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Ryan Deffenbaugh Editor-in-Chief rdeffenbaugh@oswegonian.com

Following a tumultuous couple of weeks fraught with a steady stream of bugs and crashes of the myOswego system, Campus Technology Services decided to switch back to its previous user interface early Wednesday morning. Sean Moriarty, chief technology officer of CTS, said the majority of the problems that prevented students from being able to access myOswego stemmed from the new user interface, which was put into place last month and divides the links into differently laid out categories. “We had switched to the new interface with the idea that we wanted to provide a better experience for the students,” Moriarty said. “And the new interface is easier to navigate, but it also puts a lot more load on the system, and it can handle the load, until you get to the stress point, which is registration for the spring and winter semester.” Moriarty said that, since seniors generally graduate in spring and thus do not partake in fall registration, a much larger quantity of students register for the spring semester, putting a large amount of stress on the system.

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Drone crashes into Lake Ontario near Oswego port

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Pictured above: student artwork from Graphic Flash, a collaboration between upper-division creative fiction writing and graphic design courses. The second installment of Graphic Flash launched last Friday with a gallery in Penfield Library and continued Tuesday with a reading of the fiction pieces used in the Campus Center Auditorium. The project has graphic designers provide artwork to align with 250 word flash fiction pieces. Story in Laker Review, page C5

Students, campus leaders weigh entertainment vs. harm of SUNY Party Stories Patrick Malowski Multimedia Editor pmalowski@oswegonian.com

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It’s 6 o’clock on a Sunday night and Oswego State students, as well as many other SUNY students, are logging on to Twitter to see what party pictures made the cut in this weekend’s contest. The Twitter account @SUNYPartyStories is the host. The party pictures consist of content that some find entertaining and others look at as offensive. Content in the pictures has included the use of alcohol,

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sexual intercourse and unconscious college students in different scenarios. Claire Lacure, an Oswego State freshman, is one of the account’s 30,000 plus followers. “It’s outrageous,” Lacure said. “Me and my friends always text and talk about it. (For) me and my roommate, it’s a ritual.” The operator of the SUNYPartyStories account, who chooses to remain anonymous, said the site takes in close to 500 submissions a week, but the number goes up every week. He chooses the pictures that stand out the most.

“We go through all the submissions and whatever ones make us laugh out loud or gasp we take down,” the operator of SUNYPartyStories said. “And then we normally Go to Oswegonian.com for a video of student opinion on SUNY Party Stories get a list of 40 to 50 and then we go through those and pick out the best ones.” According to the operator of the account, the idea for the account came from one of the operator’s friends who runs a

similar account that has to do with partying at Michigan State. The site has grown from 1,000 to 30,000 followers since midSeptember, gaining 5,000 followers after last Sunday’s contest alone. “The more followers you gain, the more followers you gain, if that makes sense,” the account operator said. “The higher it is, the faster your rate becomes because the more people are spreading it around.”

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On Tuesday around 1 p.m., an MQ-9 Reaper Drone fell out of the skies and crashed into Lake Ontario about 20 miles north of the Port of Oswego. The drone came from the 174th Attack Wing of the New York Air National Guard base at Hancock Field Base. The Reaper took off from Fort Drum in Jefferson County before it later crashed. The 174th Attack Wing announced that no one was injured in the crash and the drone was not carrying any weaponry. The drone was on a routine training mission when it suddenly crashed into the lake. An investigation is expected to take a month. Search teams were deployed from the United States Coast Guard, but nothing has been recovered as of yet. The search was called off last night due to poor weather conditions, which has not been declared as a factor in the drone’s demise. The 174th Attack Wing has asked the Air Force for assistance in the search, but has yet to hear back from them. Boats and aircraft will not be deployed for search efforts without coordination from the Air Force, so they have stuck to combing the shore for parts.

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