6o ‘ENVISIONEER’ ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE ONEONTA BY 2025 ONEONTA – Sixty citizens spent half a day today “envisioneering” – a term coined by late Mayor Dick Miller – on what ONE-onta ought to look like in 2025. “You have unity in your name,” observed the keynote speaker, Corning Inc. Ph.D. Mark Vaughn. The occasion was an Inclusivity Summit, hosted in Foothills Performing Arts Center, and while discussion included the need to make a diverse population welcome, also discussed was how to make…
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Author Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’ Pierces Censorship, She Tells SUNY Audience By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA Seated comfortably between ferns and a slate-blue backdrop, Marjane Satrapi very quickly made herself at home chatting with Dr. Susan Bernardin. “English is not even my third language,” she said in a thick French accent by way of introduction. “When I come to American for the first time, I learned English by watching a lot of movies, so I was saying the f-word a lot. I…
SUNY’s Lowe Helps Others Give ‘Gift of Life’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta junior Russell Lowe was used to seeing blood drives on campus, but as far as he can tell, his “Gift of Life” Bone Marrow registration is the first of it’s kind. “You see blood drives every week, but only two percent of people are registered to give bone marrow,” he said. Lowe, a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, learned about the Gift of…
Students Plan Substance-Free Walk By Libby Cudmore • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 With the local and national conversation focusing on college binge drinking, SUNY Oneonta students Gabriela Donato and James Dipaoli are hoping to show students and the community that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Donato, a member of the Sigma Gamma Phi sorority and Dipaoli, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, have teamed up to lead the Substance Abuse…
When Trouble Knocks, Perry, Nowak Answer By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 For Steve Perry, the lowest point in 30 years of trying to keep the student rowdiness under control came in the mid-1990s: One year, SUNY Oneonta “dismissed” 300 students at mid-year, sending them home for poor grades and out-of-hand behavior. That was a breaking point, the campus’ vice president/student development recalled in an interview in his office in the Netzer Administration Building. So…
OPD Stats: Trouble Up By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The number of Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students who have been taken to Fox Hospital more than tripled this fall from the same four-week period in 2013, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney. “There’s been a huge spike in calls this year,” he said. Between Aug. 18 and Sept. 21 of this year, Oneonta EMS transported 50 college students to Fox Hospital, compared to 16 during the same period the…
SUNY Vice President Hosts Meeting On Improving City’s Quality Of Life ONEONTA – Steve Perry, SUNY Oneonta vice president/student development, last evening convened a meeting of landlords, law enforcement agencies, his Hartwick College counterpart Meg Nowak, and Mayor Dick Miller to begin discussing additional ways to tackle student rowdiness in the City Center. The ad hoc group picks up on a committee formed by Mayor Dick Miller in 2012 after the closing of three bars downtown for serving underage patrons,…
Condition Of Injured SUNY Oneonta Student Improves From ‘Critical’ To Just ‘Serious’ ONEONTA – The condition of Tyler Giancola, the SUNY Oneonta student critically injured in a fight in the early morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 17, has been upgraded from “critical” to “fair” condition in the neurological intensive care unit of Albany Medical Center. Giancola, 21, was in a medically induced coma. His attacker, Joseph Schof, 18, has been charged with second-degree assault.…
EMS TRANSPORTS TO FOX ER TRIPLED FROM 1ST DAYS OF PAST SCHOOL YEARS Editor’s note: This article was reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta, which is on newsstands this afternoon. By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The number of Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students who have been taken to Fox Hospital more than tripled this fall from the same four-week period in 2013, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney. “There’s been a huge spike in calls this year,” he…