‘Yik-Yak’ Message Threatens Violence At SUNY, UPD Says ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta’s University Police Department over the weekend advised the campus community by e-mail that it had opened an investigation in response to reports of a message posted on the social medium YikYak threatening violence on Monday. UPD is working with YikYak, the State Police, the Oneonta Police Department, and Hartwick security to develop information about the origin of the message and the person who wrote it, according to the e-mail. It…
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SUNY Honoree Explains Why We Yawn ONEONTA – It’s no snooze as Dr. Andrew Gallup, SUNY Oneonta assistant professor of psychology, will deliver the annual Richard Siegfried Lecture titled “Towards an Understanding of Why We Yawn” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in the Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center at SUNY Oneonta. The lecture is free and open to the public. A dessert reception will follow. Dr. Gallup is the 21st recipient of the Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. The $1,000 award, created to…
SUNY Professor Ford’s Short Story Receives Prestigious Pushcart Prize ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta creative writing instructor April L. Ford has won a Pushcart Prize for her short story “Project Fumarase.” The story, which was published in New Madrid Journal in summer 2014, will appear in the 2016 Edition Pushcart Prize anthology, due out Nov. 2. The Pushcart Prize is a literary prize created by Pushcart Press to honor the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in non-commercial, small presses the…
SUNY Oneonta Athletes Pledge Not To Tolerate Bullying, More ONEONTA – The student athletes of SUNY Oneonta have pledged to “step up, speak up and take action” as part of an initiative to bring awareness to not being bystanders and to intervene to promote safety and protect those that may be in harms way, the college announced today. To this end, 2015 graduate and captain of the women’s tennis team, Brynn Sussman, produced a video that speaks to Bystander Intervention,…
F. DANIEL LARKIN, 1938-2015 Funeral Tuesday For Retired Provost, Scholar, Administrator, Civic Leader ONEONTA – The funeral mass for retired SUNY Oneonta Provost F. Daniel Larkin, 76, who died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, at Fox Hospital, will be at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Calling hours will be 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St. Daniel Larkin, Dan to all who knew him, left this world a…
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SUNY’s ‘Common Read’ Author Urges Students To Help Others By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Before he even knew he wanted to be a writer, Ishmael Baeh was learning the fundamentals of storytelling. “My father and I would play a game where he would put me on his shoulders and he would play he was blind,” he said. “I had to tell him the world. He would pretend to walk into the wall, into the fire, and I would…
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SUNY’s Red The Dragon Mascot To Get New Look ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta will unveil a new look for the college mascot during the 2015 Red Day celebration 11 a.m-3 p.m . Friday, Sept. 4, on the main campus quad. Red the Dragon’s new look will debut at 11:50 a.m. Despite a strong showing in SUNY’s third annual Mascot Madness competition last spring – making it all the way to the final round against Baxter from Binghamton University – Red’s threads…
SUNY Oneonta Recognized As ‘College Of Distinction’ ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta received word today that it has been named a College of Distinction, according to Director of Communications Hal Legg, joining schools nationwide that “are the best places to learn, to grow and to succeed.” SUNY Oneonta joins seven of the system’s 11 comprehensive colleges on the list, as well as schools ranging from Fordham and Hofstra to Hobart and LeMoyne. Featured on the organization’s web site as a new…
