Pulitzer-Winning Poet Dennis To Launch Hartwick’s New American Writing Festival ONEONTA – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis will be the featured reader at Hartwick College’s two-evening New American Writing Festival Tuesday-Wednesday,Nov. 4-5, in the Shineman Chapel House’s Celebration Room. Also featured will be the work of five Hartwick alumni: Diane Bliss ’81, Lynn Marie Houston ’94, Scot Slaby ’98, Jeffrey Simonds ’10, and Brendan Walsh ’10. The event is free, and open to the public. Dennis will highlight the event,…
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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…
Hartwick College Sculptor Rocknack’s Poe Sculpture Featured In NY Times ONEONTA – Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe statue, unveiled today, is a work of Stefanie Rocknack, the Hartwick College professor and sculptor. The “body model” is John Dudek, another Hartwick professor (who is also a member of the City Charter Commission and spouse of the rowing Olympian Andrea Thies.) The unveiling was the topic of a feature story on the front page of today’s Sunday New York Times, tracing the uneven…
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…
Facts, Level-Headed Tactics Way To Lessen Student Rowdiness During the debate over Hillside Commons last year, one landlord was talking about how, as the academic credentials of SUNY Oneonta students rose – they are still rising – the damage to his apartments declined. Of course, it makes sense. The more students who are more focused on their studies, the less interest they have in Beer Pong and the like. While there is always elevated concern about mischief in college towns…
With Collaboration, College-Town Benefits Can Surely Outweigh Challenges •By MARGARET L. DRUGOVICH, PRESIDENT, HARTWICK COLLEGE• On Saturday night, Sept. 13, I accompanied Sgt. Branden Collison of the Oneonta Police Department on his patrol of the city. I was with him from 10 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. I asked to ride along because I have been paying close attention to the recent expressions of concern about the behavior of college students in the city. Knowing the many efforts we already pursue on…
A WILD NIGHT: ANGRY CITIZENS BERATE COUNCIL •By LIBBY CUDMORE•Hometown Oneonta The room was packed. The mood was tense. “I resent being held hostage by these students,” said Lisa Yelich, Elm Street. “I’m being told I have to keep my lawn furniture chained to my porch, that I can’t have flower pots because they’ll get smashed or stolen – this is the city I moved into?” “My porch furniture was stolen,” added Kim Baskin, Cedar Street. “I woke up to…
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Mohawk Valley Commission OKs Oneonta Projects The $11 million Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center. CADE’s related $200,000 Agricultural Microenterprise Program. The IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs on the fifth floor of 189 Main, a collaboration with SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. The Big Three of the City of Oneonta’s projects seeking state economic-development funding in a round Governor Cuomo is expected to announce in September have received approval at the regional level. The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission…
Craft Food, Beverage Organizers Greet Appalachian Commission Chair Gohl ONEONTA – Earl Gohl, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, delivered the $123,525 check this afternoon to help launch Hartwick College’s new Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County. The money “will enable local businesses to more effectively produce, promote and distribute their goods,” Hartwick Provost and Vice President Mike Tannenbaum told the gathering. It…
