EDITORIAL Let’s Stick With It: We’re Beating COVID-19 COVID-19 numbers are rising again nationally, but we’re zigging as the nation zags. As this edition went to press Tuesday, Oct. 13, SUNY Oneonta had not reported a single COVID case in the previous five days. This, in an institution that had 100 infestations in one night at the end of August. Since infections there totaled 712, and they closed the campus until after Thanksgiving. So zero-zero-zero-zero-zero is particularly welcome news. •…
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Students, Merchants Adorn Downtown With Scarecrows Downtown Oneonta was filled with seasonal flair this afternoon as Hartwick and SUNY students gathered with merchants to stuff and hang “branded” scarecrows from light poles as part of the Town-Gown Work Group collaboration. Above, Hartwick Student Government Association members and college seniors Jennifer Paszko, and Lydia Mateney, work at filling the body of a scarecrow with newspapers outside of GOHS. At right, members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity Dalton Wooder helps Betsy Cunningham,…
First SUNY-O Employee Tests Positive For COVID ONEONTA – One month after a COVID-19 outbreak infected more than 700 students, the first SUNY Oneonta employee has tested positive, Kim MacLeod, Associate Director of Communications, announced this evening. According to MacLeod, the affected employee was last on campus yesterday and is now isolating at home. Per its Fall 2020 Re-start Plan protocol, the college has performed enhanced cleaning in the affected employee’s workspace and all communal spaces the employee recently occupied.…
15 Cases of COVID Spike Over Weekend COOPERSTOWN – Nine SUNY Oneonta students, one Hartwick College student and five county residents have tested positive for COVID in the past four days, according to a press release from Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. Of the nine SUNY students, she said, five of those are new infections, with the other four students having already recovered, but had not been reported as being positive to the health department…
LETTER from WILLIAM PIETRAFACE No SUNY Campus Mandated Tests To the Editor: As a retired SUNY Oneonta professor of biology, I have been following the local and national coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak on the campus. Here are some thoughts on the coverage. SUNY Oneonta’s planning for reopening for the fall semester began in April with widespread input from all stakeholders on campus. The Local Control Group, which includes representation from the City of Oneonta and the Otsego County Department…
‘Enough!’ Says Chancellor Malatras 2 SUNY Students Suspended After Party Photos Surface ONEONTA – SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras had one word for SUNY Oneonta students after photos circulated of an off-campus party allegedly held this weekend with no social distancing in place. “Enough!” The Chancellor’s press release was issued after SUNY announced that two of the students in the photo were identified and suspended by the Office of Community Standards.…
Except For Sodexo’s 77, SUNY ‘Not Considering’ Further Layoffs For Now ONEONTA – No further layoffs at SUNY Oneonta are anticipated at this time, college spokesman Kim MacLeod said in response to Sodexo‘s 77 layoffs last week. The layoffs – all but a handful of the 85 food-service employees – resulted from the COVID-19 outbreak that closed the campus for the rest of the semester, she said.…
New Infections Low, But COVID Still Here COOPERSTOWN – The county Health Department today reported five new COVID-19 cases, three related to SUNY Oneonta and two county residents. While the figures show single-digit infections, they also show COVID remains among us. County Public Health Director Heidi Bond reflected that in her exhortation, “Stay home and save lives!” SUNY Oneonta reported one new case, but that may reflect “fluctuations” in reporting times. Hartwick College reported no new cases.…
COVID RETREATS Graduate Students Adults, Don’t Need To Be Babied Sorin Convinces SUNY To Keep CGP Open By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s a difference between grads and undergrads, said Gretchen Sorin, Cooperstown Graduate Program director. “The graduate students are adults,” she said. “They know how to behave. The undergrads are less grown-up.” Following SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras’ announcement Thursday, Sept. 3, that the SUNY Oneonta campus would close for the remainder of the semester, students reached…
