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…
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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…
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…
Police Chief Closes Brockport Bars In Homecoming Weekend Disorder Oneonta is not alone in struggling with student rowdiness off campus this fall. This past weekend was Homecoming Weekend at SUNY Brockport, and after 1,000 students poured into the downtown after the Brockport-St. John Fisher football game, Brockport Police Chief Daniel Varrenti closed bars at 1 a.m. to prevent further disorder. Here are reports on the weekend and its aftermath from the Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, and local TV stations: BROCKPORT OFFICIALS DISCUSS…
Oneonta’s Woes Hit National Stage ONEONTA – Turning Point USA, a national organization for conservative college students, has posted a commentary on the City of Oneonta’s reaction to student rowdiness, decrying “completely biased actions towards a class of citizens, known as the student body.” In particular, the commentary, by Dustin Tropp of Pittsburgh, Pa., criticizes reports that students will be arrested “even if the violation does not rise to the level of criminal nuisance.” “Regardless of good intentions,” Tropp writes, “the…
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…
Standout Coach Don Axtell Wore #14 Since High School •By LIBBY CUDMORE• Hometown Oneonta When Don Axtell stopped by ex-Major Leaguer Jim Konstanty’s Main Street sporting goods store, he didn’t just pick up equipment – he got the advice that would seal his place as one of SUNY Oneonta’s top coaches. The former Phillies MVP pitcher passed along a few tips to Axtell, who had just arrived in town to take a job coaching the SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons baseball,…
