Friends Honor Dr. Carey Brush, Who Chronicled SUNY Oneonta ONEONTA — Friends and colleagues of SUNY Oneonta’s historian Dr. Carey Brush, who wrote a definitive history of the local campus, where he once served as interim president, gathered in the Craven Lounge of Morris Hall to pay tribute to their friend, fellow professor and mentor. “All of us have a few stories to tell,” said Dr. Vince Foti, the emeritus dean of Behavioral and Applied Sciences. “I’m sure he would have…
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AFTER VIETNAM WAR, NOTHING EVER SAME By JIM KEVLIN•allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 13-14, 2014 ONEONTA The worst came after Kent State, where Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four college students and wounded nine others when a May 4, 1970, protest against the Vietnam War turned violent. The next day, the SUNY Oneonta campus erupted, as did campuses across the nation. “Twenty-five to 30 of our kids went up for the demonstration,” recalled William “Bud” Pirone, then an Oneonta High…
IN MEMORIAM: James A. Atcher, 61; Retired From SUNY OTEGO – James A. Atcher, 61, employed in SUNY Oneonta maintenance for 20 years before his retirement in 1996, passed away on Friday at Bassett Hospital.…
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…
Geographer Traces 125 Years Of Change From ‘Old Main’ To Campus Of Today…
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…