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.…
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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,…
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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SUNY Oneonta Wins HEED Award Recognizing Commitment To Diversity ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta learned today is has received the 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, SUNY Oneonta will be featured along with 82 other recipients in INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine’s November…
IN MEMORIAM: Chalmer Edward Means, 84; SUNY Professor Help Found Sheep Dog Trials ONEONTA – Chalmer Edward Means, a retired SUNY Oneonta professor and founder of the annual Leatherstocking Sheep Dog Trials in Coopertown, passed away Sept. 11, 2014, at the state Veterans Home in Oxford. He was 84. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was born May 13, 1930, on a dairy farm in Shippensburg, Pa. His love of farming,…