SUNY Oneonta of the Future: Big Data U By JIM KEVLIN Last year, sociology professor Brian Lowe’s “Animals and Society” class read Jon Mooallem’s “Wild Ones,” where the author draws conclusions about how humans are coming to grips with the extinction of wild animals, polar bears, a type of butterfly and whooping cranes in particular. “Its central theme,” as the review in Mother Jones had it, “has more to do with the qualities we project onto animals than the creatures…