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School spirit goes beyond
cheerleaders, pom-poms and team
colors. It surpasses school chants,
fight songs or even football games.
Those who say SUNY Oneonta
doesn’t often show their school
spirit got a run for their money on
April 17 when the college hosted
the World’s Largest Soccer Game,
consisting of 1021 students in a
giant game of soccer.
On November 12, 1988, the original
World’s Largest Soccer Game
was held during Alan Donovan’s
first year as president. The game
hosted 752 players but fell short
of reaching the 1000 player mark
accomplished this time around.
The event attempted to break the
record for the largest soccer game
ever held, but was also held in
memoriam for Oneonta student
Lance Tucker who passed away
in an car accident the week before
the game.
Oneonta’s mayor at the time,
David Brenner, was the goalie for
the white team while Donovan was
chosen to be the goalie of the red
team. After two 45 minute halves,
the score was 5-3 with the red team
victorious.
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| posted on April 22, 2008 |
By Juliette Price | Managing Editor |
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Producer, director and documentary
filmmaker Matthew O’Neill originally
wanted to “act and sing on Broadway,
doing avant garde theatre.” But as he
was tired of performing in off Broadway
productions to a theatre full of
people—“half of whom were my family,
and the other half got free tickets,” he
was asked by a friend to produce an
interactive arts show. Admitting that
at this point he “hadn’t even touched a
camera since I was nine years old,” the
ambitious O’Neill decided he would seize
the opportunity anyway, seeing it as a
great chance to learn and experiment.
Eventually falling in with Jon Alpert—
creator of Downtown Community Television
(DCTV), a media center located
in Manhattan—O’Neill found his niche
in producing documentaries. His most
acclaimed work, 2006’s “Baghdad ER,”
an HBO documentary which shows the
Iraq war from the perspective of a military
hospital in Baghdad, won several
primetime Emmy awards. Proving that
sometimes one can “fall into” careers and
situations, on April 14, O’Neill shared his
own experience and advice with Oneonta
faculty and students, in an event sponsored
by The Wire, Indian Cultural Club,
Student Association, Communication
Studies Department, Center for Multicultural
Experiences and DCTV.
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| posted on April 22, 2008 |
By Angela Cobb | Senior Staff Writer |
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Oneonta took a hard lesson from the Red Dragons
of Cortland in a double-header on Saturday, April 19,
losing both games to the fellow SUNY school, 14-2
and 9-7 respectively.
At the start of the day, Cortland’s record for the
season was 24-3. In the first game, which began at 12
p.m., Cortland jumped out to an early lead by scoring
two runs in the first inning off of pitcher Sam Ackerman.
Cortland held Oneonta scoreless until the fifth
inning. Cortland padded their lead to 6-0 by scoring
four runs in the top half of the inning.
When Oneonta came to bat, second baseman Brian
Holmes singled with two outs. Next, shortstop Chris
Brady doubled, scoring Holmes from first base. Then
catcher Ryan Myers singled, scoring Brady. That was
all the offense Oneonta could manage off of Cortland’s
pitching. Ackerman took the loss, pitching six innings
while giving up six earned runs on nine hits. He walked
two batters and struck out three. Cortland chipped
away at Oneonta’s bullpen, scoring runs off of all
three pitchers following Ackerman’s departure. The
final score was 14-2, as Cortland took the first game
with ease.
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| posted on April 22, 2008 |
By Benjamin Deer | Staff Writer |
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Last semester, a new system was implemented via
Web Services, to help ensure the safety of the
students that attend SUNY Oneonta. One of the
main parts of the system is the option that students now
have to give their cell phone numbers, and God forbid an
emergency occurs such as a shooting like the Virginia
Tech massacre, they would be able to send a widespread
text message to everyone who is signed up for the system.
It sounds like a good plan, but many students don’t think
it is necessary.
The fact that we just passed the one year anniversary
of the Virginia Tech shooting got me thinking about this
topic. The downfall at their campus was the reaction of
the administration and their inability to inform the students
in a timely manner. The gunman was able to move
effortlessly throughout the campus to students who didn’t
know that he was coming. If the school had been more
prepared for an event of this magnitude, people that are
no longer with us may still be alive today. The events also
got many on the SUNY Oneonta campus thinking. If it
can happen there, does that mean it can happen here?
Well, Oneonta doesn’t have many students going for their
Master’s Degree or degrees on a higher level, and those
are the students that statistics show are more likely to go
over the edge. That doesn’t mean that an undergraduate
student doesn’t go bonkers from time to time, but it does
mean that the likelihood of such an event happening on
a campus like ours is extremely low.
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| posted on April 22, 2008 |
By Mike Ganci | Editor in Chief |
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