Around the SUNY Oswego campus

Itzel Flores (left) and Jackson Berner, both senior broadcasting and mass communication majors, prepare for a debate between four-person teams from Oswego and Brockport April 5 during the Quest symposium on the issue "Resolved: Colleges and universities have a moral obligation to prohibit public expressions of hate speech on campus." For more on Quest 2017, visit https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/quest-presentations-engage-scores-topics. A schedule for Quest's presentations, demonstrations, debates, panels, exhibitions and more will be available at a later date at http://www.oswego.edu/quest.

Eighteen students and two faculty members recently volunteered at and coordinated donations to the Food Bank of Central New York. Students from marketing and management faculty member Isiah Brown's "Business Organization" class, entrepreneurial organization Enactus and fraternity Zeta Beta Tau, as well as Brown and faculty member Hui Zhang of electrical and computer engineering, helped the charity that distributes almost 30,000 meals on a daily basis. Enactus also donated around $1,000 worth of gift cards, with faculty adviser Susan Wright helping coordinate their involvement. (Submitted photo)

SUNY Oswego students took part in a number of Alternative Spring Breaks last week, including this team building homes in Florence, Alabama, with Habitat for Humanity. Michelle Fredericks gives a thumbs-up to Julie Loney, who ran SUNY Oswego’s Instagram account last week as a #LakerTakeover. The Florence Times-Daily wrote an article on Oswego's volunteers. Students also experienced alternative breaks supporting Outreach 360 in Nicaragua, Cass Community Social Services in Detroit and Habitat for Humanity in Waterloo, Iowa. 

Chalet Dewey Flint (right), class of 1993, a licensed clinical social worker in Fulton, and Jodi Weinstein Mullen '92, a counseling and psychological services faculty member, speak March 8 in Room 223 of Marano Campus Center to students interested in working in the mental health field during the Health Care Careers Conference. Mullen, director of Integrative Counseling Services in Oswego and three other locations, coordinates the college's mental health counseling master's degree and play therapy graduate certificate programs.

Janina Galdamez (left), assistant director of graduate/international admissions for Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, and VNA Homecare physical therapist Sarah Ward, class of 2007, speak March 8 in Room 223 of Marano Camp with students interested in physical therapy as a potential career during the Health Care Careers Conference. The Office of Career Services regularly connects students with health care professionals, alumni and graduate school admissions representatives.

A session on careers in veterinary medicine attracts students during the March 8 Health Care Careers Conference to Room 225 of Marano Campus Center for information from Fulton Animal Hospital owner Andrea Dattellas Mollica (right), class of 2007, and Alicia Foster, senior associate director of admissions at Ross University. Other sessions covered nursing, physician programs, pharmacy, health information technology, health administration, internships and military opportunities.

Tyler Art Gallery assistant Suzanne Beason, a graduate student in studio art, cleans "Intermission," the late sculptor William King's 15-foot-tall gift to the college, before installation onto its new platform in the School of Education atrium between Park and Wilber halls. Fabricated from vinyl suede over an aluminum frame, the 1976 piece stood in the Waterman Theatre lobby for generations of SUNY Oswego students and theater audiences until Tyler Hall's renovation project began. King, who died two years ago at 90, was a 2007 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center.

Blue skies finally shine March 16 on a scene that developed over the previous two days, prompting Gov. Andrew Cuomo to shut down state government workplaces -- including SUNY Oswego -- for all but essential services and employees on Tuesday, March 14. Most students and many faculty members were away from campus on spring break.