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Get news updatestes throughoutthroughout the week at Oswegonian.comm HARMLESS STUDY SUNYAC SOCCER Adderall usage coincides with PREVIEW AID? alcohol abuse, harder drugs SEE A-3 BACK COVER THE STATE UNIVERSITY OOFF NEW YORK AT OSWEGOGO Friday, September 25, 2009 WWW.OSWEGONIAN.COM Volume LXXV Issue III WEATHER City police to continue crackdown on bar scene FRIDAY High 65 Following last spring’s busts, police and bars to keep monitoring for underage drinkers BY TARA EAMES “Th ere was a lot of underage drink- Tory DeCaire, despite not receiving the age of 21, disorderly conduct, and Low 44 AND ing going on toward the end of Tou- the same grant funding for the current criminal mischief. KYLE GARGAN [email protected] can’s,” said Briana Semon, an employee fall semester, police will continue this Th e fi ght against stopping minors SATURDAY at Toucan’s club, located on Water year to conduct “quality of life patrols” from drinking doesn’t stop at the front Oswego City Police, as well as local Street. “We even had to start checking throughout the city once again. Th e pa- door either. Clubs also are having to High 68 bars and clubs, will continue to keep a ID’s every single time a person came up trols will focus on on alcohol and “dis- deal with a rash of patrons who sneak vigilant eye out for underage drinkers as for a drink, wrist band or not.” orderly type” behavior, including unrea- in their own alcohol and consume it in Low 55 the aft ereff ects of last spring’s drinking Grant money awarded by the Coun- sonable loud disturbances, vandalism restrooms. crackdown continue to be felt. ty of Oswego Council on Alcoholism and other nuisance type off enses, De- Still, the crackdown on underage Following a rash of busts led by City and Addictions (COCOAA) helped Caire said. drinking at bars will not be able to deter SUNDAY Police that led to the closure of Toucan’s fund numerous drinking busts during Th e patrols have already seen sig- all Oswego State students. and Tail Draggers, two major student the spring semester that netted multiple nifi cant results, with at least 31 arrests When asked if by cracking down on High 67 drinking destinations, bars continue to arrests and fi nes at a handful of clubs over each of the past three weekends for the underage drinking at the bars would seek compliancy to avoid being the next and bars. off enses ranging from open container have any aff ect on them, one college Low 56 raid site. According to Oswego Police Capt. violations, possession of alcohol under See BARS, A-5 INSIDE Off-campus ACCESS DENIED housing set Email, ANGEL woes continue to plagues students, CTS to unveil in BY KATHERINE RAYMOND STAFF WRITER fall 2010 [email protected] PROVIDED BY IMDB.COM If you were frustrated at your computer last BY ASHLEY CAMARATA CONTRIBUTING WRITER week, you’re not alone. CTS was having a mul- [email protected] ‘Extract’ some laughs titude of problems last week that frustrated stu- with new Mike Judge dents, staff and faculty. Starting fall 2010, college housing in From September 14-16, Oswego Web Mail Oswego will never be the same. movie was working on and off . On top of that, the AN- First, the expected completion of GEL Learning system shut down Wednesday as the hotly anticipated on-campus apart- SEE PAGE B-3 well and was off for 48 hours. ment complex Th e Village was to pro- Joe Moreau, chief technology offi cer of Cam- vide a much needed shot in the arm of pus Technology Services (CTS), explained that the dull campus dorm life. And now, a the two failures were separate problems. CTS private developer is set to premier a new has been working on upgrading the SUN systems set of off -campus suites for students to soft ware, which is where Oswego State’s Web Mail enjoy the lap of luxury while also being comes from. off campus. CTS tested out the upgrade on September 13. Known as MyCollegeSuites, the Aft er thorough testing; however, problems started complex is set to also open next fall. Th e arising on the 14, 15 and 16. CTS had to con- housing company, developed by United tact SUN systems to fi gure out why the upgrade Group out of Troy, N.Y., has been in wasn’t working, and they were sent a patch with business for 35 years and has had college new instructions. A patch for soft ware helps fi x rental units for nine years; starting with PROVIDED BY LIONSGATE bugs in the programming so that the system runs to a the 1,200 bed “Empire Commons” cre- Exclusive interview with smoother. fairly ated for University of Albany students. Th is patch was installed Wednesday night and significant Th is year, they have just opened three actor Effren Ramirez the system was back up early Th ursday morning. hardware failure more on SUNY campuses in Cortland, Th e failure, Moreau said, wasn’t with the Oswego that brought down the Brockport and Plattsburgh. In the fall on his newest release, State CTS; instead, it was with a licensed compa- entire ANGEL system for of 2010, they are set to open on Johnson ny’s upgrade soft ware. all users, including other col- Road in Oswego. ‘Crank 2.’ As for ANGEL, Moreau said, that was a whole lege campuses. CollegeSuites is almost like Oswego diff erent problem. ANGEL is part of a bulk li- It took nearly 48 hours, Moreau State’s new apartment complex, Th e SEE PAGE B-8 censing for SUNY schools through a contractor See CTS, A-3 Village, except it is run by a private called ITEC in Buff alo. Th e shutdown was due See SUITES, A-5 KEITH EDELMAN/THE OSWEGONIAN Employment hopes rise as number of hirings stay same Despite mammoth amount of applications, on-campus employers not increasing amount hired BY JOEY PEREZ vices Mike Flaherty, the high volume amount of students seeking employ- of applicants. As if fi tting all the ap- CONTRIBUTING WRITER of student applications, combined with ment. Although they have always been plicants into 25 positions was not dif- [email protected] the need to keep the number of hires a popular choice for students in the fi cult enough before, the fl ood of new On-campus employers will continue the same as previous, curtailed stu- past, an extreme increase in the num- applicants is making competition even to keep the status quo in the amount of dents’ chances of landing jobs. “No new ber of applications in this fi eld has been tougher. students they hire this year, despite a jobs were created. We’re basically like noted. According to Brian Wallace, “We have a budget for so many sharp increase in the amount of applica- a restaurant or a retail facility, so based head of the fi tness centers, the 25 avail- people, and we met our quota,” stated tions received. on the number of customers we have able positions in this fi eld are booked, Wallace. Th e on-campus job market is While students continue to fi ll out coming through, that is the number of and were booked early. becoming more exclusive, and the jobs Offense carries fi eld applications to campus job spots like people we need to take care of, and we “I noticed that the most job appli- are on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis. Auxiliary Services, the fi tness centers schedule people accordingly,” Flaherty cations I got were over the summer, Freshmen, although focusing main- hockey team in 3-0 win and in residence halls, most are already said. or at the beginning of the school year. ly on becoming comfortable with their against Brockport. starting to reach their quota of new Meanwhile, the Cooper and Glim- I’ve had more than I’ve ever had be- new surroundings, also share with hires. merglass Fitness Centers, located on fore,” Wallace claimed, who estimated the upperclassmen and the rest of the See JOBS, A-3 SEE PAGE A-8 According to Head of Auxiliary Ser- campus also experienced a surge in the a 50 percent increase in the amount INDEX Classifi ed................................. B-7 Comics...................................... B-6 Laker Review........................... B-1 News.......................................... A-2 Contact Info............................ A-2 Opinion..................................... A-6 Sports........................................ A-8 Sudoku...................................... B-6 Calendar.......................... A-2, B-2 PTHEAGE OSWEGONIANO 2 FRIDAY, September 25, 2009 How to contact us Keith Edelman Editor-in-Chief Circulation Advertising Samantha Shelton Managing Editor 3,500 copies across the Oswego [email protected] Kyle Gargan News Editor Ian Ott Asst. Sports Editor State campus and the City of fchaff [email protected] Dylan Nagy A&E Editor Caitlin Orbanek Copy Editor Oswego every Friday Direct: 315.312.3269 ext. 1 Christopher Ballard Sports Editor Alfred Amendolare Copy Editor Classifi eds: 315.312.3600 Liz Sauchelli Asst. News Editor Beth Mand Creative Director Corrections Kate Boswell Asst. 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