Made My Bones
By Markisan Naso ’97 I spent my first year of college at SUNY Stony Brook studying archaeology, and it was a …
Last Word: Bell Bottom Blues
by Ermine Calandra Cunningham ’73 I was trying to lie low in my dorm room after the raucous lunchtime incident. There …
Last Word – Public Justice: Education, Career and History
I’m from a family of SUNY Oswego graduates; father, sister, two brothers and a cousin. I entered Oswego as a …
Last Word: Jeff Stage ’77
Observer, Absorber in Education Heaven My fourth-grade teacher had one major criticism during her parent-teacher conference with my parents so many …
Odes to Oswego: An Oswego Poetry Anthology
In honor of the 20th Anniversary of National Poetry month, we invited all alumni to submit a poem about how …
The Last Word – Winter 2015
Diana Abu-Jaber ’80 shares an excerpt she adapted from her new memoir, Grace at the Table, slated to be published …
The Last Word: Lois Frankel ’73
Lois P. Frankel ’73, Ph.D., writes in the introduction to Nice Girls Still Don’t Get the Corner Office, that she wishes …
The Last Word
The following excerpt is from Getting Away With Murder: Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan by Heraldo Muñoz …
TV Reporter Determined to Run Boston Marathon Again
When I crossed the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, the first thing I said audibly and to no …
The Last Word: Alice McDermott ’75
(This excerpt from Someone, a work of fiction, is set in the aftermath of World War II. In this chapter, …