In the fall of 2013 the outdated Science and Mathematics building, Snygg Hall, was closed, and the new Richard S. Shineman Center for Science, Engineering, and Innovation. In 1962 the college broadened its scope to become a liberal arts college. In 1942 the New York Legislature elevated it from a normal school to a degree-granting teachers' college, Oswego State Teachers College, which was a founding and charter member of the State University of New York system in 1948. SUNY Oswego was founded in 1861 as the Oswego Primary Teachers Training School by Edward Austin Sheldon, who introduced a revolutionary teaching methodology Oswego Movement in American education. It consists of four colleges and schools: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Education, and School of Communications, Media and the Arts. Oswego State offers more than 100 academic programs leading to bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and certificates of advanced study. SUNY Oswego currently has over 80,000 living alumni. It has two campuses: historic lakeside campus in Oswego and Metro Center in Syracuse, New York. Some I think are in poor taste.īy the same token there will always be people that constantly have their knickers in a twist.State University of New York at Oswego ( SUNY Oswego or Oswego State) is a public university in the City of Oswego and Town of Oswego, New York. I can have a laugh at coky slogans, some I think are funny. I'm not saying that this will definitly happen, but it could.ĭon't get me wrong I'm not easily offenede but I just something are in poor taste and you people may want to rethink what they are writting or saying before they say it or put it on a t-shirt. If a fraternity is using offensive slogans or slogans that are in poor taste they might attract men who really don't fit in and expemplify the value of the fraternity. Are you saying you would be offended if someone commented on a t-shirt you were wearing and said that what was written on your shirt might be in poor taste or offensive to others?Īnd I think you missed what I was trying to say. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I know I wouldn't like it if some guy said, " Oh, thats just too offense, I might hurt somebody's feelings." It all depends on the type of guys in the frat. As a greek, I feel that rush shirts as I described above are unacceptable, and fraternities that wear such shirts are doing all greeks (and all men for that matter) a disservice. When my own brothers act in a manner that I feel is not becoming of an Alpha, I let them know. This is not to say that other organizations did not portray similar ideals as Alpha Phi Alpha, but I was turned off by some based on the image they put out. One of the reasons I joined Alpha Phi Alpha was because I was drawn to the image portrayed by the organization of being gentlemen, of being professional. I am a big proponent of first amendment rights so a fraternity or sorority can have whatever they want on their rush shirts, but just because we have the right to say what we want does not mean we should lose all cognizance of what is tasteful and how what we say reflects not just on our individual chapters and organizations, but greekdom as a whole.īefore I became an Alpha I reserched fraternities for weeks and months, and not the just the NPHC groups. I once saw a rush shirt that had a drawing of a naked woman barely covering herself with sheet and the shirt said "She Was A Community Service Project." I think that lacks taste completely. However, rush shirts that degrade women are immature and present a negative image of fraternities. I agree with Betarulz! that self-goverance is the way to go. Now granted some chapters are immature, but to make more rules and regulations isn't going to change that, and if you have to get everything approved anyway, it doesn't really develop any leadership/creativity b/c some advisor is going to have to give the go ahead anyway.why not just let the advisory team make up the shirt slogans thus saving everyone time and effort? That's one of the goals of our Men of Principle initiative. I can only speak for Beta Chapters, but one of the things that our chapters and our General Fraternity strive for is self governance. This is a major difference between sororities and fraternities.this whole approval stuff. they should have laws that says a chapter must approves shirts etc as well, because obiviously they arn't mature enough to select suitable slogans on their own. fraternities really need to get their act together and start doing this as well. all of our shirts have to be approved and ALL are done in good taste so as to offened no one, and to always portray our sisters and GLOs in general in a positive light. thats the one difference about sororities and fraternities. Some of those fraternity shirt slogans are so distasteful i would lose all respect for that chapter and whoever was wearing it.
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