As Halloween approaches, there are several things to do near Cortland to get you in the Halloween spirit. These activities are a nice way to escape campus and give you a break from your heavy workload. Beak & Skiff Apple Hill Campus/1911 Tasting Room – This apple orchard is a 30 minute drive from Cortland, […]
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Join 2022 CROP Hunger Walk
The 28th annual CROP Hunger Walk is set for this Sunday, October 23rd. Everyone in the Cortland community, including students, staff members at SUNY Cortland, and locals are welcome to participate. The university community has been collecting donations raised by the Crop Hunger Walk for 16 years. CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk fundraising events […]
Benefits of Civic Engagement
How involved are you in your community? Whether you participate in local elections or read your community’s newspaper, it is crucial to get democratically involved. It might be challenging to find the time to pay attention and participate in civic activities between jobs, school, and other obligations, but doing so is essential to creating change […]
Halloween Festivities Around Cortland
Cortland has some of the spookiest attractions in all of New York. Whether you’re looking for a good scare, want to go pumpkin or apple picking, or simply looking to create unforgettable fall memories, then you’ll want to explore Cortland county this Halloween season. With terrifying chills and exhilarating thrills, Cortland has something to offer […]
Mental Health Matters at SUNY Cortland
Mental health has always had a negative stigma around it, making people feel inferior or weak if they want to talk about their feelings. According to an article from The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, written by Eliza Abdu-Glass, it states that “we are facing a true mental health crisis on our campuses,” for […]
Make Function Room Reservations ASAP!
Here are some important reminders from this week’s Senate meeting on Tuesday September 27th. Renovations & Function Room Reservations The Van Hoesen building is soon undergoing a huge renovation. This means that if anyone has things stored in this building for any club or activity, they must start thinking of other places to put these […]
SUNY Cortland’s Policy on Hazing
SUNY Cortland has made it a priority to let student groups and organizations, as well as Greek life, understand that hazing has never and will never be tolerated. Hazing’s dictionary definition is, “the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiating.” Hazing prevention week started on […]
Meet Cortland Alumni Lindsey Kilian- A Non-traditional Grad
Cortland certainly has a wide variety of students and faculty, but non-traditional students make up a very small percentage of the student body. Typically over the age of 24 with some kind of gap in their college education, “non-trads” are somewhat of a minority here on campus. This past weekend I had the opportunity to […]
Off-Campus Students Experience A Rise In Crime
In recent years, crime rates have increased tremendously for students living off-campus in the Cortland area. It is no new concept for these trends to be happening, as students have reported numerous break-ins and theft in their homes for years. When choosing to live off-campus, students are aware of the risk they are taking, but […]
Historic Hurricane Fiona Surges Through Canada’s East Coast
Hundreds of thousands of people are left without power this weekend after hurricane ‘Fiona’ ripped through Canada’s eastern coast. The storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Friday. Three provinces experienced torrential downpours, extreme flooding, and winds up to 99 mph, as homes and buildings were washed into the sea. Officials […]