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PHOTO: Living Writers Series presentation

PHOTO: Living Writers Series presentation

Fitness magazine’s Samantha Shelton ’11 speaks with journalism major Jillian Phipps ’14 in the Campus Center Auditorium after Shelton’s Nov. 5 Living Writers Series presentation. Shelton talked about how experiences at SUNY Oswego — from writing for and helping manage The Oswegonian to getting Oswego’s edition of Her Campus online magazine up and running — helped her advance at Fitness in New York City from reader to summer intern to part-time worker to full-timer with writing and editing duties. Her talk was full of advice for job-seeking students in the audience of more than 200.

Senior Game Producer Jeffery Gardiner '95 speaks as part of the Living Writers Series in October.

Alumnus Helps Games Tell Great Stories

The term “video game” might conjure up images of space invaders, barrel-flinging apes or a pair of super brothers: kids’ stuff.

Novelist and famed book cover designer Chip Kidd has a hard time keeping a straight face as he poses Sept. 15 with autograph-seeker Casi Tredo, a junior graphics design major. Kidd, author of ORI selection "The Learners," spoke to a full house at Waterman Theatre, displaying his wit and versatility -- for example, he mimicked the Wicked Witch of the West and a newborn hamster, among other shticks -- in a presentation that began with footage of the infamous 1961-62 obedience experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram at Yale University.

Kidd offers insight during campus visit

Novelist and famed book cover designer Chip Kidd visited campus for a talk at Waterman Theatre in September.