Apart from our coursework and internships, we also provide other opportunities for students to expand their knowledge beyond the classroom. Our clubs and organizations allow students to create original content, network with people in different industries, get more in-depth mentorship from their professors and other professionals, and hone their communication and leadership skills.
Lambda Pi Eta
Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) is the official honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA), a not-for-profit scholarly society founded in 1914. As an accredited member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), LPH has active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide. It represents what Aristotle described in The Rhetoric as the three ingredients of persuasion: logos (Lambda), meaning logic; pathos (Pi), relating to emotion; and ethos (Eta), defined as character credibility and ethics. LPH recognizes, fosters, and rewards outstanding scholastic achievement while stimulating interest in the communication discipline.
SUNY Oneonta’s Rho Eta chapter is a prestigious campus organization comprised of Communication majors who have demonstrated significant achievement within the classroom. Membership provides the opportunity to work closely with students and faculty who promote an environment of professional development in the field of communication. Members are actively involved in developing a passion for communication by participating in mentoring, networking, fundraising, social events, and professional and graduate conferences. The organization also provides guidance to those who seek careers in the field of communication or who plan to attend graduate school. All members are required to attend monthly general body meetings during the academic year, as well as participate in fundraising activities and other public service performed on campus and within the local community.
Regular LPH events include an annual professionalization field trip to New York City. In recent years, the group has visited Twitter, Buzzfeed, Grey Advertising Global, Wunderman, and the J. Walter Thompson Worldwide advertising agency. The organization also regularly hosts fundraisers for local charities, such as the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Members additionally seek to improve the quality of student life with events like Fluffy Friends for Finals, which brings therapy animals to campus during the final exams week.
Membership in LPH is invitation-only. Candidates for membership in SUNY Oneonta’s Rho Eta chapter have achieved a Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better and a Major GPA of 3.3 or better, while completing at least 9 credit hours of upper division courses and 12 credit hours in the Communication major. New members are inducted each Fall semester.
Visit Lambda Pi Eta on Campus Connection.
Email the Lambda Pi Eta executive board at lphrhoeta@oneonta.edu.
WONY
WONY is SUNY Oneonta’s student-run radio station, broadcasting on the local airwaves at 90.9 FM and online. It is a full-service FCC-licensed noncommercial educational (“NCE”) FM station that provides public affairs and entertainment programming to the Oneonta region. In operation since 1962, WONY crafts a distinctive identity for SUNY Oneonta, while offering much-needed local news and culture that no other area broadcaster provides. In doing so, it creates a hands-on training environment for students to learn broadcast radio production and management. The station’s executive board consists entirely of undergraduate student volunteers.
The members of WONY work to provide news, education, and entertainment for the listening public, both on campus and around the local Oneonta community. The station operates under alternative, freeform radio programming principles that give the member DJs near-complete control over program content. This approach emphasizes a feeling of spontaneity and a tendency to play music and other content that is not usually heard on-air. This original content includes special programming like the Oneonta Voices audio documentary podcast, which explores life and culture at SUNY Oneonta with an emphasis on social justice issues. The program’s team of student producers recently won The Amy Goodman Ally Award during the 2018 Kente Graduation Ceremony.
WONY is an integral part of student life on campus beyond it’s 24-7 broadcasts. The club regularly hosts live music events like the WONY Wave stress-relief rave during final exams week and the WONY Island and WONY Iceberg music festivals. The club has mobile DJ equipment, and student members are frequently invited to provide curated music for other campus organizations’ events. Members also engage in professionalization activities, including attending radio and music industry conferences and taking field trips to media outlets like iHeartRadio and New York City NPR-affiliate WNYC.
The SUNY Oneonta Student Association (SA) has repeatedly recognized WONY’s outstanding contributions to the university’s student life, most recently honoring WONY with its 2017-18 Club of the Year award.
Visit the website to learn more about WONY and live-stream its broadcast feed.
Email the WONY General Manager at wonygm@gmail.com
WONY's 60th Anniversary Gallery - By Gerry Raymonda
WONY at 60: Keeping it Locked - By Jared Stanley
Wire TV
WIRE TV is a television production club that provides experiential learning in the creative and technical aspects of multi-camera studio, event, and live sports broadcasting. Club members participate in the production of various programs and gain experience in all jobs involved in studio production including producing, directing, writing, set construction, operation of all production equipment, and auditioning and performing as talent. WIRE TV also produces live broadcasts of sporting events at various times during the year that include instant replay, live graphics, studio reports and play-by-play and color commentary.
The club has regular weekly E-board and general body meetings. Production activities are generally in the evening and weekends with individual shows maintaining their own schedule of meetings and production times in the studio facility. WIRE TV follows industry-based production hierarchy with senior members functioning as producers, directors, and senior crew who train new members and help them move up in the organization to become senior production staff and officers. Current program genres include: news, late night, sports analysis, movie reviews, talk shows, and live sports. Each spring the club holds a “Live Night” where members test their production skills by broadcasting the entire program line up live, on schedule, in one broadcast window.
You can watch the WIRE's programming on its YouTube page.