Barometer The Daily
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
DAILYBAROMETER.COM
VOLUME CXV, NUMBER 70
Contratulations! … to Kelly Powell, senior in agricultural education and member of OSU Racquetball Club … winner of 9th Street Salon & Spa $35 gift certificate!
THE BEST OF
2012
dailybarometer.com/the-best-of Vote today, and enter for your chance to win prizes from local merchants!
12-year building plan in final stages n
With three major buildings completed in last two years, OSU awaits arrival of more By James Shrieve The Daily Barometer
Oregon State University is entering the final stage of a 12-year building and development plan called the Campus Master Plan. The intended purpose, according to the plan itself, is to “identify guiding principles and policies, and establish a conceptual framework for the long-range planning of OSU that will direct physical development over the approximate 10- to 12-year planning horizon.” Spanning from 2004 to 2015, the CMP has been modified greatly since its first inception, and was originally established for 570 acres of land within the city limits of Corvallis. While changes in economic circumstances have made an impact on the plan, an even larger factor in its development has been the expansion of OSU’s population. “The master plan is the key, but it is integrated with our enrollment management plan,” said Mark
McCambridge, the vice president for finance and administration. “Over the last two or three years we have grown faster than we ever thought we would. We got a little behind, from the standpoint of having enough facilities, enough teaching labs and enough classrooms to meet our students’ needs.” When it comes to funding new buildings on campus, donors give half of the funds, and the state covers the other half of costs with bonds they sell, paying the debt service on those until they’re gone. Historically, this method goes smoothly and buildings are constructed at the usual pace. Recently, however, an inconvenient coincidence has stalled this process. In June of 2011, OSU requested a large classroom building, and a new residential hall building. In 2005, the legislature sold bonds to balance their budget. According to a press release from the Oregon State Legislature, those bonds are to be paid off at the end of 2012. The state treasurer has expressed that Oregon is at a point where if it were to borrow a lot more money, the state could be downgraded in its credit rating and
then any bonds issued would cost more. There are enough classrooms and housing right now, according to the enrollment summary issued by the Institutional Research Department, but if OSU grows much further, it will get to the point where students can’t graduate in four years because of a lack of facilities. Government Relations Director Jock Mills is trying to convince legislature to allow OSU to build the new dorm, along with many faculty members who will go to speak with legislators. “There is constant dialogue going on with our elected officials and OSU. I believe we will be successful in getting the new classroom and dorm, because the legislature wants all seven of the state institutions to grow because they want to have more graduates,” McCambridge said about whether or not the university would get the building. “In our case, there really isn’t any place to go. OSU can’t take many more students without putting its students in the position of not getting all the classes that they need to progress; this would be See BUILDINGS | page 3
Hannah Gustin
| THE DAILY BAROMETER
Office Assistant Ramsi Marchand pictured above in front of the Native American Longhouse, one of the cultural centers planned for reconstruction.
Study on trout groups shows Newport’s art an interpretation chlorophyll may prevent cancer of parent-child relationships Natural chlorophyll used in various doses on cost-effective trout groups for cancer study
results than testing doses more consistent with a more normal, yet still dangerous, amount. The scientists fed the experimental rainbow trout groups chlorophyll for three days, then chlorophyll and the By Michael Mendes The Daily Barometer carcinogen for four weeks, and finally Oregon State University researchers chlorophyll for three days afterwards. have expanded on a pilot study that Schedules and doses varied for the difshowed chlorophyll to have a possible ferent groups, and tumor prevalence was preventative effect on cancer from expo- measured at two weeks, four weeks and nine months. sure to carcinogens. As the research tested several varying The study also questioned certain research methods on similar stud- doses of chlorophyll and the carcinogen, ies, demonstrating that one common massive groups of animals were needed. research method, using unrealistically Over 12,000 rainbow trout were tested. high doses of carcinogens on animal See CANCER | page 3 subjects, actually produced different n
Contributed photo
| courtesy of Tammie McQuistan
12,000 rainbow trout were used in the study in which groups were fed chlorophyll and carcinogens for separate periods of time to measure tumor prevalence.
n
Fairbanks features artist’s paintings, knitted costumes in order to explore family, gender roles within society
we tend to be more surreptitious about it.”
A man out walking on the street in one of Newport’s costumes would disturb bystanders in a way a child going out By Annecy Beauchemin in a costume would not. The Daily Barometer Newport’s prints of Until Feb. 8, anyone who walks into Fairbanks adults engaging in Gallery is in for a surprise. Mark Newport’s series “Alter normal household Egos” extends noticeably beyond the gallery walls. activities while in Along with digital prints and embroidered comic his costumes can book covers on display by the artist, one will notice the evoke the same full-body superhero costumes hanging from the ceiling in every color. Newport hand knit them all himself. creepy impression, perhaps What, one may wonder, is Newport trying to tell us intentionally. with the enigmatic display? Russell said Douglas Russell, director of Fairbanks Gallery, explained the show touches on a great number of Newport, howtopics, not the least of which is family. This comes ever, is markedunexpected, as only one digital print depicts the topic ly comfortable explicitly: a mother buttoning a grown man into one using fantasy of the pajama-like costumes. on his work, Russell clarified the interpretation. “As a kid, you and if you always want to please your father, and the costumes do see a cosreflect that.” Even adults, he said, aspire to live up to tumed man parental expectations that might just take a super- on the street, it human to fulfill. Also, the choice of material for the may in fact be Newport, costumes suggests maternal issues: the stereotypical who wears his pieces image of a mother who can’t let go, knitting her son as a performance art bizarre sweaters, even when he has grown up. The family interpretation in summary, appears aspect of his work. to be that an adult who religiously chases parental expectations takes on the heroic grandiosity of success in the eyes of family, but part of him still allows his parents to hold his hand in a childlike way. The exhibit comments on gender stereotypes and roles, with prints of traditionally masculine superheroes repairing or creating their costumes using supposedly feminine knitting needles. Russell mentions one final theme, though he has made clear that there are too many to discuss in one sitting. The theme is that of fantasy and imaginative play. “As kids,” he said, “we do that a lot, but as adults,
“Quite a number of levels and layers of intention and meaning come out of this exhibit,” Russell concluded. Annecy Beauchemin, staff reporter 737-2231 news@ dailybarometer.com
contributed photo
Mark Newport’s “Naftaman” pictured above