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WEDENSDAY, MAY 15, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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A future downtown among Rocky Sloan’s plans as Philomath’s mayor
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By Kate Virden The Daily Barometer
A hard oak table with six chairs, three young women laughing, a woman fixing dinner and the faint smell of vanilla floating through the air best describes the home of Rocky Sloan, mayor of Philomath. “Rocky, like the mountains,” he said. Sloan became involved in politics seven years ago when Starker Forests, Inc. considered building a driveway and gate. At city council meetings about the issue, Sloan said he kept a clear head when other citizens were getting angry. “I was the only voice of reason,” Sloan said. The councilman who led the meeting remembered Sloan and told him kate virden | THE DAILY BAROMETER about a city councilor position. Sloan Seneca Sloan, Shea Sloan, Rocky Sloan, Mandi Jahn and Shelbie Sloan. Rocky Sloan serves as the Mayor See SLOAN | page 2 of Philomath and succeeds Ken Schaudt, who served two terms.
Discourse held on the dangers of covenant theology Florida State University professor of religion leads ‘Letting God In To The Public Sphere’ focused on extremities of faith By Spencer Ingram The Daily Barometer
Abraham Heschel, a prominent Jewish thinker, proclaimed, “God only will return to us when God returns into our courts, Congress and society.” On Tuesday, Oregon State University’s school of history, philosophy and religion hosted “Letting God In To the Public Sphere,” a lecture discourse on the dangers of covenant theology, in Milam 301. Martin Kavka, a professor from Florida State University, led the event. Covenant theology is the narrative framework through which people of particular faiths follow the covenant relationship with God, a covenant relationship being the relationship between followers of a faith and their god. “I am worried about people who care more about heaven than Earth,” Kavka said. Kavka in particular believed that “religious
Heschel wrote, in his 1954 book “Man’s Quest voices are being flattened in heaven views.” Kavka throughout the event focused on the for God,” “that God will return...if we identified connection between right-wing Christians and as God’s people,” meaning people had to strictly follow the covenant in order to be viewed favorliberal Jews. “American culture in various ways has flattened ably by God. our sense of religion, and we steFischer expresses that “God has reotype it with fundamentalism,” spent 50 years exiled because of Kavka said. not being wanted.” Covenant theology is During the event, Kavka Kavka has stated that these referred to a theological conalways de-secularizing individuals represented ideology nection between Heschel, Mike because it is bound up with that “rest[ed] on the theology of Huckabee, former governor of the covenant” of their particular the notion of God. Arkansas, and Bryan Fisher from religions. the American Family Association. The covenant dictated the relaMartin Kavka Kavka asserted that all three tionship between God and folFlorida State University professor individuals promoted societies lower, and not between follower having heavy connections with and his or her faith toward God. God. They believed in historical agents acting in “Covenant theology is always de-secularizing divine commands through the covenant of God. because it is bound up with the notion of God,” Huckabee was outspoken about the absence Kavka said. of religion in our schools. In response to the Kavka worries that covenant theology does not Newtown, Conn. school shootings, Huckabee allow people to “be creative with their rhetoric and asked, “Should we be so surprised that schools See GOD | page 2 would become a place of carnage?”
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Challenging definitions of masculinity
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Memorial Union to host Healthy Masculinity Conference Thursday, Friday By Kyle Reed
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Oregon State University will host the Healthy Masculinity Conference — which will be devoted to discussing masculinity in a broad sense — from May 16-17 in the Memorial Union. “It’s about helping the OSU campus and community really start to explore what masculinities look like here at OSU, [what they] have looked like in the past and maybe where masculinity is heading in the future,” said Nick Daily, graduate assistant for Men’s Development and Engagement at OSU. There will be a variety of topics addressed at the conference’s six sessions such as masculinity and media, video games and masculinity and the influence of masculinity on femininity. The panels will discuss around themes of the socialization and performance of masculinity, masculinity at the intersections, masculinity and social justice and re-conceptualizing masculinity: man-ifesting change. One of the panels will feature spoken word artist Carlos Andrés Gómez, who will be presenting on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. Gómez has starred in HBO’s “Def Poetry” as well as the film “Inside Man.” Signed copies of his book, “Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood,” will be raffled for the event. One of the primary goals of the conference is “to create an intentional dialogue to define what masculinity is and a lot of the problematic things that we associate with masculinity and how we can be a part of redefining that definition,” said Jessica Martinez, graduate assistant for Team Liberation. “Once we understand that it’s a socially created concept, I think it then empowers people to say ‘Well, I’m a part of a society, how do I want this to be defined?’” The event draws inspiration from the Healthy Masculinity Summit, which See CONFERENCE | page 2
What does an ideal date look like in Corvallis?
Dimas Sugiarto
Junior Industrial Manufacturing Engineering
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Sneaking on top of Stag or Kidder. Angela Yragui
Senior, environmental science
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Hiking up bald hill with wine and snacks. Lots and lots of wine. Dylan Johnson Junior, sociology
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Junior Human Development Family Sciences
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Laura Mondragon
Biking around south town Corvallis.
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Going out to play tennis and then grabbing a bite to eat.
With this nice weather, mini golfing by Albany and floating on the river. Bianne Tyerman Sophomore, psychology