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“Face of OSU” revealed
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 150
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Austin Entrepreneurship Program student Vaughan Heppe has made pencil cases to benefit an entrepreneur in Nicaragua By Courtney Gehring The Daily Barometer
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Vaughan Heppe, OSU freshman, uses the Incubator, Austin Entrepreneurship Program’s lab, to make pencil cases, called Sustain:Cases, before shipping them off to a buyer.
Vaughan Heppe, a freshman at Oregon State University, shuffles around the Incubator with excitement, juggling molds and finished sustainable pencil cases he has designed and created himself. Austin Entrepreneurship Program’s lab, the Incubator, is filled with machines and workspace scattered with various pencil cases awaiting final touches before heading off to their buyer. The proceeds of each pencil are donated to entrepreneur Luis Alfonso Gonzales in Nicaragua. “These people in third-world countries have much less than us, but the same ambition to leave a positive mark on the world,” Heppe said. “Giving them the tools they need isn’t just good for them, it’s good for all of us.” Gonzales is an elderly Nicaraguan and past farmer who, with his wife, sells pre-cut wood to his local community. Now with the help of Heppe’s contributions, he’s in pursuit of selling wood to a community in need. The idea to make and sell sustainable pencil cases came during Heppe’s business class, from ideas to reality, instructed by Sandy Neubaum. He wanted to create a sustainable product made out of recycled material that could be used by a wide variety of people. After doing some research, Heppe figured pencil cases would be the perfect product, because almost everyone uses pencils — especially students. “Basically I wanted to create something cool and customizable, and I wanted people around campus to have something to store their stuff in,” Heppe said. “Something they can store their pencils in and whatever else.” The Sustain:Case pencil case was born. He designed the shape and size of the Sustain:Case See HEPPE | page 2
OSU wraps up first smoke-free year Making green investments
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OSUDivest looks at discussing sustainable stock options with OSU Foundation
request a moratorium on investments in fossil fuels, ask for the foundation to assess the status of its holdings and divest over a fiveyear period. By Jack Lammers “This is a group that’s still formThe Daily Barometer ing and looking to generate a A group of Oregon State critical mass of faculty and stuUniversity faculty and students dents,” Winograd said. “We hope has started organizing to dis- the investments would then be cuss divesting OSU Foundation put into renewable energy or noninvestments in fossil fuel-related industrial food production.” industries. OSUDivest has garnered supBeginning in March, OSUDivest port from the local chapter of 350. has been meeting weekly to edu- org, a grassroots organization of cate the public and discuss the activists against climate change. question of what divesting from “The thinking is if it’s wrong fossil fuels would mean to OSU. to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to The OSU Foundation invests profit from the wreckage of the money to increase support of planet,” Winograd said. university programs. Universities OSUDivest has begun with commonly invest initiatives to edutheir money in cate the university the stock market about its expected The thinking is if with investments presence next year, across the marit’s wrong to wreck when members ket to diversify hope to work with the planet, it’s their investment the foundation. On wrong to profit from portfolios. May 23, the group “Ideally, the the wreckage showed a movie OSU Foundation titled, “Do the of the planet. will be a colMath,” directed l a b o ra t o r in by Bill McKibben. Kenneth Winograd the campaign,” The film examines Professor, College of Education said Kenneth the repercussions Winograd, of the fossil fuel p ro f e s s o r i n industry on the clithe College of Education and mate — specifically through data OSUDivest leader. on global temperatures. In its beginning stages, the A major component of the camgroup has several projects put paign will involve student leaders in motion — foremost is a plan of OSUDivest drafting resolutions to have the OSU Faculty Senate with the Associated Students of present to the OSU Foundation Oregon State University and gathon incrementally divesting from See DIVEST | page 2 fossil fuels. The resolution would n
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OSU group sends out surveys to assess community input for future of OSU Smoke Free
smoking and produces similar effects for the user. The law classifies e-cigarettes as a “smoking instrument” alongside cigars, cigarettes and pipes. OSU currently still permits the use of chewing tobacco. By Jack Lammers The Daily Barometer The policy originated in the stuOregon State University’s Office of dent body and the Student Health the President reissued a survey, calling Association Board, which then forfor student feedback on the initiative malized the enforcement with OSU President Ed Ray. to make the campus smoke free. Race has been The survey, issued problem solving on Wednesday, asks students to considWe want to know if ways of accommodating for smokers er how the current people have had a around the edges of smoking prohibition positive experience or campus with Jessica on campus — in another effect since Sept. 1, have had challenges Johnson, master’s in public 2012 — has affected with the program. health student and them and whether a assistant for Healthy completely tobaccoAdam Race Campus Initiatives. free campus would be preferable for Graduate assistant, Healthy Campus Initiatives Currently, the campus has smoking them. Adam Race, a master’s in public urns in designated areas for students health student and graduate assistant to smoke. Both Race and Johnson used the for Healthy Campus Initiatives, has been tracking the campus during its term “hotspot” to characterize places around campus where smoking often first year as “smoke free.” “We want to create an environment occurs. Among these hotspots are that is healthy,” said Race. “We want Northwest Monroe Street and the to know if people have had a positive area by the International Living and experience or have had challenges Learning Center. Johnson noted that Monroe Street has seen litter and with the program.” The initiative resulted in an Oregon trash problems, but that those same law — OAR Chapter 576, Division 040 patterns have been characteristic of — prohibiting smoking cigarettes on the area. “We interviewed businesses doorcampus, which is enforceable by the Department of Public Safety year- to-door and found that they have to round, including game days. OSU is sweep up their storefronts slightly now one of more than 1,100 college more often,” Johnson said. “Since campuses nationwide to adopt a 100 these businesses are close to OSU, we have wanted to make sure they are percent smoke-free policy. The law also excludes electronic included in the process.” cigarettes, or “e-cigarettes,” an inhaler See SMOKE FREE | page 2 with an aerosol that imitates tobacco n
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Joan Austin recently gave a $10 million gift toward funding Austin Hall for the OSU College of Business.
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Oregon State recognizes Austin as a leader, supporter of education, student learning By Jack Lammers
The Daily Barometer
Joan Austin, local businesswoman and major contributor to Oregon State University, died Wednesday morning in her sleep at the age of 81. Austin co-founded A-dec — a Newberg-based dental equipment company — with her husband, Ken. The Austins have become well known as supporters of Oregon State University through the OSU Foundation. The couple was inducted into the OSU College of Business Hall of Fame in 2003. Austin has served on the College of Engineering Technology Campaign Cabinet and the 4-H Foundation Board. She also received the OSU Alumni Association Honorary Alumni Award in 2005. “What needs to be said first is that [Austin’s] investment of time and talent is broad reaching across OSU,” said Ilene Kleinsorge, dean of the OSU College of Business. “The Austins have been a very engaged couple with both the university and the College of Business. She was creative, innovative, passionate and could articulate a dream and execute it.” Recently, the Austins gave $10 million to support the construction of Austin Hall — a 100,000-square-foot building set for completion in 2014 — for OSU’s College of Business. But this was not the Austins’ first major donation. In 1985, Joan Austin suggested OSU begin a Family Business Program to help local family businesses plan for growth. The program was renamed the Austin Family Business Program in 1994 after endowment from the Austins. Later, in 2002, the couple donated $4 million for the Austin Entrepreneurship Program, a residential learning program to help students start up companies. The money has returned $14 million in state bond funding used to renovate Weatherford Hall. “Joan was a great lady who had a special way of connecting with people,” said OSU President Ed Ray in a statement. “She was a very warm, approachable and engaging person, See AUSTIN | page 2