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WEDNESDAY, August 7, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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VOLUME CXVII, NUMBER 7
Bringing Bard, reality TV together in quad
Emma-Kate Schaake
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Left: Adriana, Erin Wallerstein, is hysterical over the treatment from her husband, and her sister Luciana, Brittany Potter, comforts her. Right: Angela, Arin Dooley and Richelle JeanBart plead with Solinus, Sam Thompson over Aegon’s fate. sance, which utilizes stereotypes and physical action for its comedy. “ ‘Jersey Shore’ has a heightened sense of reality,” Helman said. “The exaggerated Italian stereotypes fit in very well with “Comedy of Errors.’ ” “Jersey Shore” made prominent use of the extravagant Italian-American stereotype with language, party life and style, all elements that Helman adopted for the larger-than-life feel of her production. The women have prosthetic chests, butts and
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OSU researchers find grizzly bears eat better since reintroduction of gray wolves By Alyssa Johnson The SUMMER Barometer
A study conducted by researchers from Oregon State University and Washington State University was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, indicating a connection between the wolves and grizzly bears who live at Yellowstone National Park. The connection begins with berries. In the study, researchers noticed an interesting inconsistency. Yellowstone was home to some of the densest
populations of elk, bison and domestic livestock in North America. At the same time, the bears in the region had some of the lowest berry consumption in North America. “We hypothesized this was not a coincidence,” the study reads. Gray wolves, not originally protected by the laws of the national park, were removed from Yellowstone in the early 1900s. Without the threat of their main predator, elk began to intensively browse woody plants in their winter ranges. Yellowstone is also home to a wide variety of berry-producing shrubs, which are a shared food source between both bears and elk. According to the study, it is likely that elk, in the absence of wolves,
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These serviceberries in Yellowstone National Park are a food source for many animals, including grizzly bears.
decreased the availability of berryproducing shrubs through intensive browsing. The study suggests this competition for berries forced bears to look elsewhere for their nutrients. Grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region, designated as “threatened” on the endangered species list, are omnivorous — eating animals, plants and insects. They are also considered scavengers, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Wild fruit is typically an important part of grizzly bear diet, especially in late summer,” said William Ripple, lead author of the study and a professor in the OSU College of Forestry, in a press release. According to Ripple, it is in the late summer that bears prepare for hibernation, and therefore are looking to gain the most weight. Berries are a way for them to put on fat. “At certain times of the year [berries] can be more than half their diet,” Ripple said. According to the press release, researchers analyzed grizzly bear scat data both before and after the reintroduction of gray wolves in 1995, comparing percentage of fruit content in the scat. Researchers then compared those results to the density of elk in the park at the time. This study is perhaps the first to suggest the reintroduction of wolves has had a positive effect on the grizzly bear diet. The study shows the percentage of fruit found in grizzly bear scat, in recent years, nearly doubled in August. With these results, some are hopeful See YellowStone | page 3
Where: Memorial Union Quad When: Aug. 8-11, Aug. 15-18 Time: 7:30 p.m. Admission: $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors and students, $5 for OSU students
outrageous, gravity defying hairstyles, while the men sport gelled wigs and chain necklaces. “They look a bit like cartoon characters — and they should,” Helman said. “It’s poking fun at reality TV and that exploitation.” While spray tans and bling might not be the traditional Shakespeare accoutrements, Bard in the Quad has played host to a string of creative visions over the years. Past actors have See BARD | page 2
Accessibility on campus The Office of Equity, Inclusion draft a new Comprehensive Accessibility Plan for campus
paths, adding ramps as needed, adding and improving parking near campus facilities, surveying transit routes and adding stops and routes as necessary. The second objective consists of a By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg The SUMMER Barometer plan to perform a complete assessAccessibility on campus has ment of campus buildings, identifybeen a hot topic at Oregon State ing accessibility barriers in “main University for several years. In a move campus facilities.” Accessibility barto address many concerns and the riers can include anything from a need for more accessible routes at pathway incline of greater than 8.33 OSU’s growing campus, the Office of percent, to too-narrow entryways, to doorknobs or coat Equity and Inclusion hooks being placed Paratransit is so recently drafted a too high. new Comprehensive terribly expensive. ... Jeffery Evans, Accessibility The better question president of OSU’s Plan for the Built Able Student Environment. would be, what’s a Alliance, said that “Through the seemingly minor Plan, OSU is pursu- better expenditure of barriers such as money? ing a holistic and these make up a comprehensive prilarge portion of the oritized plan that Jeffery Evans barriers found on sets forth objectives Able Student Alliance president OSU campus. over the next five The third objecyears,” stated by the tive goes hand-inExecutive Summary hand with the second, working to provided on the OSU website. With five primary objectives, the remove identified barriers in highplan includes information on what traffic areas. The fourth objective revolves the success of each objective will provide, projected costs for each around the assessment of current portion of the objective, the current transit systems, on and around camsteps being taken to complete the pus, based on their usability for objective and the anticipated future persons with disabilities. Though the plan does include the potential steps for completion. A top priority is laying out a plan for creating a paratransit system, for an accessible travel grid (ATG) parties from both the Able Student conveniently interconnecting build- Alliance and the Office of Equity have ing entrances on campus. This will determined that such a system would entail improving certain sidewalk See Accessibility | page 3 n
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The 8th annual Bard in the Quad incorporates 21st century twist
Errors” and “Jersey Shore.” “There is something about the show…it’s very goofy, very physical,” said Helman, who has directed two other Bard in the Quad productions, By Emma-Kate Schaake “Twelfth Night,” in 2009, and “Macbeth” in 2011. The SUMMER Barometer “Comedy of Errors” tells the story of two sets of What does the reality television sensa- identical twins who were separated at birth and tion “Jersey Shore” have in common with who happen upon one another through a slew Shakespearian theatre? More than you think. of confusion and mistaken identity. Shakespeare Director and creative mastermind Liz Helman wrote the play in the commedia dell’arte style came up with the idea to meld “Comedy of — a tradition that stems from the Roman renaisn
Bard in the Quad