VOL. CXVIII, NO. 123
DAILYBAROMETER.COM
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Earth Day on campus
Two week long celebration continues By Gaby Mudd News Contributor
Oregon State University continues the two week long ‘Beyond Earth Day’ celebration in honor of encouraging holistic sustainability. OSU provides several different ways to get involved this Earth Day, according to Andrea Norris, the marketing and development director of campus recycling. “Beyond Earth Day is a two week long set of events that promote holistic sustainability that target our community,” Norris said. Norris explined the importance and meaning behind holistic sustainability. “Holistic sustainability means not simply focusing on environmental sustainability,” Norris said. “We are also looking at economic and social issues, for example social justice and equality as well as economics.” These earth day celebrations have happened on campus for decades and have increased in size and length over time according to Norris. “OSU has been celebrating Earth Day since the early 2000’s,” Norris said. “It originally began as a week long celebration, but we had so many organizations on campus that work on sustainability that we changed it to beyond earth day to host more events and better recognize that the celebration lasts more than one day and promotes well rounded sustainability.” Norris explained the events that students faculty members and the corvallis community can participate in. “On earth day itself there is two main events,” Norris said. “We have the annual HOOHAH and a sale at the OSUsed store. We also have more events through April 29.” Abigail Findley, a soil science major and the secretary of the organic growers club, spoke about the sixteenth annual HOOHAH event that will take place on Friday. “The mission of the event is to provide OSU students, staff and corvallis residents an opportunity to plant onions, listen to live music, and talk about food system sand organic
Holisitc sustainability means not simply focusing on environmental sustainability. Andrea Norris Marketing and Development Director of Campus Recycling farming,” Findley said. The organic growers club is a facility on campus that provides hands on learning experience about organic farming to those who are interested or would not usually have the chance to, and encourage them to work together on projects and farming, according to Findley. The club also grows and sells vegetables at a market sale and promotes more sustainability on campus. Findley encouraged people to attend the event at the OSU grower’s club farm to get hands on learning experience. “The people who come visit will learn a lot about a holistic system of
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Second Amendment Week ends with a bang College Republicans holding gun rifle Friday afternoon on OSU campus
members of the OSU community is, “How are the College Republicans allowed to raffle off firearms?” For the past 11 years, the College Republicans have put on their annual Second Amendment Week, which is designed to By Sarah Weaver inform OSU students as well as Corvallis comNews Reporter The Oregon State University College munity members about topics ranging from Republicans’ annual Second Amendment gun safety, concealed carry laws and other Week has raised some questions from the OSU political issues separate from firearms. student body and faculty as well as Corvallis The College Republicans have held events community members. every day this past week from concealed carry One of the questions that is often asked by classes to movie screenings and debates with
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the College Democrats. However, tonight’s event is a drawing and the prizes range from a gun cleaning kit to a DEL-TON AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. According to Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 166.436, people looking to acquire a gun from someone other than a gun dealer has to fill out and pass a criminal background check. Nowhere in the ORS 166.436 is the prohibition of transferring a firearm from a person who is not a gun dealer at a drawing said outright. Donald Handelinde, a senior mechanical
engineering and finance major and president of the College Republicans, stated that the group takes all necessary steps to make sure that the event follows all legal guidelines and regulations. Handelinde stated that the College Republicans work with university entities and groups including the Student Leadership and Involvement office to ensure that the event is done in a legal way, including registering the drawing with the state.
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OSU recycles, NEWS, PAGE 3 Softball hopes for postseason, SPORTS, PAGE 5 Yeas and Nays, FORUM, PAGE 7