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MONDAY, MAY 22 When Colonization is a Pathogen In this three-part event, students and community members have the opportunity to analyze the history of mental health stigma, treatment and barriers that people of color have faced. This event will be hosted in the Asian and Pacific Cultural Center from 2-3 p.m.
Mandala Mondays You can lower your stress levels while creating something beautiful with adult coloring from 1-3 p.m. in the SEC basement.
TUESDAY, MAY 23 “Against Doom: Organizing the Climate Insurgency” Students can join cultural critic Jeremy Brecher, author of “Save the Human? Common Preservation in Action,” in a discussion of climate insurgency as a strategy for using communities to bring to light common interest in protecting the climate. This event will be held in the International Living Learning Center room 155 from 7-9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 Watercolor Wednesdays You can come explore an avenue for stress relief and management in the OSU Craft Center with Watercolor Wednesdays. This event is co-sponsored by the Craft Center, Child Care & Family Resources and the Healthy Campus Initiative and takes place from 1-3 p.m. in the SEC basement.
THURSAY, MAY 25 Tantra in America, a scholarpractitioners story Students and community members can join teacher and writer Kimberley Lafferty in a discussion examining how pre-modern traditions have integrated into western educated culture. Lafferty has spent 25 years studying and teaching Tibetan Buddhism, Himalayan yoga tantra and Western integral theory.
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Changing the conversation OSU works to raise awareness about mental health resources offered on campus By Tiffani Smith, News Contributor For young adults aged 15 to 24, suicide is the second leading cause of death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Of those who commit suicide, nine out of 10 have a diagnosable mental disorder. Mental health is a part of every person’s overall health and wellbeing, according to Stephanie Shippen, a licensed psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services on campus. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, Oregon State University has been doing its part to spread awareness and attempt to normalize the conversation regarding mental health as a whole, including suicide prevention. In an effort to lessen the risk of suicide on campus, OSU, along with nine other Oregon colleges and universities, joined together
as members of the Oregon Colleges and Universities Suicide Prevention Project. The group centers itself around the goal of raising awareness about suicide risks, warning signs and treatment resources within their communities. Members of the project also provide training for health and mental health staff, as well as gatekeeper training for anyone interested. According to Jim Gouveia, a licensed clinical social worker and a counselor at CAPS, the purpose of gatekeeper trainings is to educate people to be aware of the signs and symptoms of suicide, how to ask the question, “Have you thought about suicide?” and how to get mental health help and assistance for those in need. At OSU specifically, various organizations and community members, including the Pride
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Jim Gouveia, licensed clinical social worker and counselor at CAPS, and OSU student Berkley Noble demonstrating different strategies for approaching those suspected to be at risk of considering or commiting suicide. Gouveia often provides gatekeeper trainings to help educate people to be aware of the signs and simptoms of suicide. Center and Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, have formed a suicide prevention work group that implements gatekeeper trainings on the OSU campus. On May 16, Gouveia, who has been leading these trainings for six years, hosted a session in the Memorial Union, open to
all community members. “Have the conversation when you see that people are depressed or stressed out, like
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(LEFT) Amber Hill poses on the runway in a student-designed outfit. The spring fashion show featured 14 student clothing designers and 28 models.
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They emerged from the white tent, colorful and confident. With powerful postures and energetic walks, the models carried a variety of garments down the white runway. Their faces held gold glitter, resembling the golden string lights wrapped around the pillars. Applause filled the air as the models from each collection finished their walk through the audience. The Oregon State University spring fashion show “Aurora” took place on May 20 in the Student Experience Center plaza. The event featured 14 student clothing designers and 28 models. The event also had a system of volunteer committees, each focusing on a different aspect of the show. According to Allison Jackson, a coorganizer of the event, this show differed from previous years. “This is the first year we are doing it outside. We have a lot less designers this year. That gives us more ability to be cre-
ative with the runway walk and let it last longer,” Jackson said. While the majority of the designers took a class to prepare for the show, the models had a different type of preparation leading up to the event, according to Emma Johnstone, one of the model coaches for the show. “Runway modeling requires a lot of practice, especially if models have not walked a runway before,” Johnstone said. “We practice many skills, from how to walk while keeping your body still, how to walk in heels, posing, facial expression, timing and much more. Not to mention all the fittings with designers and rehearsals that we have in preparation for the show.” According to Celena Camacho, who is modeling in the spring fashion show for the second time, practicing modeling techniques
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Continued from page 4 daily was helpful. “I made sure to improve my posture. I try to work on that everyday. Our coaches give us tips, too, about practicing while walking to class and thinking about rhythm and timing of music as well,” Camacho said. Other work on the show included sound, lighting and decoration committee members, music and styling volunteers and a promotional group, according to Jackson. “It’s been nice working with everyone. We can bounce ideas off of each other,” Jackson said. For the apparel design majors, the show also provides an opportunity to try new designs and showcase their work, according to Jackson. “I like to put on this event so we can get exposure and get experience showing our collections,” Jackson said. Desgner Marie Recine created her first swimsuit line and her own textile. “For this collection, I was inspired by designing swimsuits that would be both sporty and feminine. I wanted to create cute swimsuits that would stay on in the waves,” Recine said. “The textile inspiration came from my love of tropical weather and culture.” According to designer Mia Caramelli, her collection is unique with a non-traditional element. “I’m very proud of my work this year because my collection is very original. It’s an athletic collection inspired by the psychedelic music and art from the ‘60s and ‘70s,” Caramelli said. “My favorite piece I’m showing includes LED lights.” According to Caramelli, the show has provided her with an opportunity to grow
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Fourteen student models walked down the runway during the spring fashion show. as a designer. “The best part of preparing for this fashion show has been watching my ideas come to life,” Caramelli said. “It’s truly rewarding to see how my designs have flourished.” The event also brings the participating students together, according to Jackson.
“Because I’m a designer myself, doing this with my peers is pretty great,” Jackson said. Others agree that working with other students is one of the major benefits of participating in the show. According to Camacho, participating in the show was a social experience. “The best part is making friends,” Camacho said.
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Jim Gouveia, a licensed clinical social worker and Counseling and Psychological Services counselor, writes out signs and symptoms of an individual contemplating suicide. Gouveia is part of the Oregon State University suicide prevention work group. resources and programs for all students. According to Stephanie Shippen, a licensed psychologist at CAPS, because mental health Continued from page 3 is a part of general health and wellbeing, mental health support can likely be helpful ‘Okay let’s talk about depression and stress. for every individual. What are you doing about it?’” Gouveia “Being a human is hard sometimes and said. “It’s making the conversation less to seek out support and to seek out menweird and making it more normal. Then tal health care is not an unusual thing we can have these conversations in a way to do,” Shippen said. “I think most people that feels comfortable.” benefit from it.” To help change the conversation around For Tianna Coburn, an OSU freshman studymental health, on May 4, the Associated ing chemical engineering, CAPS has played a Students of OSU, CAPS and Active Minds role in coping with her depression. hosted the ‘Send Silence Packing’ event from Going to CAPS helped her express her emo9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the MU Quad. During the tions about her depression for the first time, event, over 1,000 donated backpacks were according to Coburn. displayed on the grass representing the num“I don’t want to, for a lack ber of college students’ of better term, shove it into lives claimed each year by people’s faces, but I knew suicide, according to the I think there is a lot I wouldn’t be shoving it event’s Facebook page. into people’s faces there,” of stigma around According to Gouveia, Coburn said. “It created this mental illness and I the full effects that really comfortable atmothink it stops people suicide has on others sphere for me to practice is often overlooked. from getting help talking about my emotions “I know that suicide and stuff like that. I’m still when they really seems like a plausible stratuncomfortable with it, but need help. egy for folks when they’re I do think it helped serve as really depressed, but what an outlet.” Jim Gouveia they don’t understand is According to Shippen, Licensed clinical the ripple effect of suishe aims to communicate to cide, that it’s not only the social worker, new clients that she underpeople you know, but it’s stands the first experience CAPS counselor the whole community and with counseling can feel sometimes the whole state,” Gouveia said. “You different and intimidating. stand and read a story and you start crying and “I think that once people get going in you don’t even know the person. There’s no counseling they realize that it’s maybe not as connection at all, but that’s how far it ripples. It scary as they thought it would be, that there’s ripples into people that you don’t even know.” maybe something enjoyable about coming For individuals seeking or in need of men- in and talking about what’s going on for you tal health help and assistance, CAPS, located and getting support from someone who’s on the fifth floor of Snell Hall, offers various not directly involved in your day-to-day life
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Tianna Coburn, an Oregon State University freshman studying chemical engineering, takes a walk through the Memorial Union Quad. Coburn uses walks to clear her mind and deal with her personal mental health issues. can feel really good,” Shippen said. “Usually the hardest step is just getting yourself in the door.” Mental health help and assistance is sought out for a number of different reasons, according to Shippen.“Just because you seek out help and support doesn’t mean something is wrong,” Shippen said. “It just means that you could use a little more support or could use someone to help you think through some different options you might have.” Regardless of why an individual seeks out mental health help or support, it is important for individuals to open up about mental health issues that they deal with, according to Coburn. “If you keep everything pent up, you might think that you can keep it hidden and ignore it, but eventually it’s just going to surface and if you keep it hidden for a long time, it’s eventually going to emerge as a bigger monster than it originally was,” Coburn said. According to Gouveia, he recognizes that there are barriers individuals face regarding their personal mental health and seeking mental health assistance. “I think there is a lot of stigma around mental illness and I think it stops people from getting help when they really need help,” Gouveia said. “I really think the awareness part is to say like your leg, like your liver, like your
heart, your brain is still a part of you and you can’t be embarrassed about having an ailment in your brain.” By spreading awareness about mental health, individuals who are in need of mental health help and assistance can get that help, according to Gouveia. Awareness on the topic also encourages individuals to think about maintaining proper mental health as a whole. “It’s not only about mental illness, but what do you do to take care of yourself?” Gouveia said. “You’re going to eat right and exercise and do things that keep your body healthy. How do you keep your brain healthy? How do you keep your spirit positive? I think that’s the other part about Mental Health Awareness Month is how do you do that?” CAPS is open and available to all fee-paying students. It is located on the fifth floor of Snell Hall and is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students can contact a counselor after hours by calling the CAPS number, 541-737-2131. Use a QR code reader or Snapchat for more inforamtion regarding suicide prevention, support and resources available through the OSU CAPS website.
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For some, art is the best way to express themselvs. This can come in the form of photography, sculpture or even writing and perfomring music. Continuing with the focus on mental health awareness and the events taking place at Oregon State University recently, students spoke last week to the power and the necessity of a creative outlet in their lives in order to maintain a balanced mental health. As part of the “Art Saved My Life” event, OSU students shared their creative outlets for deal-
ing with mental health issues, including music, artwork and photography. Along with their work, the students spoke about how expressing themselves through art has impacted how they handle their own mental health. The event was hosted by Counseling and Psychological Services at OSU in the Memorial Union Ballroom from 7 to 9 p.m. CAPS intended for the event to be created and held as the last of a series of events to raise awareness about the silencing stigmas around mental health. Rhonda Thomson, a senior studying photography, presented various examples of her photography, some incorporating sculptural pieces she has made by hand. According to Thomson, art has helped her deal with her depression and anxiety, as well as her experiences with being empathic, meaning that she physically feels empathy for other people. “Art saves my life because everything I create, it builds this protective shelter around me and it helps me, it feeds me, it’s the air I breathe and it’s like oxygen to me. Without it, I suffocate,” Thomson said. In her opinion, Thomson believes mental health issues are something that most people deal with on a daily basis and individuals at OSU need to take action in breaking the silences around mental health stigmas. “I think mental health is one of those things that we don’t talk about enough,” Thomson said. “A lot of people think that they should keep quiet about mental health when really, the one thing you need to do is talk about it. I know, for me, I used to have to keep quiet about it because I felt this shame, but the more I talk about it, the more I gain control over it.”
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(ABOVE) The Memorial Union balcony offers a beautifully lit location. The red brick and b good contrast and combine with early afternoon sunshine to create a beautiful scene for seni Amanda Matsuda will be graduating with a bachelors degree in kinesiology.
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I Stole My Textbooks Well, kinda—it’s not what it sounds like. The textbooks I’m currently using for Math 252, Chem 231 and a few other courses were plucked right off the top of the trash bin outside the Beaver Store. As a bonus, I also collected some physics textbooks that I will likely need for next year. All of these books were piled up on top of each other, lumped in with heaps of used Dutch Bros coffee cups. Deemed unwanted and unneeded, these books were bound for the landfill. I waited there for half an hour, just to see if anybody was going to claim them (and mostly for the sake of my conscience). Seeing nobody, I got myself a box, loaded up, and lugged all of them back to my dorm. These salvaged books saved me around five hundred dollars. Happy as I was about my personal gain, my thoughts soon turned to all those that didn’t happen upon such a score. After all, it’s ridiculous how expensive textbooks are in an American college. $227.50 for a Calculus: Early Transcendental; $226.25 for the Chemistry E-text; $28.75 for that language textbook which was only opened once throughout all of last term. The College Board reports that an undergraduate college student at a public four-year university will spend an average of $1,250 each year on books
and supplies alone. According to the afford to buy the required books. American Enterprise Institute, that’s 812% higher than what textbooks cost It should be noted that OSU is making in 1978, an increase that’s roughly three significant efforts to minimize these times higher than the baseline increase necessary costs of education. There is for other goods Open Oregon State, and services. which promotes These free, online SO NEXT TIME, CONSIDER textbook textbooks. There is SKIPPING THE SPARE CHANGE costs come the #textbookcosts YOU GET FROM RESELLING. on top of the drive to loan used burgeoning CREATE REAL CHANGE BY course books tuition fees donated by those HELPING SOMEONE ELSE that we who did not cash OUT, AND ENCOURAGE THEM pay. It’s no out at the used book TO DO THE SAME. wonder that sale. If you’re college debt concerned about is considered textbook the number one problem for millennials costs—or even just annoyed in the United States. by them—then I encourage you to learn more about these According to a survey by Florida efforts. Go to open.oregonstate.edu/ State University, 60% of students do textbooks. Hop on twitter, check without textbooks at some point in their out #textbookcosts, and get education, due to the costs; 23% of these more educated on the issue. students regularly attend classes without textbooks. The same situation exists Even better, before here at OSU. I’ve witnessed a celebratory going through the mood erupt when students discover frustration of being their courses do not require additional paid pennies on materials. I’ve noticed many of my the dollar, you can friends attempt (with varying success) protest the system the maneuver I like to call “Textbook itself, and donate your Evasion.” I find it disheartening to see book to someone who my fellow students handicap themselves needs it. Perhaps that and their dreams because they cannot is what my anonymous
Dear Mother I am so tired. It’s not because of the murky smoke floating in the air or the various colored liquids surrounding me on Friday nights. Nor is it because of the looming stack of unfinished assignments sitting on the corner of my desk, nor the exams that will soon haunt me and turn me into a caffeine addict. Don’t worry, it is not because of boys either; if anything, they are what bore me. I don’t remember the last time when I felt so out of place. To have people dissect me with just a glance or gaze
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Despite all of this, I do not speak up about it. Why? It’s not because I am scared of what people will say to me or about me. And it’s not because I don’t at my skin like I am an unknown know what to say. I know exactly what species—which might actually be I would say to those people. I can even true to some people—is depleting. find others who All of these will stand in desensitized PEOPLE DISSECT ME WITH solidarity with stares feel me. JUST A GLANCE OR GAZE deadening.
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But because, I do remember UNKNOWN SPECIES. Mother, I am the most drained . unfortunate part of my experience here. It was seeing I am tired of talking about race. How a Confederate flag being worn so is it not already clear that saying proudly. It’s a sight I never want to see “chink” while squinting your eyes is again. bigoted? How can they not see how PAGE | 2
hero was thinking when he or she dropped that stack of books in the trash bin. It’s definitely what motivated me to donate my copy of America Now to a friend. I bought that book for $55. Rather than sell it back to the book store for a scant $10 a few weeks later, I passed it directly to someone who will need it next. So next time, consider skipping the spare change you get from reselling. Create real change by helping someone else out, and encourage them to do the same.
warped and unconscious that is? Here I am at a place of higher learning, but these mindless acts and misinformed perspectives are everywhere. I am tired of hearing people yelling the N-word up and down the streets just for funzies at 2 AM . I can’t muster the energy to fake a laugh in response to yet another comment about how my people eat dog. I’m too exhausted to wait for those people to stop making fun of how pitiless my almost-black eyes are. Mom, I am just so tired. Your daughter, Ming Ming
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by Connor Leong As the son of a florist, I was constantly surrounded by plants, whether I liked it or not. Weeding flowerbeds at age three, growing multi-colored carrots at age seven, and now experimenting with how plants respond to different spectrums of light—I’ve always been in close, consistent contact with plants. As a result, I’ve gained some unique perspectives and am fascinated by how humans interact with plants. I’m particularly interested in the increasing desire to consume organic food. I see this desire on display in grocery stores, at the farmer market, and here on campus, where several dining halls serve organic food. I can also see how the term “organic” can hinder consumers’ ability to make informed, reasonable decisions on the kinds of produce they consume.
umbrella or you will stick out. This is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that I can’t use an umbrella without being teased. Umbrellas are made to protect you and keep you dry from the cold, wet rain. You know, like the kind of rain that falls all winter in Oregon.
that simulate soil. This method doesn’t fit with how “organic” is defined by the United States Department of Agriculture: “a labeling term that indicates that the food or other agricultural product has been produced through approved methods ... that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity.” My inability to use the label “organic” caused many people to look right past my produce— and the benefits of hydroponics. It appeared that many people had trained themselves to automatically turn away from anything that wasn’t labeled organic. They seemed to treat these “inorganic” products as if they were a threat to society—and as if were too! Often, when consumers found out that my lettuce was not organic, their words and actions revealed that they perceived me as a vendor who did not care about the well-being of the environment or the consumer. They were turned off before I could tell them that my hydroponic gardening didn’t require pesticides, used a fraction of the water compared to traditional gardening, and often yielded food with equal or higher nutritive value.
My awareness of this phenomenon started early. In seventh grade I grew crops using hydroponics—where you grow plants without the presence of soil, managing any needed nutrients entirely through the water. I grew many unusual varieties of kale and lettuce using my hydroponic As my system, and HOW MUCH WATER IS THE time at the sold my GROWER USING? farmers produce at WHERE IS THE PRODUCT GROWN? market a farmers progressed, market. HOW OLD IS THE PRODUCE? I began to In the WHO IS DOING THE LABOR? see that the mornings, organic label my lettuce was the single factor used by consumers would stand out against all the other in deciding if the food was beneficial vendors’ lettuce because the freshness for the environment and for oneself. caused it to glow in the morning sun. Many times, vendors who advertised However, I quickly discovered one critical problem with selling this kind of organic produce had their stalls packed with consumers, while the non-organic produce. It was not organic. vendors had none. My frustration grew as I saw good, well-intentioned people No, I did not spray neurotoxins or fail to think critically about the issue, use genetically modified seeds, and I and base their decision on a single most definitely did not inject hormones factor. into my plants. They aren’t considered organic because the seeds were started » Continued on page 4 » in oasis cubes, little sponge squares
During the past couple of years I’ve lived here, I, too, have come to accept the constant rain. And I’ve gone out plenty of times without an umbrella. At the end of the day I’m soaked, I am shivering and miserable, and so many of my friends feel the same way. We are tired of the tourist jokes and the strange looks we get when we use umbrellas. When I first moved to Oregon, I dreaded the rain. It was constantly dreary, cold, and wet. On average, it rains 210 days of the year here. Two-hundred-andfreaking-ten-days. But I slowly realized that rain isn’t the hardest part of living in Oregon—it’s the snooty attitude about umbrellas.
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Do you wear glasses? Do you carry a smartphone and occasionally glance at it or hold it in your hand as you walk? Do you ever stop to chat with someone you haven’t seen in a while? If you answered yes to any by Lexy Neale of those questions, then it’s time to buy an umbrella, because let me tell you, This winter I saw countless tweets and doing any of those things is a pain in heard the talk. If you use an umbrella, the butt when it’s raining. I can’t count clearly you’re not a “true Oregonian.” how many times I’ve stopped to clean Not only must “true Oregonians” my glasses or phone, or tried to talk accept the rain, to someone but they must struggled to also reject the maintain eye IF YOU USE AN UMBRELLA, convenient device contact and hold CLEARLY YOU’RE NOT A that’s handy for a conversation “TRUE OREGONIAN.” keeping rain while I’m from getting all looking at over you. Why, my feet and though? Why is the practical use of desperately wishing I were inside. an object designed to keep you dry considered something to look down on? And don’t even get me started on how many times I’ve given up looking cute. I’ve seen so many stores selling Let’s face it, some days we all need umbrellas, usually for discounts, a dress-for-success mood boost. No because they start to pile up and no one one should have to choose between gives them a second glance. Ducks fans wearing a big bunchy raincoat to have even coined the phrase “it never avoid condescending side looks and rains in Autzen Stadium,” as a joke. feeling confident and dry under an There are Facebook pages dedicated umbrella. It’s time for us all to change to “no umbrellas in Oregon,” bloggers our mindset and come to embrace the who write about how it’s just a little practicality of using an umbrella. In water falling from the sky, and tourist Oregon’s long season of rain, long live sites that clearly state not to use an the umbrella’s reign.
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I can make nations crumble with no more than a word. When I go hunting I kill two stones with one bird, The world is my oyster but it is also my stage, When I go to the ocean the sharks get in a cage. I never get angry, I never go and shout, When I turned 18 I made my parents move out, If a girl stole my heart there’s no way she could keep it, I’m one of the few who knows Victoria’s secret. There isn’t a no-blinking contest that I haven’t won, I only wear sunglasses so my eyes don’t hurt the sun, When I hear bad news, I don’t take a seat, While you play in sand, I play in concrete. Unlike elephants, I’m not afraid of mice, Last week I counted to infinity twice, I’ve explored caves without any guiding, I’m the reason that Waldo is hiding. Could be immortal, so I probably won’t die, When I chop onions, it’s the onions that cry, If I step on a Lego brick, you know I feel no pain, When it doesn’t snow, I make my snowman with rain. I can lift 300 pounds quick with only my legs, If you don’t dig omelets, I can unscramble eggs, I can take steel beams and make them look oh-so-brittle, When I was born, I drove my mom to the hospital. I know how to punch a cyclops in between the eye, I hear my tears can cure cancer—too bad I never cry, I can do no evil, for I can never sin, I got the power to delete the recycle bin. With all of these amazing things going for me, It’s still a mystery how I’m going to graduate with a %$#&ing engineering degree.
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I believe an informed decision results from considering multiple sources. So, for those who go to a market with a single question—“Is this organic?”—I encourage you to think about the other factors that go into growing food. How much water is the grower using? Where is the product grown? Is there agricultural runoff (where water leaves the fields and carries pollution into other waterways)? How old is the produce? Who is doing the labor? These factors do not fall under the term organic, and yet they should definitely affect the way you think about your food. I understand why people flock to organic food products: they want to protect their families and the environment. At the same time, I think it’s necessary we not create “food stereotypes.” Organic labeling has led to some closed-minded thinking, and narrowed perceptions of what methods of growing produce are beneficial to the environment and human health. Consumers need to look past first impressions and try to fully grasp what the product is, where it’s coming from, and the system that created it. By going beyond the label, consumers will hopefully become more curious about their food and ultimately, realize that it does not have to be labeled organic in order to be high quality and grown in a manner that respects and protects the environment.
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(Left) Head softball coach Laura Berg cheers from the dugout during the April 15 game against UCLA. Berg had success in her own playing career, winning the 1998 NCAA Championship title for Fresno State. Along with collegiate success, Berg owns three Olympic gold medals (1996, 2000, 2004) and one silver (2008).
From cop to Corvallis
Once a police officer for the Los Angeles Police Department, Laura Berg finishes fifth season as head softball coach By Amy Schwartz, Multimedia Contributor From the Los Angeles Police Department to the dugout in Corvallis, head softball Coach Laura Berg has had a career of impact. Prior to her return to the game, she spent a year with the LAPD from 2010-11. Both of her brothers are police officers and had spoken about the camaraderie they had with their fellow officers. Berg was intrigued by the concept and calls it a ‘learning experience.’ “I talk to the players a lot about teamwork,” Berg said. “Even when you’re done playing softball, you’re still going to be a part of a team whether it’s your family, your husband or significant other. Wherever you’re going to go you’re going to be a part of a team. You’ve got to work together in problem solving
issues and accomplishing goals.” After a nearly twenty-year long playing career, Berg hung up her softball cleats and made the transition to coaching. The decision was due to the coaches that Berg had during her career. “The people who coached me had such an impact on my life,” Berg said. “I wanted to have that impact on other young women’s lives.” Berg has learned among the other great coaches at Oregon State University. Berg’s office is in Gill Coliseum, where she shares a hallway with other OSU head coaches such as Pat Casey, Tanya Chaplin and Steve Simmons. “Being around all these coaches really helps me learn a lot of things and kind of up
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my game,” Berg said. “Look at what women’s basketball is doing. I’ve got to go out and pick Scott’s (Rueck) brain and ask him, ‘What are you guys doing? How’d you do it?.’” Through the Beavers season, many players have credited coach Berg with their success. They have focused on her monthly sit-downs and her coaching style. “It means a lot,” Berg said. “They’re the reason why I do this job. They’re the ones out there putting the hard work in. They’re the ones with the bat in their hands. All I can really do is lead them. They’re the ones who have to be bought in.” Oregon State junior outfielder Lovie Lopez has long admired her head coach. Prior to her
visit to OSU, Berg had never seen Lopez play. During the visit, Lopez was on campus for just six hours before committing. Lopez credits that to coach Berg. “To be able to play for her is my dream come true,” Lopez said. “I had multiple offers and I chose this school just to play for her.” Berg and Lopez shared a special connection of playing for the same travel ball coach. They are both from Santa Fe Springs, but Lopez wanted to learn from Berg. “When I shook her hand, I told her, ‘I want to be just like you,’” Lopez said.
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Head coach Laura Berg speaks with her player after practice. According to her players, much of the Beavers’ success can be credited to the former police officer.
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trying to pull it out of me. I really admire that about her.” Redshirt senior infielder Sammi Noland Continued from page 10 transferred to Oregon State from Nebraska. Lopez has appreciated being coached by The transition was made easier due to coach Berg’s support. one of the best softball players in the world. “(Ber has) always been super supportive “She’s the best slapper outfielder in the and always made wo r l d, l i te rme feel really wela l l y,” L o p e z come,” Noland said. “She has said. “She’s given the medals to me some great show for it. She opportunities and means everyI will forever be thing to me. Off thankful for her.” the field, aside Berg has from her being learned a lot my coach, she’s from her playa great person ers, including to talk to. I can patience. go to her for “Something anything. If I that may have need help with come easy to me anything she’ll Sammi Noland may not come be there for me.” easy to them,” Berg has Redshirt senior infielder Berg said. “No pushed Lopez matter how old as a player to they are they’re still eighteen to twenty year play to her best potential. “I think it’s more keeping the constant olds and away from their families, some of fight in me,” Lopez said. “Never letting up. them for the first time and I really have had She knows my potential, so she’s always there to be better at nurturing them.”
(Berg has) always been super supportive and always made me feel really welcome. She’s given me some great opportunities and I will forever be thankful for her.
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Freshman Mikayla Pivec throws a javelin at the OSU home High Performance track meet. A week and a half after completing a season on the OSU women’s basketball team, Pivec talked to the track and field head coach about getting a spot on that team.
Mikayla Pivec stands out again Division-I athlete excels in two sports: track and basketball By Ellie Magnuson, Multimedia Contributor
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A true athlete has the power to make a statement with the character they exude, the passion they have developed and the effort they have worked their whole lives to build. Freshman Mikayla Pivec has done so on the basketball court and now on the track. Mikayla has proven her dominance during basketball season, when she earned herself a PAC-12 conference championship title and has continued to build her name throwing javelin. Mikayla threw 134-4 meters at her first meet, then beat her personal record the following weekend of 142-4 at the Oregon Twilight Meet in Eugene. Mikayla followed up the next weekend at the PAC-12 meet where she threw 138-5. “I actually didn’t know she threw javelin, but now that I do, I can honestly say I wasn’t surprised. As an athlete, Mikayla is capable of doing anything she sets her mind to and javelin didn’t seem like something she wouldn’t be able to handle on top of basketball,” Janessa Thropay, Mikayla’s teammate on the basketball team, said. Just a week and a half after basketball season was over, Mikayla talked to the head track coach in the hope they were looking for more bodies. Mikayla had a week of spring break to visit home, her parents and her sister, who was her workout partner and live-in best friend, to talk about it together. “I did track in high school and in the back in my mind I was thinking if it worked out I would love to throw javelin again. I did distance running in high school, but I am retiring the shoes,” Mikayla said. “My sister was running track at home and that sparked my interest. I started working out for three weeks prior to my first meet.” According to Mikayla, her family has always supported her decisions and pushed her to become the athlete that she is. Alumnus
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of the University of Washington, athlete and Pivec’s father, Mike Pivec, went to all of Mikayla’s sporting events and drove her to all of her practices. “Whenever it would get tough, my dad would always tell me to keep pushing through. He would always be my rebounder and my workout partner at home,” Mikayla said. Mikayla played a sport every season in middle school and high school, and there were times she was playing multiple clubs and travel sports at a time. Eventually she had to start eliminating sports and narrow it down to what she wanted to pursue in college. “She followed basketball which is her favorite thing to do and everything else kept her in shape and gave her an opportunity to spend time with her sister and friends. Basketball is something that she hopes to play beyond college” Mike said. According to Mikayla, there are a lot things it takes to become an athlete and overcoming obstacles is one of them. Fortunately, she has not had to deal with many long-term injuries, however mental obstacles can be just as demanding as physical ones. “In high school, we won one state title my junior year, but my sophomore and senior season we lost in the state championship,” Mikayla said. “My junior year, it was a really exciting experience, so we worked all summer and the whole year and our only focus was to help the team repeat, but sometimes it doesn’t work out, but you just have to use it as fuel for the future.” Mikayla reports to a military conditioning class at 6:15 a.m. and then continues to attend classes, go to practices and go to Dixon Recreation Center for some extra work afterwards. According to Thropay, Mikayla’s success is due to her amazing work ethic. “She does not only do so many things
that the average person would have an anxiety attack, but she does all of those things well and to the best of her ability. She doesn’t know how to give less than 100 percent,” Thropay said. According to Mike, when it came down to choosing a college, she was looking at Oregon State University, University of Washington and Stanford. “Every day that I drive 15 miles past University of Washington and still have 250 miles to go visit her, I think about ‘Should I have convinced her to go closer?’ But she chose Oregon State because she really believed in the coaching staff and the direction of the program,” Mike said. “I would love to see her every weekend because she is one of my best friends and I miss her, but I know that in Corvallis she is growing up.” According to family and friends, Mikayla is so much more than a hard worker and skilled athlete. There are a lot of great students in the PAC-12 and a lot of skilled athletes and she is working hard at maximizing what separates herself from the rest. “Mikayla’s personality is one of the sweetest, most genuine and pure personalities out there,” Thropay said. “She has done great balancing both so far and I’m sure she will be consistent in that, just like she is in everything else.” Mikayla has stayed in touch with her father and continues to be inspired by the talented athletes that surround her and her future success to come. “I am proud of the person she is becoming,” Mike said. “I know that she is going to work hard and try to be as good as an athlete and teammate as she can be, but the steps she is taking in other areas like her academics and throwing javelin are allowing her to take advantage of the full college experience.”
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The moon urges you to take a break in a relationship. If you feel that things are weird with your honey, don’t push it. Spend time with friends. Talk things over with a therapist. Give your romantic situation a little air and let it breathe.
Remain focused on your career and education. Jupiter is tempting you to abandon your path, but personal entanglements aren’t as important as taking care of your longterm future. Don’t allow temporary stuff to hypnotize you too much.
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The OSU Socratic Club at Oregon State University presents an event free and open to the public
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Volunteers for the Salmon Bake event get ready to take a cooked salmon inside. Thirty salmon from the Columbia River were purchased for the event.
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The fire roared beneath skewered fillets. Community members gathered in awe as the salmon sizzled over the heat. A line of people waiting to dine on freshly-cooked fish wrapped around the building and down the sidewalk. On Friday, May 19, the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws hosted the 19th Annual Salmon Bake at the Longhouse. The event hosted 1,050 Oregon State University community members, including university students and staff, as well as Corvallis residents and tribal elders, according to the event’s Facebook page. Salmon is a large part of Native American culture in the Pacific Northwest, according to Ame Mañon-Ferguson, a fourth-year student studying fisheries and wildlife science and a Native American Longhouse Eena Haws student leadership liaison. The Salmon Bake is a way to show that Native Americans are present in the community and not just a demographic discussed in textbooks. “It’s kind of reminding people that we’re still here and sharing a little bit of that with the community,” Mañon-Ferguson said. At the event, salmon fillets were cooked on long wooden skewers over a hand-built fire. According to Mañon-Ferguson, 30 roughly 10-pound salmon were purchased for
this year’s event. “The salmon, we normally try to get it from a tribal fisherman,” Mañon-Ferguson said. “Luckily, we were able to do that this year.” The salmon for the event came from a fisherman that fishes directly on the Columbia River through treaty rights, overseen by the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, according to Luhui Whitebear, the assistant director of the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws. “This is a way to have it when the spring runs are, to honor the salmon coming back in the spring and for people to learn more about salmon culture. It is also to celebrate that part of the culture along with the salmon returning,” Whitebear said. To help purchase the salmon for this year’s event, the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws received funding from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Community Fund and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians, according to Whitebear. “For us, it’s really important to support tribal fishers in this effort and I think the tribes appreciate that as well. We applied for funding
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Attendees of the 19th Annual Salmon Bake gather around the fire where the salmon is prepared in the traditional way, served by the Longhouse on May 19.
Salmon Bake
Continued from page 14 specifically to help support that part of salmon culture,” Whitebear said. Although this year’s event celebrates the return of salmon to the river in the spring, according to Mañon-Ferguson, the number of salmon returning each year continues to diminish. “This year we have added a new component that’s become more and more common in the salmon bake, which is tabling, specifically about the environment problems that are affecting salmon,” Mañon-Ferguson said. According to Tucker Ford, a sophomore in pre-education and history and a member of the Native American Student Association, the cooked salmon was very different from any other salmon he had ever had before. “I’d never been to a salmon bake, either, so it was different. I don’t like salmon actually, I’m not a fan. Ate it all today though,” Ford said. “It was just a different way to cook it and way better in my opinion. You could just eat the food and just really taste how natural it was.” Side dishes such as cornbread, kale salad, garlic roasted potatoes and blueberry buckle
were served alongside the salmon, according to the event’s Facebook page. Fish head soup was also prepared, but had priority for tribal elders. According to Whitebear, many tribal elders attend the salmon bake event each year. “Elders have a very specific place in our communities and a lot of respect is placed on them, so we always make sure we have seating for them and they eat first and everything like our customs,” Whitebear said. Beyond tribal elders and individuals that identify as Native American, the Salmon Bake, as well as the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws, are open to all who are committed to transformative learning, according to the event’s Facebook page. The annual Salmon Bake provides a great experience to bring the community together, according to Whitebear. “For some people, it’s the first time they’ve come to the Longhouse, just walking through, so maybe they’ll come back and hang out sometime,” Whitebear said. “It’s a great way for the staff to all work together as a team to show the whole campus and surrounding communities that come the kind of things that are important to them.”
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