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COVER: Mitzi Montoya, dean of the College of Business, stands in Austin Hall. The College of Business is eliminating their academic professional school. For more information on the College of Business, see page 6.

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Corvallis School District requests funding to renovate schools Measure 2-113 allocates funds for modernizing, expanding public schools

By STEFANIE GAMBOA Practicum Contributor Over $1.9 million has the potential to fund the Corvallis School District if the proposed ballot Measure 2-113 is passed this upcoming primary election, held on May 15.

If passed, Measure 2-113 will put almost $2 million into the modernization and restoration of all 13 public schools in Corvallis, Ore. The suggested bond specifically identifies safety, overcrowding, aging and additional educational spaces as the main concerns for renovation.

Vincent Adams, chair of Corvallis School Board, said the bond is immensely important and “pivotal” to the future of Corvallis schools.

The passage of the bond is similar to purchasing a home, Adams said.

“Just like you will buy a house someday, it’s an investment in your future and that’s what we are asking,” Adams said. “A school bond is an investment in education in the future.”

The age of Corvallis public school buildings is one factor that will be addressed with the funding from this bond, said Sami AlAbdrabbuh, Corvallis School Board vice chair.

Just like you will buy a house someday, it’s an investment in your future and that’s what we are asking. A school bond is an investment in education in the future.

VINCENT ADAMS Corvallis School Board Chair Harding Center, the oldest school in Corvallis, was built in 1923. Close behind is Lincoln Elementary, built in 1949, and Franklin K-8, built in 1947.

The cost of repairs for Lincoln Elementary are so great that it is more cost-efficient to rebuild the whole school rather than to repair existing problems, said Shahnaz Sahnow, who has been employed by Lincoln Elementary as a literacy coach and reading specialist for 16 years.

For Sahnow, the bond is critical for not only Lincoln Elementary, but for the future of all Corvallis schools.

“The bond addresses many issues, but the most important, first and foremost, to me is addressing safety,” Sahnow said. “The science is pretty clear that we are overdue for a major earthquake in this region and our buildings are not seismically adequate.”

Making these seismic upgrades to vulnerable schools will reassure student and staff safety

during an earthquake, Al-Abdrabbuh said.

“We live in a region where there is a risk of earthquakes. Seismic retrofitting is an important upgrade to ensure children and school staff are safe,” Al-Abdrabbuh said.

Security upgrades are also included in the category of safety renovations.

“The reality is thinking about a possible school shooting, or a violent attack on a school,” Sahnow said. “We don’t have secure entrances at most of our schools, most front offices don’t even have a direct line of sight to outside.”

Measure 2-113 will be able to secure all main entrances, get controlled access locks and get lighting and video surveillance for all schools, Sahnow said.

Portable classrooms that were built in the 1990s, which were said to be temporary, still exist today, Sahnow said.

Currently, 21 portable classrooms are used at all seven Corvallis elementary schools. Without the use of these modulars, student capacity would be at 106 percent for the K-5 schools, according to Sahnow.

“Our spaces are just really crowded, and modular classrooms are not ideal for so many reasons,” Sahnow said. “It’s isolating, kids do not have access to bathrooms and water and you can’t hear in a lot of cases what’s going on in the main building.”

This bond intends to eliminate all modulars across the school district and add classrooms to the main buildings. If the measure passes, Lincoln Elementary and Hoover Elementary will both be demolished and rebuilt at their current locations to better accommodate students and provide modern learning locations spaces in a fiscally responsible way, Al-Abdrabbuh said.

“You can judge a nation and a community by how they treat their public schools. We are walking the talk here by investing in the safety and wellbeing of our children,” Al-Abdrabbuh said. “You are not only a student in Corvallis, you are a community member and your vote will really matter on this Measure.”

The potential passage of this bond reflects the growing influences of education throughout Corvallis, Adams said.

“We are sending a message that our community cares about our kids and their future,” Adams said. “As students here at OSU are launching their lives, it is setting an example of what education should look like so when they move on to other communities they have a vision of what good education is.”

Sahnow said OSU students have an opportunity to get involved in the community by supporting Measure 2-113.

“Whether they grew up in Corvallis or didn’t grow up in Corvallis, with the political climate in the country being tense, the youth are the hope and this is prime time for youth to be getting involved in politics, and something like a local school measure is a great place to start,” Sahnow said.

AKSHAY PAWAR | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Corvallis School Board Chair Vincent Adams said Measure 2-113 is pivotal to the future of Corvallis schools. The measure will help modernize and restore all 13 schools in the district.

AKSHAY PAWAR | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Sami Al-Abdrabbuh, Corvallis School Board vice chair, holds up promotional material for Measure 2-113. The measure is part of the May 15 election for residents in Linn and Benton Counties.

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Phuong Uyen Nguyen, a fourth-year biohealth sciences, psychology and human development and family sciences student, was one year old when she came to America. Her parents gave up much of their lives to give her the opportunity to be the first in her family to attend college.

Nguyen said her success as a first-generation student is due to many variables, one of the most important being the assistance she received from the community. Two organizations at Oregon State University that assist students who are low-income, first generation students or students with disabilities are the TRiO Student Support Services Program and Educational Opportunities Program.

“Not only does TRiO provide individualized meetings with counselors, they also have free workshops, events and tutoring for their students,” Nguyen said in an email.

TRiO is important because it provides academic support to participants, so they can attain their educational career goals, said Amas Aduviri, director of TRiO SSS programs.

TRiO SSS collaborates with other OSU units to increase retention and graduation rates of first-generation, low-income and students with disabilities.

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The first TRiO SSS program started at OSU in 2001. The programs are federally funded. In 2017, TRiO received funding for the Upward Bound Program for South Albany high school students to prepare them for college entrance, Aduviri said. The program’s goal is to increase college enrollment of first-generation and lowincome high school students.

Our instructors have great experience in supporting learners at many levels and have a deep understanding of how systems of oppression can play out.

JANET NISHIHARA Educational Opportunities Program Director “I’m glad to have these programs at OSU,” Aduviri said. “We wouldn’t have the programs without the support from the OSU administration and other key OSU departments

such as the EOP, Pre-College, UHDS, etc.”

EOP is a program similar to TRiO in that it academically assists students of color, lowincome and first-generation students who have been denied access to higher education in the past, said Janet Nishihara, director of EOP. Not only does the program provide advising opportunities for their students, but they also have lower division courses they teach at OSU, said Nishihara.

“We teach smaller sections of MTH 111 and MTH 112, as well as MTH 102 and 103, WR 115 and 121 and the only reading development class on campus,” Nishihara said in an email. “Our sections are not only smaller, our instructors have great experience in supporting learners at many levels and have a deep understanding of how systems of oppression can play out, even in what seems like the neutral territory of the math classroom or maybe more so because we think of math as neutral when it is far from that.”

EOP is a department funded by OSU from the OSU Education and General Fund budget, Nishihara said. Additionally, funding comes from non-profit foundations and the U.S. Department of Education. Each year, EOP is able to fund around $35,000 in scholarships for OSU students in need.

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NEWS TRiO/EOP, continued from page 4 “We provide academic counseling so that each student has a go-to person to help with life, budgeting, finding a job, resume writing, finding funding for study abroad or internships, getting along with roommates, preparing to talk with an instructor or advisor and so much more,” Nishihara said in an email.

The goal of those resources is to have students succeed in college, despite their backgrounds.

JANEY CHEN Second-year studying bio-health sciences Janey Chen, a second-year bio-health sciences student, is the first in her family to attend college. For assistance in navigating college, Chen sought out help through EOP. “I think EOP is important for first-generation and low-income students because most of them have no idea what to do in college and it’s important for them to get access to resources that are available,” Chen said in an email.

“The goal of those resources is to have students succeed in college, despite their backgrounds.”

By being a participant of EOP, Chen was informed of various resources on the OSU campus from book lending to financial assistance. These resources have significantly

benefited Chen both financially and academically.

“I never knew about these services until my EOP academic advisor told me about them when I was a freshmen,” Chen said. “EOP has scholarships where EOP students can apply and I was able to get a scholarship which helped decrease my tuition.”

Before entering college, Chen was in a program similar to EOP called College Possible during her junior and senior year of high school. Being an only child, she couldn’t go to anyone for help and the non-profit organization assisted in the process of applying for college.

“My friend informed me about this program and I agreed to join,” Chen said in an email. “I wanted a similar program when I enter college because I think it’s important to know about the resources that are available on campus and have a program that’s there for me whenever I need help, especially when I’m moving into a new environment.”

EOP is important because it was the first of many programs that assisted students who traditionally attended college without the tools to succeed academically, Nishihara said.

Initially with 48 students, EOP has grown to serve over 400 students, Nishihara said. The staff in EOP are very involved in the creation of the Ethnic Studies Program, the Difference, Power & Discrimination baccalaureate core for students and the cultural centers on campus.

“We are an integral part of the fabric of the university, especially in the support of students of color. Our graduates have achieved positions benefiting their community, including judges, lawyers, doctors, college professors, business owners, counselors, social workers, teachers and the list goes on and on,” Nishihara said in an email.

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Educational Opportunities Program EOP provides support to students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, including but not limited to:

>Students of Color >Low-income students >First-generation students in college (neither parent graduated) Services provided by EOP: >Assistance through the admissions process >Assistance in locating financial resources >Orientation to the University >Academic and personal counseling >Courses to help review or fill in gaps in math, reading and writing FIR ST LAST | ORAN GE ME DIA N E TWORK Michelle Onaka, an academic counselor with TRiO Student Support Services, talks with students.

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COVER STORY

College of Business eliminates professional school

Similar changes in curriculum, philosophy occurring around OSU

AKSHAY PAWAR | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK The College of Business moved to Austin Hall from Bexell in September of 2014. Professional school has been an element of the College of Business curriculum since 2007.

By AVALON KELLY News Contributor Nearly 6,400 students in the College of Business have graduated from the College of Business since 2009. Something all of these students have in common is their application to professional school marking their transition into their desired major from a more general pre-business major.

For the past 11 years, professional school has been a constant for Oregon State University business students. Their progression from second to third year was marked with the accomplishment of acceptance to this upper-division program.

Beginning this term, however, business students will no longer be required to complete this process because the college faculty and staff have elected to remove their professional school entirely, effective spring term of 2018.

“This was a unanimous vote,” Dr. Mitzi Montoya, dean of the College of Business, said. “This had full support of both the undergraduate program curriculum committee as well as the faculty. This originated from the faculty.”

The process of disposing of the professional school model began about a year and a half ago, and ultimately culminated earlier this academic year when the proposal passed the staff vote. At these meetings, the college’s advisers acted as the representatives of the student voice, said Prem Mathew, associate dean of Undergraduate Student Development in the College of Business.

“They’re involved in our undergraduate program curriculum committee as well,” Mathew said. “I think a lot of what we hear from students comes right through the advisers, but there weren’t any students who were particularly in the discussions.”

Montoya said professional school was sometimes seen as a barrier for incoming students in the College of Business.

“It’s a hurdle and I think it could have been a negative hurdle for some students,” Montoya said. “Just even the perception of, ‘I might not get into my major,’ so I feel like we may have had in fact been excluding some students who were worried that they didn’t want to come to Oregon State University in case they did not make it past that secondary hurdle.”

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One business student, Lily Beck, a secondyear marketing and management major, described the prospect of applying for

My goal would be that we will have done a lot of the leg work this year and then we start really seeing what it looks like and getting the approvals next year.

SCOTT ASHFORD Dean of the College of Engineering professional school as a narrow hoop students needed to jump through. The process seemed inconvenient and she had mixed feelings about it, Beck said.

“I didn’t mind the fact that I had to meet the

standards, but due to one mistake that I made in planning out my classes I would’ve missed the requirements by one class,” Beck said via email. “I was worried I wouldn’t get into pro school without completing this one class. My GPA was high enough, I had enough credits and I was very involved, but I was just worried that because I didn’t fulfill this one requirement that I wasn’t going to be able to be accepted to professional school and I was going to be behind significantly. It was stressful to me to have to troubleshoot how it was going to make up this singular class to not set myself behind a whole term.”

Beck said she was surprised by the College of Business’ decision to eliminate the professional school but she felt it was the right decision.

“I think that it will add convenience to students lives as one last thing they need to worry about,” Beck said via email. “And I’m curious to see how it’ll affect future and current students.”

On the other hand, Daisy Tran, a second-year accounting major, described her experience

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Professional school, continued from page 6

AKS H AY PAWA R | OR ANG E MEDIA NETWOR K College of Business dean Mitzi Montoya has been in her position since August of 2015.

of preparing to apply to professional school as rigorous but important to her development and beneficial to her experience in the college.

“Pro-school was like a next level that all us business students had to reach to commit to the careers we want to work in after graduation,” Tran said via email. “Knowing how important pro-school was, it pushed me to work more and harder to be successful enough to apply. Also, to be sure that the career that I want to pursue is the right fit for me.”

To Tran, the College of Business’ decision to eliminate the professional school was both surprising and confusing. Despite this, she said she plans on continuing to work just as hard towards her degree and future career.

The students in the business college are currently in the midst of the transition from one model of education to another. This process does not occur overnight, and though the change has been implemented this term,

many factors are still in the conversion process, Montoya said.

“You have to talk about how do you implement; it’s not simple and you have to change everything about the way you’re communicating about the program,” Montoya said. “You have to change all of your advising systems. You have to change all the materials you’re handing out to students. You have to change what’s actually in Canvas, what you’ve registered for. So all that has to change when you do this. It’s a process to undo, but still worth the effort.”

Elsewhere at OSU, other colleges are beginning to look into starting this transition process as well.

Recently, the College of Engineering administration has began to discuss the removal of their professional school.

Dr. Scott Ashford, dean of the College of Engineering, entered OSU as a civil engineer during the first year of the engineering professional school in 1981.

“We’re making some curricular changes at the same time,” Ashford said. “So my goal would be that we will have done a lot of leg work this year and then we start really seeing what it looks like and getting the approvals next year.”

A significant portion of the reason these changes are beginning to occur within the university, Ashford said, is thanks to the new budget model OSU has implemented this year.

“As a land-grant university, part of our mission is, right, educating our students from the state,” Ashford said. “What that allows us to do then is to really properly fund our upperdivision courses and it allows us to really change how we operate really for student success.”

Specifically, Ashford said that with the new financial model the tuition paid by students flows more directly into the programs they take part in. Instead of the larger university administration increasing or decreasing the funding a department gets as they see fit, the number of students in the department now

plays a more direct role.

According to Montoya, this change in OSU’s financial system illustrates a shift in the university’s philosophy. The philosophy includes the recent focus on OSU’s access mission which revolves around its position as a land-grant university and its duty to provide qualified students with access to a high-quality and affordable education.

“If you take that philosophy and you roll it forward, it says that if you’re qualified and you’re meeting standards then you should be

This was a unanimous vote. This had full support of both the undergraduate program curriculum committee as well as the faculty.

MITZI MONTOYA Dean of the College of Business allowed to continue with your degree which says that you don’t need a secondary decision point,” Montoya said.

For the first time in 11 years, students in the College of Business will no longer need to complete an application process between their second and third year. All students, whether current or incoming, have been transitioned into their major of choice regardless of class standing, and College of Engineering students may find themselves in the same position within the next few years.

“It’s a long process,” Ashford said. “And it’s something that we need to get a lot of input on because it’s a big change and we want to make sure we do it right. But I think the time is right to do it.”

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Dr. Scott Ashford is dean of the College of Engineering. The College of Engineering is also considering eliminating the profressional school aspect of its curriculum.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL Professional school is a secondary application model which requires students to apply to majors after completing pre-business requirements.

OSU College of Business is removing its professional school, allowing direct admission for students into majors.

College of Engineering is also looking to potentially eliminate its professional school in the future.

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Curve balls, fast balls and rise balls all seem to defy the laws of physics by traveling at such high velocities.

Athletes are able to throw a softball in a way that uses concepts such as momentum, energy, pressure and force to strike out opponents.

“A pitch is a very complicated interplay of physical effects,” K.C. Walsh, physics instructor at OSU and director of Project Boxsand, said via email.

“Ultimately the player converts chemical potential energy (jelly doughnut) into mechanical energy via work from their muscles. Their muscles do work on their arm which in turn creates torque.”

According to Walsh, that torque increases the rotational velocity and angular momentum of the arm and ball.

Torque applied over a distance or angle increases the angular momentum and rotational energy of the ball.

“Upon release, this rotational kinetic energy is converted into linear kinetic energy at the point the ball is released. This glosses over the complicated biomechanics of the body and the individual parts at play,” Walsh said via email.

When asked about the momentum of her throws, freshman OSU softball pitcher Mariah Mazon explained the technique, she is majoring in kinesiology.

“Usually people think that it’s all upper body but it’s usually your legs,” Mazon, said.

“You start in kind of a sprinters position so

AJA RAYBURN | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Freshman pitcher Mariah Mazon pitches at the game on April 8 against No. 7 Arizona State University. OSU lost 1-2.

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that you can get momentum from your legs to go and correlate with your upper body.”

Meehra Nelson is a pitcher for OSU softball a well, and is currently a third-year studying human development and family science.

“Pushing off of my legs is a big part,” Nelson said “That’s where I get all of my power from.”

According to Walsh, they are taking advantage o both linear and angular momentum.

“Winding up increases the angular momentum o the ball while lunging forward increases the linea momentum of the pitcher’s body,” Walsh said via email. “Upon releasing the ball, all of that angula momentum, plus some of the linear momentum o their body, is converted into linear momentum of the ball propelling it forward as fast as possible.”

In softball, pitchers will use differen types of throws to confuse the person at bat. Each of these throw can apply different aspect of physics.

“Usually when you want to strike someone out we use what’ called a junk pitch,” said Mazon “That would be like a rise

ball, drop ball o a change up.”

According to Mazon, a rise ball is a pitching technique where the ball move upward in the air, in hope of making the batte swing unde t h e

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“Normally I try to throw curve balls to get strikes,” Nelson said. “If I’m ahead in the count then I’ll throw something like a rise ball to get them to miss.”

For a curve ball, Nelson said that it relies on wrist snap to get the ball to have a good spin in the air.

Walsh would agree with this statement.

“Curve balls require a great deal of spin,” Walsh said via email. “As the ball flies through the air one side of the ball spins in the direction of motion while the other side against the direction of motion.”

According to Walsh, this relative velocity creates a pressure difference due to the Bernoulli’s principle, which states faster moving air has a lower pressure. This results in the Magnus Effect, where the pressure difference from the relative speeds caused by the rotation creates a net force.

Associate head c o a c h Marcie Green is o n her fifth season with the Beavers, and works closely with the OSU softball pitching staff.

“A rise ball pitch has the ball actually spinning backwards towards the pitcher,” Green said. “It’s creating an appearance of a lift. The ball isn’t actually rising, it’s just not dropping as soon as a pitch with straight spin would.”

The way a softball travels in the air is a very important key to the game.

“The air it runs into is pushed out of the way, causing drag and slowing the ball down. Pitching at higher elevations with less dense air results in less drag and potential for greater speeds,” Walsh said via email.

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Spring Creek Project hosts Bedrock lecture series Lectures, project look to create connections between nature, people

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In 1987, economist and poet Franz Dolp was inspired by the beauty of the Oregon Coast Range and decided he needed a way to bring more wilderness into his life. Before his death in 2004, he worked with OSU philosophy professor Kathleen Moore to create the Spring Creek Project.

“Franz Dolp was a dear friend and an inspiration,” Moore said via email. “As luck would have it, we met on a sidewalk in front of the library, as we were both leaving a lecture.

He shared his dream for a writing retreat at his cabin in the Coast Range. We met after that for coffee and started brainstorming.

Both of us understood that this could be the beginning of something much more creative and impactful. Franz cared deeply about poetry, music, clean streams, forested mountainsides, environmental science and the moral obligation to the future of the planet.”

The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University aims to lessen the strain between nature and the humans who inhabit it, and therefore keep balanced human use of land and the rightful protection of that land.

The project is a convening organization that sponsors writers’ residencies, readings, lectures, conversations and symposia on the critical importance to the health of both humans and nature, said the OSU Liberal Arts website.

The goal is to include many perspectives and disciplines, from creative writing and philosophy, to environmental and social sciences.

Emily Grubby, a graduate student working towards her Masters in Environmental Arts

and Humanities, as well as the project intern, said the program seeks to synthesize discourses conceptually, such as art or philosophy, and empirically, like environmental sciences.

Through the use of writing, art and philosophy, the project reminds people to live more responsibly and joyously within nature, Grubby said.

Grubby’s intern work includes working closely with the program director and coordinator. She has been especially busy

The Spring Creek Project is so very important because it legitimizes many different ways of knowing or seeing, because we believe that engaging perspectives from many varied disciplines increases our understanding of the place of humans in nature.

EMILY GRUBBY Spring Creek Project intern this year coordinating the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, as it aligns with her thesis. Outreach, organizing evidence and arranging events

C OURTE SY OF KATHL E E N MOORE Spring Creek Project co-founder Kathleen Moore and her family wade in a river in Alaska. The Spring Creek Project emphasizes creating a connection between humans and nature.

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are only the beginning of her duties, but it’s why she’s passionate.

“Spring Creek’s devotion to using what I’ll call “applied creativity” and storytelling and wonder as instruments for shifting that relationship just lights my fire,” Grubby said in an email. “Changing narratives, asking probing questions, and challenging complacency is the most important work, and that’s what we get to do every day at the Spring Creek Project.”

Spring Creek aims to touch on pressing environmental issues without losing sources of wonder, gratitude and beauty.

“The Spring Creek Project is so very important because it legitimizes many different ways of knowing or seeing, because we believe that engaging perspectives from many varied disciplines increases our understanding of the place of humans in nature,” Grubby said via email. “It also creates space for people to think and communicate radically which makes room for truly necessary, revolutionary thought.”

The project aims for people to have 20/20 vision, meaning human exploration of relationship to nature through writing workshops, public programs and outdoor treks, according to Terra Magazine, OSU’s news and research communications website.

Housed in the Department of Philosophy, according to Terra Magazine, the Spring Creek Project lives on. By bringing poets, writers and scientists together, the project allows for exploration of the natural world with likeminded individuals.

Moore and Dolp’s original intention for the project was to nurture creative writing, bringing together environmental science, ethics and the written word. However, Moore said, increasing environmental crises, such as climate change, made them realize their original goal wasn’t enough.

“We had to move also to protecting it,” Moore said. “So I see the Spring Creek Project now expanding its focus to include nurturing what I call activist writing and radically imaginative thinking.”

Lectures about the project’s issues are held each Wednesday at noon in Bexell Hall, room 412, Grubby said. Following a 20-minute presentation of the guest speaker, viewers can gather and discuss questions.

The lectures are all different and everyone is encouraged to participate, Grubby said.

“For the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change,” Grubby said via email, “we invited poets, scientists, artists, lawyers and other environmental justice leaders to help us imagine how we can build communities and lives in a world where environmental crises quickly become human rights crises.”

Lectures are also available on the Spring Creek website and on a Youtube channel.

Carly Lettero, the project program manager, has background in environmental ethics, writing and social science research. Lettero said she has worked for environmental nonprofits for almost two decades primarily as a

COURTESY OF KATHLEEN MOORE Kathleen Moore is the co-founder of the Spring Creek Project and an OSU professor of philosophy. Moore, along with economist, Franz Dolp, launched the project together.

community organizer and program developer.

“I am fortunate to work with people I admire in a community I love on projects that I deeply believe in,” Lettero said via email. “I work with our staff, our Senior Fellows, our partners and community members to design programing that helps further Spring Creek’s mission.”

The program plans to further its mission by hosting the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal from May 14-18, Grubby said. Partnering with the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative, the program will hold a session on human rights, fracking and climate change.

The event will take place at the Whiteside Theater at 7 p.m. on May 14 with keynote speaker renowned ecologist and writer Sandra Steingrader, PhD. The event is free, but it’s recommended to reserve tickets on Eventbrite in advance.

“The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a highlyrespected, international tribunal that has been hearing cases of human rights injustice since the Vietnam War,” Grubby said in an email.

“They have conducted hearings in Bhopal, Chernobyl, and most recently Myanmar. This May they have been asked for the very first time to consider the rights of nature as well as human rights to determine the morality of hydraulic fracturing and subsequent climate change.”

Lettero said the Spring Creek Project holds dozens of events each year. In addition to Steingraber’s upcoming lecture, the project will also be hosting artist and writing residency programs at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest.

These are ideal places for environmental writers and thinkers alike to meet their community members and begin networking, Lettero said.

“A lot of people feel deeply committed to do something about environmental crises,” Lettero said via email, “yet it can be overwhelming to

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Spring Creek Project, Continued from page 10 know what has the potential to really make a difference. More than ever, we need creative, imaginative people from many disciplines and ways of knowing to come together to reimagine how humans can live on Earth without wrecking it. That is what Spring Creek is dedicated to doing.”

Moore said if humans are able to grasp worldly connections intelligently and ethically, then humans will be able to find meaning and a lasting kinship within the natural systems that sustain the world population.

More than ever, we need creative, imaginative people from many disciplines and ways of knowing to come together and re-imagine how humans can live on Earth without wrecking it. This is what Spring Creek is dedicated to doing.

CARLY LETTERO Spring Creek Project program manager “What does (Spring Creek Project) mean to me?,” Moore asked via email. “It means everything. Solving the environmental emergencies will require the greatest exercise of the human imagination the world has ever seen.

How can we bring together all the things the human mind does so well—imagining, hoping, grieving, questioning, understanding—to find better ways to live on the planet for a very long time? This, it seems to me, is the role of the Spring Creek project.”

Use Snapchat or a QR reader to access the Spring Creek Project’s Youtube page. The project releases each Bedrock lecture by noon every Wednesday.

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Students collaborate, design, build concrete canoes OSU’s Concrete Canoe Team competes in yearly regional conferences, engages in civil engineering

COURTESY OF THE CONCRETE CANOE TEAM Oregon State University’s Concrete Canoe Team poses with their canoe “Gorgeous” at the American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, where they took second place overall in the competition.

By MUNIR ZAREA Sports Contributor What floats your boat? Hypothetically, light materials like wood, metal or plastic might do the trick. However, a team of students at Oregon State University build boats that are a little bit out of the ordinary.

Students part of the OSU Concrete Canoe Team build canoes using concrete and compete against other schools around the country every year.

The American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE, is the host of the concrete canoe competitions. They’re subdivided into 18 regions of the U.S., OSU taking part in the Pacific Northwest regional conference. The winner of that regional conference moves on to compete at the national level.

“Students have been doing this since the 1970s. They were getting together informally to race their canoes and the first national competition was in 1988,” Beth Wiley, the manager of student younger member programs at the ASCE, said.

The competitions have seen larger numbers of schools being added to the roster

over the years, making it one of ASCE’s most popular events.

“It’s a very popular competition, the gold

It’s a chance for students to network. We’re a big family and it’s a lot of fun.

It’s about trying out all the different areas of civil engineering.

CADELL CHAND OSU Concrete Canoe Team Captain

standard as far as ASCE is concerned. It’s our flagship competition,” Wiley said.

The competitions have four different parts;

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the design paper, the oral presentation based on the design paper, the final product display and a co-ed sprint race.

“Before they can race, they have to put their canoe in a tank of water, have it completely submerged, and then they let it go and it has to float back up to the surface,” Wiley said.

The OSU Concrete Canoe Team has excelled in the regional conference the past few years, placing highly every year.

“The past four years that I’ve been doing it, we’ve gotten second place in our region each year,” Cadell Chand, one of the captains of the team, said.

The events that OSU and other schools compete in are taken into account by the judges and accumulated to create an overall, final score. In the national competition, students from the winning school receive a $5,000 scholarship and a trophy. But to students at OSU, there’s more to building concrete canoes than just winning.

“It’s a chance for students to network. We’re a big family and it’s a lot of fun,” Chand said.

“It’s about trying out all the different areas of civil engineering.”

Building a well-functioning concrete canoe

requires students that are not just studying civil engineering, but students from other majors that can contribute their skills to the process.

“We actually have quite a few mechanical engineers and as we get further into fluid dynamic analysis and structural analysis, we’re needing more CS (Computer Science) majors. So really, anyone can join the team,” Chand said.

Just like any boat, OSU’s concrete canoes must be built with materials that give the canoe integrity.

“The straight basis is concrete. We just have a less dense mixture than water. We also add foam to the bulkheads so that helps with the floatation as well as the decrease in density,” Julian Angulo, the construction lead on the team, said.

According to Angulo, each team that’s participating in the competition must make a new canoe each year they compete. The rules, however, change.

“The basis (of the rules) stays the same for the most part. They change a few things on a

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C OURTESY OF THE CONCRE TE CANOE TE AM The OSU College of Engineering Concrete Canoe Team meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Concrete Canoes, Continued from page 12 yearly basis, but the major changes will come once every four years, I believe,” Angulo said.

The team spends a great portion of their school year working on the canoes in their workshop, prepping the canoe for the regional conference.

“From the beginning to the end, it probably

takes us a term to do our practice canoe,” Angulo said. “From there, placing the final canoe now that the structures compete, probably a month or two.”

While time may be a factor for building canoes, OSU students make it a rewarding experience by displaying their latest canoes in Owen Hall for others to see.

Students can get involved with the team by visiting the OSU Concrete Canoe Team’s website, or attending one of the general meetings (times posted on the website).

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The internet has gone into a frenzy over Snapchat’s latest update.

Drastic changes to Snapchat’s interface in February have resulted in petitions, rating drops and mass money loss

for the app.

The beginning of 2018 was to mark a new era for Snapchat with an update that would allow for better navigation. Quite the opposite has happened.

In 2016, five years after its inception, Snapchat had accumulated 301 million monthly active users worldwide, according to Statista.com.

Fast forward two years to present day and millions of Snapchat’s users are furious over the new update.

“I initially hated the Snapchat update ‘cause it looked so disorganized and cluttered,” Kenna Davis, freshman, said.

According to Snap Inc., the update utilized Snapchat’s new algorithm, which organizes a user’s friends page based on how they communicate with them. The hope was to have friends in the order they wanted to talk to them to avoid constant scrolling.

The biggest issue with this new algorithm is that it is adaptive. This means it takes time for the app to figure out who you talk to most often.

When the update first launched, everyone’s friends page was cluttered and recent chats were buried under people they rarely talk to.

“I didn’t like the update because it made it hard to see who you recently Snapchatted and made me forget about some people when others would post on their story,” Anthony Nunn, sophomore, said.

Another contribution is the combination of stories and chats on the same page, which resulted in confusion and clutter.

“When people update their Snap stories it would put it above your recent conversations,” Nunn said.

With such a radical change, Snapchat’s user base was quick to rebel. Tweets with instructions on how to get rid of the new update quickly surfaced and circulated around Twitter. This reversal worked for some, but for others it did not.

Next was a petition on Change.org to take away the update and bring the old interface back. This petition has racked up over 1.2 million signatures since February and that number continues to climb.

“We completely understand the new

Snapchat update has felt uncomfortable for many,” Team Snapchat said in response to the Change.org petition.

Team Snapchat continued to explain that the more you use the app, the more it will adapt to you and that they would be adding new tabs to better organize content.

However, this is not what users wanted and Snapchat never agreed to take the update away.

Instead, they recognized their user’s frustration and played it off nonchalantly.

“This new foundation is just the beginning, and we will always listen closely to find new ways to make the service better for everyone.

We are grateful for your enthusiasm and creativity.

We are very excited for what’s ahead,” Team Snapchat said, concluding their response to the Change.org petition.

I didn’t like the update because it made it hard to see who you recently Snapchatted and made me forget about some people when others would post on their story.

ANTHONY NUNN Sophomore digital communication arts student Between celebrity tweets, the online petition and Snapchat’s refusal to revert to the old interface, the company’s stock dropped 6 percent, resulting in a loss of $1.3 billion.

The once highly praised app had a huge drop in ratings, resulting in a 1.6 out of 5 star rating on the App Store, with thousands of comments complaining about the update and urging others not to update the app if they haven’t already.

Snapchat’s stubbornness has cost the app its reputation and money. Even while many have put up with this update, one thing is certain, this app will never be enjoyed as it once was.

It’s hard to know if this once indestructable camera app will ever bounce back from its fast downfall, or if it will eventually fade and be replaced by Facebook and Instagram stories.

“I think it’s a pride thing. They wanna feel like they have control over the user even if they don’t like it,” Nunn said.

To the other companies out there, I recommend using Snapchat as an example of what not to do.

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Opinion: Fast food slows down Americans Cooking culture is dying, garden goodies are here to help

By GENESIS HANSEN Columnist

Nowadays, food has become a cheap, quick and a common way for Americans to fill their tummies.

Processed and fast foods have become a staple of the American diet, and we’ve forgotten the value of a home cooked meal. This style of eating is destroying our bodies, culture and bank accounts.

“More than one third of the adult population in America is obese and frequent fastfood consumption is shown to contribute to weight gain,” according to the Center for Disease Control.

How did we get here, who is involved, and what can we do to fix it?

Restaurants have been a product of civilization since the Greek and Roman times, but were usually established to feed travelers.

In 1921, White Castle became America’s first fast food joint and was established in Wichita, Kan. McDonald’s followed suit in 1948, while restaurants like Burger King, Taco Bell and Wendy’s got their hold in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Quick eats businesses grew quickly in America. According to Statista, a statistics hub, the fast food industry in the U.S. has grown to be worth approximately $198.9 billion, and by 2020, this figure is forecasted to exceed $223 billion.

Understandably, people in food deserts and on food stamps have a different role in the industry, but one would assume that the inexpensive nature of low cost cuisine would cultivate a consumer market in the lower class, when this just isn’t true.

“Among the highest 10th of earners, about 75 percent reported eating fast food at least once in the period, compared with 81 percent for the poorest,” CNN’s Jay L. Zagorsky said. “Earners in the middle were the biggest fans of fast food, at about 85 percent.”

According to the National Health and

Nutrition Examination survey from 2007-2010, adults ranging from 20 to 39 years of age and of varying income capacities consume the largest portion of their calories from fast food.

Contrary to popular belief, it actually becomes more expensive to continually eat processed food compared to whole foods or home cooked meals.

When you’re eating something like fast food, you’re giving your body the calories without the nutrients, so in a way you’re kind of starving yourself. It’s displacing the calories you could be getting from something nutrient-dense.

ANGELA WILLSON Sophomore nutrition and dietetics major “One meal at McDonald’s for a family of four can cost up to $28.00. While a homecooked meal of whole roasted chicken with veggies, salad and milk for a family of four costs about $14.00, meals of pinto beans and rice will cost about $9.00,” according to Foods For Better Health.

The fast food market isn’t just financially draining, but it contributes to poor health as well.

Dr. Nancy Lach is a chiropractic physician who is passionate about healing through nutrition and owns and operates the Nutritional Healing Center in Corvallis.

For the past 12 years her holistic approach in nutrition response testing has focused on designing custom nutrition programs for her patients to help address issues such

as thyroid problems, heart disease, muscle fatigue and more.

Lach’s work has shown how well the body heals when fruits and vegetables are integrated into one’s eating habits.

“Food really needs to be our medicine,” Lach said.

According to Dr. Lach, the health issues we face today didn’t exist in the 1920s-40s before the rise of processed foods. People have come to believe that their ailments are normal and require medication or surgery.

“True health is taking responsibility for what you’re putting in your body,” Lach said.

Fast or processed foods are full of unhealthy fats, chemicals and other ingredients which are associated with health conditions that are serious and costly.

Angela Willson is a sophomore studying nutrition and dietetics at Oregon State University.

Initially interested in nutrition during cross country in high school, Willson loves learning about the field, as well as how nutrients are used in the body and what kind of processes get them there.

“I feel like what has been hammered into my brain in the classes I’m taking is just eat things that come from the earth, instead of processed foods where you don’t know what happened to

it,” Willson said.

Rice, beans and veggies can go a long way.

Lach suggests utilizing potatoes as a form of sustenance because they are rich in vitamins, versatile, cheap and filling. Take some time to plan your meals, stick to your grocery list and take food from home on the go with you.

Be on the lookout for University Housing & Dining Service’s Chef Classes, which teach people basic cooking skills, tips and advice on nutrition and health, food safety and how to make meal prep easy and inexpensive, Willson said. It’s $10 to sign up, but if you show up you get reimbursed. After each class students receive a free starter kit of ingredients for some of the dishes made.

“When you’re eating something like fast food, you’re giving your body the calories without the nutrients, so in a way you’re kind of starving yourself. It’s displacing the calories you could be getting from something nutrientdense,” Willson said.

While fast food may be convenient, it doesn’t do what food should. Being conscious of what you eat will give you energy to do more, improve your health and in the long run, you’ll get a better bang for your buck. Healthful eating is easy, cheap and tasty.

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Expect a personal breakthrough this week. The moon is helping to create peace and happiness within your relationships. Maybe you and your partner will finally set aside your differences and focus on building a more loving bond.

Saturn is occupying you with legal and financial details.

Some of these might involve your romantic partner. Maybe the two of you need to come up with a better plan to pay your monthly bills. Perhaps you are making up a new child support agreement with an ex.

Flirty Venus has you chatting people up, smiling at cute guys or girls, and generally connecting with cool people around you. If you want to meet a soul mate, hang out in places where you are likely to meet others who share your interests.

You’re experiencing some progress in your career, thanks to ambitious Mars.

Don’t lose momentum. If relationships are a distraction, see if you can minimize their impact on you. Avoid dealing with friends whose lives are constantly chaotic.

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With the sun moving opposite your sign for a few weeks, it’s best to take it easy. Don’t force an outcome in your romantic life. It’s important to remain patient. Otherwise, you could end up in a random relationship that has no real intimacy or meaning.

Over the next few weeks Venus is going to bring a spirit of play to your social life. You’ll want to hang out with friends and share laughter as much as possible. If you’re spending time with a sweetheart, you’ll want to keep things light and cheerful. Just have fun.

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If you’re not careful, you could experience some miscommunication with your sweetheart. Venus has you rushing from one thing to another, and you might accidentally send out a text that wasn’t worded very nicely and create unnecessary tension with your honey.

A moon opposition could leave you a little confused. Maybe you’re not quite sure how to read your partner’s mood and intentions right now. Don’t panic. Spend some quality time together, but don’t have a huge agenda about it. Things will resolve soon.

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No. 6 OSU baseball sweeps rival University of Oregon Seven straight wins against Ducks, record attendance of 3,800 in single game

By MUNIR ZAREA Sports Contributor

The Oregon State University Beavers swept the University of Oregon Ducks in the threegame series this weekend at home Saturday marking the Beavers’ seventh straight victory over the Ducks.

Goss Stadium at Coleman field was filled to the brim each game, with over 11,000 fans coming to watch the Beavers play over the course of the series.

The Beavers improved their overall record to 29-6, ranking them No. 6 in the country and No. 3 in the Pac-12.

Junior infielder, Nick Madrigal, made his return to Goss after a nearly two-month recovery from a broken left wrist.

Madrigal, the 2017 Pac-12 player of the year, stepped back on the field in game one against the Ducks and went 2-4, racking up one run batted in.

“As soon as I stepped on the field, and then hearing the fans giving me a little ovation, it really means a lot for them to do something like that,” Madrigal said.

Beavers head coach Pat Casey was excited to see Madrigal come back after his time off.

“We knew he’d give us a lift. He’s a special baseball player,” Casey said. “Most guys like me would have to have a few at bats before I felt like I was comfortable. He jumped in there and jumped right back after it.”

Sophomore infielder Tyler Malone was redhot during the series, notching in a homerun for the Beavers each game. This marks his fifth straight game with a homerun.

“I really started just going back to what used to work for me before I got here,” Malone said after the series finale. “I’ve just really dedicated myself to that and stuck with that and it’s been paying off.”

After Malone’s homerun in the finale, the rest of the team celebrated by leaving him with

an empty dugout and running into the alleyway behind it.

“I just round third, tapped my helmet, and then looked and was like ‘Oh my gosh’. That was funny,” Malone said in regards to the stunt.

But it wasn’t just Malone that put on a great performance for Goss Stadium.

Senior pitcher Luke Heimlich was unstoppable in game number one of the series.

He went 9-1, and showed no mercy during Thursday’s game, racking up 12 strikeouts in 7 ⅓ innings.

“I was able to get ahead. They were an aggressive team and I was able to keep filling up the zone. As long as I was winning the bottom, I was able to get them out,” Heimlich said after Thursday’s victory.

The strike throwing senior threw off the Ducks, and gave the beavers a defensive advantage.

“Everytime I take the field against a team it’s a new team. I’m a different pitcher than I was last year. Each game this year is new. I have to take a different approach into it and not really compare it to last year,” Heimlich said.

Junior pitcher Bryce Fehmel also put on a full display of athletic ability in game two going 5-1, and retiring 12 straight batters at one point in the game.

“For the most part I was keeping the ball down and throwing three pitches for strikes, and when I can do that, I can do some things,” Fehmel said.

Coach Casey was impressed by not only Fehmel’s performance, but by the opposing pitcher freshman infielder/pitcher Kenyon Yovan.

“Fehmel was outstanding. Both arms, Yovan and Fehmel were both outstanding,” Casey said.

Following this series sweep, the Beavers face Arizona next week at home in another threegame series.

AJA RAYBURN | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Junior pitcher Bryce Fehmel threw more than seven scoreless innings during the Friday, April 20 game. OSU won all three games of the series, improving the overall season record to 29-6.

AJA RAYBURN | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK (LEFT) OSU huddles on the mound during the game on Friday, April 20 against UO. (RIGHT) Sophomore catcher Adley Rutschman sits behind home plate. OSU won the game Friday 2-1.

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