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Jenny Moser
As any college brochure will tell you,
include some context about who the statue was.
your college years are a wonderful opportunity to
make new friends, try something new and learn
a lot. You will learn fascinating things, which
I concurred, so I was soon out in the sunshine again.
This time, my target was the plaque behind my unwitting subject. He is Martin Kukucin (1860-1928),
you can then share with friends to enrich their a Slovak author, physician and humanitarian who
lives. This is all very well and good, but it is only
one side of the coin. Any large university is essentially a Petri dish of young adulthood (pardon
my scientist's analogy). Not quite teenagers, not
quite self-supporting adults, we're caught between
two cultures. Therefore, as any reminiscing col-
lege graduate will tell you, the college years
immigrated to South America. Ivan Mestrovic (18831962) sculpted him in bronze. The statue arrived at
OSU in 1974, a gift of Professor Julius Rudinsky.
There you have it. I had fun, I learned
something, and now I've shared that knowledge
with you. That old OSU brochure in my closet
would be proud.
offer countless opportunities for offbeat humor.
One day last term, I was burnt out on studying and decided to take a break. I noticed a strand
of leftover Mardi Gras beads lying on my desk, and
I got an idea. Soon, I was out in the sunshine beside
the library, eyeing the statue who spends eternity
looking down with a thoughtful expression. I stood
on tiptoe and dropped the beads around his neck.
He looked down at them (approvingly, I thought)
as I aimed the camera to capture his portrait.
When I suggested my photo as the cover page
for this issue of The Chronicle, Jeff thought we should
Casey Woodworth
like To-Do lists. I am, unfortunately, one
of those people who gain immense satisfaction from
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From left: Jenny Mose,; Casey Woodwort/i,
Eric Hill's jacket, and Jeff Burright
listing stuff and then crossing it all outor, more
often then not, staring at the list in stupefied horror
while I procrastinate. Actually, my real passion lies
in calendars. You'd think I'd buy a day planner if I
were smart, but I never seem to get around to it. So
usually there is not a calendar readily available, and I
My life calendar is more complicated, involving
events like "get into grad school" and "find a job." Every-
one has these big, far-off goals that always seem to sneak up
on us just when we've almost forgotten about them. Smaller
constantly find myself wanting (no, needing) to know items that should be on all of our lifelong to-do lists might
the dates of events months in the future. So, with my seem simple, but we often lose track of the little stuff. All
trusty rhyme ("Thirty days hath September. . .") and of you out there should do these things, and often: Vote,
a piece of paper, I map out my future. I must be a whatever your party. Pick up your trash, and recycle your
visual person. It gives me immense comfort to see pop cans. Call your parents, your grandparents, and your
my life laid out in such simple terms. In the next cross-country friends at least once a week. Find a job you
three months, my calendars (yes, plural) are stuffed love, no matter the pay. If you have children, be there while
full with my hectic lifemeetings, rehearsals, events, they're growing up. Try to change the world every day.
Perhaps this wisdom is a bit schmaltzy, but every bit
crises. This is all supplemented by the to-do lists: stuff
like "write thesis" that I never actually schedule. of it is true.
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Introducing OSU President
by Casey Woodworth
Edward Ray
When Edward Ray assumed the presidency of Oregon
State University last July, he was immediately impressed by the
dedication and commitment of the people, even while OSU and
the state itself were in flux. He appreciated the direct, actionoriented culture of OSU, and now, nearly a year later, he seems
to fit right in. Ray encourages a university-wide dialogue that
will translate the success strategies of the UHC into the entire
university.
According to Ray, the Board of Education is very
supportive ofthe Honors College and understands the importance
of its growth. In the document entitled "A Strategic Plan for
the 21st Century," the UHC is
mandated with growing five
percent per year to 2007. Last
Photo from OSU website
year's growth was 17 percent,
while the numbers for this year are not yet known. Hopefully, the UHC will
only continue to grow and develop, with the full support of the Board of
Education and OSU. "I think people outside the university recognize," he
said, "even from a strategic perspective, there's a tremendous value in having
an Honors College, where we really have an opportunity to compete head to
head with any university in America." With an average incoming GPA of
3.96 and SAT score of 1344, the UHC certainly has that opportunity.
OSU currently has an 81 percent first-year retention rate and a 60.4
percent six-year graduation rate. This isn't good enough, however, and Ray
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daughter Shirley
believes that the school can use the UHC as a strategic example in order to get
those rates up: UHC has an 89 percent six-year graduation rate. Part of the
UHC's success is undoubtedly due to the motivation of its students. Ray also
believes that there is a second factor at work: the very structure of the honors
program and its students' access to individualized attention and experiences.
"We need to look at the Honors College experience and ask ourselves what
attributes of that experience could we scale to the broader student population,"
said Ray. "What kinds of particular things do we do in the Honors College that
are going to help all students connect and succeed through to graduation."
Programs like the UHC are important to the state too, especially in the
current economy. Graduates are likely to settle near where they went to college,
so Oregon will only benefit from keeping its best and brightest in-state. Ray
believes that the most important contribution OSU can make is its graduates:
"It's a very critical piece, our being able to provide the kind of graduates that
this state and nation very badly needs coming forward." OSU graduates that
Ray has met have proven how beneficial they can be to the state of Oregon and
the world.
Ray encourages all graduates to give back to the OSU community as
well. "It's not about giving back in terms of dollars or alumni association
relations only, but I'd hope people would leave here feeling privileged that they
had the experiences that they did, and that they gotta give back." For those still
Jennie Mieger
in school, he hopes that all students will get involved in conversation about
important educational issues like affordability.
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who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Our lives become fulle, full of her wisdom
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fied.
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And we will become one with her at death.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness ofsins.
We lookfor the resurrection of the dead,
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Distribution of UHC Students* by College 2003-2004
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Agri. Sciences
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Business
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Science
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Liberal Arts
12.1%
Health & Human Sciences
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would like to see its students interacting with professors beyond
the classroom. Toward that end,
Honors students may now invite
a professor to a meal in an OSU
Forestry
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1.3%
go. As Brimley says, "It's a wonder
we get any!" While the UHC does
compensate departments monetarily
for the loss of their professors' time,
money alone cannot replace a Ph.D.
* as of Feb. 2004
We of The Chronicle encourage you to take responsibility for enriching your own education. Suggest
an Honors class. Suggest a professor
for the UHC. Take the professor out
dining hall, and the UHC will Several Liberal Arts departments to lunch! You might be nervous at
pay for your professor's meal! If lack plentiful graduate teaching the prospect of going out on a limb,
you're interested, talk to Dwight
in the Honors College office.
assistants who might have covered
the lost classes. Sarah Henderson
explained that "leaving" to teach a
Another vital step in the
development of UHC courses is UHC class will force an extra burden
the procurement of professors. of work onto the department's other
Every December, the UHC sends
professors. Despite the difficulties,
the past, inviting them to return.
dents in the smaller Honors setting.
but try it anyway. After all, we Honors students are supposed to enjoy a
challenge!
out invitations to those profes- Henderson said, professors do enjoy Participants in the discussion group
sors who have taught for us in the opportunity to engage with stu- were:
If you have a favorite non-Honors
professor, you are encouraged to
speak to him or her about teaching an Honors class. Bill Bogley
(UHC professor of Mathematics)
At the end of our discussion,
we left with a greater understanding
of the processes that go on behind
the scenes of the Honors College.
made another observation. Each We got some insights into the Honprofessor must get permission from ors Experience from a professor's
his or her department chair to come
point of view, and we dispelled
and teach a UHC class. Since an
Honors class serving twenty students will siphon the professor's
some myths about Honors class distribution. We also learned about the
procedure which creates an Honors
class. As Abby Phillips said, "[stu-
time away from a mainstream
class that might have served 200, dents] can get together [to suggest
department heads are sometimes the classes they want] instead of
reluctant to let their professors complaining and blaming the UHC."
Jeff Burright, English
Jayme Hauck, Fine Art
Naaman Horn, Communications
Jenny Moser, Microbiology
Abby Phillips, English
Mandi Wilson, Liberal Studies
LeeAnn Baker, UHC Advisor
Bill Bogley, UHC professor in
Mathematics
Dwight Brimley, interim UHC Office Manager
Eric Hill, UHC Writing Instructor
Sarah Henderson, UHC professor in
Political Science
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businessman. the am I
woodsman. the am I
ing to sleep? I don't see any feather bed! He would
his release from the iron and glass prison of the big
witness beauty from the scene. A forest, even in city and reintroduction into the vast expanses of the
photography, exudes calming and restorative forces. wild, he will come face to face with the beauty and
The gentle dappling of light across the trunks of the tranquility that was for so long taken for granted.
pines, wafting gently down onto the leaves, caressing Our woodsman's eyes will be filled with a new love
the delicate blade of grass, and finally laying down to for his surroundings. Butterflies will abound in his
gastrointestinal tract, breeding a euphorest upon the forest floor both illuminates
Now
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in
the
na not soon to be matched by anything
the photo and the mind. Were this picture
forest,
every
little
else in this world. The initial allure of
bathed in blood red light or inverted like
a negative, the scene would change from detail comes into the city that the woodsman experienced
one of peace and harmony to a bizarre focus, and true long since faded, replaced by anticipaand blunt image where nothing makes beauty is realized. tion and longing for a return to the forest.
sense, and the businessman would leave The light no lon- Now back in the forest, every little detail
feeling somehow cheated. This forest is ger illuminates his comes into focus, and true beauty is realof the happy variety - glowing and radi- path, it illuminates ized. The light no longer illuminates his
his mind.
path, it illuminates his mind. Seeing the
ant with energy from the sun.
color palette of nature brings new meanWith familiarity comes indifference.
After a time, even the businessman would lose sight of ing to the world. Gentle speckles of light and color
the beauty he initially saw. The forest would blend into dance throughout the woodsman's being, revitalizing
II one amalgamation of greens and browns. Dappled light and reinvigorating him with a new zeal and lust for
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would only serve to illuminate his path rather than provide life.
Unfortunately, once again, familiarity will
intellectual and spiritual stimulation. No longer would he
be concerned with how lovely the trees looked dressed in breed complacency and a closing of the mind. Only
moss and lichen, yet showing some bark and even a peak by being physically separated from something that
or two of bare trunk wood. Instead he would have his
head down and his eyes closed to the world around him.
Deprivation breeds longing and desire. If by
some bizarre fluke, the woodsman were to suddenly
land in the middle of Times Square, in the heart of
the canyons of steel, and stay for a number of years,
he would eventually become homesick and reminisce
continually about his beloved woods. Suddenly, the
woods transform from just a source of fuel, shelter,
and protein, to the spiritual focal point of this man's
life. He will stop at nothing to return to the protection and loving embrace of the trees. Finally, upon
the woodsman or businessman has known throughout his entire life, may he learn to truly love it and
experience the image to its true potential. Through
photography, this love can be sustained over time.
Little glimpses into a man's native environment, brutally ripped away from him, provide the perfect catalyst for the transformation from familiar to sublime.
Colors and lighting aside, it is the emotion an image
provides that makes it worth viewing. This image
creates a swelling in my chest and a tightness in my
throat for times past.
I am the woodsman.
The above piece was written for the Fall 2003 honors colloquium HC 299: Writing
about Images. This course explored various types of images (photos, paintings, logos,
coats-of-arms, graffiti, signs versus symbols, etc.), some of the roles these images play in
our lives, theories of inage analysis (e.g., semiotics), and the varied cultural interpretations of visual communication (such as hand gestures and symbols). Students were asked
to choose an image or images, write analyses about them, and present the findings to the
class.
- Eric Hill, UHC Instructor
Photograph by Doug/as Van Bossuyt
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by Jenny Moser
B.S.
There comes a time in every child's life when
shelter a few Liberal Arts majors who are fleeing from
the B.A.'s requirement of foreign language proficiency.
he or she discovers the magical word "Why?" For
weeks afterward, almost every sentence includes As diverse as they can be, all our fields of study are interthis amazing syllable. Only rarely is it invoked with
such a query as "Why did Thomas Jefferson feel the
separation of church and state was necessary to the
founding of a free nation?" No, it is more usual that
a child's first "Why?" involves such topics as "Why
does it rain?", "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why do
we get sick?" The earliest questions most children ask
deal with scientific matters. We college students who
study for a Bachelor's of Science degree have simply
never lost our excitement about those first questions.
The question of Bachelor of Science or Bach-
dependent. While we scientists develop the advances, it
is up to those in other fields to make them relevant. The
technology that creates a television set would be fairly
hollow without TV shows and movies to fill it, and those
come only from talented writers, actors, and directors.
More seriously, some philosophers are responsible for
oversight of scientific research. While scientific progress
is a wonderful thing, there are some genies that must not
be let out of their bottles. We scientists depend on our
ethicist colleagues to alert us when we begin to set foot on
morally treacherous paths. In this and many other ways,
elor of Arts can prove even more fundamental than the the sciences rely upon the liberal arts. Conversely, many
choosing-a-major dilemma. After all, many departments of our scientific innovations have the capacity to promote
or enhance the liberal arts. We admire the
here on campus (Chemistry or Psychology,
We jump into
artist who created the oil painting, but the
for example) offer both a B.S. and a B.A.
hands-on
experilight bulbs that illuminate it, the gallery
What, then, leads a student to choose one
over the other? The OSU course catalog ence and learn by where it rests, and even the truck that brought
describes the B.S. degree with such terms as
"scientific ways of knowing," "quantitative
approach to understanding," and "focused
curricula." What does that mean? We of the
B.S. degree are more likely to find ourselves
taking tests than writing essays. Most of us
are scientists or engineers. We sit in lecture
getting our hands it there all owe their existence to engineers.
dirty. This prag-
matic curiosity
leads us to develop innovations
that improve life in
practical ways.
halls, absorbing the information we'll need
to make sense - and safety - out of this week's lab. Then
we head upstairs, snap on a pair of acrylic goggles, and
start making stuff happen! In journalistic terms, we're
much more concerned with "I-low?" and "Why?" and
"What?" than "Who?" and "Where?" and "When?" We
jump into hands-on experience and learn by getting our
hands dirty. This pragmatic curiosity leads us to develop
innovations that improve life in practical ways. Even our
mishaps sometimes prove useful; Post-It Notes, rubber,
and penicillin are all the result of scientists' mistakes.
While we do concern ourselves mainly with
practicality, man does not live by the sciences alone. We
of the B.S. do appreciate the fields generally sequestered
among the Liberal Arts; many of us have minors or secondary majors in a more artsy field. Our numbers even
Some day soon, OSU and the UHC will
spit each of us out, the ink still wet on our
H.B.S. degrees. From there, we will proceed
in many different directions. Some face engineers' licensing exams. Others of us have
MCATs in our sights, hoping for acceptance
to medical school. Each of these two prospects will lead to a specifically defined career path. For
some B.S. recipients, though, the field of possible careers
is wide open. Many will be plunging into graduate school
to seek Master's degrees or doctorates. Some of us will
be going straight into the workforce. Either of those
scenarios offers myriad possibilities. Some of us want
to go into a scientific field, whether as lab technicians
or research Ph.D.s. Others will become writers, social
workers, teachers, or any one of a thousand other things.
What is the common bond that links all of us together?
We are all comfortable with analytical, scientific thought.
All of us share the experience of at least one grueling
three-term sequence in some scientific field. At the heart
of it all, we have never stopped searching for the answer
to that magical question, "Why?"
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entertainment to fantasize
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you've said one of those
phrases once in your life,
lebrity obsession fills a hole
and that's because we love
in our souls that otherwise
or hate celebrities on account
of their personal lives. They
would be filled by books
get the dough - we see their
cool to pretend you know
someone famous. In fact,
or something. Plus, it's
lives. It's a fair exchange.
Eminem and I are buds.
For instance, take
J. Lo. Married. Single.
Married. Single. Single.
Everyone wants to be
rich and famous, and celeb-
rities are our role-models.
ê he is
Edward contemplates how
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fame.
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owed. Bennifer. That was
Also,
celebrities
are
really the friends we never
water-cooler talk, and we were sucked in by it.
Now take Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. "JT is so stupid for breaking up with Britney
Spears. Come on, it's Britney. She would never cheat.
JT must be on crack or something. Thatjerk. How dare
he break her heart!" Maybe it's just me, but can no
one else see that? Again, good fillers in conversation
and no matter how hard we resist, we can't avoid it.
When it comes down to it, celebrities allow us
a second life and a chance to live vicariously through
had. We always talk like we know them. Not only do celebrities bring great "behind-their-back" conversations,
they boost our self-esteem. We know someone famous!
But until somebody wants to pay to see a short
Asian with a cracking singing voice, two left feet, dull
brown eyes, a not-so-stunning physique, but with nice
hair, I've got nothing. Until that day (which is coming soon, I know it!), I'm sticking with my girlfriend,
Britney Spears. You go girl.
An Advising Nightmare
by John Davidson
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by Naaman Horn
ARIES
March 21April /9
True love is only an
awkward, nervous, sw'èaty
question away. Go ahead,
take the chance and ask that
special someone out.
TAURUS
April 20May 20
VIRGO
August 23September 22
What problem can't be solved
with ice cream? Grab a pint and a
spoon. Life can only get better from
here.
LIBRA
September 23Ocotober 22
Throw caution to the wind.
It is a beautiful rainy
day out there. Go outside
and enjoy it. Don't worry,
your underwear, sing at the top of
your lungs, and forget about your
you won't melt.
place in the rat race. It will still
GEMINI
May 21June 21
W,nk at the next ten peo-
ple you see. Responses may
vary, but your entertainment
value will not waver.
CANCER
June 22July 22
You are talented, witty,
and well spoken. But, sadly
you have not been discovered.
Write for The Chronicle and
watch yoyr popularity rise.
Run around your apartment in
be waiting for you tomorrow.
AQtJARIUS
January 20Febrtiary 18
Stressed over all the work
you have to do this term? Doing
your homework might seem like
the best option, but it's not. There
will always. be a test, paper, or
project hanging over your head.
Do something fun before you get
so overwhelmed that you have no
choice but to do homework.
PISCES
February 19March 20
You are sleep deprived, tired,
SCORPIO
October 23November 21
Take a break from school and
read something mindless, something
you enjoy, something you don't have
delusional, and burnt out. Buck
up, drink another cup of coffee
and finish what you started. You
can rest when the term ends.
to take notes on. Dr. Seuss or the
Sunday Comics should do the trick.
SAGITTARIUS
November 22December 21
Brown-nosing can only get
you so far. Eventually you will
have to buckle down and do some
homework. I know, it sounds a little
LEO,
July 23August 22
Routine weighs heavy on
your shoulders. Mix things up
a little. Move tht TV to the
other side of the living room.
You will feel rejuvenated and
ready to take on another day.
extreme, but it is crazy enough it
just might work.
CAPRICORN
December 22January 19
You work hard for
the money. Buy something nice for yourself.
How about a nice quality
education? Sorry, I would
suggest something a little
shinier, but that is really all
you can afford right now.
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Theses Currently in Progress
Evaluation of the Reproduction of the Barnacle, Balanus gland:ila
Erin Breck
The marine intertidal is home to a small embryos for their size than barnacles in the southern
creature
called
the
acorn
barnacle
(Balanus
glandula). These animals are an excellent organism to study, because they illustrate a popular life
history among marine invertebrates. This specific
species is comprised of hermaphroditic individuals who sexually reproduce and then release their
larvae into the water column (Strathrnann 1985).
Research by Heather Leslie, a PhD candidate in the
Oregon State University Department of Zoology,
has suggested those barnacle populations at Cape
Perpetua, an area on the coast with consistently high
primary productivity, brood at higher frequencies
than those at Cape Foulweather an area to the north.
This leads to the question: Are barnacles in the Cape
Foulweather region of the coast producing fewer
populations? In order to answer this question, I will
quantify the number of embryos produced per adult
and use this data to compare the two populations.
Despite the millions of barnacles on the coast,
researchers are still unaware of how many embryos
one adult barnacle can produce. The results of my
project will thus contribute a considerable amount of
knowledge to our understanding of barnacle reproduction on the Oregon Coast. Because the life cycle of
barnacles is similar to many other intertidal species,
this research will also add a significant understanding of other populations' reproduction and how they
persist in space and time on the shore. This enhanced
understanding of reproduction could aid in the conservation and management of all onshore populations.
What I Do For Fun
Jonathan D. Suter
Since late October, 1 have had the pleasure of
working with Professor John Selker on projects in the
field of hydrological engineering, a branch of bioengineering. Our work so far has centered around the
design of a unique and fascinating instrument, the construction of which is surprisingly complicated given the
simplicity of its function. The "tension infiltrometer,"
out with the finishing touches. This has mostly entailed
as it is called, uses concepts of fluid dynamics and basic
enzyme kinetics, acid-base titrations, and the like.
physics to measure the permeability or capillarity of
different soil types. What this means is that different
soils absorb water at vastly different rates, and the infiltrometer simply measures the strength of this effect.
Truth be told, my own part in this apparatus'
development has been relatively minor since Professor
I fear going into too great of detail and invoking boredom here in describing the progression of this
work, but suffice it to say that our imperative objective
has been making the base of the instrument's cylinder
(the part which interfaces with the ground and drains
water through a stainless steel screen) airtight. Fortunately, this is a task that we were able to complete
without too much trouble and the real fun is just be-
Selker has been working with it on and off for the last ten
years. When I entered the picture, I was shown a meterlong plastic cylinder with tubes connecting it to a small
spending an hour or two every week in the Gilmore
Hall machine shop watching pieces of plastic piping
take shape on a lathe with digital readouts precise to
something like one ten-thousandth of an inch. I have to
admit, this has been a highly satisfying process considering all of my lab experience prior to this has involved
ginning as we begin field testing the instrument and
suitcase-sized computer and given the task of helping integrating it into actual research.
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