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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 58
Recording history of Camp Adair n
Mike Jager, OSU grad student, uses new techonology to document history of World War II unit, cantonment By Don Iler The Daily Barometer
Imagine the second largest city in Oregon magically sprung up overnight, just 15 minutes north of Corvallis. In September 1941, the U.S. Army decided that an area north of Corvallis would be the site of a cantonment to train American soldiers before being sent off to combat in Europe and Japan. This place became known as Camp Adair, and was responsible for the training of four infantry divisions, including the 104th Timberwolf Division. Mike Jager, a graduate student pursuing a masters of arts in interdisciplinary studies, has been working as an intern with Adair Living History Inc., on recording some of the remembrances of veterans from the division. Jager began interviewing veterans from the division as part of an oral history project to record what they remember from the war before those memories are lost. Jager started the project because of his interest in how new media is changing the way history is being recorded as society shifts from keeping its history in print to using newer technologies.
Jager conducted the interviews during the division’s reunion in Colorado in September. The reunion brought together veterans as well as some of their children and others who have been affected by the division. The interviews, which are all on YouTube, bring history that may have been lost or recorded only in a book, to the public at large. “They can see them, and their grandkids can see them,” Jager said. “It took persistence to get a lot of them to tell their stories. Some of them are the only ones to know their story.” The interviews will be incorporated into a new interpretive center about Camp Adair planned in Adair Village. Barbara Melton, president of Adair Living History, the non-profit group working to preserve the history of Camp Adair, said the group is currently working on raising money to renovate two buildings from Camp Adair and to transform one of them into a new interpretive center. The group grew from a committee set up by the city of Adair Village to save two original buildings in Camp Adair from destruction. The buildings, which are currently located near Highway 99W in Adair Village, were moved there and placed on new foundations in 2010. In addition to the interpretive center, the other building will be used as a community center for Adair Village. Melton said the group has been
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working with the departments of history and new media communications at Oregon State University to partner with interns to help document the history of the camp. Camp Adair took over 55,000 square
acres of land in Polk and Benton counties during World War II. To build the camp, the Army destroyed the small town of Wells, displaced many farmers and even had to move 414 graves from cemeteries. Around
Moore Family Center makes healthy choices accessible Donation from Bob’s Red Mill founders enables OSU to instate health initiatives
should assist students in their New Year’s resthrough mock menus and food presentations. “We’ll ask them which foods they’d choose,” olutions or health plans. Cluskey’s advice for Cluskey said. “Most people don’t focus on nutri- health changes include consciousness of eating ents in the food they eat, but think of food as relat- habits and setting realistic goals. Cluskey noted By Jack Lammers ing to whether the food tastes good or whether the smartphone applications MyFitnessPal and The Daily Barometer SparkPeople as means of food journaling. the food is natural.” The year 2013 comes with New Year’s resolu“The frequency of eating has increased over Cluskey and Emily Ho, endowed director for tions, largely related to nutrition and exercise. the Moore Family Center, have planned for dietet- time and now many people feel too busy to eat,” Aiming to help students with their health initia- ics students to serve as dietary consultants for the Cluskey said. “These applications and acceptives, the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain OSU community. Services would include weight tance of healthy foods can keep people healthy.” Foods, Nutrition and Preventative Health contin- assessments, consultations and body mass index The Moore Family Center’s cooking classes will ues this term to offer and plan services for OSU analyses. Currently, only one registered dietician be held on Jan. 23, Feb. 13 and Feb. 27, with more students of all disciplines. information available on their website. Spots are handles appointments on campus. “For the first time in years, we eat more of our “Writing down eating habits, keeping track [of still available for this term and each class requires calories in non-meal occasions than in planned food intake] and having someone to hold yourself a deposit of $5, refunded upon attendance. meals, and receive twice as many calories from accountable to are important for making diet Jack Lammers, news editor beverages,” said Dr. Mary Cluskey, associate pro- changes,” Cluskey said. On Twitter @jacklammers fessor of nutrition. “This indicates the ways in According to Cluskey, the college’s services news@dailybarometer.com which our health patterns has changed.” The College of Public Health and Human Sciences opened the center for fall term after receiving a $5 million gift from Bob and Charlee Moore, founders of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods. In less than a year, leaders of OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences have reimagined the college’s potential. Faculty apportioned the funds to instate new facilities and will hire an endowed professor and fund research for graduate students. The center will continue to offer cooking classes for all students, with three classes scheduled this term. Faculty have designed these classes to help students with basic cooking and health tips on using fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein in homemade meals. “Students liked the classes and appreciated becoming familiar with foods they wouldn’t have tried,” Cluskey said. “Many students haven’t been exposed to many food options, and don’t know how to make healthy meals for themselves.” A portion of the Moore family’s donation funneled into renovation of classrooms for these hands-on cooking classes, including newly-constructed kitchens opening onto the classroom floors. These classrooms will be put to use in a full-day, public health dieticians’ workshop in courtesy of the college of public health and human sciences | Contributed photo February. According to Cluskey, the classrooms will also serve students for conducting nutrition OSU students use the facilities in Milam Hall for a free healthy cooking class sponsored by the studies, observing students’ food preferences Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventative Health. n
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Mike Jager, second from left, is shown with other graduates from the OSU history department at Camp Adair last year. Jager has been interviewing those affected by Camp Adair as part of an oral history project for a forthcoming interpretive center in Adair Village about the camp. 110,000 soldiers passed through the camp during the war, and it had a population of 30,000-50,000 at any given time, which made it the second See CAMP ADAIR | page 2
Graduate research assistants allowed to join union n
State Employee Relations Board issues decision, university still not sure on response By Don Iler The Daily Barometer
Oregon State University graduate research assistants now have the right to join the Coalition of Graduate Employees, a union for graduate student employees, according to a decision issued by the state Employee Relations Board on Monday. The decision, which comes after the university challenged in May the union’s request to include graduate research assistants as part of the bargaining unit, opens the door for research assistants to join the union. In the coming weeks, research assistants will be participating in an election in order to decide whether to join the union. In March, the union collected decision cards from 63 percent of unrepresented graduate employees wanting to join the union. According to Steve Clark, vice president of university relations and marketing, the university has not decided how it will respond to the ruling. “The university received the ruling Monday afternoon and is still reviewing the document,” Clark said. “We will be responding with the steps the university may take within the next couple of days. It is a complex and lengthy document that requires some time to go through.” See GRADS | page 2