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TUESDAY MAY 19, 2015 VOL. CXVII, NO. 140
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A leap through time for today’s OSU n
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By Chris Correll
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It’ll be kind of a surprise to see if it even survives. Kent Sumner
Assistant director of Memorial Union marketing and assessment
Photo Illustration BY Chris Correll
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Benny Beaver points out the Memorial Union time capsule placed in the wall in 1978, located just outside Javastop.
Valley Library website hacked
Group balances nature with engineering n
University Librarian and Oregon State University Press Director Faye Chadwell confirmed through email that last Saturday that the OSU Valley Library website was hacked. Normal librar y functions were temporarily barred to students while administration dealt with the problem. The problem has since been dealt with and the website is once again accessible. Whether there were any lasting impacts left by the cyberattack on the website or students who might have visited the link is not fully known at this time. More information will be released as the story develops. news@dailybarometer.com
Many students walking through the main lobby of the Memorial Union fail to notice a small plaque beside the Javastop café. This simple memorial pays tribute not to any former faculty or alumni, but to an entire culture. If someone were to break open the wall behind the plaque, they’d find relics of a bygone era placed inside a time capsule buried in 1978 as part of the MU’s 50th anniversary celebration. The capsule is scheduled to be opened in 2028. Kent Sumner, assistant director of Memorial Union marketing and assessment, said in all the years he’s worked in the building, he’s never come across any record of what was sealed away in ’78, or even what kind of container the capsule is. “It’ll be kind of a surprise to see if it even survives,” Sumner said. According to “More Than a Building: The MU at OSU,” a written record of the historic building’s long history, the capsule contains “relevant materials” from both the year-long celebration and student activity, painting a vivid image of Oregon State as it was in the Carter administration. OSU alumna Laura Oldenkamp, who attended in the late ‘70s, said that for a fee, students were allowed to add their own contributions. In her case, Oldenkamp added a document detailing the poultry science club’s activities at the time. Thirty-seven years later, MU See CAPSULE | page 4
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Ecological Engineering Student Society embraces interdisciplinary future, enjoys greenhouses By Courtnee’ Morin THE DAILY BAROMETER
Photo Contributed by Paul Rabe
The Ecological Engineering Student Society participates in the We Love Clean Rivers Clackamas River clean up in summer 2014.
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For their table at the Engineering Expo, the Ecological Engineering Student Society had a model set up to simulate the way streams and rivers function through time. Plastic particles represented sand, and the effects of dams and other artificial structures were observed through the use of bricks and other barriers. Carson Smith, a junior in ecological engineering, explained that this is to help show participants the ecological impacts dams and other structures can have on rivers. “We want to work with nature in a way that benefits nature, but still helps humans,” Smith said. “We want to be sustainable.” See ENGINEERING | page 4
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