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Acting like a keg of beer at a party, students can gather around a hookah (a water pipe) to smoke, exchange stories and talk with one another as they puff the night away. In recent years, smoking hookah has been growing in popularity for many and has been incorporated into the college culture as a social aspect.

The final day of Oregon's 2007 legislative session marked a victory for higher education funding with the passage of a budget that gave the Oregon University System over $100 million more then the previous cycle. On June 28, surrounded by lawmakers and proponents of higher education on the steps of the Capitol Building, Gov.

Climate change research has existed at OSU through a variety of different studies; however, there has never been any thing linking them together. Through the combination of an interest in climate change and the passing of a House bill, establishing a climate change research institute, OSU faculty and researchers came up with the Climate Change Initiative - a group based on an agreement to collaborate and communicate with one another about their climate change research.

Jessica Cardinal, an academic advisor for the OSU College of Sciences, was incorrectly quoted in the Aug. 31 edition of The Daily Barometer. All environmental science students are requried to complete an "observational experience." Certain types of internships can fulfill this requirement.

Planning is in its early stages for a new building called the MU Annex to house the student organizations that currently occupy MU East in Snell Hall. MU Director Mike Henthorne said the project has not been approved yet, but the plan is to build the annex where the pay parking lot is located, next to the bookstore.

Two former OSU students are suing the university and a former professor who they say subjected them to repeated sexual harassment. Christi Sherman and S. Chantell Carpenter were teaching assistants in 2004 for speech communications professor Ron Leavitt.