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Price will be remembered as father figure
Live-in fix-it guru and OSU alumnus Jack Price dies at local hospital after being trapped under his truck
Jack Price, 43, an OSU alumnus from the class of '89 and temporary live-in volunteer at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity died on Tuesday when he was pinned beneath his truck after attempting to get the stalled vehicle to start.
Price had just left the fraternity house and was at the corner of Northwest 14th Street and Northwest Van Buren Avenue when his truck stalled.
New emergency alert system utilizes cell text messages
Students, faculty and staff can sign up for this alert service
Oregon State and the Oregon University System have a new situation in mind that would, in one instant, set every cell phone in the vicinity ringing in the event of a campus emergency.
With the help of Blackboard ConnectED, an emergency alert system, Oregon State and four other universities in Oregon have implemented a system to let students know what is going on around campus in the case of an emergency.
Questioning convictions
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter gives the scoop on getting innocent men off of death row
People have been executed in the United States for crimes they did not commit.
This is just one of many shocking yet truthful statements that Maurice Possley - a former criminal justice reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner - said during his lecture Wednesday night to a group of students and staff at OSU.
Students pitch in on Oregon land use planning
OSU-based government agency Institute for Natural Resources works with universities to grow
Oregon has the reputation for being environmentally friendly - now there is proof.
Thanks to the investigation and research of several professors and graduate students within the Oregon University System, Oregon has been found to have made several improvements to its Land Use Plan since 1973.
