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Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 5/14/08 Section: Forum
Go Beavs
Still going for national championship
I'd like to give a special shout out to Paul Ortiz and the rest of the Beavers team for the single best baseball game I've ever seen! A grand slam in the eighth inning, which keeps us in the running for the national championship - that was so cool! Give them some front page, if you could!
BRIAN ZASTOUPIL
student
Sense of Scope
What about the engineering expo
On Friday, 1,000s of visitors arrived on campus. These visitors were students, interested public, companies, state representatives and faculty from many schools throughout Oregon. The event was the annual engineering expo located in the Kelley Engineering Center. Where was this in The Daily Barometer? The Monday, May 12, edition had articles about sports, mental health, Associated Press articles and the recent drag show - nowhere was there a mention of this event.
Let's get a sense of scope: the top graphic in one of the articles shows that students practiced for 2 months, had 425 attendees, 25 participants and no one slept the night before. For the engineering expo students worked for 9 months, 3000 people attended (not including students), 330 participated and no one slept for a week. I would think that such a large event involving so many of your own students and faculty would at least deserve a mention. Where is this mention? Of the nearly 19,000 students enrolled at OSU I would think that an event where 7 percent of your student body (over 1,300 students) visited would be better publicized.
DONALD HEER
Employee, faculty research assistant
Error repeated
Correct information is available
The May 9 article "Celebrating Pride" incorrectly reported how long the Rainbow Continuum student group has been on campus. Unfortunately, the same error was published in the 2006 book "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students." In fact, the group's first public meeting announcement was published Nov. 4, 1976, in The Daily Barometer on page 15. Earlier LGBT groups existed, but none of them were officially recognized as a student group by OSU administrators.
Still going for national championship
I'd like to give a special shout out to Paul Ortiz and the rest of the Beavers team for the single best baseball game I've ever seen! A grand slam in the eighth inning, which keeps us in the running for the national championship - that was so cool! Give them some front page, if you could!
BRIAN ZASTOUPIL
student
Sense of Scope
What about the engineering expo
On Friday, 1,000s of visitors arrived on campus. These visitors were students, interested public, companies, state representatives and faculty from many schools throughout Oregon. The event was the annual engineering expo located in the Kelley Engineering Center. Where was this in The Daily Barometer? The Monday, May 12, edition had articles about sports, mental health, Associated Press articles and the recent drag show - nowhere was there a mention of this event.
Let's get a sense of scope: the top graphic in one of the articles shows that students practiced for 2 months, had 425 attendees, 25 participants and no one slept the night before. For the engineering expo students worked for 9 months, 3000 people attended (not including students), 330 participated and no one slept for a week. I would think that such a large event involving so many of your own students and faculty would at least deserve a mention. Where is this mention? Of the nearly 19,000 students enrolled at OSU I would think that an event where 7 percent of your student body (over 1,300 students) visited would be better publicized.
DONALD HEER
Employee, faculty research assistant
Error repeated
Correct information is available
The May 9 article "Celebrating Pride" incorrectly reported how long the Rainbow Continuum student group has been on campus. Unfortunately, the same error was published in the 2006 book "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students." In fact, the group's first public meeting announcement was published Nov. 4, 1976, in The Daily Barometer on page 15. Earlier LGBT groups existed, but none of them were officially recognized as a student group by OSU administrators.
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Mr. Nunley
posted 5/14/08 @ 12:16 PM PST
Paul Ortiz? Unless that's his middle name that he goes by, we should at least try and get our best hitter's name right.
Very true, Kevin. Danica Patrick is in a very "manly" sport (I'll leave the whole "is it a sport?" debate for another time). (Continued…)
Nunley
posted 5/15/08 @ 10:58 PM PST
Notice that I put the word "radical" before feminism. I could have used the word "Feminazi" instead. Your favorite source, Webster, defines it as a "radical feminist. (Continued…)
Nunley
posted 5/16/08 @ 2:25 PM PST
I don't know if my last response registered or not, so if this is repetition, I'm sorry. I'll address your points, Tara.
1. It wasn't an accident that I put the word "radical" before the word "feminist. (Continued…)
Heidi
posted 5/19/08 @ 1:49 PM PST
Mr. Nunley, since you have decided to enumerate your arguments, I'll do the same (for sake of easy comparison). It interests me that you chose to post twice - am I incorrect in thinking you are trying to goad Tara into another response??
1. (Continued…)
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