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Sound off at OSU Day
Issue date: 4/20/09 Section: Forum
So, what are you doing tomorrow?
As you have read in today's news section, OSU will be traveling to the State Capital in Salem for OSU Day in the Capital, and we urge you to attend and show how important our university is to our elected representatives.
So what is exactly going to be happening at OSU Day?
There will be informational booths set up from various campus organizations and representatives from OSU's departments.
There is even a reception at 4 p.m. where legislators will meet with students and other OSU representatives.
What better way to have an Oregon decision-maker get to know you than to walk up and introduce yourself?
Even though the event is happening during the workweek, there will be two different buses leaving from the MU at 2:30 and 3 p.m., letting many students attend without missing early classes.
So why is OSU day important?
In case you forgot, OSU is kind of a big deal. We granted our first college degrees in 1870. We are one of only two land-, sea-, sun- and space-grant universities in the U.S. and have a student population of about 20,000. Several of our academic programs, like engineering and forestry, are nationally ranked.
This is your chance to lobby for what you believe is important at OSU. Your elected representatives are not just elusive figures in a far-away land. They're in Salem, not even an hour's drive away from OSU. There may not be another time in our lives to have face-to-face contact with our representatives.
We are in dire financial straights in Oregon; the unemployment rate in now Oregon is 12.1 percent, according to the Oregon Employment Department. On top of that, there is a proposed 30 percent budget cut for the Oregon University System.
As stated in the story found in the news section of today's issue, the revenue forecast will come out in May and finalized in June.
Now more than ever, when there is time to influence any changes to the budget, it is important to lobby for OSU.
It's great that there are representatives from OSU's various departments, but we are a university made up of students, and there needs to be students at OSU Day in Salem.
So wear your orange and black and go to the capital for OSU Day and represent your university.
Editorials serve as a platform for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale and diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board majority. Disagree? E-mail a letter to the editor or guest column to editor@dailybarometer.com.
As you have read in today's news section, OSU will be traveling to the State Capital in Salem for OSU Day in the Capital, and we urge you to attend and show how important our university is to our elected representatives.
So what is exactly going to be happening at OSU Day?
There will be informational booths set up from various campus organizations and representatives from OSU's departments.
There is even a reception at 4 p.m. where legislators will meet with students and other OSU representatives.
What better way to have an Oregon decision-maker get to know you than to walk up and introduce yourself?
Even though the event is happening during the workweek, there will be two different buses leaving from the MU at 2:30 and 3 p.m., letting many students attend without missing early classes.
So why is OSU day important?
In case you forgot, OSU is kind of a big deal. We granted our first college degrees in 1870. We are one of only two land-, sea-, sun- and space-grant universities in the U.S. and have a student population of about 20,000. Several of our academic programs, like engineering and forestry, are nationally ranked.
This is your chance to lobby for what you believe is important at OSU. Your elected representatives are not just elusive figures in a far-away land. They're in Salem, not even an hour's drive away from OSU. There may not be another time in our lives to have face-to-face contact with our representatives.
We are in dire financial straights in Oregon; the unemployment rate in now Oregon is 12.1 percent, according to the Oregon Employment Department. On top of that, there is a proposed 30 percent budget cut for the Oregon University System.
As stated in the story found in the news section of today's issue, the revenue forecast will come out in May and finalized in June.
Now more than ever, when there is time to influence any changes to the budget, it is important to lobby for OSU.
It's great that there are representatives from OSU's various departments, but we are a university made up of students, and there needs to be students at OSU Day in Salem.
So wear your orange and black and go to the capital for OSU Day and represent your university.
Editorials serve as a platform for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale and diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board majority. Disagree? E-mail a letter to the editor or guest column to editor@dailybarometer.com.
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