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Jenny Moser
After much fruitless brainstorming for a
topic for this letter, I finally came up with an
idea and pitched it to my fellow senior staff, joking "And if you don't like this, I'll just write 300
words on cheese!" Well, Casey dared me to do it.
Casey really ought to know better by now...
I've had a longtime interest in the making of
cheese. At the age of four, I didn't understand
what the "curds and whey" were that Little Miss
Muffet was eating in the nursery rhyme. Mom
explained that it was something like cottage
cheese, and that all cheese starts out as lumps of
curd (soggy cheese) floating in a liquid (whey)
that has to get removed before the curds can become "normal" cheese like cheddar or parmesan.
Mmm, parmesan.
The curds and whey incident was just the
beginning. As a microbiology major, I've become fascinated with the ubiquity of bacteria
and other microbes. One of the most seemingly bizarre sources of micro-life is, precisely,
cheese.
While staffing the microbiology booth at
OSU's "Discovery Days" science outreach
Casey Woo dworth
The other day I went to OMSI, and everything seemed smaller.
Don't even get me started on the Earthquake Room. They replaced it! No longer is
the Earthquake Room a trailer filled with nifty
demonstrations (remember the fish tank with
the rolling water?) and an earthquake that could
knock you off your feet. Now, it's a very modlooking metal structure that shakes just enough
to...do nothing. The kids didn't seem to mind,
but then again they never experienced the mindboggling original.
I learned a lot of things at OMSI. Among
these is the fact that at 46, I am going to look
like an old woman. Take your picture, drag and
click, and bam! You've got wrinkles. A lot of
the exhibits have to do with health, like hearing,
life expectancy, healthy eating, and the human
body. And they have this neat mongoose puppet
program this fall, I was talking to a boy about
seven years old. I showed him a Petri dish full
of fuzzy white Lactobacillus colonies. "These
are a kind of bacteria that help make cheese and
yogurt," I told him. "Every time you eat cheese
and yogurt, you're eating these!" "EWWW!"
he replied, eyes wide with shock. I reassured
him that the bacteria wouldn't hurt him, and he
cheerfully went on to inspect our microscopes.
Yes, it seems a little disgusting, but I think
it's cool. In fact, after taking MB 110, Orientation for Microbiology Majors, two years ago, I
decided that I wanted to become a food microbiologist precisely so that I could learn how to
regulate the production of cheese.
That, however, was before I became co-editor of The Chronicle and fell in love with journalism. I hope to go into scientific journalism
someday, so even if I'm not supervising cheese,
I can still write about it!
WINNER!
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Most Outstanding Student Newsletter,
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13 November 2004
show that you can put on, and so many cool facts about
wildlife and dinosaurs that a kid could spend hours learning in there.
After the Jane Goodall exhibit (I love monkeys--I
am, after all, an anthropology minor), we spent quite a
bit of time at the mind teasers. A series of booths with
puzzles are set up in the hallway outside the exhibits, and
you'll never guess who was absorbed by them.. .the college students. In all, about ten college-age people stood
around trying to figure out how to arrange the red blocks
in a square and get the ring off of the horseshoes. As the
kids ran around upstairs, screaming in front of the green
screen and climbing through the giant ear, the college
"kids" stood downstairs, still enthralled by the power of
learning.
OMSI's lesson? The kids have it right. Never stop
learning.
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only to emerge from the water
There is a wonderful story
as Narada once again, sobbing
in Hindu tradition that goes like
for his loss. "For whom are you
this: Narada, an ascetic, asks the
weeping?" asks Vishnu.
god Vishnu about the meaning of
One of the reasons I love
maya (which can be loosely transthis story so much is that it dralated as "illusion" or sometimes
matizes the power of language,
"as the world as measured"). Vishu
which can create a kind of illusotells Narada to jump into a nearby
ry world. How many times have
lake. Narada does so, emerging
I put down a book or walked out
from the water as a young woman
of a movie crying or laughing (or
named Sushila, the daughter of a
great king. Sushila eventually meets both)? I think most of us forget,
at least at moments,
and falls in love with a
that language is
young man who is also
How
many
times
symbolic, that it is a
a king. She goes on to
have / put down description or reprelive a long and happy
a
book or walked sentation of our own
life, bringing up two
out of a movie perceptions. We fall
generations of family.
crying
or laughing under the "spell" of
Near the end of her long
(or both)?
it, sometimes confuslife, however, her father
ing the symbol for
and husband wage war
the thing. As the linguist Alfred
against each other's kingdoms
Korzybski once suggested, we
and she watches all of her family
confuse the map with the terrion both sides die in battle. As she
tory. For me, language (reading,
burns their bodies in the funerary
pyre, she is so overcome with grief writing, listening, speaking) has
always been magic. As in the
that she dives into the flames
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case of the sorcerer's apprentice,
however, we can misuse (or be
used by) the magic.
I remember many years
ago trying to impress my cousins
in Rome with my Italian. At one
point in our conversation a friend
of theirs (to whom I found myself slightly attracted) asked me
how old I was. I responded with,
"I have twenty-three asses." The
room broke into laughter. I was
confused. "And every year," she
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Slug Trails
UHC Staff Comings and Goings
Carolyn Oltman, Admissions Specialist
With Rebekah Lancelin now concentrating on advising, Carolyn will be responsible for processing
applications and coordinating projects and publications. Carolyn, a Corvallis native, is "looking forward to getting to know the college and the people
here, and finding my place." She previously worked
in the Dean's office in the College of Science.
Bill Bogley, Assistant Dean
Bill is a familiar sight around the UHC, having
taught Honors math courses for several years. As
Assistant Dean he is in charge of curriculum development and helps Dean Hendricks with UHC
development efforts. He also still works halftime
teaching over in the math department.
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Varin - Small vs. Large Majors, continued
the student body, math majors are far less common and
major being vastly different in terms of relationmathematical science majors are almost unheard of. Barships with people. Watson's change of major
rese says he has never met another mathematical science
resulted in a shift from a major with 6 people in it
major but believes, "The more math majors there are, the
to HDFS, the 4th largest undergraduate degree probetter the world will be."
gram at Oregon State (as of Fall 2003).
For the most part, students in smaller
Like most students in smaller
Every student in a
majors view their interactions with othmajors and/or within the Honors Colsmall major meners in their major as positive and a large
lege, Watson says the main difference
tioned his or her
she sees is a "difference in relationships professors as an part of the academic experience. Strangely
enough, the sheer size of traditionally peobetween other students, advisors, and
asset, while pro- ple-oriented fields appears to be wreakinstructors."
fessors in larger
ing havoc on actual human interaction in
One commonality among students in
majors were rarely
academia.
smaller programs is the inclusion of
mentioned.
As an environmental engineering major, I
professors as a part of the learning
have met the majority of first-year stuexperience. When asked nearly idendents
in
my
major. For the next few years at Oregon
tical questions, every student in a small major
State, I will be collaborating, struggling and enjoying
mentioned his or her professors as an asset while
my major with these people.
professors in larger majors were rarely mentioned.
Composite shots aside, there is far more to a
"The professors lend you a sympathetic
program than size. Opportunities, interaction and
ear.. .Oh wait, I'm trying to sell my majorbut
passion for the subject will make or break any major.
it's so true!" jokes Kenny Barrese, a second-year
Large majors have their appeal, as do smaller majors.
math and mathematical sciences double major.
Our experiences will be different, but with more than
Among Honors College students, mathematics
200 choices, so are our majors.
majors are not unusual. However, as a percentage of
Hill - Teaching Magic
said, "you grow a new one!" More laughter. When people like Lily Tomlin, Torn Bodett, Rick Reynit was explained to me what they were laughing at, olds, and particularly Spalding Gray. A comedienne
I was writing for at the time started to accuse me of
my confusion turned to humiliation. I have since
worked on my pronunciation, but I don't visit them performing "therapy with a two-drink minimum."
Nevertheless, I think my rationale was this: If! can
anymore.
make people laugh, why not make them
When I worked as a waiter I
noticed that the more I made customA comedienne / think as well? Language is powerful. As
ers laugh (intentionally this time), the
was writing for at it says in Proverbs 18:21:"Death and life
larger the tips were. There was somethe time started to are in the power of the tongue." Why not
thing powerful in the realization (or
accuse me of per- tap into that power? Shortly thereafter I
equation) that laughter could equal
forming therapy found myself performing less at clubs and
money. At the urging of friends (and as
with a two-drink at more art galleries and converted warehouses, mostly to scant audiences. Things
the result of a wager), I eventually got
minimum.
were getting bleak (picture Lenny Bruce
into stand-up comedy, making considin the late years, rambling through court
erably less than I had waiting tables.
depositions - only sans the heroin).
It wasn't long before I grew weary of
Right
about this time I was also working as
the set-up/punchline formula of stand-up (as well
a paralegal in a large Los Angeles law firm (Lillick,
as most of my colleagues who were an insecure,
unhealthy, and generally unpleasant lot) and began McHose, and Charles). I was helping put together
cases where we were defending large corporations
doing monologues. I found myself inspired by
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college young a of story the tells Graduate The
frame. time that in itself setting explicitly
without 1960's the during youth the of struggles and
views the reflects it how and Graduate The at look
will analysis This "different". something and piness
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with discontent being
of journey his along
follow and to relate
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Vietnam. in war the
to opposition growing amidst held being were tests
pro- war scale large and television on show popular
most the was Show Griffith Andy The America,
of States United the of president the was Johnson
B. Lyndon 1967, in released was it When time.
its of movies controversial most the of one was
Nichols, Mike by directed Graduate, The
Watched People Why
and Sex, Rebellion,
Graduate The
"sexual revolution." Benjamin's illicit relationship
people, why would Benjamin being so unremarkwith Mrs. Robinson came as a shock to moviegoable be so remarkable?
ers in its frank portrayal of their interactions; it was
When The Graduate was released the youth of the
certainly a far cry from The Andy Griffith Show.
culture were themselves living remarkable lives
during a very remarkable time in our history. Young Benjamin's metamorphosis through the film is quite
men were being drafted to serve the country in Viet- possibly one of The Graduate's most timeless elenam; others were burning their draft cards in protest ments. The awkwardness and uncertainty Ben has
regarding his future are feelings anyone
of the war. These young people who
can relate with when they are faced with
had grown up in the shadows of the
If
movies
are
a major life change. Throughout most
calm and prosperous 50's were suddensupposed
to
be
of the movie Benjamin is lost with what
ly being thrown into uncertainty. They
about
extraordihe wants or who he wants. He doesn't
had their goal firmly within their sights
nary
people,
why
know
what he needs to do to achieve
and participated in the civil upheaval of
would
Benjamin
these things that seem like they should
the time in an attempt to achieve that
being
so
unrebe so easy to attain in the materialistic
goal. In much the same way, after feelmarkable
be
so
society in which he lives. Not until
ing the initial sense of purposelessness,
remarkable?
he met Elaine did Benjamin find his
Benjamin gains a strong sense of motidirection and know what he wanted. He
vation and drive once he realizes Elaine
came to realize that people are what are
is the woman he loves and wants to
important in life and that material objects and "plasmany, going through extreme measures to achieve
his goal. Benjamin was a figure the members of the tics" are not the key to true happiness.
The cultural significance of The Graduate is undeniyouth culture could relate to. He showed that you
able and its impact in media and in our culture can
don't have to be Superman to fight for a cause.
'" Graduate affected the youth not only by por-__ still be felt today. What at the time was a shocking
and groundbreaking film is now a classic movie
traying a character they could relate to in their feelafter which many others have been modeled. Durings of being lost in the materialism of the current
ing the late 60's amidst an unpopular war and a time
society, but also in its revolutionary portrayal of
of social upheaval, The Graduate gave the youth a
sexuality. Prior to this movie the topic of sex and
sexuality was not addressed in the media. However, glimpse of an unremarkable man, lost and unnoticed
during this same time the mentality of the youth was in his society who stood up for himself and fought
for what he believed in; which is quite remarkable.
changing, ushering in what we now refer to as the
The above piece was a sample from the Fall 2004 honors
colloquium HG 299.' Writing about Film.
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(mostly automobile manufacturers) against individuals who had been maimed or paralyzed in rollover
accidents. I was watching the magic of language being used for things I found ethically revolting. Only
I wasn't just watching; I was actually helping. I was
making more money than I had every made (or will
likely ever make). I felt like Albert Speer. The case I
had just finished working on concerned a 20 year-old
girl who had been turned into a paraplegic for the
rest of her life. We won. I quit.
At my next job, writing and helping to pro-
duce documentaries, I got to talking to a neurologist
(we were working on a documentary about a surgical
procedure for Parkinson's disease) as we went over
the voice-over. He said he found it incredible that
we can physically transform the landscape of each
other's brains through invisible means. I asked him
what he meant by that. "Language," he said. I don't
think it gets any more magic than that.
Not long afterward I wound up teaching writing at a community college and I haven't
looked back since.
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Dear Naaman,
What is the meaning of life?
Sincerely, -Who Ami-
AskNaaman
by Noaman Horn
Adams, who asserts
Dear Life Iamenter,
Members-of the hujnan race have been ponderihg that the meathng of.
this very question ever since the first cavewoman
pohited her, club up toward Jhe sky and gruntçd
her discontent. Cavemen at the time were too
preoccupied with sQorts (like fin the Tail on the
11mmoth) to develop any sort of phiiosophicaUhought. Ever since that time philosophers,
poets, honors college students and average Jiis
have all been asking the very same question.
Many hive posed solutions, with vIFying degrees
of 1oquence; however, no two answers are the
same. Yotr present a question that I can not fully
answer in tlis column. I will nonetheless provide
acouple solutions to the meamng of life that I
have found inspirational in my own quest for
true knowledge. Monty Python'.s The Meaning
of Life defines it in this way: "Well it is nothing
very special . . . try and be nice to people, avoid
eating fat, read a good book every now and then,
get som,e walking in,and try an_d live tógether.
in peace and harmony with people of all creeds
and nations." Then of course'there is Douglas
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Dear Naaman,
What ar your thoughts on tofu?
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and Everything' can
all be boiled down
to the computergenerated number
42. He then suggests
that perhaps ifls not
the answer that we
shOuld be conëernell .
about, but rather the
question. I like these
examples because they're simple. Some people
get so carried away trying to unlock the secrets
of life that they fritter away the good parts of life
they should simply be living. No one knwsfor-.
sure what thin thing we call life is all about. But,
something that I do kjow for sure is that life isamazing and beautiful and should by no means
be frittered away. Discovering tjie meaning of
life might make our existence a lot simpler, but it
vi!d not be aearly as entertaining.
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Dear Soy Seeker,
Many believe that tofu exists only as the staple
of the vegetfirian cuisine. Alth'ugh it remains an
culinary world. Inside4he package it has little
taste and a sjongy texture. Hiwever, if prepared
correctly, tofu can assume a plethora of textures
important element in vegetariin culinary prac'aii1 flavors. Tofu wift fake on just about any
tkès, Its practical uss extend well beyond this
flavor. With the right ujarinade or spices, tofu
realm. I myself enjoy the consumption of meat.
can magically change to fit the amer's taste.
1 eat vegetables as well, but often my vegetable
Tofu can be manipulated to resemble the texture
intake is secondhand. Cows consume vegetaand flavors of rnosrm eats. But,'lhe best samples
'lion, and I in turn consume cows. It seems to
of tofu dishes are not Vhen it is disguised, but
work out well for all involved. But, even though
I enjoy eating meat, 1 will not discountthe value - when it is simply tofu in its entire splendor. The
of tofu. For those of you who may not know, tofu only limit on what a chef can do with tofu is the
chefhimself. ls tofu ,i legitimate replacement
is, to soybeans what cheese is to cows.. Milk is
extracted from the cow and/or soybean. The milk for meat? That is a question that you will have
is then processed and .packged and seht-t&storp_ tEl answer yQurself. Regardless of your decision,,
in some quasi-solid gelatinous state ready for hu- appreciate tofu for what it is... a healthy and
exciting addition to any meal.
man consumption. Tofu is thechameIeon of the'
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C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives
of Children and the Conscience of a
Nation
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Mandi Wilson, Liberal Studies
Orson Scott Card, Ender 's Game
Lois Lowry, The Giver
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Douglas Adams, The Hitclthhiker's Guide to:
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Elizabeth Cash Spencer,TPscho1ogy
Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
Gabriel GarcIa Márquez, One Hundred
Years of Solitude
Jeremy Gregory, Biochemistry/Biophysics
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Edward Conlon, Blue Blood
John Knox, The Forgotten Memoir of John
Knox
Richard Russo, Empire Falls
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Nick Huggler, Political Science
Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Amy Christeson, Liberal Studies
Joseph Heller, Catch 2
'-Mollie Holmes, Mathematics
Fyoder Doestoyevsky, Brothe Karamazov
George Eliot, Middlemnarch
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Angie Bergh, English
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