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OSU vows to help students affected by Katrina
OSU now has in place measures to ease enrollment, housing and financial burdens for students from the Gulf Coast areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and identified ways that members of the campus community can get involved in the massive relief effort.
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Colleges project record numbers
Officials at OSU project a record enrollment for the ninth straight year. Roughly 19,300 students are expected to attend, up from 19,162 last fall.
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Some hearts will beat slower
Faculty-student romances -- as old as universities -- can lead to marriages. They also can lead to court. The State Board of Higher Education will vote Friday on a statewide rule aimed at curtailing such relationships or, at least, preventing the damage that can occur when love goes bad.
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Football fans donate thousands to help Katrina Victims
Several hours before last Saturday's season football opener, the OSU Athletic Department, in partnership with sports retailer GI Joe's, the American Red Cross, and the OSU Alumni Association, sponsored a fund-raising drive to help residents of the Gulf South most affected by Hurricane Katrina. Over 60 campus and community volunteers, stationed at key locations around Reser Stadium and the CH2M HILL Alumni Center, collected a total of $45,250 for disaster relief, including Alumni Center donations of more than $8,400. The Alumni Association thanks all those alumni and friends of the university, and fans of the visiting Portland State University Vikings, who generously gave their support to this most worthy cause. |
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Travel with the Alumni Association to experience the wonders of German Christmas Markets in Dresden, Saxony and Prague. Time is running out to register. Call the Alumni Association for more information today!
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Love and Marriage
With the Oregon State Board of Higher Education meeting this week to discuss, among many other things, new rules governing faculty-student romance ("Some Hearts Will Beat Slower" in today's e-clips), it might be fun to go back in time to look at two Corvallis College (OSU) relationships that, in their day, had both the campus and the Corvallis community all abuzz.
In 1870, a few months after finishing as valedictorian of Oregon State's first-ever graduating class, Alice Biddle married one of the town's most eligible bachelors, Professor William W. Moreland, age 25. In 1868, the popular faculty member had established his place in local history by using his position as a summer file clerk for the state legislature to discover Oregon was about to forfeit its opportunity to be awarded a land-grant college under the provisions of the Morrill Act. Quick action on his part, plus that of Benton County's legislative delegation, resulted in the land grant coming to Corvallis College. He is remembered on campus today as the Moreland of Moreland Hall.
After their marriage and subsequent birth of a daughter, Esther, the two moved to Oregon City in 1872, where William opened a legal practice. In 1874, the two moved to a better opportunity in Sonoma County, Calif., and remained there the rest of their lives.
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Alice Biddle with her graduating class. |
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Benjamin Arnold |
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Even more high profile was the marriage of then college president Benjamin Lee Arnold (1872-1892) to his student, Minnie M. White, in 1877. At the time, he was 38, almost twice Minnie's age. Arnold had moved West from Virginia as a widower and single-parent of a 4-year old son, Harry Lea. Minnie, raised in Albany, was the daugher of the Rev. T. B. White, a Southern Methodist preacher who worked for Arnold for a brief time as a recruiter and fund-raiser. White had moved his family to the Northwest from Louisiana in 1870. President and Mrs. Arnold had a son of their own, Ernest White, who was born in 1878.
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