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Beaver Believers have their day in the sun
People around the Tribune office long ago grew tired of my boasting of Oregon State and Pac-10 teams. Every year I have the Beavers winning the Pac-10 in football and the basketball team miraculously making the NCAA tournament for the first time since Gary "The Glove" Payton left for NBA riches.
Championship T-shirts a hot item
Even with shipments arriving daily, the OSU Bookstore continues to sell out of its NCAA Beaver national championship gear. Oregon State's baseball team won the NCAA College World Series in Omaha last week. Throughout last week, the bookstore (including the Portland Beaver Fan Shop) sold out twice, including more than 4,000 shirts on Wednesday. The bookstore's online site has seen more than 400 orders. “(But) the product on the floor went so fast we were unable to fill the Web orders,” said James Howard, OSU Corvallis Bookstore manager.
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OSU expert joins effort to save world's amphibians
Fifty of the leading amphibian researchers in the world have called for a new Amphibian Survival Alliance, a $400-million initiative to help reduce and prevent amphibian declines and extinctions — an ecological crisis of growing proportion that continues to worsen. |
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Astronaut Don Pettit to speak at Oregon Summer Festival
Astronaut Don Pettit, an Oregon State University alumnus, will be the keynote speaker for the da Vinci Days festival at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 15, at OSU's LaSells Auditorium. Da Vinci Days, an annual summer festival fostering the understanding and integration of art, science and technology through music, creative contests, exhibits and hands-on activities, is exploring "Tools for Change" this year. Pettit will deliver a presentation about his spaceflight experiences and tools that have enabled his learning about space and the world. |
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