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Storm Stories
By Ann Kinkley and Kip Carlson
OSU has hundreds of former students and faculty living and working along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Here are their stories of what it was like to live through the worst storms to hit the U.S. in recent memory.Also included, a visit with two OSU student athletes from New Orleans who watched the distruction from afar.

In The Beginning
By Tom Bennett and George Edmonston Jr.
The story of the birth of OSU in 1856 as a small pioneer academy housed in a Corvallis Baptist church.