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CAtherine Sweeney
City Reporter
Grider Pumpkin Patch in Per-kins greets its visitors with a jack-o-lantern painting and llamas.
A number of families in the area use this 45-acre patch as a venue to fulfill family traditions.
Shawny Noteboom, a grand-mother from McAllister, brought her two grandsons to Grider on Tuesday. She explained that she used
to take her son to a similar place in California when he was a boy.
“I have to do it for the next gen-eration,” she said.
Jacqi Noteboom, the daughter-in-law, carried her 2-month-old through the crops before setting him on the ground to let him chew on a pumpkin. She said that the family planned to make the visit a tradition.
Wayne Grider owns the farm that began in 1993. He explained that he loves the regularity of his customers.
“It’s fun having a business where people are happy to give you their money,” he said. “People come back every year!”
The farm grows and sells other crops in the off-season. During pumpkin season, they plant between 2,000 and 3,000. Last year, they sold so many pumpkins that they had to import more from a farm in Texas.
He has been adding attractions to his patch. Ten years ago, he added a
corn maze. There is a small petting zoo that has two llamas, two ponies, and two goats, all of which are usu-ally friendly. He said the billy goat liked to be pet like a dog.
“We’ve only had a llama spit on someone once,” he said. “A 4-year-old was relentlessly taunting and screaming at a llama. Suddenly, it raised its lip over its teeth- a sure sign of spitting- and did it. After his parents cleaned off his face, he resumed his yelling.”
Older kids were enjoying them-selves as well.
“You can dig their guts out and get all dirty,” said Lila Whitter, a
10-year-old from Morrison. Her mother, Deanna Whitten,
brought all of her children to the patch.
Although she has been to patch-es all over the country, she said she enjoys Grinder in particular. “You actually get to pick out your own pumpkin,” she said excitedly.
Whitten’s best friend, Rachel Al-len, is a second grade teacher at Will Rogers. She was buying a few for her class. The class is going to use them to estimate weight and num-ber of seeds.
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Managing Editor
An Oklahoma State University football player could face his third driv-ing under suspension charge in less than six months following his involvement in a traffic accident after Saturday’s homecom-
ing game. Just before 4 p.m., OSU police of-
ficer Colt Chandler was dispatched to the intersection of McElroy Road and Bellis Street, where Kevin Clark, 18, struck defensive tackle Calvin Barnett, 21, from behind. Clark was following Barnett too closely in a Ford Fusion and failed to slow down, causing the colli-sion with Barnett’s Town Car, according to the traffic report.
Clark’s vehicle suffered disabling damage, including a broken front bum-per, the front hood being bent into a V-shape and a leaking radiator, according to the report. Barnett’s vehicle sustained minor damage, including scratches, abrasion marks and small dents on the rear bumper. Clark’s vehicle was towed due to the damage. Each driver had one front seat passenger, both of whom were uninjured, according to the report.
Barnett was treated at the scene and then taken to Stillwater Medical Center for a possible internal back injury. An inquiry of the Oklahoma Department of Safety determined his driver’s license was suspended, according to the inci-dent report. Police submitted a probable cause affidavit for a driving under sus-pension charge.
Barnett was charged May 1 with driving under suspension, driving with-out insurance, speeding and failing to register his vehicle within 30 days of purchase. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper arrested Barnett the day before and posted a personal recogni-zance bond, court records show. He was charged with another count of driving under suspension the next day, which stemmed from an incident occurring April 14.
Barnett’s court date has been reset five times since May 2, to May 31, July 16, Aug. 20, Sept. 17 and Oct. 15. He will next appear in court at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 19.
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Barnett
Football player hurt in car accident on Saturday
samantha kurtz/O’COllegianthe patch sells pumpkins of all sizes, including mini ones.
adam kemp/O’COllegianTyger Noteboom finds his favorite pumpkin at the Grider Pampkin Patch in Perkins. Noteboom came with his brother and grandmother.
By Davis Parker
General Assignment Reporter
The SGA Senate plans to ap-prove new Supreme Court Justices this week.
The Supreme Court has been without several members due to graduation from the end of the 2011-2012 school year. These po-sitions have remained vacant since.
This period has served as a time for the candidates to be questioned and found worthy of their new po-sitions.
The Senate must approve all candidates before they can start
terms on their new positions.Senate President Flint Holbrook
will formally approve John Ivy and Chase Maxwell as new Supreme Court Justices.
SGA also passed a resolution that has been approved to allow for a split into Big Event Co-chairs.
The resolution would split the Big Event Vice Chair into three co-chairs.
In said resolution, SGA must approve the three vice chairs to the Big Event each Fall.
Shelby Jurek, Sarah Blevins and Andrew Schram will be formally approved as Big Event co-chairs as appointed by Big Event Chairman JD Chancellor for this upcoming
fall.In other SGA business, there
are several bills that are being pro-posed to provide co–sponsorship to several different organizations on campus.
The three organizations that are being proposed for co-sponsorship are Engineers Without Borders, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and OSU Mercury Robotics.
Engineers Without Borders is an international organization that applies engineering solutions to aid in the development of underprivi-leged communities.
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity is the largest co-ed professional law fraternity in the United States, ac-
cording to its website. OSU Mercury Robotics hosts
the Mercury Remote Robot Chal-lenge, which is a competition to design, construct and remotely op-erate a robot.
A resolution to amend senate rules has been tabled until next week.
The resolution is not yet com-pleted and has yet to go through Internal Affairs.
Another resolution to temporary suspend Title XI has been dropped and will not be pursued further. Ti-tle XI deals with the student suites and SGA.
SGA to discuss justices, sponsorshipssGa meeting
Senate appointments, club sponsorships on the agenda. When: 7 p.m.
Where: Case Study One, Student Union
Cost: Free
Note: The first 15 minutes of the meeting are open for public comments.
Grider Pumpkin Patch Where: 14500 S Country Club Rd., Perkins.
Cost: Pumpkins range from 50 cents to $30.
A letter to the editor say’s Obama’s policies are making things worse.
Students performed music for diners at The Hideaway on Tuesday night.
The OSU women’s basketball team is preparing to start its season.
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Jackie dobson/o’collegianForward Liz Donohoe drives in Gallagher-Iba Arena during the WNIT tournament. Donohoe was a key factor in last season’s championship run, and the Cowgirls are hopeful she can put together a similar campaign during her sophomore season.
OSU sets goals for 2012 seasonBy Derek HATrIDGe
Sports Reporter
The Cowgirl basketball team is eager to jump back into the saddle.
Last season was arguably the most memorable in OSU wom-en’s basketball history. After the deaths of coach Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna, associate coach Jim Littell and the Cowgirls re-bounded in a story fit for Holly-wood. Littell became head coach and led OSU to a 22-12 record and narrowly missed making it into the NCAA Tournament.
Instead of throwing in the towel, the Cowgirls accepted a bid to the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. They rolled through their competi-tion and claimed the program’s first ever WNIT Champion-ship.
Now, it’s a new year. Junior Tiffany Bias said she is excited to get things started and be-lieves the Cowgirls’ bar has been raised after last year’s success.
“I think we expected a lot more for the summer and this year, so our standards are just aiming high,” Bias said. “We put a lot on ourselves. I think we’re all perfectionists, and we want to do good and help our team out. So for this year, we are proving to a lot of people that we are a good team.”
Although it may seem as if the Cowgirls are under pres-sure to have another successful season, senior Lindsey Keller said she doesn’t believe that is the case. She said she feels that because OSU didn’t make the NCAA tournament, it’s an
added incentive for the team to be successful.
“It’s kind of one of those things where we were one of the last teams who didn’t get picked, and it adds fuel to the fire. You’re ready to go, you’re focused, you know what you want,” Keller said. “We want to go deep in the NCAA. We don’t want to just have a goal or dream, we want to set it as a standard and meet that standard. We want to pro-duce high quality basketball.”
Littell said he likes that his team uses what happened with last year’s success to propel them into the coming season. But an increased fan interest in Cow-girl basketball is what he said he believes OSU gained the most from the WNIT.
“It was really important for us to build our fan base. We played our first WNIT game in front of about 2,700 people and the last game was just un-der 7,000 people,” Littell said. “We got the community excited about it, and hopefully that will carry over this year.”
New facesAlthough OSU is returning
many familiar faces, Littell said he is also excited about the fresh, new faces that have made their way to Stillwater. One of those faces is Brittney Martin, a fresh-man from Syracuse, Utah.
Martin is the highest ranked recruit to ever come to Oklaho-ma State, ranked No. 19 in the nation, according to ESPN. Lit-tell said Martin is a talent and will be able to make large con-tributions to the Cowgirls.
“Her head is spinning right now,” Littell said. “We run quite a bit of stuff here so her mind is swimming right now, and she’s having to think too much. But when she gets adapted to every-thing we’re doing, she’s going to be a special talent.”
Along with Martin, the Cowgirls also gained three other women who Littell said he feels only adds talent to the roster.
“Brittany Atkins comes to us from Lincoln Prep in the Kansas City area and averaged 29 points a game. I don’t care what level you’re at, that’s a lot of points to average,” Littell said. “She had a career high of 50
last year and she’s one that can shoot the three and score off the dribble.
“Kamri Anderson brings the athleticism to guard in this league and play two positions, and we’ve got Morgan Toben from Owasso that’s a walk-on, and she’s earned a scholarship and now is a scholarship player.”
Sophomore Liz Donohoe said she is excited about the new talent and she and her team-mates are having no problem accepting them into the OSU family.
“Brittney Martin coming in, she is strong,” Donohoe said. “She knows what she’s doing, and it’s almost like she’s not a freshman. Brittany Atkins is a great player as well and will contribute. And Morgan and Kamri, they’ve had experience and they’re coming in. It’s like they’ve been here all along and
they’re great players.”Bias said she agreed with
Donohoe and added that if any questions should rise, she and the other upperclassman have no problem with lending a hand. Bias said she’s been there before, and it’s okay to ask for help.
“You have to take them under your wing, show them what’s right and what’s wrong,” Bias said. “For us to be close as a team, it’s good for them to be comfortable and come talk to us and be like ‘I don’t get how to do this’ or ‘Why am I not doing this?’ or ‘Why is coach yelling at me about this?’ just any little thing like that.”
Preventing a slumpAfter a stellar freshman sea-
son, Donohoe is ready to con-tinue where she left off. Littell said he could see the progress she has already made and is con-
tinuing to work on.“When you come in this
league, I believe there are two factors that hit you immediately as a high school player and the first factor is the speed of the game and the second factor is the physicality,” Littell said. “Liz always had the physicality part of the game, but she’s got more comfortable with the speed of the game.”
Donohoe said she has been doing all she can to prevent the dreaded sophomore slump and has worked hard in the gym and with strength and conditioning coach Nick Hoheisel to prepare herself for the coming year.
“I think when players typi-cally have a good freshman year and they’re working hard in that year, they don’t work as hard in the next season,” Donohoe said. “The way to prevent the sopho-more slump is to work even
harder than you did before and improve on the things you need to improve on.”
Littell said he thinks Dono-hoe will have no problem re-turning to form by the time the season gets started. He added that she is one of the most coachable kids he has ever worked with, and it’s her hard work and dedication to the game that will prevent any drop off she may have from her fresh-man season.
“We’ve talked to her about that and you can set yourself up to be successful and you can set yourself up to fail,” Littell said. “I believe she’s worked harder than she’s ever worked. She’s the first one in the gym and the last one to leave the gym. We’re excited about her sophomore year.”
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When: Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.
Where: Gallagher-Iba Arena
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Ghoulish trumpet players and ghostly flautists haunted the Hideaway on Wednesday.
Chamber music ensem-bles from Oklahoma State University dressed in cos-tumes and played for a full restaurant for the Halloween Harmony at the Hideaway fundraiser. Aaron Jensen, a music education senior, said the Hideaway will donate 10 percent of its sales during the fundraiser to the Friends of Music foundation.
Jensen said Friends of Music benefits anything that has to do with the OSU Mu-sic Department.
Josh Funderburk, a mu-sic education senior, played the trumpet in the Cowboy Quartet.
Four trumpet-playing cowboys kicked off the eve-ning with a performance complete with saloon jokes and do-si-dos.
“We told our trumpet teacher we wanted to put in some visual stuff, and he just said, ‘OK, don’t embarrass me,” Funderburk said. “We just wanted to have fun with it while helping out the mu-sic department.”
Barbara Miller, a librarian at OSU and a former presi-dent of Friends of Music, said the organization raised more than $40,000 for the music department last year.
“It’s very expensive to run a music department,” Miller said. “We have to provide in-struments that the kids can’t afford to buy for themselves.”
Miller said Friends of Music has helped the depart-ment buy unusual, expensive instruments like a contrabas-
soon and alto flute.Miller said the organiza-
tion also raises money for guest performers and travel costs.
“Lately, a lot of the music groups have been competing in national and international competitions, and it costs a lot of money to do that,” Miller said. “We want our students to be able to take advantage of opportunities to showcase their talent.”
Miller said Halloween at the Hideaway is not a big money-maker, but it is a fun way to publicize Friends of Music.
“It’s fun to dress up and see the community involved in our activities,” Miller said. “We want our face out there, and we want people to hear our amazing students and see why we do this.”
Students perform at Hideaway
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samantha kurtz/o’collegianThe patch, which is in Perkins, has small pumpkins for as cheap as 50 cents, or big ones as much as $30.
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The pair brings their families together to carve jack-o-lan-terns and make food with the inside. They have made pump-kin cookies and pumpkin bread, both of which are “pretty easy”.
Grider also sells squash and goods.
“They’re good for decoration; our house is always decorated,” Allen said.
She watched her children tear across the patch in search for their last pumpkin for Hal-loween.
Patch: Local pumpkin farm grows its own crops during the fall.
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From Henry Patterson
Calvin Warner (Oct. 22, 2012) wrote what he believed to be powerful refutations of creation. He rightly asserted that the creationist would have to deal with these claims. What he was unaware of was that they were dealt with before he wrote the article.
Unfortunately for scientific debate, evolution is usually the only view that gets a voice. So Warner wasn’t aware that the points were addressed.
Unfortunately, space doesn’t permit a full discussion on the subject. We’ll just have to settle for a flyby.
Argument: The fossil record shows increasingly complex creatures as you go up the fossil column.
“Everybody knows that or-ganisms ... get more complex as they evolve.”
“The only trouble with what
everyone knows, says McShea, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan, is that there is no evidence it’s true.”
-L. Oliwenstein, ‘Onward and Upward?’, Discover maga-zine, June 1993.
“One unanswerable argument for the hypothetical character of the column is that nowhere in the world does the complete column exist. The majority of the geological periods are missing in the field.
“Although anti-creationists usually have not disputed that the column is mostly missing, they have argued that we should not expect the entire column to exist in the field.
“Erosion, they argue, is why the complete column is never found. Hence they claim that rocks deposited during one peri-od would be eroded away during a later period.
“So, while those defending the column have invented ad hoc reasons to explain the missing
geologic periods, they did not deny the hypothetical nature of the column.”
-trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp.
There are cases of fossils ap-pearing in one layer, disappearing and reappearing after supposed millions-of-years gaps. Animals thought to have been extinct for millions of years have been found to be alive.
Evolution doesn’t just explain fossil patterns, it ignores any po-tential problems.
Argument: Whale legs and human tails.
Both of these are myths. Whales (and this claim has been given for dolphins too) have been assigned these throwback “legs” if they had any growth of fins or lumps or whatever. There are no legs to be found. Where are the pictures of these legs anyway?
Supposedly we have a tail (and several other steps) while we are developing in the womb. Actually, the spine grows out first
and then the body catches up. We don’t lose that “tail” it is actu-ally our lower spine.
Another supposed human tail source is when some people are born with fat at the end of their spine that has to be cut off. It’s fat. No muscles or any other de-velopment. Just a growth. And we get growths on all kinds of parts of the body.
Argument: Changing viruses.Viruses can share genetic
traits with other viruses, genes can become dormant or active, existing traits can be suppressed or expressed.
Mutations can occur. But mutations (despite common be-lief) degrade or reshuffle genetic information. Mutations have never been demonstrated to add information (which is necessary for evolution).
Creationists don’t have a problem with variety. We just say there are certain scientific limits.
From Jake Park
The idea that “Obama has us on the right path” is a rather silly idea. Pres. Barack Obama has done the exact opposite of what needs to be done in order to turn this country in the right direction.
The solutions to our coun-try’s daunting problems are actually not that complex. Our biggest problem is the national debt and failing economy.
The Obama administration has the notion that government regulation of our economy and increased taxes and borrowing is the solution.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stated it best in his book “Lib-erty Defined,” when he wrote, “What sane person would advise a family member or a friend who was in over his head
financially, in debt, and about to lose his home that the solution was to borrow more money and spend it and sign up for as many new credit cards as possible? It is ludicrous. In addition, he is told that it is not necessary to work overtime or take a second job to reduce his debt.”
I think the cliché that we should look at history to decide how to react to current situa-tions is vitally important.
One event many overlook is the recession of 1920-21. In 1920, unemployment jumped from 4 percent to 12 percent, and the gross national product declined 17 percent.
The then-Secretary of Com-merce, Herbert Hoover, urged Pres. Warren Harding to con-sider a wide array of interven-tions to turn the economy around. His pleas were ignored.
Instead, Harding slashed the government budget almost in half between 1920 and 1922, tax rates were cut for all income groups, the national debt was reduced by one-third and the Fed’s activity was miniscule. Signs of recovery were already visible by the summer of 1921, and in 1922, unemployment was down to 6.7 percent, and in 1923 down to 2.4 percent.
The opposite was done under Pres. Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The New Deal was a complete debacle. It restrained businesses, result-ing in a lack of competition,
and stifled industrial progress, which in turn prolonged the Great Depression.
The United States was among the last of the nations to recover from the Depression.
On May 9, 1939, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR’s dear-est friend and Secretary of the Treasury, confessed, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work … We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when
we started … And an enormous debt to boot!”
Even with completely elimi-nating every aspect of gov-ernment, tax revenues do not cover the cost of entitlement programs, defense and interest on the national debt.
A truly free market is the only possible solution to our current problems.
Our occupancy in Afghani-stan is for nothing other than nation building and an attempt to institute democracy, a system that only elects dictators.
Obama has also passed the National Defense Authoriza-tion Act, an act that infringes on our freedoms and liberty exponentially worse than the PATRIOT Act.
Obama is not the answer.
From tHalia oliPHant
Homecoming was more than expected by three 1950s gradu-ates but it was the OSU family that made it so.
One friend has an artificial leg and uses a cane so I scoped out handicapped parking and transportation options in ad-vance. Street construction and bus stop locations played havoc with careful planning, but OSU folks made everything work.
We got the atmosphere and feel of Walkaround without fighting the crowds by attend-ing the School of Education picnic (we drove around to see the houses after the game).
Many memories of our good times at the Student Union building came flooding back as Director Mitch Kilcrease gave us an impromptu, private tour.
When my friend tired of walking back to our car, I waved
down a passing golf cart (I thought it was campus security) and President Burns Hargis and his wife gave us a ride.
Walking from the down-town shuttle stop to our seats exhausted my friend. An un-known woman, put her arm around his shoulders and care-fully guided him down stadium steps to our seats.
Allowing us to exit via Gal-lagher Hall (an event staffer might have broken the rules), saved us a two-block walk to the shuttle.
What I didn’t remember about the campus were the grade changes and steps, dif-ficult for the mobility impaired.
Yes, the world has changed in the 50+ years since we were students, but not the kindness and friendliness of students and staff. Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane.
From Vera long
I endorse Gov. Mitt Romney for President of the United States because I believe he can restore freedoms we have lost, protect our Constitution and our God-given rights.
He will support auditing the Fed, which is in charge of our tax money. He will work with Con-gress to stop the billions of dollars being doled out to our enemies who hate our country, burn our flags and try to destroy our em-bassies.
He is not a con artist and will not con the American people or be conned by our enemies.
If elected president, Romney can be trusted. He is a business-man with the knowledge and ability to provide jobs and over-haul the flawed health care bill.
On day one, he will stop the presidential mandates that over-ride the laws of the land and work with legislatures of the United States to lead the people of the United States to a future of peace, prosperity and pursuit of happi-ness.
The voters will decide who will be the next president. If Romney is elected, it will be by voters who are tired of the run-away econo-my, the flawed health system and presidential mandates and are ready to do something about it.
If you are happy with the sta-tus quo and don’t see anything wrong with the last four years, Barack Obama has promised four more years of struggling while he doles out billions of tax dollars to enemies of our country, while squeezing the last dollar out of our pockets.
Obama uses the presidential mandates to get his way and ap-pease the United Nations in its efforts for global control. Obama is a democrat, but he is no Honest Abe Lincoln.
The rising cost of gasoline, food and other necessities, hous-ing, medicine, taxes and insurance are not problems that will heal themselves.
Regardless of if you are Democrat, Republican or In-dependent, voting is a personal choice. I choose to vote Repub-lican for Romney, and encourage my friends and family to vote for Romney, too.
Vera Long is a resident of Stillwater. [email protected]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Evolution arguments refutedHomecoming experience exceeded expectations
Romney the right choice for America
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Obama’s policies not the answerA truly free market is
the only possible solution to our current problems.
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Help design
Green Dorms
How Anyone & Everyone Can Get Involved:
Attend public lectures at 7 PM Thursdays: Sept. 13, Oct. 25, Nov. 29 2013: Jan. 24, Feb 7, Feb. 28, April 4
Entice students with extra credit for attending Thursday night lectures
Tap our speakers as guest lecturers and spawn vast new networks
Treat our speakers for lunch or dinner prior to their Thursday talk
Apply to the Stakeholder Design Team to huddle on 7 mornings with speakers: Sept 14, Oct. 26, Nov. 30, Jan 25, Feb 8, March 1, April 5. Download Application http://creativity.okstate.edu
Explore sustainability through our field trips; hip & happening calendar at http://tinyurl.com/cj3tdc9
Put 2¢ on our blog as a virtual stakeholder with advice to contribute
Enroll in AG ECON 4990 Ecovillage Design, online class, 1-3 credit hours
Stir the Pot, follow, add ideas!
Our humble bHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goals To Generate Ideas to inform the architecture and landscape architecture classes for OSU Housing and Residential Life’s dormitory for an ecovillage demonstration project that invents the future now. To Stimulate students to develop interdisciplinary mindsets for innovative problem
solving. To Grow Sustainability awareness, research, & curriculum at Oklahoma State.
Faculty: [email protected] • [email protected] Project Coordinators: Jane Talkington (405) 714-1919 • OG&E’s Justin Langston (918) 630-1035
Sustainability Living Learning Community Stakeholder Process 2012-2013
Thursday Lectures Open to the Public7:00 pm Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building, OSU-StillwaterPrivate faculty consultations & class visits by request
Sustainability and Design Thinking, Truly AppliedThursday, Sept 13 • Friday, Sept 14Panel with an industry executive anda practitioner.Chuck Durrett, AIA • Rick Darnaby, Global Business Leader
Why Academia Needs EcovillagesLessons from Sustainable Communities Study Abroad Thursday, Oct 25 • Friday, Oct 26Dr. Daniel Greenberg, Ecovillage Designer – Massachusetts
Participatory Democracy for Sustainable Community Planning & Curriculum Infusion in Higher Education Thursday, Nov 29 • Friday, Nov 30Dr. Nancy Gift, Compton Chair of Sustainability Berea College, Kentucky
The Re-Membering: Regenerative Development & the Patterns of Living Systems Thursday, Jan 24 • Friday, Jan 25Bill Reed, AIA – Integrative Design Group, Boston/Santa Fe
Building Community & Aesthetics for SustainabilityThursday, Feb 7 • Friday, Feb 8Tom Kopf, RLA – DTJ Design, Boulder
The End of the World as We Know It: Why Tomorrow will be Integral, Holistic, & Resilient Thursday, Feb 28 • Friday, Mar 1Tony Layne, AIA – Perkins+Will
Sustainable Solutions: Design for 21st Century & BeyondThursday, April 4 • Friday, April 5Fiona Cousins, PE – Arup, New York
Friday Keynotes for 100 Stakeholders9 am Gather at Taylor’s Dining Room9:15 - 10 am Keynote 10:15 -11:30 am Huddle12 - 1 pm Lunch, locally sourced Taylor’s Dining Room in Human Sciences BldgOSU-Stillwater an RSVP event (405.744.6713)
SPRING 2013FALL 2012
The OSU Institute for Creativity & Innovation propels the
Sustainability Living Learning Community SCOPE of Planning Process Sept. 2012- April 2013
Goals: Do you want a hand in designing the future? Do you want to stimulate yourselves and your students to develop interdisciplinary mindsets for innovative problem solving? Then this project is for you! The new Wake Up and Dream project invites you to contribute to sustainability awareness, research, & curriculum. Essential to the project is a select group of 100 stakeholders who work to generate ideas about a new ecovillage dorm project and living laboratory at OSU.
What: Ecovillages are communities of people, who strive to integrate a supportive social environment with a low-impact way of life. To achieve this, they integrate various aspects of ecological design, permaculture, ecological building, green production, alternative energy, community building practices, and much more.
Participants: Stakeholders, aka The Design Group, will meet once a month for a Friday morning brainstorming "huddle" with a keynote speaker, followed by a locally sourced lunch at Taylor’s Dining. Every Thursday before the Friday huddle, there is a public lecture at 7 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Architecture Building Auditorium on the Stillwater campus at OSU.
Sponsors: Spears School of Business, College of Human Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, College of Education, Student Government Association, Campus Life, Housing and Residential Life, Student Union, & Center for Ethical Leadership. External support: The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, La Fabricca del Sole Renewable Energy of Italy, and OGE Energy Corp.
Food, Energy and Water are a “F.E.W.” of the most basic necessities of life so the process of informing the stakeholder Design Group involves developing literacy around these 3 basic topics and exploring:
� Zero energy buildings
� Distributed energy
� Net metered renewable energy
� Energy conservation
� Energy choices
� Green building materials
� Village-scale density benefits
� Green entrepreneurship
� Local and organic food production
� Impact of organic food health
� Global water supply
� Water catchment and reuse
� Sustainability ethic and leadership
� Living Building Challenge ™
� Reduced ecological footprints
� Transportation choices
This dynamic interactive program brings 7 nationally renowned speakers to campus for 7 two-day events of public lectures, faculty development, interdisciplinary curriculum consulting, and facilitated brainstorming workshops. The project also organizes a dozen local field trips (such as wind farm tours, off-grid house tours, Victory garden tours, Sustainable Agriculture conference in Salina, etc.) as additional opportunities to expand personal sustainability knowledge base.
This ambitious project was funded by the OSU’s Provost Interdisciplinary planning grant to allow for a year-long public conversation to inform the design an unparalleled land-grant ecovillage that grows food, grows energy, while also growing sustainability awareness, research, and curriculum on campus. To apply to be a stakeholder or learn more about the project…. http://creativity.okstate.edu
Wake Up & Dream calendar for speaker events and field trips: http://tinyurl.com/cj3tdc9
October 25, 2012 Thursday Schedule Availability:
8 – 9:30 am Residential Life Meeting 10 – 11 am Faculty Reception Campus Life Noon: Landscape architecture students host lunch at Red Earth Cafe in SU 1:00 pm – 3 pm Teaching for OLLI class at public library 5 pm – 6:30 pm Engineers Without Borders Student Dinner 7 pm – 8 pm Public Lecture at OSU Architecture Building
October 26, 2012 Friday Schedule Availability:
9 am – 1 pm Keynote speaker and charrette leader with stakeholder DESIGN TEAM at Taylorʼs Dining Room in the College of Human Sciences. Come & Go, but RSVP for lunch
Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D. is the
founding director of Living Routes, a 3rd-party non-profit educational provider that partners with the University of Massachusetts to run study abroad programs based in "ecovillages." A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Minnesota, Daniel is now focused on building bridges between academia and sustainable communities.
Daniel has chaired Task Forces, committees and SIGs for NAFSA and The Forum on Education Abroad and is a frequent presenter on the topics of sustainability in education abroad, experiential education, community development, and carbon consciousness. He lives with his wife and two daughters near the Sirius Community in western Massachusetts.
AG EC 4990-503 Learn about ecovillage design and sustainability from anywhere in this series of cool new online classes. This is a 6-part course with each part worth 1credit hour; take as many or as few as you like! The course is through CASNR o�ered in parallel with the Wake Up & Dream project (http://creativity.okstate.edu/wake-up-dream/) to design an ecovillage pilot plan for OSU Housing and Residential Life. Students will participate in the guest speaker lectures (live or videotaped), be on the Design Team (live or virtual), read cutting edge authors, and contribute to sustainability discussion.
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December Intersession Course (1-3 hours)
Ecovillage Design, online courseand get credit for it!
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