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Randal Wyatt answers some interview questions from Faisal Osman during a discussion panel in the Memorial Union Horizon Room during the Black Albina: Constructing Environmental Justice event.

Insights from CEL’s Spring Dialogue on constructing environmental justice

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
May 3, 2024

OSU students turning the weight of climate change into action

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
April 23, 2024
Samuel Keeps (he/him) waits outside his dorm room in Sackett Hall on Nov. 28, 2023

Beyond a sock on the door: How to navigate roommates and their partners

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
February 5, 2024
Nicholas Kristof, keynote speaker, speaks at the Tom McCall Memorial Lecture on April 24 in Learning Innovation

“How can we fix the problems all around us?” Recap from this year’s Governor Tom McCall Memorial Lecture with Nicholas Kristof

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
May 22, 2023
The art of deception: APASU’s Culture Shock 2023 is coming soon

The art of deception: APASU’s Culture Shock 2023 is coming soon

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
May 19, 2023
Corvallis City Hall in the summer heat.

Drought in Oregon?

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
May 2, 2023
An illustration of a house. Housing and renting can be a complicated process for first-time tenants.

Essential renters’ rights, according to Oregon lawyers

Natalie Sharp, Contributor
April 25, 2023
The main entrance at the Corvallis Winter Market on January 28th, 2023 located at Guerber Hall 110 SW 53rd Street. It takes place every Saturday from 9am to 1pm until April 8th, 2023.

“A Mutually Beneficial Program:” How the Corvallis Indoor Winter Farmers Market meets community need

Natalie Sharp, News Contributor
March 2, 2023
ANT JELLO plays some of their newly released live album, Tequila Cabaret, at Bomb’s Away Cafe on Jan. 13. The last ANT JELLO show will be at the Whiteside Theater on Feb 25.

Restaurant by day, venue by night

Natalie Sharp, News Contributor
February 21, 2023
A photo illustration of ingredients and supplies used for making cannabis infused butter and oils. Cooking with cannabis has experienced a boom in recent years but first time users are encouraged to consume responsibly and double check the measurements.

Cooking with cannabis

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
January 27, 2023
Annie (prefers to keep last name out; she/her) sits on her living room sofa with Danny the cat on Nov. 19. Annie routinely smokes in this location to relax by reading and help alleviate pain. The normalization of weed, in Annie’s opinion, is great because accessibility of the substance is safer and more reliable to obtain for those who enjoy using it.

Overcoming generations of stigma

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
January 27, 2023
Degentrifying the cannabis industry

Degentrifying the cannabis industry

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
January 27, 2023
Director of the School of Culture, Language and Society, Susan Bernardin sits in her office at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. Stories like the one we hear about Thanksgiving, the Oregon trail or Pocahontas are wish-fullfillment narratives created to cover up the brutal reality of how this country's birth grew out of mass genocide and slaughter, explained Bernardin.

Genocide romanticized: Professor says Thanksgiving traditions ignore dark history

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
November 22, 2022
The outside of the Hattie Redmond Center on October 5th, 2022 in Corvallis, Oregon. The center is the second oldest building on the Oregon State campus, and continues to make a difference in the community.

‘Commitment to activism’: How a lawsuit pioneered a new OSU program, WGSS

Natalie Sharp, News Contributor
November 3, 2022
An illustration depicting celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the WGSS program at OSU.

Women and Gender Center, WGSS program celebrate 50 years on campus

Natalie Sharp, News Contributor
November 3, 2022
Whitney Archer (she/they) poses outside of the Hattie Redmond Women & Gender Center on October 5th, 2022 in Corvallis, Oregon. The Hattie Redmond Women & Gender Center (WGC) serves as a campus focal point for projects directed at addressing women's issues on campus, in the community-at-large, and globally. As an open community of leaders inspiring change, they provide advocacy, resources, and opportunities to transform ideas into positive action and reality.

Whitney Archer leads with ‘quiet guidance and leadership’

Natalie Sharp, News Contributor
November 3, 2022
Co-organizers, Kate Hassett (right) and Shelby Wells (left), posing at McAlexander Fieldhouse where the event is going to be held this Sunday. Kate and Shelby are two of three employees who recognized the need for an inclusive climbing space for women, nonbinary, and trans students in a cis male-dominated sport. Not pictured: co-organizer Christine Castles

‘Your climb is your climb’: Women, nonbinary, trans climb night creates space

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
October 7, 2022
Lydia Johnson scales a rock wall.

Climbing at OSU-Cascades

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
June 8, 2022
Karree Lee smiles for a photo in the Memorial Union quad on a sunny Sunday, March 20. Lee is wearing a sweater, glasses and a scarf.

Khmer Night: The Naga and The Prince

Natalie Sharp, Beaver's Digest Contributor
February 23, 2022
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