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Oregon State University hosted a BYUtv production crew for a taping of an episode of “Dining with the Dean” that will premiere in the week prior to the OSU-Brigham Young University clash on the football field. The episode will air at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 on BYUtv.

Dining with the Dean features two teams vying to win a cash donation for the team as well a $2,000 contribution to the charity of their choosing. Oregon State was represented by two teams of students from Student Leadership and Involvement (SLI) — The Beaver- Bites and the Flat-Tails.

Both teams represented OSU with pride, fun and fierce competitive spirit. Dean Tammy Bray from the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences served as the judge to determine the winner. Dean Bray surprised the production team as well as the students with a twist at the end of taping. Watch the premiere episode to learn what the twist was and who the winning team and charity is.

Student Leadership and Involvement is a unit of Student Affairs on the Oregon State campus made up of programs that support the out of classroom experiences of OSU students. The two teams were comprised of students who lead for the Student Events and Activities Program, Memorial Union Program Council, International Students of OSU  and the SLI Info Team.

Team Beaver-Bites was captained by Alan Louie and the Flat-Tails by Nik Bowen.

The College of Public Health and Human Sciences vision of “Lifelong health and well being for every person, every family, every community” made Dean Bray the perfect judge of the student efforts in creating a healthy three course meal with only $30. Each team was charged with reviewing and incorporating the ideas from the new “MY Plate” guidelines into the meal as suggested by “Be Well BE Orange” campaign at OSU.

BYUtv is available on  channel 9403 for all Dish Network programming packages, and on  channel 374 for all DIRECTV programming packages. BYUtv is also available via cable, so you may check your local listings.

For more information, see http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bewell/.

Photo: PHHS Dean Tammy Bray and OSU students share a laugh while filming Dining With The Dean.

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Never before has an Oregon State University student been able to wake up in their residence hall and walk a few flights of stairs to their first class. Such will be the case upon the development of the International Living Learning Center.

The ILLC will be having its grand opening Monday. The ribbon will be cut at 4 p.m., followed by self-guided tours and an open house from 4:30-6 p.m.

The ILLC is a brand new building that serves as INTO’s headquarters, a residence hall, classroom structure and business center. It is home to over 320 international and domestic students, offers 26 classrooms specifically for INTO-OSU academic classes, and houses INTO-OSU’s administration offices and international programs.

“The ILLC was built to accommodate an increased number of students that would be attending OSU through various programs offered by INTO-OSU,” said Operation Manager Joseph Evans.

The campus resource features a brand new Cascadia market right next to Arnold Dining Center as well as Peet’s Coffee. There is also an all-purpose auditorium that can be used as a lecture hall. The classrooms boast state-of-the art technology.

“The total cost of this building was $52 million. UHDS is carrying the debt on the facility, paying for it through the sale of public bonds,” Evans said. “In other words, paying the mortgage through generated revenue collected from student room fees, sales from Peet’s Coffee, and Cascadia market and the space UHDS leases to INTO-OSU and the University.”

The residence hall is easily one of the most expensive on campus. The facility offers student housing, but it’s by no means cheap.

Per academic year, the student will pay $10,080.  There are three types of rooms offered in the building: double-room with a dining plan for $4,753 per term, double-room with a private bathroom and dining plan for $5,260 per term and single room with dining plan for $5,793.  There are private restrooms as well as public restrooms situated in the halls like other resident halls on campus.

“I like the class so close; it’s very easy,” said Doo RT Kim, who arrived from Korea one week ago.

Some classrooms are right next to floor lounges, where a glass wall separates the class and the lounge.

“It is easy to focus. The lounge does not distract us,” said Teng Jim Yan, a Chinese student who arrived three months ago.

International students who have classes but do not live in the ILLC agreed with their peers.

“I like my listening and speaking class, but the building has bad parking and is too far away,” said Faisal Alshehli from Saudi Arabia.

Parking is a common complaint among the students, as well as there aren’t enough Americans to interact with. The best thing, students agreed, is the conveniently located coffee shop and market place.

“Students seem just as focused as in any other classroom,” said Melody Slothower, an INTO-OSU instructor of two years. “No one’s showed up in their pajamas at all.”

Though ILLC instructors are doing something that other professors on campus haven’t, the overall mood is one of enthusiasm.

“The best thing about teaching in this building is that there’s more room, and it’s a unique place to work,” said Randy Garver, instructor for intensive English and lower-level listening and speaking.

Main concerns have to do with classroom layout and technology issues.

“The rooms next to the lounges have been a concern, but no problems so far,” Garver said. “There might be a technology glitch too.”

Moving past possible distractions technological glitches, another concern stems from the lack of interaction that ILLC faculty, students and residents are experiencing.

“I can’t interact with my colleagues as much because we’re on different floors. It takes a lot more effort to keep up communication,” Slothower said.

However, teachers agree the new building has amazing views from the windows and every resource is state of the art.

To learn more, search International Living-Learning Center on the OSU website.

Read more from The Daily Barometer. (Published Oct. 7, 2011)

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A look at the variety of living situations Oregon State students call home

Built in 1948, Sackett Hall is the oldest dormitory on campus, and was originally an all-girls dorm. The hall is divided into four quadrants, with two wings per quadrant and approximately 300 students. Students live on single-gender floors, with a standard floor-bathroom set-up. One wing in Sackett is designated as the quiet wing. Most rooms are doubles, with sleeping porches and walk-in closets. …

Newly completed this year in 2011, the shimmering glass International Living Learning Center across from Halsell, Finley and Bloss is a serious envy-inducer for other residents of University Housing and Dining Service halls. Students live on one of four co-ed floors, with single and double occupancy rooms boasting private and suite-style bathrooms. Most double rooms are supposed to house a domestic and an international student together. …

McNary Hall, the Honors College hall, is home to approximately 350 students on five floors. It offers both single and double rooms as well as special “quad” rooms, on co-ed floors with a standard floor-bathroom set-up. McNary also has a quiet wing, and a women-only wing.

Read more from The Daily Barometer. (Published Oct. 4, 2011)

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Oregon State University, which expects international enrollment to surpass 1,800 this fall, is opening a 365-bed dormitory, half for international students, with classrooms and laboratories for a program that helps international students adjust. PSU already has one building, East Hall, to support international students and Americans studying abroad. PSU and the University of Oregon each may see enrollment for students from other countries top 2,000 this year.

Read more from The Oregonian. (Published Sept. 26, 2011)

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Oregon State University, semi-quiet during the summer, was flooded with students Monday for the first day of fall-term classes. The university expects to enroll 25,000 this fall.

More than 3,000 of those students on campus were freshmen, including Nicole Elsmore and Caitlin Brenton. They took a long lunch at Arnold Dining Center and discussed their morning classes: chemistry for Elsmore, and college composition and algebra for Brenton.

Read more from the Corvallis Gazette-Times. (Published Sept. 27, 2011)

Video: “A look at the new OSU International Living-Learning Center”

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The cafeteria: a cavernous room filled with counters of lukewarm food sitting beneath a heat lamp for hours. Such dining was a staple for colleges and universities for years.

But not a single cafeteria can be found today at Oregon State University. In recent years, University Housing and Dining Services has filled the campus’ three dining halls with salad bars, convenience stores offering fresh fruit and vegetables, and smaller concept restaurants with menus that aim to provide inexpensive healthy options and authentic international cuisine for students on meal plans and anyone else in the campus community.

Read more at Corvallis Gazette-Times. (Published Sept. 26, 2011)

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[KEZI News. (September 19, 2011)] – It’s that time of the year again, just a week until local universities begin classes.  And that means hundreds of students will be schlepping their bags and moving into dorms.

It has been a very busy past few days moving into the dorms on Oregon State University campus.  Sunday was the big move-in day, but Monday many were still bringing in the odds and ends to prepare for the first day of school. <more>

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[The Gazette Times. (September 19, 2011)] – Ben Dawley brought the necessities with him to his new dorm room at Oregon State University’s Finley Hall residence hall: bed linens, clothes and a computer.

However, “the most important thing” was a box full of Xbox video games, joked his mother Theresa Dawley as she helped unpack Ben’s things from the family’s minivan parked near the hall between Western Boulevard and Washington Avenue. <more>.

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[The Gazette Times. (September 18, 2011)] – How tight is the Corvallis rental housing market right now?

Bob Loewen of the Corvallis Housing Division is ready with an illustration: “If I grabbed your necktie and pulled as hard as I could, it still wouldn’t be tight enough.”

The vacancy rate, he adds, is almost too low to measure.

“If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say we’re probably getting down to about 1/10th of 1 percent.” <more>

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[The Gazette Times. (September 7, 2011)] – This fall’s freshman class of Oregon State University will be about the same as last year, but if those students haven’t lined up on-campus housing, they’re facing stiff competition for off-campus rentals.

Bob Loewen, the housing program specialist for the city of Corvallis, said the rental vacancy rate is around a half of 1 percent. International students, newly enrolled graduate students and students who moved away during the summer are expected to drive that vacancy rate even lower. <more>

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