Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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and garbage bags tor her Madonna-inspired creation. Above middle: Lauren Wippel models a Cara Miller original made from a Twister game mat. Miller decided to create this princess seamed dress after becoming champion of a Halloween Twister game. Above right: Sara Sakala models Megan Kenton's high fashion ensemble. Kenton collected the hundreds of business cards for this outfit from her boyfriend and friends. She believes that “You should have your contacts with you at all times. Photos by Amy Jack Above: Designers and models line up recieve awards for such categories as most creative, most wearable and most fashionable. Photo by Amy Jack

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traeh baeh G 'catw s ifjc e ite ooA 'asA o rex c fc Trash never looked so good. On Feb. 13, students from the department of design and human environment showcased their latest fashion creations, all in the name of sustainability. Don’t let the words recycled fashion mislead: these designers could give some of the fashion industry’s biggest names a run for their measuring tape. Repeat Performance: Trash bash featured a runway of designs entirely made of recylced materials. Fach designer had a SIO budget for his or her piece. The low budget led the students to get creative with their materials. The final results included pieces made from bubble wrap, plastic water bottles, business cards anti coffee insulators. Design anti human environment faculty member Mary Pedersen said most of the budget money students had went towards hardware they could not glean from another source, such as zippers ami snaps. Pedersen was the advisor for OSU’s chapter of Fashion Group International, a nonprofit professional association of over 6,000 members. The OSU chapter began in 1991 and was the first of its kind in Oregon. Although Pedersen was the advisor, she was quick to point out that students did nearly all of the work for the Trash Bash. Students took the theme of always recycle to heart ami created high fashion pieces literally from trash. Plastic bag dresses seemed to be one of the themes of this year’s show with everything from black garbage bags to Carl’s Jr. take-out bags becoming halter dresses anil ruffles. The materials they found as well as their environment inspired the student designers. Kendra Thysell designed and modeled the first dress of the night. I ler pink anil black party dress was made out of garbage bags anil tissue paper. She also adil two strategically placet! party hats to create a Marilyn Monroe-inspired piece. ; vents 3ra( f onJt cocryc ay cte nr roro Thyscll said her inspiration for the dress came from a friend's birthday party. “I was at a friend’s party playing around with some party hats anil I thought 1 have to make a dress with this,” she said with a smile. No matter where the raw materials came from, the fashion these student designers were able to create showcased not only their understanding of apparel design, but also their creativity. After all, it takes real talent to create high fashion from lowly trash. Story by Colleen Moran

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blood drive OtSUrrt-em es's ro lafl (Aeir $ ccoc ( ( oe (awardy a cjoodca re n 2005 the United States’ 1»1(hk1 supply suffered from chronic shortages and was often less than two days away from empty, according to the American Red Cross. To help support the nations blood supply, Oregon State University has participated in the Civil War blood drive against University of Oregon for the past four years. ()rcgon State won the last three Civil War blood drives. University of Oregon won the first in 2001. To meet the needs of hospitals and their patients in this region the northwest blood drives needed to collect at least 5,(KK) units of blood a week. C )regon State also held two other blood drives during the year. ()ne was during spring term, and the other was during winter term. “ University blood drives are by far the Ixst contributors to the Red Cross, no other drive gives us this much bl x d in four days,” said Jan Schrader, heat! nurse in charge at the winter I)1«kkI drive. All the blood that was collected during the blood drives was shipped to various hospitals in ()regon and southwest Washington to help the millions of patients in need of blood. On their website the American Red Cross stated that there was a person in need of blood every two seconds in the United States. There are eight types of ret! blood cells. AB negative is the rarest I 1 xkI type but O negative has been the most in need because it is the universal type. Type O blood can be taken by any person in need no matter what their blood type. I lowever, every type of blood was needed. Blood transfusions can lx- used for trauma victims due to accidents and burns heart surgery, organ transplants women with complications during childbirth, newborns anti premature babies and patients receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or other diseases such as sickle cell disease and aplastic anemia. This year ()rcgon State had over 3,300 donors with the most during the Civil War blood drive. Each component of blood can be transfused to different individuals with different needs. Typically, each donated unit of blood, referred to as whole blood, is separated into multiple components, such as red 1 1«xh1 cells, plasma, platelets and ervo-precipatitated Al II ', which helps blood to clot. Therefore, each donation can lx- used to help save as many as three lives. All together, this year C )regon State has possibly saved over 10, 500 lives. This was a huge incentive for giving 1 I xk1. To give bl x d was to save lives Story by Justine Rykken vents . mtai'iiom-