Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Above left: In El Paso, Texas members of the marching band take a break from a day of excitement. | Photo by Andrew McDade Above: Ashley Evans and her brother take a moment to gaze at the beautiful streets of London. | Photo courtesy of Ashley Evans Far left: Megan Hald and her younger sister take a break from skiing at Mt. Ashland. | Photo courtesy of Megan Hald Middle left: Sean Heather Mahoney take a moment to embrace the serenity of Hawaii together. | Photo courtesy of Sean Mahoney Left: Sean Mahoney, April Mahoney, and Heather Mahoney take time to have fun while visiting family in Hawaii. | Photo courtesy of Sean Mahoney lVr rflr«wl 29

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WINTER BREAK Winter Break is a period of intermission between school terms; in this case fall and winter terms. Where students and faculty get a chance to pick their heads up from out of the textbooks, put their writing utensils down, and focus on things enjoyable in their lives. Some Oregon State University students traveled out of the country for winter break, like sophomore Ashley Evans. Evans and her family went to London and Scotland for three weeks. One of the places she traveled to was Edinburgh, Scotland were she accentuated how freezing Scotland was, but how great it was to spend time with her family. Junior Heather Stafford worked over winter break, like many students trying to earn some extra money. She worked at Joann Fabrics Craft in Eugene and celebrated her birthday with family and friends. Other students traveled out of state to spend time with family such as junior Sean Mahoney and freshman Heather Mahoney who went to Hawaii to visit their grandmother and uncle. Sean said it was, family vacation in Hawaii, not necessarily a vacation-vacation. Many students enjoyed the extra time to go and participate in recreational activities, like junior Megan Hald. During the first week of winter break Megan stayed in Corvallis were she relaxed by sleeping in, taking her dogs on walks to the park, and watching movies and TV. The last weeks of winter break she went home to Ashland were she did some skiing at Mt. Ashland, spent time with family and met up with old friends to get together and catch up. Even members of the OSU Marching Band got out of Corvallis for winter break. They traveled to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas to participate in one of the greatest comebacks in Beaver history, beating the Mizzou Tigers 39-38. | Story by Anita Quiros Megan Hald stops for a moment to embrace the beautiful view at Mt. Ashland. She was there spending time with her family and friends for some recreational fun. | Photo courtesy of Megan Hald 28 Shxicrf Itfo

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, Most students think of January 15 as just a day off from school but really it has much more meaning and history behind it than a long weekend. January 15 is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and to celebrate his birthday Oregon State University held events for two weeks to celebrate MLK Jr. and his dream of equality. This year's theme for the 25th annual celebration running from Jan. 8-26 was “The Dream Can No Longer Be Deferred. The two week celebration, starting on January 8, was filled with events such as guest speakers, like social activist and former Black Panthers member Angela Davis, a peace breakfast, speeches, art exhibits, discussions and a candle light vigil. Topping off the two week celebration was an all university dance hosted by the Gamma Alpha Omega sorority and Omega Delta Phi fraternity at Club Escape. Events such as a birthday celebration for MLK and a panel discussion on Jim Crowe laws were cancelled due to ice and hazardous conditions that caused OSU to start late and close early. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr's life and work, students, faculty, and community members could reaffirm their support and sign the MLK wall and pledge to do everything they can to make Oregon State University and Corvallis, Oregon a place where equality, justice, freedom, and peace will grow and flourish. Overall the celebration went well and MLK Jr's dream of loving, not hating, and showing understanding, not anger and making peace, not war will carry on at the OSU campus. | Story by Brittany Chandler at Club Escape to dance and celebrate the end of MLK v. . !::o Daily Barometer 30 SvotwMt.