october 24, 2013

L A N E C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E ’ S I N D E P E N D E N T, S T U D E N T- R U N N E W S PA P E R | VO L U M E 51 e D I t I o N 4 | E U G E N E , O R E G O N

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STEPHANIE ORNDORFF // PRODUCTION MANAGER

Lane earns honorsfor energy programs

State legiSlature increaSeS funding for community collegeS

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JEFF CRAMER // REPORTERKEONI CONLU // REPORTER

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MOhAMMEd ALKhAdhER // NEWS EDITOR

Lane placed 45th on a list of the top 50 colleges and universities in the country committed to saving the planet.

The College Database, an organization that intends to inform students about colleges based on a variety criteria, recognized Lane in September for its energy management and renewable energy degree programs.

Despite colleges across the country touting the prestige of a ranking from the College Database, little is actually known about the website. Its methodology page is vague and does not clarify whether or not they used algorithms or qualitative methods to determine their ranking.

There are only two visible employees, Wes Ricketts, the College Database’s vice president, and Douglas A. Jones. Neither could be reached for comment.

A search of the IRS database for nonprofits named College Database showed nothing.

Lane is the only community college listed. The rest of the list consist of major universities such as Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Duke University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“These 50 colleges and universities not only host students in the lecture hall, they put them to work in research laboratories where scholars practice real-time, ecological heroism,” according to The College Database, which posted the list to its website, onlinecollegesdata-base.org.

The Oregon Legislature will send more money to the state’s colleges and universities after a special session that closed Oct. 2, but Lane’s share won’t be enough to close this school year’s budget deficit or another shortfall predicted next school year.

In the special session, the legislature

approved $40 million for Oregon univer-sities and community colleges to hold down tuition increases, according to a news release issued by Oregon House Democrats Communications Director Lindsay O’Brien.

Lane will receive approximately $1.8 million of the $40 million increase over the next biennium.

“As part of that grand-bargain money,” said Brian Kelly, Lane vice president of college services, “we’re not going to see

any of that this year. It’s all going to come next year.”

Falling enrollment this year has led to an approximate $2 million deficit in Lane’s $102.9 million 2013-14 general fund budget.

“The additional funds will help mitigate the tuition lost from declining enrollment, which is at about 11 percent less than Fall 2012 but it will not fully close the gap in our budget caused by enrollment decline,” Lane President

Mary Spilde wrote in an email to staff this month. “Just as we increased our part-time budgets significantly over the last four years to deal with the enroll-ment surge, less demand is causing us to build smaller class schedules, affecting part-time faculty and staff ... I believe we will be able to balance this year’s budget without reductions in contracted staff.”

Administrators are currently predict-ing a $6.8 million shortfall next school year, Kelly said.

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EDITOR-IN-ChIEfMissy Corr

L A N E C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E ’ Si n d e p e n d e n t , s t u d e n t - r u n n e w s p a p e r

JARRID DENNEY // SPORTS EDITOR

During the 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament, University of Louisville guard Kevin Ware suffered one of the most gruesome injuries ever seen on national television.

Millions of fans witnessed Ware’s lower right leg bone snap in half and protrude from his skin as he landed after attempting to block an opposing player’s shot.

The injury was so horrifying that it caused several nearby teammates to col-lapse to the floor, crying.

“The bone’s 6 inches out of his leg and all he’s yelling is, ‘Win the game, win the game,’” Louisville head coach Rick Pitino said after the game. “He’s a pretty special young man.”

After Louisville was crowned Nation-al Champions and the story faded away from the national spotlight, where did that leave Ware?

Almost without a scholarship, accord-ing to some published accounts.

Since Louisville officials have an-nounced that Ware is on track to be game-ready at the start of the 2013-14 season, chatter that his scholarship might be pulled has ceased. But nothing in NCAA rules would have prevented the college from pulling Ware’s scholarship and giving it to a healthy player.

His situation brought to light a very serious question:

Why are colleges allowed to revoke scholarships of injured athletes?

There are approximately 380,000 college athletes, and on average, 12,500 of them suffer some sort of injury every year, according to a study done by livestrong.com.

In most cases, scholarships are awarded on a year-to-year basis, which means a school is not obligated to keep players.

It is said that “student” is supposed to come before “athlete.” So why is it that if injured in competition, an athlete loses the privilege of being a student?

This issue has gained attention at the major university level, but it is occur-

ring at colleges of all sizes all over the country.

Coaches have little control over the situation.

They are given a limited number of scholarships to work with and no mat-ter how much they may care about an athlete’s well-being, it is still their job to do what is in the best interest of the program.

Blame needs to be attributed to the governing bodies of college athletics. Whether it be the NCAA, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics or the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, change is needed at all levels of college sports.

Schools should be held responsible for the athletes they profit from, and that starts with protecting those injured in competition.

A full-ride scholarship should mean just that. If a school promises an athlete that their tuition will be paid for as long as they are attending that school, then that promise needs to be kept, whether the athlete is healthy or not.

Injured student-athletes should keep scholarships

ASK A TITANQ: How did the government shotdown affect you?

It didn’t really affect me that much person-ally, but I think it has had some negative effects. My friend, just the other day, was talk-ing about how a lot of trees are cut down in Yosemite National Park … because there was no one there to monitor the park and so a lot of (trees) got clear-cut. That is pretty terrible, that stuff like that was allowed to happen because the government shut down. — Joshua Francowiak

I am a Native American and a tribal member. I was expecting money from my tribe when I turned 18, but as the government shut down, I was unable to accept the funds because the (U.S. Bureau of Indian Af-fairs) was closed as well.

— Sissiliya Colegroue

In the Oct. 17 issue of The Torch, we misspelled Lane art and photography instructor John Watson’s name in “Walker shows at Dot Dotson’s.” The Torch regrets this error.CORRECTION:

There was a (web-site) closed due to it and I had to do my homework on it. That was frustrating, but we had to write it out so I got around it. But it was annoying.

— Nicole Davis

I don’t think it has really affected me. I don’t know. I don’t watch the news or anything. I don’t keep track of that stuff so I can’t even tell personally.

— Will Parmenter

KEONI CONLU // REPORTER

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The Torch / 10.24.2013 3NEWS EDITORMohammed Alkhadher

threatOct. 14, 9:25 p.m.A male student told an in-

structor that he would blow up Building 19 if he couldn’t find his class. Public Safety reports marked the case as resolved and noted the male said he was just kidding.

Medical emergencyOct. 15, 11:22 a.m.A female student who appeared to be in her

early 20s fainted in the main hall of Building 5. Both Goshen Rural and Eugene fire depart-ments responded to the call and drove her to the Sacred Heart Medical Center at River-Bend.

Suspicious conditionsOct. 18, 8:48 p.m.

A patrol officer observed a white male picking up weights near Building 10 and tossing them into his car. When confronted, the person identified himself as an instructor so he was allowed to take them.

Suspicious conditionsOct. 18, 11:48 p.m.Public Safety received a report of a suspi-

cious white male sitting in a car in Lot L. An officer investigated the report and found that the person was reading a book in his car, tak-ing advantage of the shade.

GraffitiOct. 20, 1:28 p.m.An officer discovered graffiti outside of

Building 11 while on patrol. Public Safety took pictures and submitted a work order to Lane Facilities Management and Planning.

STEPhANIE ORNdORFF // PRODUCTION MANAGER

Alarms ........................................................... 3Found graffiti ................................................ 1Car accidents ................................................ 1Harassment .................................................. 3Smoking violations ...................................... 2Medical emergencies ................................... 2Theft ............................................................. 1

*Data collected from Oct. 14 to Oct. 20

By the numbers

Self-defense class draws low turnout

Lane Public Safety Sgt. Jake Ryker and Cpl. Lisa Rupp instruct Lane student Paola Castillo Sanjur in the Oct. 17 self-defense class. Castillo Sanjur was one of only two participants.

MISSY CORR // EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

JEFF CRAMER // REPORTER

Lane Public Safety officers Jake Ryker and Lisa Rupp offered self-defense training Oct. 17 in Building 13.

With only two participants, Sgt. Ryker said attendance was unusually low.

Ryker and Cpl. Rupp have been teaching self- defense classes at Lane each term for the past two years. Ryker said the classes gener-ally range in size from five attendees, to 16 at the most.

Public Safety Officer Gina Walker played the role of the attacker while Ryker taught self-defense techniques such as striking an opponent properly, getting out of holds, using improvised weapons and the “wiggy diggy,” which entails a loose hand-snap into the attacker’s eyes. Ryker also encouraged confident body language and cell-phone use to discourage attackers

looking for an easy target. Lane student Paola

Castillo Sanjur was one of the participants who practiced these self-defense methods.

During the training, Cas-tillo Sanjur said three men approached her while she was in Panama last February, demanding she give them the across-the-shoulder bag she was wearing under her jacket.

One of the men held a gun to her and threatened to kill her if she didn’t hand over the bag.

“I couldn’t give them the bag,” Castillo Sanjur said, “be-cause of my jacket.”

The attackers then knocked Castillo Sanjur to the ground, grabbed the bag and ran away.

“I thought it was very brave of her to share that,” Rupp said. “When participants share their stories, it’s always really touching.”

Due to the low attendance, Castillo Sanjur received one-on-one instruction for 90 min-utes of the two-hour class.

“We still give them the full two hours,” Rupp said. “And (Ryker will) also teach extra

things, especially if it’s one-on-one.”

Rupp said the necessity for a translator has never been present in the past, but one may be beneficial for future classes.

“For the sexual-assault class, we had a Spanish-speak-ing female that barely knew any English,” Rupp said.

LEIGHANNE VITTETOE // PHOTOGRAPHER

Ryker demonstrates how to knee an attacker.

A medical student was hit in an Oct. 22 collision, in which he took most of the damage, at the edge of the baseball fields near the intersection of East 30th Avenue and Eldon Schafer Drive. The unidenti-fied student exam-ined himself and then the occupants of the other car.

KEONI CONLU // REPORTER

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PhOTO EDITORAlyssa Leslie

Right: Rathermel installs the “Alpha & Omega” volume in his series “Articulating the Infinite,” which will be displayed through Nov. 14. Rathermel also serves as the executive director of the Minnesota Center for Books.

Left: “Articulating the Infinite” is an ongoing project started on the Lane campus in August 2012. Rathermel says his goal is to express the impossible — infinity.

Artist Jeff Rathermel, a visiting assistant professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., measures the space in the Building 11 main art gallery. “As a whole, the project represents the human necessity to contextualize life through mapping, labeling, calculating, justifying, sorting, rationalizing and defining all that is possible,” Rathermel writes in a brochure explaining his installation, “Articulating the Infinite.”

more than we can detect — or label, or hold, or explain.But we know there is more.

— Jeff rathermel

Right: A row of magnifying glasses trains its gaze on pages depicting rows of numbers in Rathermel’s installation, which opened Oct. 21.

ALYSSA LESLIE // PHOTO EDITORPhoto essay by

Above: The “All/Universe” volume is created of screen and ink jet prints on handmade and commercial papers, as well as pamphlet bindings and an archival box, is just one of the many ways Rathermel attempts to express infinity.

Articulating theInfinite

The Torch / 10.24.2013 5NEWS EDITORMohammed Alkhadher

STEPHANIE ORNDORFF // PRODUCTION MANAGERAbove: Lane’s solar-powered car-charging station provides energy for students’ cars as well as the college’s fleet of electric service vehicles.Left: An electric car charges in one of Lot B’s 18 power stations.

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“The students have gotten really good at lobbying. No one is going to do it for us. We figured out how the system works, and we figured out the best ways to represent the power that we have, which is the power in numbers.” —Paul Zito, ASLCC President

According to the list, potential students can “start changing the world house-by-house, business-by-business, community-by-community” at Lane.

“Tons of colleges have environmental science courses and programs,” Ricketts said. “Those on our list stand out not only for unique concentration and scope, but also for going beyond the classroom, turn-ing lessons learned into long-term, life-changing results.”

The College Database did a rigorous search, comb-ing through thousands of post-secondary programs, selecting colleges with both a wide variety of pro-grams and those with one or two that really shine, as is the case with Lane.

“Students enrolled in Lane’s energy management and renewable-energy programs can know that they are attending one of the best schools in the country for training in these areas,” Lane sustainability coordi-nator Jennifer Hayward said.

Although The College Database only recognized the energy management and renewable-energy programs, Lane offers degrees in water conservation, building controls and sustainability coordination.

In 2008, Lane was the recipient of the Environ-mental Protection Agency’s Sustainability Infusion Project.

“The 2008 EPA grant allowed Lane to develop and provided training to instructors across Lane’s curricu-lum in sustainability so that they could incorporate sustainability concepts into their courses,” Hayward said. “Instructors from disciplines such as speech, psychology, health, math and business participated in these trainings.”

More than 90 percent of the 100-plus students polled after the trainings indicated an increased un-derstanding of sustainable practices and have made life changes including recycling and reducing energy consumption.

According to Lane’s website, the college imple-ments numerous sustainable practices throughout its main and downtown campuses: low-flush toilets, motion-detecting lights and energy-efficient architec-ture. The Center Building cafeteria now uses entirely compostable or reusable utensils, plates, cups and to-go containers.

The new downtown building has a green roof, which slows and purifies water that funnels into two 10,000-gallon containers used to flush the toilets in the downtown campus.

“At Lane Community College, you can actually experience the operational side of this too, so when … we put together systems for our staff we also think about how our students are going to interact with that,” Lane energy analyst Anna Scott said. “A great place to visit that is the recycling education center over in Building 10.”

ASLCC President Paul Zito anticipates an increase in the Higher Education Price Index, an inflation index designed specifically to track the main cost drivers in higher education.

“I’m almost positive that that’s going to happen this year,” he said, but he hopes that will be the extent of the increases.

Kelly said the issue at hand is the federal and state govern-ments’ disinvestment in community colleges.

Zito agreed. “We have been kind of left

out of that picture for a while, especially with the amount the K-12 has been given,” Zito said. “The dialogue usually ends up, ‘K-12 is done through public funds, and you all have another benefactor,’ and that is students.”

Zito said a threshold has been reached beyond which students cannot afford further tuition increases.

“It becomes apparent that we can’t afford any more,” Zito said. “To finally get that through their heads is a cool moment.”

Kelly said community colleges are being funded at levels significantly lower than they were five or seven years ago.

“We’re in Salem a lot. We’re talking to legislators all the time,” Kelly said. “We’re trying to make our case.”

Zito and the ASLCC have been lobbying in Salem to raise awareness of the needs of Oregon’s community college students.

“The students have gotten really good at lobbying. No one is going to do it for us,” Zito said.

“We figured out how the system works, and we figured out the best ways to represent the power that we have, which is the power in numbers.”

Lane Director of Governmen-tal and Community Relations Brett Rowlett was pessimistic about further increases in the state’s community college budget.

“As far as additional funding from Salem, we’ll have to wait for when the session starts up again in February, but I don’t expect a major change at the state level for community colleges in the budget,” he said.

Kelly and Zito emphasized the importance of students getting involved at the state level to influence decision- makers in Salem.

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Lane soccer team splits matches with Pierce Community College and clark college.

The Pierce Community College Raiders came to Lane on Oct. 16 looking for a victory over the second-ranked Titans.

The Titans defeated the Raiders in a 2-0 game, advancing the Titans’ record to 7-3-1 even though Lane trails behind top-ranked Clackamas.

“This is our sixth straight shutout so we are pretty happy about that,” Titans coach Dave Ellis said.

The game started and before the crowd could get settled, freshman forward Aub-rie Hood scored at the two-minute mark.

The next goal, by freshman forward Karlee Willcox, came in the 45th minute.

“They just packed the middle. It was really hard to play our possession game,” sophomore defensive midfielder Caitlin Castillo said.

Castillo added that they played more balls over the top of the defense and let the forwards and the wingers (wide midfielders) get up at the ball.

Freshman midfielder Emily Walker kept her teammates in the game by reminding them of their match against Clackamas.

Walker told the team that they needed to play exactly how they played against Clackamas, while keeping the intensity up and always moving.

After the 11-0 win against Rogue,

coach Ellis didn’t have to tamp down expectations heading into the game against Pierce.

“I think it was more of a (reminder) that they are going out to take the win and be intense,” Ellis said.

Lane vs. clark, round 2The Lane Titans lost, 0-1, to the Clark

College Penguins in their second meeting on Oct. 19. The Titans and the Penguins now share a record of 7-4-1 as they head into the playoffs.

The Titans are ranked slightly above the Penguins as Lane has two more shutout games this season.

“When we go to Clark, it’s a bar brawl where a soccer game breaks out,” Titans coach Dave Ellis said.

Ellis adds that Clark’s uneven field didn’t allow them to pass out of trouble as much as they liked.

Clark’s only goal came at the 86th min-ute from a shot 45 yards away.

“We literally just missed scoring by inches and (a Clark player) ripped a shot from 45 yards. I don’t think she could do it again if she took that shot 100 times, but that’s the game we play,” Ellis said.

Ellis said there was an urgency to score because it is the same thing as a loss and winning was the only goal they had.

“(Clark) turned the game to their advantage. They made it about effort and physicality and 50/50 balls,” Ellis said, referring to the moment when two op-posing players approach the ball.

“They beat us on 50/50 balls,” he said.

Titans fighting for playoff lives

KEONI CONLU // REPORTER

ALYSSA LESLIE // PHOTO EDITOR

Above: “We had a great game when we played Clackamas a few games ago. We just tried to keep that intensity today,” freshman midfielder Emily Walker, pictured, said after the Titans beat Pierce. Right: Freshman midfielder Vanessa Verboot prepares to take a free kick for the Titans during their 2-0 home victory over Pierce Community College on Oct 16.

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Third-year business administration major Jemiel Lowery, was an All-American sprinter for the Titans track team last spring and is now taking on his biggest challenge yet — starting his own business.

Lowery is the vice president and co-founder of Collegiate Design, an apparel company he hopes will do more than just turn a profit.

“The ultimate goal for the company is to give back to college students. We want to make enough money to the point where we can give back scholarships and provide jobs for students,” Lowery said.

Because Lowery is now committing himself to running Collegiate Design, he has chosen to give up his second passion, track and field.

“I just want to pursue this and put my heart and soul into it. I basically gave up running track to start this company,” he said. “It was incredibly hard to give it up because track is the one thing that I love to do. It was my one love, other than

art.” Lowery ends his track career as one of the most decorated sprinters in school history.

He was the 2013 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges champion in the 100- meter dash and finished third in the 200-meter dash.

Lowery also ran legs for the Titans’ 100-meter and 400-meter relay teams, helping both teams place second at the NWAACC champion-ships.

Titans track and field head coach Grady O’Connor said Lowery holds the third-fastest 100-meter time in Lane’s history.

“The last two years he was definitely a team captain, somebody that the athletes looked up to. He led by example,” O’Connor said. “As an athlete, he was one of the best sprinters we’ve had here at Lane.”

Although Lowery likely could have continued running at a four-year university, O’Connor is glad to see him continuing his education at Lane.

“I’m very excited for him

because he’s found passion for

school and his business,” O’Connor

said. “The fact that he doesn’t have eligibility

left for us but he’s still pur-suing his academic goals is

really important to (the Titans coaching staff).” With his track

career behind him, Lowery is now focused solely on school and build-ing his company.

He realizes that his time at Lane can provide him with much more than just a transfer degree and a handful of track medals.

“A lot of people go to school just to get a degree. I don’t even need a degree for Collegiate Design,” Lowery said. “I’m still going to school because I want to actually learn how to run a business.”

Lowery founded the company in March 2006 along with President Daniel Taniguchi, who also serves as chief executive officer, and Chief Financial Officer Sam Scheifly.

Lowery said they hatched the company when the three were gathered in Taniguchi’s Skybox apartment last fall and found themselves complaining about how difficult it is for students to afford clothing.

“Students have other things to worry about, like books and tuition. They shouldn’t have to worry about affordable clothing. So we were just like, ‘OK, let’s come up with a clothing company for college

students,’” Lowery said.Taniguchi said they are striving to

find innovative ways to market Collegiate Design.

“Our biggest difference (from other companies) is that we focus heavily on the students that we help instead of focusing on the products that we’re selling,” Taniguchi said. “We want to constantly display how our company is affecting students in Eugene and, in the future, the entire nation.”

Personally delivering clothing directly to the doors of students who order online is just one idea that Lowery believes will help Collegiate Design create a personal connection with students.

“We believe in applying a social aspect to a clothing company. A lot of companies create designs and they think they know what everybody wants,” Lowery said. “We want to actually talk to college students and ask them what they like.”

“I just want to pursue this and put my heart and soul into it. I basically gave up running track to start this company,”

Former Titans athlete Jemiel Lowery, pictured above, said.

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EDITOR-IN-ChIEfMissy Corr

Lane Symphonic Band and Lane Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Paul Drueger, will hold its first annual music gala.

fIRSt annUal mUSIC Gala

when: Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.where: Ragozzino Hall, Building 6cost: $5 general admission, $3 students and seniors 55 and oldercontact: John Watson at watsonj@lanecc.edu or (541)463-5161

hAPPENINGS AROUND EUGENE

The Titan store will hold a Halloween costume contest and Dead Book Sale, with winners in each category receiving either a GoPro camera, Amazon Kindle or Coolpix camera.

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CHAR HOUWELING // DESIGN EDITOR

GET INVOLVED

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OPPORTUNITIES

The American Cancer Society Cancer Resource Center is a hospital-based program provided by trained volunteers. Volunteers support patients by linking them to American Cancer Society programs that provide rides to treatment, peer support, assistance finding free or reduced-rate housing, and more. Training will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the American Cancer Society Eugene office, 2350 Oakmont Way, Suite 200.

Contact: Shannon Taggart at (541)740-5165 or visit www.cancer.org/involved

The Science Factory is looking for people to help with Tot Discovery Day, held the first Friday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will participate in hands-on art and science activities with preschoolers and their parents. No prior scientific knowledge is necessary. Training will be provided.

When: Oct. 4, 2013, to June 6, 2014Where: The Science Factory, 2300 Leo Harris Parkway, EugeneContact: (541)682-7892,

volunteers@sciencefactory.org or visit www.sciencefactory.org

Youth for Understanding is looking for volunteer families to host exchange students. Share family traditions and help introduce an exchange student to American culture. A YFU host family can help one of the 2,000 international students traveling here this summer from 60 countries.

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SeekS volunteerShoSt an

exchange Student

Contact: www.yfu-usa.org

Lane Public Saferywill accept unwanted human and animal medication during the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day collection. Public Safety will not accept illegal drugs.

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The Lane Women’s Center will host a Halloween Open House, offering hot spiced cider and treats to gals, guys, ghouls and goblins alike.

HallOween Open HOUSe

when: Oct. 31, 11 a.m. t0 2 p.m.where: Main Campus, Building 1, Room 202contact: Women’s Center at (541) 463-5353

when: Oct. 31, between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.where: The Titan Store, Center Building, third floorcontact: Ava Nelson at (541) 463-5716

when: Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.where: Main Campus, outside Building 19cost: Freecontact: Public Safety at (541)463-5558