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Dear Students

Are you looking for a different course experience--international flavor with a field component all in the pandemic era when we can't meet in person or travel abroad? Well, together with 3 other professors, I've been thinking about and working on the same idea!

The attached flyer describes a 3-credit course to be offered this spring: Coasts Compared: Aruba & Oregon (ENSC 299). The course is open to both e-campus and on campus students.

The two-institution international course will focus on the coasts of Aruba (small Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela that is politically part of the Netherlands) and Oregon. It will include a limited number of students (maximum 20 total) from Oregon State University and the University of Aruba. Only 6 slots are allocated to Sociology students.

Speakers from OSU and Aruba will deliver lectures via Zoom. There will be lab-type assignments that bring together students from the two universities. While there are no enforced prerequisites, high school knowledge of biology and good communication skills will be assumed.

I recommend this course for students with an interest in Sociology, Environmental Sociology, geography, and understanding human-nature relations in different settings.

With only 6 slots allocated to Sociology, if you are interested be sure to make a timely decision. This is a first time run for the course. Future offerings may be held in the field in Aruba.

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact me.

Sincerely,

Dwaine Plaza
Professor of Sociology
Oregon State University

Members of the OSU Community,

Like you, I watched with horror the outrageous and violent attack yesterday on our nation’s capitol building. This attack assailed not only our elected leaders but the Constitutional values and processes that guide our country each day and the peaceful transition of governmental power prescribed by law.

I condemn such violence, hatred and actions against what America stands for.

I am thankful that democracy and the U.S. Constitution stood resolute against this attempted coup and that a joint session of Congress overnight was able to complete counting the electoral votes and certifying the election of our next president and vice president.

Yesterday’s attack should have never happened. Our current president could have kept such an offense from occurring, but instead chose to incite violence by sharing continued lies, misinformation and fomenting hatefulness. In turn, we witnessed not only an insurrection, but what appeared to be underprepared U.S. Capitol law enforcement seemingly responding yesterday with inexplicable leniency to violent rioters attacking the capitol in contrast to an aggressive police response during recent largely peaceful Black Lives Matters protests in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. last summer. Was this an example of leniency involving radical white anarchists? We do not know yet. I do know what took place yesterday needs to be thoroughly investigated and those rioters intent on destroying our democracy should face justice.

We are better as a country and as Americans than what we transpired yesterday. We must never again see such an assault on our nation and its long-held values of freedom, equality and democracy for all.

Looking ahead, I ask that each of us take note of the leadership oratory that U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah offered last night within the U.S. Senate: “The best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth.”

Each of us within Oregon State University has a role and responsibility in communicating and advancing the truth.

We must do so in our roles as educators, students and staff through our teaching, learning, engagement and research. And by engaging in peaceful and civil discussion and discourse, mutual respect, advocacy, and even disagreement — within our campuses and in the communities where the university operates and serves. As the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated, “the real safeguard of democracy is education.”

I ask that we each act within the principles of democracy and together build agreement and work to advance truth and our shared values.

Let us not forget — but learn from and never repeat — what occurred yesterday. Together, I believe, we will advance the promise of democracy and equality for our great nation.

Sincerely,

F. King Alexander
President

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