Memorial Union Retail Food Service (MURFS) operates 8 food venue on campus:

Java Stop

Bites

Buenos Burritos

Pangea Cafe

Java II in the Valley Library

e.Cafe in Kelley Engineering Center

Ava’s Cafe in Linus Pauling

Dixon Cafe in Dixon Recreation Center

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MURFS

Java Stop

Bites

Buenos Burritos

Pangea Cafe

Java II

e.Cafe

Ava’s Cafe

Dixon Cafe

 

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The Oregon State University Memorial Union was recognized by The Arc of Benton County as an honored employer.  The Arc honors the businesses who hire local people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), who work with vocational agencies to ensure the success of each new hire and who take the extra steps to be an employer who is committed to our community.

The Arc of Benton County advocates and provides services, as needed, to enhance the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The Arc of Benton County was founded in 1958 by family members and concerned citizens to advocate for people with intellectual developmental disabilities. It is a member-based corporation affiliated with The Arc of the United States. Through the creation of education, employment, housing and recreation opportunities, The Arc of Benton County helps those with I/DD to achieve their life goals. Link: www.arcbenton.org

For 10 years, the Memorial Union has hired Arc members who work with our building services team in supporting the maintenance of this 85 year historic landmark. The program not only provides a needed service to the building, it also provides a diverse work experience for the Memorial Union staff and the Arc members.   Multicultural organizations have employees from different backgrounds working together. The Memorial Union works to embrace differences as assets.

Since 2005, student leaders ASOSU and the Memorial Union have been working to create additional space for student support programs that meet the needs of the 21^st century.  The plan they developed is to create a new student building next to the Memorial Union with a covered plaza between the two.  In 2010 the OSU student body pasted a campus wide referendum to fund the new building.  Since that time the project has been making its way through state and local approval boards.  The last in this line of approvals was the Corvallis Historic Review Commission (HRC).

Good news for both the Student Experience Center (SEC) proposal and the Plaza last night at the Corvallis Historic Resources Commission hearing.  Both projects passed unanimously, even though it took four hours of hearing to get to the final decision.  Next up, the MU East Wing, as well as the Asian Pacific Cultural Center will go before the HRC on January 8^th.

The OSU students and one community member who testified did in incredible job and were very well prepared.  Thank you to one and all who played a role in getting this final stage of approval through.   Thanks also to the standing room only crowd who came out to support the students in their testimony and hear the action of the Commission first hand.  Early work inside the MU begins Spring Break followed by a groundbreaking ceremony in May for the SEC and parking lot removal and excavation the Monday after graduation in June.

OPSIS SEC Presentation: 2012-1217 OSU SEC HRC-Final-edits

OPSIS Canopy Presentation: 2012-1217 OSU Canopy HRC-Final-edits

Student Support Presentation: HRC support

Michael Henthorne, Director

Upon completing the inaugural selection process for the Memorial Union President, the Memorial Union Advisory Board Selection Committee has named Michael Ryan Fashana as the 2012-13 Memorial Union President. Michael is a Senior majoring in Speech Communication with a minor in New Media Communications. Throughout his tenure at OSU, Michael has been an active member of the Greek community, has increased visibility of student programs on campus through social media outlets for the Student Events and Activities Center, and has most recently helped to plan components of the 2012 Pride Week.  

The primary role of the Memorial Union President is to serve the student body by ensuring student focus in the programs, policies and operation of the Memorial Union organization (Student Leadership & Involvement, Student Media, and the MU Facilities and Services). This will be fulfilled by serving on various university committees, the MU Leadership Team, acting as Chairperson of the MU Advisory Board, and working directly with the students of all of the MU Organization departments. The position is focused on three primary areas: leadership, community, and representation.

In order to obtain the position, candidates must complete a round of interviews with the 8-person selection committee, present at an open forum, and meet the required and preferred qualifications outlined in the position description. 

About: The Memorial Union organization is about building community. We believe that community contributes fundamentally to the quality of life of individuals and campus society. The Memorial Union is an integration of three main units and goes about creating community in different ways: Facilities and Services through physical space and food options, Student Leadership & Involvement through Events and Programs and Student Media through student run publications.

Here is a link to the Daily Barometer story about the new Memorial Union President.

MU Bylaws changes to the Memorial Union President & Vice President elections:

In the 2010-11 academic year, the Memorial Union Leadership Team and Advisory Board restructured the roles of MU elected student leadership, MU President and Vice President, providing a more focused opportunity for student leadership within the organization in future years. Previously both of these elected and paid positions shared responsibility on serving committees and leading programming for MUPC which created some duplication of effort, confusion in roles and opportunity for limited influence in the MU organization.

Due to these changes, roles were redefined in 2011/12 to have the Memorial Union President serve the student body by ensuring student focus in the programs, policies and operation of the Memorial Union organization (Student Leadership & Involvement, Student Media and the MU Facilities and Services), serving on various university committees, the MU Leadership Team, Chair of the MU Advisory Board, and working directly with the students of all of the MU Organizations departments.

Respectively, the MU Vice President is totally focused on the MUPC program and its activities. Acting in the role of Director, this individual monitors the MUPC budget, does program assessment and supports student staffing.

In order to build upon these changes and move the best interest of the students and the Memorial Union Organization forward, the MU Advisory Board intends to amend its bylaws to reflect the following:

• The role of the Memorial Union President position will be moved out of the ASOSU General Elections process and will be vetted through a selection process that will be similar to other campus-wide hiring processes and will involve members of the Memorial Union Organization and OSU community.

• The role of the Memorial Union Vice President will be transitioned into a role as the Director of the Memorial Union Program Council (MUPC) and will be selected through a hiring process determined by MUPC.

These changes are intended to ensure that the Memorial Union Organization is continuing to be fiscally responsible with the student-fee dollars allocated to these positions and to provide more opportunity to students to lead in these student leadership positions With these changes, the Memorial Union Advisory Board hopes that we will be able to set our student leaders up for success by selecting students that possess the foundational skills and knowledge needed to effectively lead in these positions.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about these changes, please contact Ashley Barnes, MU President, at mupresident@oregonstate.edu prior to 2pm on Friday, February 17^th.

 

Over the last three years, Oregon State University has developed it strategic plan for the university’s future.  The multi-page document lays out plans and goals for how OSU will contribute to the advancement of society.  The strategic plan has been simplified into the three healthies: Healthy People, Healthy Economy and Healthy Planet.  At the Memorial Union, we have lived these goals for years. 

The foundation of the student union was to provide a place for students to build community, unwind and have fun.  All of which add to a healthier person.  The union also has worked to provide good food to nourish students while on campus.  The Memorial Union Retail Food Services unit (MURFS) provides vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options at most of its locations.  The Daily Barometer had a nice article last week on one of the MURFS locations: “Pangea Offers Healthier, More Accessible Options”.

The Memorial Union employs over 300 students between its three divisions, Student Leadership and Involvement, Student Media and the Union.  This not only provides for a healthier economy for the students employed, but also provides valuable out of the classroom experience for students to put into practice what they have leaned.  It could be writing experience at the Barometer, restaurant management at MURFS, solving engineering problems with MU Building Services or marketing and graphic design practice with student lead programs.  All the units at the Memorial Union have leaning outcomes for their student employees.  Past students have indicated that their work experience at the MU gave them advantage in getting a position after graduation and made the transition from student to full time employee much easier.

The MU Building Services unit has been on forefront of “living green” on the OSU campus providing for a healthy planet.  The Memorial Union was the first department on campus to switch to completely environmentally friendly cleaning supplies 10 years ago.  Every year they are auditing energy use and continue to find ways to reduce energy costs.  The MU building has traditional had the lowest percent of increase in energy use on campus each year.  Over the last six years, inflation has gone up 13%; tuition has gone up 33% but student fees, which are used to run the Memorial Union has dropped by 3%.

At the OSU Memorial Union we are doing our part to live the University’s strategic plan.