SOU International Show 2011
Tonight was SOU’s annual International Show put on by the Southern Oregon University International Student Association. I’ll have some more photos (and videos) in the coming days.
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SOU softball
Yesterday we had beautiful weather so I headed out to the SOU softball field to check out a game and test out my new camera. Several years ago I took pictures at an SOU softball game and there were no problems in terms of field access (not that you could go on the field or anything like that, but you could go down, 10 feet or so off the foul lines, behind a fence you could take photos over). Things have changed since then; now you can’t get close to the field, and you have to shoot through fencing. Needless to say, you can’t get very good shots with those restrictions in place. My Nikon D7000 was able to focus on the players through the fence, but the images through metal wires are never going to be spectacular. I hope they make things more photographer friendly again.
Phil Zuckerman
I love living in a college town. I’ve mentioned speakers at SOU before. Tonight I went to a really, really good one. Phil Zuckerman spoke about religion in Denmark and Sweden. I’ll be back in Denmark this summer so as a former religionist, and someone who finds the nearly complete lack of religion in Scandinavian countries (and Japan), where the quality of life and happiness of the populations is superior to the far more religious countries, I find this topic to be very interesting.
On top of that, Zuckerman is a very animated and enjoyable speaker to listen to. If he can write as well as he speaks his books must be good. I’m going to check out his most recent work, Society Without God. He mentioned this evening that his next book is on apostates. Too bad we didn’t meet before tonight or I could have been in his next book.
Anyway, you don’t want to miss Zuckerman if he comes to your town. Here is a small taste:
Fog freeze
Several times, since moving to Ashland more than 10 years ago, we have experienced a “fog freeze” where it will get foggy and then the temperature drops to below freezing. The plants and trees turn white until the temperature rises above freezing when the frozen fog that has clung to them melts.
This year the fog freeze has happened at least twice already, including today. Sometimes, if you are lucky, the fog will lift to reveal blue skies. The fog freeze usually melts very soon once blue skies appear so you have to be quick to catch the beauty of the white trees with blue sky background.
I took this photo out the window of my office on the SOU campus.
I’m not sure if this is Rime Frost or Hoar Frost. Does anyone know the difference?
Snow at SOU
There was no school today, not because it snowed but because the campus is closed this week for Thanksgiving. I went in anyway. Nobody was there. No footprints in the snow on a college campus is an unusual sight. So peaceful…
Today’s photo is from the same basic location (with camera pointed a bit more to the right today) as this prior picture. I was on the steps of Central Hall.
SOU Volleyball headed to NAIA Volleyball National Championship
The 2010 Southern Oregon University Women’s Volleyball team continued their dominance this past Saturday night, defeating Holy Names University at home in Ashland in straight sets to open the first round of the NAIA Volleyball National Championship. Next they go to Iowa to take the next steps in order to go all the way this year.
All-American setter Lindsey Stone is doing her thing in this picture.
SOU in fall
There is nothing like walking around campus early on a crisp, autumn morning.
Southern Oregon University Women’s Volleyball
SOU’s volleyball team rolled to another victory Friday night. The win over Concordia University (from Portland, Oregon) pushed them to 11-1 in conference play (12-1 after winning on Saturday night too). While fun to watch, it wasn’t very exciting as the Concordia team didn’t seem to have much of a chance.
Lawrence M. Krauss speaks at SOU
Yesterday I went to SOU’s weekly Friday Science Seminar for the first time in a few years. Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss did not disappoint the huge crowd. Speaking of the crowd, he spoke the night before too. Everyone that heard him the night before who didn’t have to work on Friday came to hear him again which meant that every seat was taken long before he started. The aisles filled with people and he invited those out in the hall trying hear to come sit down around his feet. The audience was breaking every piece of the fire code I’m sure. No one could have left if they wanted to. Luckily, no one wanted to.
Krauss is funny and he gets the audience to think. Don’t miss him if you ever have the chance to hear him speak. He is sort of Richard Feynman‘s replacement. He left us with the “inspiring” messages that “the future is miserable” and “you are not as special as you think you are,” but yet we all left with a smile on our face and new thoughts racing through our heads.
Same view, different season
The leaves are changing colors around the SOU campus. Here is the same, basic view in a much different season.