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The 4 Feature Wednesday, April 26, 2006 ClackamasPj Who is Linus Pauling anyway Pauling Center’s name- sake was a Portland- bred scientist of rare caliber and vision • • • and why is there a building named after him appointed a Teaching Fellow in Chemistry. He was awarded his Ph.D in chemistry with minors in physics and math ematics, in 1925. Pauling is generally recog ■ Tayo Stalnaker nized as one of the two great I The Clackamas Print est scientists of the 20th cen tury. His major achievements Many students at Clackamas in science include the concept Community College are famil of molecular disease and the iar with the Pauling Center, origin of sickle-cell anemia, yet most don’t know the story the concepts of hybridisa of who it’s named after. tion and resonance Linus Carl to explain cova Pauling was a lent bonding and world renowned, his studies on the “Science is Nobel Prize win chemical bonds and the search ning scientist, structure of pro political activ teins. It was this for the ist and cham last achievment that truth, the pion of alterna led to him being tive medicine given the Nobel effort to from Portland, Chemistry Prize of understand Oregon. He 1954. the world.” was, and still is, In 1963 Pauling the only person was given one of to receive two the most presti unshared Nobel gious awards in the Linus Pauling world, the Nobel Prizes. Scientist Pauling was Peace Prize. During born on Feb. the late 1950s and early 1960s Pauling 28, 1901 in spoke out against Portland. In atmospheric nucle 1917 he enrolled in Oregon State College (now ar testing. He used scientific Oregon State University) and data and statistics to show graduated in 1922 with a B.S. how radioactive fallout would in chemical engineering. From increase cancer, genetic disor 1919 to 1920, while he was ders and birth defects. His 1958 still going to college, he taught book “No More ^Var!” gave quantitative analysis courses public attention to the large as a full-time teacher at the amounts of nuclear weaponry State College. being made and the prepara From 1922 to 1925 Pauling tions for thermonuclear war. was a graduate student at At the height of the Cold the California Institute of War he circulated a world Technology, where he was wide petition against atmo spheric nuclear testing and the unnecessary buildup of nukes. The petition came out in 1958 and was signed by more than 11,000 scientists. Pauling’s six-year long anti-testing campaign proved successful on Oct. 10, 1963 when the Limited Test Ban Treaty went into effect. This was the same day that it was announced Pauling would be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the com mittee members in Norway said that the treaty probably wouldn’t have gone through if it wasn’t for Pauling’s unre lenting protests. After winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Pauling contin ued his anti-war efforts by speaking out against U.S. mili tary action 'in Vietnam, U.S. interference in Latin American nations, and the U.S. waging war in the Persian Gulf instead of using sanctions and nego tiation. When Pauling retired to the status of Professor Emeritus at Stanford in 1973 he co-found- ed the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (LPI). LPI is a non-profit biomedical research organization that was established to research and provide education in orthomo lecular medicine. The assets of this institute were used to cre ate the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU in 1996, which pri marily investigates alternative medicine. On Aug. 19, 1994 Linus Pauling died at the age of 93 at his ranch near Big Sur on the California coast. Pauling Baseball coach sets kids on fire dents is a quality that Instructor Robby Robinson possesses. Elizabeth Hitz Robinson has worked The Clackamas Print for Clackamas as a Physical Education instructor and The ancient Greek priest Baseball coach for over 16 Plutarch once said, “The mind years. is not a vessel to be filled, but , “I love it at Clackamas,” Robinson said. “It has a good a fire to be ignited.” Igniting fires within his stu family feeling. I’ve been offered other opportunities, but ... I’ve got a great teaching job [here].” Before teaching at Clackamas, Robinson coached base ball at North Salem High School for five years, followed by another five years at Oregon City High School, where he taught health and coached baseball and football. “We stole Robby from Oregon City High School,” said Jim Jackson, direc tor of health, physical educa tion and athlet ics. “He does a little of every thing in our department, Lara Hedbor Clackamas Print ROBINSON he’s well skilled . . . [and] has such a great personality.” He’s armed with a Master’s in Physical Education and Health from Lewis and Clark, and teaches classes ranging from weight training and karate to swing dancing and baseball. Like any good swing teacher should, Robinson enjoys blues, live'music and Fleetwood Mac. He also enjoys spending time with his grandson, who has just turned three and likes Spiderman Band-Aids. According to Robinson, the best sports player in the world was Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson, “and not because of the last name, but because he challenged the world.” His students say they are motivated by his innovative and active teaching style, which, coupled with his wry humor, creates an environment that has his students coming back again and again. “People tend not to put up roadblocks around him,” said Jackson. “People repeatedly sign up for his classes because they like the subject matter. But more importantly, they like how he teaches.” “Robbie is the best dance teacher I have ever had,” said Clackamas student Kyndra Noelle. “He is so enthusias tic.” Band-Aids aside, Robinson is a flexible and talented teach er who, as student Kevin Ship put it, “Kicks butt!” Photo Courtesy of oregonstJ PAULING lived his life as TT scientist with a major commitment to humanitarianism. He felt that scientists should be involved with politics and society. “It is sometimes said that science has nothing to do with morality,” Pauling said. “This is wrong. Science is the search for the truth, the effort to J stand the world; it involve! rejection of bias, of dognJ revelation, but not the I tion of morality. One wa which scientists work I observing the world, ml note of phenomena, and! lyzing them.” photographer sculptor... THE ARTS AT MARYLHURST ■ B.A. IN ART ■ B.F.A. IN ART Undergraduate information session May 20th, 10-11:30 a.m., Room 200, B.P. 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