Don't credit an 11-0 combined start to the football season at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University for my idea of a campus comparison blogging project.

I launched the idea last June, when

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I found there to be an amazing number of things to visit and enjoy on campus for someone not connected to the university. It was summer, so some of the places were closed, but I did the best I could.

Hey, Ducks and Beavers, look at this list below and send me similar suggestions for what to see on your campuses when I visit this week and next.

And no, we have not forgotten about the University of Washington campus. Oregonian photographer Thomas Boyd recently returned from UW and has many beautiful photos of the Husky campus. I will be putting those up in an online photo gallery and will be visiting the campus down the road to write a story.

Following are the visitor highlights of WSU's campus. I will be putting up a photo gallery of them during this project, when I get time. The college campus project will run on

right up to the UO-OSU football Civil War on Nov. 24.

Here are some things for visitors to see on the WSU campus:

WSU Creamery and home of Cougar Gold Cheese. (No. 1 on the list; got to have priorities.)

and fine art galleries.

Robert P. Wortman Veterinary Anatomy Teaching Museum and

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(animals of the world)

(rocks, minerals, petrified wood)

(insects)

statue

(grizzlies)



Plus these things I did not have time to visit:

Edward R. Murrow's New York CBS office (in College of Communications)

Mycological Herbarium (mushrooms)

Drucker Collection (Oriental art)

Historic Textiles and Costume Collection

Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections

Marion Ownbey Herbarium

Historic Films Collection

Museum of Anthropology

Compton Union Gallery

Nez Perce Music Archive

Smith Soil Monolith Collection

Not bad for a university whose football team has a 2-5 record. This is proof that there are more important things to university life than football.



Here are some links for connecting with the campus blogging project.

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Send me your tips by posting a comment on one of my reports at

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You can also tweet me your tips and photos -- and see what others are suggesting -- using #Ocivilwar on

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