Oregon State Hospital Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and writer Kay Folger Jacobs were commissioned by "The Pennsylvania Gazette" to do a story on the hospital. Mark and Folger spent over a month living in a security ward amongst female patients, chronicled in "Ward 81," a collection of photographs published by Mark. Research resources Photographs Oregon State Hospital Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem. Founded in 1862 and constructed in the Kirkbride Plan design in 1883, it is the oldest operating
History of Oregon State Beavers football 4-1 start earned the Beavers a #17 ranking. Oregon State defeated #8 Syracuse 31-13 in Portland, Oregon, paying back the Orangemen for a 31-8 victory the year before in New York. The following two weeks, Oregon State beat Washington State and Indiana by double digits. The wins propelled the Beavers to #8, but the next Saturday, Stanford beat Oregon State in California, 16-7. The final scheduled game was the Civil War. #10 Oregon was 7-1-1, a win away from their best season in more than three decades. Oregon State, on the other hand, was a win away from a conference