Fin, the giant fiberglass salmon, lolled in Wilder Bowl after a month-long cross-country trip.
			OPIRG Works to Save the Snake River Salmon By Sue Kropp
	OPIRG members Jennifer Poore, Jeremy Van Cleve, Len Montgomery, and Winston Vaughn volunteered to help raise campus awareness about the Snake River salmon.		SEPTEMBER 29, 1999--A strange sight greeted students walking through Wilder Bowl Monday--Fin, a 26-foot-long, 13-foot-high fiberglass salmon. The Oberlin College campus marked the last stop on Fin's month-long cross-country trip to raise awareness about endangered Snake River salmon. The campus chapter of the Ohio Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) and the Washington-based Save the Salmon Coalition organized Fin's visit. OPIRG members Jennifer Poore, a first-year student from Rochester, New York; Len Montgomery, a junior from Somerville, New Jersey; Jeremy Van Cleve, a first-year student from Santa Fe; and Winston Vaughn, a first-year student from Los Angeles, joined the coalition in Wilder Bowl, where they passed out information and urged students to sign postcards to support the efforts of the coalition. "If we don't do something about the salmon now," says Margaux Shields, a senior from Buffalo, "they will be extinct by 2017." OPIRG brought the coalition to campus as part of its endangered-species campaign. The campaign coincides with OPIRG's yearlong involvement in the Earth Day 2000 campaign, organized by PIRG groups across the United States to recognize the 30th anniversary of Earth Day.
			Students talk with OPIRG members and marvel at Fin.
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