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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2014 • VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 59

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Bustling at Brew Station location THE DAILY BAROMETER

Visible construction work at the corner of Monroe Avenue and 23rd Street, the previous location of the Brew Station, began early this week.

Since the popular coffee and beer shop closed spring 2013, it’s been unknown as to what will become of the property.

William Cohnstaedt, the owner of the property, declined to comment on the property’s future at the request of his tenants.

Cohnstaedt did not release the tenants’ names.

However, Cohnstaedt said the tenants want to wait to reveal the new business for its grand opening. The dates for the opening are still unknown.

Workers on site Wednesday began the process of removing the front lawn in order to pave

over it.

As a result of prepping for concrete work Tuesday, a permit for use of public right-of-way was submitted to the City of Corvallis, according Brie Cassey, transit senior administrative specialist.

The permit requested the lane and bus stop be closed Tuesday.

Though concrete work continued Wednesday, the lane and bus stop reopened.

Cassey said there have been no other permits for use of public right-of-way submissions for that property.

According to the crew working on the property, they are putting in ramps that meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Megan Campbell | THE DAILY BAROMETER The ramps will be accessible Construction on the front lawn of the property at Monroe Avenue and 23rd Street, from the sidewalk. managing@dailybarometer.com

the former Brew Station site, continues Wednesday despite rain.

Holiday shoppers support local n

Local businesses fared well during holiday shopping season, despite bad December weather

By Emma-Kate Schaake THE DAILY BAROMETER

The unexpected winter storm in early December 2013 may have initially halted holiday business, but Corvallis shoppers remained dedicated to supporting local.

Once the snow melted and temperatures rose, Corvallis residents frequented local businesses to check off their gift lists.

“This season in particular really showed how much Corvallis really

appreciates its local businesses,” said Grass Roots Books and Music owner Jack Wolcott. “We were blessed that people were willing to make that effort after we all lost that first week.”

Wolcott is one of the founding members of the Corvallis Independent Business Alliance, a cooperative of local, independently owned businesses that aim to promote the positive impact local shopping has on the community.

Locally owned businesses return 45 percent of every dollar spent back into the community, through employee wages, city taxes and non-profit funding, according to the CIBA website. In See SHOPPING | page 4

App club, start-up company to create shopping app n

Oregon State club joins with Tally to create mobile application in which social media, shopping collide

By Courtney Gehring THE DAILY BAROMETER

Smartphones, loaded with applications that cater to mobile owners’ needs, can be found in the palms of students throughout campus.

Applications are accessed and downloaded at the touch of a finger.

To most students, these applications are simply tools designed to make life easier and more accessible. To others, like the Oregon State University app club, looking at the fundamentals of mobile applications is about more than just convenience.

The OSU app club is led by faculty advisor Dr. Chris Scaffidi and seniors

Chris Vanderschuere, Russell Barnes and Nicole Phelps. The club helps students not only learn about mobile apps but create them as well.

The OSU app club is currently working with Tally, a company that two OSU graduates founded, to create a mobile application where social media and shopping collide.

The Tally application will let users send side-by-side images of clothing to their followers or in a private message to certain friends. Friends or followers of the user can then vote and comment on what clothing article they like best, which creates a poll.

“The app club has been instrumental in helping us finish the iPhone app for our exclusive beta release to a number of OSU sororities,” said Ryan Connolly, CEO and co-founder of Tally.

Tally will launch the beta test with

the sororities later in January.

“The app club is a great way for students to learn about the world of mobile apps,” Connolly said. “I was able to see first-hand how quickly these students can pick up mobile development. I am very impressed with what they were able to design and create in such a short period of time.”

The app club meets every Monday in Kidder classroom 033 from 7-8 p.m. The meeting offers informational lectures, hands-on app building and learning resources.

“Working with Tally has been a great opportunity to see an app go from idea to reality,” said app club president Chris Vanderschuere, who is studying electrical and computer engineering. “Opportunities like the one with Tally are a perfect way to See APP | page 4

Sports medicine center to be constructed n

Plans finalized for on-campus Samaritan Sports Medicine Center, set to finish late 2014

By Warner Strausbaugh THE DAILY BAROMETER

Oregon State University announced Wednesday that plans have been finalized for the on-campus Samaritan Sports Medicine Center.

Construction for the 17,000-squarefoot facility is set to begin early this year, according to an OSU press release, and the building will be located on SW 30th Street across from the Truax Indoor Practice Facility.

“This project will enhance the university’s academic and research mission, particularly in the areas of athletic training and exercise and sports science,” OSU President Ed Ray said in the release.

The facility will be available for the general public. It will provide a location for student internships, training and research, as well as diagnostic and treatment services.

Dr. Doug Aukerman, who is OSU’s senior associate athletic director for sports medicine and the director of sports medicine for Samaritan Health Services, will lead clinic operations.

The university and Samaritan have a long-standing relationship as publicSee CENTER | page 4

Problems paying for higher education n

ASOSU pushes for more affordable means of paying for students’ college education

By Tori Hittner

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Friends and followers can vote and comment on side-by-side images.

If the government paid students to go to college, it would save money, according to Associated Students of Oregon State University President Brett Deedon.

Deedon is certain in his assessment of a problem that increasingly beleaguers our nation: paying for higher education.

“If the government paid for students to go to college, it would actually be spending less money than it would trying to provide for those (student) loans,” Deedon said.

This past year, Deedon and the rest of the ASOSU executive branch team worked with State of Oregon Rep. Julie Parrish, R-West Linn, to find possible solutions for alleviating college stuSee EDUCATION | page 4

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How ironic Oregon State police reported to the Avenue contacted Corvallis police about OSU Beaver Store for a student allegedly a strange object thrown through two of Tuesday, December 31 stealing textbooks. According to logs, the the apartment windows. Officers deter22-year-old male stuffed two textbooks, Heart-stopping action mined it to be a yellow car stand that A woman called in to Benton County eventually landed on the living room “Nutrition and Prevention” and “Control sheriffs just before 4 p.m. to report mul- floor of one of the residences. There are of Juvenile Delinquency,” into his jacket and walked out of the store. Troopers tiple gunshots outside of her house and no suspects in the case. cited him for theft II. that the noise would likely cause her heart to stop. When authorities arrived Sunday, January 5 Monday, January 6 at her house on Monroe, they found Special delivery Bouncing all night three people legally shooting a 12-gauge shotgun. Sheriffs told them to find a safer An Albany resident called Benton Mattress Mania on Circle Boulevard area to shoot.

County sheriffs to look into a hit-and-run was the victim of a break-in Sunday night. property damage case. A man report- Nothing seemed to be damaged or stoWednesday, January 1 ed that his wife ran over his mailbox, len, but Corvallis police observed visible An unexpected object destroying it, and left the scene. He evidence that unlawful entry was made. managing@dailybarometer.com Residents near the 900 block of Garfield also mentioned an offensive note was

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By Sean Bassinger THE DAILY BAROMETER

As part of an annual switch in leadership, Oregon State University’s Faculty Senate President Kevin Gable will transfer his role to current president-elect Dan Edge on Thursday.

Gable, a chemistry professor who has been at OSU since 1988, will continue serving the Faculty Senate as an ex-officio member in place of immediate past-president Kate HunterZaworski once Edge steps in as president.

“I have enjoyed what I have been doing,” Gable said.

OSU’s Faculty Senate primarily handles all matters related to formal faculty and administration interactions. Faculty Senate meetings include matters such as discussions about future curriculum plans, university policies and other college affairs.

The Faculty Senate also has

“I have a lot of respect for (Gable),” Edge said.

Edge has no major concerns about the college’s new institutional governing board and its relation to the Faculty Senate.

However, he said there is an amount of uncertainty among other faculty members. “(The new board) represents a substantial change about how the university is managed,” Edge said. “We just don’t know what it might be like.”

The Oregon University System currently has a facSean Bassinger | THE DAILY BAROMETER ulty representation mechanism Kevin Gable, a chemistry professor at OSU since 1988, ends within the system. Some faculty his term as faculty senate president Thursday. members seem curious about positions created for student discussions involved with OSU’s how it’s going to work with the contribution. Gable urges other recent implementation of an new institutional boards.

Edge said faculty welfare is students to get involved so they institutional governing board. can better help in the process “I think we had a number of among his most primary areas of future curriculum updates. in-depth conversations about of interest. According to Edge, “We are very much looking the pros and cons of either the Faculty Senate is continuing for that student voice in terms decision we might make,” Gable efforts to survey OSU faculty of developing policies and pro- said. “There was a lot of faculty in regards to compensation, cedures for the things we have input in terms of how we felt research assistance and overall respect levels in the workplace. about it.” control over,” Gable said.

Though he’ll face many chal“I think there will be some Looking back on accomlenges in the future, Edge said faculty welfare (matters) we can plishments and discussions he is excited and obliged to work on,” Edge said. throughout the year, Gable succeed Gable.

The surveys and data should said one of the Faculty Senate’s “It’s sort of like drinking from be available for evaluation early greatest achievements included a fire hose,” Edge said. “There’s spring. a lot going on.”

Sean Bassinger Gable and Edge have worked Higher education reporter together at other administrative meetings throughout the years. managing@dailybarometer.com

House talks budgets, upcoming business n

Representatives prepare for budget hearings, present new business

By Tori Hittner

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The Associated Students of Oregon State University have more at stake during budget season than simply their own funding.

Speaker of the House Thomas Bancroft reminded representatives of the important power and responsibility the ASOSU legislative branch holds at the House meeting Wednesday night.

The Student and Incidental Fees Committee hears proposed budgets from every student-fee-funded organization during winter term. Although the SIFC may deny a budget, the ASOSU legislative branch has the power to overturn the ruling and ultimately approve the budget in question.

“We, as the student voice … could overrule that decision and the money would come from the contingency fund,” Bancroft said.

Should such a scenario arise, an overturned decision would require an official vote within the ASOSU House of Representatives.

Rep. Russell Zillgitt agreed to act as a liaison for the SIFC. Additionally, representatives discussed potential new business for the coming weeks.

Representatives and the Faculty Senate teamed up to create a resolution asking the university to recognize Veterans Day as an official holiday. The draft is expected to be given a first reading next week.

Representatives also brought up concerns from the student body, such as those of the Student Diabetes Association, which requested disposal containers for hazardous waste be placed in convenient locations across campus. The disparity in quality of veteran health services sparked discussion, as well.

Bancroft introduced a variety of other potential new pieces of business, including asking for more bike racks at the International Living-Learning Center, discussing the Dixon DREAM Project and implementing an instant runoff voting system.

The House is scheduled to meet againWednesday at 7 p.m. in Memorial 211.

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Russian plays premiere this weekend n

Corvallis Russian Troupe puts on 2 Russian performances for Corvallis’ Russian community

By Brooklyn Di Raffaele THE DAILY BAROMETER

The Corvallis Russian Troupe is staging two, one-act plays this weekend in the Withycombe Lab Theatre.

Vreneli Farber, director and professor emeritus, has been with the troupe through its entirety of 19 years.

“The people who are involved with the plays are OSU students and staff who speak Russian, and native speakers of Russian,” Farber said.

Farber started the Russian Troupe by doing skits with her Russian students in class and had the idea that the Russian community in Corvallis might want to see a production written by Russians.

“Woman of My Dreams” and “Lucky Number” are the two contemporary plays written by Sergei Belov that the troupe will perform.

Both plays will be performed completely in Russian. The plays are accompanied with a synopsis written in English; these will be handed out at the door.

“Woman of My Dreams” is a story based on a love triangle in the district capital intertwined with deception and greed. “Lucky Number” is about a wealthy businessman trying to find a wife who is not after his money as he looks for love in the personal ads of the newspaper.

These are the most recent plays the troupe has performed. Usually the plays produced are from the 19th or 20th Century. The troupe has also staged plays that were translated into Russian, expanding their collection of performances.

The troupe has been putting on plays since Russia was known as the Soviet Union and audiences from around Oregon have come to enjoy the show.

“People enjoy coming because of the physicality of the production,” Farber said. “Our productions are like going to the opera. People can enjoy the play without knowing the language and can roughly follow the story line,” Farber said.

The plays will be performed Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

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Calendar Thursday, Jan. 9 Meetings

Recreational Sports, 1-2pm, Dixon Recreation Center Conference Room.

Board of Recreational Sports meeting.

Budget review.

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Modification of Species - A discussion.

Monday, Jan. 13 Meetings

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 10-11am, MU 211. Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 2-3pm, MU 211. SOL Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Speakers Science Pub Corvallis, 6-8pm, Old World Deli, 341 SW 2nd St. Living with HIV/AIDS: A Medical Success Story. Dr. Sugat Patel, Good Samaritan Infectious Disease Clinic, will discuss trends in HIV/AIDS and how he and his colleagues treat people in the midWillamette Valley.

Events International Students of OSU, 4:306pm, MU Lounge. Coffee Hour. Come enjoy international food, mingle with other OSU and international students and become culturally aware.

Tuesday, Jan. 14 Meetings

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 2-3pm, MU 208. Pride Center Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 3-4pm, MU 208. Black Cultural Center Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Wednesday, Jan. 15 Meetings

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, Noon-1pm MU 206. Etihad Cultural Center Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Events

OSU Socratic Club, 7pm, Gilfillan Auditorium. Where can we find hope in the face of evil? Speakers Gerry Breshears and Michael Patton will discuss and answer questions. Free and open to the public.

Thursday, Jan. 16 Meetings

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Prayer and Healing - A discussion.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 9-10am, MU 213. Diversity Development Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 10-11am, MU 213. Native American Longhouse Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 11am-Noon, MU 213. Women’s Center Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 1-2pm, MU 213. Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Student Diversity Budgeting Board hearing.

Events International Students of OSU, 5pm, International Resource Center in the MU. The Danger of a Single Perspective - Developing Your Global Lens. Interact with international and globally-minded, local students in a roundtable discussion about individual global norms, traditions and differences happening and concerning OSU students.

Saturday, Jan. 18 Events

Center for Civic Engagement, all day, varying locations. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Pre-registration required.

Tuesday, Jan. 21 Meetings

Recreational Sports, Noon-1:30pm, MU 212. 2014-15 Recreational Sports Budget Open Hearing.

Wednesday, Jan. 22 Events

International Students of OSU, 4pm, International Resource Center in the MU. Cultural Heritage. An informative, educational event led by a panel of students and teachers who will answer questions having a cultural background and cultural knowledge.

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In Tuesday’s police beat, it was reported that a 76-year-old man on a bike crashed into a UPS deliveryman, and the deliveryman went to the hospital. The biker dodged the deliveryman and, in the process, crashed. The biker was subsequently taken to Good Samaritan Hospital for minor injuries. managing@dailybarometer.com

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Chang pleads guilty to murder, gets 35 to life eastoregonian.com

PENDLETON — Lukah Probzeb Chang remains almost as much a mystery today as when Pendleton police arrested him in August for the murder of one woman and attempted murder of another. But one thing is certain — he will spend at least 35 years in prison for the crimes.

Chang, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday to stabbing to death Amyjane Brandhagen on Aug. 14, 2012, and to using a metal pipe to try to beat Karen Lange to death Aug. 9, 2013. Umatilla County District Attorney Dan Primus and his office was able to put Chang in prison for 35 years to life. Chang will be 58 before he can ask the Oregon Parole Board for freedom.

Chang, the son of Christian missionaries and a Marine deserter, seemed calm and certain of what he wanted during the plea and sentence hearing Wednesday at the Umatilla County Courthouse, Pendleton.

Umatilla County Circuit Court Judge Lynn Hampton asked him if the plea was what he wanted, if he was making choices willingly, and if he understood he was giving up his rights to have a jury decide his fate.

Each time Chang answered in the affirmative.

Hampton sentenced Chang to 25 years for Brandhagen’s murder, the maximum under Oregon law. And she sentenced him to 10 years for the attempted murder of Lange, which was more than the state’s presumptive sentence for the crime. The sentences run consecutively.

Chang will have to wait 35 years before he can apply for parole, the judge said. “I don’t have to apply?� he asked.

The judge and defense attorney L. Kent Fisher told Chang no, he does not.

But if he does, Primus said he plans to be there when the parole board considers Chang’s application. Primus after the hearing promised he would explain to the board what Chang did to Brandhagen and why he should never be out of prison. “He is obviously a very dangerous individual,� the district attorney said.

Primus explained he wanted to charge Chang with aggravated murder, the only crime

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Lukah Chang is led into the courtroom of Umatilla County Circuit Court Judge Lynn Hampton for a plea deal hearing on Wednesday in Pendleton. under Oregon law that carries a true life sentence or the death penalty. But Chang’s murder of 19-year-old Brandhagen did not fit the criteria.

Aggravated murder applies to certain situations, including a killing for money or trying to conceal who committed a crime, and to certain victims, including police officers, corrections officers, a juror or witness in a criminal case, and officers of the courts. Aggravated murder also applies if the defendant committed another felony crime at the same time, or if the murder was in a state prison.

Chang’s crime simply was not aggravated murder, Primus said, no matter how badly he wanted to charge him otherwise. So murder it was, and the 25 years in prison before parole is what the law dictates.

But Primus said he was able to get 10 years for the attempted murder, and that was more than a judge or jury could hand down. Primus got the harsher sentence, he said, because Chang agreed with the plea offer.

Primus said that was the first time in his career a defendant agreed to more prison time than what the state’s sentencing guidelines recommended. “This is the only one,� he said. “I got above what a judge could have ordered if a defendant was found guilty at a trial.�

He also explained he dismissed an assault charge because it applied to a theory of the crime that no longer mattered once Chang agreed to plead guilty to attempted murder. Even if Chang pleaded guilty to assault, the sentence would have run concurrent

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with the attempted murder, so he would not have gotten one day more from that charge.

Primus credited solid police work with putting together a case so tight it compelled Chang to admit his guilt. Pendleton police Chief Stuart Roberts said achieving that was a department-wide effort that detectives led, and it came from diligent work of the Oregon State Police Forensic Services Division, the help of a criminologist and others.

Roberts, detectives, crime lab scientists, several community members and others were in the courtroom to witness Chang’s plea. Roberts said there is a feeling of satisfaction the investigation led to that moment. But, he said, his thoughts go more to the Brandhagen and Lange families. “... I hope there is some form of closure that will occur because of the finality of the plea,� he said.

Primus gave the same sentiment.

Chang did not give any statement during the hearing Wednesday, and he never explained why he murdered one woman and tried to kill another. Roberts said Chang’s attacks seemed impulsive and lacked normal reasoning, and “to some degree� he told detectives why he committed the crimes.

But Roberts said he will not reveal that to the public, in large part because it does not make sense nor improve community safety. “His elaboration as to why

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doesn’t do anymore to essentially answer the question than had he not answered the question,� Roberts said. “We shared that information with the families, and that’s where we’re going to leave it.�

Roberts also said Chang denied having more victims, but he never told police details of what he did after leaving in July 2012 from his home in Oceanside, Calif. Police first thought Chang may have killed his wife and fled, Roberts said, but that was not the case. “To say there is nobody else, I would not go that far,� Roberts said.

His identify, fingerprints and DNA now are in law enforcement databases, though, which was not the case before Pendleton police solved Chang’s crimes. Roberts said the possibility exists for other investigations to get a “hit� on Chang’s information.

Chang served at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., and left his duties July 9, 2012. Capt. Eric Flanagan, spokesman for the Marine Corps, said the Corps allows the “civilian judicial process to conclude before we make any decision on what steps to take. Subsequent adjudication for unauthorized absence or desertion via Articles 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is directed at the discretion of the commander of the unit to which the deserter is assigned.�

Chang also “would owe back to the government any time remaining on his contract from the day he began his unauthorized absence,� Flanagan said.

Two women are about to split $1,000 for the report that led to Chang’s arrest the night of Aug. 28 at the Pendleton Convention Center, where he was hiding out. Danielle Swanson and Sally Dumont saw Chang inside a kitchen there and called 9-1-1.

Hours later, police emerged with Chang in cuffs.

Roberts said an anonymous donor offered a $1,000 reward for information that led to Chang’s arrest or conviction.

The donor gave the money to Roberts, and Thursday afternoon he will hand that to Dumont and Swanson.

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PORTLAND — Threatened budget cuts at Portland State University have soured labor relations between the administration and faculty.

The PSU Faculty Senate unanimously approved a noconfidence resolution earlier this week on the administration’s handling of proposed 2014-15 budget cuts, and called management to release a complete university budget that includes all line items.

The university also has been unable to come to terms on a new labor contract with its largest faculty union, the PSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which represents about 1,250 fulltime faculty. The last contract expired in August 2013 but was extended into December. The union and university scheduled a mediation session Wednesday, and another one Monday if necessary.

The faculty are “up in arms,” says Mary King, president of the AAUP chapter. “They are as close to a strike as I might have seen in my academic career.”

Both issues stem from the university’s looming budget shortfall.

In early November, PSU President Wim Wiewel announced the university faced a $15 million shortfall for the 2014-15 budget year. Managers were subsequently asked to submit potential cut lists for the coming year equaling 8 percent of their spending.

Wiewel subsequently announced a pay freeze for some administrators, a plan to make the football program self-sustaining and unexpectedly high tuition revenue. Those and other cuts reduced the shortfall to $7.5 million, Wiewel announced Dec. 5, though he still is asking managers to submit 8 percent cut lists.

The Faculty Senate resolution says the faculty has a “lack of confidence in the necessity of the PSU Administration’s call for academic units to identify 8 percent of their budgets to target for potential cuts.” The motion passed 48 to 0 vote, with four abstentions, says Bob Liebman, presiding officer of the Senate.

Faculty are concerned that 8 percent budget cuts will require entire programs to be eliminated, including tenure-track faculty positions, King says.

“The faculty is at the point where we are questioning the priorities in the budget and we

SHOPPING n Continued from page 1 contrast, chains and franchises return between 20 and 40 percent of the money spent back to the community.

CIBA has a Buy Local First Campaign that hosts local shopping discount days throughout the year to share the benefits of shopping local.

The Downtown Corvallis Association is another local organization dedicated to the local economy.

The DCA hosts two semiannual wine walks: the Red White and Blues Fourth of July Riverfront Festival and Crazy Days sidewalk sales. All of these events are meant to introduce shoppers to local businesses and keep them coming back for more.

“We want to keep downtown a vibrant place and make it a place people want to visit,” said DCA board member Joan Wessell.

As a long-time business owner, Wolcott said he has seen a shift throughout the years in public attitude and an increased awareness of the positive economic impact that comes from spending in Corvallis. This season, Wolcott heard countless comments from customers about their dedication to supporting local business and their appreciation of the options in Corvallis.

Jolene Monte, store manager at The Inkwell Home Store said she also found her customers rallied after the snowstorm, leaving many shelves

are questioning the case being made for substantial academic cuts,” she says.

Faculty and union members are having a hard time analyzing the university’s budget, King and Liebman say, because they have been denied access to complete line-item budgets.

Scott Gallagher, PSU communications director, says university managers prefer to discuss labor talks at the bargaining table, not in the press. “We won’t talk about the specifics of the negotiations,” Gallagher says.

He blamed the labor strife on PSU’s budget woes. “It’s a time when labor relations are contentious, simply because we have a budget deficit.”

Despite halving the projected shortfall, Wiewel still wants to see 8 percent budget cut ideas, Gallagher says. “It helps us identify efficiencies and making cuts if we still need to.”

He says the university’s complete budget is a public document and faculty are welcome to view it. However, a full line-item budget is not Faculty who want to see lineitem budgets merely need to suggest which department budgets they want to see, and those will be provided, Gallagher says.

happily empty from the holiday rush.

“So many people tell us they are committed to shopping local,” Monte said.

The Inkwell prides itself on creating a pleasant shopping environment. Monte said the store sells merchandise at all different price points, offering a wide range of options to keep customers from searching online or elsewhere.

Corvallis shoppers seem to understand the message and now merchants are doing what they can to show the positive impact those community dollars can have.

One such business dedicated to giving back to the local community is Many Hands Trading.

The business hosts a monthly Day of Sharing to raise funds to support a local nonprofit. On that day, 25 percent of the store’s sales will go to the chosen non-profit. In 2013, the business raised more than $50,000.

“We try to keep most of the money in the community,” said Many Hands Trading store manager Theresa McLaren.

McLaren experienced the ups and downs of the winter weather but found that Corvallis was willing to support locally.

“We had a tough year because of the snowstorm, but people rallied after that,” McLaren said.

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City reporter managing@dailybarometer.com

By Rob Manning

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PORTLAND — The Port of Portland is abandoning efforts — at least for now — to develop property it owns on the west end of Hayden Island.

The Port has wanted to build marine terminals on West Hayden Island for decades. The latest annexation plan would have designated 300 acres for development, and 500 acres for environmental protection.

But in a letter to Mayor Charlie Hales, port leaders say a framework from November 2012 has morphed into a city proposal that’s too expensive.

Port spokeswoman Martha Richmond says environmental mitigations inflated development costs beyond the industry standard of five to seven dollars a square foot.

“We thought that with the unique benefits of the island, we could get about eight-fifty

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Construction costs will be borne by Samaritan, while OSU will provide the land for the facility, according to Steve Clark, OSU vice president and university marketing and relations.

“Some universities get these facilities because someone writes a check for several million dollars; we do business a little different here,” Clark said. “In this case, it’s a partnership … that really provides a world-class facility for our students and I think that is remarkable.”

Samaritan Health Services President and CEO Larry Mullins is strongly committed to OSU and discussed this idea with Ray and Athletic Director Bob De Carolis, Clark said.

“This facility represents a significant enhancement of the services that we can provide for the university community as well as the general public,” Mullins said in the release. “We are also pleased to be able to partner with OSU on addi-

EDUCATION n Continued from page 1 dents’ financial burdens.

“We’re looking at this potential idea for a tax credit for your loans … if you stay in Oregon after school,” Deedon said. “The idea is that that tax credit would then help you pay back student loans because you would be contributing back to the economy here.”

Parrish will attempt to push the potential legislation through in the upcoming short legislative session. Regardless of her success in presenting the bill so quickly, Deedon said just spreading awareness would be beneficial.

Since August 2013, student loan interest rates have been tied to financial markets,

a square foot,” Richmond said.

“But the city’s proposal put the property at nearly 12 dollars a square foot.”

The port’s letter says shelving West Hayden Island will deprive the region of jobs and a supply of industrial land.

The Mayor’s spokesman says the city won’t change the proposal. He says the city will plan for economic development without West Hayden Island.

tional research projects and student educational experiences.”

Samaritan Health Services has hospitals in Corvallis, Lebanon, Albany and Lincoln City.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis is the largest hospital in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties. It has 188 beds, 1,700 employees and 200 volunteers, and it is one of four level II trauma centers in Oregon.

Clark stated there are two vital components to this joint venture.

“The opportunity for student athletes to have immediate access to sports medicine facilities on campus … (and) there’s an opportunity for sports medicine research and students enrolled in academic programs to engage at the facility,” he said.

The Samaritan Sports Medicine Center is scheduled for completion later this year.

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according to the Huffington Post. The bill creating the connection was hastily drafted to prevent interest rates from doubling at the beginning of the 2013 fall term.

Although the bill prevented student loan interest rates from skyrocketing, the potential for extreme inflation remains.

While the Federal Student Aid office lists the current interest rate for undergraduates as 3.4 percent, the ceiling is capped at more than double that amount: 8.25 percent. “(At that point), you’re literally paying a credit card fee with interest rates,” Deedon said.

According to Deedon, the current student loan system greatly favors lending companies like Sallie Mae. “The government loans money out to the companies

at a low interest rate,” Deedon said. “The companies then loan that money out and get essentially all of the interest rate money back.”

Several ASOSU executive branch members plan on lobbying for more economical higher education in Washington, D.C., come May. Until then, the organization will continue to work with Parrish and other state student governments to fight for student interests on a local level.

“It’s just funny how the politics play out today and how all sides try to pull things to (their) angle,” Deedon said. “It seems so hard to try to find a general compromise … but it really shouldn’t be.”

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Student government reporter managing@dailybarometer.com

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Sports

Inside sports: 2014 football schedule announced page 6 sports@dailybarometer.com • On Twitter @barosports

OSU ready for Stanford’s trees Oregon State men’s basketball has dropped its previous 4 contests to the Cardinal, looks for redemption Thursday

Oregon State is currently last in the conference in rebounds at 33.6 per game. Stanford averages 36.7 boards per contest, but is last in the Pac-12 in offensive rebounds with 9.2 per game.

At the power forward position for Stanford

By Josh Worden THE DAILY BAROMETER is 6-foot-10 Dwight Powell, who leads the Hosting the Pac-12 home opener will be a team in steals and assists, and is the Cardinal’s nice change of pace compared to two straight second-leading scorer.

Robinson drew comparisons from Powell to road games for the Oregon State men’s basketball team. But the competition will not be OSU junior forward Eric Moreland.

“Dwight Powell is like Eric; he’s a matchup any easier.

The Beavers are set to take on Stanford nightmare,” he said. “That whole starting five is good and they’ve been good at 7 p.m. Thursday in Gill for a long time.”

Coliseum. It will be the third conference game of the year Every starting player for the They’re a big team for OSU (8-6, 0-2 Pac-12) after Cardinal is an upperclassman and they attack losses to Colorado and Utah. and they are the only five Stanford (9-4, 0-1) is comthe glass really well. players on the team who have ing off a seven-point loss played in all 13 games.

If we keep them off to California, the only Pac“They’ve got a great per12 game of the year for the sonnel,” Morris-Walker said. the glass, it should Cardinal.

“They’ve got great players, be a good game.

The defining win of players that I’ve seen over the Stanford’s season thus far years. I think they have a few Langston Morris-Walker was a two-point road win over pros on their team.”

Sophomore guard then-No. 10 Connecticut.

Senior center Angus Brandt As the win against UConn will have to go head-to-head showed, the Cardinal will not be worried if with the Cardinal big-man-in-the-middle, Thursday’s game turns into a defensive battle 6-foot-11 junior Stefan Nastic, who Robinson — Stanford posted its lowest point total of the expects will provide a tough test for his team. year in the 53-51 victory, while snagging 43 “Nastic is playing well,” Robinson said. rebounds in the process.

“That kid got cut from the Serbian (national) “We’re going to have to keep them off the team over the summer and it’s like he’s taking boards,” said head coach Craig Robinson. it out on every team he’s playing against.”

“They’ve got a pretty good-sized team.”

The Beavers have not beaten the Cardinal With only one starter below 6-foot-6, in their last four tries, including a 103-101 Stanford is one of the tallest teams in the loss in four overtimes at Gill Coliseum. That nation, and will provide potential matchup is nearly two years to the day from Thursday problems for the Beavers. night’s game.

“They’re a big team and they attack the glass Oregon State guard Roberto Nelson had 19 really well,” said sophomore guard Langston points in that contest, while Chasson Randle’s Morris-Walker. “If we keep them off the glass, 24 points led Stanford. it should be a good game and we should be See Basketball | page 6 able to keep it close.”

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Senior center Angus Brandt dribbles at the top of the key against Southern Illinois Edwardsville on Nov. 26, 2013.

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Oregon State was supposed to compete Saturday against BYU, will practice instead

By Scott McReynolds THE DAILY BAROMETER

Courtesy of the racquetball club

The men’s and women’s racquetball teams pose with their national championship trophies last year.

Oregon State’s hidden dynasty OSU’s racquetball club team has won 11-straight national championships

sport, racquetball has won more national championships than any other team at OSU. “The Oregon State racquetball team has won seven overall national championships, includBy Taylor Westerberg ing the last six consecutive men’s titles, and the THE DAILY BAROMETER last five consecutive women’s titles,” said head Is football the most successful sports team in coach Rob Durbin. “The sport itself has actually the history of Oregon State University? Perhaps attracted people to come play at Oregon State.”

While it’s attracted talent, it hasn’t attracted the answer is baseball or basketball? money. The racquetball team at OSU, despite its Your first guess was likely not racquetball.

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As the second half of the OSU women’s swim season begins, the team is looking to build off of its fall season and toward the NCAA Championships.

Originally, Oregon State had a scheduled meet this weekend with Brigham Young University, but the meet has been postponed due to travel complications for BYU. It is expected to take place sometime in early February.

Head coach Larry Liebowitz said it was unfortunate that the Beavers won’t get to race BYU until later in the season, but also that it doesn’t change anything in the team’s preparation.

“It takes away an opportunity to go fast,” Liebowitz said. “We can go to practice and try to go fast, but it’s not the same as racing.”

Senior Crystal Kibby and sophomore Sammy Harrison both said that they don’t expect the postponement to affect them moving forward — Oregon State plans to work

hard in practice Saturday in place of the meet.

Harrison and Kibby have placed themselves in good positions to reach the NCAA Championships. They both hit B-standard times earlier in the season, which gives them a chance to race at the NCAAs, depending on the amount of swimmers who reached an A-standard time, which are automatic entrance times.

“I’ve been working hard with both coaches to improve my 100 (yard breaststroke) stroke,” Kibby said.

She focused her training on having a quicker stroke during winter break. She noticed improvement in that aspect of her race last weekend when the team traveled to Arizona to face Arizona State, Arizona, Northern Arizona and New Mexico State.

Kibby is looking to improve enough to guarantee her place in the NCAAs, after her B-standard time last season caused her to barely miss out.

Harrison, meanwhile, hopes to qualify for the NCAA Championships again after qualifying last season for both the 500-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle.

“Everyday is just coming here and putting my full effort out and knowing that

I’m going to go home everyday exhausted,” Harrison said. “I’m here to swim as fast as I can for the next seven weeks.”

While Harrison and Kibby have the best chances to make the NCAAs out of Oregon State’s swimmers, Liebowitz said some other swimmers on OSU’s squad have the skill to qualify for the postseason.

Senior Aya Fujimura, sophomore Constance Toulemonde and a group of freshmen — Brooke Meyer, Sophie MacEwan, Andrea Young, Chelsea Chan and Czsarina Isleta — could all potentially qualify, according to Liebowitz.

With the postseason a few months away, however, Liebowitz is focused on improving each swimmer’s times as they move toward the end of the season.

With the second half of the season, Oregon State hopes to focus on quality over quantity during their practices. He is hoping to hone on each swimmer’s individual races to help them improve.

The team will showcase its skills next on Jan. 24, in Pullman, Wash., against Washington State.

Scott McReynolds, sports reporter On Twitter @scottyknows80 sports@dailybarometer.com

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The Oregon State football team’s 2014 schedule was released Wednesday, and will include seven games at Reser Stadium.

The Beavers, who finished with a 7-6 record and a bowl win in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24, 2013, open the year with three non-conference games followed by three of four Pac-12 games on the road.

Unlike this season, Oregon State will finish the year with four of its final five games at home.

Oregon State will play

Portland State in its season opener Aug. 30 in Reser Stadium, and will face San Diego State and Hawaii in its other two nonconference games.

The Beavers will have two byes, after the Hawaii game in week three of the season, and in week seven after a road game with Colorado and before a home meeting with Utah.

Oregon State’s road games will be against Hawaii, USC, Colorado, Stanford and Washington, while home games will come against Portland State, San Diego State, California, Washington

State, Arizona State and finally Oregon in the 118th Civil War. The Ducks will enter that game following a home game with Colorado.

Homecoming is scheduled against Cal on Nov. 1.

Oregon State is off until spring football, which begins March 31. The Spring game will take place May 3 at Reser Stadium, and will be broadcasted on either ESPN, ABC, FOX, FOX Sports 1 or the Pac-12 Networks at 1 p.m.

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Showdown is all Willamette High School

By Ben Schorzman THE REGISTER-GUARD

EUGENE — The meaningful matchup between No. 1 and No. 2 ended up being a no-contest.

The No. 1 Willamette girls basketball team sprinted to a 64-42 victory on Tuesday at home against No. 2 Corvallis, maintaining the perception that the Wolverines (7-1) are still the best team in Class 5A. “We got off to a great start,” Willamette coach Paul Brothers said. “We overpowered them with our quickness and shot the ball really well.”

Senior Lexi Bando scored 24 points and sophomore Autumn Baumgartner added 22, powering an aggressive Willamette offense that opened the game on a 13-0 run. Before the Spartans (5-2) could gather themselves, Willamette was up 20-2. Corvallis didn’t score its first field goal until the 58-second mark of the first quarter.

“We ran them,” said Baumgartner, who repeatedly came up with steals that resulted in easy layups on the other end. “I don’t think they could stop us. That was our goal. We wanted to run them as much as possible and just get them tired.”

The Spartans shot 1-of-10 in the first quarter and 30.4 percent for the game. Willamette shot 53 percent and forced 22 turnovers.

Senior Leslie Robinson, who will play next year at Princeton, scored a game-high 27 points for Corvallis.

“They’re very good,” Brothers said. “We’ll probably meet up with them again if we’re both fortunate to make the state tournament.”

Fans might not have known that the Wolverines were up 20-4 after the first quarter by just watching Willamette’s huddle. Players stood around Brothers and associate coach Lance Haas on the court, and Haas voiced his displeasure with the Wolverines’ allowing a late

put-back layup.

“We have to play better D,” Haas said. “That’s not good enough.”

This despite the Wolverines’ forcing six turnovers and allowing one field goal in the quarter.

Expectations are again high for Willamette — the defending Class 5A champion.

“He just expects it from us,” Bando said of Haas. “Even if we were winning by 40, he’d still expect that from us, no matter what. There are no breaks with him.”

The Wolverines responded in the second quarter. Senior Kalani Kast scored four of her six points on back-to-back possessions, and a layup by Bando with 4:58 to go in the half gave the Wolverines a 30-9 lead.

“Definitely defense and rebounding,” Bando said. “That was the key in the first half. We rebounded the ball, got it out and got layups.”

Corvallis showed flashes in the third quarter of why 5A coaches ranked the Spartans at No. 2 this week. Behind Robinson, the daughter of Oregon State men’s basketaball coach Craig Robinson, and Brooklyn Coe, Corvallis closed the gap to 42-30 with 4:18 in the third.

The mini-run was short-lived, though.

Willamette called a timeout, Baumgartner scored on two breakaway layups in 14 seconds off a pair of steals, and the Wolverines built the lead to 50-32 at the end of the third quarter.

“She has really good quickness,” Brother said.

“Quick hands and quick feet. I wouldn’t want her guarding me.”

Baumgartner scored 11 of her 22 points over the last 12 minutes of the game, helping Willamette close things out.

“The crowd was getting me pumped up and our team was very encouraging,” she said. “I was just trying to put the best effort out there I could.”

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points or less — and Oregon State has another chance for redemption.

“We just have to come out and show our Thursday’s game will again pit Nelson and own identity,” said freshman guard Hallice Randle, one of four current Stanford starters Cooke. “Sometimes we lack that, we don’t who played in that game. come out with any swagger. … I think “We missed an opportunity the last time Thursday night will be different.” in that quadruple-overtime game,” Robinson Josh Worden, sports reporter said. “We had some chances to win that game On Twitter @WordenJosh here at home and couldn’t quite close it out.”

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acquired through fundraisers.

“Being the club president this year has definitely added some stress,” Hoffman said. “Most of the money needed already has been profound success on the national level, is a club sport and can’t sourced with 85-90 percent of our funds already secured before offer scholarships or claim any Pac-12 titles. But Durbin said it this year from annual contributors like the Boys & Girls Club.”

Joey Pryor, also a senior in his fourth year with the team, attribdoesn’t change the way he sees the team. uted fundraising as a key to the team’s continued success.

“What I see in this team is a true student-athlete organization,” “We host the Corvallis racquetball tournament, in which a he said. “They’re not privileged, and there are no scholarships, so portion of the proceeds go to fund the team,” Pryor said. “We they have to come up with the money needed to travel themselves. raise a certain amount and then end up having to pay about 300 … I like the fact that they’re not pampered.” or 400 bucks to cover the nationals trip. It’d be so nice not having Micah Hoffman, a senior playing his fourth year with the team, to pay, because we are representing the school, and doing a good is an All-American and singles national champion, and currently job while we do it.”

In 2012, Pryor won a men’s doubles racquetball National the racquetball club president. He said many of the funds are

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Rules The literary work may be fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction written for a general audience. The prize is open to currently enrolled undergraduate students at Oregon State University who may submit their own work or have work nominated by faculty members.

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Senior guard Roberto Nelson takes a jumpshot against Southern Illinois Edwardsville on Nov. 26, 2013, in Gill Coliseum.

The Provost will announce the winner in May.

Championship.

“It was a little overwhelming at first, but ultimately I felt ecstatic,” he said.

Pryor also works as a Resident Assistant in Buxton Hall, and holds down two lab assistant jobs on campus to help pay for his schooling.

While playing racquetball and maintaining the responsibilities of being a student can be difficult, the players enjoy everything the sport has to offer.

“It’s pretty cool being able to rep Oregon State racquetball,” Pryor said. “At the least it’s a conversation starter.”

Taylor Westerberg, contributor sports@dailybarometer.com

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Editorial

Witham Oaks saga continues at snail-like pace

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ack in October, the Corvallis Planning Commission denied “the contested comprehensive plan amendment and zone change for the Witham Oaks property,” halting Campus Crest’s application to build a new student-housing complex — which would provide roofs for 900 students — on the 95-acre property west of 36th Street and north of Harrison Boulevard.

But the unaltered plan already allowed for 25 acres to be developed, with 70 acres set aside as open space, so there’s still developable land available.

The result of the commission deciding to deny the change to the amendment, in a 3-4 vote, meant they basically voted to recommend that the City Council also say no to the housing proposal. It did not actually mean that the housing project was forever dead.

Back in early October, the editorial board weighed in on the side of the housing development, because we’re understandably biased, as students, toward anything that might raise vacancy rates and lower rents in Corvallis. The figures we found during our research for that editorial indicated that Corvallis’ housing market is tighter than that of New York City. Thus, we felt extremely validated in our support for the housing project.

And now we feel vindicated. On Monday, the City Council voted, in defiance of the Planning Commission’s recommendation, to allow the Campus Crest project to proceed with a 5-4 vote, and to approve the comprehensive plan amendment and zone change of the area in question.

The stipulations to the City Council’s conditional approval of the project mean that this process will probably drag on forever, but it’s at least in the works now. The City Council asked for more information on some of the aspects of the plan, as well as more time to make decisions on other parts.

However, the comprehensive plan and the zone change — the issues the Planning Commission recommended the City Council deny — were approved. The rest of the issues — the ones that the councilors didn’t approve — were kicked back to the Planning Commission.

Bureaucracy is confusing. We’re not arguing this. It might even be necessary — we don’t have enough context to argue that one. It’s also long, complicated and frustrating.

It might not be a world-ending problem, but we don’t really understand why this is requiring so many decisions made over such a long span of time.

We get that this ruling was actually on Campus Crest’s appeal to the council after the commission denied it. But if the Planning Commission’s decision can be appealed, then why were they involved in the first place?

It would be awesome if work could start on this proposed housing development before the entire newsroom staff has matriculated, but we don’t really anticipate that happening.

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OSU’s athletics programs don’t take away from other programs

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remember when I was in middle school, my teacher-parents came home and began discussing how the music program might be cut due to a lack of funding. The comment was followed by a sneered remark on how the sports programs would never face something like this.

It surprised me to realize that a kind of prioritized hierarchy exists between athletics and academics — depending on where you’re going to school, of course.

My small hometown prioritizes sports over most other programs. That’s just the way it was, and it became part of my motivation to immerse myself in an atmosphere that would cater equally to the academic end of the spectrum.

There seems to be some discrepancy

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on who gets the money in the sword fight between athletics and academics.

Universities, including Miami University and the University of Cincinnati, were found to spend millions of dollars on their already-expensive athletics programs, reported in an article from USA Today by Cliff Peale of the Cincinnati Enquirer, “Athletics cost colleges, students millions.”

This led to job cuts, frozen tuition and the squelching of rising academic

programs such as house-nursing, for the benefit of athletics. Such logic is essentially gambling — for all the equipment and advertising purchased there isn’t a guarantee that it will result in a winning team.

The fact that the universities drew upwards of $100 per student per term from student fees to pay for these programs just rubs salt in the wound.

Fortunately, our own Oregon State University is better than most.

According to the incidental fee levels for the 2013-14 fall, winter and spring terms, only $37.30 of the fees you pay as a student go to athletics per term.

The most expensive thing you pay for are Student Health Services, at $89.09.

The concept that OSU is using most

of the money students pay to make sure they have access to healthcare facilities on campus is heartening. I approve of this prioritization I’m not saying that sports aren’t worth the money — athletic programs at OSU bring home bank and some of it comes back in academic benefits.

I am saying that to go to a college where sports are significant but not the whole shebang is a truly fortunate thing.

I sincerely hope that this form of prioritization continues to persist at OSU in a way that will benefit us all, and not just a chosen few. t

Cassie Ruud is a junior in English. The opinions

expressed in Ruud’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Ruud can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

Most employed students will be hurt as result of minimum wage increase

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orthwhile minimum-wage jobs are rare. Either they rule you, while taunting you with threats like, “You won’t find another one better, we’re all the same,” or they’re bearable.

When finding a new minimumwage job, one often arrives at a crossroads. One can either run head on into the busy traffic, or stay safe and indifferent at one’s present crummy job while being mistreated at the relatively low pay of $8.95 an hour.

Although minimum wage has been raised recently, that is of little consolation to me.

Initially our little raise seems great, but it will have its drawbacks.

Once minimum wage is raised, employers or business owners may have to raise prices to make up for it. Christina D. Romer alludes to the

“redistributive effects” of the raise in minimum wage in her article, “The Business of the Minimum Wage.”

I would rather not have minimum wage raised than face an increase of prices doing the same. I guess this change won’t affect you if you pinch pennies and dumpster dive.

For the rest of us though, this increase may not be that beneficial.

Time will tell.

When I was in high school, getting a job was a mystical objective. I coveted the sound and important feel of the phrase, “going to work.” At the innocent age of 16, securing a minimumwage job was like striking oil. You didn’t deserve it, you may not have been ready for the riches it brought, but by some stroke of luck you happened to land it anyway.

Gabi

Scottaline Soon after obtaining the mystical occupation of stocking shelves or flipping burgers, minimum-wage jobs lose their flavor — not unlike the infamous Fruit Stripes gum. Maybe it’s because of their mandatory nature for some, or because we are not meant to keep them for long.

But, monotony aside, it is very beneficial to have a job while in college. To be able to manage your own finances and time are essential life skills, and establishing these values early on in

adulthood sets a sturdy framework for success later.

In general, it seems that college students are stepping up to that challenge. A U.S. Census report reveals that 71 percent of undergraduate students were employed in 2011.

Students who earn their own money are more likely to spend it cautiously, an observation Darlena Cunha wrote about in her article, “What Are the Benefits of Part-Time Jobs for Students?” Making your own money while in school also allows you to make mistakes, and learn from them, before you’re released out into the “real world,” where mistakes will have larger consequences.

So whether you’re stuck at one minimum-wage job or looking for another, know that working in college can give you a sense of purpose, which is something I think we’re all looking for in one capacity or another. t

Gabi Scottaline is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in Scottaline’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Scottaline can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

Letter to the Editor Stolen packages not a priority for police

Appeal to recover research material I am writing in a hope to recover my graduate research of five terms in mathematics.

I sent myself a little white package containing all the materials (class notes, books, research notes) over the holidays when I was away. The package was delivered on Jan. 2, and since then has gone missing from the hallway of the house where I rent an apartment.

I returned from my vacation Saturday to discover that my work had been stolen, along with other packages of monetary but not scientific value. Having talked to my neighbors (some of whom were also away for the holidays), and to the police (who admitted that this is one of the most common issues in Corvallis), and searched the trash cans along the street (which told me nothing other than they were empty), I despair of ever seeing again the materials so important to my timely graduation.

I hope that perhaps whomever took it, once realizing it contained nothing of value to them, would have either left the box on the street or somewhere in the bushes (the possibility of which I was informed of by the police).

Perhaps somebody saw a white box laying about on or around 11th Street and Jackson Avenue and my unfortunate story will find them?

I am quite upset at Corvallis law enforcement knowing that this is a big issue in town and doing nothing to fix the problem. We are talking about the theft of packages from the common areas inside of houses. Surely something could be done, like cameras on street corners, or in houses. To lose something that could be bought is one thing, but to have one’s work stolen is another.

Natalia McClellan

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 2014

U N I T I NG O ur Powerful Voices FRiday, Jan. 17

32nd annual Peace Breakfast Tickets available

our Powerful Voices in action Conference

Tickets can be purchased from the Memorial Union Information Desk beginning Monday, January 13 or at the Breakfast: $6 for students, $10 for non-students, children 5 &under free.

9:00 aM–5:00 PM, native american Longhouse/ Memorial Union

Virtual Peace Wall: padlet.com/wall/osu_mlk

The OSU community can reflect in words, video, photos, links on this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.

Take a photo at an event... share an idea that you learned... write about your hopes for the future.

The Our Powerful Voices in Action Conference is an opportunity to explore the complexity of identity and tools for creating social change through workshops, performance, and dialogue. Whether you are new to the conversation or regularly find yourself engaging in social justice work, this will be a space to join in community, expand consciousness and participate in dialogues for change. Some of the conference workshop themes include: LGBTQ+ community issues, communicating for social justice, social change agents in education, grassroots lobbying, and local agencies committed to social change.

Full Conference schedule and Registration available at: http://oregonstate.edu/communitydialogue/conference

Monday, Jan. 13

MLK Celebration Kick off in the Quad!

11:00 aM–2:00 PM, MU Quad

Come kick off our annual celebration in the MU Quad with music and refreshments- get information on events, promotional items, and more!

Sponsor: Panhellenic Council, Interfraternal Council, Office of Equity and Inclusion

TUesday, Jan. 14

Conference highlights

• “Why do i have to choose between my Queerness and Person of Colorness?” Microaggressions, Liberation and the LGBT Community — Featuring Kevin Nadal • stories of Queer diaspora—Performance and Workshop • Communicating for Wholeness—Workshop Sessions • Passion into action—Workshop sessions • Meet & Greet With Kevin nadal Sponsor: Student Leadership & Involvement / Coalition for Community Dialogue Co-sponsors: Project Social Justice, Office of Equity and Inclusion

saTURday, Jan. 18

Voices Behind Global Movements: Leadership Lessons and Reader’s Theater

MLK day of service

This presentation and performance will allow participants to learn about the leadership styles, commonalities, and unique character traits of leaders and activists across the globe that have fought for justice and the well-being of all.

The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service is about coming together to honor Dr. King’s life and legacy and help further his dream for peace by serving our neighbors and communities. The MLK Day of Service empowers individuals, strengthens communities, builds bridges, breaks down barriers, addresses social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King’s vision of strong, beloved communities

7:00 PM–9:00 PM, MU Journey Room

Sponsor: Student Events & Activities Center, ISOSU, Center for Leadership Development; Co-Sponsors: Center for Civic Engagement

Wednesday, Jan. 15

Prominent LGBTQ Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement 4:00 PM–5:30 PM, MU 208

This presentation provides information on the importance of LGBTQ leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Participants leave with an expanded knowledge of LGBTQ leaders during the Civil Rights Movement and a deeper understanding of how race, gender and sexuality played a role in the exclusion of these voices.

Sponsor: Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center

Make a new Friend, Unite your Voices!

4:00 PM–6:00 PM, MU Lounge

An interactive activity designed to help participants connect at a deeper level with unknown others. If students allow themselves to fully participate, they will use dialogue about social justice as a vehicle to explore and express their view of themselves, others, and the world in which they live.

Sponsor: Counseling & Psychological Services Diversity Committee Co-sponsors: Educational Opportunities Program

ThURsday, Jan. 16

MLK Multi-Faith Prayer service 4:00 PM–5:00 PM, MU 213

A time to share, reflect, and celebrate around the Rev. Dr. King’s idea of “the Big House” - the sense of valuing the gifts of the abiding faith and religious traditions of our global community. We will share the voices of our respective faith traditions regarding peace in our world, each followed by time for silent reflection.

Sponsor: United Campus Ministry at Westminster House Co-sponsors: Campus Coalition Builders

Music of hope and Resistance

5:00 PM–7:00 PM, native american Longhouse

Historically, music, song, and dance have been the voice for resistance, protest, and hope. Experience music that focuses on slavery, poverty, anti-war movements, women’s rights, gay rights, class struggle, civil liberties, civil rights, economic injustice, politics and wars, and also to resist imperialism and promote revolutionary ideas. Focus will also be on music of hope: idealism, social reform, equal rights, moral improvement, and community activism.

Sponsor: Intercultural Student Services Co-sponsors: APA Council, APCC, Alpha Pi Omega, LBHBCC, BGSA

speaking Justice

This is an event that highlights poetry surrounding social justice. This event features notable poetry artist, Too Black, as well as student, faculty and staff voices.

Sponsor: Diversity Development Co-sponsors: UHDS

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Sponsor: Center for Civic Engagement/Student Leadership & Involvement.

Co-sponsors: Community & Cultural Food Program

— day of observance —

Monday, Jan. 20 32nd annual Peace Breakfast

9:00 aM–10:30 aM, MU Ballroom

Award Presentations: Phyllis S. Lee and Frances Dancy Hooks Community Awards; Keynote speech by Walidah Imarisha, an educator, writer, organizer, and poetry artist. Music by OUTSPOKEN and poetry by Anderson DuBoise III. Sponsor: Office of Equity and Inclusion, President’s Office

oregon Black history: interactive Workshop with Walidah imarisha 11:00 aM–1:00 PM–MU Journey Room*

Oregon has a history not only of Black exclusion and discrimination, but also of a vibrant Black culture that helped sustain many communities throughout the state—a history that is not taught in schools. Author and educator Walidah Imarisha will lead participants through an interactive timeline of Black history in Oregon that speaks to the history of race, identity, and power in this state and the nation. Participants will discuss how history, politics, and culture have shaped—and will continue to shape—the landscape not only for Black Oregonians but all Oregonians. * Workshop is free and open to all. space is limited. RSVP in advance to chris.lenn@oregonstate.edu is encouraged.

Sponsor: Office of Equity and Inclusion

Celebrating the Life of MLK

2:00 PM–3:30 PM, snell international Forum

We will celebrate the life of MLK in discussion and commemoration of his life in talking about who he was as a man and how we could live similar lives as well. We will celebrate with birthday cake and games.

Sponsor: Lonnie B Harris Black Cultural Center. Co-sponsors: Alpha Phi Alpha

MLK Jr. Roundtable discussion 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, MU 213

This is an open space where people can come ask questions and share their opinions and experiences concerning a wide range of human rights issues.

Sponsor: Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc., Co-sponsors: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

MLK Candlelight Vigil

8:00 PM–9:30 PM, Front of snell hall

7:00 PM–9:00 PM, MU Lounge

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8:15 aM–3:00 PM (time varies by project) Mcalexander Fieldhouse (meeting location)

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TUesday, Jan. 21

a Class divided—Film/discussion 1:00 PM–3:00 PM, MU 208

Join the Office of Equity and Inclusion for a viewing and discussion of this documentary about a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, who divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination.

Sponsor: Office of Equity and Inclusion

50th anniversary of MLK Jr’s nobel Peace Prize speech: The Quest for Peace and Justice

4:00 PM–5:30 PM, special Collections and archives Research Center, 5th Floor, Valley Library

Join us for a reading of the powerful Nobel Prize lecture by Martin Luther King, Jr in 1964. His words linked racial injustice, poverty and war. At the Research Center, the history of OSU peace and justice activism for civil rights will be on display.

Sponsor: Special Collections and Archives Research Center, School of History, Philosophy and Religion

The Classroom Closet: a Pride Panel on Queerness and education

5:00 PM–6:15, Furman hall atrium (4th Floor)

Come listen to a panel of LGBTQ students, teachers, and faculty discuss their experiences in the K-12 educational system.

Sponsor: Pride Center, Co-Sponsor: College of Education

Wednesday, Jan. 22

Uniting for Climate Justice

7:00 PM–8:30 PM, snell hall international Forum

Be a voice for climate justice. Join us for a screening of Do the Math and a conversation about climate change as a civil rights issue.

Sponsor: Student Leadership & Involvement/Student Sustainability Initiative Cosponsors: Students Engaging Tomorrow and OSU Divest

World Peace and other 4th Grade achievements: Film screening and Q&a with John hunter 7:00 PM, Majestic Theater

For over thirty years a public school teacher in Virginia has been teaching his students the work of peace through a remarkable exercise that he created called the “World Peace Game” Sponsored by: Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, City of Corvallis and OSU

ThURsday, Jan. 23

Unpacking success: What impacts Performance?

3:00 PM–4:30 PM, TBa

Success. Performance. Achievement. How do we view our accomplishments or respond to challenges we encounter? How might our social identities impact how we perform and how we interpret the results of our performance? This workshop considers the concepts of stereotype threat, imposter syndrome, and mindset. Participants will have opportunities to engage in conversations and activities to explore these concepts and what we can do to counteract them.

Sponsor: Academic Success Center Co-sponsors: Educational Opportunities Program

The March: The story Behind the March on Washington

5:00 PM–7:00 PM, native american Longhouse

Join the Office of Equity and Inclusion for a viewing and discussion of the new documentary about the how the March on Washington came to be. We will discuss the role of the March in our country’s history and discuss the community organizing methods which brought about this important event in American history.

Sponsor: Office of Equity and Inclusion

The seeds of Peace Tomorrow are in the Children of Today 7:00 PM, Milam auditorium

The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Peace Lecture with John Hunter

Sponsored by: Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, City of Corvallis and OSU

FRiday, Jan. 24

MLK Jr. all University dance

9:00 PM–2:00 aM, snell hall international Forum

An annual event hosted by the ladies of Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc. in collaboration with other multi-cultural Greek organizations. The event begins with an informational presentation about MLK Jr.’s Greek roots followed by a history presentation/showcase about strolling and stepping.

Sponsor: Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc., Co-Sponsor: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

This is the event acknowledging the ending of a great man but the continuing of his Legacy. We will begin the vigil in front of Snell promptly at 8pm and walk to the bottom of the MU steps, followed by discussion in the MU MLK room (208).

Sponsor: Lonnie B Harris Black Cultural Center. Co-sponsors: Alpha Phi Alpha

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2014 events are coordinated and sponsored by the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Office of the President. Please direct your questions to 541-737-4379.

Requests for a sign language interpreter and other accommodations related to disability must be made 72 hours before the event prior to the Office of Equity and Inclusion, 541-737-4379.