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The Associated Students of Oregon State University House of Representatives proposed a resolution Wednesday night calling upon the university to “honor and remember our veterans” by officially observing Veterans Day. Co-authored by Reps. Colin Pyle and Erik Beatty, the resolution takes issue with the university’s policy that veterans who are employees must use their own vacation time to take the national holiday off from work.

According to the resolution draft, state law requires employers to “provide an employee who is a veteran … with paid or unpaid time off for Veterans Day.” Pyle and Beatty pointed out that See ASOSU | page 4

Pub talk modeled after reality television show offers forum, opportunity for community

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Panelist Mark Lieberman, the chief start-up officer and co-director of the Advantage Accelerator, asks a question to a presenter during the commentary portion of Tuesday’s “shark tank.”

The Willamette Innovators Network hosted its monthly pub talk, taking a bite out of reality TV. WIN is a local networking community for traded sector companies in the area.

For this event, the network directors paired with the Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator, the partnership between OSU, community members and entrepreneurs, to offer a forum for community members to hear new ideas from innovators in the area.

A crowd of more than 60 gathered at Corvallis Sports Park’s sports pub Tuesday night to hear the latest from eight different community entrepreneurs and a panel of judges, reminiscent of the reality television show, “Shark Tank.”

John Turner, co-director of the Advantage Accelerator, WIN board member and one of the “sharks” on the panel, said the event was a great way to See TANK | page 4

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Researchers find methane-producing animal populations contribute to climate change

By Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova THE DAILY BAROMETER

Reducing methane-producing ruminant animal populations, like cows and sheep, will reduce climate change, according to OSU professors and researchers.

According to a report published in December 2013 in Nature Climate Change, as damaging as CO2 emissions can be to the climate, they are just one part of the bigger problem.

William Ripple, a professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, assembled a team of international experts to look at greenhouse gases and livestock.

When addressing climate change, more commonly, research is carried out on CO2 and fossil fuels.

Ripple’s team of experts specifically focused on non-CO2 gases that are not discussed often in society.

The most abundant in affecting climate change are methane and nitrous oxide.

“If you go on the street today and start asking people about climate change, and what are the major human factors causing climate change, they will nearly and universally say fossil fuel combustion and CO2 emissions,” Ripple said. ”And this is not only the (average person) on the street, but policy makers and scientists also seem to be uninformed to some extent.”

The researchers’ aim for the report is to inform the pubic and policymakers that it’s more than just CO2 emissions that affect climate change.

Researchers have discovered that a more severe cause of climate change is methane-emitting animals raised for food.

The top human-caused source of methane in the environment See SHEEP | page 4

Researchers survey 170 Oregon State University students, discover link with team-affiliated advertising

responses to the sponsors of drivers they disliked,” Dalakas said.

Dalakas said the 2013 study expands on the NASCAR study by “examining if such tendencies exist even if there is some objective information about the implied

By Vinay Ramakrishnan quality of the sponsor’s product.”

THE DAILY BAROMETER Bee said that the objective of the study It doesn’t matter how compelling and strong the message conveyed by an adver- was to see whether consumers can be tisement is, diehard sports fans will ignore turned away from a product due to a it if the advertisement is associated with a rival sports team, according to a recent study.

The “Journal of Marketing Communications” published the study in October 2013. Colleen Bee, assistant professor of marketing at Oregon State University, and Vassilis Dalakas, associate professor of marketing at California State University, San Marcos, conducted the study.

“This study looks at positive, as well as negative, impacts of companies associating with sports teams,” said Bee, the lead author of the study. “Previous studies, for the most part, only looked at the positive effects.”

Dalakas, co-author of the study, said that he was motivated to conduct the study due to his background as a sports fan growing up in Greece, where he witnessed intense rivalries and strong passions among sports fans.

“About 10 years ago I conducted a study with NASCAR fans, finding that they had favorable responses to the sponsors of their favorite driver but also unfavorable n

rival association by asking, “Based on the strength of your affiliation with a team, does your processing of information change?” or “Does the dislike of a rival sports team lead to a dislike of the sponsor?”

The researchers surveyed 170 OSU students. Each student saw one of four See FANS | page 4

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PORTLAND — Oregon could soon be home to the first public school in the U.S. to offer a unique program out of Canada.

The “Arrowsmith program” leans on neuroscience to address learning disabilities. It’s already in some U.S. private schools.

The program is on Thursday’s agenda for a charter school in Oregon City.

As a child, Barbara ArrowsmithYoung says she struggled to tell time, to read, and to understand simple conversations.

“There wasn’t even a term ‘learning disabilities’. So I was labeled as ‘slow’ - that I had a mental block. Basically in grade one, I was told that I would never learn like other children. I struggled with reading, writing, and really, hugely with comprehension,” she remembers.

Arrowsmith-Young describes a breakthrough in her 20’s, when she discovered two studies: one from Russia on how different parts of the brain function, and a Cal Berkeley study on the brain’s ability to change neural pathways. She used that research to design mental exercises.

“So I set out the first exercise for myself to address my problem with comprehension and reasoning, and about four months in, saw huge change in that ability. I could actually listen to conversations as they were unfolding, and understand them, whereas before, that was impossible.”

Arrowsmith-Young went to on to design a battery of exercises for 19 different learning disabilities.

Over the last three decades, dozens of schools have used her program, including many U.S. private schools.

But the program is not in Oregon - and it’s not in any public school in the country.

That may change soon, in part thanks to a family from Lake Oswego.

Brianna Grady is 12 and severely dyslexic. She and her mom moved to Vancouver, B.C. in 2011, for the Eaton Arrowsmith School.

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MEDFORD — A man who says he did side jobs for Susan Monica, the woman accused of killing two people on her Rogue River area property and mutilating their bodies, is speaking out about the bad feeling he said he had when he was at her home.

Mark Alan Riccardi said he knew something was amiss when he stepped onto suspect Susan Monica’s property.

“I never felt right. There was something wrong,” said Riccardi who revealed he had worked for Monica on multiple

Thursday, Jan. 16 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.

Human Services Resource Center, 9-10am, Snell 149. Budget Open Forum to answer questions about the 2014-15 proposed budget. Board members and staff will be in attendance. Open to the public.

Educational Activities Committee, Noon, MU 207. Committee meeting.

ASOSU, 4pm, Snell 149. Government Affairs Task Force Information Session.

Come learn more about ASOSU GAT. Free pizza!

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.

CRC’s and UHDS Community Relations Facilitators Program, 7-9pm, MU Lounge. Speaking Justice event welcomes spoken word artist TOO BLACK from Indiana to share some of his poetry, and we will have OSU students & faculty perform, as well. Part of MLK, Jr. Celebration.

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The Grady family, Bill, Brianna and Kathy, hope to bring a learning disabilities program to Alliance Charter Academy.

Brianna’s mother, Kathy, says her daughter struggled to recognize her surroundings. In Vancouver, Brianna wanted to try walking to school on her own.

“Being the overprotective, older mother that I am laughs, I was nervous about that, but she insisted she wanted to try it. So, I talked to her teachers at Eaton Arrowsmith, and they felt that it would be a great exercise - so by the end of the first year, she would walk to and from school, by herself,” Kathy says.

Brianna says her ability to retain spatial information came from the school’s computerbased exercises, like this one.

“First when you go on the screen, there’s going to be one symbol. And you try and remember that symbol. Then you click on the study button. You have to study it, look at it. Then you have to go back to the screen with a whole lot of different symbols that look similar - alike - to that symbol, and have the same shape and twist to it, and still find that have the same one,” Brianna explains.

Brianna says her reading has improved, too.

The Gradys might still be at the school in B.C., if not for the cost of

keeping homes in two countries.

So, they’re trying to bring the program to Brianna’s school in Oregon City.

Lara Fabricki is the director of Alliance Charter Academy.

The academy’s for kids who are home schooled. Fabricki hosted Barbara ArrowsmithYoung earlier this week.

“And every student here has a personalized learning plan - so everyone has their own schedule, they have their own curriculum, whatever works for that student,” Fabricki says.

Arrowsmith-Young likes the Academy. “I mean I think this is a perfect home - because it already has that whole concept of individualized education to meet the needs of each child, which is the hallmark of my program.”

But Arrowsmith-Young’s program has drawn criticism.

Linda Siegel is a special education professor at the University of British Columbia.

She studied the program more than ten years ago. And her study found the program offered little improvement.

Siegel concedes that her study had problems, and she’s working on a new one. She says the jury is still out on the program.

“There have been no published studies of the effectiveness of the Arrowsmith program.

None whatsoever,” Seigel says.

Other programs, including one from the University of Oregon, have been studied in greater depth.

Program founder, ArrowsmithYoung, says her program has been thoroughly studied — though nothing has been published yet. But she says this peerreviewed research has shown the program to help people a great deal.

Local supporters have a vision beyond Oregon City: they want the program offered widely in public schools. Alliance Academy director Lara Fabricki says that means proving it works at her school.

“We can just run a 10 or 20-kid classroom and see the results ourselves, but we want other people to believe what the results are.”

Program supporters are hoping for state funding to both run the classroom and study it. Without outside funding, Alliance would launch a tuitionbased classroom - not too different from what other American private schools are doing.

occasions doing side jobs.

Monica is accused of killing two people and mutilating their bodies.

Detectives said they believe one person was killed in August of 2012. Authorities also say Robert Haney was killed in September 2013. His family said he was at Monica’s home for construction work.

“At the time something was wrong and bad and I could feel it strongly,” recalled Riccardi who said it’s been a year or two since he’d been on Monica’s property.

He said he had done side jobs for Monica, but left when he

says she started yelling at him.

“I didn’t like the look in her eye and it threw up all kinds of cautious signs for me,” he said.

Neighbor Lorna Wolvin said she’s heard plenty of fighting on Monica’s property.

“She was really hard on them I guess they would scream and yell and have fighting matches,” said Wolvin.

“I’m glad I picked up my tools and left because I just now find out what’s happened out there. That scares me you know,” Riccardi said.

According to Riccardi, Monica also didn’t pay him for the work he did. It’s a claim oth-

ers in Rogue River say they’ve heard before.

“A lot of times people say they didn’t get paid,” said Mattie, a woman whose family members previously worked on Monica’s property.

However, even though Riccardi said he never got his money, in the end he’s glad he left.

“I walked out of there and said I’ll never come back to this place again.”

It’s a place, now swarmed with Sheriff’s deputies who continue to remain tight-lipped on details in their gruesome murder investigation.

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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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Inaugural State Fair committee meets

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SALEM — Elephant ears should be safe in Salem for at least the foreseeable future.

State and community leaders met at the state fairgrounds for the first time this week as the body known as the Oregon State Fair Council.

The group of lawmakers, business leaders, academic representatives, retirees, livestock officials and others came together to begin transitioning state fair and lands operations from the oversight of a state agency to that of a public corporation.

The council is charged, per passage of Senate Bill 7 in 2013, with bringing fairgrounds operations into the black. The Oregon State Fair part has been profitable the past three years, but the exposition center has been operating at a $3.5 million loss the other 354 days of the year, said Lisa VanLaanen, interim director of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department,

which has had oversight of the state fair and expo center since the late 2000s. The parks and rec department was applauded by the council for bringing the fair itself into profitability. “There is a temptation to put keys on the table and say, ‘It’s yours,’ � said M.G. Devereux, who helps oversee the fair for the parks and recreation department. “But we have too much invested to do that. Parks (department) will support this council with policies and in other ways until the transition is complete.�

Most of the council expressed deep fondness for the fair and were passionate about helping the rest of the exposition center recover sufficiently to help keep the fair going for generations to come.

Republican Rep. Vicki Berger said she has early memories of hiding in her family’s meat truck to get into the fair for free. “The fair is in my DNA, and I have an emotional investment in seeing it go forward to the next generations of Oregonians in a fiscally sound way,� she said.

Oregon attracting baby boomers

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PORTLAND — Although Oregon is attracting many young creatives, the state is apparently the place where older people go to retire. That’s according to a new population study.

Oregon is outpacing the national average for population growth among people 17 and younger. But the state’s median age is still above the national average. That’s according to the study by Oregon’s Office of Economic Analysis.

Overall, the state’s population is growing. The median age in Oregon is 39. That’s about a year older than the national average, primarily because of the growth rate for Baby Boomers.

Josh Lehner is an economist with the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. “We just have a little bit larger Baby Boomer cohort than the national average so our median age is higher, which is something many people probably don’t think about,� says Lehner. “They tend to think of, you know, ‘Portland is the place where young people go to retire’ or some stereotype like that.�

Lehner says for stronger long run economic growth, Oregon needs a higher birthrate or it needs to attract younger educated families.

“Salem stands devoted to making the fair and its land an economic asset,� added Salem Mayor Anna Peterson.

The council was given a timeline for actions that must be taken in the coming year. Among them is the signing of a lease agreement with the state Department of Administrative Services so that the council can fulfill the mission of the state Legislature.

Until the lease agreement is signed, the council has no formal authority to engage in the public/private partnerships the state Legislature and governor envision will help bring the financially unstable fairgrounds operations into the black.

The council will not be subject to the same rules as the state for operating the fairgrounds. It will be able to enter into private partnerships, obtain sponsorships and look for other opportunities to make the expo center successful, but it still will have a high level of accountability to the state Legislature and the public, the parks and recreation department staff added.

By Kristian Foden-Vencil PORTLAND — Out of 9,500 names, Portland now has a short list of four for the new light rail bridge over the Willamette River.

The finalists are: The Abigail Scott Duniway bridge. She was a leader in the fight to get the vote for women.

Cascadia Crossing. That’s a nod to the Cascade mountain range.

Tillicum Crossing. That’s Chinook jargon used to help tribes communicate across different languages and it means people, tribe and relatives. So in effect it’s like calling it ‘The Bridge Of The People.’ And finally Wy’east -- Wy’east being the Native American name for Mt. Hood.

Chet Orloff is former director of the Oregon Historical Society.

He led the committee to recommend the names and says the name Mt. Hood has always grated on him. “Samuel Hood was the admiral of the navy of the imperial force that we fought against. And we have named our greatest iconic sight after an enemy?�

Some names that didn’t make it: ‘The Jean Luc Picard Wonder Crossing’ and the ‘Stephen Colbert Bridge of Destiny.’ A public meeting on the names is scheduled for next month.

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several constituent concerns recently brought to their attention.

Type 1 Beavers, the OSU chapter of Students 1,070 OSU students are registered as veterans, With Diabetes, asked ASOSU to support its which is the largest population of veterans at request for additional services and amenities on campus. any state school in Oregon.

Likewise, the Korean Student Alliance asked The current draft asks that the university “respect Veterans Day by instituting a univer- for student legislative aid in finding additional sity-wide paid holiday for the remembrance of, ways that international students can learn and reflection on, our nation’s military service English in social settings.

The following representatives were absent: men and women.”

Should the resolution pass, it will be sent Jacob Kaufman, Alex Schiedler, Jacob Roselli, to President Ed Ray, Veterans Resources Victor Rodriguez, Dylan Moore and Tyler Coordinator Gus Bedwell and the OSU office Morrison. of human resources.

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“We eliminated the brand,” Bee said. “If we had used Coke, Pepsi or another established brand, people would have already had prior impressions.”

The ads featured either home or rival team affiliations, each type of which had either strong or weak messaging.

“Strong messaging would refer to association with credible sources, such as JD Power and Associates or Consumer Reports,” Bee said. “Weak messaging doesn’t tell you anything about the product, and would include comments such as, ‘simply great’, or ‘try my product.’”

Participants responded to the ads through a questionnaire. Seven-point scales ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (7) were used to measure participants’ attitudes toward the ads, as well as whether or not they would buy the product featured in the ad.

The researchers then assessed par ticipants’ responses to the ads based on the strength of their affiliation with the home team. Fan

identification was assessed based on previously developed questions.

According to the study itself, some of the questions asked to assess fan identification were, “I see myself as a fan of the home team,” and “other people see me as a big fan of the home team.”

The results of the study showed that low-identification fans, or average fans, tended to focus on the message conveyed in the advertisement, and were not swayed by the ad’s affiliation with either the home or rival team. On the other hand, high-identification, or diehard fans, tended to ignore the message contained in the ad and rejected the ad when it was associated with a rival team.

“Psychologically, diehard fans see the home team as a part of who they are,” Bee said. “They tend to go to home games, buy licensed products and can become very attached to the sponsors that support their team.”

Bee says that companies can mitigate the risk of diehard fans defecting from their products by sponsoring at the league as well as the team level.

“Some companies, like MasterCard, sponsor at the league level (Major League Baseball) in addition to the team level,” Bee said. “This can mitigate the negative impact of associating with a particular team.”

However, Bee said companies can use the loyalty of diehard fans to their advantage when it comes to marketing.

“Companies can emphasize the connection that they have with the home team to increase support for their product among die-hard fans,” Bee said.

This is the first study that Bee and Dalakas have conducted together. Bee’s research focuses on sponsorship, advertising and consumer behavior.

At CSUSM, Dalakas teaches courses on consumer behavior and sports marketing, and incorporates this study into his teaching.

“The fit (connection) of the studies with the course material is nice, and allows the students to recognize situations that they have experienced themselves and to which they can relate,” Dalakas said.

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PORTLAND — A series of winter storms that moved across region starting last week brought 20 inches of snow to several parts of the Cascades, but not enough to significantly improve the snowpack.

That’s the assessment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Oregon has had far less precipitation over the last three months than in past years. Julie Koeberle is a hydrologist with the USDA. She says forecasters are predicting summer stream-

SHEEP n Continued from page 1 is ruminant livestock, such as cows and sheep. Ruminant animals have two stomachs. When the animals are digesting their forage, they burp methane as a byproduct given off from their digestive systems.

Researchers explain in the report that the current population is estimated at about 3.6 billion ruminant livestock on the planet, an increase of more than 50 percent during the last 50 years — a full quarter of the planet’s land area goes into their grazing.

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Koeberle explained, “And that does have an impact on water supply, irrigation, hydroelectric generation and it’s puts stress and strain on fisheries. And so there’s many implications.”

She says the outlook is most dire in the Klamath Basin where stream flow predictions range from 50, all the way down to 20 percent of normal.

Koeberle says there is still time for significant improvement to the snowpack. But she says it’s less and less likely that we’ll see enough snowfall to get back to normal for the year.

“(Researchers’) thinking that this short timeframe for reducing methane in the atmosphere could be used to our advantage,” Ripple said. “With methane dissipating so quickly, we could make real progress on climate change if we begin to reduce methane emissions.”

Researchers conclude in the report that it is important to reduce both fossil fuel emissions like CO2 and non-CO2 emissions, especially methane, to abate climate change.

“One reason that we are suggesting this is that scientists are telling us that we may be nearing a climatic tipping point to major climate change,” Ripple said. “In order to potentially avoid this, working on these short life gases could be very advantageous for us.”

Reducing the number of ruminant livestock populations on the planet brings benefits to society, according to Ripple.

The first benefit pertains to the environment with regards to biodiversity, water quality and quantity, and an overall reduction of deforestation and desertification.

World food security also accompanies reducing ruminating livestock populations.

“There are something like 840 million people on earth that are hungry or starving today,” Ripple said. “It’s very inefficient for us to feed a big proportion of our grains to livestock rather than to feed humans directly.”

According to Ripple, especially in developing countries, there are very high levels of meat intake, which can cause human health problems.

“I don’t know why people don’t know more about this topic, but this is definitely one of the main reasons why we are doing this important work,” Ripple said.

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Advantage Accelerator.

In response to My Mx owner TD Morris, Lieberman said he did not understand the purpose allow representatives in the community to show- of his project, which was meant to help identify the components of medical marijuana that would case their ideas.

“There is a method to our madness,” Turner said. be most helpful to individual patients given their ailments.

Betty Nickerson, project manager for the accel“I have no experience with marijuana; I have erator, said this exchange of ideas is beneficial for never inhaled,” Lieberman said, eliciting laughs both the entrepreneurs and the established comfrom the audience. panies and community members.

The two winning pitches were selected for two “We are working feverishly to participate in this free months at Advantage Accelerator. community of innovators,” Nickerson said.

The first winner was Bill Dean of Oil Ex Tech, Community members, and even those from out whose product extracts essential oils from plants of the immediate area, came in to see the exchange in the microwave. The second was Brad Attig of of ideas.

Cart and Tools, who creates farming equipment for “It’s great to be caught up in what’s happening,” market farmers growing local and sustainable food. said Jim Huston of Portland Seed Company. “This “We scale down technology to work, and for a is really where tech is happening in Oregon.” smaller cost,” Attig said.

The eight pitches ranged in topic, scope and The panels of judges were pleased with the target market, showcasing the community diversity. turnout and decided to offer an additional prize They included small market-farming equipment, of a one-hour free consultation to the runner-up a social networking site, an app to target the uses presenters. of medical marijuana, a garden in a barrel, a silent Carl Palmer of Earth Barrels, the self-con9-1-1 app, lights for bikes and wheelchairs, an tained gardening tool, won the consultation at the extractor for essential oils and an app for art appre- Advantage Accelerator with Lieberman and Turner. ciation.

Douglas Russell of Dual Purpose Light will have Each presenter, or “bait,” had five minutes for a the opportunity for consultation with the third pitch and the panelists had four minutes to respond panelist, Doug Triller of Reliance CM, the contract manufacturing lab. with additional questions or concerns.

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Freshman guard Hallice Cooke didn’t expect to play much in his freshman year, now starting at point guard for Beavers

By Josh Worden THE DAILY BAROMETER

Hallice Cooke has done a lot of growing up in the last 12 months.

The freshman guard for Oregon State ended his career at St. Anthony’s (N.J.) high school with a loss in the state championship game, finalizing a prep career in which he garnered moderate interest at the college level.

Following that game was one of the few times his work ethic wavered.

“I lost the state championship and I was down for a couple weeks,” Cooke said. “(OSU assistant) coach (Nate) Pomeday texted me, ‘You should get back in the gym, get ready for college now. High school is over, that chapter in your life is over.’”

It was the perfect advice for Cooke, who had a successful high school career but needed to make the next step before college.

“After playing at St. Anthony’s, I became really robotic,” Cooke said. “I didn’t have the game I have now. The ball handling I have now I didn’t have. … I was still a high school player.”

Enter Joe Hohn, who was Cooke’s personal trainer during the summer before he came to Oregon State.

Hohn and Cooke worked out nearly every day during the summer in addition to Cooke’s AAU games.

“He helped transform my game to the college level and I think that’s why I’m having such success today,” Cooke said.

When Hohn came to Gill Coliseum Dec. 29, 2013, for OSU’s matchup with Quinnipiac, Cooke scored 12 points — a season-high at the time — and knocked down both of his 3-point attempts.

Cooke, who turned 19 on Jan. 5, started the season on the bench and played only five minutes in the season opener.

In the Jan. 9 game against Stanford, he made his first career start in the Beavers’ Pac-12 home opener. He topped his previous high nicki silva | THE DAILY BAROMETER with 16 points and a trio of 3-pointers while playing 32 minutes.

Freshman guard Hallice Cooke dribbles the ball Saturday against Cal at Gill Coliseum. Cooke started his first game for the Beavers Jan. 9 against Stanford.

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NASELLE, Wash. — The questions were coming fast and furious for Jordan Poyer, Friday afternoon at the Naselle Youth Camp.

“What’s the worst mistake you ever made in high school?”

“How much is your autograph worth?”

“How come you aren’t that big?”

And yes, the questions from the residents were a bit humbling.

But Jordan Poyer picked off every one like a Matt Barkley pass, answered in his completely honest way, and when it was all over, the couple hundred students he had just spoken to, ages 14 to 20, lined up to get his autograph.

And, it’s safe to say, the Cleveland Browns just gained another 100 or so fans.

Poyer seemed to make a definite impact on the camp’s young residents, who gathered to listen to the 2009 graduate of Astoria High School.

Now a defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, Poyer gave a brief account of his story, with all of its ups and downs and challenges, on and off the field.

“I was a little nervous to start,” said Poyer, who was back in the area for just the day, before returning to a somewhat busy off-season schedule.

The Naselle Youth Camp houses students who are provided educational and treatment services for male offenders, and it was a gym full of its residents who listened to Poyer speak Friday.

Poyer talked for 10 minutes, then answered questions for another 20 minutes.

How it came about When Poyer was at Oregon State, “he came here a few times to speak with our kids,” said Greg Do, the interim superintendent at the Naselle Youth Camp. “And our kids know Jordan or hear his name and see him play. His par-

Oregon State’s triathlon club looks to place at national events this year, focuses on inclusive atmosphere

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Jordan Poyer, 22, an Astoria High School graduate who recently completed his rookie season in the NFL, talks with students at Naselle Youth Camp. ents (Julie and Fa’alaeo Poyer) work here, they’re nice people, they’re good staff, and they care about the kids.

“And Jordan is someone the kids feel close to – they may not know him personally, but they know the family.”

Of Friday’s talk at the Youth Camp, Poyer said, “At first, I was a little skeptical. But I thought it would be good for me. And especially because it’s the offseason, I thought it would be good just to come in here and talk to these kids.

“Obviously they’re going through a lot, and I’m just trying to give them some inspiration to become a better person when they get out, or even while they’re still here.”

Do said when the message comes from an NFL player not much older than the camp’s residents, they listen.

“Jordan has been here a few times to speak, and has always done a nice job encouraging the kids to follow their dreams,” he said. “That’s what today is about.

Setting goals, sticking to their values, following their dreams, engaging and motivating them-

selves to achieving the goals that they have set.”

Making choices And Poyer delivered, as the 22-year-old future teacher and/ or coach shared some of his life experiences.

He spoke about “just the choices that they make in life. I try to give the example of football and life being similar in certain ways, and the choices that you make in life are who you become and what you turn out to be, and it’s never too late. That was kind of my whole message.”

There was also a definite Seattle influence among his audience (“Have you ever played for the Seahawks? Do you wanna play for the Seahawks?”).

Others simply wanted to know about life as a professional athlete.

“They were asking me about my shoes and clothes and cars and whatnot, but at the end of the day, I think they did take the message that I was trying to give, or I hope they did anyway.”

Celebrity Do was just happy to have a local celebrity drop by the camp.

“It’s a great treat,” Do said.

“Some kids who have been here long enough have been following him from college to pro. It’s exciting for those kids. Any time an NFL player can come to a place like this ... sports are huge things for these kids, especially football and basketball.”

As for his regular line of work, Poyer is just about recovered, mentally and physically, from one long season.

After being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of last year’s NFL draft, Poyer played in four preseason games and three regular season games with Philadelphia, before he was released, missed a week of action, then picked up by the Browns.

The 2013 schedule felt like two different seasons for the first-year pro.

On top of that, he was playing a different position with the Browns, “and there was more being asked of me in Cleveland than Philadelphia,” he said. “I just tried to take it and run with it, and I ended up having some good plays on film, and now I have something to build off of for next year.”

Coming off a relatively disappointing year, the Oregon State triathlon club is looking forward to competing in these upcoming events: Nationals on April 13, Wildflower on May 2 and Pacific Crest on June 22.

Held in Arizona, Oregon and Wisconsin, these events are chances for the club to compete and win big on a nation-wide level. The triathlon club failed to place in any of these events last year, but hopes to this time around. The team finished first at Wildflower and placed 19th in the Nationals in 2012.

The club also does 10 small, local races every year. More members attend these races than the national events.

Preparing for local and national events takes a massive amount of time and energy in the three disciplines of a triathlon: swimming, running and biking. Swimming practice is held five days a week, while running and bicycle practice is held three days a week.

To fundraise for the events, club members do volunteer work for two different events. The first is Beaver Fever, which is has two of the three events — running and biking only — held on the third Sunday of October. The second is Beaver Freeze, a triathlon held the first weekend in April.

The Triathlon club usually receives more than 100 new members, but many people drop out over time until there is a core of 40 to 50 members.

Although many members of the club are dedicated to competing at a high level, current president Staci Partridge said the club’s main mission is to make it as inclusive as possible. To this end, members can go to as many or as few of the training events as they want. It’s ultimately up to them how much they get out of the club.

Senior Danielle Van Lewe kept going because of constant encouragement from her fellow triathletes.

“A lot of the triathletes are so supportive,” she said. “Everyone See TRIATHLON | page 6

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The Oregon State triathlon club poses after the Wildflower Triathlon on May 2, 2013.

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1. No. 4 Stanford (15-1, 4-0 Pac-12)

No. 20 Syracuse. This weekend will be a measuring stick for them, because they’re playing Cal and Stanford.

they resemble last year’s Oregon State team.

2. No. 15 California (12-3, 4-0)

6. Oregon State (10-6, 2-2)

10. Oregon (9-6, 0-4)

Last week: @ Utah (W), @ Colorado 9. Washington (8-7, 1-3) 5. USC (11-6, 4-1) (W) Last week: @ Washington State (L), vs.

Last week: @ Arizona State (L), vs.

This week: @ Arizona Washington State (L) Arizona (W) What can be said about Stanford? The This week: vs. Utah, vs. Colorado This week: vs. Oregon State, vs. Oregon Cardinal have dominated the Washington’s only conference win A heroic 3-pointer from Alexyz Pac-12 for years, and they’re came against the lowly Vaioletama forced overtime back at it again. They have Wildcats, and the Huskies against Arizona State, but one of the best players in the just suffered back-to-back the Trojans fell short in nation in senior forward Chiney losses to their in-state rival, overtime. They did rebound Ogwumike, who averages 27.3 points and Washington State. They from that game to beat 11.8 rebounds per game. They also have Arizona, and they will face have a tough upcoming schedule, but the best defense in the Pac-12, allowing could still come away with a win or five. a conference-low 60.6 points per game. the Beavers and Ducks this weekend.

Last week: @ Colorado (W), @ Utah (W) This week: vs. Arizona State They needed overtime to beat the Ducks and a lastsecond go-ahead layup to beat then-No. 17 Colorado, but the Golden Bears have won five straight games and are undefeated in conference play. Two of their three losses were to No. 1 Connecticut and No. 2 Duke.

3. Washington State (10-6, 4-0)

Last week: vs. Washington (W), @ Washington (W) After limping into conference play, Washington State has been finding success.

They notched an impressive win against then-No. 24 Arizona State, along with back-to-back victories against rival Washington. They are one of three teams perfect in conference play, but will be tested Friday when they play No. 21 Colorado.

4. No. 19 Arizona State (14-2, 3-1)

Last week: vs. USC (W), vs. UCLA (W) This week: vs. Cal The Sun Devils have won three consecutive games, but a loss to Washington State in their conference opener puts them at fourth. On the season, ASU has beaten No. 11 North Carolina and

Last week: vs. Oregon State (L), @ Last week: @ Oregon (W), vs. Oregon Oregon State (L) (W) This week: @ UCLA, @ USC This week: @ USC, @ UCLA Oregon started the season 10-2, but The Beavers have already been through the gauntlet. In a stretch of eight days, have lost four consecutive conference games since. Granted, they played the No. 2, two came at the hands No. 24 and No. 4 teams of California and in the nation. They lost all Stanford, but the two of them, but rebounded last weekend when they Civil War defeats must have hurt. won back-to-back Civil Wars against an improved Ducks team.

11. Utah (7-8, 0-4) Last week: vs. Stanford (L), vs. Cal (L) This week: @ Washington, @ 7. No. 21 Colorado (11-4, 1-3) Last week: vs. Cal (L), vs. Stanford (L) Washington State Prior to conference play, Utah won five This week: @ Washington State, @ consecutive games, one of which was a Washington double-overtime thriller The Buffaloes have hit a bit of a rough against BYU. However, the patch after winning their Utes have lost their first first nine games. Since four conference games then, they’ve gone 2-4, and have had difficulty which include losses to scoring consistently.

Cal and Stanford. They’ll have to wait until the tournament to prove they belong with those two teams. 12. Arizona (4-11, 0-4) Until then, they have work to do to climb Last week: vs. UCLA (L), vs. USC (L) back into the Pac-12 standings.

This week: vs. Stanford, vs. Cal If this looks bad now, it’s about to get worse for the Wildcats. They own the 8. UCLA (8-9, 2-3) worst record in the PacLast week: @ Arizona (W), @ Arizona 12 despite having played State (L) one of the easier schedules.

This week: vs. Oregon, vs. Oregon State During the next 12 games, The Bruins’ longest winning streak of that will change. Eight of the season is two. Their longest losing streak is also two, which those games will feature ranked oppoamounts to a very aver- nents, and it looks like a long year for age record. However, the Arizona.

Bruins have three losses by Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter just two points, and haven’t On Twitter @MitchIsHere sports@dailybarometer.com been winning close games. In that sense,

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I like,” Robinson said. “That’s what happens when you play for (head coach) Bob Hurley and a program like St. Anthony’s.”

Though Cooke became a coveted prospect The added playing time has been at the expense of junior Challe Barton, who totaled of Robinson’s, he wasn’t even on the radar for a combined 24 minutes in the last three Oregon State initially.

“When I first saw Hallice play it was in a contests.

Despite Barton’s decreased role, the rela- summer tournament with his AAU team,” tionship between the two point guards has Robinson said. “I’m watching another kid play and I’m thinking, ‘He’s not bad, but boy, not faltered.

“When you look at the bench, whenever I I like that guard over there.’”

“That guard” was Cooke, whose basketball make a play or make a shot, (Barton) is the instincts and shooting techfirst one up celebrating me,” nique made an immediate Cooke said. “I’m the same way, impression on Robinson. vice versa. When he makes It’s just going out “He moved like a basthe right play, I’m cheering for ketball player — it was as there, competing him. Our relationship hasn’t if he knew what was going changed at all, and in fact, it’s and playing to happen before it hapgotten stronger.” the hardest. pened,” Robinson said. “I Cooke is familiar with just liked his shot. His shot Barton’s situation. was not as nice as it is now, Hallice Cooke While at St. Anthony’s, but it certainly was not a Freshman guard Cooke made the varsity squad high schooler’s shot.” his sophomore year and got Once Robinson got to know Cooke better, plenty of playing time at first.

“I was starting the first practice, then the he became further impressed by his lively older guys got ahead of me (started) and I workout habits.

“Hallice spends a lot of time in the gym,” found myself on the bench,” Cooke said.

“I played for the first five games, and I did Robinson said. “He always tweets when he something wrong one game. … From there, goes to the gym; it’s exciting for him. I was able to keep tabs on him going to the gym all I didn’t really play unless it was a blowout.”

Cooke was patient until the following year, summer long. He has not gotten to where he when he began the season on the bench for is by accident at all. It’s all hard work.”

Still, other schools never heavily recruited the first three games and started the rest of Cooke. the year.

“I saw him in an all-star game with a bunch “That’s when I came into form as a key player on the team,” Cooke said. “(Current of high, major recruits, and I was sure he was UCLA forward) Kyle Anderson was hitting me going to shoot the ball well enough to get up for easy buckets on the break. … I became recruited,” Robinson said. “And of course he a focal point in the offense and I was doing did, and we just held on for dear life and tried to get him to come out here.” big things defensively.”

The coaching staff managed to recruit He became a vocal leader, and that mentality was part of what endeared the Union Cooke despite the expectation that he City, N.J., native to OSU head coach Craig wouldn’t get much playing time during his first year.

Robinson.

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learn behind the guys and by sophomore year I’d be a key part of the team,” Cooke said.

Cooke didn’t wait until his sophomore year to make his name known, and the Beavers have benefited.

He averaged 10.4 points over his last five games and has connected on 54.5 percent of his 3-pointers in the same stretch.

The rest of the conference schedule will be a big test for Cooke and the Beavers, but the 6-foot-3 guard isn’t intimidated by Pac12 foes.

“No matter who I’m going against, whether it’s a senior, junior, sophomore or freshman, we’re all the same; we’re all basketball players,” Cooke said. “It’s just going out there, competing and playing the hardest.”

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TRIATHLON n Continued from page 5 is very uplifting.”

Senior and former president Aaron Seipel got into the club after running cross-country in high school. He initially had trouble swimming, but ultimately stuck it out because of the encouragement of other members in the club “I found out swimming is a lot more than not drowning,” he said. “It’s to good to have others to help keep you going.”

Still, Van Lewe noted the club is too much for some.

“If it’s not for you, it’s not for you,” she said.

The current cost of joining the club is $35 for a year. Any students who wish to compete in national events such as Wildflower must help volunteer.

Nick Mendes, contributor sports@dailybarometer.com

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ou could call us the nuclear generation.

We’ve never experienced a time before the nuclear arms race, and we’re all pretty blase about the constant threat of having a nuclear bomb dropped on our heads.

That’s because now we know that nukes are good for more than destruction. Oregon State University designed a MultiApplication Small Light Water Reactor about a decade ago, and licensed it to Corvallis company NuScale, which has used the OSU design to commercialize a small modular nuclear reactor.

We’re also realists enough to know that people would just find another way to kill staggeringlyhigh numbers of other people if all the nuclear bombs ever were dismantled, like governments profess they want.

There’s danger inherent in any form of generating energy: Dams can break, and the resulting floods can kill.

Windmills can break, topple over, and crush things.

Generators can explode.

Coal can be dangerous to mines and pollute the air when burned.

Nuclear reactors can melt down and destroy cities. (Though, unfortunately, superpowered mutants and metahumans aren’t actually a thing in the real world.)

The risk of any of these things happening is greatly reduced, enough so that they are negligible, when proper safety procedures are followed.

Let’s face it: The future’s only

going to get more technologically advanced.

Going without electricity isn’t really a feasible option for us, not until some “Revolution”-style apocalypse makes it obligatory.

As population and technology use continues to grow, so does our need for electricity, and the need for more efficient means of creating it.

In 2013, Oregon — and NuScale — became a part of Project WIN (Western Initiative for Nuclear).

Project WIN is intended to study the possibility of whether a NuScale reactor could be operational in a site similar to the Idaho National Laboratory by 2024.

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ne of the great struggles of starting a new term with new classes and potentially new instructors revolves around note-taking.

Should you faithfully bring a pen and notebook to class everyday and try to capture the wisdom of your instructor on paper?

Should you haul around your laptop or tablet, risking exposing your relatively expensive technology to the elements and potential thieves?

Should you just show up and wing it?

You all know the answer — bring something to take notes on. Be it pen, stylus, pencil or a quill, notes are important to the success of your college career. Unless you have an photographic memory, and maybe even then, bring something to class to take notes on.

Notes give you “a record of class and book content so that you don’t have to rely on memory as you prepare for an exam,” according to the Center for Academic Success’ website for Pace University in New York.

You wouldn’t try to make a recipe you’ve never used before without some sort of reference material, be it your own or otherwise. So why risk it on something that is far more important, expensive and timeconsuming, like college courses?

Associate Professor Peter Betjemann of the school of writing, literature and film at Oregon State University told me, in response to my question of whether he liked it when his students took notes in his classes, “Hell yeah.”

“The main perks of note-taking are that it creates a better environment for collaboration,” Betjemann said. “It provides students with a common set of information — a reference point — to draw from for class discussion. A kind of shorthand is established.

Oftentimes note-taking is seen as I tell you something

CON: Taking notes, note-taking apparatuses distract students from listening to lectures

and you write it down. That’s boring. I see it as you write something down and now we can have a conversation (about it).”

So not only is note-taking beneficial to success in college, it also creates a common understanding between the class and instructor to stimulate thinking and creativity.

Some instructors are adamant on taking notes “the old Cassie fashioned way,” with pen and treeflesh. It may actually be more beneficial than it sounds.

In an experiment conducted by neurophysiologist Jean-Luc Velay at the University of Marseille, the parts of the brain activated during handwriting versus typing were observed.

Velay’s team found that when we write by hand, the movements involve motor memory in the sensorimotor part of our brain — the part that deals with recognizing letters. This suggests that there is a neurological connection between reading, writing and visual recognition in general. Writing is slower than typing, but that’s because, temporally, this means that the learning process is going on.

However you choose to take notes, be sure that they’re more than just epic doodles, or they won’t do you any good.

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aking notes in class is encouraged, sometimes even required. But nowadays, there’s basically no reason to stress about getting every single note you can on paper while the professor lectures.

Usually professors upload their lecture notes to Blackboard anyway.

Dartmouth’s Academic Skills Center website states that “making yourself take notes forces you to listen carefully and test your understanding of the material.”

But a lot of students haven’t fully grasped the concept of beneficial notetaking, let alone how to integrate listening with taking notes. Either they scrawl the whole PowerPoint slide down in their notebooks and miss the lecture, or they take notes when they weren’t really listening and the chicken scratch is rendered useless afterward.

Elena Gabi Passarello, an OSU English professor, expresses her pro-note-taking opinion as an instructor, but allows for the downfalls of our technologybased generation by saying, “I suppose notetaking on digital devices might make students tempted to go online and zone out.”

It’s true. If you’re taking notes on your laptop, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the

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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.

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entertainment your computer has to offer.

Namely, the social media go-to buttons that will lead you oh-so-quickly to a land in which gossip and entertainment has subjugated, conquered and claimed with a planted flag (or banner ad).

This is especially true when you consider the way most lectures are structured: a long boring monologue, spanning anywhere from 50 to 80 minutes, held in a crowded room. If that doesn’t scream, “Go to your happy place — aka, Facebook or Instagram,” I don’t know what does.

In Salman Khan’s article, “Why Long Lectures Are Ineffective,” he writes about studies conducted to prove the effectiveness of learning in extended college lectures. They concluded that students only engage in the initial 10 or 15 minutes of a 50- to 80-minute class.

This provides an explanation for students’ tendency to zone out and focus on alternative forms of stimulation.

Note taking is an ideal that often needs a reality check.

We want to do it. We should do it. But even when we force ourselves to commit to it, the full notebooks we produce become nuggets of gold surrounded by mountains of poisonous, distracting tailings.

Who wants to wade through all that when it comes time to study? I know I don’t. 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.

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Homeless and unemployed, each day is about waiting

By Amanda Peacher

“As you can see already, it’s a wait. It’s Benson. “So that’s my only alternative a waiting game,” says Benson. “You’ve today.”

Benson has been searching for design got to queue up to do your laundry, PORTLAND — Dirk Benson’s day or writing work for more than a year. queue up to take a shower, queue up starts at 5:30 a.m. He has to get going early, because today he needs a shower. Two years ago he lost his job and for whatever food is offered.”

When the cafe opens, Benson’s task Benson is homeless; for now he’s sleep- his marriage fell apart. He struggles ing in an abandoned home in north with alcoholism. So, he moved from is to sign patrons up for meal times.

Portland. There’s no water, electricity, or Alabama to Portland for a fresh start. “This is a job,” he says, as he waits for people to come into heat so he goes downtown for services. After unemployment the restaurant. “I can In his pocket, he has his last 80 cents benefits dried up last do this.” year, he started living and a precious bus ticket.

As you can see At 10:45 he sits down “One last one, Willy Wonka gold on the streets. He’s already, it’s a wait. to his first and only ticket,” says Benson, as he validates been homeless off and on ever since. his ticket.

It’s a waiting game. meal of the day — an egg and steak scramBenson’s coat is It’s dark outside when he boards ble with cornbread the Max car. Showers at a downtown smudged with dirt, but Dirk Benson and beans and a tall that’s the only visible shelter open at 7, and he wants to be in Homeless man in Portland glass of milk. So far, sign that he sometimes line at 6:30. the process of getting sleeps outside.

“You gotta get here in time enough a shower and breakfast “I can pass off as to beat the crowds because they’ve got has taken five hours. somewhat normal,” he says.

“Because only a limited number of showers, “ Next he heads to the coffee shop at says Benson. He gets a shower about that’s what I am deep down. I just happen to be in this predicament at the Powell’s book store to look at job listonce a week.

As he approaches the shelter, a few moment. It’s not an easy life. And I don’t ings on his computer. Benson says that having a warm place to plug in is vital to others are already ahead of him in line. want to be here.”

By the time it opens, the line has grown It’s now 9:00 in the morning and his routine. Without his laptop, he can’t and snakes around the block. Benson Benson hasn’t yet had anything to eat or work as a graphic designer, or search says he’s waited four hours for a shower drink. His next stop is Sisters of the Road easily for jobs.

Since he’s out of cash, Benson’s plan slot before.

Cafe. There, he can get a hot meal in “Obviously it’s a necessary evil. I’ve exchange for a half hour of work. But the is to sell Street Roots, the newspaper got a job interview tomorrow so I’ve got nonprofit restaurant doesn’t open for for people experiencing homelessness. to look as best as I possibly can,” says an hour. So, he waits outside, smoking. He goes through a training at the Street Roots office.

He’s hoping to earn enough to send a gift to his thirteen-year-old daughter in Alabama. But he’s not looking forward to standing outside in thirty degree weather to sell papers.

In winter, he’s constantly shuffling from place to place, trying to stay warm.

He next heads to a rather unexpected hangout — the Portland airport. He settles in to a short row of leather seats in front of check-in kiosks at the Portland airport.

“The reason why I like this is it’s kind of tucked out of the way,” says Benson.

“I’ve got a wall outlet right here. So I can plug in my laptop, plug in my cell phone.”

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down. And that’s it. There’s no other days in a row.

While he watches travelers come and sound in that place,” says Benson. go, Benson makes a couple of calls on “You know that eerie sound when the the lights go out? Like when you’ve his cell phone. got a blackout. It’s just “Hi, is this Dignity that deathly silence. It’s Village?” he says, holding his phone to his ear.

You know that eerie unbelievably lonely.”

Before leaving the He’s on a waiting list at two different in sound when the lights airport, Benson makes transitional housing go out? Like when it’s a stop at the desigsmoking area facilities in Portland. a blackout. It’s just that nated outside. “That’s gold.

According to a 2013 deathly silence. It’s That’s gold,” he says, Multnomah County report, homeless peounbelievably lonely. as he plucks several half-smoked cigarettes ple outnumber shelter from the tall metal ashbeds by more than two Dirk Benson trays. “When you’re out to one in the metro Homeless man in Portland of cigarettes and out of area. If Benson finds a job and he gets temporary housing, he money, and you have a nasty habit like hopes to save enough to rent a place this, this is what you’ve got to do.”

Benson says his New Year’s resolution of his own.

Later this evening, Benson plans to is to quit smoking. But he’ll work on that hang out at a bar where his friend works. like everything right now — one day at He doesn’t have cash, but at least he’ll a time.

Note: A few weeks after Amanda have company. He says it’s better than hanging out in the darkness of the aban- Peacher spent the day with him, Dirk Benson told OPB he got a job as a contract doned house where he sleeps.

“Four-thirty is when the sun goes writer, and started work in mid-January.

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