The Daily Barometer Jan. 17, 2012

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All classes beginning before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m. today will be cancelled due to a forecast of two inches of snow on top of rain and snow melt.

Administration made the decision last night due to hazardous road conditions for students who drive, bike and otherwise commute to campus. Further announcements will be made later today for Wednesday’s classes.

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SPORTS

8 – Gymnasts top Oklahoma 8 – Wrestling loses at home

NEWS

2 – Diane Paddison lecture tonight at 7 p.m. at LaSells

WOMEN’S HOOPS: Beavers lose a close one to Arizona.

FORUM

4 – Re-examine Bacc-core

Vigil treks in honor of King To honor tradition, MLK legacy, students carry candles through rain

“It’s an honor to organize these events every year. MLK was someone to look up to, and he inspired everyone in the past, and everyone today,” said Isaac Black, record keeper of Kappa Alpha Psi and

By Amanda Antell The Daily Barometer Oregon State University senior.

Last night was no different in It was on Jan. 15 that Martin Luther King Jr. was born, and events the celebration festivities, as it was like last night’s candlelight vigil are OSU’s annual MLK candlelit vigil how we celebrate. For the past 33 honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and years, Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity his legacy. The vigil has been an has facilitated MLK celebrations OSU tradition since 1978. and events to honor the man with See MLK | page 3 a dream. n

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Anderson DuBoise lights and carries a candle for last night’s vigil, which traveled through the rain from the Black Cultural Center

Snow brings hazardous conditions, cancelled classes

Due to recessive economy, poor job market, super seniors are more common

By Alex Hilborn

The Daily Barometer

Earning a college degree in standard time has proven to be a challenging task, often causing students to take longer-than-conventional dictates to graduate.

It has almost become so common for students to take longer than the established standard to complete their education, that society has undergone a slight paradigm shift.

When people talk about the time it takes an individual to earn their diploma, the answer is not what it was a decade ago. Many readily accept the fact that undergraduate students may need five-plus years to complete programs originally outlined to take four years.

“More frequently than used to be the case, students come to college with more complex life circumstances. These run the spectrum from health issues, to family issues, to most recently, financial issues, and these circumstances often require more part-time enrollments, breaks in enrollment (taking quarters off), etc.,” said Susie Brubaker-Cole, associate provost for academic success and engagement/ director of advising. “Clearly this type of complexity has extended the length of time students need to complete their degrees, often well beyond four years.”

Even for students who stay on top of monitoring their degree progress, unexpected hurdles outside of their control can delay students from graduation. A lack of course availability for required classes across multiple disciplines has caused a back-log of students needing to take these classes before they can graduate.

In order to prevent students from having to postpone graduation because of limited seating in required classes, Brubaker-Cole claims that the university has put effort into opening more seats in lower division classes to make them more accessible, though availability in upper division classes may still remain a problem.

Students can avoid unwanted obstacles in their college experience by keeping good communication with an advisor and by using See UNDERGRADS | page 3

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A glimpse of Monday morning’s snow before it melted. Due to the long weekend’s layers of snow and rain, administrators opted to delay all classes beginning before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m. today.

Third annual EMT research day explores new virus Keynote speaker touches on research in environmental toxicology, biosphere

their research with posters,” said Susan Atkisson, the office manager for the department of environmental and molecular toxicology.

“One room is reserved for posters that will be competitively judged

By Annecy Beauchemin by field experts, and the other room The Daily Barometer All day Friday in the LaSells contains posters that will not be Stewart Center was the third annu- judged.”

Topics presented on the posters al Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Research Day, attended included research on a potential by about 150 people from within the novel virus that causes neurofibroOregon State University community mas in goldfish and the projects of an endophyte testing lab set up at and outside.

The research day serves “to show OSU. “For the most part,” said Atkisson, the community what we’re doing in our department. For most of the “it’s internal to OSU, but everyone is day, speakers from the department invited.” Special guests also visit for present a variety of EMT topics in the research day from facilities such the auditorium, while in adjacent as Portland’s OHSU. rooms, OSU EMT students display According to Craig Marcus, at the n

heart of EMT Research Day is the intent to “highlight our students’ research and show it to the wider community.”

Dr. Richard Peterson of the University of Wisconsin in Madison was the event’s keynote speaker, presenting on his research in environmental toxicology. His research concerned reproductive failure in Great Lakes trout and its association with environmental contaminants, particularly dioxins, a global contaminant of public health concern that Peterson compared to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, an infamously discontinued insecticide.

Effects of dioxins on the rest of the biosphere can be inferred through his focus on the fish population. He

described trout as a “top of the food chain, predator fish,” adding that the fish are connected to the rest of their environment, and that if their population drops, their prey may face overpopulation.

Fish are not the only population that may be affected by dioxin contact. Peterson explained the ubiquity of the toxin—it is in the air we breathe, the water we drink and our food and soil. His study of the Great Lakes’ fish can indirectly be a glimpse of how dioxins can harm us.

“We’re trying to understand what long-term, low-dose exposure means,” Marcus said.

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The captain of the cruise ship that wrecked off Italy’s western coast will be questioned by authorities Tuesday at a hearing, his attorney said.

Francesco Schettino is under arrest and may face charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck, and abandoning a ship when passengers were still on board, according to Italian prosecutor Francesco Verusio.

Schettino could face up to 15 years in prison, he said.

At the closed hearing, a preliminary investigation judge will decide whether Schettino will remain detained. The captain has not yet been questioned, but more than 100 witnesses, including passengers and crew, have been interviewed, the prosecutor said.

The captain’s attorney, Bruno Leporatti, said in a statement Monday that Schettino was “shattered, dismayed, saddened for the loss of lives and strongly disturbed.”

But, he said, Schettino is “nonetheless comforted by the fact that he maintained during those moments the necessary lucidity to put in place a difficult emergency maneuver ... bringing the ship to shallow waters.” That move, Leporatti said, saved the lives of many passengers and crew members.

Italian prosecutors have ruled out a technical error as the cause of the incident, saying the captain was on the bridge at the time and had made a “grave error.”

Late Monday, the head of Italy’s coast guard said 29 people remained unaccounted for from the partially sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia — a sharp spike from earlier estimates of the missing.

Coast guard chief Marco

Brusco said the whereabouts of four crew members and 25 passengers were unknown, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported.

Authorities earlier believed that 16 people were unaccounted for.

The Costa Concordia hit rocks Friday night just off Italy’s western coast, leading to what passengers described as a chaotic and surreal scene to evacuate and the deaths of at least six people.

On Monday, rescue efforts were ongoing in and around the mammoth vessel, which was listing on its side off the island of Giglio.

The search had been suspended earlier in the day because the vessel began to move, said the island’s mayor, Sergio Ortelli.

Coast Guard spokesman Filippo Marino said efforts had resumed, adding that rescuers will focus on retrieving the body of a man, presumably a passenger, discovered earlier in the day.

However, he said the weather forecast has rescuers worried, as it calls for rising winds.

The head of the company that owns the ship said Monday he has not given up hope of finding survivors.

“Hope is the last thing to die,” said Costa Cruises chairman and chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi. He addressed journalists at an emotional press conference Monday, apologizing repeatedly for the accident.

Prosecutors are examining the ship’s data recorder and expect to have results within days, Verusio said.

They are also considering whether others may share responsibility for the crash with the captain.

Foschi placed blame for the wreck squarely on the

captain, however, saying Schettino had deviated from frequently traveled routes.

“The captain decided to change the route and he went into water that he did not know in advance,” Foschi said.

He said the company was limited in its ability to investigate the incident because it did not have the data recorder.

Schettino, who has been with Costa since 2002, had never been involved in an accident before, Foschi said.

He downplayed the possibility that alcohol may have played a role in the crash, saying he did not believe Schettino drank, and that all crew were subject to random drug and alcohol tests by Costa Cruises.

The company had said earlier that Schettino may have made “significant” errors that led to the wreck.

“The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and the captain’s judgment in handling the emergency appears to have not followed standard Costa procedures,” Costa Cruises said in a statement Sunday.

The ship had about 2,300 tons of fuel on board at the time of the wreck, Foschi said Monday, adding that so far there was “absolutely no evidence of fuel leaking into the sea.”

Divers have been searching the skyscraper-sized ship, working underwater in pitch blackness, in hopes of finding the missing. There were roughly 4,200 people on the Costa Concordia when it ran aground.

Among those unaccounted for were two Americans. The U.S. State Department identified them Monday as Gerald and Barbara Ann Heil. The

U.S. Embassy has requested information from “anyone with information” regarding the Heils’ whereabouts, the State Department said.

The Heils live in White Bear Lake, Minn., according to CNN affiliate WCCO, and have four children and 15 grandchildren. Their daughter, Sarah, told CBS Radio in Chicago that the couple was planning to travel after retiring, WCCO said.

The disaster’s impact on earnings will cost the ship’s owner at least $85 million to $95 million in the fiscal year to November, parent company Carnival Corporation said Monday — not including “other costs to the business that are not possible to determine at this time.”

Foschi said passengers would get “material compensation for their loss,” but declined to go into details.

The ship is expected to be out of service “for the remainder of the current fiscal year if not longer,” the company said.

Schettino joined Costa Cruises as a safety officer in 2002 before being appointed captain four years later, the company said.

Even with its admission that mistakes were made, the Genoa-based cruise company defended the ship’s crew in the face of criticism on the part of some passengers, who said the crew appeared helpless and overwhelmed as passengers rushed for lifeboats.

“It is becoming clear that the crew of the Costa Concordia acted bravely and swiftly to help evacuate more than 4,000 individuals during a very challenging situation,” the company said, adding all crew members are trained and the passengers earlier took part in an evacuation drill.

— CNN

Editor: Phone hacking ‘possible’ at Daily Mirror The editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror told a press ethics investigation Monday that he had no knowledge of phone hacking at the tabloid, though it “might well have” taken place at the tabloid newspaper without his knowledge.

Richard Wallace made the comments under questioning by lawyer David Barr at the ongoing Leveson Inquiry, a wideranging government-backed investigation of British press ethics and practices.

James Hipwell, a former employee of the Daily Mirror, testified last month that phone hacking “happened every day” at the Mirror’s show business desk in late 1999, though he provided no specific evidence. In a separate case, Hipwell was convicted in a stock-tip scandal in 2005.

Wallace was the show business editor at the paper from October 1999 to October 2000.

Barr pressed Wallace on Hipwell’s testimony, asking him whether the allegations of phone hacking were true.

“No, not to my knowledge,” Wallace

said.

Barr followed up by asking whether it was “possible it was going on, but being hidden from you?”

Wallace responded: “It might well have been.”

When asked about the paper’s revealing of a celebrity affair in 2002 while he was then the head of news, Wallace said, “it’s possible” the tip about the affair may have come from intercepted voice mail messages — again without his knowledge.

“I don’t recall the exact nature of [the source],” Wallace said, adding, “It could have come from anywhere, really.”

The period of time in question occurred during Piers Morgan’s tenure as editor of the newspaper. Morgan, now a CNN anchor, left the paper in 2004; Wallace replaced him as editor.

Hipwell said in his December testimony that he “cannot prove” that Morgan knew about illegal eavesdropping, but that it was “very unlikely he did not know

what was going on.”

Morgan has vigorously denied ordering phone hacking at any point during his career.

Morgan testified at the inquiry last month that he did not believe phone hacking had taken place when he was editor of the tabloid.

Speaking by video link, he tenaciously defended himself against accusations that he knew more about phone hacking.

The Leveson Inquiry was prompted by public and political outrage at the revelation that another tabloid, Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, hacked into the phone of a missing teenage girl who later turned out to have been murdered.

Murdoch’s son James ordered the bestselling paper closed over the scandal.

Much of the inquiry — and a related police investigation — focus on allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.

— CNN

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Wednesday, Jan. 18 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.

Student Sustainability Initiative, 7-8pm, Student Sustainability Center.

Learn how you can get involved with sustainability projects on campus.

Thursday, Jan. 19 Meetings Recreational Sports, 3-4pm, Dixon Conference Room. RecSports Board Meeting. Discussion and deliberation on 2012-13 Recreational Sports budget.

Events Diversity Development, ISS, Noon1:30pm, Valley Library, Willamette West Room 3622. Student leaders from cultural centers will highlight prominent figures from their communities who worked to strengthen MLK’s vision & the Civil Rights Movement. 30 min.

Q&A and light refreshments provided.

Monday, Jan. 23 Meetings College Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!

Speakers Socratic Club, 7:30pm, Milam Auditorium. A debate: Speakers Dr. Nicole von Germeten, a Latin American History professor at OSU and Dr. Joseph Orosco, a Philosophy professor at OSU, will debate “The influence of Christianity on Latin America: Beneficial or Destructive.”

Tuesday, Jan. 24 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues.

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Recreational Sports, Noon-1:30pm, MU 110. Open Hearing. Public input for 2012-13 Recreational Sports budget.

Events The Pride Center, 3:30-4:30pm, The Pride Center. A discussion group focused on LGBTQ issues and topcs.

Tea will be provided.

Wednesday, Jan. 25 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Recharge your battery - Interfaith meditation, devotion and prayers - bring your favorite inspirational reading to share.

Thursday, Jan. 26 Meetings Recreational Sports, 3-4pm, Dixon Conference Room. RecSports Board Meeting. Discussion and deliberation on 2012-13 Recreational Sports budget.

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Diane Paddison focuses on balance, finding a career focus

By Gwen Shaw The Daily Barometer

Tomorrow night from 7 to 8 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University’s College of Business will host Diane Paddison’s lecture “Finding Balance: Practical Wisdom for Young Professionals.�

Paddison is a member of the Dean’s Circle of Excellence and is an OSU College of Business alumni, class of 1981. After graduating OSU, Paddison attended Harvard Graduate Business School in Boston, Mass. After getting her Master in Business Administration, she went on to work various jobs, including high level positions at Trammell Crow Company,

CB Richard Ellis and ProLogis before the market crashed.

Paddison described CB Richard Ellis as “the largest commercial real estate agency in the world; on the service side.� She worked there as a global head of corporate services and oversaw a $600 million business with about 45,000 employees all over the world.

While working on her career, Paddison also married and had two kids, and moved to Dallas, Texas. After six years of single motherhood, she remarried to a man from Harvard. “He was a single dad with two children, so we have raised our four kids­, sort of a mini-Brady Bunch­,together.�

Paddison now serves on three for-profit boards, and four not-for-profit organizations. She recently started her own not-for-profit organization and wrote a book titled “Work, Love, Pray.� The lecture

she will be giving tomorrow night will be taken from the book. “Her message is relevant for the OSU audience and young professionals as she talks about the value to find a balance and that every facet of your life is important,�

Jenn Casey, director of communications and marketing for the College of Business said. “What I think is exceptionally important that she talks about, is to not lose yourself or your values in your quest to an exceptional career.�

She will focus on three main aspects: “It all begins with you – figuring out what’s important to you�; “Knowing that you’re not alone – there are a lot of great people that want to support you�; and setting boundaries.

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Four reasons why Pakistan won’t face coup Pakistan is facing its most serious political crisis in years, with rapidly escalating conflicts between the civilian government, the military and the judiciary, against the backdrop of a faltering economy, widespread poverty, corruption and the bloody war with Islamist militant groups.

The country was founded in 1947 as a democracy, but in times of crisis the army — Pakistan’s most powerful institution -— has overthrown the civilian government on the grounds that the leadership had been unfit and corrupt.

Rumors of another coup have been swirling around the current crisis -- but analysts say a military takeover is highly unlikely this time around. Here are five reasons why: 1. The people won’t support a military take over Pakistanis support a strong military for defense and security-related issues but analysts say a history of failed military dictators has sapped much of the public’s confidence in the army’s ability to solve Pakistan’s political problems.

The reigns of military leaders like Generals Ayub Khan, Zia Ul Haq, and, most recently, Pervez Musharraf, were plagued by

accusations of corruption and ineffective leadership. “It has become far more difficult for a military takeover to take place because of public opinion,� says Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, the head of Pakistan’s Institute for Legislative Development and Transparency, an Islamabadbased political think thank. “There is a strong consensus against a military takeover among the Pakistani people.

Right now, all the public criticism is aimed at the civilian government. If the military takes over, the criticism will be directed at the military and that’s something they don’t want.�

Retired army Major General Jamshed Ayaz Khan says the Pakistani people are fed up with current civilian leadership, but they don’t think the army is the answer. “They don’t want to go back to an old system that has never worked,� he says.

2. A vibrant Pakistani news media is watching One of Pakistan’s internationally less-known features is its fiery and remarkably free news media that acts as this fragile democracy’s watchdog. A free press is only a decade-old concept in Pakistan but it has

already emerged as a powerful player in Pakistani politics.

At most hours of the day, Pakistanis can watch any one of dozens of 24-hour news networks, analyze the current political situation with reporters who hound politicians and catch up with newscasts that feature screaming debates and gaudy visual effects designed to make viewers stop and watch.

It’s not all positive news: Six journalists were killed in 2006, according to the Pakistan Press Foundation. Meanwhile the activist group Reporters Without Borders calls Pakistan one of the most dangerous places for journalists, with news personnel often being intimidated in the course of their work.

Still, analysts say, the army will be answerable to the media in case of a coup. “The media is a big factor,� says Mehboob. “We have already seen how the media is strongly questioning some of the actions taken by the military. If the military stages a coup there will be far more criticism from the media than any time in the past.�

3. An independent judiciary is watching In previous coups, Pakistan’s military leaders have managed to strong-arm Pakistan’s judi-

ciary into supporting army takeovers. Analysts say Pakistan’s current judiciary — led by a chief justice who was suspended in 2007 by Musharraf but later reinstated — won’t back down from a confrontation with the army. “The Supreme Court used to lend legitimacy to such efforts by the military but that’s no longer available to the army,�

Mehboob tells CNN. 4. Pakistan’s allies won’t support a coup Foreign powers, like the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, hold considerable influence over Pakistan because of economic, political and military support.

That’s in spite of high tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan in recent months, following the American raid into Pakistan in May 2010 that killed Osama bin laden.

Still, analysts say, Pakistan’s allies would view a military coup as destabilizing to the region and threatening to the fragile peace process in Afghanistan. “The U.S. is watching and they don’t want a military takeover in Pakistan,� says Khan. “I think they’ll step in to do all they can to convince the army a coup is not the answer.� —CNN

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movement. “MLK day means a lot to everyone; it helps everyone feel welcome and part of something. We want to encourage solidarity, and that’s what makes it so great.

This event is to include everyone, regardless if you’re black or white,� said Meleani Bates, Associated Students of OSU employee.

For last night’s celebration, about 40 students gathered at the BCC to light candles and silently walk to the Memorial Union steps. Despite the bad weather, everyone trudged through the snow in solace and respect.

Once at the MU, Kappa Alpha Psi members and orga-

nizers of the event recited the poem “Inductiveness.� After the poem was recited, the students gathered into MU 210 for an open forum discussion.

There, various issues were discussed, including isolation, lack of participation, what MLK meant to people in the past, present day, and what it means to the Occupy movement.

There were many different questions asked, and each was discussed in detail. One idea suggested UHDS, athletics and faculty get more involved with cultural centers to bridge the gap between different student groups.

Participants expressed complaints toward the general lack

of participation in an event they think so many should be interested in.

The final two issues discussed were about what MLK day means to different people, particularly kids, and the lack of participation of minorities in the Occupy movement.

Many students responded that they either didn’t have time, or they didn’t want to put their energy into it.

The discussion closed around 7:30 p.m. to move into a round table discussion.

For more information on other events held throughout the week for MLK Day, visit the Office of Equity and Inclusion.

“The purpose of this event is to honor and reflect MLK’s life, and the outcome will hopefully be that everyone has a good time, and everyone gains something out of it. I gain something new every year,� said Anderson DuBoise, external events coordinator of the Black Cultural Center.

MLK Day was originally established several years after his death to honor and recognize the movements he ignited, and the impact he left on the country. King was and continues to be one of the most prominent figures of the American civil rights

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UNDERGRADS n Continued from page 1 MyDegrees to plan out their time in college. Due to the diversity of student situations, advisors strive to find a medium between a student’s personal needs and program expectations.

Since degree programs give students an amount of flexibility on how long it takes to get their degree, many students are making a conscious decision to take longer than four years to graduate. Postponing graduation until the job market improves in their specific degree field has turned into a common trend amongst students during the recessive economy. “Postponing graduation would not be something that we would advise a stu-

dent to do,� said Ben Wessel, Associate director of the office of financial aid and scholarships. “With the current job market, it is even more important for students to be aware of their borrowing habits and to understand what their monthly repayment obligations will be.�

Students who choose to take longer in school must remain conscious of restrictions on financial aid and how they might affect them so as not to lose their chances of graduating by overusing the resources available to them.

Under the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy mandated by the Department of Education, students can only use financial aid for 150 percent of the credit hour necessary to get their degree. Due to limitations on financial aid and the cost of school adding to their

debt, students may want to pursue other avenues of spending their time while they wait for employment opportunities in their chosen profession. “Most people don’t land the position of their dreams right out of college — think long-term and build your resume with experiences that would lead to opportunities in the future,� said Adry Clark, assistant director of career services. “For example, if you’re interested in event planning, instead of only looking for jobs in event planning companies, consider a job in a marketing department or a hotel catering department where event planning would be part of your job.�

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What should be getting fixed in the bacc-core requirements Editorial of society. Instead, allowing a student to move through the great breadth of Oregon State University courses as they wish would only weed out those forever scrambling to succeed in their subject. Let students focus on their passion; don’t force other (supposedly) important topics upon them.

American society could most certainly use a greater scientific literacy, a more basic understanding of Constitutional Law, and a greater acceptance of cultures both beyond and amongst us. But finding these characteristics within our current bacc-core requirements is arbitrary at best. There’s no way to qualify the current expected outcomes of bacc-core classes.

To have a basic understanding of the geological processes of Earth? To compare the cultures of Southeastern Asia and the Asian Pacific? To be able to discuss the history of American social structure, from race and gender to income and occupation?

To say one course exposes the mind to a new ideal, could provide the very same argument in closing a mind to another; we often love what we understand, and hate what we don’t.

The Difference, Power and Discrimination requirement should be seen as a great opportunity to expose students to the quiet injustices of our society. But who’s to require that we need to be exposed to it, or in the least, who’s to say what constitutes an injustice in diversity, in power or discrimination? Ironically, a course

discussing one form of discrimination — in simply for a more acute interest. Did the bacchistory, a region, a race — could push another core committee expect to equate Rock’n’Roll with anthropology, or sexuality with economform off the course catalog.

Nevertheless, imagine bacc-core courses do ics? Most likely not, but when classifying, these in fact better each individual student — ­ both courses get muddled together, and students are the focused and wandering mind — and con- then allowed to skip the actual fundamental sider the actual requirement, burden really, of reason initially behind our bacc-core system: requiring more classes outside of our desired exposure to new ideas. Sexuality and Rock’n’roll could be life-altering, but they area of interest. are certainly not life-requiring.

Should a student, who excels in their business Granted, requiring students Are these courses, on track to enter a to expose themselves to new vague, frivolous graduate program in a year, ideas and concepts is (fundacomplete with an internship mentally) a commendable classifications of in the prior summer — using idea. However, between actucourses OSU’s an example of an extremeally enrolling in courses that obligation to provide? provide the student with a new ly prepared student — be forced to fulfill a Biological Or what the guise of perspective, not just a free pass and Physical Science requireto work on the GPA, and trying public education ment to graduate? Should a to measure the actual effects of student who has had a pasburdens OSU with? the courses, bacc-core seems sion for chemistry since the like a trivial attempt to keep the second grade come into colstudent body open-minded. lege expecting to enroll in a When the faculty senate Contemporary Global Issues, Literature and meets again on Feb. 9, beginning this diaArts and Western Culture course? logue on redefining “learning outcomes,” let’s Are these vague, frivolous classifications hope they choose to expand the discussion of courses OSU’s obligation to provide? Or to defining a long-term purpose for our bacwhat the guise of public education burdens calaureate core. Students don’t need clearer OSU with? These students have already been learning outcomes; they need a clearer reathrough the exploration, “mind-sculpting” son to learn. game; they have a high school diploma. Let t them study their field.

Even worse, many of these categories include Editorials serve as a means for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on courses such as History of Rock’n’Roll, and issues both global and local, grand in scale or diminutive. The views expressed here are a Human Sexuality, which students often choose reflection of the editorial board’s majority.

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ast week, the Faculty Senate held their first winter session meeting. One of the policy highlights for winter term will be revisions to the baccalaureate core requirements — something most students would like to see. However, going into the year, the initial proposals seem to only focus on curriculum linguistics and clearer “student learning outcomes” of core classes. This should hardly be the expected change to the bacc-core requirements the majority of students hope to see.

The Baccalaureate Committee, which is part of the Faculty Senate, must initiate a muchneeded discussion on the actual redundancy and legitimacy of our current complete set of bacc-core requirements over the next few meetings. With a chance to change something about bacc-core, let’s not stop at wording of “course outcomes.” Let’s get some serious thoughts going on the actual purpose of bacc-core.

Mandatory exploration and, if you will, expansion of our personal interests was best left to high school years. Certainly, the majority of college students are still deciding what they wish to focus their education, and subsequent career on, but allow them to do so as they wish.

Requiring students to enroll in a laboratory science or cultural diversity course, for example, stresses the variegated curriculum that many of us have already been through, and have already been introduced to.

Students don’t choose to continue their education to be exposed and introduced to all ideas; they choose to continue for their own interests. This is not to say each one of us would become a short-sighted, single-skilled product

Better living through technology Society’s obsession with the free sample I E

ver since the dawn of time, man has strived to make life easier, more convenient and less dependent on actually thinking too hard. This struggle for advanced convenience has been waging since the discovery that large sticks could be used for anything from clubs to fence posts.

So it is about time the human race has reached a point where, thanks to our technology, we really don’t have to do anything.

There was a time when in order to get anything done, people would have to exert themselves. Thankfully, those days have passed. Most of us are old enough to remember the days when sending a letter or writing an assignment meant pulling out a pencil and a piece of paper.

Throughout the centuries of the past, humans were forced to learn the craft of handwriting and grammar, instead of pointing to the letters they want on a keyboard or a touch screen, regardless if they form a word or make grammatical sense.

Now, even further advances have enabled the capability to speak at your mobile device and having it write a message for you. Why write when you can speak? Well, except when contacting your friends. No one actually wants to talk on the phone to other people; it doesn’t allow time for witty comebacks like texting does.

Technology is making the old chore of fending for ourselves a distant, and not so fond memory. Our calls are made, papers are written, toast is toasted, even our wars are fought in a more convenient, less hands-on way than ever before.

And with all of these precious machines linked into the super reliable and safe power grid, we can ensure that our way of life will be secure.

Hopefully with time, the technology that helps us live our lives will get to a

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Leineweber The Pen is Mightier point where we don’t have to tell it what to do. These self-aware machines will think for themselves, with only their human masters’ wishes in mind. With robots that will not only think for themselves, but be smarter than the average human, society will be able to wash their hands with all kinds of pesky dirty work, such as every facet of day-to-day life.

This future isn’t too far off either. Last year, the International Business Machines supercomputer “Watson” demolished the two most successful Jeopardy players in the classic trivia game. The computer was able to comprehend the question, and find the answer with astounding accuracy much faster than either one of the human contestants. This kind of superhuman intelligence is just the kind of traits we need in this new breed of autonomous, life-controlling machines.

And these machines aren’t just bookworms either. War can be such an awful endeavor, so in the future we are going to need these bots to throw down as well.

And like the supercomputers, warmongering machines are not far off either.

Currently the military uses unmanned drones to fight our enemies from afar. As of now, these drones are controlled by a desk jockey in a dark room hundreds of miles away, but there are plans to make these drones more independent in their operations, meaning that they will be able to recognize and attack an enemy without the guidance of a human controller. Telling a robot who to kill and who not to kill can be such a hassle, so it’s better for all involved to just let the robots decide.

Science and technology help us every day, and thankfully it has improved society greatly over the past centuries.

The convenience of, and our reliability on machines will only continue to benefit all members of our society. Because the less we have to think, and the more we get to rely on soulless robots, the better off we will all be. t

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t’s a typical Saturday afternoon at Costco: a war zone.

Families are spread out, babies are crying and oversized, overflowing shopping carts fly by in every direction.

Crowds of people huddle around little, old ladies who are giving away free samples. I joined one of these crowds and noticed strange behaviors. While waiting for the demonstrator to ever-socarefully cut Bagel Bites and neatly place them on the plastic tray, the shoppers pretended to browse the surrounding products. They then talked over the demonstrator’s sales pitch. The hungry crowd just wanted the free food, but these same people will groan at the long checkout lines that await them.

They will curse the parking lot traffic. Yet they will wait and wait and wait for a free sample. It’s a mysterious power.

Costco has harnessed the power of free samples. In fact, it is hard to picture Costco without free samples. This popularity has spread to the internet, with numerous blogs and websites dedicated to the store’s samples. One blog, “Costco Free Samples – Perfecting the Art of Giving Something Away,” takes it a step further, stating that Costco is a lifestyle, not just a shopping destination. The author’s entries split between descriptions of the day’s free samples and recipes.

A different post, on the culinary website “Foodbeast,” describes the samples in detail, presenting the experience like a seven-course meal. And there is even a Facebook page, “Free Samples at Costco.” It has over 318,000 likes. It’s amazing, the popularity of a little piece of food on a napkin.

But Costco is just an example, not the explanation, for the hypnosis free samples have over the general public. There is something about “free” that taps an inner motivation. Are humans genetically predisposed to gathering anything free? A potential survival mechanism passed on from ancient ancestors? Or perhaps our obsession stems from our social environment, more is always better than less. Your guess is as good as mine. Either way,

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Schary Focusing on health

“free” has become an expectation.

If you want someone’s business you better be willing to give something away.

Businesses are not naïve, they understand the obsession. In fact, we’ve already described how Costco aggressively uses it. But it has developed into something far more advanced than just the free Bagel Bite.

Nicholas Pujol, author of Mind Share Market: The Power of an Alternative Currency, defines three different types of “free” business strategies. There is the classic buy one, get one free, which is the least attractive because people still have to buy something. Second, freemium, where you can get a product or service for free but have to pay for advanced features (think Turbo Tax). Finally, Pujol describes the two-sided platform. It offers a product for free but funds it through ads (Facebook or Google).

Not only do all these models generate incomes, but they create a “mind share.” It is how a consumer thinks about the business, product or service. The businesses know free stuff will increase your mind share and fuel future business.

Obviously, businesses must view free samples, and other free models, positively if it is increasing their bottom line. Yet, this is not always the case. Some companies think free samples increase free loaders. While, there may be a financial benefit, it is offset by a minority who abuse the privilege.

To combat the free loader, companies have developed some creative defense mechanisms.

Recently, Jello announced that it would be placing free sample vending machines in target markets but have installed face scanners to prevent repeat samplers.

And I’m sure that this is just the beginning.

Free samples may also hurt consumers in unexpected ways.

A study performed by Dr. Ann Merewood, an associate professor at Boston University Medical School and director of the university’s Breast-Feeding Center, reported that new mothers who are given free baby-formula samples from hospitals are less likely to breast feed their baby. While this sounds harmless, it undermined natural breast feeding, potentially neglecting the baby from important nutrients. In addition, formulas are known to cause gastrointestinal intolerance, so mothers may not want to switch their baby after starting the free sample. If it is a name brand formula it can cost upwards of $700 a year more than a generic brand.

While that may seem like an extreme case, there are others.

Credit card companies and banks frequently have free promotions for new accounts. The companies pursue people with promises of free reward points, rebates, and even t-shirts. While there is nothing inherently wrong with credit cards, it can lead an unsuspecting customer down a road of high interest rates and long-term debt.

Probably the most entertaining use of free samples occurred in California last December.

Protesting the U.S. attorney’s cracking down on medical marijuana retail sales, Magnolia Wellness, a California medical marijuana dispensary offered free samples of marijuana and snacks.

It also offered discounts on all products.

Whether positive or negative, genetic or environmental, free samples are here to stay.

Warehouse Demo Services, the company that runs all the free samples in Costco, is hiring in every state and country there is Costco. While snacking on the free bagel bite or fighting the crowds to get that free t-shirt, keep in mind that you are always exchanging something for that item. There is never a “free” lunch. t

David Schary is a Ph.D. candidate in exercise and sports psychology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.

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Huntsman drops out of race, backs Romney Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman withdrew from the Republican presidential race Monday and endorsed front-runner Mitt Romney, while a supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry called for him to also drop out for the sake of conservative unity. “It is apparent that Gov. Perry cannot win and has no viable strategy in moving forward,� said a statement by South Carolina state Sen. Larry Grooms, a favorite of the conservative tea party movement. “Remaining in the race at this point only serves to steer votes away from viable candidates,� Grooms said, adding: “Now is the time for us to re-evaluate our choices and coalesce around a single candidate.�

Earlier, Huntsman announced his withdrawal in South Carolina, site of the critical first Southern primary on Saturday. His decision could provide an extra cushion of votes for Romney, who is facing stiff conservative competition from conservatives Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. “Our campaign for the presidency ends, but our campaign for a (better) American continues,� Huntsman declared. “I believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat Barack Obama. Despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues, I believe that candidate is Gov. Mitt Romney.�

Other candidates in the race also sounded the unity theme, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisting

he is the only conservative able to prevent the more moderate Romney from winning the nomination. “The key question we have to decide on Saturday is whether we’re going to nominate, from South Carolina, a Reagan conservative tough enough and strong enough to stand up to Obama and then to stand up to Washington. Or whether we’re going to have conservatives split three ways and nominate somebody who had no history in Boston of changing the culture of Massachusetts at all,� Gingrich told a tea party convention in South Carolina. “To do that, we have to unify the tea parties and we have to unify the conservatives in a very straightforward way.�

He earlier challenged the argument that nominating Romney, who lost to unsuccessful GOP presidential contender John McCain in the 2008 primaries, gives Republicans the best chance of defeating President Barack Obama in November. “You are arguing that the principle of nominating the guy who lost to the guy who lost is a good principle because we ought to sustain our tradition,�

Gingrich told reporters, adding: “We are a conservative party, but we don’t have to be a stupid party.�

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum also made the case that only a strong conservative — in this case him — can make the compelling case to voters in a race against Obama. “We need a conviction conservative — someone who is not just conserva-

tive on one issue and not just for one time, but someone who has been a conviction conservative on all of the issues, all of the time,� Santorum said at the tea party convention in obvious reference to Romney’s history of shifting positions on some major issues such as abortion.

Also Monday, Santorum called Huntsman’s withdrawal and endorsement of Romney unsurprising. “Gov. Huntsman ran as a moderate trying to compete with Gov. Romney for the establishment moderate vote,�

Santorum said at a campaign event in Columbia, S.C. “Gov. Romney had a leg up on him as being a solid moderate that the establishment could get behind, and Gov. Huntsman was unable able to crack through that.�

In announcing his withdrawal, Huntsman urged the remaining candidates to stop attacking each other, warning that “the current toxic form of our political discourse does not help our cause.� “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time,� he said.

Romney’s campaign already is bolstered by a huge war chest and a wave of momentum after wins in Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s hoping for a possible knockout blow with a first place-finish in the Palmetto State.

South Carolina has picked the winner of every GOP presidential nomination fight since 1980.

Huntsman’s endorsement of Romney represented a notable shift, after Huntsman recently declared Romney “completely unelectable� during an interview on CNBC. “Jon Huntsman made a basic calculation here, let’s be honest,� said CNN Chief National Correspondent John King. “If you look at the polling, he’s doing miserable in South Carolina. He’s not going to win the state next Saturday and so if he wants to run in 2016 ... this is a chance ... to try to get a little bit of good will in the party, a little bit of leverage.�

An American Research Group poll released Friday showed Huntsman with 1 percent of likely GOP primary voters in South Carolina.

Huntsman — a former ambassador to China — surprised a number of political observers when he initially decided to compete in South Carolina following his distant third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.

While Huntsman characterized his New Hampshire finish as a victory, most pundits saw it as a disappointment. The former governor had devoted virtually all of his time and resources to the Granite State.

Meanwhile, Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s campaign took in $1.3 million in a twoday, online fund-raising drive over the weekend that followed the libertarian champion’s strong second-place finish in New Hampshire.

In the fund-raising effort now extended into the week, contributors are allowed to donate up to the legal

maximum of $2,500 to Paul’s website, where a real-time tracker displays the amount of money as it comes in, as well as donor names.

Paul is running third in South Carolina, behind Romney and Gingrich, according to the latest poll.

On Sunday, Gingrich and the other remaining conservative hopefuls stepped up their attacks on Romney to try to head off a third straight win for the former Massachusetts governor.

In appearances on morning talk shows, Gingrich, Santorum and Perry all contrasted their conservative credentials with what they characterized as Romney’s more moderate gubernatorial record.

Debates on Monday in Myrtle Beach and Thursday in Charleston will likely give voters their last chance to see the five remaining Republican candidates on one stage, as some are considered likely to drop out after Saturday’s vote.

CNN will broadcast the Charleston debate.

Two South Carolina Republican politicians, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Tim Scott, said Sunday that another Romney victory this week would likely sew up the nomination for him. “If for some reason he’s not derailed here and Mitt Romney wins South Carolina, no one’s ever won all three, I think it should be over,� Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press� program. “That would be quite a testament to his ability as a candidate and a campaigner.� — CNN

Campaigns debate impact of evangelical leaders’ endorsement Washington, D.C. — This weekend’s backing of former Senator Rick Santorum by the majority of a prominent group of evangelical leaders has the campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich fighting to limit the fallout.

After three ballots during a meeting Saturday, a majority of the more than 150 attendees to the Texas gathering decid-

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ed to support Santorum over Gingrich.

The Gingrich campaign’s national co-chairman, former congressman J.C. Watts, was among those attending the gathering. He said the discussions among the leaders was spirited but disagreed with how the decision to support Santorum is being interpreted.

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decision by the evangelical leaders Watts told CNN “it was not a consensus. It was not an endorsement.�

Santorum’s campaign, however, said it believes the backing of these leaders will be a major boost. Some of the attendees are planning to come to South Carolina to help push Santorum’s campaign, help get out the vote and talk to local church activists about why they are supporting him. “Every indication it will happen. They are mobilizing,�

Hogan Gidley, spokesman for the Santorum campaign, told CNN. “We are extremely excited and blessed.�

Hours after the group’s announcement on Saturday, Santorum sent out an email to supporters that said the decision “reinvigorates our campaign� and also asked for donations to help take advantage of the support. “This has sparked another increase� in contributions to the campaign Gidley said, but he could not provide a specific

amount.

Regarding the Gingrich campaign’s downplaying of the evangelical leaders’ support, Gidley said “that is silly� pointing out 75 percent of the attendees voted for Santorum and added “the folks who are deriding the endorsement are the people who wanted it the most.�

Watts, the Gingrich campaign’s national co-chairman, said the attendees agreed not to speak out for 24 hours after the meeting concluded except for a conference call to announce the outcome of the meeting by Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council. On that call Perkins announced a consensus had emerged “around Rick Santorum as a candidate for this group.�

On the third ballot, 114 people voted casting 85 ballots for Santorum while 29 went for Gingrich.

After the press accounts started emerging from the meeting, Watts told CNN the Gingrich campaign received phone calls from evangelical activists asking

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While they said in the statement they respected Santorum and Rick Perry “we believe Newt Gingrich to be the only candidate that has the intellectual strength and the capacity to stop the Left’s attack on morality, the economy, basic freedoms and our religious liberty.�

Perkins said on Saturday on the conference call “Part of the discussion and part of the debate going into this, and the invitation to come here, was that you were willing to drop the support for the candidate if we arrive at consensus.� — CNN

why supporters of the former speaker had abandoned him. So Watts and other Gingrich supporters have mounted damage control to emphasize their support is not wavering.

On Monday, Watts and four other evangelical leaders who had attended the Texas event and are backing Gingrich issued a statement saying their allegiances have not changed. “We were united in principles and values and will remain so.

However, there was no consensus regarding a candidate, and those of us who came supporting Newt Gingrich left still supporting Newt Gingrich wholeheartedly.� The four others who were part of the statement are

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GYMNASTICS n Continued from page 8 other feeling like it. I was definitely not used to that.”

Coach Chaplin said after the meet that it’s likely Tang will also compete on floor next time, joining Harris, Mak and Stambaugh as the fourth gymnast competing in all four events.

“Chelsea did a fabulous job,” Chaplin said. “As a freshman, she just looked calm, cool and collected, and really went after it. I couldn’t be more proud of what she did tonight.”

The biggest drama of the night came in the last event on the floor for the Beavers. OSU needed five solid performances to clinch the victory over the Sooners. Junior Kelsi Blalock struggled in her routine when she fell toward the end, scoring only a 9.275.

After that though, the rest of the gymnasts never scored under 9.8, including a standout floor routine by Stambaugh, earning a 9.925 ­— the highest score of the entire meet.

“Floor’s been one of my favorite events for a long time, and I’m kind of out in my own little world out there,” Stambaugh said. “It was a blast. To finish strong like that — there’s no better feeling.”

“Makayla’s floor routine was just the exclamation point to the whole night,” Mak added.

An opening performance of this magnitude has given Oregon State a lot of confidence in its ability to go very, very far this season. “[Oklahoma’s] a really good team and we knew that it was going to be a fight tonight,” Chaplin said. “And it was. It was a fight all the way to the end. And we knew we had to do not just our job, but had to do well.”

The Beavers are on the road for the first time this season next Friday at No. 19 Arizona, and will be back in Gill the following Friday, Jan. 27, when No. 8 Stanford comes to town.

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Junior Sage Indendi was one of three Beavers in double-figures Saturday.

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Sophomore Brittany Harris vaulting in front of the 3,200 Beaver fans who came out to watch the Beavers in their season opener.

WRESTLING n Continued from page 7 “We just didn’t fight hard enough throughout the entirety of our matches today,” Zalesky said. “We’d fight hard for a period or two, but we didn’t have enough fight for the whole match.”

Going into the last match of the afternoon, the Beavers trailed by four points and needed either a technical fall or a pin from fifth-ranked senior Clayton Jack. He easily controlled the match, winning by 11, but L.J. Helbig was able to keep enough distance to avoid the game-clinching pin.

“I think the problem today was I didn’t force enough of my own attacks and attempts,” Jack said. “The guy

just backed away and danced too much. I should’ve gone out there and imposed my will a little more. Even though I won with a major, I still feel like I didn’t do enough. It hurts.”

The result was a tie at 22-22, but Wyoming was awarded an extra point by criteria, meaning they had more total match points.

It was evident on the Beavers’ faces that the loss was a difficult one.

“It’s rough to win and then watch things crumble like that,” Rollins said. “I gave up a takedown, which is two points and could have resulted in a different outcome. It was tough watching everything unfold.”

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up, and the team did. We had some really good performances first half to make up for that,” Rueck said.

Dating back to last year, Oregon State has now lost their last three to Arizona by a combined total of eight points.

Oregon State dictated the pace in the first half. The Wildcats were unable to keep the game in transition, where they are used to seeing most of their success.

Junior forward Patricia Bright controlled the key on both ends of the floor with 11 points and seven blocked shots — keeping her on pace to out-block Pac12 and school record-holder, El Sara Greer.

The Beavers would lead most of the game, their largest by five points, but were unable to pull away from the Wildcats.

“We had a couple opportunities to pull away from this team, but to credit them, they hit a

couple big shots to stick with us and pull away to win,” Rueck said.

“We get up, and then let teams back in the game. We need to bury them, and that’s what we are working on — the little things to get better,” said sophomore guard Alyssa Martin, who scored a team-high 15 points for the Beavers.

Oregon State had a chance to win at the end, but it wasn’t a great one. The Wildcats had fouls to give and used one with three seconds left. After the ensuing inbound, junior guard Sage Indendi hoisted up a running 3-point attempt that hit off the backboard.

“It ended up being the perfect storm for them,” Rueck said. “They hit the shot and they had fouls to take. It was the perfect scenario for them to get the W.” Said Martin, “We just didn’t get those stops down in the end that we needed to win.”

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Women’s basketball Saturday, Gill Coliseum Arizona 58, OSU 56

1st 2nd Total UA 21 37 58 OSU 26 30 56 OSU Martin: 15 pts Bright: 11 pts, 5 rebounds, 7 blocks Marchbanks: 0 pts (first time all year) ASU Barnes: 18 pts, 11 rebounds Whyte: 15 pts, 7 rebounds, 6 assists Arnold: 15 pts

Gymnastics Friday, Gill Coliseum (7) OSU 196.525, (4) Oklahoma 195.975 Top OSU participants Vault: Tang (3rd, 9.825) Bars: Mak (1st, 9.900), Harris/ Stambaugh/Vivian ( T2nd, 9.850) Beam: Mak (T1st, 9.875) Floor: Stambaugh (1st, 9.925), Jones/Mak (T2nd, 9.875) All Around: Mak (1st, 39.400), Stambaugh (2nd, 39.375), Harris (39.300)

Wrestling Saturday, Gill Coliseum No. 13 Wyoming 23, OSU 22 OSU wins 125: Rollins over Martinez, M. (pin) 141: Mangrum over Smith (decision, 5-3) 149: Sakaguchi over Richardson (decision, 6-0) 157: Pena over Friesth (pin) HWT: Jack over Helbig (major decision, 13-1) OSU losses 133: Zehner over Roberts (pin) 165: Onufer over Latham (decision, 8-1) 174: Martinez, P. over Weishoff (decision, 8-4) 184: LeBlanc over Vinson (pin) 197: Hernandez over Meeks (major decision, 16-5)

Women’s swimming Saturday, Dixon Recreation Center OSU 147.5, Utah 114.5 UCLA 183, OSU 78 Top OSU finishers Kibby: 1st (100-yard breaststroke); 1st (200-yard breaststroke) Dole: 2nd (100-yard backstroke) Bloch: 2nd (1,000-yard freestyle)

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Saturday, Wells Fargo Arena (Tempe) ASU 76, OSU 66

1st 2nd Total OSU 34 32 66 ASU 31 45 76 OSU Collier: 21 pts, 7 rebounds Cunningham: 13 pts, 9 rebounds Starks/Nelson: 4-17 (3-pointers) ASU Creekmur: 24 pts, 6-7 (3-pointers) Cain: 16 pts, 8 rebounds

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OSU gymnasts post a 196.525 in season-opener, snap OU’s nation-long win streak

By Warner Strausbaugh The Daily Barometer

The first meet of the season for the No. 7 Oregon State University gymnastics team exceeded all expectations right out of the gate, as the Beavers defeated the No. 4 University of Oklahoma on Friday night.

With a fairly large crowd of 3,200 fans on hand at Gill Coliseum, the Beavers showed just why they’ve been to six straight nationals and were ranked seventh nationally in the preseason poll.

It was a close fight to the very end against the Sooners, but the Beavers ended the night with a score of 196.525, with Oklahoma scoring 195.975.

“Obviously, you’re always looking at the things you need to clean up, but I’m really, really proud of this team and the way they started off the season,” Head Coach Tanya Chaplin said.

Prior to Friday’s meet, Oklahoma held the NCAA record for consecutive regular season victories with 32.

Oregon State ended that streak with its victorious debut to the season.

“It’s pretty incredible,” said senior and 2011 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year Leslie Mak. “We know how good of a program they are, and they’re beautiful gymnasts, so it’s a true honor.”

Mak’s performance earned her top all-around performer in the awards ceremony at the conclusion of the

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Leslie Mak and the Oregon State gymnastics team put on quite a show Friday night at Gill Coliseum, defeating No. 4 Oklahoma 196.525-195.975. meet. Junior Makayla Stambaugh and sophomore Brittany Harris were second and third respectively for allaround performers.

The meet did not begin exactly as the Beavers wanted it to. They started off with a 48.85 on vault and were trailing the Sooners at first, but a strong score on bars gave them a

lead, and they didn’t score below 49 in bars, beam and floor.

“It was so much fun,” Mak said.

“Honestly, I think this will be an amazing memory for me, one of my best with the team. It was such a good start, and I think everyone really fought for things, and that’s what really blew me away.”

A key performer for the Beavers was freshman Chelsea Tang. In her first meet, she wowed the crowd right off the bat, receiving a 9.825 in both vault and bars and a 9.8 on beam.

“It was amazing,” Tang said about her first meet at OSU. “There was no See GYMNASTICS | page 7

Arizona 58, OSU 56

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Beavers had a chance to get to .500 in conference, but couldn’t convert down stretch

By Jacob Shannon The Daily Barometer

The Oregon State University women’s basketball team would wish the final possessions were different in its 58-56 loss to the University of Arizona Saturday in front of a home crowd of 2,200.

The Beavers (11-6, 2-4) led by four with just over two minutes to go, but the Wildcats (13-4, 2-3) closed the game on an 8-2 run and got an eventual game-winner from Erica Barnes with 14 seconds left.

It was the second shoulda-couldawoulda home loss for the Beavers, who fell in double-overtime to Washington State University at Gill Coliseum on Dec. 31.

“You can’t be off your ‘A-game’ in

this conference. The team that hits the big shots is the one that usually wins, and they did that today,” said Head Coach Scott Rueck. “These are growing pains, we are learning to win. Winning is a habit and a skill; we are still learning how to win, and this is just another step to building this program.”

Going into Saturday’s game, Rueck stressed the importance of limiting Arizona junior guard Davellyn Whyte, who entered the contest third in the Pac-12 in scoring.

Whyte did her share of damage, scoring 15 points. It was the Beavers’ leading scorer, Earlysia Marchbanks, who was the limited one. The senior forward got in foul trouble early and didn’t score, going 0 of 5 from the field.

“She [Marchbanks] is a big part of what we do, other people had to step See BASKETBALL | page 7

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Senior Earlysia Marchbanks scanning the court Saturday in Oregon State’s 58-56 loss to Arizona.

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Saturday’s dual came down to the final match, but No. 16 Beavers come up just short

By Andrew Kilstrom The Daily Barometer

Gill Coliseum saw another heartbreaking loss for an Oregon State University team after the No. 16 wrestling team fell to No. 13 University of Wyoming 23-22 because of a tiebreaker decided by total match points.

It was the first men’s sporting event at Gill since the Beaver basketball team’s quadruple-overtime loss to Stanford seven days prior.

ranked junior Early on Saturday, it looked as Mike Mangrum though Oregon State was destined struggled for a victory when 125-pound redagainst an shirt freshman Pat Rollins upset opponent he 14th-ranked Michael Martinez with was favored to a first-round pin that electrified the beat. It took crowd of 1,100. three overtimes “He’s seen him before and lost for Mangrum 5-2,” said Head Coach Jim Zalesky. to pull out the “He got his positioning and got a win in a wild pin. It was a big match and a big exchange that swing for our side, but then we gave Clayton Jack ended in a deciit right back at 133 [pounds]. The Major decision to end sive two-point momentum he got us we gave right meet wasn’t enough takedown. back.”

Ni n e t e e n t h - ra n k e d Scott After redshirt freshman James Roberts was pinned by the Cowboy’s Sakaguchi then picked up where 16th-ranked Zach Zehner, fifth- Mangrum left off by winning a 6-0

decision over Brandon Richardson to put the Beavers up 12-6.

In the most dominant performance of the night, R.J. Pena extended Oregon State’s lead even further by pinning Dakota Friesth in the second round.

Just when it looked like the Beavers might pull away for good, Wyoming reeled off four consecutive wins, including a pin from topranked Joe LaBlanc over junior Ty Vinson, and a major decision from eighth-ranked Alfonso Hernandez over 18th-ranked redshirt freshman Taylor Meeks.

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