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Kitzhaber speaks about income gap Oregon governor to combat economic disparity during his final term By Chris Correll
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regon Gov. John Kitzhaber visited Oregon State University campus Jan. 21. Speaking directly to students in the Linus Pauling Science Center, he discussed his goals for Oregon’s future before taking questions.
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Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber addresses a crowd at Oregon State University Wednesday night.
Earlier this month, Kitzhaber was sworn in as governor for his fourth term. Despite being a prime candidate for a federal position in the past, he’s chosen to focus his attention on state issues due to “partisan” conditions in Washington. Kitzhaber punctuated his speech with the idea that “the role of government is not to fix
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Oregon State University students continue to be targeted by a phone scam, according to a notice issued by the university. Students targeted by this scam have received calls from a number that caller ID identifies as the Corvallis Police Department. The caller claims to be the Internal Revenue Service, telling students they must pay taxes or face the consequences, according to the notice. Numbers associated with this scam are 703-565-2205 and 541-766-6924, according to the report. The latter number is the number for Corvallis Dispatch. The CPD has assured students through the notice that they are not seeking payment for tax bills and do not call and demand money. Cases of phone scam calls can be reported to the Oregon Department of Justice’s website. Victims of phone scams can contact the Department of Public Safety and Oregon State Police at 541-737-3010.
problems, but to create a space in which people can fix problems themselves.” Government investment in economic recovery since the 2008 recession has slowly improved the state’s GDP and created thousands of jobs. But according to Kitzhaber, “communities of color, English language-learners, and kids who come from generational poverty,” are still disproportionately affected by disparity. He said he intends to invest in early education — particularly English — by rewarding school districts for keeping children in literature courses. In addition, Kitzhaber said he backed President
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OSU’s College of Forestry plans to update facilities, create new opportunities for students By Kat Kothen THE DAILY BAROMETER
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Dean of the College of Forestry Thomas Maness shows off a model of a cross-laminated wood building.
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Visit Peavy Hall while it’s still there; plans are that a brand new building will be standing in its place by 2017. The Peavy Hall replacement won’t be the only new building on the west side of Oregon State University’s campus. According to the Dean of the College of Forestry, Thomas Maness, a wood science laboratory will be built in the space between Richardson Hall and the Forest Science Laboratory. See FORESTRY | page 4
Column: No solace from state of campus construction Forum, page 7
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Alleged fake permit An Oregon State Police trooper responded to the Valley Football Center Tuesday in response to a call from Oregon State University Transit and Parking Services. According to OSP logs, a Transit and Parking Services employee had spotted an allegedly fake A3 zone parking permit in the window of a pickup truck. The attending officer logged that the owner of the vehicle arrived shortly after the officer showed up on the scene. After identifying the vehicle owner as an OSU student, the officer cited him for theft of services and took the permit as evidence.
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Driving while suspended Around 10:15 p.m. Monday, an officer from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office performed a routine traffic stop along Highway 99. According to BCSO logs, after identifying the driver, the attending officer learned the driver allegedly had a suspended Oregon license and lacked the required vehicle insurance. The officer logged that he arrested the driver for driving uninsured, driving while suspended and failure to drive within a lane of traffic. The officer then transported the driver to the Benton County Jail.
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Public peeing A patrolling officer from the Corvallis Police Department confronted a man who was allegedly peeing on the sidewalk at Cobblestone Square on Northwest Monroe Avenue around 3 a.m. The officer cited the man for human waste and released him. The Daily Barometer
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EUGENE — No new cases of measles were Phone: 541-766-6835 reported today in Lane County, but the county Location: 530 NW 27th Street, Corvallis did identify four businesses in Eugene that a Hours: M,Tu, Th, F 8-5 p.m., W 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. man with measles visited during the time he Student Health Services was likely contagious with the potentially danPhone: 541-737-9355 gerous disease. Location: 201 Plageman Building The businesses were: Winco Foods on Barger Hours: M-F, 8-5 p.m. Avenue, on Dec. 30 and Jan. 7; Mongolian Grill at the Sheldon shopping center on Coburg Road, on Dec. 31; Lumber Liquidators on West 11th The man returned to Lane County “on the Avenue, on Dec. 31; and Bi-Mart on Willakenzie tail end of his communicatability ... but there’s Road, on Jan. 2 and 3. always the possibility of an outlier patient who The county identified those locations using is staying at their home and not seeking medical the man’s credit card records, spokesman Jason attention,” Davis said. Davis said. The county recommends that anyMeasles is an acute, highly contagious viral one who visited those locations on the listed disease that begins with flu-like dates immediately contact Lane symptoms that progress into County Public Health at 541high fever and a rash that cov682-4041. The county may name It is reassurring that ers the body. An individual is other affected businesses, Davis we haven’t seen any able to transmit the virus from added. four days prior to four days additional cases yet. after rash onset. The man’s workplace colleagues have already been Measles is rarely life-threatnotified. Jason Davis ening, but young children, The county on Tuesday Spokesman people who are older or people announced that the Eugene with suppressed immune sysman, in his 40s, had contracted measles while tems are at a higher risk of pneumonia, brain in Southern California. infection or death. County officials say they will monitor the situIf a person thinks they may have measles, they ation over the next few days, because the disease are advised to stay home and call their health care is highly contagious. provider from home. They should not go into the “We’re treating Jan. 25 as the cut-off date for doctor’s office or clinic, because doing so may the disease to have been spread locally” by this put others at unnecessary risk, officials advise. individual, Davis said. The vast majority of people are vaccinated Because of medical privacy laws, the man is against measles because they received an MMR not being named. Davis said the county received a number of shot — which also immunizes against mumps calls from residents with fevers or flu-like symp- and rubella — as an infant. According to the toms after they named the affected businesses most recent data, 88.9 percent of two-year-olds in Lane County had received an MMR shot in 2013 Wednesday afternoon. “We’re working through those (calls), trying to — more than any other recommended vaccine. No reliable data exists on measles immunizado as much of the medical evaluations as possible tion rates for the county’s population as a whole, over the phone,” he said. Measles symptoms usually take seven to 14 Davis said. Overall immunization rates have been falling days to develop after a person is infected, according to the Center for Disease Control. That means in recent years, due to a growing number of paranyone who was infected at those businesses on ents who choose to exempt their children from those dates would likely have developed symp- otherwise mandatory vaccines, he added. toms by now. County officials said Wednesday they don’t “It is reassuring that we haven’t seen any addi- know if the man who caught measles was immunized against it. tional cases yet,” Davis said.
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Two BCSO officers responded to reports of a burglary-inprogress Monday morning. The officers were able to locate the alleged burglar in the homeowner’s vehicle, which was parked in the home’s attached garage. Officers allegedly found several items on the alleged burglar’s person that appeared to have been stolen from around the neighborhood. The officers took the items as found property and transported the alleged burglar to the Benton County Jail.
tions related to air. They compared the behaviors of helium bubbles and propane bubbles to learn about particle mass, talked about how a helicopter could fly around them and got to ride a hovercraft belonging to the OSU Department of Physics around the halls of Weniger. After the event, Minot said that the feedback was very positive. “It was a great mix of parents saying that the kids were really into it and the parents also saying that they really learned something themselves,” Minot said. The OSU Department of Physics will put on a booth at Discovery Days, a science fair for children hosted at OSU in the spring, to continue engaging and inspiring students with science.
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The children of Peak Adventure Club could say a thing or two about hot air balloons, sinking bubbles and hovercrafts. Ethan Minot, an associate professor of physics at Oregon State University, hosted an event for the Peak Adventure Club earlier this month. The club was started in 2012 by a team of parents in the Corvallis area to provide local children with adventurous and enriching experiences while focusing on service, outdoor pursuits and leadership. “The idea is to have an alternative to Boy Scouts,” Minot said.
When the parents of Peak Adventure Club asked Minot to host an educational winter event at the university, he was enthusiastic. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, now we get to do the fun stuff,’” Minot said. “I didn’t want to be lecturing at them ... So I tried to give it a story line, so I picked ‘The Physics of Air’ because air is around us and it has interesting physical properties.” When designing this event, Minot drew upon his childhood experiences with science and physics. For one activity, he helped the children build hot air balloons. “I was thinking back to when I was a kid, and one of the things I loved doing was building a hot air balloon with my dad,” Minot said. “I have good memories of that.” In addition to flying hot air balloons, the children saw a variety of different demonstra-
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Tigard lawmaker aims to change zip code confusion Eugene postman guilty PORTLAND TRIBUNE
PORTLAND — Type “97223� into Google and you’re going to end up in Portland. That’s not where state Rep. Margaret Doherty — and the city of Tigard — wants you to be. Doherty and city officials want you to know that people in the 97223 and 97224 ZIP codes don’t live in Portland, they live in Tigard. And now Doherty, a Democrat representing House District 35, is ready to push for an act of Congress — if that’s what it takes — to make sure the 97223 and 97224 ZIP codes are clearly identified as Tigard, not Portland. She has introduced House Joint Memorial 1 in the 2015 legislative session, asking Congress very nicely and politely to please make sure that those ZIP codes say Tigard instead of you-know-where. “It’s one of those things that people outside the area say, ‘Oh, it’s no big deal,’ but to those of us who live in Tigard, it’s a very big deal,� Doherty said this week. “Part of it is a matter of pride. When somebody says to me that we have to get an act of Congress to do this, I say, ‘OK, I’m going to try.’ � HJM 1 is a one-page nonbinding memorial that, if adopted, asks the Postmaster General of the United States and the Postal Service Board of Governors to recognize ZIP codes 97223 and 97224 as “Tigard ZIP codes that are separate and distinct from
Portland ZIP codes.� The memorial leans heavily on Tigard’s selling points — a rapidly growing city of about 48,000 with deeply rooted pride in the local community — and says forcing people to think that 97223 and 97224 are Portland ZIP codes is “at odds with public perception and local government organizational structure in Tigard and the Portland metropolitan area.� Lawmakers opened the 2015 legislative session Jan. 12, but aren’t scheduled to take up the memorial until they return to work in Salem in early February. No hearings have been scheduled for the measure, but Doherty is confident it will pass.
An important issue Inspiration for the memorial came from the city’s 2012 Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force, which included a section on the community’s identity and vision. Task force members promoted the idea that Tigard’s ZIP codes should really say “Tigard� as a way to distinguish the suburban city from the Rose City. People who live and have businesses in Tigard want to be identified with the area, she said. Some businesses like having the “Portland� address, and others want their customers to know they’re in Tigard. If the city can show postal officials that the Portland designation hurts local businesses, it might have a shot at changing the ZIP code description, Doherty said.
“The question we asked was how do we get more of an identity for Tigard that’s independent of Portland,� she said. “So we’re not just thought of as that place between Portland and Tualatin.� Some places outside Tigard share the two ZIP codes with Portland residents. Tigard is considered a substation under Portland’s Main Post Office. Tigard doesn’t have its own postmaster — that would cost a lot of money, Doherty said — and suburban community addresses are part of the Portland Post Office’s “rural� routes. That bugs Doherty. She’s tried for a couple of years to change that, talking with postal officials and even pestering a Google lobbyist in Salem to get the search engine giant to alter it’s description each time someone searches the 97223 or 97224 ZIP codes. No dice, she was told. Nothing in the Postal Service changes without an act of Congress, she was told. Even U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a Democrat representing Oregon’s 1st Congressional District, couldn’t persuade the Postal Service to tweak the ZIP code designation, Doherty said. “I’m just a simple person,� she said. “I think it should be easy. I don’t know why you would have to have an act of Congress to do this, but I’m going to do that. “It’s not going to be the most serious thing that comes out of the Oregon Legislature this year, but it’s an important issue to us.�
Portland Public Schools board passes policy changes, despite protesters By Kelsey O’Halloran PORTLAND TRIBUNE
PORTLAND — Though barely audible over the cries of protesters, the Portland Public Schools board Tuesday night approved proposed changes to its in-district transfer policy. The 4:1 vote came too soon for the protesters led by Don’t Shoot PDX, who sought to delay the vote so that parents could have more time for dialogue with the school board and district, said the group’s communications and media representative, Jasmine Reid. “We think that an effective and meaningful dialogue between the school board and the parents is vital to ensuring that the parents get what they need for the children,� Reid said. The group overwhelmed the school board at last week’s meeting, when 30 protesters with signs sat in front of the school board and didn’t allow the meeting to begin. At Tuesday’s meeting, half a dozen protesters stood up in the frowwnt row of the auditorium as the board moved to vote on the transfer policy. After the vote, the group chose to leave rather than be escorted out by police. Reid said that Don’t Shoot PDX doesn’t necessarily disagree with the policy changes. Several community members expressed concerns that parents of minority language and racial groups had not been heard. Under the new policy, the district will refocus on neighborhood schools, rather than the transfer system that Superintendent Carole Smith says has led to white flight from poor-performing schools. The transfer policy will be reconfigured to be a petition system
based on income status and other factors rather than a lottery. District spokesperson Christine Miles said the policy recommendations had been developed over the past two years by the Superintendent’s Advisory Committee on Enrollment and Transfer. Aimed in large part at improving racial equity, the group surveyed more than 1,800 people in different languages throughout the process. “At some point, public policy has to come to an end,� Miles said. “Because they’ve done extensive research over the past two years, the board decided they had enough information and input to make a decision.� During a public comment period prior to the vote, several parents voiced their opinions on the program. One parent urged the board to end the neighborhood lottery system so that communities would once again support their neighborhood schools. Others expressed concerns about the details of the policy, such as sibling preference. One parent pointed out that for many working families, it wasn’t possible to attend the community meetings leading up to the vote. Tamberlee Tar ver of Northeast Portland was concerned that parents who didn’t have access to a computer or the Internet may not have been heard throughout the policy process. “You’re not going to get everybody’s story,� she said. “You’re not going to get everybody’s data just looking at bullet points on a computer screen.� After the comments, board member Steve Buel made a motion to postpone the vote for at least two weeks and to
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hold two community meetings in the meantime. His motion was not seconded, and the board moved on to the policy vote – to the uproar of many protesters in the audience, who had applauded Buel. Reid said Don’t Shoot PDX said they had collected more than 100 responses to a survey in the 24 hours leading up to the board meeting. According to a copy provided by the group, the survey asked questions such as “Do you feel the Portland Public School Board is doing a good job?� “Do you feel your voice is being heard by the PPS School Board?� and “What can the School Board do or do differently?� As the board voted, Reid stood with several other protesters to explain the survey, though board members and police asked the group several times to sit down or leave the room. Co-chairs Ruth Adkins and Pam Knowles and board members Tom Koehler and Bobbie
Reagan approved the policy changes. Greg Belisle voted no and Buel abstained. The advisory committee’s co-chair, Jason Trombley, said that while he and his group met more than 60 times and accepted public comment at each meeting, he hadn’t heard from the Don’t Shoot PDX group until they attended the Jan. 13 board meeting. He said the committee will continue work with the board and district to ensure that schools will meet students’ needs. This year’s transfer program is slated to open Feb. 9. “We believe that every neighborhood school in the system should be able to serve community kids well,� Trombley said. “We’re in a pivotal moment when the district is going to start rebuilding neighborhood schools.� The end-goal, he said, is that “people can say, ‘we’re going to get a world-class education in Portland regardless of where in the city we live.�
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EUGENE — It’s long been said that mail couriers deliver through rain, snow, heat and gloom of night. Maybe that’s because if they fail to do the job right, they could end up charged with a federal crime. A now-former U.S. Postal Service worker from Eugene learned that the hard way after police recovered nearly 1,000 pieces of undelivered mail from two bins on his front porch last July. The bins contained primarily merchant advertisements (or “junk� mail) but also included 27 voter ballots from last May’s primary election and more than 200 items of first-class and standard mail. Federal prosecutors subsequently charged the man, Alex Douglas Douma, with the crime of mail obstruction. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor today in U.S. District Court in Eugene and was sentenced to a year of probation. Douma must also pay a $500 fine. Douma, who worked at a post office in Eugene, told investigators who questioned Mr. Douma was him last summer that he “just got lazy� and had failed required to to make his rounds on mulprotect the sanctity tiple occasions between late and security of U.S. April and early July, accordmail entrusted to him. ing to court documents. Douma apologized today in court for his actions, and John Masters told U.S. Magistrate Judge U.S. Postal Services Thomas Coffin that he set Office of Inspector General aside the mail because he had “felt pressured for time� while working in a job that required him to sort, scan and deliver mail. “I wasn’t intending on keeping� the mail, Douma, 27, told Coffin. Prosecutor William “Bud� Fitzgerald basically confirmed that assertion, telling Coffin that Douma had committed “a crime of failing to do something he should have done.� John Masters, an agent with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, said his agency considers a crime such as Douma’s “to be a very serious matter.� “Mr. Douma was required to protect the sanctity and security of U.S. mail entrusted to him,� Masters said.w Agents with Masters’s office worked with local authorities to investigate the case. Masters, citing federal law and agency policy, declined to say if Douma had been fired in connection with the undelivered mail. While Douma no longer works for the Postal Service, he has found a new job. His attorney, Clayton Tullos of Eugene, said after Douma’s court appearance that “given the facts, we feel this was an appropriate resolution� of the criminal case. The charge of mail obstruction carries a maximum prison sentence of six months upon conviction. Douma was not jailed in his case.
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How has campus construction impacted your transit or classes on campus?
‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ It hasn’t really impacted my transit or classes too much because there’s always alternative routes and they’re not really too far off from each other. So nothing really major. Tianna Yonemura
Freshman, bio health sciences
It has not impacted my classes, but has impacted my transit: I bike. So I guess just delays, having to take alternate routes to class. Alli Rasquinha
Grad student, exercise and sport science
Not too much. If anything, it’s nice that OSU is building new buildings for new students. I don’t mind being in a place that’s trying to think about the future. Jack Christie Junior, biology
I saw a sign that said ‘road closed’ yesterday, went through it anyway. I’ve never been one for rules. Jerome Stretch Senior, photography
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made people really uncomfortable. That was in 1968. Asking those same questions today still Barack Obama’s support for free makes people uncomfortable, community college for the first but those are the questions I think need to be asked.” two years. Preserving a sense of comWorking with private sectors to create opportunities munity “led by a common for minority entrepreneurs purpose” as well as preventing is another strategy Kitzhaber “divisive disparity” were recurring themes throughout the mentioned. “I think the information about governor’s speech. Kyle Sullivan, a master’s stuequity is really important to students,” said Ali Giza, a freshman dent in civil engineering, said in economics. “There’s not a he liked Kitzhaber’s points on lot of coverage of the inequity community and job creation, minorities face when we try to but felt his overall plans were still too vague. go to college and pay for it.” “It seems like the quesThe goverThe strength of tions that nor urged stua community is are being dents to question why dra- inversely proportional asked and the things that matic income to the level of are being said inequality aren’t really has become disparity within it. detailed. a widespread They’re so issue, citing John Kitzhaber general and that one in Oregon governor broad.” five Oregon Sullivan said. children still live in poverty. He said the answers are not When asked how he intended simple and that no one per- to create jobs for Oregon stuson can hope to provide the dents leaving college, Kitzhaber solution. said that creating jobs isn’t the “The strength of a commu- problem. nity is inversely proportional to “We actually have more peothe level of disparity within it,” ple working in Oregon than ever said Kitzhaber, who referenced before. We created over 24,000 Robert Kennedy’s brief cam- jobs in the last two months. paign in the sixties as an inspi- The problem is they aren’t high ration for his current platform. or well-paying jobs, and they “What Kennedy was doing aren’t connected to the pathin 1968 was calling out the ways that move up the income inequality in America, and it ladder,” Kitzhaber said. “It’s a
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FORESTRY n Continued from page 1 The new laboratory is projected to finish sometime next year and will house a collaborative learning environment. The laboratory will focus on the development of new sustainable products and new ways of building with wood. The laboratory will have a computer lab, for building and project design, as well as high-tech machinery and robots to manufacture these products. This will allow students to be a part of the entire creation process. The College of Engineering will be able to take advantage of the opportunities the laboratory offers in both robotics and structural engineering. Not only is this a cross-college endeavor, but a cross-university partnership. The University of Oregon’s architectural students will have access to the facilities to test their models. The entire project is estimated to cost $60 million. Half of the funds will come from the state of Oregon. The $30 million is already in Governor John Kitzhaber’s 2015 budget for universities;
national problem. I don’t know the answer to it, but one answer is that we’ve got to stop measuring economic success in a vacuum.” The governor argued one reason disparity goes unnoticed may simply be the way data about financial well-being is gathered, and said that current measures of economic success aren’t cutting it. Because most state governments gauge economic success by GDP alone, the measured effect on ordinary citizens isn’t always accurate. Instead, Kitzhaber supports the Genuine Progress Indicator, which tracks several other factors the GDP neglects, such as house ownership and job salaries, to give state officials a more precise measure of poverty. Kitzhaber said he won’t see the results of many of his policies for 10 years or more, well past the end of his projected political career. At 67, he’s decided to retire when his time as governor is up. “I’m hoping to institutionalize the idea that we can actually solve problems, and the place we solve problems is at the local and community level,” Kitzhaber said. “You can’t solve these problems in Sale; you’ve got to directly engage people, which is what we’re doing through the Early Learning Hubs and Regional Solutions Committees.” Chris Correll, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
Salem warned about dangers of contaminated cat vomit By Carol McAlice Currie STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — The local nonprofit paying for lab tests on dead cats found in West Salem last weekend is cautioning the public to keep their dogs and children away from vomited cat food that might be contaminated. While there have been no reports of animals or humans becoming sick after ingesting cat vomit, Salem Friends of Felines officials warn that it could be in the neighborhoods, fields and parks in the area of 6th and Rosemont avenues NW. Jeanie Sloan, director and co-founder of SFOF, said dogs on leashes or young children playing who accidentally pick up and eat vomit could be sickened with antifreeze poisoning. It is difficult to reverse the poisoning’s effects, say local health-care providers. Sloan said lab samples taken from sickened cats who later died or were euthanized showed the classic signs of antifreeze poisoning. Veterinarian Dr. Sheri Morris also necropsied the felines, and sent kidney samples to a reference lab in Portland. Results should be returned later this week or early next. “It’s quite likely that these cats got sick many times before they died, and if a dog on a walk, just acting on instinct quickly wolfed down the vomit,
they, too, could become ill and possibly die. We want pet owners if they walk their dogs in that area, or if they have small children, to be aware.” Sloan said. Salem Friends of Felines responded to the first reports of dead and dying cats, and has taken financial responsibility for the lab tests, Sloan said. The nonprofit acted, she said, because it wanted to ensure that if a crime had been committed, evidence was gathered in a timely manner. She said several SFOF volunteers helped recover the bodies of the deceased and dying cats and took them to the Willamette Valley Animal Hospital in Keizer. “Clearly feral cats are a big problem in that neighborhood and many others around the Mid-Valley,” Sloan said. “Everyone in the community assumes there is an animalcruelty investigator. But there isn’t, not at the state, county or city level.” The Marion Polk Community Cats Program is a recent initiative trying to find solutions that work for all segments of a population. It is a cooperative effort among five animalwelfare organizations working together to tackle the problem of more than 30,000 stray, feral, free-roaming, unowned and community cats in the region. Comprised of the Willamette Humane Society, SFOF, the
Maness said that the forestry buildings are high the new building. One firm focuses on building on Kitzhaber’s list. The other half of the money is with cross-laminated wood and the other has a being raised by OSU. Half of OSU’s commitment good reputation working with the university to create exciting student spaces. of funds have already been raised. Department of Wood Peavy’s replacement will be Science and Engineering Chair, constructed from cross-lamiLaurence Schimleck, said nated timber. This will create this partnership of architects “[Cross-laminated timber] is employment should be a good one. a new material that has been Preliminary sketches of the invented that’s going to change opportunities in rural new buildings have been comthe way buildings are built in Oregon ... New types pleted, and the architects have the future,” Maness said. “It will be a demonstration process of of employment are an moved into the design phase, this new material and new ways important part of the Maness said. of building with sustainable Schimleck said there is a whole initiative. building materials.” curriculum change currently in the works that will allow The new classroom buildstudents to get more education ing’s atrium will account for Thomas Maness in the design and manufacturrainy Oregon weather. This new Dean of College of Forestry ing of wood products and the atrium will have glass ceilings and be a studyspace and workspace for students development of new wood materials. and faculty. The new building will not have a “[The new laboratory] is an opportunity for us basement. to really increase awareness of the new materials The college has hired two architects to work on program,” Schimleck said.
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Coalition Advocating for Animals, the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon and the Willamette Valley Animal Hospital, the program’s goal is to provide at least 2,500 sterilizations this year. “We have many programs that provide training and free traps, or volunteers who trap, fix and return sterilized felines to help in these types of situations,” Sloan said. “We just need to get the word out about these programs. We host meetings and 30 people show up. In Texas, they have a meeting and 200 attend. If other cities in other states can do it, so can we. We really need to educate people so these tragedies don’t happen again.” Aaron Felton, Polk County District Attorney, said the county has contracted with Jake Kamins, an animal cruelty deputy district attorney working in Oregon out of the Benton County D.A.’s office. Felton said Kamins’ services are being covered by a grant, so at a time when resources are thin in Polk County, none have to be allocated to this case. Felton said Kamins will be a special prosecutor, working with the Salem Police during the investigation. Felton would not comment on the person of interest, saying the case is active. Kamins said any charges would come out of the Polk County D.A.’s office.
Maness and Schimleck think the laboratory will increase opportunities for students and allow them to see another side of wood manufacturing. Maness said that the new laboratory will be good for the wood building industry, as most education on new wood materials is being done in Europe and Canada. With cross-laminated timber, entire walls can be manufactured in a factory, allowing wood factories to be located closer to timber resources. “This will create employment opportunities in rural Oregon,” Maness said. “New types of employment are an important part of the whole initiative.” These buildings coincide with the College of Forestry’s plan to double enrollment, increasing the number of students from 1,000 to 2,000. “This building will be a magnet for students,” Schimleck said of the laboratory. Maness said that the building to replace Peavy will be the most beautiful building on campus. Kat Kothen, associate news editor news@dailybarometer.com
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Scariest nonconference opponent? As the Beavers remain undefeated at Gill Coliseum, any opponent coming to Corvallis could be a scare to end their undefeated streak. UCLA will not be a team to overlook, as they are coming in riding a three-game inconference win streak. Oregon State will want to pay attention when the Huskies come to town Feb. 8. The Beavers lost to Washington recently on the road Jan. 15.
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Last year Oregon State University defeated the UCLA Bruins with a score of 71-67 behind a 42-point second half, and a barrage of points from OSU players who have since moved on. The only current player to score during the game was junior forward Langston Morris-Walker who recorded five points on the night. Several other 2014-15 starters including sophomore guard Malcolm Duvivier and junior forward Olaf Schaftenaar recorded time within the inconference match, but their play times were so small that they did not have the opportunity to score. For UCLA current athletes, sophomore guard Bryce Alford had nine points, senior guard Norman Powell had eight and junior forward Tony Parker had six the last time the two teams met. In addition, the teams managed to tie the scores five times and combined for nine lead changes throughout the contest. The Beavers are ahead in wins leading UCLA 2-1 in their last three meetings.
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Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: A Village Called Versailles 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, MU 13
The Asian & Pacific Cultural Center and Student Sustainability Initiative will be collaboratively hosting a screening and discussion about the documentary, “A Village Called Versailles.” The film documents the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from the perspectives of a Vietnamese community in New Orleans and how they were able to organize against the development of a toxic landfill near their neighborhood. For more information, please go here: http://avillagecalledversailles.com/. After the screening, we will be hosting a discussion about environmental justice facilitated by special guest Gennie Nguyen, who was directly involved with the community organizing efforts. Sponsors: Asian & Pacific Cultural Center and Student Sustainability Initiative
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Freshman 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser gains position and moves in for the pin that would win the match for the Oregon State wrestler at Gill Coliseum Jan. 17.
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Freshman 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser gets set for his match against the Roadrunners in Corvallis Jan. 17.
In keeping with its season tradition, the Oregon State men’s wrestling team added another mark to the win column, and kept its undefeated streak going on Saturday when it took down Cal State Bakersfield decisively 32-5. The Beavers — who came into the match ranked No. 21 by The USA Today/NWCA Division I Coaches Poll — dominated the dual meet, winning nine of their 10 matches. Freshman 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser, who came into the match ranked No. 8 by The Open Mat and No. 14 by InterMat, was matched up against Roadrunner freshman 125-pounder Sean Nickell. Continuing in his winning ways, Bresser got the best of Nickell and won with a pin, which moved him to 22-4 on the season. Senior 184-pounder Taylor Meeks, who is ranked within the top 10 in The Open Mat and InterMat, ran away with his matchup against redshirt senior Roadrunner Sean Pollock. Meeks won by major decision with a final score of 11-2. Redshirt freshman 141-pounder Devin Reynolds — who had not been able to compete since December due to a groin injury
— had a blowout major decision win when he faced off against CSUB redshirt junior Timmy Box. Reynolds not only won the matchup, but kept his opponent from scoring any points, winning 9-0, and getting the Beavers off to 4-0 start in the dual meet. But not all matches were won by such a large margin for the Beavers, as five of the matches were decided by fewer than three points. The Saturday success for the Beavers proved to be beneficial, as the team moved up one spot to No. 20 in The USA TODAY/NWCA Division I Coaches Poll for this week. Meeks and Bresser retained their current positions within The Open Mat and InterMat rankings, and redshirt freshman 197-pounder Cody Crawford broke into the national rankings, coming in at No. 20 in Open Mat. The Beavers will now head out on the road to take part in four straight nonconference duals. The road stint should be a test for the Beavers, as they will not only be away from home, but they will take part in those meets in doubles over the next couple weekends. This will start with a visit to Northern Colorado on Friday, Jan. 23 and then South Dakota State Sunday, Jan. 25. Oregon State’s next home meet will be a dual against Cal Poly on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. The Daily Barometer
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Track and field gets fast start in Seattle Women’s track and field team participated in indoor Washington Preview Saturday
being held indoors. Sidor recorded a mark McKinnon’s time bagged her a 15th place of 11-3 ¾, which was good enough for ninth. and a second-best all-time record for the Other Beavers recording quality times on program. The Beavers will now spend their next the event were freshman distance runners Nicole Goecke and Sam McKinnon. Goecke six meets on the road starting with the UW and McKinnon participated in the 1,000 Invitational Friday Jan. 30. THE DAILY BAROMETER Saturday, the Oregon State women’s track meter run, recording times of 2:55.03 and The Daily Barometer On Twitter @barosports and field team got its season off to a rapid 2:58.15. Goecke’s time was good enough for sports@dailybarometer.com start when the group participated in the a school record and 13th on the day, while Washington Preview held in the Dempsey Indoor Center in Seattle. Four of the Oregon State participants recorded school records and finished with 12 athletes placing within the top-10 of their respective events. Freshman sprinter Venessa D’Arpino was one of the Beavers setting a school record when she recorded a time of 25.28 seconds in the 200 meter dash. This time was good enough for ninth on the day within a final field of 40-plus. Freshman sprinter Ahsha Mootz also had a good time in the event, coming in at 25.50 seconds, which landed her in 12th place. Junior middle distance runner Macaulay Wilson set a school record in the 600-meter dash when she ran through with a time of 1:37.99, placing her within the top 15 at the center. Sophomore pole vaulter Annie Sidor broke ground for the Oregon State program when justin quinn| THE DAILY BAROMETER she competed in the pole vaulting competition that day. Before Saturday, no Beaver had Senior distance runner Aly Nielson competes during the Oregon Relays in Eugene, ever participated in the event when it was Ore. April 18, 2014. n
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once wrote a column about the construction on campus back in spring 2014, asking when it would end and when students, staff and faculty would finally have the quiet, red brick serenity of Oregon State University returned to them. Since then, Tebeau and Austin Halls have been finished in time for the new school year, Washington Way has been realigned over the summer and the Student Experience Center expanded from its previous status of “giant, gaping pit” to something resembling a building. Granted, a building that won’t be accessible to students and student programs until some unspecified date due to technical difficulties — but hey, at least the thing has a roof and walls now, right? And I’m not going to talk about the Strand Agriculture building; in fact, what was the name of that building thing by the SEC? Props to the school for acting so speedily on the other projects — even if some are lagging behind the rest, it looks like workflow is shuffling its feet, teenager style, steadily toward completion. Know what would be grand? To have a campus devoid of work order shouts, loud “I’m backing up” beeping noises and jackhammers, which instructors no longer have to shout over during classes. To finally, finally be able to take a shortcut to class on the pathway next to the Memorial Union from Jefferson to the MU Quad. Alas, OSU still insists on pounding its campus with construction. There are some kind of shenanigans happening by the Library bell tower, blocking off foot and bike traffic. As for the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and the Asian & Pacific Cultural Center, be happy folks — the cultural centers have a good track record for speedy completion. Johnson Hall — the new home for the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, and I’ll bet you money they are happy to be done with Graf — was approved back in 2014 and will start construction later this year on Southwest Park Terrace Place and Monroe Avenue. The Learning Innovation Center, which is supposed to open next fall by Austin Hall and is respectfully out of the way of main traffic, as well as the Samaritan Sports Medicine Institute, which is scooting all the way up to 30th street. At least these buildings won’t bung up foot and bike traffic throughout campus like the SEC has, nor will they — knock on wood, my fellow Beavers — drag on like the third film in a Peter Jackson series. It is all well and good that the university is trying to make sure we as students get our money’s worth in terms of awesome and technologically advanced buildings. But the fact that three of the projects I listed are past their completion dates and still either just concepts or piles of rebar is absolutely ridiculous.
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overnor Kitzhaber visited Oregon State University Wednesday, Jan. 21 and discussed with students some key issues he intends to tackle during his terms in office. One of the points we took immense interest in — us being starving college students — was this “free two years of community college plan” that has been tossed around by President Barack Obama in recent days. Given the fact that we are college students and whispering the words “free college” is equivalent to a piranha feeding frenzy, it would be correct to assume that we were waiting to hear what our home state governor had to say on the matter. Kitzhaber expressed great approval
And of course, if our fellow taxpayers can stomach the notion of their money being spent to help further the education of their nation’s children, when the slightest idea of sharing sends everyone screaming “socialism.” It is truly a grand notion, a noble idea. We would be very happy if it came to fruition, and Kitzhaber voicing his approval of the plan warms the cockles of our hearts. But we have no intent to bet the farm just yet when it comes faith in politicians.
college” thing has been instituted in Chicago and Tennessee already. If Kitzhaber is willing to play ball for for Obama’s plan, in conjunction with college students, this could result in the fact that students partaking in this a decently impressive change in the plan would have to be willing to work way that higher education is done. It would add more weight to what for it and keep their grades up. We have to admit we’re hopeful. are often considered grandiose politiWe’re hearing it from the same guy cal statements — give us as students who signed a bill back in May 2014 a little more faith in our government that would allow Oregon high school and whether or not they care about graduates to access free community us. Hint, hint, politicians: The more college. And this selfsame bill having you care, the more votes you get. trekked all the way to the Senate. Granted, we are still skeptical — We’ve watched “Schoolhouse Rock” and “I’m only a Bill” — we know how even with the mover Kitzhaber has proven himself to be. hard that business is to get passed. There is still the question of budget, Having a home state guy advocating for this plan is pretty significant — and who is going to be paying for all of especially since this “free community us to get free baccalaureate schooling.
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Yoga offers endless benefits for stressed out college students
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oga is about harmonizing connection between the body, mind and spirit. The philosophy of yoga has been around for about 5,000 years, and originated from a Hindu spiritual discipline. The word “yoga” comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” meaning to unite, yoke or bind the spirit and physical body together. It is not a religious, but rather a lifestyle practice that emphasizes self-realization and self-development through movement. Don’t be fooled — yoga is not just about deep breathing, meditation and comfy pants. It incorporates muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, and in some cases cardio, too. Yoga classes or online videos can
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Ask Dr. Fit round out your fitness regime, helping your body and mind feel refreshed and rejuvenated. All yoga incorporates breathing into each pose or posture with dynamic and static stretching movements. The use of breathing increases oxygen and blood flow to the muscles while moving your joints through their natural range of motion. These sequences of poses build on each other to create stamina and endurance while increasing the difficulty with a faster pace or with longer holds. At the end of the class it concludes with the word “Namaste,” which is
a symbol of gratitude and respect toward the teacher, fellow students, and yourself. The benefits of yoga are numerous. Physically, it increases your flexibility and builds muscles. Yoga stretches and strengthens the hamstrings, glutes, shoulders, back muscles, quads, hip flexors and abdominals to assist with proper body alignment and well-rounded fitness. Yoga also focuses on posture — stretching and strengthening the muscles you use to sit or stand, especially the lower and mid back. Weight bearing exercises like yoga are beneficial for building bone density, which is especially important in your 20s, as this is the optimal time to develop peak bone mass. Yoga improves balance, joint
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mobility, and blood flow while lowering blood pressure. Due to the mind, body and spiritual connections of yoga, there are also many mental and emotional benefits as well. Yoga uses mindfulness and relaxation strategies to take you away from the frustrations or stress of the day to be present in the moment. This helps to build awareness of your feelings and emotions while increasing your ability to take a step back from the drama in your life. See Woekel| page 8
Letter to the Editor Criticism of Republican candidates unfair I am quite happy that Mr. Chambers has taken the time to dive into the politics of us knuckle-dragging rubes in the Republican Party. With wit like that one day he might have a great future typing one liners into Chris Hayes’s TelePrompTer after he gets dropped by MSNBC and has to take the long sad trek to Current TV in 10 years. Under the snide tone there are some legitimate critiques of some of the Republican 2016 candidates. While personally I would like to see a more populist style Republican, I can’t deny that Jeb Bush has a great record as a leader in Florida, especially around education, and Mitt Romney has been proven right about many things in the aftermath of the 2012 election, especially concerning Russia. Dismissing major candidates such as Scott Walker and Rand Paul (my personal favorites) in a sentence or less shows a limited understanding of Republican politics and Presidential politics in general. I guess what I am saying is, please save your color commentary for the general election. You obviously despise us folks who sit to the right of center, so please keep to reading your MoveOn.org newsletters and let us select a nominee that we believe represents our values. 2014 was a national referendum on President Obama’s policies, but now the burden is on Republicans to present their vision for the future. I believe that we will select a great candidate to be the messenger of our beliefs who will be more than capable of going toe to toe with Hillary Clinton or possibly even Elizabeth Warren (who I am surprised you failed to mention completely). My advice would be to attempt to understand people as they want to be understood, not as you want to understand them. Best wishes, Jacob Vandever
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Portland Public Schools board passes policy changes, despite protesters By Kelsey O’Halloran PORTLAND TRIBUNE
PORTLAND — Though barely audible over the cries of protesters, the Portland Public Schools board Tuesday night approved proposed changes to its in-district transfer policy. The 4:1 vote came too soon for the protesters led by Don’t Shoot PDX, who sought to delay the vote so that parents could have more time for dialogue with the school board and district, said the group’s communications and media representative, Jasmine Reid. “We think that an effective and meaningful dialogue between the school board and the parents is vital to ensuring that the parents get what they need for the children,” Reid said. The group overwhelmed the school board at last week’s meeting, when 30 protesters with signs sat in front of the school board and didn’t allow the
meeting to begin. At Tuesday’s meeting, half a dozen protesters stood up in the frowwnt row of the auditorium as the board moved to vote on the transfer policy. After the vote, the group chose to leave rather than be escorted out by police. Reid said that Don’t Shoot PDX doesn’t necessarily disagree with the policy changes. Several community members expressed concerns that parents of minority language and racial groups had not been heard. Under the new policy, the district will refocus on neighborhood schools, rather than the transfer system that Superintendent Carole Smith says has led to white flight from poor-performing schools. The transfer policy will be reconfigured to be a petition system based on income status and other factors rather than a lottery. District spokesperson Christine Miles said the
Eugene postman guilty of federal mail crime By Jack Moran THE REGISTER-GUARD
EUGENE — It’s long been said that mail couriers deliver through rain, snow, heat and gloom of night. Maybe that’s because if they fail to do the job right, they could end up charged with a federal crime. A now-former U.S. Postal Service worker from Eugene learned that the hard way after police recovered nearly 1,000 pieces of undelivered mail from two bins on his front porch last July. The bins contained primarily merchant advertisements (or “junk” mail) but also included 27 voter ballots from last May’s primary election and more than 200 items of first-class and standard mail. Federal prosecutors subsequently charged the man, Alex Douglas Douma, with the crime of mail obstruction. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor today in U.S. District Court in Eugene and was sentenced to a year of probation. Douma must also pay a $500 fine. Douma, who worked at a post office in Eugene, told investigators who questioned him last summer that he “just got lazy” and had failed to make his rounds on multiple occasions between late April and early July, according to court documents.
Douma apologized today in court for his actions, and told U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin that he set aside the mail because he had “felt pressured for time” while working in a job that required him to sort, scan and deliver mail. “I wasn’t intending on keeping” the mail, Douma, 27, told Coffin. Prosecutor William “Bud” Fitzgerald basically confirmed that assertion, telling Coffin that Douma had committed “a crime of failing to do something he should have done.” John Masters, an agent with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, said his agency considers a crime such as Douma’s “to be a very serious matter.” “Mr. Douma was required to protect the sanctity and security of U.S. mail entrusted to him,” Masters said.w Agents with Masters’s office worked with local authorities to investigate the case. Masters, citing federal law and agency policy, declined to say if Douma had been fired in connection with the undelivered mail. While Douma no longer works for the Postal Service, he has found a new job. His attorney, Clayton Tullos of Eugene, said after Douma’s court appearance that “given the facts, we feel this was an appropriate resolution” of the criminal case.
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policy recommendations had been developed over the past two years by the Superintendent’s Advisory Committee on Enrollment and Transfer. Aimed in large part at improving racial equity, the group surveyed more than 1,800 people in different languages throughout the process. “At some point, public policy has to come to an end,” Miles said. “Because they’ve done extensive research over the past two years, the board decided they had enough information and input to make a decision.” During a public comment period prior to the vote, several parents voiced their opinions on the program. One parent urged the board to end the neighborhood lottery system so that communities would once again support their neighborhood schools. Others expressed concerns about the details of the policy, such as sibling preference. One parent pointed out that for many working families, it wasn’t possible to attend the community meetings leading up to the vote. Tamberlee Tarver of Northeast Portland was concerned that parents who didn’t have access to a computer or the Internet may not have been heard throughout the policy process. “You’re not going to get everybody’s story,” she said. “You’re not going to get everybody’s data just looking at bullet points on a computer screen.” After the comments, board member Steve Buel made a motion to postpone the vote for at least two weeks and to hold two community meetings in the meantime. His motion was not seconded, and the board moved on to the policy vote – to the uproar of many protesters in the audience, who had applauded Buel.
Reid said Don’t Shoot PDX said they had collected more than 100 responses to a survey in the 24 hours leading up to the board meeting. According to a copy provided by the group, the survey asked questions such as “Do you feel the Portland Public School Board is doing a good job?” “Do you feel your voice is being heard by the PPS School Board?” and “What can the School Board do or do differently?” As the board voted, Reid stood with several other protesters to explain the survey, though board members and police asked the group several times to sit down or leave the room. Co-chairs Ruth Adkins and Pam Knowles and board members Tom Koehler and Bobbie Reagan approved the policy changes. Greg Belisle voted no and Buel abstained. The advisory committee’s co-chair, Jason Trombley, said that while he and his group met more than 60 times and accepted public comment at each meeting, he hadn’t heard from the Don’t Shoot PDX group until they attended the Jan. 13 board meeting. He said the committee will continue work with the board and district to ensure that schools will meet students’ needs. This year’s transfer program is slated to open Feb. 9. “We believe that every neighborhood school in the system should be able to serve community kids well,” Trombley said. “We’re in a pivotal moment when the district is going to start rebuilding neighborhood schools.” The end-goal, he said, is that “people can say, ‘we’re going to get a world-class education in Portland regardless of where in the city we live.”
Two Salem teens charged after WinCo parking lot shooting By Alisha Roemeling STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — Two teenagers accused of trying to kill three people in a grocery store parking lot earlier this month have each been formally charged with attempted aggravated murder, an offense that will require them to be treated as adults in court. Nicholas Hernandez, 18, of Salem was arraigned Wednesday morning on an indictment that charges him with four counts of attempted aggravated murder with a firearm and one count of conspiracy to commit murder John Hurley, 16, of Salem, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon and charged with 4 counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of conspiracy to commit a murder. The charges are in connection with the firing of a Glock 9-millimeter handgun at three people inside an SUV in the WinCo Foods parking lot at 1240 Lancaster Drive SE on Jan. 8. No one was injured. Hernandez was 17 years old at the time of the shooting. Hurley is accused of being the shooter of the handgun. The proceedings for each arraignment took place at the Marion County Juvenile
Department, but both suspects are charged as adults under Measure 11, according to the Marion County District Attorney’s Office. Ballot Measure 11 was approved by voters in 1995 and mandates minimum prison sentences for a list of violent offenses. The Statesman Journal does not identify juveniles accused of crimes unless and until they have been arraigned on Measure 11 offenses that require that they treated as adults in court. Hernandez is being held at the Marion County jail, and Hurley is held at the Marion County Juvenile Department. According to Lt. Dave Okada with Salem PD, police responded to the initial call at 12:58 a.m. on Jan. 8 after people reported hearing gun shots outside of the grocery store. According to a probable cause statement released by the Salem Police Department, Hernandez and Hurley, who are also cousins, attempted to kill a man in the grocery store parking lot that evening while he waited for a female to exit the store. According to the report, Hernandez met the victim the previous day when they had been in a physical altercation which led to a road rage situation. Hernandez was driving a
WOEKEL n Continued from page 7 There are many different types of yoga practices that one can try, and all provide a slightly different workout. Hatha yoga is a generic term for yoga in the U.S. and is the foundation of most yoga styles. Hatha incorporates asanas, which are postures or poses, regulated breathing, and meditation. This type of yoga is a good place to start, as it gives a gentle introduction to the basic yoga poses and relaxation. Bikram Yoga is basically the same thing as hot yoga. If you decide to try hot yoga, be sure to drink a lot of water. This type of workout will make you sweat buckets. You move through 26 different poses in the same sequence in a room that is heated to 95-105 degrees. Restorative or Therapeutic yoga works on increasing your flexibility and relaxation with the use of passive stretching. Restorative yoga can be particularly helpful for individuals with chronic injuries such as back
cream colored 1994 Mercedes and Hurley was in the passenger seat when they spotted the gray 2004 GMCYukon SUV and began to fire shots at the driver’s side of the GMC. Following the shooting, Hernandez and Hurley fled the the WinCo parking lot. Shortly after fleeing the scene, a Salem Police officer spotted the car slowly moving through a residential area near the store with its lights off and attempted to stop the vehicle when Hernandez fled the car on foot. Salem PD and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office enlisted a police dog to locate Hernandez, who was found hiding at 4480 Ocean Avenue NE. Hernandez was bitten by the police dog, was medically treated and taken into custody. Hurley waited in the vehicle for police to take him into custody, telling police that he fired shots at the GMC because the victims had “hurt his family.” According to the report, Hernandez had contacted Hurley that day and asked him to go for a ride, claiming that his vehicle had been damaged by an unknown suspect and was looking for retribution. An attempted aggravated murder charge has a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
and knee issues. Vinyasa yoga or flow yoga focuses on the fluidity of movement through intensive poses. The transitions between poses are smooth and deliberate. Vinyasa classes tend to be more lively, dynamic and vigorous. Power yoga takes vinyasa a step further and usually incorporates calisthenics while moving through the poses quickly for more of an aerobic workout. Next time you are stressed and needing some activity, give yoga a go. There are plenty of classes to join on OSU campus or in the Corvallis community. Online classes can also come in handy when money and time are tight. Yoga challenges and stretches you physically and mentally, while leaving you feeling connected and refreshed. Namaste. t
Dr. Erica Woekel is an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Program Director of the Lifetime Fitness for Health Program. The opinions expressed in Woekel’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. They can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.