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Oregon State master beekeeper program promotes innovation, collaboration on honeybee education for 460 members

By Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova THE DAILY BAROMETER

We have never asked bees to do more work than we are asking them to do now for society, according to Joe Taylor, an undergraduate researcher in the OSU honey bee lab.

This is why bees are a crucial part of our world.

Taylor, a senior in natural resources in the department of forestry, has a passion for bees.

This passion has inspired Taylor’s research on the nutrition of bees.

After World War II, it was estimated that there were approximately 1 million honeybee hives in the U.S. Currently, Taylor said we only have around 300,000 hives.

“The amount of agriculture that we’re asking bees to do, its (two)-fold,” Taylor said. “The more people that know about bees, the better it will be for society as a whole.”

Since the introduction of the OSU master COURTESY OF Carolyn Breece beekeeper program three years ago, approxiIn a carrot seed field in Madras, Dr. Ramesh Sagili, the professor of the OSU honey bee lab, lifts

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The Corvallis Police Department released more information Thursday regarding the dead male body found in Willamette Park Tuesday evening.

The male was 61 and a resident of Corvallis. His cause of death was from a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Officers determined that the incident was criminal and that it was a selfinflicted gunshot wound.

Police have identified the man and next of kin were notified of his death.

A citizen found the body in the park in south Corvallis in a covered picnic area, and called police at 4:55 p.m.

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a slat from the bee box. These bees are used to pollinate carrot flowers, which produce seeds.

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Candidates for senator, governor discuss tuition, marriage equality, other issues

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College Republicans President Donald Handeland introduces panel of senator and governor candidates.

Republican senator and governor candidates gathered in the Memorial Union lounge Thursday to discuss issues involving higher education, marriage equality and minimum wage benefits.

The Oregon State University College Republicans hosted the event, which took place between 7 and 9 p.m.

The Oregon senator candidates present were: Mark Callahan, Jason Conger, Tim Crawley and Jo Rae

Perkins. Perkins, Callahan and Cuff are OSU alumni.

Senator candidate Monica Wehby, a doctor from the Portland area, fell ill and could not attend the event.

Governor candidates present were: Bruce Cuff, Jon Justesen and Dennis Richardson.

The five senator candidates are competing against the current senator, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Before the event, the College Republicans provided an opportunity for students and community members to submit questions to the candidates.

College Republicans President Donald Handeland gave each candidate a moment to introduce himself or herself and discuss a broad outline

of issues he or she wished to tackle.

Callahan, an information technology consultant from Salem, said the state needed senators who didn’t cater to, what he described as, “special interests.”

“I am not a career politician and Merkley is vulnerable,” Callahan said.

Crawley, a Portland attorney, started his introduction by asking the Republicans in the room to identify themselves by a show of hands.

“If I’m in Nazi Germany, and Nazi Germany is the Democrat Party, you’d all be dead,” Crawley said to those who raised their hands. “Nazi Germany right now is trying to exterminate us.”

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Documentary screener shows teacher’s innovative approach to world peace

By Spencer Ingram THE DAILY BAROMETER

Imagine if global warming, war and poverty were abolished from the planet in a week. Imagine if the world was able to prosper together. That would be an amazing world.

More astounding is that fourth graders solve these problems on a weekly basis with the World Peace Game.

The city’s Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Commission and the Oregon State University School of History, Philosophy, and Religion hosted the film screening of “World Peace and other 4th Grade

Achievements,” Wednesday at the Majestic Theater in downtown Corvallis.

The documentary, directed by Chris Farina, details the innovative teaching practices of John Hunter, who developed the World Peace Game for his fourth grade class.

The World Peace Game is an intense geo-political simulation with 50 interlocking goals. There are arms dealers, a world bank, saboteurs, United Nations and four countries in total, depending on the parameters of the instructor.

For each country, there is a prime minister, secretary of defense and comptroller.

Students are offered a job by Hunter and have the option of rejecting or accepting the job. Students See PEACE | page 4

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John Hunter speaks to the audience and answers questions about the World Peace Game.

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Last month’s e-cigarettes ban restricted sale to minors, limited usage in Corvallis

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As electronic cigarettes became more popular, Corvallis took steps last month to regulate the sale and use of the devices in public places.

As of Dec. 26, 2013, electronic cigarettes cannot be sold to minors, and they cannot be used in places that do not allow regular tobacco use. The Corvallis City Council made the regulatory decisions regarding these devices on recommendations from the Benton County Health Department.

Corvallis is the first city in Oregon to implement such regulations.

Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are battery-operated devices that emit vaporized nicotine for inhalation instead of traditional smoke. They are largely unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration so there are few, if any, restrictions for manufacturing, marketing or quality control.

This allows electronic cigarette manufacturers to advertise on television, and there are inconsistencies in the products’ contents. Traces of cancer-causing chemicals and carcinogens have been found in some devices, and the ingredients listed do not always match the actual amounts in the product.

“It’s an area of unknown at this time,” said Sara Harstein, health policy See E-CIG | page 4

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The rolling blackout Corvallis police investigated a crash at 1:52 a.m. where a man allegedly drove his vehicle off the roadway, into a yard, down a sidewalk and finally into a power pole.

When authorities contacted the driver, Tyler Jacobo, 19, he could not recall how the ordeal happened. Jacobo passed all of the standard field sobriety tests and seemed to be unimpaired. He was eventually arrested for reckless driving and unlawful possession of marijuana, less than one ounce, which was found in his car.

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Budget season will be upon Oregon State University and for the next few weeks and students will have the opportunity to actively engage in the allotment of their student fees.

Throughout the end of January and beginning of February, students will have the option of sitting in on public budget hearings that determine how student fees are divvied up and used.

The Student & Incidental Fees Committee sponsors these public hearings and organize them each fall term.

The SIFC is a student-led organization that provides a neutral analysis of all student fee-funded bodies’ budgets. Made up of seven elected voting members and four ex-officio members, the SIFC exists to set recommended fee levels and oversees the entire budgeting process, according to the organization’s website.

Every year during winter term, the SIFC hears proposed budgets from student fee-funded organizations such as the Memorial Union, Recreational Sports and Student Health Services. Students are encouraged to attend the hearings and voice their opinions if necessary.

SIFC chair Priscilla Macy firmly believes in the importance of student involvement throughout the entire budgeting process.

“You can literally just be a student and find a way to voice your opinion and sway the thought process (in budgeting),” Macy said. “That’s the beauty of shared governance.”

The policy of shared governance at Oregon State means that students have a direct say in how their money is spent.

Underneath this system, the Associated Students of Oregon State University have a vital role in the budgeting process, as well.

After the SIFC makes a recommended decision on an organization’s budget, the ASOSU Congress takes a look at the proposal. If the legislators agree with SIFC’s suggestion, the budget is sent to President Ed Ray for approval. Should the congress deny the proposal, the budget is sent to a special mediation committee, where all concerns are resolved before being passed on to the president.

“One of the most important duties of our body is to have somewhat of the final student say on how student fees are spent,” said John Varin, ASOSU Senate president pro tempore.

Macy expects a tight and tricky budgeting season, mostly due to unexpected changes and costs within the university system.

“There was an evaluation of all professional staff to bring them up to the market value of what their wage was,” Macy said. “It was a really good thing

because it made the positions more competitive and it increases employee retention, but it was kind of unanticipated for us as a student fees committee because a lot of professional staff were what you would call below the market average for their wages.”

Macy said that although the evaluation will be beneficial in the long run, this year’s budget will have to compensate for the pay raises of professional staff who work for student fee-funded organizations.

Student employees do not count as professional staff and will not receive a raise unless the state minimum wage increases.

The SIFC plans to divide the raises among each organization according to how many professional staff they employ.

Any organization that finds itself with a shortage of money may request a portion of the contingency fund.

The contingency fund is a special portion of student fees set aside for emergencies and unexpected costs throughout the year.

In addition, the change in the

Oregon University System may affect the way student fees are handled this year and into the future.

“We’re not sure … how this board of trustees is going to affect student shared governance policies and student input into the whole budgeting process,” Macy said. “(The SIFC is) planning on working with the board to put our statement of purpose as students out there that we would very much like to still be involved in this process.”

Macy said that a major SIFC goal this year is to “figure out how many students we are serving, how we are serving them, and how effective we have been.” Any decisions and suggestions are made in the spirit of viewpoint neutrality, with the welfare of the overall student body in mind.

Viewpoint-neutral decisions are those made unbiasedly with the benefit of the majority in mind.

“What viewpoint neutral does not mean is that you have to fund every program,” said Victoria Redman, ASOSU vice president.

“It also doesn’t mean that just because you fund one point of view, you have to fund the other point of view. It all depends upon the budgeting process and whether (the organization) follows the required guidelines.”

Overall, SIFC and the ASOSU hope to encourage and stress the need for student involvement and interest in the budgeting process.

“There has to be this transparency,” Macy said. “Often through the years we get lost in this idea of managing money and not necessarily managing operations in terms of benefiting the students.”

A schedule of all SIFC budget hearings can be found online through their website.

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Calendar Friday, Jan. 24 Meetings ASOSU Elections Committee, 5pm, MU Board Room. First meeting.

Memorial Union/Student Media, 4-5pm, MU 110. Budget Open Hearing.

Sunday, Jan. 26 Meetings Indian Student Association, 6pm, MU 208. India Republic Day and General Meeting. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Monday, Jan. 27 Meetings Campus Recylcing, 5:30-6:30pm, Student Sustainability Center. Waste Watchers Weekly Meetings - Come learn about volunteer opportunities and help plan waste reduction events and outreach around campus.

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

Wednesday, Jan. 29 Meetings OSU College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Join us for discussion of club and current events. Come have fun with like-minded people.

Thursday, Jan. 30 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Is there Reincarnation? - A discussion.

Events International Students of OSU, 5pm, International Resource Center in the MU. Cultural Exposition. An exposition of culture through songs, poems, cultural stories and presentation of cultural items.

Monday, Feb. 3 Meetings Campus Recylcing, 5:30-6:30pm, Student Sustainability Center. Waste Watchers Weekly Meetings - Come learn about volunteer opportunities and help plan waste reduction events and outreach around campus.

Wednesday, Feb. 5 Meetings OSU College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Join us for discussion of club and current events. Come have fun with like-minded people.

Events Center for Civic Engagement, Noon-3pm, MU Ballroom. Nonprofit & Volunteer Fair. Learn about volunteer opportunities, internships ands general needs in the community.

Thursday, Feb. 6 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Nonexistence of Evil - A discussion.

Saturday, Feb. 8 Events Omani Students Association (OSA), 6-8pm, MU Ballroom. Omani Night (cultural night). Tickets available in MU 103.

Indian Student Association, 1:153pm, McAlexander Fieldhouse. “OSU Cricket” Everyone is welcome to the event!

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Takuji Hamanaka, a printmaking artist, presented and discussed his three most recent art collections Thursday evening in the Construction & Engineering Hall located within the LaSells Stewart Center.

Hamanaka was born in Japan and apprenticed in Tokyo, where he learned traditional methods of printmaking through reproduction of prints made by old Japanese masters of the art.

The focus of Hamanaka’s talk was his work since 2008, when he began moving away from traditional printmaking methods to newer alternative methods.

Some inspiration for his layering techniques even came from seeing shoddy workmanship and repairs in New York subways.

“If you go to New York, you take (the) subway … then you see some beams on the platform,” Hamanaka said. “They don’t clean them, but when they get dirty or get damaged they just paint over it. If you see some crack or break it shows the many, many layers, like a painting.”

In Hamanaka’s second collecCOURTESY OF TAKUJI HAMANAKA tion, he worked primarily with Takuji Hamanaka’s recent works explore methods of repeti- wood blocks, incorporating methtion and mixed media to add depth to a 2-D image. ods of redaction and repetition.

“The idea of repetition is really The inspiration for exploring created a unique pattern that new techniques, especially in his inspired Hamanaka to experi- interesting to me,” Hamanaka first collection, came in part from ment with paper and layering. said. “You can apply (it) in actual a visit to his home in Japan. He Additionally, when incorpo- existing space.” noticed the visuals created when rating colors into his artwork, His final collection worked his mother had patched holes in Hamanaka took inspiration from with taking paper, cutting unique the shoji screens in their home. his experiences working with patterns into it, crumpling or folding the paper and then flatThe patches on the shoji paper stained glass.

tening it. Hamanaka used waterbased glues to flatten the patterned papers to the base paper, with the intent of creating images of depth within 2-D designs.

“My paintings create complex, intertwining networks that sometimes look partly human, partly vegetable,” wrote Hamanaka in an artist’s statement on his personal website. “I hope I have succeeded in shaping some kind of crossbreed of the two. There is also an ambiguity to the images that hopefully allows for broader interpretations.”

For those interested in seeing Hamanaka in action, there will be a printmaking demo Friday at 2 p.m. in the printmaking studios located in room 207 of Cascade Hall.

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Judge: City can block access to Oswego Lake OREGON CITY — A Clackamas County judge has found that the city of Lake Oswego has the right to bar the public from accessing Oswego Lake.

In an opinion issued Jan. 8, Circuit Court Judge Pro Tem Henry C. Breithaupt did not address whether the public has the right to access the water, a fundamental issue in a lawsuit against the city. Instead, Breithaupt ruled that regardless of who owns the lake or the lake bed, the city can restrict people from using public property to get in the water.

That means the lake remains privately controlled by the Lake Oswego Corporation, which represents hundreds of lakefront homeowners. The Lake Corp. owns most of the Oswego Lake shoreline and has long maintained it as a private 400-acre body of water.

It’s unclear whether the decision will be appealed.

Todd Prager, a Lake Oswego planning commissioner, and Portland attorney Mark Kramer filed the lawsuit in 2012 after the Lake Oswego City Council tightened rules to prohibit boaters from entering the lake from cityowned parks, including Headlee Walkway, Sundeleaf Plaza and Millennium Plaza Park, where steps lead into the water.

They argued the rules violate the public’s right to swim and boat in the lake. They said the state has an obligation to protect

the public’s use of navigable — is a topic for the Legislature, waterways, including Oswego not the court system, to address.

Paul Conable, an attorney Lake, because Oregon has sovereign rights to land underlying with Tonkon Torp., who represented the city, applauded the bodies of water.

But while the state argued it decision. “The judge recognized that does indeed own the land at the bottom of Oswego Lake, it also cities have to have the ability to contended it had “no affirmative make reasonable regulations in duty to take specific actions� to their parks and public spaces,� enforce anyone’s right to use Conable said. “At the end of the day, the case against the city simthe water.

The judge decided the state ply turned on the question about can’t be forced to take action whether the city’s regulations of because it doesn’t own the park its park were reasonable.�

When council members property subapproved lake ject to the city’s access rules, restrictions. In addition, he We hope this decision they cited a lack of facilinoted the city’s will end the needless ties constructrules don’t litigation and allow ed for water unfairly single a lack out a particuour city to devote its access, of resources lar class or resources to priorities to build such group of people because other than defending facilities or supervise lakethey apply itself in court. related activito everyone ties, a lack of — including facilities and Doug Thomas the lakefront resources to President of the Lake Oswego homeowners check boats for Corporation’s board of directors who are able invasive speto access the cies and potential liability risks. water from elsewhere.

Breithaupt acknowledged the They said the decision had nothcase involved a “very difficult ing to do with controversy over balancing of public costs and public use of the lake, though it came on the heels of a debate public benefits.�

But while covenants placed over public versus private lake on the property to limit lake use access and threats of a potential could “have to yield in the face “Occupy Oswego Lake� event.

Prager called any safety of overriding public concerns,� concerns cited by the council he wrote, the reconciliation of those competing interests — “disingenuous.� “They claim safety as the and the likelihood that the process would be an expensive one reason for prohibiting access

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but they allow unsupervised access to the more dangerous Willamette River,� Prager said. “Throughout the case, the state has consistently asserted its ownership of the original lake bed. ... The only thing preventing public access is the city with their claims of public safety.�

He said a “variety of options� are available for achieving public access but he hadn’t yet decided which to pursue. “I still firmly believe that public access to Oregon’s waterways is a fundamental right guaranteed to all Oregonians through our statehood act,� Prager said. “I think it is wrong that the city is spending public money in an attempt to privatize a public resource.�

According to the city attorney’s office, as of last week, the city had spent about $179,272 on attorney fees to defend itself.

The Lake Oswego Corporation intervened in the case on the city’s behalf and will continue to support the court’s ruling, said Doug Thomas, president of the Lake Oswego Corporation’s board of directors. “The court decided that the claims had no merit and neither our city nor state can be compelled to provide public access to Oswego Lake,� Thomas said. “The lawsuit did nothing to change the city’s regulations for the safe use of its parks, or the restrictions on access to and the private status of Lakewood Bay and Oswego Lake.�

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Oswego Lake in Lake Oswego. and controls who can access the water through a system of shareholders and easements, essentially private docks and beaches. The city has one of those easements, which it uses to run a seasonal swim park that is open to Lake Oswego residents during the summer.

Many residents in Lake Grove

also have privileges to a swim park operated by the school district. “We hope this decision will end the needless litigation and allow our city to devote its resources to priorities other than defending itself in court,�

Thomas said.

Despite 2008 law, no change in Oregon drivers without license, insurance law on driving without a license and without insurance. The law requires people to PORTLAND — A recent state report demonstrate proof of legal residence to get indicates there’s been almost no change a driver’s license.

The report compares drivers involved in the percentage of Oregon drivers who have no license or car insurance. Changes in accidents before and after the law took to driver license requirements took effect effect. “What we’ve seen is little to no change,� several years ago.

Since 2009, Oregon’s DMV and said David House, a spokesman for Oregon’s Department of Transportation has done Department of Motorized Vehicles. “Or if annual reports on the impacts of a 2008 there is a change it’s within the margin of

error when it comes to both driving without a license or driving without insurance.�

House says there may be a gradual change because most licenses are valid for eight years. He says some people may be driving now who wouldn’t qualify to renew their licenses when they expire.

Oregon voters will decide in November whether to grant driving privileges to undocumented immigrants who can’t prove their legal presence.

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the Republican Party is the minority and that Republicans represent diversity.

Sen. Betsy Close, R-Ore., said it was interesting to hear different points of view from each of the candidates.

“We do have difficult issues in this country,” Close said.

In addition to voting against tuition increases in 2001, Close put an emphasis on affordability for students and changes in the Public Employees Retirement System.

“You should be able to afford to send your kids to college,” she said.

Close said colleges will likely have to lower tuition to compete for more students in the future.

Multiple candidates put an emphasis on loan increases and PERS being the biggest problem with rising tuition prices.

On the issue of marriage equality, multiple candidates said the government should not be in the marriage business.

Cuff, though against same-sex marriage, said he advocated for respect among all individuals regardless of their lifestyle choices.

“My faith tells me that I’m not the judge,” Cuff said. “Jesus Christ is the judge.”

Perkins, who said she has friends who are gay, bisexual and cross-dressers, also disagrees with same-sex marriage.

“If you want to have a gay marriage, then go live in a state where it’s already legalized,” Perkins said, “do not impose what you believe and force it on me.”

Justesen and Richardson were the only candidates who said they would not oppose the Marriage Equality Act if it were signed into place.

Justesen listed several things Oregon should implement, such as doubling minimum wage, receiving a reduced tuition for students majoring in any science or technology and implementing a sales tax.

“For this state to not have a sales tax is stupid,” Justesen said. “It’s the only fair tax system we have.”

Richardson said that, as governor, it would be his duty to agree with laws already in place.

“I fully expect voters in Oregon will pass marriage equality this November,” Richardson said.

The final candidates for the senator and governor spots will be selected at the May 20 primary.

mately 460 students have enrolled. People come from around the state to participate in this program.

The program is a collaborative effort between the Oregon State Beekeepers Association, the honeybee lab and a new innovative corporate sponsorship through Bambu. Bambu is a renewable materials company, based out of Portland and Shanghai, which manufactures organic home, kitchen and garden products.

Catering to all levels of bee enthusiasts, most students entering the program do not have prior experience.

In a three-tier beekeeper program, the OSU honey bee lab provides classes and hands-on training.

At the end of the beginning course, students take an exam to test their newly acquired knowledge of bees.

The program contains a traditional classroom component, in which students learn skills from researchers and seasoned professionals.

Program coordinator Carolyn Breece, a faculty research assistant in the department of horticulture, works in the honeybee lab under the supervision of Ramesh Sagili.

The program also offers a field component, which according to Breece, sets it apart from others that are offered nationwide.

“We really believe hands-on training is key in learning beekeeping,” Breece said.

Program graduates,

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PEACE n Continued from page 1 selected as prime minister build their own cabinet.

Most of the simulation mimics real-life entities, but uses fictitious names to allow the students to think without preconceptions.

Through playing the game, Hunter wants his students to develop critical thinking and personal skills, without relying on outside influences such as media.

“It’s a template for success and failure,” Hunter said. “I want to put them in a situation where conventions are destroyed.”

At the start of every game, Hunter gives students the same statement: “Our generation has left the world in a dire situation.

It is up to you to solve for world peace. I don’t how to solve it and I am sorry.”

Hunter uses this phrase to encourage his students that world peace is possible to achieve, but that they will have to develop different ways to achieve it.

In order to win the game, students must solve all 50 problems and all solutions must improve each country.

“The results are never the same,” Hunter said. “(Every game), I intentionally trap them into dire situations.”

Roles like saboteurs and arms dealers consistently threaten the achievability of world peace.

The students, quite often, are at odds with each other on how to reconcile.

Hunter does not advise the players on how to play. In playing this game, Hunter wants his students to lean to stop, look and listen.

“When you’re stopped, you have to look deeper and see through the situation,” Hunter said. “Looking is developing the awareness of the situation and not face value. And listening is turning to each other.”

Hunter preaches these qualities each game to his students because he believes it is critical to students’ development as people.

By solving the simulated geopolitical issues, Hunter wants his students to develop the fundamentals of living and collaborating together.

Every soldier lost in battle requires the prime minister to write a letter to the soldier’s fake family explaining his death.

Hunter wanted the children to

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Puffing smoke over the bee box helps to calm bees before removing slats. researchers and seasoned beekeepers volunteer to mentor new students. This year, approximately 60 volunteers plan to participate as mentors.

With a mentor, students go out into the field and work with bees together.

The first-tier apprentice level lasts for a minimum duration of one year. Upon completion, students receive a certificate accompanied with a special logoed OSU master beekeeper patch to place on their beekeeper’s suit.

Following the apprentice level is the journey level. By either teaching a class, leading a workshop or writing a newspaper article, students must go into the community to teach about bees.

The apprentice level of the beekeeper program costs $150. The journey level costs $100. Once these two tiers

think about warfare before engaging in it.

“The letter writing caused them to slow down and think critically (about the actions of war),” Hunter said.

Since 1978, when Hunter began teaching with the game, it has gone on to be simulated in schools around the country and the world.

In 2011, Hunter spoke at a TED Talk, which publicized his World Peace Game.

On occasion, the Pentagon invites Hunter’s class for in-depth discussions with the country’s top military generals.

Corvallis Mayor Julie Manning was in attendance at the screening Wednesday.

Oregon State University professor, Elizabeth Sheehan, attended the event “to witness the ways educators have found to change the world and use education as a social justice.”

“The children are the key to saving the planet because they dictate the way we are moving,” said Esmeralda Reyes, vice chair of MLK commission.

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are completed, students are masters and can volunteer to work with beginners.

“You don’t have to have a hive to enroll,” Breece said.

Breece said people enroll in the program for a variety of reasons. Some are interested in learning more about the bees in their backyard or want to know more about how pollination works.

Some participants obtain their own hives. It can be a hobby or something program graduates take to the next level. For example, there exists an emerging market for beekeepers to rent their hives to farmers in order to help support the pollination of crops.

“It’s been really neat to see what students have done following the program,” Breece said. “They’re creating communities of their own. … I think it’s really exciting to

E-CIG n Continued from page 1 specialist for the Benton County Health Department.

The lack of research on e-cigarettes leaves more questions than answers regarding its harmful effects and its capability in helping kick the habit.

“There is no research on quitting, the harms or how it impacts lungs and respiration,” said Lisa Hoogesteger, director of OSU’s healthy campus initiative.

OSU’s Corvallis campus went smokefree in September 2012, a policy which includes the use of e-cigarettes. The devices were relatively new, but gaining momentum in the public’s attention and policy drafters wanted to ensure comprehensive rules for the future of a smoke-free campus.

The limited data reviewing e-cigarettes has found the devices can actually further tobacco use and disrupt the progress of smoke-free policies.

“Using them indoors undoes a lot of the work smoke-free laws have done in protecting air and giving incentives to quit,” Harstein said.

The health department was especially concerned with the sale of these devices to minors. E-cigarettes come in many varieties and flavors, which can entice adults and minors.

bring people together this way — through bees.”

Bambu co-owners Jeff Delkin and Rachel Speth searched globally for an opportunity to promote good causes — just like that of the honeybee lab and the beekeeper program.

“We’ve been looking for the right give-back,” Speth said.

“With our products having a strong connection to food — bees made a whole lot of sense in a lot of ways.”

Delkin and Speth reached out to OSU because of the educational research being conducted on bees.

“Companies and education working together on something as important as honeybees — there’s a really nice rhythm there,” Delkin said.

For Bambu, supporting the beekeeper program allows the company to not only actively engage with the community on a local level, but to draw attention to the global issue of bees.

“First and foremost there is a huge importance in building awareness and educating people as to why bees are so important to our ecosystems,” Speth said. “We’ve seen images of what a supermarket would look like if there were no bees — it definitely hit home for us.”

Bambu will launch its new collection, “Bambu garden,” focused on tools to be used around the garden, adorned with bee motifs.

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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of middle and high school students who used e-cigarettes doubled from 2011 to 2012. The CDC also found that e-cigarette use in adults quadrupled from 2009 to 2010.

The use of e-cigarettes has been linked to the promotion of smoking of other substances. Because there are few federal regulations on the contents in e-cigarettes, smokers could potentially smoke something other than the watermelon or cotton candy flavored cartridges.

“They are a vector for any substance that can be smoked,” said Jessica Johnson, a graduate assistant working on the Healthy Campus Initiative.

Since the smoke-free program on the OSU Corvallis campus was implemented, the initiative has found the majority of staff and students agree with the policies.

Slightly more than 70 percent of students and more than 75 percent of staff that the Healthy Campus Initiative polled approved of the changes and thought that the campus should be smoke free.

While Corvallis is a trial run for the state in regulating e-cigarettes, the topic may be up for discussion at the February Oregon legislative session.

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Oregon State hosts Washington on Friday, hopes to score behind offense, 3-point shooting

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Senior Scott Sakaguchi pulls Lehigh’s Mitch Minotti into near fall position with seconds remaining in the 149-pound matchup.

No. 12 Sakaguchi beat No. 11 Minotti in overtime, 6-4.

OSU prevails in thrilling fashion Seniors Sakaguchi, Pena earned wins against ranked opponents; Beavers beat No. 24 Lehigh, 28-10

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Down 4-0 without position and less than 45 seconds remaining, Scott Sakaguchi looked dead in the water.

The Beavers (9-4, 2-1 Pac-12) had Thursday night’s dual with No. 24 Lehigh (6-4, 3-2) nearly wrapped up leading 22-10, but in his second-to-last match at Gill Coliseum, Sakaguchi, OSU’s senior 149-pounder refused to give up against No. 11 Mitch Minotti of No. 24 Lehigh.

“I just kept wrestling,” Sakaguchi said.

“I started getting frustrated and then I just kind of refocused. I realized I had to get going and score a lot of points really quick.”

Sakaguchi regained position, earning a two-point reversal and quickly turned Minotti over his shoulder, tilting him with exposure, earning two more points and sending the match to sudden-death overtime.

With Gill Coliseum on its feet and as touched the mat and Chay had earned loud as its been all season, Sakaguchi his fourth pin of the season, giving the took a shot at points mere seconds into Beavers an early 6-0 advantage. the period, wrapping Minotti up and “It was a pretty cool feeling,” Chay said, slamming him to the mat for a two-point “to get our team an early lead and hear the takedown and a 6-4 decision. reaction from the crowd was pretty special.”

“That’s probably the Junior Joe Lathum, facmost fun dual I’ve ever That’s probably the ing No. 16 Elliot Riddick wrestled in,” Sakaguchi in the 174-pound weight said. “For the team and most fun dual I’ve class, followed Chay’s for myself, that was the ever wrestled in. For lead, grabbing an early most fun I’ve ever had in 2-0 lead in his match. a dual.” the team and for an escape and evenDifferent from myself, that was the After tual riding-time point, Sunday’s loss to No. 21 most fun I’ve ever Lathum prevailed 5-2, North Dakota State, the giving OSU a 9-0 lead.

Beavers got out to an had in a dual.

“Chay and Lathum early lead after sophoreally set the tone for us more 165-pounder Toney Scott Sakaguchi tonight,” said head coach Chay put Oregon State 149-pound senior Jim Zalesky. “It was big on the scoreboard with a starting out 9-0, especially the way we comeback of his own.

Chay fell behind 5-1 to Lehigh’s Ben did it. The pin from Chay kind of got this Haas early in the second period, but like place going and I think the guys fed off Sakaguchi, fought back. The sophomore that energy.”

“Those first two matches were huge,” delivered a two-point take down followed Sakaguchi added. “It was really exciting for by a two-point near fall.

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Following five road games in six contests, the Beavers finally get to stay home for the weekend, where they prefer to play.

So far this season, Oregon State is 6-1 at home, with its one loss coming against the No. 2 team in the nation, Notre Dame.

“The crowd is everything,” said freshman point guard Sydney Wiese. “When they’re on our side, you can feel the energy when you play. You just want to make great plays so they can stay in the game — reward them for how great they are and how supportive they are.”

On Friday, the Beavers (10-8, 2-4 Pac-12) host Washington, who will be trying to deal a blow to OSU’s home record.

Washington (10-7, 3-3) is coming off a perfect weekend, in which they defeated Utah and No. 21 Colorado.

“When I think of (Washington) I think of a guard-oriented ‘attack’ team,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “They’re looking to get to the rim or they’re looking to swing the ball quickly and launch a 3. They are not an easy team to guard.”

There are two players in particular, freshman guard Kelsey Plum and junior guard Jazmine Davis, who have been the primary source of offense for the Huskies. Together, Plum and Davis average 38.3 points per game, which is more than half of what Washington’s entire offense scores per contest.

“They are two of the best guards in the conference,” Wiese said. “They are complete players, so we’re focusing a lot on stopping them and trying to contain them as best we can.”

Although they have talented guards who are prolific scorers, Washington still has its flaws. Of every team in the Pac-12, none are worse than the Huskies at defending against the 3-pointer.

They are allowing opponents to shoot 36 percent from deep, and the Beavers hope to capitalize.

“We have a lot of attackers who can drive and kick it out to the open person,” Wiese said. “I think that’s going to be big for Friday, and obviously knocking down those shots will be big too.”

Three-pointers are a big chunk of OSU’s offense. The Beavers have made more of them than any other team in the conference except for the Ducks. Wiese herself is a big reason why.

She leads the conference in 3-pointers made with 3.2 per game. She’s doing so at a 42 percent clip as well, which is the sixth-most accurate of any Pac-12 player.

Meanwhile, sophomore guard Jamie Weisner is just as dangerous from deep. Weisner makes 2.5 a game at 41 percent. Together, Wiese and Weisner have earned the nickname “Swish Sisters,” and they could be in line for a big shooting night against the Huskies.

Additionally, the Beavers have recently benefitted from the strong play of their sophomore center, Ruth Hamblin. In conference play, she’s proven to be a scoring threat, averaging 14 points per game in the Pac-12.

“We have a lot of dynamic players on the offensive end,” Wiese said. “We’re just going to use our strengths on Friday.”

Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. in Gill Coliseum.

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Coming off an 11-point victory against Washington State, Oregon State travels to Washington for Saturday matchup

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Senior guard Roberto Nelson prepares for a free throw attempt against Stanford on Jan. 9 in Gill Coliseum.

Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson talked earlier this week about winning at least one game on the Washington road trip.

After defeating Washington State, 66-55, on Wednesday, Oregon State has that one win wrapped up and can look to add on another.

The Beavers (11-7, 3-3 Pac-12) will travel to Seattle to take on Washington (11-8, 3-3) at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The game will feature the top-two scorers in the Pac12 — OSU senior guard Roberto Nelson (21.7 points per game) and Washington senior CJ Wilcox (19.7).

Nelson’s 26 points Wednesday helped him maintain the conference scoring lead. He has totaled at least 21 points in five of six conference games.

Wilcox, meanwhile, has been slightly more streaky, reaching only nine points Saturday against Stanford after using seven 3-pointers against Colorado to rack up 31 points.

Robinson feels that Nelson can be even more efficient than he has been this season.

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Oregon State sophomore Toney Chay (165-pound weight class) raises his arms after earning a pin against No. 24 Lehigh on Thursday night in Gill Coliseum.

WRESTLING n Continued from page 5 us on the sidelines and got us psyched to follow what they did. They got the crowd into it and that was huge for us.”

Oregon State scored the first 22 points of the match, winning the first five bouts, but left the door open when Lehigh won three-consecutive bouts in the 125-, 133and 141-pound weight classes.

Sakaguchi slammed that door shut, however, followed by an 8-6 decision for No. 11 RJ Pena against No. 10 Joey Napoli to give the Beavers a 28-10 victory.

OSU won seven of the 10 matches overall on the night, something Zalesky said was a step in the right direction for a team that has been inconsistent at times

in duals this season.

“I thought overall we wrestled well,” he said. “Sometimes you’re not wrestling your best but it’s about finding a way to win, and we did that tonight. We’ve still got some work to do but there were some positives there for us, and hopefully we’re going to peak at the right time.”

The win was also important for Oregon State from a confidence standpoint.

The Beavers host arguably their toughest opponent of the year in No. 4 Oklahoma on Saturday in what will be the Beavers’ last home meet — unless OSU hosts a regional — of the year.

The Sooners will provide multiple matchup problems for the Beavers with ranked wrestlers in eight of the 10 weight classes.

“It’s good because Oklahoma will be a really quality opponent,” Zalesky said.

“There are some really tough matchups for us. It will be a good test.”

Saturday’s 11:30 a.m., dual will be homecoming for Oregon State, and the last chance for its seniors to wrestle in Gill Coliseum.

Sakaguchi, Pena and 184-pound Austin Morehead are the three seniors expected to wrestle on their home mat for the last time.

“The crowd here at (Gill Coliseum) is really special,” Sakaguchi said. “It’s been really amazing wrestling in front of these fans.”

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Senior Brittany Harris flips during the vault event against Ohio State on Jan. 11, 2013.

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After loss to No. 8 UCLA in Los Angeles last weekend, Oregon State is eager for first meet in Gill Coliseum

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Senior center Angus Brandt, junior forward Eric Moreland and freshman guard Hallice Cooke walk the floor after a foul call Jan. 9 against Stanford in Gill Coliseum.

MEN’S BASKETBALL n Continued from page 5 “Roberto is still not shooting the ball as well as he can shoot it,” Robinson said before the Washington State game.

Nelson is now at 45.4 percent shooting from the floor after his 6-for-10 night Wednesday.

He also connected on 11 of 15 free throws.

OSU’s even conference record is the best mark all year after a two-loss road trip at Colorado and Utah to start Pac-12 play.

Washington reached the same 3-3 Pac-12 mark by almost the exact opposite path.

The Huskies won three of their first four — the only loss a 71-62 defeat to No. 1 Arizona.

After a 17-point victory over then-No. 15 Colorado, Washington faltered with losses to California and Stanford by a combined

38 points.

Oregon State is on a two-game winning streak after defeating Oregon and Washington State.

The Beavers will try to sweep the Washington schools on their home floors, something that Oregon State has not done in recent years.

“We’re usually the team that teams think they can get a win on when we come into their place,” Robinson said. “I don’t know if that’s still the case or not, but I know teams prepare for trying to beat us.”

With one win already under their belt, the Beavers will attempt to avoid last year’s sequence of events in the same road trip.

A one-point victory over WSU was followed by a 72-62 loss to Washington three days after.

The Beavers will face Wilcox and the

Huskies after taking on a similar foe in Washington State’s Que Johnson.

In the first half Wednesday against OSU, Johnson put up 10 points on 5-for-6 shooting. He was held to five points the rest of the way.

The Beavers will also take on the Huskies’ second-leading scorer in sophomore Andrew Andrews.

The 6-foot-2 guard from Portland averages 12.6 points per game and tied his career high with six assists the last time the Beavers and Huskies met.

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The OSU gymnastics team will kick off its first of four-straight home meets Saturday, when the Beavers host Iowa State at 7 p.m. in Gill Coliseum.

This week’s matchup against Iowa State will be the Beavers’ only meet in which they don’t face a team currently ranked in the top-25 nationally.

After last week’s loss against No. 8 UCLA, the Beavers knew they’d fallen short of their expectations, according to junior Chelsea Tang, but the defeat also allowed them to see their mistakes and fix them during practice.

Associate head coach Michael Chaplin said the team improved between the Ohio State and UCLA meets, and that the most important thing for Oregon State was to focus on progressing every single day.

“Trust in your training,” he said.

The return to Gill Coliseum looks to bring a new perspective to the team.

“I’m super excited to be back in Gill; our fans, our house,” said senior Brittany Harris.

Last year, Oregon State averaged 3,706 fans, which will bring an added element to competition that the Beavers didn’t experience in their first two meets.

“Gill relieves the pressure,” Harris said. “No matter what you do, you’ll get a good reaction out of them.”

Being in Gill brings another advantage besides the fans.

“We get the advantage of not having to travel, and being at home in our own beds,” Chaplin said.

The Beavers hope the return to Corvallis and increased leadership will help get them back on track.

Chaplin relies on both the group of seniors and team captains to help keep the team focused.

Harris, as a senior, reminded her teammates to always give their all after last weekend’s loss. If OSU does that, she said, the Beavers will go far this season.

Being her final season at Oregon State, Harris said she gives advice to the younger athletes hoping it will be passed down from year to year.

Still, it’s not always the young athletes who struggle. Senior Kelsi Blalock struggled last week against UCLA, with scores lower than 9.300 on floor exercise and balance beam. Chaplin expects a bounce-back performance from the veteran gymnast Saturday.

“Even the seniors can struggle,” Chaplin said. “But the really good ones bounce back, and I think Kelsi will respond.”

The Beavers hope to respond positively after last week’s meet, and continue to improve each week.

After this weekend, their next meet will be against Stanford on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. at Gill Coliseum.

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’m a little fuzzy on the dates, but it’s been about a year since plastic bags were banned from use by large corporations in Corvallis.

How has it really affected us?

Where do we stand today on the issue?

I remember feeling nonplussed when the bag ban was announced.

Paper, plastic, whatever — I just wanted to carry my purchased items home. And by carry I mean hold in my arms during the half-mile walk.

Some students come to campus without a personal mode of transportation, because thieves occasionally salvage bike parts like it’s the apocalypse and the only part they need left for their zombie-repelling machine is a bike seat — and I don’t think I even need to mention the current parking situation. Everyone’s aware of it.

Those of us who regularly ride Shank’s Mare — walk — absolutely require something strong to hold our purchases as we hoof it home.

You’d think the environmentally conscious stores in and around Corvallis would consider this and give us bags with handles on them, right? But no, not for those of us who

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use paper bags. We don’t get handles.

We have to carefully cradle our paper bags in our arms and pray that the bottom won’t give out when it starts raining.

You can buy the $15 reusable shopping bags that will inevitably be forgotten in your closet or under your bed. Reusable fabric bags are certainly a valid option — if you can remember to bring them with you when you go to the store. For those of us who aspire to be absentminded professors when we grow up, or who were raised by them, it’s just not an option.

I mean, we’re the citizens who were already happy to comply with the environmentally sound logic that plastic bags can take five to 10 years to decompose, whereas paper bags will give up the ghost in about a month, according to an article by ABC News titled “Paper or Plastic? Just the Facts.”

Paper bags come from a renewable resource. Plastic bags, although cheaper to make, come from relatively nonrenewable energy sources. Plastic bags will also possess the souls of your children and make them wreak demonic havoc across the Pacific Northwest.

I made that last one up, obviously.

But paper bags are a better choice for the environment and we have to live in the environment. Even paying a measly 5 cents is doable, because whatever you wind up bringing your stuff home in, you know you’ll reuse it as a garbage bag.

However, not having handles on grocery bags is eminently frustrating. When bags have handles, you can slide more than one over the arms, turning yourself into a consumerist Christmas tree. When bags don’t have handles, it doesn’t take you long to realize you only have two arms to carry that cart-full of groceries home.

The concept of paying 5 cents for something you’ll have to do the wiggle dance with as you walk home because it doesn’t have handles can lead your mind to dark places.

Research was done on whether or not bag-bans save cities money in the long run in a National Center for Policy Analysis article, which stated that “an examination of the bag bans and budgets for litter collection and waste disposal in San Francisco, San Jose, and the City and County of Los Angeles, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; and Brownsville and Austin, Texas, shows no evidence of a reduction in costs attributable to reduced use of plastic bags.”

As consumers, we’re not asking for the moon — just for some handles on our environmentally friendly paper bags. I understand that sometimes sacrifices need to be made for the benefit of everyone — including, in this case, Mother Nature — and I’m certain that I’m not the only one to feel this way. But reciprocating that care can go many long miles.

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GMO utilization, education next step in agricultural technology G Pike enetically modified crops have been a hot topic lately, especially after some genetically modified wheat was found in eastern Oregon.

The arguments over these crops stem from concerns about unfore-

seen health risks, as well as those who desire an advancement in agricultural technology and see benefits from modifying the crops. Most recently, Canadian genetically modified apples have rekindled the fire behind the controversy.

However, Neal Carter acknowledges some of the issues with genetically Tyler modified crops is lack of education.

These apples don’t brown after they are sliced and exposed to air.

In the Capital Press article “GMO Carter said, “It’s surprising how little apple stirs up storm in industry,” they need to know before they say it’s not so bad.”

I wholeheartedly agree — education will help the public accept Genetically modified crops, and will hopefully help them see the many benefits these crops can have.

“It’s only an apple where we turned off one enzyme,” Carter said.

In addition to concerns about health, the market risk for these apples is the largest reason the U.S. Apple Association, and a number of other apple trade organizations in Washington, oppose the product.

The opposition is largely due to the negative connotation many consumers make about genetically modified crops. As noted, because this negative connotation is largely unfounded, education should help halt the opposition, and the advancement of agricultural technology should follow.

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Letter to the Editor Cancer-causing chemicals in Pepsi

End campus Pepsi monopoly In tests conducted last year, Consumer Reports discovered that containers of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi One contained six times the California limit of 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MEI, a known carcinogen.

For as long as I can remember, OSU has been a Pepsi school, contractually banning other vendors from campus. Not only has this restriction of the market been painful to my wallet, but now it turns out it may give students cancer.

Now is the time to readdress this grievance and open our refrigerators to Coke, RC, Shasta, Jones Soda, Fentimans or whoever else wants to peddle their sugary, sparkling beverages on our campus.

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ea to another dry week.

Nay to repeatedly sleeping through classes. Again.

Yea to child pop stars, but only when they’re innocent and (occasionally) talented.

Nay to Justin Bieber coming in like a wrecking ball Thursday in Miami.

The downfall of the child pop star is always expected and never fun to watch — unless it’s Justin Bieber making a complete ass of himself once again.

He could face potential deportation to Canada since he insisted on never getting U.S. citizenship. Good call, Justin. At least he was still smiling in his mugshot. His prepubescent female fans everywhere are all reacting like Luke Skywalker did when Darth Vader told him he was his father: “No, that can’t be true! That’s impossible! Noooooo!

Noooooo!”

Yea to finding a Barometer on the bathroom floor. We originally considered that a “nay” until we realized that someone chose the Barometer as his or her form of entertainment while they were sitting on the toilet. That person definitely did not have a smartphone.

Nay to crashed MacBooks. There’s no app for broken dreams.

Yea to the Internet. It is a cookbook, an instruction manual, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a newspaper, a television, a library and a college.

Nay to our society’s slavish reliance on technology. It’s funny thinking about those pieces of paper that were bound together and put on shelves in a central location so that people could check them out for research or casual reading.

Yea to “Black Mirror.”

Nay to the New York Yankees, who once again have shown that they can outspend all 29 teams. They’ve committed $465 million to free agent signings this offseason. That’s 6.4 times greater than GDP of the world. That’s right — the world.

Yea to having an Oregon State University professor named Dr. Watson.

Now if only we can find a Holmes.

Nay to a down year for BBC’s “Sherlock.”

Yea to dropping “The Wolf of Wall Street” references until they choke on it. Those who saw it get it. Otherwise, that just sounded really creepy.

Nay to anyone who hasn’t seen it.

Yea to a month of research and interviews culminating in a compelling story.

Yea to reporters working their asses off.

Yea to Jonah Hill hosting and Bastille as the musical guest for this week’s “Saturday Night Live.”

Yea to going to a Bastille concert in September in a venue with just 200 other people.

Yea to this being the third time “ass” was used in this Yeas & Nays. Why not?

This has been a provocative week in general.

Yea to six consecutive yeas.

Nay to a lack of letters to the editors. That should probably be a “yea” because it means we’re doing something right — or that no one is paying attention to us whatsoever. We’ll go with the former and hope that’s the case.

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Learning out loud: Getting first graders to master English

By Rob Manning

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PORTLAND — Reading, math, science — they’re all priorities for today’s public schools. But there’s something more basic that young students have to master first.

Oregon elementary school teachers say basic competency in language is a necessary foundation to meet rising standards, which culminate in the state’s goal that all students should finish high school, starting in 2025.

“Because we’re humans and we need language to interact. And that’s how we take in information and we output information. They don’t have the language in order to perform academically,” said Maria Popii, who teaches English as a Second Language at Earl Boyles Elementary School in Portland, where a high percentage of kids speak another language at home.

To bolster language skills, many schools in Oregon are changing their approach to the subject.

Take first grader Octavio Zurita, who speaks Spanish at home with his mom and dad and younger sister and brother.

Octavio says the language he speaks with friends, depends on where they are: “When we play in the park, we speak Spanish. In the class, we speak English.”

In years past, Earl Boyles would’ve taught Octavio English by pulling him out of class, so that he could spend

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Josh thinks he knows the answer. concentrated time with an ESL teacher, like Popii.

“I would go into classrooms, I would take the ESL students, and bring them into my room and teach them for half an hour a day. I would give them English instruction — very general English instruction. So, oftentimes, it had nothing to do with what they were doing in the classroom. It wasn’t related to their content. It was strictly language at their level. It mostly included some grammar lessons,” Popii says.

The grammar focus helped prepare students for a standard-

ized test called the “ELPA” — the English Language Proficiency Assessment. It lets teachers see how students are progressing — and ultimately, if they’re ready to leave the English support program entirely.

Oregon students who advance out of the ESL program actually outperform the state average on standardized tests.

But there are far more students from foreign language backgrounds who don’t show that kind of progress. They tend to do worse in the tested subjects of math and reading.

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district, which includes Earl Boyles, recently introduced a support system aimed at helping students in the bottom 20 percent, academically.

Popii says she noticed a pattern.

“Well guess who most of those students are in third, fourth, and fifth grade?” she asked. “They’re ESL students or former ESL students. So these are students who are not progressing throughout the day.”

Language instruction is now in the classroom, and that has meant big changes to what regular classroom teachers do.

Oregon’s efforts to screen for drugs, alcohol struggling

By Kristian Foden-Vencil

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PORTLAND — After one year, Oregon’s effort to overhaul its health care system is seeing some success. The state says ER visits among Medicaid recipients are down nine percent and doctor visits are on the rise. But there is one area where the state is struggling: screening patients for drug and alcohol use.

The Oregon Health Authority is trying to slow the pace of rising health care costs by changing incentives. Rather than have doctors and hospitals charge for each service they perform, sixteen Coordinated Care Organizations have been created around the state.

They’re each paid in a way that

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rewards them for reducing the cost of patient care over time.

The goal is to change the focus of health care from disease treatment to disease prevention.

To ensure the new system is working, the state developed a raft of measurements.

They include everything from cancer screening rates to immunizations.

By most of those measures, the health organizations are seeing changes, but one measure is lagging.

“It’s trying to reach folks who drink too much or use drugs but are not necessarily dependent,” said Jim Winkle, a public health researcher at Oregon Health and Science University.

“Knowing that if we reach these

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people and do a brief intervention we’re likely to cut down on the cost that might happen over the long term through trips to the ER and hospitalizations that happen when people become heavy users or dependent on a substance.”

Winkle says there’s strong evidence that for risky drinkers, a brief intervention — which can be as short as a five minute conversation — can reduce alcohol consumption by up to 30 percent over a year.

But the trouble is, doctors, nurses and counselors aren’t intervening any more than they were before the health reforms started.

Winkle says there may be several reasons for that.

For example, to bill for the intervention, the feds says it has to last at least fifteen minutes.

“Spending fifteen minutes is really not practical for most clinics,” said Winkle. “Most clinicians get about fifteen total to spend with a patient,

who usually comes in with multiple medical complaints. And they’re reluctant to squeeze into an already packed patient visit.”

There are other reasons that could explain why intervention numbers haven’t improved over the last year. An intervention is a very different skill from diagnosing a problem and prescribing a medication, and doctors aren’t necessarily trained to do them. Many clinics aren’t big enough to have a social worker on staff to do an intervention. And finally, there’s a lot of confusion about billing.

But Winkle says, it’s still early in the process, “I don’t think we’ve really given it a decent shot yet.”

Winkle says it takes time to train clinic personnel and points out that most states aren’t requiring doctors to conduct drug and alcohol screening. Oregon, he says, is pushing the envelope in this area and change can take a while.

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At Earl Boyles, students split up by language level, as measured on an “express test.” First graders who need the most help are placed with teacher Karen McDonald, who uses a call-and-response method that is a hallmark of this approach, saying a phrase and asking the kids to repeat it in unison.

When Maria Popii pulled kids out of class, she would make sure they did lots of speaking in English. Popii would only see five or six students at a time, so getting them to speak wasn’t hard.

But in a class of 25 or more, it’s tough to give each kid a chance to talk. And Popii says speaking English — saying the words out loud — is integral to learning English. That’s why the call-and-response method is rising in popularity.

It’s especially good for drawing out kids who don’t have great English skills, and can be reluctant to speak up.

That’s the case with Octavio Zurita, according to his mother, Azucena.

“He knows how to respond, he knows the answers, but he

doesn’t want to volunteer,” she says.

Officials say it’s too early to draw conclusions. Language teacher Maria Popii says she’s seeing mixed results. For example, the school’s test results on the ELPA actually declined.

According to Popii, the drop was not a surprise. It was the first year teachers used the new approach, and it’s less tailored to that test.

Popii is happier with how students did on a broader measure of language. About onethird of Earl Boyles’ language learners showed gains on the express test. But Popii says students from English-speaking backgrounds are showing even stronger gains.

“Sixty-four percent of them grew a level. So that’s language instruction that those students would not have gotten in our original pull-out model,” says Popii.

Those language skills are considered key building blocks for higher-level skills — like applied math and critical thinking — that all students are expected to have.

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is slightly trickier though, as genetically modified crops can be made sterile, but there is always a chance that some of the crop won’t be completely sterile. Like Dr. Ian Malcolm of “Jurassic Park” said, “Life finds a way.”

With education, the populace can become informed about genetic modification, and learn that it’s the necessary next step in agricultural technology.

Genetic modification has helped fight vitamin-A deficiency in Asia, and can allow crops to grow in places that, historically, couldn’t support them. It can increase crop yield and make plants be resistant to diseases and pests.

I’m not saying that genetically modified crops don’t need more study, but I believe the resistance to them from the general populace is unfounded.

We need to take the next step toward sustainable agriculture, toward feeding our planet.

crops to large agricultural businesses. The regulations mean that most genetically modified products come from large corporations instead of universities such as Oregon State University. OSU does produce genetically modified crops, like the purple tomato, but large agricultural businesses have cornered the market.

While I disagree with getting rid of some of these regulations for health and environmental reasons, there are some regulations that seem to only raise the cost of production for genetically modified crops.

Some genetically modified crops may be bad for the environment, and studies should be done to examine their environmental effects, including but not limited to: pesticide and herbicide resistance, and cross-breeding potential.

The environmental effects may come down to, basically: husbandry techniques, preventing the over-spray of herbicides and pesticides, proper weed and pest management.

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Tyler Pike is a senior in agricultural sciences.

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

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