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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 70
Assault near campus, suspect on the loose A male suspect in a ski mask attacked a woman near 30th Street, Fillmore Avenue
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By McKinley Smith The Daily Barometer
A woman was attacked less than a mile away from where a different woman was assaulted two weeks ago. A press release from the Corvallis Police Department noted the similarity between the recent attack and the assault that occurred Jan. 15, adding that the police are investigating the possibility that the attacker is the same man. Police responded to an attack in the neighborhood of 30th Street and Fillmore Avenue Saturday night around 7:30 p.m. The woman was attacked and pushed to the ground by a male attacker who fled after a struggle, according to the release. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the man. The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 6’0” to 6’3” tall with an athletic and muscular build. The man wore a black ski mask with one opening for both eyes, black athletic pants, white shoes and a dark navy blue or black hoodie. “The sweatshirt had a white circle
printed upon the back with cursive style writing that extended from the lower left side of the circle, across the center, to the upper right,” the press release noted. Jeremiah Moore, a senior in forest management at Oregon State University, lives near where the Saturday attack occurred. Moore was frequently outside in his yard, collecting samples from his backyard for a soil lab every 20 minutes, but he said he didn’t see or hear anything suspicious. “I regretted not hearing anything or being able to help in any way,” Moore said. Moore said he saw police cars parked along his block from 7:45 p.m. to midnight, following the Saturday attack. “There were six cop cars and every single one of them had their lights flashing,” Moore said. “That raises some concern absolutely, but I think it’s the level of not knowing that affects you the most.” Moore, who is married, said the attack was “pretty shocking,” and he will begin escorting his wife Jamie, a senior in human development and family sciences, to her car in the mornings. “I’ll gladly wake up early with her courtesy of the department of public safety and oregon state police
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ASOSU advocates for student loan reform, more state involvement to relieve student financial burden By Ricky Zipp
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There are two metaphorical clocks students watch as they make their way through college: the tuition clock and the debt clock. Tuition has continually increased for the past five years, as has student debt. As the student debt clock closes in on $1 trillion — or continues to grow beyond that total
depending on the source — ASOSU is helping advocate to at least slow it down. In 2011, the Project on Student Loan Debt at the Institute for Academic Success released a study that broke student loan debt down by each state. The report says “two thirds of college seniors who graduated in 2011 had student loan debt, with an average of $26,600 per borrower.” Oregon sits right below the national average at $25,497, and 63 percent of the 2011 college graduates were in debt. While the issue of student debt is dealt with at the federal government level, state manage-
ment of higher education can affect student debt. ASOSU President Amelia Harris believes a larger investment in higher education on part of the state could help relieve the debt burden many students are dealing with. “Oregon ranks as the 46th lowest state for per-student funding,” Harris said. “That is very, very concerning ... we need a change in the system.” Where did students sit seven years ago? According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which has statistics of student loan debt since 2005, major increases have incurred in the last few years. Since 2005, the student
debt total has grown by about $500 billion, from $363 billion to their current total of $902 billion. The total debt has doubled since 2007. It seems this is a generational problem. People under the age of 30 make up one third of the $902 billion total, and by adding nine years to that demographic, people under the age of 39 currently hold $599 billion of the total. OSU did not provide information on the average debt of their 2011 graduates or the percentage of graduates graduating in debt for the student debt report. In 2011, the percentSee DEBT | page 2