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Thursday, Friday state police increase lookout for bicyclist traffic violations By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg THE DAILY BAROMETER
Looking closely at present, future building projects at OSU By Abigail Erickson THE DAILY BAROMETER
Oregon State University is no stranger to the beeping and humming of large vehicles or the bright orange caution signs that dot the various construction zones around campus. Building projects, current and future, continue to be a part of campus life. Currently, construction of the Student Experience Center, the future home of several Memorial Union departments and the Orange Media Network, is underway and set to be completed Feb. 13. Strand Agricultural Hall is currently being renovated for increased accessibility and seismic resilience, as well as code upgrades and increased energy efficiency. Strand is estimated to be completed September 2015, in time for the next fall term. Additionally, the new Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center is reported to be completed by spring break 2015. “The SEC will be primarily office and meeting space,” said Sid Cooper, associate director of MU services and facilities. “The Black Cultural Center will be able to do many things with the Nicki Silva | THE DAILY BAROMETER versatility that has been designed into Construction at Oregon State University touches many parts of the campus as new buildings are built and repairs are made to older ones. See CONSTRUCTION | page 4
Sgt. Eric Judah, the assistant station commander at Oregon State University’s state police station, said students should be extra cautious on campus Thursday and Friday afternoons. Oregon State Police at OSU will be heightening attention to pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles during a twoday saturation Jan. 29 and 30. A similar saturation took place during the Fall 2014 term, in which officers on campus gave primarily warnings rather than citations for the violations they observed. “I think what we’ll do is still focus on the educational piece,” Judah said about the upcoming operation. “But we have the ability now to actually see if we had stopped somebody previously.” Judah said there will likely be four to five officers on bicycle patrol and they will primarily be on the lookout for cyclists’ traffic violations, though they will stop vehicles and pedestrians if necessary. Third-year physics student, Elliott Capek, said he thinks operations like the upcoming saturation seem to have good intentions, but uncertain longterm effects. “I think it’s good,” Capek said. “I think we should have more bike safety See BIKE | page 4
Former adviser Women in the House: Only woman representative has concerns to Student Media Woman representative Irwin Harris dies feels lack of diversity
The misrepresentation of women within the House “could be potentially be a conflict of interest,” according to Cremin. As of Wednesday, Jan. 21, the House of Representatives has 18 members. Two are graduate By Jasmin Vogel students and the other 16 are THE DAILY BAROMETER undergraduates. A voice went unheard at last According to ASOSU, the House Wednesday’s ASOSU House of of Representatives exists to work Representatives meeting. Not on the financing of ASOSU, parspeaking up once, Kayleen Cremin ticularly with budget distribution. sat silently in a room full of men. The current legislative process Cremin is the Associated Students requires a simple majority: 51 perof Oregon State University’s only cent. At Oregon State University, female representative. women represent 46.5 percent of “They all seem to know each the student body, according to the other; I’m part of the out group,” OSU Enrollment Summary of Fall Cremin said regarding the overrepre- 2014. “It would be nice to have more sentation of her male counterparts. n
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diversity, specifically including women and minorities,” Cremin said. At the beginning of the school year, the House of Representatives had three women members. Due to various other time commitments, the other two gave up their legislative seats, thus creating a steep majority for male representatives. “It’s always a legitimate concern if a representative body doesn’t reflect the diversity within the entire student body,” said Dan Anderson, instructor in the School of Public Policy. Cremin, a recent transfer student, joined the House of Representatives as a way of getting involved at OSU. “I was involved in student government at my previous institu-
tion,” Cremin said. She currently works closely with the ASOSU Hunger Initiative to improve food insecurity on campus. Their efforts are advancing, as the committee is in contact with University Housing and Dining Services to potentially use the unused food for an on-campus program working for food security. “The representation in the House is something we are trying to fix,” said Saul Boulanger, Speaker of the House and a junior majoring in political science. “There are disproportionate Greek and male voices. We want to make it more applicable to the OSU community.” Jasmin Vogel, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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Irwin Harris, former employee of the Memorial Union at Oregon State University, passed away last Saturday, Jan. 24, according to an e-mail from Director of OSU MU, Michael Henthorne. Harris wrote the book “The Memorial Union at Oregon State: More than a building.” Harris was also involved in OSU athletics, acting as both tennis coach and sports information director during his time at the university. In addition, Harris served as director of the student media program until his retirement in 1981. The Daily Barometer
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Saturday, January 24
Turn signals An officer from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a driver for failing to signal a lane change. The officer later determined that the driver allegedly appeared to be unable to safely operate a vehicle, and after performing sobriety tests, determined the man’s blood-alcohol content was 0.13 percent. The officer lodged the man at the Benton County Jail.
The Associated Students of Oregon State University Senate read bills to create additional seats in the ASOSU House of Representatives. The House of Representatives currently has 20 undergraduate and five graduate student seats. The bills would add constituency seats in the House for the Black Cultural Center, Etihad Cultural Center, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, Native American Longhouse, Pride Center, Women’s Center and Asian and Pacific Cultural Center. President Pro Tempore Rachel Grisham emphasized the importance of increasing diversity in the House, specifically mentioning that only one representative out of 17 is a woman. Vice President Bryan Williamson and ASOSU Speaker of the House of Representatives Saul Boulanger — who was in the gallery — acknowledged the representation issue. While the bill to regulate how proxies perform in Congress was sent to the student government com-
mittee for more work, the Senate did approve Jesse Hanson, a sophomore in physics, to the Judicial Council of ASOSU. In addition, the Senate discussed the The Student Bill of Rights, which did not pass the House, and House Bill 06.01, which would create a directory of services with increasing accessibility in mind. Williamson emphasized the importance of representing students and student issues during his closing remarks. There are currently three vacant seats in the Senate. Only two students — ASOSU President Taylor Sarman and Boulanger — were present in the gallery besides a reporter from The Daily Barometer. The Senate meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Journey Room. Meetings are open to the public. The Daily Barometer news@dailybarometer.com
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Traffic stop leads to arrest A BCSO officer performed a routine traffic stop Friday afternoon after witnessing a driver allegedly fail to maintain a proper position within his lane on the highway. The officer reportedly recognized the two men in the car and confirmed with dispatch that one of the men had an active warrant for his arrest. The officer logged that he brought the man into the Benton County Jail.
Thursday, January 22
Sleeping in the lobby A Corvallis police officer responded to an apartment complex on Southwest Second Avenue, where a man was allegedly sleeping in the lobby. The officer logged that he was able to identify the man and confirm with dispatch that the man had an active warrant for his arrest for theft in the third degree. The officer cited the man and removed him from the premises.
Arrested disturbers A Corvallis Police Department officer arrested two men who were allegedly involved in a disturbance at a residence on Northeast Circle Boulevard. The officer logged that each of the men had confirmed warrants for their arrest and brought them men to the Benton County Correctional Facility. The Daily Barometer
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U of O prof considered ‘open records king’ By Diane Dietz
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EUGENE — An article published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education asserted, without attribution, that University of Oregon professor Bill Harbaugh is the faculty member in possession of controversial 22,000 pages of electronic documents that the UO administration has been desperately trying to recover. In the week since the UO announced that an unnamed professor obtained the papers of the last four UO presidents from the UO library archives, Harbaugh has frequently been mentioned as a likely possessor of the documents. Harbaugh on Tuesday declined to comment about the Chronicle story. He has previously said on his blog, uomatters.com, that he is not in possession of the troves of documents. However, Harbaugh, an economics professor, makes an avocation of obtaining university public documents posting them on his blog. Over the past four years, Harbaugh formally asked the UO for public records 229 times, according to the
university’s Office of Public Records. His requests range from financial documents that show how much the university spends on legal and consulting fees to records detailing how much the university spent to send administrators and some spouses to the Rose Bowl. The Chronicle article calls Harbaugh “The Open Records King of Eugene.” The UO has declined to name the professor it says obtained the 22,000 pages of records from the archives. It has urged the professor to stop reading the records and give them all back. Harbaugh was the recipient of the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists’ First Freedom award after his 2009 decision to post online every page of the Oregon Attorney General’s manual that instructs the public about access to government records — over the attorney general’s initial objections. The state was selling the manual in paper form to the public for $25 apiece. But in the wake of Harbaugh’s action, the state posted the manual on its website and makes the electronic version available for free.
Earlier this month, Harbaugh convinced the University Senate to create an annual award to recognize a UO administrator or other UO community member for promoting “trust, transparency and shared governance.” Harbaugh said the inspiration came in part from President James Madison. Madison was author of the Bill of Rights and a believer in government transparency, Harbaugh said at a recent University Senate meeting. He quoted Madison: “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives,” he said. The University Senate unanimously approved Harbaugh’s plan; the Senate will give the award at the end of each spring term. The recipient will be determined each year by a vote of the body, which includes faculty, students administrators and other staff.
How to report or recover stolen items: The Corvallis Police Department offers four questions to ask oneself before filing a police report: Is this an emergency? Has this incident occurred within Corvallis city limits? Are there any known suspects? Did this occur on a stateowned and managed freeway? If the answer is no, then it is considered reasonable to file a police report through the online reporting system, which is available through the Corvallis city website. If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, it is considered best practice to contact the police immediately, via either 911 if the incident is an emergency or currently in progress, or their non-emergency phone number for crimes that have already completed or are not an immediate emergency. Once a police report is filed, a case number is generated and assigned to an officer, who will contact the reporter and carry out the continuation of the incident investigation. The recovery of stolen property is a case-by-case process and should be discussed with the investigating officer. The Daily Barometer
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Fortune 500 company purchases Trillium By Elon Glucklich THE REGISTER-GUARD
EUGENE — A Fortune 500 health insurance firm has agreed to purchase Agate Resources, the Eugene company that provides services to nearly 90,000 Medi¬caid recipients in Lane County. Centene Corp., which is based in St. Louis, disclosed its purchase of Agate Resources late Monday. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of the year. Agate is the parent company of Trillium Community Health Plan, which was tapped by the state in 2012 to be the region’s Coordinated Care Organization. Trillium has since managed the state’s Oregon Health Plan, or Medicaid, expansion in Lane County. Agate CEO Terry Coplin said Tuesday that the approximately 87,000 local Medicaid patients enrolled through Trillium shouldn’t notice any changes to their health care plans. “For the (Medicaid) members, this should be entirely invisible,” Coplin said. “The management doesn’t change. The governance doesn’t change. The Trillium board of directors is still the same board of directors.” But Coplin said Trillium stands to gain from Centene’s superior health care technology. “They have some support infra¬structure that would take us five years to build, and we think we can get
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access to them now,” he said. That infrastructure includes “lifestyle management” programs to help members address lifestyle issues preventing better physical and mental health, Cop¬lin said. The acquisition also gives Agate the financial flexibility to build up reserves, as required by the state, he said. Centene is a Fortune 500 company originally launched in St. Louis as a single health plan provider in 1984. The firm provides government-sponsored health plans to patients, including Medicaid, Medicare and in some state health insurance marketplaces set up through the Affordable Care Act. Centene has grown quickly, and currently offers plans in 22 states, includingWashington and California. Coplin declined to disclose the financial terms of the agreement. A Centene spokeswoman didn’t return a message seeking comment. Centene did not mention the planned acquisition of Agate in its latest quarterly financial report, filed Jan. 9 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said in a statement that Agate’s management team will stay on. Coplin said he doesn’t expect changes for the company’s 210 employees, adding that they plan to add workers and office space this year.
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Speaker Tina Kotek returns for second term when legislature convenes PORTLAND TRIBUNE
PORTLAND — Having steered the Oregon House of Representatives through one two-year cycle, Rep. Tina Kotek of Portland is back for another term as its speaker. She returns with a larger Democratic majority, a gain of one on Nov. 4 for a total of 35. But she also generated enough goodwill during her current tenure that the 25 Republicans chose not to offer their own candidate for speaker on the opening day of the session Jan. 12. It was a rare, but not unprecedented gesture by the minority party. The 2015 session starts its 160-day run Feb. 2. Even though Kotek is completing a decade in the House, and was a human services lobbyist for nearly a decade beforehand, she still has the least experience of the three principal actors in this legislative session. Democrat Peter Courtney of Salem, the Legislature’s senior member at 30 years, is in his 13th year as Senate president. Democrat John Kitzhaber of Portland, who was Senate president for eight of his 14 years in the Legislature, is in his 13th year as governor. “But I am not the new kid on the block anymore, and I think that helps,� Kotek said at an editorial board meeting with the Portland Tribune. “Knowing that this is my second time around, I think I may have more parity with a Senate president who has been there forever and a governor in his fourth term.� Kotek will be the first two-term speaker in a decade, and the first Democrat to repeat since Vera Katz’s three-term run in the 1980s. As speaker, Kotek decides who sits on the committees that do most of the House’s work on bills and budgets, who will lead them, which bills they are assigned — and how legislation flows through the chamber. She will need to draw on that experience as the House deals with the state budget and transportation projects — financing for the latter will require some Republican support — as well as a potential minimumwage increase, paid sick-leave requirement, and other issues likely to split the parties. “On most issues, we have a lot of bipartisan support, and I hope we can continue that,� she says. “Other issues stem from my belief that when you work hard, you should actually be able to move ahead.� Although Kotek is the first lesbian in the nation to lead a state legislative chamber, she has not defined herself solely on issues affecting sexual minorities. She has emphasized education, health care, housing and other economic issues during her years working in Salem. “Not everyone is finding success in our economic recovery,� she said after the Nov. 4 election. A 2011 news account describes her as combining “laser-focused discipline with strong political instincts.�
Previous work Kotek was elected to the District 44 seat in 2006, after working as public policy advocate for the Oregon Food Bank and policy director for Children First for Oregon — and failing in a bid for the House from an adjoining district two years earlier. District 44 covers North Portland and part of Northeast Portland. “She had enough experience in this building to know how things worked and who is effective around here,� says Rep. Brian Clem of Salem, also a member of the 2006 class of eight that enabled Democrats to become the majority party in the House for the first time in 16 years. In her first term, Kotek led the state
effort to establish domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, seven years before a federal judge ruled they were entitled to full marriage rights under the U.S. Constitution. In her second and third terms, she led the Legislature’s human services budget subcommittee, where she worked through consolidation of early-childhood programs under a single Early Learning Council. Paired on the subcommittee in 2011 with then-Rep. Tim Freeman of Roseburg — because Republicans shared power with Democrats in an evenly split House — she helped devise the legislative framework that made possible the launching of coordinated-care organizations to deliver health services to low-income Oregonians. Sixteen such organizations have improved care to Oregon Health Plan recipients and restrained cost increases. Hours after the 2011 session ended, Democrats ousted Dave Hunt of Gladstone and made Kotek their leader. After Democrats gained four seats in 2012 to regain a majority, Kotek became speaker. She was the fifth woman in that position in Oregon. Despite an often-divided Democratic caucus, Kotek helped steer approval of the 2013 special-session “grand bargain� that raised some taxes and cut others, and pared public pension cost-of-living increases while boosting spending on schools and social services. While still less than Kotek wanted, the state school fund that supports the lion’s share of public school operating costs went up by about $1 billion this cycle over the previous two-year cycle.
Uniting issues Kotek praised the framework devised by the Legislature’s chief budget writers for the next two-year spending plan, which aims to boost the state school fund from the $6.9 billion proposed by Kitzhaber to $7.24 billion. “We thought it was important to have a budget that provided stability,� she says, after state aid dropped in 2011 and 2012 because of the economic downturn and a loss of one-time federal stimulus funds. The plan does so by scaling back Kitzhaber’s targeted spending on other education priorities, such as early learning, and human services and public safety, “although those are still good budgets,� she says. But some school districts want even more, and Kotek says it will be difficult for lawmakers to do so, although they are in line with others to get a share of up to $150 million more if higher tax collections permit it. “I think this budget does not get us there for the really game-changing investments we can make, such as lengthening the number of school days or reducing class sizes,� she says. A coalition of local governments, business interests and transportation users is shopping around for a combination of higher fuel taxes, vehicle and driver fees, and lottery-backed bonds for system improvements. “We are working hard to put a package together, we are in the beginning stages, and it’s going to take most of the session to do that,� says Kotek, who notes that two Democrats and two Republicans from the House are involved in the process. “For me, a transportation package is about getting projects in the pipeline for the next five or six years, putting people to work right away, maintaining the infrastructure we have and expanding it.� Dividing issues But Kotek acknowledges that such issues as raising Oregon’s minimum wage — already the nation’s second highest at
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$9.25 per hour — and requiring paid sick leave will divide not only Democrats from Republicans, but also labor from business interests. “What we heard from voters was that they wanted us to take up some of these issues that could be potentially contentious, so we feel obligated to go and have that discussion,� she says. “If we do not challenge ourselves to have a good debate, then we are not doing our job.� One bill would raise the minimum wage in stages to $15 per hour by 2018. Another would raise it to $12.20 by 2017, and then link future increases with the Consumer Price Index, as is done now under a measure that voters approved in 2002. Kotek says she isn’t wedded to a number. “But I’d like to see us raise it over the next couple of years,� she says. “That will help more people have money in their pockets, need less (government) help, and have the dignity of working above the federal poverty line. It’s not simple, but I think it’s necessary.� While a statewide requirement for paid sick leave for employees failed to advance past a House committee in 2013, Portland has had such an ordinance for more than a year, and Eugene’s will take effect July 1. Without a statewide standard, Kotek says, “you’ll have a patchwork of cities with differing leave policies, and that is not helpful.�
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Portland specifics Kotek has been a long-time advocate of ways for the state to encourage lowercost housing, particularly in a city whose median home price ranks ninth highest among the nation’s top 50 cities, according to U.S. Census data compiled by Portland’s city economist. “People are spending way too much of their incomes on housing,� she says, which leaves them less for food and medical care. She says lawmakers will look at the details of Kitzhaber’s proposal to issue $100 million in bonds aimed at reducing homelessness for families. Kotek says she has questions about the specific bonds proposed. “But it’s the right goal, and bonding may be a pathway to do that,� she says. She acknowledges that housing is affected more by city and county policies, but says lawmakers should remove a 1999 pre-emption on “inclusionary zoning,� which requires developers to build a share of housing considered “affordable� as part of their projects. “I do not know if communities will take up that tool, but I think we should give it to them,� she says. The city of Portland is likely to be one of the cities that adopts inclusionary zoning if the Legislature removes the ban on local measures. Kotek also plans a package of bills aimed at racial profiling, a practice used to identify criminal suspects. Among the proposals are police collection of data on traffic stops — this has been done on an agency-by-agency basis — and designating the state attorney general as the official to receive complaints. “This is not an issue particular to Portland, but it highlights that police accountability in Portland is a huge issue,� Kotek says. Kotek also is keeping an eye on “lottery delis� that nominally sell food and cigarettes, but reap a substantial share of their money from Oregon Lottery games. Residents of Hayden Island, which is in her district, have complained those establishments violate a Lottery Commission rule against lottery games being their “dominant use,� and have asked the secretary of state to audit them.
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Deputy shoots, kills buck on private property in rural Salem By Carol McAlice Currie STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — Unlike some of her neighbors, Jana Gottfried doesn’t mind deer roaming about her 5 acres in rural South Salem, just a couple of miles from Turner. Each year she marvels at the bucks or fawns who are born on her hardscrabble land and stay until they can jump over her 4-foot-tall fence and wander about the rolling green hills above the Mill Creek Correctional Facility. Her acreage runs up against neighboring cow and horse pastures, Christmas-tree farms, vineyards and tidy lawns. She is careful not to feed the deer, name them or even go near them. She simply allows the quiet creatures to graze on her land — they mingle with her two donkeys and six goats and add to the tranquility. But last week, one of her neighbors told her about a grisly sight. One young buck, who’d been born on Gottfried’s land and who was almost old enough to be seeking his freedom, was lying bloodied and lifeless alongside the northern end of her property. Distressed, Gottfried said she rushed to find the deer shot in the head. She picked him up and buried him on her property. “I cried for three days,” Gottfried said. She called the Marion County Sheriff’s Office to complain. She learned that there was a “dispatch report” from Jan. 12, and was given a case number. Another of Gottfried’s neighbors, Teresa Standish, believing the deer had been hit by a car, had called the sheriff, who decided upon inspection that the animal could not be
CONSTRUCTION n Continued from page 1 the building. For the first time, the BCC will have a large meeting room that can host events, classes, meetings and social events.” A locker room, coaches’ offices and a rooftop concessions area are also being added to Goss Stadium, with the project to be completed later this term. With the opening of Tebeau Hall in Fall 2014, University Housing and Dining Services doesn’t have any explicit plans for future developments at this time. “We do, however, have between $3-3.5 million allocated to differed maintenance and space modifications,” said Patrick Robinson, associate director of UHDS. “This allows us to make modifications to existing dorms, update amenities, or update safety systems.” In addition to the existing construction projects on campus, the Learning Innovation Center classroom building is also being built, and construction is projected to end September 2015. The LlnC, located north of Austin Hall, will be the new home for the University Honors College and Classroom Technology and Teaching group. The building will also include 13 general-purpose classrooms and more than 600 student study spaces. In March 2015, construction will also begin on Johnson Hall, the new home for the College
saved, and “dispatched” it. That euphemism is law-enforcement speak for “he shot it in the head and killed it to put it out of its misery.” Details in the two-page sheriff’s report state that Deputy David Watkin said he found the deer “trapped inside the fence line” and that it was “lying injured next to the fence.” Watkin said he attempted to locate the owner of the property “but was not able to contact them.” The deputy then made the determination to “dispatch” the deer, which is within his authority, said Rick Hargrave, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, which had no involvement in the case. Gottfried is upset because no one approached her to tell her about the injured deer and that it had been killed on her property without her knowledge. She said she’d last seen it a few days earlier, and it was walking about normally. She wonders why her neighbor didn’t walk down her drive, knock on her door and ask her about it first instead of calling the sheriff. She says it’s easy enough to know whose property it is even though her house is not visible from the road. Her land is surrounded by a metal fence, which is posted with black and fluorescent orange signs that say “no hunting,” “keep out” and “no trespassing.” Gloria Ralls, another nearby neighbor, said she personally told the deputy that the “owner lived down the lane and around the corner at the first gate on the right.” “All you would have had to do is walk up my drive past my gate, trash cans and mailbox, and
of Engineering research laboratories. The building will also include teaching spaces and faculty offices, and will be located north of the Kelley Engineering Center. The College of Forestry is planning to have Peavy Hall removed and replaced with a new building by 2016. In addition, Forestry plans to build a wood sciences laboratory between the Peavy Hall replacement building and Richardson Hall; this lab is projected to be completed by 2017. These buildings are currently in development stages with architectural companies, according to College of Forestry Dean Thomas Maness. “This has been an exciting year on campus, bringing important infrastructure upgrades and improvements, such as the Washington Way Realignment/15th Street Improvement Project and the seismic upgrades at Strand Ag, as well as the new spaces to help students achieve their highest potential, such as Austin Hall, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez and Asian & Pacific Cultural Center,” said Cynthia Sprenger, manager of business processes. “During this important time of campus construction, we want to remind everyone to exercise extreme caution around all construction sites and related closure areas – your safety is our number-one concern, and we thank you for your patience.” Abigail Erickson, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
ask me,” Gottfried said. “I would have liked the chance to talk to a wildlife rehabilitator like Turtle Ridge (Wildlife Center), whom I called after the deer had been shot, and learn everything I could about the buck’s chances to be rehabilitated and survive in the wild.” Standish, the neighbor who called the sheriff, mistakenly assumed the land was owned by the house closest to the fenced-in land, which is actually on a neighboring street. When she first spotted the injured deer, whose legs looked “mangled,” she said, she tried knocking on the door of that closest house and got no answer. “There was a TV on, and I was convinced there had to be someone home,” Standish said. “I stood there knocking and crying. I kept knocking for about five minutes. I didn’t want to see the animal suffer. The poor thing was just lying there, helpless, injured. It was so emotional for me. I wanted to do best by it. So I called the sheriff. I wish I would have known I was knocking on the wrong door. I wish I had known it might have been able to be rehabilitated.” Standish returned to her home and called the sheriff’s office to explain there was an animal in distress on a neighbor’s property. She said they promised to notify her when they arrived, but she said no one contacted her. When she next saw the animal lying lifeless while walking her dogs, Bennie and Rocky, she assumed the land owners had let the deer suffer and die. “It’s very sad to learn about the mistake. It’s just one big mess of communication,” Standish said.
Gottfried, after talking to the sheriff’s office, contacted Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center. She was told that unlike horses, deer often have a good chance of recovering from leg and hoof injuries. Turtle Ridge, said the center’s manager Jessy Gill, can no longer accept injured or orphaned deer, but it does advise residents who come in contact with an injured animal when they call the center’s hotline. The center also still sends staff or volunteers to evaluate a wildlife injury.
BIKE n Continued from page 1 here, but if it’s just a two-day thing, once a term, there can only be so much benefit.” Judah explained that the patrolling troopers will focus on a few target areas: near the intersection of Southwest 15th Street and Southwest Jefferson Avenue and the roadway along Southwest 26th Street between Southwest Washington Way and Campus Way. Even though this will be OSP’s second operation in its efforts to thwart cyclist traffic violations, Judah said he still anticipates more warnings than citations. “Normally on saturations, we’re probably always going to give more warnings for stuff than citations,” he said. “That’s kind of just how it works.” Kaitlyn Kohlenberg, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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After a sweep of UCLA and USC last week, the Oregon State Beavers — winners of four of their last five games — travel to the desert to take on, for the second time this season, Arizona State on Wednesday before taking on No. 6 Arizona on Friday. The last time the Sun Devils (1010, 2-5 Pac-12) Men’s and Beavers Basketball (14-5, 5-2) faced What: Arizona State off, the Beavers vs. Oregon State went on a 11-5 When: Wednesday, run in the final Jan. 28, 5 p.m. four minutes — Where: Tempe, Ariz. including going TV: Pac-12 Networks 9-10 from the free-throw line — to cruise to an eight-point victory. But that game took place at Gill, where the Beavers have been perfect this season. At home, the Sun Devils have been much more impressive; they have won 43 of their last 50 games at home, including winning seven straight against the Beavers. “It’s very big to get a road win in the Pac-12; it’s really difficult,” said Pac-12 player of the week Gary Payton II. “We just need to come out with the same intensity that we play (at Gill).” After starting off its Pac-12 schedule with four straight losses, Arizona See MEN’S HOOPS | page 6
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7 in the polls. They’ve won 18 consecutive home games; their most recent home loss was back in 2013 against then-No. 2 Notre Dame. The Beavers are 30-3 since last year, and their latest winBy Mitch Mahoney ning streak is at eight games. THE DAILY BAROMETER Wins on gameday have become The Beavers defeated the 13thranked team in the nation Sunday. routine for this team, almost like it’s Oregon State has the best record in just another day at the office. That the conference at 18-1, including 8-0 never would have been said about in Pac-12 play. The Beavers’ latest this program prior to last season. The road wins bumped them up to No. Beavers may be No. 7 in the nation today, but that doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it has never happened. That 7th-overall ranking is the highest in the history of the program, and it wasn’t long ago that the Beavers were just cellar-dwellers in the conference. Before breaking into the rankings at the end of last season, Oregon State had been unranked for 19 consecutive seasons. Two seasons ago, the Beavers finished with a 10-21, 4-14 record and were often left wondering what went wrong late in games. They lost 10 consecutive games during one stretch of that season, where five of those games were by five points or fewer. With how well the team has played lately, that season is quickly becoming a distant memory. The team’s play has been so consistent, so dominating and so prolonged at this point that its success is routine and even expected. “We’re seeing a group that has justin quinn | THE DAILY BAROMETER evolved,” said head coach Scott Sophomore guard Gabi Hanson Rueck. “They’ve taken those tough goes up for the shot against the lessons through losses and figured Ducks Jan. 9 at Gill Coliseum. out, ‘I don’t want to experience that. n
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Oregon State University women’s basketball head coach Scott Rueck focuses on the game against Utah State in Corvallis on Nov. 16. closes games, and it essentially flipped a switch in the Beavers’ collective mindset. Rueck even menWhat: Oregon State vs. USC tioned it in the postgame when he When: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m. said, “We know we can compete Where: Gill Coliseum with anybody.” TV: Pac-12 Network It wasn’t long after that game that the Beavers began their run of 30 We can win these games, and this wins in 33 games. “The difference between ‘being is how.’” One of the biggest moments in this close’ and ‘winning’ is like the Grand team’s evolution came during its last Canyon; it’s that big of a difference,” loss at Gill Coliseum. Notre Dame said Rueck. “It just comes through entered the game as huge favorites experience, it comes through a culto win the game, but the Beavers ture of expectation and it comes competed as hard as they could and from knowing what to do in certain actually took a lead into halftime of moments.” that game. So in spite of their national rankAs the game wore on, Notre Dame ing, in spite of leading the conference demonstrated how an elite team for the first time ever, in spite of
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increased expectations and in spite of being in unfamiliar territory, the Beavers believe they are only getting started. “It’s a really special group,” said Rueck. “Deep down, this team realizes we are good. We probably should win with the abilities we have and the character that we have, and that has become our expectation.” Since they now have an expectation to win, the team has come to value the process that is associated with winning. “And they’re willing to do whatever it takes,” Rueck said. “They’re willing to concentrate for a full hour in a film session and not start dozing off or See WOMEN’S HOOPS | page 6
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“He’s proud, he’s happy. I think for the fan base and the alumni as much as anything because regardless of how the win total comes out on paper, there’s a big difference between underachieving with talent that looked on paper like it should be a (NCAA) Tournament team and overachieving with a roster with a handful of walk-ons. So I think there’s something that he and a lot of other Beavs take pride in, and rightfully so. The optimism that comes with any first-year success I think is pervading the whole community right now, and you see it every time you step inside Gill Coliseum. It feels different. It looks different.”
State has won two of its last three games, climbing out of the cellar of the Pac-12 standings. “They are coming off of two wins — (ASU) beat Cal by like 30,” said junior forward Olaf Schaftenaar. “They are obviously playing a lot better and we just need to be ready and come out with the right mindset.” While the Beavers have been a perfect 12-0 at home, they have struggled on the road, managing a 2-5 record away from the friendly confines of Gill Coliseum. In their last away game against Washington State, the Beavers took a step forward in what it takes to win on the road, as they defeated the Cougars 62-47. “We didn’t come out with the intensity we needed to, like when we play (at Gill). We know we got to deliver the first blow in those games on the road, and we did and we battled back,” Payton, the junior guard said. “We know now that we got to come out and punch first.” After their game against Arizona State, the Beavers will travel 109 miles to take on sixth ranked Arizona, which will be looking to avenge its 58-56 point upset loss against the Beavers. In the four games since junior guard Langston MorrisWalker hit the game winning lay-up against Wildcats in the closing seconds at Gill to upset Arizona, the Beavers have been dominate — winning their next four games by an average of 15.5 points — including an 18 point victory at home against then eighthranked Utah. “We know that — that environment is going to be crazy, just like when they were here,” Payton II said. “We just got to stick to our defensive scheme and go out there and battle for 40 plus and win the physical and mental battle.” The Beavers, who are off to their best start in the conference at 5-2 — the last time they started this well they made the NCAA tournament — are not focused on who they are playing; rather they are focused on perfecting their own game play. “It’s about us; its not about where we play or who we play, it’s about the name across our chest,” Schaftenaar said. “And if we do the things that we need to do; come out with the right energy and intensity, then we have a good chance on winning every game.”
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Long on how OSU has played in comparison to preseason expectations: “You’re going to pry my mea culpa out of me right from the start, because I was definitely one of those doomsayers that did not think that Oregon State had a very good chance at winning a league game, let alone multiple league games, and here we are: they’ve already won a small handful. The biggest surprise for a lot of us has been clearly at the defensive end. If there’s ever an example of defense being a ‘want-to’ as opposed to an ‘able-to,’ this team is it. I’m not sure at any position except (junior guard) Gary Payton II’s that they’re markedly more athletic, bigger or faster at the defensive end, which is to say that it’s all being done with scheme, desire and buy-in, which I think is really impressive. If the Beavs don’t win another game for the rest of the year, which is unlikely, I think already the course of this program has been set for that very reason.”
you take a longer-lens view of it.”
Gary Payton II’s impact: “For a team that isn’t particularly gifted rebounding at either end of the floor, it’s been surprising to see a 6-foot-3 guy make that much of an impact there. The team leads the league in steals, and without him, that’s not the case. Not that he’s doing it single-handedly, but it’s pretty close. He’s on track to do some things that haven’t been done since his father was here, and in some cases before even his father was here. But I’ve been impressed with how low-impact Gary Payton II has been, not knowing what to expect at all, especially since he was committed to the previous coaching staff. I didn’t know how he would handle change, I didn’t know how he would handle his first year on a true college campus with an environment like you have here in Corvallis. But he doesn’t need to take a lot of shots. In fact, sometimes I don’t think he asserts himself enough at the offensive end. But being content to transition defense into offense, to block shots, to get out in transition, and to be a guy who can play above the rim without having to jack up threes has been really key for this group, because I think it’s kept players from looking at him as the son of an NBA All-Star and instead just letting him be his own person, even when he’s doing things like record a triple-double, which only one other person (in OSU history — Gary Payton, Sr.) has clearly done.”
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“99.99999 percent of it. You’re around this team, you see the different look in their eye, you hear the words that are coming out of their mouths. They’re parroting their coach and their coaching staff, and I think that’s where the credit has to go. The remaining small percentage belongs to (junior guard) Langston MorrisWalker and (junior forward) Daniel Gomis and some of the holdovers who could have bailed, could have turned away and instead stayed. I think for what little continuity remained, they deserve some credit for being willing to change themselves and being willing to embrace what was new, but clearly the spirit, intensity, commitment and confidence at both ends of the floor is different, and that has to be attributed to the coaching staff.”
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“I think you can really start to talk about if they are going to warrant a postseason berth. Is that an NCAA Tournament berth? Probably not. They probably didn’t schedule aggressively enough in the non-conference — and understandably so — to put themselves in RPI position, shy of finishing top-three in the league or winning the league tournament to get an NCAA berth. But I could see this team be really appealing to the NIT, or at worst the CBI, because of the enthusiasm and the support that Wayne has here in Corvallis. Especially if you’re talking about hosting a game in that level of postseason tournament, I could see why Corvallis and Oregon State could be seen as a sort of rising trajectory program that such a berth would be extended to.”
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losing focus. If we have to have a three hour practice and we’re on the floor the whole time; they’ll do that. Then they finish that and they go to the weight room and give a great effort over there. They’ve learned that all the efforts, all the hard things — all the sacrifice is worth it in the end. That’s a great lesson.” As a byproduct of the team’s success, attendance at home games has grown. Rueck’s eyes lit up when talking about how many people are coming to see the team play. “It’s such a neat relationship building between our team and our fanbase, and it’s growing,” Rueck said. “More and more people — and now students — are showing up; that means so much to us. I’m proud of this group for just being great ambassadors for the university.” Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter On Twitter @MitchIsHere sports@dailybarometer.com
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solid, equal government attempts to represent the diverse groups it stands for. Sadly, this is not a quality of most governments — women currently hold 104 of the 535 seats in our current Congress and only 33 are women of color. With so few voices amongst a sea of primarily white males, is it possible for the needs of minorities to be heard? But that paltry percentage is still more than what our Associated Students of Oregon State University House of Representatives can muster.
Letter to the Editor Update on AAUP We applaud recent efforts to address issues highlighted in last year’s Faculty Senate/AAUP survey on non-tenure-track faculty. It was announced at the December Faculty Senate meeting that deans will make plans for the promotion of instructors, and that the non-tenure promotion process may be simplified. Some modest wage raises were also implemented. This gives us hope that the administration has taken notice of recommendations made in the We power orange report. But if we are to see change, we need accountability and transparency: who received raises and on what bases, how many promotions are granted each year, how many are denied and on what bases, how is the new threerank system for instructors and research assistants implemented? It is crucial to get numbers so we can gauge efforts made to improve working conditions and compensation, and that was one of the central recommendations in the report. No mention was made of it at Faculty Senate. Lack of transparency plagues this administration. We are told that instructors’ wages are within 5 percent of peer institutions, but it’s unclear what institutions we are being compared to. Without knowing that, this kind of assertion becomes meaningless, and it certainly feels like cold comfort to those of us at the bottom of the ladder. We have another concern: While some of the issues facing instructors are being addressed, what of the concerns expressed by professional and research faculty? Bridge funding especially, something previous committees as far back as October 2004 have recommended, is apparently not being considered. We respectfully ask that the administration address those concerns at the next Faculty Senate meeting. Change can happen when people speak up: as an advocacy chapter, the AAUP-OSU will continue to relay your voices and push for change. Join us on Facebook: AAUP @ Oregon State University. AAUP – OSU Chapter
Editorial Currently, the ASOSU House of Representatives has only one female representative. It did have three at one point, but the other two left due to other time commitments, leaving behind Kayleen Cremin, who apparently feels like she is part of the “out group.” The rest of the Representatives all know and talk to each other — just not to her. It doesn’t help that the rest of the representatives are male.
How can we, as students, expect our society to change if we keep mimicking its mistakes? The solution to this is easy: Promote diversity. The mechanics behind the solution, granted, not so much. It’s all well and good that the House is allegedly willing to promote diversity — but we need action beyond mere lip service. An established group can hoot and holler all it likes that it wants to encourage diversity. But when there is a clearly conventional representation of a particular
race and gender, it doesn’t encourage students not represented by those qualities to try and change the norm. How can the average student have faith in their representation when the entirety of the ASOSU House consists of predominantly white men? How can we be assured that the issues of students — 46.5 percent of whom are female — are discussed at these meetings by these people we apparently trust to determine what happens with our student fees when the representation of the average student is not being met? The two seats left behind are still
Chivalry is dead, courtesy reigns seemed to push away from the traditional forms of chivalry — though I do not have any hard evidence to support that claim in full. Kathy I’m not sure if you cover this at all in human sexuality or in any of your Ask Dr. Sex other courses, but I was curious what your thoughts were. ear Dr. Sex, I am in your Signed, Contemporary Families in Modern-Day the U.S. course, and last week our class Knight in Shining Armor material covered sexism. I had a question about where you Dear Knight, stand on chivalry — in a courtship This is a very good question, and manner, not a duel between two while it may not be specifically about people. some act of sex — usually the content As women are becoming more inde- of this column — I believe issues of pendent and self-reliant, society has gender and gender roles permeate
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rowing up in a rural town with limited educational opportunities, I was thrilled by the idea of college. The endless possibilities brought about by these institutions, along with the freedom to choose amongst these possibilities made me eager to explore newfound interests — an opportunity that would have otherwise not been available. Before applying to college, I had never heard of any “baccalaureate core” type of system, and I was disappointed to find out that students are constrained to specific subjects when choosing the majority of their electives. Apart from physics, there are several other subjects I am very passionate about, and prior to attending Oregon State University I had envisioned exploring these interests throughout my undergraduate career. However, due to the restrictions brought about by the baccalaureate core, I find myself unable to take advantage of the possibilities that appear right in front of me. While the baccalaureate core is most likely intended to encourage students to step outside of their comfort zone and divulge themselves in courses they would otherwise not have taken, for those of us with a multitude of interests it serves as a limitation on our ability to learn about areas of intrigue. Although physics is without question what I want to devote the majority of my time to, I would appreciate the opportunity to explore other fields such as economics and finance, which not only serve as personal interests, but would likely be beneficial in my future career. Instead, I am left choosing from a number of western culture or social processes and institutions courses, which serve to fill a requirement rather than answer my curiosities. While I value the role the baccalaureate core plays in our education plan, I believe it would be more beneficial for students if the number of credits required for this portion were reduced. Some students truly do need the baccalaureate core to motivate them to get involved in other various courses, which will develop them into a well-rounded student. However, it would be much more See HANSON | page 8
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the culture of the United States. It promotes slavery, child brides and violent death against anyone who violates its precepts. There is no room for it in our courts or our culture in Just look at their demand that general and it needs to be rejected at everyone, everywhere recognize their every level of government. holidays. Luckily, there has already been some Anything less is viewed as an attack movement in this direction. on their belief system and cause for the Alabama has recently passed an declaration of a holy war. amendment to their state constitution They are extremists and a threat to that prohibits “foreign law” from being the very fabric of our nation. used in their courts. Their leaders repeatedly have called This is not a perfect solution since for armed revolution against the United it also technically States, and despite the bans the application claim by most WASPs of Islamic law, which that the truly violent Their culture demands Thomas Jefferson and and dangerous memthe Founding Fathers that they force bers of their commudrew from when drafteveryone to live nity are only a minoring the Constitution, ity of the members in under the rule of but it is a step in the their community and right direction of halt“biblical law” and do not represent the ing the influence of views or opinions of they are constantly WASPs in this country. the majority, there is attempting to bully Because otherwise no serious effort on the we’re faced with the everyone into part of the WASP comterrifying possibility munity to denounce accommodating of living in a country or distance themselves under the oppressive their way of life. from the extremists. heel of an ideology This is why we need that demands submisto take action. sion and is fundamenI am officially calling on the government to begin introducing legislation tally opposed to our freedoms. It’s almost too awful to comprehend. to prohibit the application of biblical t law in our state courts. Chambers is a senior in English. The opinions This is not out of any prejudice or Travis expressed in Chambers’s columns do not necessarily reprehatred for WASPs; it is simply a fact sent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Chambers can be that biblical law is incompatible with reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
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t is an unfortunate fact that in this country there is a certain group of people who have refused to assimilate into American culture. Throughout the nation, they have built enclaves where the people are openly hostile to outsiders and demand obedience to an antiquated belief system. These enclaves represent “no-go zones” for many Americans, who often feel endangered when they are forced to travel through these communities, and they are radical hotbeds of activity for extremist philosophies that openly admit to the desire to take over the country, overturn the values and principles it is founded on and force their beliefs onto the populace. I’m speaking — of course — about the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, or “WASPs”. Insidious nests of WASPs in this country surround us. They fill entire suburbs and neighborhoods where they practice an exclusionary culture incompatible with the vision of diversity and brotherhood the country was founded on. Packs of them watch the streets for signs of any stranger or foreigner under the guise of a “Neighborhood Watch” and they are quick to expel — and sometimes even kill — any outsider. The worst part is that their culture demands that they force everyone to live under the rule of “biblical law” and they are constantly attempting to bully everyone into accommodating their way of life.
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As a student who enjoys learning about a variety of intriguing topics, I believe our education would truly be beneficial if the baccalaureate core required around 30 bettered if our elective credits were less restricted — allowcredits as opposed to the current 48 credits, which would ing students to pursue their passions rather than fulfill a allow students to use these extra credits to potentially minor certain criteria. in a field that is truly intriguing to them. t And while some majors do include courses which double Jesse Hanson is a sophomore in physics. The opinions expressed in Hanson’s columns as baccalaureate core courses, the number of credits devot- do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Hanson can be reached at ed to the baccalaureate core still ends up being significantly forum@dailybarometer.com.
GREAVES n Continued from page 7 gestures are only enacted by men and only directed at women. Think about the standard chivalrous act of a man opening a car door for a woman. Would he do that if it was just one of his guy friends getting in or out of the car? Would a woman open a car door for a man? And if she did, would we call that chivalrous or simply courteous, or maybe even weird? Chivalry, the courtship kind you are talking about, dates back to the 12th century where it was related to the courtly manners of nobility. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, as the men were trying to impress the women and “court” them before marriage. Therefore, chivalry was about the manners and honor of nobility. If we fast forward to the 19th and 20th century, men exhibited chivalrous acts because women were perceived as weak, helpless and in need of protection. Think damsel in distress. Thus men had to open doors, pull out chairs and physically support women while walking down the street. You were totally correct when you said, “As women are becoming more independent and selfreliant, society has seemed to push away from the traditional forms of chivalry.” As women became more independent and self-reliant, they didn’t feel the need to be protected and they certainly didn’t feel — or want to be perceived as — helpless. Now my guess is that chivalrous men today do not see themselves as all-powerful and women as helpless. If, however, we want a society where women and men are truly equal — the ultimate goal of the feminist movement — then why is that if chivalry occurs today, it is only about men doing these things
for women and not women doing these things for men? Ladies, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. If you don’t want to be seen as helpless and frail, then don’t get mad at a man when he doesn’t open the car door for you, pull out your chair, or help you with your coat. Or if you want him to do those things for you, then you need to do those things for him. I would argue that, chivalry aside, common courtesy would suggest that we hold doors open for each other. I do this all the time not only when someone — woman or man — actually needs assistance with a door — like if their hands are full — but also when someone is entering or exiting a building right after me. OK, I’m going to veer off topic for a moment to rant a bit. It is probably a daily experience for me on campus that someone in front of me has the opportunity to hold a door open for me as I’m right behind them, but they are oblivious to my presence and the door closes just as I get to it. This is more likely to happen when that person has headphones on, but that’s still a lame excuse. Look behind you when you open a door. If someone were closely approaching, would it kill you to hold the door open for him or her? All I’m asking for is a bit of common courtesy, and if you want to call that chivalry, then I’m all for it. If, however, you believe that chivalry is only an act performed by a man to assist a woman, then no thank you. t
Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and faculty member in the college of public health and human sciences. Greaves hosts sexuality and relationship Q&A sessions in the residence halls and the coops, in sororities and fraternities, in the cultural centers and for community groups. The opinions expressed in Greaves’ columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Greaves can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
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