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OSU students prepare for Super Bowl weekend Many students from around the country — and abroad — choose to cheer on their chosen team as Super Bowl nears

By Justin Frost THE DAILY BAROMETER

On Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots in one of the largest spectacles in American sports and media. On campus at Oregon State University, excitement and interest quietly grow as the National Football League’s defending champions take on quarterback Tom Brady’s eversuccessful New England Patriots.

Many students are using this week’s game as a chance to show some pride for their own homes.

“I’m going to have a get-together at my apartment to watch the game,” said Tony Barnett, a junior in graphic design. “I’m from Gig Harbor, Wash. and a lot of my friends are from Oregon and Washington as well, so we’ll be pulling for the Seahawks.”

The Super Bowl is one of the world’s most anticipated sporting events, and as week four gives way to the weekend, many students are preparing to gather together to sit down, take a break and enjoy some time with friends.

Through a rather tumultu-

ous public relations year, the NFL has managed to garner as many viewers as ever, with the National Football Conference and American Football Conference championship games drawing a peak of 59.6 million spectators, according CNN Money.

“I don’t follow the teams, but I’m always excited to check out a good matchup,” said Nisha Raghunath, a senior in psychology. “It’s tough because Oregon doesn’t have a professional football team. A lot of people I know are rooting for the Seahawks because they’re close.”

Home state affiliations influence many students, particularly those from out of state looking to identify with the places they call home.

“Since I’m from Colorado I always root for the Broncos,” said Peter Kreider, a graduate student in chemical engineering. “I’m not a big fan of Tom Brady, but I’m still a little angry with the Seahawks for taking out the Broncos in the Super Bowl last year.”

The hometown favoritism is hard to ignore, as Mark Leibovich of the New York Times points out.

“I grew up in the Boston suburbs, rooted for the Patriots as a

kid … the Patriots always retained a lovable haplessness about them,” Leibovich wrote in his article “Tom Brady Cannot Stop.”

At a place such as OSU, the Super Bowl provides an opportunity to gauge the varying levels of interests in American football from students around the both the United States and the world.

“Being from outside the United States, not many of my friends are watching the Super Bowl this weekend,” said Yuri Shirae, a sophomore in merchandising management. Shirae said that she wasn’t quite sure who was playing in this Sunday’s matchup.

Other students simply have football lower on their list of priorities as midterms start to kick into full gear.

Anthony Havens, a senior in athletic training, expressed his indifference about the game.

“I’ll probably end up studying for midterms, to be honest,” Havens said. “I doubt I’m going to watch it.”

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OSU students play tabletop games, discuss popularity of board game industry

By Chris Correll THE DAILY BAROMETER

Every week, an off-shoot of Oregon State University’s gaming club meets in Sackett Hall for a “tabletop” game night featuring dozens of games from a rapidly expanding market.

With the advancement of hightech, online videogames, the classic image of social games taking place around a table have competed with one of isolated individuals connecting from separate locations scattered all over the world.

But a recent trend is taking the evolution of “gaming” and turn-

ing it on its head.

In the last 10 years, the popularity of traditional-style board games has steadily increased.

More players are taking an interest in older games such as “Monopoly” and “Settlers of Catan,” as well as new additions spawning from the industry’s recent growth.

John Jordahl, a nuclear engineering grad student, attributes the spike in tabletop popularity to the way they’re being manufactured, which is largely inspired by the videogame industry.

Gigantic franchises “Call of Duty” or “World of Warcraft” owe part of their success to the complexity and innovation of their designs and gameplay.

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Stephanie Taylor, a freshman in human development and family science, will be rooting for the Seahawks this weekend.

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(From left to right) Mechanical engineering junior Jeffrey Leslie waits while new media communications senior Jordan Taphouse contemplates his next move.

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Oregon State University will host its 2015 State of the University Friday, Jan. 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Oregon Convention Center in downtown Portland.

The annual address serves as an opportunity for OSU President Ed Ray to highlight the university’s progress, developmental breakthroughs and continuing goals.

Online registration has been closed, but the university may accommodate a limited number of walk-up registrations, according to the OSU Alumni Association’s website. The regular entry price is listed at $25.

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Wednesday, January 28

K9 discovery Officers from the Corvallis Police Department assisted detectives from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in a suspicious traffic stop Wednesday. According to officer logs, the CPD officer had a trained police dog, Roxy, smell the air surrounding the vehicle in question. The dog allegedly alerted officers to an area near the passenger-side front window of the car, which led officers to conduct a vehicle search. The attending CPD officer logged that officers located and seized nearly 4 ounces of marijuana.

Hit-and-run A CPD officer conducted a brief investigation into an alleged hit-and-run incident between a car and a road sign near Northwest Circle Boulevard and Northwest Highland Boulevard. According to CPD logs, the investigating officer was able to contact the alleged suspect vehicle and driver at a residence on Northwest 14th Street. When officers contacted the alleged driver and performed standardized field sobriety tests, they allegedly determined she was still intoxicated. They then cited her for driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, failure to perform duties in regards to property and criminal mischief in the second degree.

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Active arrest warrant Around 1:30 a.m., a BCSO officer stopped a man who was allegedly driving along Philomath Boulevard without a visible license plate. After running the names of the driver and passengers through dispatch, the officer was allegedly able to confirm that one of the passengers had an active warrant from Linn County. The officer handcuffed the man and brought him into custody at the Linn County Jail.

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PORTLAND — Mary Peveto made her name as an activist prodding Esco Corp. to reduce toxic air emissions near her children’s school in Northwest Portland.

Now Peveto and the grassroots group she co-founded, Neighbors for Clean Air, are tackling a bigger goal: ridding Oregon of dirty diesel engines.

Ever since California moved to phase out the use of older diesel vehicles and off-road commercial rigs there, many have found their way into Oregon — freight trucks, school buses and bulldozers — and some fear those will grow more numerous as more of California’s rolling deadlines take effect.

“We can’t let Oregon be the leading market for dirty diesel engines, and that’s going to happen,” Peveto says.

Older diesel trucks and off-road construction and other commercial rigs spew microscopic particles that lodge in peoples’ lungs, causing can-

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cer, heart attacks and other health maladies. Federal data crunched by the Clean Air Task Force in Boston shows that Multnomah County has the fourth-highest level of diesel soot of all U.S. counties — more than in Los Angeles County, Peveto notes.

Oregon has the sixth-highest level among the states, leading to hundreds of premature deaths here every year because of diesel.

Congress long ago required newly manufactured trucks and rigs to be “clean diesel” starting in 2007-08, which reduced emissions by more than 90 percent. But older rigs can legally remain on the road or construction sites for decades, except in California, which went beyond Congress to phase out their use in that state.

Under the Clean Air Act, other states can adopt stricter air quality regulations enacted by California.

That’s what Peveto wants the Oregon Legislature to do this session.

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ers. They are Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, Senate co-chairman of the Legislature’s joint budget committee, and Rep. Phil Barnhart, D-Eugene, House Revenue Committee chairman.

Caution on lottery bonds Although the commission recommendation allows for $200 million more in bonds repaid from Oregon Lottery proceeds in the next two years, members heard from the state’s economists about the long-term prospects for the lottery and what those trends may mean for future bonds.

Lottery proceeds dropped during the economic downturn, and the amounts transferred to the state also were reduced by about $160 million over four years to help the Oregon Lottery upgrade its video terminals and networks. Lottery reserves paid for the rest of the $225 million project.

About 70 percent of lottery income comes from video terminals, which started with poker in 1992 and expanded to other games in 2005. About 12,000 machines will be replaced.

But Mark McMullen, the state economist, and Josh Lehner, senior economist, told the commission that all forms of gaming — including state lotteries — “are very much an industry under attack,” in Lehner’s words.

The Oregon Lottery’s annual growth rate is averaging 1 to 2 percent, better than a few years ago, but down from its peak after the introduction of electronic line games a decade ago.

McMullen says gaming demand nationally is down because of the economic downturn of the past few years and a generational shift by younger people toward other forms of entertainment.

The apparent exception is Las Vegas, where taxable sales of leisure and hospitality activities have recovered to pre-recession levels. But the economists say that’s because visitors are spending their money on activities other than gambling.

In contrast to tax-supported general-obligation debt capacity, estimated at $3.9 billion over the next nine years, the commission report projects only $643 million in lottery-debt capacity available over that same period.

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PORTLAND — A panel has urged Oregon lawmakers to limit new state debt to just slightly more than $1 billion in the next two-year budget cycle starting July 1.

Lawmakers adopt limits on bonds and other debt as part of the state budget process.

The State Debt Policy Advisory Commission, in its annual report approved Thursday, says the state’s debt capacity has improved as a result of several factors. Among them are a recovering economy, which produces more for the tax-supported general fund, and a pay-down of previous debt.

But the report concludes: “While the commission projects that the state will have available debt capacity in the years to come, it notes that this debt capacity must be balanced against the considerable backlog of pressing capital projects and transportation improvements for which the state will need to tap the credit markets for funding.”

The recommended two-year ceilings are $974 million for general obligation debt, which is repaid through the tax-supported general fund, and around $200 million for lotterybacked bonds, although amounts are likely to drop for the latter in the future.

Lawmakers will take those recommendations into account as they decide how new bonds should be allocated for state projects, community college and university buildings.

Already on the table are a variety of projects, including $162 million for universities, $150 million for state buildings, $86 million for housing, and $62 million for information technology systems — all in Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget. His budget also proposes $100 million in bonds for seismic reinforcement of schools and emergency services buildings.

Lawmakers also are contemplating $200 million for a seismic reinforcement and other work at the state Capitol.

Lawmakers last year authorized

$200 million in bonds for a cancer center at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland if $800 million was raised from other sources.

Kitzhaber’s budget proposes that the state use higher education bonds to pay for the state’s share, which is likely to be issued after the end of the current budget cycle.

Status of state debt Total state debt as of June 30, 2014, was $10.8 billion, up about $176 million from the previous year. The total includes bonds that are repaid from nontax sources, such as college dormitory fees, or earmarked sources such as vehicle and driver fees for highway work.

Debt repaid from the tax-supported general fund was $2.68 billion as of June 30, 2014. If all debt authorized by the Legislature in 2013 and 2014 is issued by June 30 of this year — the end of the current budget cycle — that total will rise to $3.43 billion.

Still, the report says, debt service payments as a share of the tax-supported general fund will amount to 3.5 percent, less than the target of 5 percent.

New debt was limited in the 201113 cycle, largely because of declining state tax collections resulting from the economic downturn. Also, Oregon in 2013 finally paid off $450 million in debt it incurred a decade earlier to balance the state’s operating budget, and repaid over 10 years with its share of the national tobacco settlement.

Laura Lockwood-McCall, director of debt management for the Oregon State Treasury, says the state still is paying off some “certificates of participation,” a form of short-term bonding in the budget that was once used on building improvements and computer purchases. Voters in 2010 approved a different form of bonds to cover these expenses at lower interest costs.

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Most trucks, buses, trains, barges, and planes pass through Portland, so the city gets more than its share of toxic air emissions.

“It’s pretty alarming,” says Matthew Davis, policy analyst for the Multnomah County Health Department. “We’re talking about over 450 deaths a year statewide.”

The impact is more acute among residents near industrial areas and freeways, so diesel takes a bigger toll on low-income residents and people of color, according to the 2014 Report Card on Racial and Ethnic Disparities issued last month by Multnomah County.

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Kindergarten assessment scores paint murky picture PORTLAND TRIBUNE

PORTLAND — The Oregon Department of Education recently released the results of the Oregon Kindergarten Assessment.

The outcome is a spreadsheet listing nearly 1,000 schools, with the children’s scores from their first day of public school broken out by ethnicity and gender.

This is the second year that this data has been collected, but it is still unclear what exactly it is telling us. “We’re still trying to grapple with how to interpret the information,� said Oregon State University Professor Megan McClelland, an expert in Child Development and one of the lead researchers who developed the assessment.

McClelland feels strongly that the information is needed to help identify young children who need help before they enter school, since pre-kindergarten

development is increasingly shown to have lifelong ramifications. With the majority of students in the nation’s public schools systems under the free and reduced lunch measure of poverty, McClelland says today’s kids need a “buffer� against negative influences. “High-quality education has been empirically shown over and over again to do that,�

McClelland says.

Aimee Craig, a spokeswoman for the Early Learning Division, says the governor’s office aims to use the information in years to come to measure success in programs that help prop up young families. Gov. John Kitzhaber’s latest budget request includes early childhood development programs like an educator certificate for child-care providers and a home visit program for coaching new parents. “We know that investing early gives us a strong return to those

invested dollars,� Craig said.

What do the scores mean?

But if the state is looking for easy answers about where to invest those dollars, the latest data don’t seem to reveal them.

In a review by the Portland Tribune, the Portland schools with the highest and lowest scores were just blocks away — and one pairing was within the same school group.

Arthur Academy, a charter school started in the David Douglas School District, has six locations. The location on Southeast Division Street and 137th Avenue has the highest scores in the city. Entering kindergarteners scored high in teacher assessments of self-regulation, interpersonal skills and total approaches to learning.

A 10-minute drive away, the location on Southeast Yamhill had the lowest scores in the city on self-regulation.

“You wouldn’t think the populations would be all that different,� says Arthur Academy Executive Director Stephani Walker.

Walker says the school has their own assessments that they use to track progress throughout the year and doesn’t use the state assessment data for anything. She notes that the school doesn’t ask whether its students have attended preschool or other early childhood education settings, but maybe they should start.

Mark Van Hoomissen, principal at Morrison Child & Family Services Hand in Hand, says he doesn’t use the state’s assessment either. His students scored lowest in four categories: interpersonal skills, total approaches to learning, letter names and letter sounds. “The scores being low, that isn’t necessarily a surprise to me,� Van Hoomissen says. The Hand in Hand program is for

children who have experienced extreme trauma, abuse or neglect. They are referred to the Portland Public Schools program through the Department of Human Services or county mental health agencies.

Van Hoomissen says that while he would support an expansion of early childhood education, his staff isn’t too concerned about where the kids come from. “However they get to us, it’s: ‘OK, let’s get started,’� he says, noting that their top priority isn’t reading, writing and arithmetic, but how to deliver an experience that makes the child want to learn. “Even kids that we work with who have experienced trauma and neglect and those things, they want to do well in school.�

Nonacademic skills also tested

The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment is an unusual creature. In addition to letters and numbers, it measures nonacademic skills, such as self-regulation and interpersonal skills.

It is given to students within the first six weeks of school, so it is not an assessment of the graduation after four years. The school itself. increase can also be attributed The test offers a “snapto focused efforts in districts shot� of how the state’s entire around the state on creating population of children do on multiple pathways for students the first day of public school. to be successful,� Deaton said. It asks teachers to evaluate At 68.6 percent, Oregon’s them on recognizing letters graduation rate for the class of and numbers but also on how 2013 was better only than Idaho, prepared they are to learn whose rate was not available in the Department of Education’s report.

Where Oregon’s 2014 numbers fall in comparison to other states was not available Thursday morning.

Topping the list was Iowa with a rate of 89.7 percent. Idaho’s information was not available because the state had an approved request to report their rate late. Also ranking below Oregon on the list were the District of Columbia at 62.3 percent. Information for Puerto Rico also was not available.

The Department of Education said to be cautious in comparing rates between states and years, however. Starting in the 2009 school year, states could calculate graduation rates using a method of their choice, as long as the number showed how many students graduated in four years.

Oregon’s cohort graduation rate in 2011-2012 was 68.4 percent, which placed Oregon higher only than Nevada. In 20102011, the rate was 66.4 percent and in 2009-2010 the rate was

66.4 percent, barely up from the year before that had 66.2 percent.

The Salem-Keizer School District performed better than the state average in 2013. With an adjusted cohort of 3,005 students in the 2012-2013 school year, Salem-Keizer’s graduation rate was 72.05 percent — a notable increase from the year before, which saw 68.99 percent.

Oregon’s 2014 grad rate up from prior year

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SALEM — With a graduation rate of 72 percent, Oregon’s class of 2014 saw an improvement over the previous year, which made headlines for being the lowest of any state.

The Oregon Department of Education released the 20132014 graduation rates for the cohort that entered high school in the 2010-2011 school year.

The report is meant to track how many students graduate within a four-year period.

The cohort method shows the year the students entered high school and determines their outcome after four years, said Jenni Deaton, administrative specialist for the Oregon Department of Education.

News spread earlier this week about Oregon ranking last in the country for the 2013 graduation rate. But on Thursday the state said the calculation method shifted in the 2013-2014 school year to be more consistent across states. The change led to two additional groups of students getting added to the calculation: students who received a modified diploma or met the

requirements to graduate but decided to stay a fifth year. “These changes make Oregon’s four-year graduation rate more of an apples to apples comparison with other states, a significant group of whom already include these calculations in their reported rates. While adding these two groups still doesn’t equate to a true one-to-one comparison, it gets us closer,� Deaton wrote in an email.

There were 45,674 students in the statewide cohort. The SalemKeizer School District, with a cohort of 3,005 students, had a graduation rate very close to that of the state at 72.35 percent.

Assistant superintendent Kelly Carlisle said that the district is pleased to not only be above the state average, but also to be on the upswing. “Once again we’re a little bit above the state average,� Carlisle said, “which we’re pleased about.

And the dropout rate is lower than the state average. We want to continue to see good trends moving in the right direction both for us and the state.�

The Salem-Keizer School District is composed of eight high schools. All of them had

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a rate between the range of 74 and 88 percent, except the Early College High School, which had a 97.78 percent graduation rate, and Roberts High School, which had a 12.8 percent graduation rate. The Early College High School serves under-served students in the district by creating a pathway to classes at Chemeketa Community College. Roberts High School provides specific programs to support students who are at risk of not completing secondary education, including the teen parents program and sophomore connections for students who struggled their freshman year.

Comparatively, Portland Public Schools had 3,318 students in the 2013-2014 cohort with a graduation rate of 70.4 percent. “Knowing the challenge that so many of our students face, it’s gratifying to see that overall our district is helping pull up the state average,� Carlisle said.

And speaking to focused investments, the Salem-Keizer School District is in its fifth year of the High School Graduation Initiative — a federal grant that has helped bolster programs targeted towards students who are on track to drop out.

Additionally, the district has made efforts toward helping staff. “We’ve continued to invest in professional development of our staff.,� Carlisle said.

Officials said another factor behind the improvement is the method of calculation: who is considered a graduate and who is not. “Including these students not only makes our rate more comparable with other states, it fairly recognized students who have completed the requirements for

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The overall statewide average score in English letter names was 17.7, compared to a score of 8.9 among Hispanic students. Students statewide scored 6.6 on English letter sounds recognition, while Hispanic students scored 2.8.

This was the first year that Spanish letter names were offered in the test to Spanishspeaking students, who did slightly better with an average score of 3.0.

The letters portion of the test has come under attack by parent and teacher groups, such as Oregon Save Our Schools and Parent-Child Preschools Organization, who argue that it is setting up a false paradigm that preschoolers need formal academic instruction at an age when they are too young to receive it.

But McClelland, the researcher who helped develop the test, says she sees another pattern emerging from the data. The self-regulation scores ticked up a bit — 3.5 to 3.6 — over the 2013-14 data.

McClelland says a young child’s ability to self-regulate correlates to their likelihood of finishing college. “It’s really important that you learn not to have a huge temper tantrum. Those are pretty significant behaviors that you need to learn how to manage,� she says. “Maybe (the OKA result) also shows that people are starting to hear that these are important skills.�

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I think it’s different if it’s on campus or not.

Especially on Campus Way, I ride my bike and I don’t stop at stop signs, but also there’s no cars, so I’m just slowing down for pedestrians. But out on the main roads, I always stop at stop signs. It’s at your own risk right? You know, if you want to run a stop sign, you might get hurt, the car’s not going to get hurt.

Today, I actually saw a bicycler get hit by a car over near 15th and Washington.

He seemed OK and got up, but I wasn’t sure who’s fault it was. A lot of times they don’t stop at stop signs, and they should, so I’m not entirely against it.

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PORTLAND — The City Council will have to decide the future of the open reservoirs at Mount Tabor. That became apparent after the Historic Landmarks Commission deadlocked on the question Monday afternoon.

The commission split 3-3 on an application from the Water Bureau to disconnect the reservoirs from the distribution system, as required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although the commission could either approve or deny the application at its next meeting if the absent seventh member shows up, both sides indicated they will appeal the decision to the council, regardless of how it ultimately goes.

As required by state land-use planning laws, the bureau has asked the commission to approve its land-use application for the work required to decommission the reservoirs. Many Mount Taborarea neighbors oppose the application because they want the reservoirs to remain part of the city’s water distribution system.

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I think it’s a pedestrian and a biker issue. I think that pedestrians aren’t looking out for each other, and bikers are kind of just breaking the law because they don’t really have a choice, because people aren’t going to yield to them anyway. So I think it’s a community issue, that everyone needs to find a solution to it.

I think the tickets will help, but pedestrians need to be notified in a way too.

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I think that it kind of sucks because a lot of students probably don’t have as much money to be spending on pointless tickets. I get the safety part of it, but then at the same time, it just kind of seems like they’re meeting a quota, like it doesn’t seem like a big enough issue on campus, at least from my perspective. It seems like a lot of people are safe on campus with their bikes. For the most part, it just kind of seems unnecessary, and I think it puts a bad view for the students on the police because it almost seems like they’re out to get us, to give us pointless tickets.

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I think it’s a good thing. It’s something that we need more of around here, for enforcement to prevent all the accidents that there are.

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I think probably that the cops shouldn’t start issuing citations, but maybe start finding a way to issue some sort of warning because it’s been something that’s occurred for a long time, even just the few years I’ve been a student here. People have blown through stop signs always, and people don’t look when they’re crossing. It’s always just been chaos on campus, so to all of sudden start surprising people with citations seems a little bizarre.

At Monday’s hearing, the bureau indicated it was willing to accept a tie vote, which would have denied the application. Neighbors who attended said that meant the bureau believes the council will reverse the denial and approve the application. The council has promised the EPA the reservoirs will be decommissioned by the end of the year.

But the neighbors also believe the application is legally flawed because it does not include a plan for maintaining the historic character of the reservoirs, as required by preservation rules. If the council approves the application, the neighbors are prepared to appeal it to the state Land Use Board of Appeals, as allowed by state land-use laws.

“The application has flaws that give us grounds to appeal,” says Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association member Stephanie Stewart.

Ironically, Stewart and other association members had spent months trying to persuade the bureau to propose such a mitigation plan. Although they want the bureau to continue using the reservoirs, the activists had worked with the bureau

to develop the best possible plan for preserving them if they are disconnected from the rest of the water distribution system.

Stewart and the others have served on a Community Advisory Committee appointed by the association since last April, negotiating with the bureau to improve its original plan to simply disconnect and drain the reservoirs. The bureau agreed to keep them filled with water, but did not offer a long-term maintenance plan that it promised to fund.

Persuading the bureau to fund a maintenance plan would have been more than a symbolic victory for the activists, however. It also could have saved millions of public dollars over the years.

Maintaining the historic appearance of the reservoirs is probably the least expensive option for the area if they are decommissioned. Although ideas proposed over the years have included demolishing the reservoirs, reconfiguring the terrain, and building a park with public art.

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Many entrepreneurs bring in millions of dollars after getting their projects off the ground through n Continued from page 1 public fundraising sites like Kickstarter.

In July 2014, private Kickstarter funds for a title game developers followed suit by making games that resembled the much more complex videogame about zombies — “Zombicide: Season 3” — were formula and strayed from the traditional handful more than $2 million.

Jordahl said he’s seen strides in the creativity and of options.

“The tabletop market really started to take off in quality of tabletop products in the past few years.

“In Monopoly, once one person gets a hotel going, 2008 or 2009,” Jordahl said. “The videogame industry developed this process for making good games. they win. There’s none of that in these games. One You had ‘Call of Duty,’ you had ‘Minecraft’ and person could be winning and all of a sudden they ‘Starcraft’ — all these big names — and the board get their butt kicked down and someone else is in game industry was like, ‘what do we have? Let’s the lead. It changes from turn to turn.” Jordahl said.

Fresh concepts and a much wider selection to apply that process and make games like Talisman choose from are only part of the explanation for the and Dominion.’”

Board games that are relatively easy to create and rise of board games.

Economics junior Scott Snelling has attended produce have flooded stores and online catalogues.

Some have casual play styles that reward players for many OSU tabletop events in the past and said he being cooperative as they work toward a common enjoys the real-world interaction videogames lack.

“They’re much more social,” Snelling said. “I play goal.

Others are complex, cut-throat free-for-alls that them for the ability to just be around people, having fun. Videogames tend to be something I do on can test even the closest friendship.

and two others in Washington Park — has been a source of great citywide controversy for many years. Congress amended the Clean Water Act in 1996 to allow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban all open municipal reservoirs in the country.

The change happened after at least 69 people — mostly children, the elderly and AIDS patients — died during a 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak that went undetected for weeks and sickened more than 400,000 others in Milwaukie, Wis. The EPA signaled its intent to ban open reservoirs through new Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water (LT2) rules in 2000.

The next year, former Water Commissioner Erik Sten appointed a task force to study treatment options for the microscopic bacteria in the Bull Run Watershed. It soon became apparent that treated water also could become contaminated in the open reservoirs, however, a fear that increased after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Full story at portlandtribune.com.

my own. Board games are what I’d rather be doing with friends.”

One of those friends is Will Seble, the gaming club’s vice president and the person who runs tabletop nights at OSU. He said the way “gamers” are defined may be changing.

“There’s a weird dynamic going on right now where the ‘gamer’ is expanding. Anyone can be a gamer right now with mobile phones, but board games can be considered really hard. But with a board game it’s just there. It’s laid out, you can see what’s happening, and it’s not 3-D where you have to look behind you. Once you have the rules down, you’re good,” said Seble, a senior in digital communication arts.

The gaming club now includes tabletop matches at their videogame LAN parties. Their tabletop nights are every Thursday from 6 to 11 p.m. and are open to anyone from the OSU-Corvallis community.

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Malachi Bunn, a graduate student in chemical engineering, cared little about the game as well, with the weather dictating whether he would even tune in on Sunday.

“I might watch it, but I’d rather go fishing,” Bunn said. “It just depends on the water levels in the rivers this weekend.”

Despite varied levels of interest in the game and the teams playing this weekend, the Super Bowl provides a nice distraction for many, as well as a great way to come together and share some relaxation and laughter in the midst of winter term, according to Raghunath.

“More than anything I’m looking forward to hanging with friends and sharing some quality snacks and drinks,” Raghunath said.

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ADDRESS n Continued from page 1 Last year’s 2014 State of the University address, which took place at Portland’s Downtown Hilton Hotel, featured announcements of the OSU campaign that reached its $1 billion benchmark. The continuing fundraising campaign was created in 2004, launched publicly in 2007 and raised around $850 million by 2012.

Additional information on the event can be found at osualum. com. Outlines and transcripts of past addresses are available on OSU’s website under oregonstate.edu/leadership/president/ speeches-and-statements.

Travel directions for those attending the event can be found at oregoncc.org.

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(Top) Sophomore guard Sydney Wiese goes up for a shot against the Cougars Jan. 16 in Corvallis.

Women’s basketball head back home at Gill Coliseum Saturday to face USC

The Oregon State women’s basketball team (18-1, 8-0 Pac-12) returns home this weekend after a big win against Arizona State (18-2, 7-1) that put it at the top of the standings, with the only conference record without

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THE DAILY BAROMETER “I feel like we are just having fun As the Beavers enter the second right now,” said sophomore guard half of conference play, they find Sydney Wiese. “We have high expecthemselves not only playing a bas- tations in our team anyway, so it ketball game but also playing a game doesn’t matter now that we are in the of chess. top spot.”

The Beavers do not seem to be the least bit phased with their current position at the top of the conference standings, and instead are just focused on whatever comes next.

“We are all just happy with where we are, and excited about what’s ahead and the challenge still to come,” said head coach Scott Rueck.

“Honestly we don’t really think about the ramifications of this or that, we think about the next possession.”

The next challenge for the Beavers comes in the form of an opponent they have already faced this season at the beginning of Pac-12 play: USC (118, 3-5). Oregon came out on top 76-66 in its last meeting, while USC was in the first weekend of conference play.

“We played well down there; those were two good games to start out Pac12 on the road,” Rueck said.

Now seeing them a second time, the preparation and mindset changes for each team. There is less mystery and more focus on improving upon the last meeting between these two teams.

“We definitely watch film on what we did last time,” said senior guard Ali Gibson. “We know what we can do n

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against them, the game plan is pretty much the same and hopefully we’ll get wins against those teams again.”

“That’s the neat thing about being in a conference that plays teams two times,” Rueck said. “There is a little chess match to it and little adaptations that you can make to play them more effectively.”

In preparing for USC and UCLA the second time around, Oregon State is focused on making the improvements that caused it trouble the last time it met these two opponents. Against USC, Oregon State got its pockets picked six times — something it hopes it has improved since then.

Although it is looking to make the improvements that were needed, Oregon State is mostly focused on maintaining its tried and tested system.

“Offensively, our game plan will be the same as last time: move the ball and get it to the open shooter, and everyone has confidence — even people coming off the bench. I think it’s huge to be able to move the ball and execute,” Gibson said.

Oregon State has had some great production from its bench lately, including sophomore guard Gabriella Hanson and junior forward Samantha Siegner.

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After a few weeks away from home, the Oregon State University women’s gymnastics team (2-2) will return to the confines of Gill Coliseum Friday to take part in a four school meet.

The Northwest Rivalry Series, presented by Alaska Airlines, will include Sacramento State (3-5-1), Hamline University (1-2), Washington (1-2) and the Beavers.

Oregon State is currently ranked No. 10 nationally, and will need a quality score and the win to maintain its top10 placing.

Washington is currently ranked

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What: OSU, Washington, Sac State, Hamline Where: Gill Coliseum When: Friday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m.

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No. 17, but if history repeats itself, the Beavers shouldn’t have a problem overcoming the Dawgs.

OSU and Washington have met 125 times before Friday’s match up and the Beavers lead the rivalry 101-24.

The Beavers are 49-2 against Washington at home, and have won the last 14 times they have met dating back to 2009.

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Oregon State men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle talks with a referee during the Beavers’ contest against UCLA Jan. 22 in Gill Coliseum.

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Junior all-arounder Risa Perez shows great balance on the beam against UCLA Jan. 12 at Gill Coliseum.

wouldn’t be surprised if after their 18-point victory against the Beavers, Arizona State head coach Herb Sendek went all Dennis Green on his team telling them “The Beavers are who we thought they were!”

And he would be correct.

For the first time since their exhibition loss to Western Oregon in early November, the Beavers looked like the team that the media, fans and even myself expected this season: a team going through a major rebuild, which will struggle to win games in

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And that is exactly what happened Wednesday when the Sun Devils — who only had two conference wins going into the game — put a beatdown on the Beavers like Bane beat up Batman in “The

What: ASU vs. OSU Where: Tucson, Ariz.

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Dark Knight Rises.”

On the Monday before the Arizona State game, junior guard Gary Payton II said that the Beavers had to be the team to deliver the first punch on the road.

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For the second meet in a row, the Oregon State women’s track and field team will head up to Seattle, this time taking part in the Washington Invitational on Friday.

Since the Pac-12 does not sponsor any indoor conference meets, the Beavers have joined up with the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for indoor track.

The Beavers are coming off a positive start to the season — on Jan. 17 — when they took part in the Washington Preview.

During that meet, Freshman sprinter Venessa D’Arpino set a school record in the 200-meter dash when she clocked a time of 25.28 seconds, which was good enough for ninth on the day.

Sophomore pole vaulter Annie Sidor also had a statement day, becoming the first Beaver to ever take part in pole vaulting in an indoor meet. Sidor threw a mark of 11-3 ¾, which also landed her in ninth on the day.

The Beavers will come to the invitational in full force with a squad of 44 athletes, including three seniors.

One of the seniors is sprinter Allie Church, who — along with her state top 4A athlete status — holds the school record from last year in the 60-meter dash where she recorded at time of 7.71 seconds.

Oregon State will have three meets to work out the kinks before it takes part

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To their credit, they kind of did. They jumped out to an early 7-3 lead on the Sun Devils — they were just outscored 70-48 the remainder of the game.

The defense that had carried the team became nonexistent, and balanced offense, well, became unbalanced. Three players contributed 50 points

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in the MPSF indoor championships that will run Feb. 27-28 in Seattle.

Since they joined the MPSF, the Beavers will now have a shot during that event to return home with a conference championship.

The Beavers will be out on the road through all of the month of February

of the team’s 55 total points: junior guard Langston MorrisWalker, junior forward Olaf Schaftenaar and junior forward Daniel Gomis combined for three points.

That is not the Beaver team that took down Arizona and was starting to look like a legit NIT or NCAA tournament team 19 games into the season.

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The UW Invitational — as it is with all meets — will be an all day event.

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at 11-0, and haven’t met them since 2013, when the Beavers crushed the Hornets and Washington by more than two points.

Hamline is another story altogether, as the Beavers and the Pipers have never met. This is due in large part to the fact that Hamline is a Division III university hailing from Minnesota.

The Beavers will be coming off a tough loss to Stanford, which witnessed its season high score of 196.450, only to lose to a tremendous effort by The Cardinal, which bagged the season rare 197.000.

Friday night will also be Short Person Appreciation Night, when anyone shorter than the life-sized gymnast cutouts will get through the doors without spending a penny.

Those unable to make it to the meet will be able to hear it via a webcast called by former OSU gymnast Stephanie McGregor.

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down some huge shots in key moments to maintain the Beavers’ momentum.

Part of Oregon State’s biggest threat is team depth.

But despite this depth, it still struggles at times through the game to maintain high intensity throughout the full game.

“Even though we are number one now, there is still so much to improve on. I don’t think we’ve played a full 40 minutes yet, which is so exciting because we know what we need to work on,” Wiese said.

The Beavers look forward to showing off their improvements to their home crowd once again this weekend.

Oregon State’s basketball program is currently one of four in the nation to have both its men’s and women’s programs undefeated at home.

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started to grow accustomed to seeing — great defense with a balanced and unselfish offense — and they need to do it fast.

Unfortunately for the Beavers, their next opponent is Arizona — the No. 6 team in the country — with the only conference loss coming at the hands of the Beavers at Gill Coliseum a short 19 days ago.

The loss to the Beavers awakened the Wildcats from their catnap. Since their loss at Gill, Arizona has rolled to five straight victories: a 14-point victory against Colorado, 18-point victory against then-No. 8 Utah, 7-point victory against Stanford, 23-point win over Cal and a 34-point blowout against Oregon.

That loss — still their only conference loss — is still fresh in the Wildcats memory, and they will try and prove that their loss was just exactly what it was: an upset and nothing more.

In that upset victory, the Beavers controlled the game and played their style of basketball. They held the Wildcats to 56 points — 19 points fewer than their season average — as well as controlling the glass, holding the Wildcats to nine fewer rebounds than their season average of 35 a game.

Offensively, the Beavers found their balance, with everyone who played more than five minutes

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— seven players total — scoring at least six points. Morris-Walker scored a game high 12. That is seven players scoring between six and 12 points.

Essentially they did everything in that game that they failed to do against Arizona State.

The Beavers do not need to win this game to get back on track — they just need to find themselves after going through a bit of an identity crisis against Arizona State.

If the Beavers can regroup themselves and get back to playing, one of two things will happen: They find a way to pull out another win against a team fighting for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, or the Beavers are able to hang with the Wildcats, fighting for loose balls, playing suffocating defense — Playing “Beaver Ball” — but unable to get the win on the road.

In that case, head coach Wayne Tinkle will storm into the press conference, and give his best Dennis Green impersonation: “The Wildcats are who we thought they were!”

But he will have to finish the Green rant: “and we let them off the hook!”

If either of those two scenarios happen Friday, the Beavers will be back on track.

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largest number of season tickets this year, fans are coming out full force to support the teams.

“It’s growing; that fan base and the way they support us in kind of evolving as we evolve. They are learning how to cheer, when to cheer and how much impact they actually have,” Rueck said.

“Our fans just show up every night that we are there. The energy that they bring — I think they are the X-factor for sure,” Wiese said. “We could miss every shot and somehow pull off the victory because our fans just have that much power over the game.”

The Beavers hope that the X-factor will be present as they take on USC Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. They hope to continue their unblemished record at home and inconference play.

“USC are hard competitors and it’s going to be very tough games, so we are excited for the challenge,” Wiese said.

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ea to waking up to extremely nice weather Thursday morning. It’s like we all slept in until March 21.

Nay to the inevitable return of rain for 50 days straight. This is Oregon, after all.

Yea to the Associated Students of Oregon State University acknowledging issues of diversity and inclusion at their meetings. We look forward to any continuing progress witnessed within the student government.

Nay to how similar these matters seem compared to last year. We hope the administration and ASOSU branches can work toward a future with additional student voices.

Yea to any completed midterms thus far.

Nay to any “second midterms” we’ll experience in the middle of week 5, 6 or 7. Can’t we just wait for finals now?

Nay to indecent exposure in a public place. What you do with your body is your own business, but some activities should remain private.

Yea to common courtesy. There should never be a specific reason for simply holding the door open for someone.

Nay to fake courtesy or “niceness.”

Yea to conveying messages through a series of random cat pictures. Thank you, Internet.

Nay to the literal road blocks seen and sounds of construction heard throughout campus.

Yea to receiving new buildings, renovations and facilities. Construction may be loud and inconvenient, but we suppose it’s only for the best.

Nay to cockroaches, on that note.

Yea to Thursday arts & entertainment expansions focused on Oregon State.

Yea to having more quesadilla than you even know what to do with.

Nay to having to do laundry and losing matching socks in Narnia.

Yea to colorful, mismatched socks, because why not?

Nay to wet socks — however colorful and mismatched they may be.

Yea to FitPass classes at Dixon Recreational Center — you are helping us keep those fuzzy New Year’s Resolutions.

Nay to the aches and pains of exercise.

Yea to the consumption of hot foods and liquids in these cold days.

Yea to soup.

Nay to soup that is too hot — we wanted cream of broccoli, not “cream of soup that is too hot.”

Yea to throwing Ask the Doctor themed events in the Memorial Union Quad.

Nay to the Beaver loss in basketball — we believe in you; keep on gnawing at that tree of adversity.

Yea to school spirit.

Yea to the upcoming Super Bowl game this weekend — all of the nachos and all of the pizza and none of the hating ourselves afterward.

Yea to another Friday, another weekend and another week closer to Spring Break.

Keep on singing, Corvallis.

ear Dr. Ethics, Part of college is being forced to take bacc core classes you have zero interest in to complete your major. For these classes, is it ethical to cheat on tests or lie when writing papers? My main concern is getting a good grade and I can say with high confidence these classes will have zero relevance on my career and just inspire dread and boredom.

— Baccalaureate Core Blues

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Dear Bacc Core Blues, This past Tuesday (Jan. 27), I hosted an “Ask Dr. Ethics” booth on the Memorial Union Quad to discuss the moral values, concerns and dilemmas of Beaver Nation with Oregon State University students.

Because I suspected your question would provoke lively debate, I gave Photos Courtesy of Cassie Ruud passersby the opportunity to respond Dr. Stephanie Jenkins, AKA Dr. Ethics, held an “Ask Dr. Ethics” session to an abbreviated version of your in the Memorial Union quad Jan. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. question.

One of the first student responses might resemble the response you might other members of the community, “It’s lates the OSU Student Conduct Code. If expect from a professor writing an eth- not fair for some people to cheat when you get caught, you could fail the class ics advice column, “F*%k no. Cheating everyone else is working really hard to or even get kicked out of school.”

“It’s wrong because it hurts your is wrong. If you’re going to do it, you pass and learn.”

“No, because it is disrespectful to the character.” shouldn’t be here.”

These replies, and the conversations While this statement likely reflects instructor, as it shows you are uninterthe moral sentiment of many Beavers, ested in the content of the class and I had with students on the Quad, sucit probably isn’t going to change your tells the instructor that their class is cessfully identify some of the key moral issues at stake in your question. mind and it doesn’t identify the moral unimportant.”

Other students were concerned that harm of cheating.

I would like to add one point that is A sample of some of the other replies cheating would breach your moral implicit, but not explicitly mentioned, will help pinpoint the “wrongness” of duties to yourself: “Cheating is wrong in the above comments — the fact that because it harms your own learning a class meets a baccalaureate core academic dishonesty. requirement is not morally relevant to Some of your peers claimed that and honor.”

“It’s not worth the risk. Cheating vio- your decision to cheat. cheating violates your moral duties to

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his week The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, held a rare press conference at the church headquarters in Salt Lake City.

In their press conference they state that the church of Latter-day Saints, LDS, supports LGBT non-bias laws.

What this means is that the LDS church will now advocate for non-discrimination laws against gays, lesbians, transgender and bisexual people with a condition of their own as well.

The LDS church will support and continue to support the progress of establishing these equal rights laws as long as the laws also protect the rights of religious groups.

The announcement made by the church does not change its stance on its own doctrine against gay marriage, but now it is trying to move forward in seeking fair and equal treatment for everyone, mainly in housing and employment.

This is a big deal for the LDS church and community, because one of the most conservative groups in the world is now coming into the game of gaining equal human rights.

The announcement comes with surprise and applause, but their new approach is a little flawed policy-wise.

The church will now support the passing of non-discrimination laws for the LGBT community, but at the same time it wants the government and protest-

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The ethical arguments your peers presented against cheating do not rely on the class’s usefulness, your interest in its subject matter, or the course’s relevance to your major. The moral value of OSU’s Bacc Core would be an interesting topic to discuss in a future column, but your resentment of these general education requirements does not justify the violation of community standards, academic dishonesty, and unfair advantage that cheating entails.

With this in mind, if you’re currently enrolled in a Bacc core class you find boring, what should you do instead of cheating?

You might find the advice from another student relevant: “Put your big girl panties on and stop whining.”

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n the wake of the announcement of an Travis Chambers all-female cast for the “Ghostbusters” remake, some rather well spoken and rational young men on the Internet questioned the necessity of feminism in this enlightened age. assume that this is a very — as we say in the “Dear feminists,” one person wrote on south — that’s just trashy!”

Twitter, “Ghostbusters reboot, you’re welAnd this is the man who once ignored the come. Now STFU.” pleas of Ashley Stevens to not release her And despite the brevity of his message, I rapist and repeat offender Wayne Dumond think he raises a very good point.

— a man who would later go on to rape and With the major goal of third-wave feminism murder a woman named Carol Sue Shields now accomplished and the once unbeliev- — out of calculated political self interest has able dream of an all-female “Ghostbusters” a point: the language we use is important. If movie realized, what more is there left for women want to be taken seriously, they need feminists? to use appropriate language for their gender.

We’ve won the right of women to vote, the We can lend Oregon State University a right to work and now this movie, the true hand in investigating the possibility of retapex of the feminist movement, has been roactively punishing the woman who made accomplished. amateur porn in the Valley Library. We need That’s why I’m formally to make absolutely sure that announcing — as a cis-genany possibility of a formal dered male and the obvious censure by the university is There are no more choice for voice of the femipursued to the fullest. worlds left to nist movement — feminism Just like we did in the is over. conquer and no more case of the football playThere are no more worlds ers who allegedly raped privileges to check left to conquer and no more Tracy. After all, we privileges to check because because free at last, Brenda wouldn’t want Oregon State free at last, free at last, thank free at last, thank University to be known as God almighty we are free at the sort of school that lets God almighty we last. people get away with this Of course, this raises the are free at last. sort of thing. question of what to do now More women could start that true equality has been seeking venture capital for achieved, but I think the answer is pretty companies in order to increase the number self-evident.

It is time for women to start improving of new start-ups with women CEO’s — estithemselves. Now that they have no more mated at 2.7 percent last year — and women barriers to their success, there are no more can finally start applying to work in industries like finance and politics where the wage excuses. and unemployment gaps still remain ridicuWomen have to get their act together. lously low, according to a piece in Newsweek.

For example, possible presidential canNow that time and resources are no longer didate and love of David Russell’s life, Mike Huckabee, recently pointed out that there tied up in the exhausting fight for equality, is a real problem with the type of language the sky’s the limit and we are finally ready women are using, in a piece from CNN. “You to enter a new golden age in gender politics. are just looking around saying, my gosh this As a wise woman once said, “We got one.” is worse than locker room talk,” Huckabee t said in an interview. “This would be considTravis Chambers is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in ered totally inappropriate to say these things Chambers’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily in front of a woman and for a woman to say Barometer staff. Chambers can be reached at forum@dailybarometer. them in a professional setting; we would only com.

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or those of you who were still in attendance, this year’s football game in which the Beavers pulled a major upset over the No. 7 Arizona State Sun Devils was, without a doubt, one of the most exciting campus-wide celebrations for our student body.

While we tend to spend the majority of our time here at Oregon State University in the classroom or studying for exams, we tend to overlook the fact that college is also intended to provide us with a sense of campus pride and camaraderie — feelings that are rarely found here in Corvallis, except on game day.

While our university does put on some major events such as START week when the freshman first arrive on campus, as well as Dam Jam in the Spring, our campus experience would undoubtedly be more fulfilling if there was an increase in the amount of events that draw the participation of the majority of students.

In general, students are more than willing to help organize such large events, and in my opinion nearly all students would support the university’s dedication to formulate more events similar to Dam Jam and START — events that are already run mainly by

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While the university does currently host campus-wide events, these programs generally do not draw the attention and participation of the majority of students.

Rather, they end up being small meetings and seminars in the Memorial Union or a similar location.

A prime example of this was Governor Kitzhaber’s seminar a week ago in the Linus Pauling Center.

While a few students benefited from Gov. Kitzhaber’s visit last week, the majority of students probably paid no attention to the announcements of his seminar.

Moreover, small seminar events similar to this one do little to improve campus pride and moral within our students — a bond that is quickly disappearing from our university.

Therefore as students, if we want to see an increase in the amount of campus-wide events being planned and put on by the MUPC, Associated Students of

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Gun background checks returning to Oregon legislature

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SALEM — The Oregon Legislature appears primed for another debate over whether to expand the state’s requirements for who must undergo a background check to buy a gun, and a recent poll suggests most Oregonians would support that.

The poll, paid for by Americans for Responsible Solutions, found that 87 percent of Oregonians support expanded background checks and 83 percent of gun owners do.

Those numbers dropped when people were asked about their “strong” support of expanded background checks — 70 percent and 59 percent, respectively — but they still showed support in strong majorities.

That may bode well for Democrats in the legislature who would like to pass a bill that would require background checks for people who buy guns online and through other informal venues.

Oregon currently requires them for all gun purchases at a licensed store or gun show, but there are still some sales that slip through the cracks.

A bill has not been introduced yet, but the legislature tried to pass a similar bill in 2014. It never made it to a vote in the Senate, where Democratic Sen. Betsy Johnson’s opposition would have doomed it to fail.

This year, Democrats have a much larger majority in the Senate (18 to 12) and therefore a much higher likelihood of finding enough people to support the bill.

Democrats also enjoy a sizable majority in the House of Representatives and an ally in Gov. John Kitzhaber, who is expected to sign the bill if it passes.

Senate Judiciary chairman Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, told the Associated Press he plans to introduce the bill soon. It would require anyone selling a gun privately to call state police for a background check on criminal history and mental illness. It would exclude sales among family mem-

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Oregon State University and our university in general, it is imperative that we speak up and let our opinion be known.

Along this line, if you are interested in putting on an event or getting involved with the MUPC or the ASOSU, simply reach out to the program director and being attending their meetings.

It is easy to convince yourself the MUPC and ASOSU are exclusive programs that hold meetings to which you may not attend.

However, this is simply not the case.

ASOSU, for example, encourages the attendance of students at their meetings — the times for which can now be found under the “About Us” section of the ASOSU’s website on each of the legislative branches’ web pages.

That being said, even if you do not necessarily want to be involved in the planning of an event, it is crucial that you voice your opinion and encourage others to do the same.

Otherwise, the lack of camaraderie and campus-wide events will inevitably continue.

ers to stay out of its way when it comes to religion and its religious rights.

Of course this seems fair, because of our first amendment to our Constitution.

But what this means is that doctors, landlords and business owners can still be allowed to discriminate against any gay or lesbian people as long as they cite it as a religious reason.

Mormons still want to preach their beliefs in their own churches and classrooms and select their own leaders without intervention from lawsuits in which their sermons could be subpoenaed, like in Houston this past year.

Mormon physicians can still refuse to do artificial insemination for lesbian couples or perform abortions or even stock “the morning after pill” in their pharmacies.

bers, inheritances and antique guns.

“I want to put closure on the only loophole we have on the background check law,” Prozanski said.

“Most all of us gun owners, as well as the general public, believe we should take reasonable steps to stop felons from getting easy access to guns. This will do that.”

The poll from Americans for Responsible Solutions, released Wednesday, could be overstating Oregonians’ support slightly.

The group is an advocacy organization set up by former U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, in response to the 2011 mass shooting at a Giffords speaking engagement in Arizona. She was shot in the head, six people were killed and 12 more were injured.

The poll was conducted by the Benenson Strategy Group, a left-leaning firm whose CEO has worked for both President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Spokesman Mark Prentice said poll takers were asked to explain their support of the statement: “Requiring everyone to pass a background check before buying a gun, no matter where they buy it.”

However, the public support shown in the poll more or less tracks with national trends.

Washington voters passed a ballot measure in 2014 that expanded background checks, and it enjoyed 59 percent support. The same voters shot down a different measure that would have put tighter restrictions on guns themselves.

It became the 10th state with that requirement for gun sales. Two of them, Maryland and Pennsylvania, require it for handguns only, but the other eight require expanded checks for all firearm sales.

So far, any financial support in Oregon’s conversation about potential new gun laws is coming from supporters. The National Rifle Association gave almost no money in the 2014 election, contributing just $500, split between two candidates.

Many are looking at this announcement as a way for the Mormon church to seem like it is doing the right political move, because it has been under pressure because of its beliefs and how they go against a lot of current society and culture moves.

I think that those people who do not see this as a historic or monumental event need some perspective and to think about what they are really against. No matter how you look at this situation, one of the most conservative groups is now handing out an olive branch to work together for basic human equality.

That is a great step forward in humanity.

So what if Mormon doctors do not want to perform an abortion or promote the use of Plan-B pills?

Don’t go to one of those doctors.

The Mormon Church is trying something new that will help so

many people in a minority community. At the same time it is still watching out for its own community. There’s nothing wrong with that.

In the world’s past and present, nasty, terrible, gruesome and ugly acts have been done unto other human beings for bad reasons — I don’t need to go into details here because I’m sure you can fill in the blanks yourself.

Humans have endured so much pain and hatred by other humans since the beginning of time. Today those horrible acts continue, but this announcement and support the Mormon Church now offers restores some faith in humanity.

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Brooklyn Di Raffaele is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in Di Raffaele’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Di Raffaele can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.