The Daily Barometer, February 5, 2016

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Supporting refugees

Joshua Lucas | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Graphic designer for the Ettihad Cultural Center, Hussain Al Balushir, in front of the stack of boxes meant to be filled with clothes for the Syrian refugee clothing drive.

Student organizations provide for those in need

By Lauren Sluss News Contributor

Partnering with ASOSU and ISOSU, the Ettihad Cultural Center is hosting its first clothing drive for Syrian refugees throughout the month of February, looking to support the Syrian refugees settled in Greece and Erbil, Iraq.

The ECC is requesting donations of gently used warm clothing. Students can donate their clothes at one of the 11 drop-off points, including all of the seven cultural centers, INTO OSU, ISOSU, ASOSU, and International Student Advising and Services, and the drive will conclude on Feb. 29.

The ECC chose to focus their humanitarian project on the Syrian refugee crisis due to its overwhelming need, according to Associate Director of Global Diversity Amarah Khan.

“The Syrian refugee crisis is the biggest displacement of people since the second world war,” Khan said. “There was no denying the need. We decided that is where our energies would be spent.”

The clothing will be sent not only to the refugees in Greece, but also to a large settlement of families in Erbil, Iraq, where temperatures have reached negative six degrees Farenheit this past week.

“Syria is a country within our region of Ettihad,” said ECC graphic designer Hussain Al Balushi. “They need the most help out of all the issues around the world because they are everywhere and not just in their country—they don’t have the essentials they need.”

The clothing drive marks the ECC’s first established humanitarian project. The ECC hopes to permanently establish a humanitarian agenda into the ECC’s mission, keeping track of humanitarian needs around the world each year.

“When I came on board, I felt like there are all these very dedicated and enthusiastic students, and I need to give them the opportunity to have a humanitarian agenda,” Khan

said. “I proposed it and the students loved the idea, but I wanted to make sure that they didn’t go about it in a solitary fashion and that they actually worked together with other student organizations.”

Along with the help of ASOSU and ISOSU, the ECC is looking toward the entirety of the university community for support, according to Al Balushi.

“We are encouraging students to help each other,” Al Balushi said. “We’re encouraging all people engaged with OSU to participate in this clothing drive and help others.”

Donating clothing is only half of the project, however. They still in need of the funding to ship the clothes to Greece and Erbil, Iraq, a total of about $5000.

Because the ECC is a student fee funded organization, they cannot actually raise money, but can raise donations through other organizations.

“This puts us in a unique spot where we have the donations, but no funds to send the clothes,” Khan said. “I reached out to some local nonprofits that have international operations, but both of them decided that the cost is too prohibitive for them to support us.”

The ECC is currently seeking the support of non-student fee funded organizations and colleges on campus who can raise private funding, specifically OSU Greek life. However, whether their funding will come through or not is still uncertain.

“We don’t know if we’ve raised any money from OSU Greek life yet,” Khan said. “There are other colleges on campus who have suggested that they might be able to help, but at this point we are seeking all ideas and all support.”

Currently the ECC is mainly focusing on publicizing the clothing drive, hopefully encouraging other organizations to help their cause, according to Al Balushi.

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More Information Date: Ends Feb. 29 Donations: New or gently used warm clothing Drop off locations: • Ettihad Cultural Center • ASOSU • ISOSU • INTO Oregon State University • International Students Advising and Services • Native American Longhouse • Asian and Pacific Cultural Center • Black Cultural Center • César Chávez Cultural Center • Pride Center • Women Center The 541 on produce, NEWS, PAGE 3 Madeline Gardiner goes for 5, SPORTS, PAGE 5 Do away with the draft, FORUM, PAGE 7

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Police Beat Jan. 29- Jan. 31 Compiled from the Corvallis Police Department All those arrested for crimes are considered innocent until proven guilty.

Monday, Feb. 1

in order to keep the man Wednesday, Feb. 3 from being labeled as the Telephonic Harassment victim even though messages were being sent to Potentially Dangerous A woman reported that his phone for the specific Dog her husband’s ex-wife was incident. sending disparaging mesA mother called to say sages to her. The woman that her daughter was bitreceiving the messages Monday, Feb. 1 ten by a dog while waiting said that she blocked the for the bus.

Attempted ex-wife’s ability to message her on her own phone.

A woman was seen in a A woman was walkThe ex-wife began tex- parking lot wearing camo- ing her dogs when one of ting disparaging messages flauge clothing while look- them got loose and evenagain to her ex-husband’s ing through the windows tually bit the girl. of multiple unattended phone.

The dog may be labled The woman did not vehicles. want to pursue charges as dangerous.

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The Five Four One restaurant located in McNary Dining Hall provides all natural, gluten free, food products.

Five Four One on the rise

McNary restaurant uses local produce, campus garden

By Jessica Ocampo News Contributor

Five Four One’s marketing team and chef are planning to further expand their menu and garden to offer more options for its customers due to its recent success.

Opening back in Fall term 2015, the Northwest cuisine-inspired restaurant primarily used to serve pizzas and pastas with organic ingredients grown in a garden on campus called the Callahan Food Forest, an area between Tebeau and Callahan Halls.

Grain bowls, daily entrée specials, new ingredients and other smaller items have since then been added onto the menu.

Due to the restaurant’s highly positive feedback, Five Four One managers are hoping to add other items and entrées onto the menu.

Chef Dale Lawson of Five Four One also hopes to expand the garden by adding another one on the East side lawn of

the McNary Dining Hall and continue to use the ingredients throughout most of the year by putting them in a deep freeze.

“We’re hopeful that this spring and throughout this summer our garden will provide us with lots of different items we’re able to serve during the springtime,” Lawson said. “Other items such as, say, tomatoes and peppers, that can be picked at the peak ripeness, and then cooked into different recipe formats.

That’s one of the things I am looking forward to doing more with this year.”

Jennifer Vouse, an associate of the marketing assessment and communications department for University Housing and Dining Services, said that the garden is already in the works of expansion.

The plans, she added, also represent a return to the old method of preserving food.

“Before we had stuff that could be preserved to live on a shelf for a long time.

This is how people lived, is picking from the garden, harvesting when it was fresh, and preserving it in different methods.”

Lawson and Vouse believe that the garden’s expansion could also serve as a

hands-on educational tool for students in the agricultural department major and those who work at Oregon State University’s cheese creamery.

“That is an experience students get, not just from playing around in a laboratory, but actually making a commercial product that is being used by a real-life kitchen,” Vouse said. “So those kinds of experiences are incredibly valuable for the students in science food programs here at OSU.” The Five Four One managers continue to strive for incorporating the educational aspect coupled with providing healthy, organic foods that are unique to the other dining halls. They hope that this would be enough to get the word out about the restaurant to the rest of the student population.

Two students who regularly eat at Five Four One recommend the food because it is unique and closer to where they live compared to all the other dining halls.

Mason Pratt, a junior in the mechanical engineering major, visits

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Skip Rocherfort, associate professor of Chemical Engineering teaching his class in Merryfield Hall, does outreach events at K-12 schools in Oregon.

Professors reach out

Oregon State University volunteers bring engineering to K-12

By Brittni Cooper News Contributor

Sparking an interest in K-12 youth, volunteers from the College of Science and the College of Engineering, with guidance from an associate professor, are working to promote the field of engineering.

Oregon State students have volunteered their time to coordinate Family Science and Engineering Night (FSEN) events at local schools through diaper experiments and daring kids on Segways.

Skip Rochefort, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering and the Executive Director of OSU Precollege Programs leads this outreach with Margie Haak, an instructor and coordinator from the College of Science. Rochefort and Haak have traveled with student volunteers to the Salem area, Albany, Lebanon, Lacomb, Wilsonville, and more school in the surrounding area.

Student volunteers travel to different schools in the area in an outreach effort to elementary school, middle school, and high school students. These Family Science and Engineering Night events are often hosted in a school’s gymnasium or cafeteria with several activities for K-12 students to participate in.

At FSEN events, there are many activities in place for kids and their families to participate in. One activity the group puts on involves a tortoise and another involves a microscope for the young students to look at their skin. Kids also have the chance to create gel beads from two liquids, look at the absorbency of a cotton ball versus the absorbency of a diaper, and the opportunity to ride a Segway.

“The point of these experiments is to say, ‘This is what an engineer has created,’” said chemical engineering major Kayla Al-Khaledy.

“They’ve taken something that wasn’t very useful like cloth diapers, where you’re leaking everywhere and they’ve made a chemical so the diaper will absorb all of the liquid. We want to get them thinking about the different things that engineers can do through these simple science experiments.”

In a ten week term, the group will host around eight FSEN events that are typically once a week on Thursday evenings. An elementary school will sign up online for the Oregon State group to visit their school and do a FSEN. “Sometimes it’s integrated with something (the school) already has planned, like a library night or a science project night,” Rochefort said, “We go there and bring a bunch of activities. So basically, we show up at a school, it’s an empty gym, we put our activities in there and the whole community comes in.”

From kids to their parents and their grandparents, an entire community will show up at a school to participate in FSEN events. Emily Nicholson, of the Precollege Programs, works to schedule FSEN events.

Haak and Rochefort recruit from their classes and departments via email and Doodle polls. About 25 students devote their time to the outreach program.

Last year with the campus visit program, 5,000 K-12 students were brought to Oregon State. A number of camps take place during the summer and during the school year. Discovery Days is a two-day outreach event at the LaSells Stewart Center that brings in 1,500 younger students. Similar to the activities at FSEN events, Science, Engineering and Art day at Goss Stadium engages kids with the help of the Corvallis Knights.

“Our department, historically has done this for years and years. We didn’t always call it this, but we’ve been doing outreach forever. So it’s kind of inbred in our community. Some of it comes out of the COE student club, but not necessarily. It’s anybody who wants to do it,” Rochefort said.

Oregon State student volunteers are impacting the youth in our surrounding communities.

Rochefort started his first outreach program in 1997 and has seen kids from these outreach efforts walking the Oregon State campus years later.

“I know a lot of those kids have come through over the years,” Rochefort said. “I see them walking around (campus) and I have them in my classes. I can’t tell you an exact number. I would certainly like to think (outreach) has helped a lot of kids.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu

“I just hope to spread the word and let people be aware about this clothing drive,” Al Balushi said. “Helping others is good, and we need to be kind to each other.”

More information regarding the clothing drive can be found at the Ettihad Cultural Center, ASOSU, ISOSU, and the ECC’s Facebook page.

Students are encouraged to participate not only to help the ECC’s first humanitarian project, but also to help aid others around the world, according to Eena Haws Native American Longhouse student leadership liaison Kapena Chee.

“It’s more than just a good feeling opportunity, but more about helping your fellow human,” Chee said. “People are bold enough to ask for help, and by that we have the responsibility to respond, and with international politics and relations the way they are now, I think it’s nice to offset with positivity.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu

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Associate Director of Global Diversity, Amarah Khan, in the Ettihad Cultural Center .

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the restaurant twice per week, while Sathya Ramanathan, a junior in the computer science major, visits about three or four times per week.

They both rated the restaurant a seven out of 10 because of its good, fresh food and excellent, quick service, but they mutually agree that they wish there were more options. They were glad to hear about the new garden expansion currently in the works.

“I think they could just maybe add something else onto the menu,” Sathya Ramanathan said. “It’s just that over here at Five Four One, there is not [currently] a huge variety. I think it would be better for it to have more options and varying foods.”

They both seemed surprised to learn that Five Four One served organic foods grown on campus.

“I did not know it was from the garden,” Mason Pratt said. “I knew it was all organic… but I did not know that it was from the Callahan garden.”

They commend the restaurant for that and its inclusivity for those with special nutritional diets, such as providing vegan and gluten-free base products that could go with added protein for a few extra cents more.

Overall, they both recommend the restaurant to other Oregon State University students and hope to see what the new garden will add onto the menu on completion. baro.news@oregonstate.edu

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Becoming the all-around best

Brad Anderson | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Junior Madeline Gardiner performs her balance beam routine against Arizona State on Saturday. Gardiner earned a carer-best 9.925 score in that event.

Madeline Gardiner has won four allarounds this season

Monday, junior Madeline Gardiner will go for her fifth consecutive allaround victory.

Just don’t mention that to her.

From the way she chalks up the bars and her hands, to the brand

By Brian Rathbone new pair of white socks that she Sports Editor wears for each meet, Gardiner has a When the Oregon State gymnas- laundry list of superstitions to keep tics team travels to Seattle for a her mind at ease as she tumbles and Pac-12 meet against Washington on flies through the air.

“I try not to think about (winning the all around),” Gardiner said. “I’m a very superstitious person so the more I think about it the more I’m like ‘oh shoot.’”

Last weekend against Arizona State at Gill Coliseum, Gardiner hit a personal best on the balance beam, turning a score of 9.925, catapulting her to her fourth all-around victory of the year.

“It felt like a good routine to me,” Gardiner said. “I’m never super sure where it’s going to place in terms of scores because all the judges are different. But it was one to celebrate and running back to my teammates.”

The all around winner at gymnastics meet is determined by adding up the scores from each individual event—the uneven bars, vault, balance beam and the floor routine. In

each of the Beavers’ competitions, Gardiner has come out on top.

As a freshman and sophomore, Gardiner won bronze medals at nationals. Despite her success, on occasion she was held out of certain events because she wasn’t having as much success.

“We’ve seen her really grow over

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Controlling their destiny After big win against Arizona State, Beavers face big test in Seattle

in the past have created this opportunity,” Rueck said on being in control. “With the win on Monday, what we do at this point control our destiny. Everybody want’s that of course, and so now what are we going to do with it?”

It will be a challenging task, but Rueck says

By Jonathan Parrish this team has shown that they are ready for it.

Sports Reporter “Are we going to continue to grind and want After the Beavers’ win against Arizona State to get better and do all the things that have goton Monday, the Oregon State women’s basketten us to this point? Well, this team has taught ball team has an identical conference record me that they will,” he said. to the Sun Devils, but owns first-place in the Beyond the Arc Pac-12 due their head-to-head victory.

After shooting 27.3 percent from three-point The Beavers control their own destiny for the rest of the season, and should they win- land and going 9-33 in a two-game span at out, they will finish with their second-straight Utah and Colorado, OSU came home last weekend and shot lights out, going 17-33 from regular season conference championship.

Freshman guard Taylor Kalmer said in order beyond the arc en route to blowout victories to do so, OSU needs to focus on what’s ahead. against Arizona and No. 8 Arizona State.

The Beavers have been a solid perimeter“We need to finish strong, we’ve got to keep shooting team this season, as they are second working,” she said. “We can’t think of the wins that we’ve had, the losses we’ve had, but we in the Pac-12 in three-point percentage at 36.7, in which they make 6.43 per game. Leading have to focus and stick to our mission.”

Head coach Scott Rueck believes the posi- the team in makes are guards senior Jamie tion the Beavers are in now culminates in what Weisner and junior Sydney Wiese. Weisner has made 39 threes at a 43.3 percent clip, topping this team has been able to accomplish.

Joshua Lucas | THE DAILY BAROMETER “This team has created opportunities. All their hard work, preparation and experience See Women’s hoops Page 6 Junior guard Sydney Wiese drives to the basket against Arizona on Jan. 28.

Tweet Of the day Some reporter asked Cam Newton “why he’s wearing socks with sandals”..Um idk cause every athlete wears socks with sandals..Dumb people smh!

Deven Hunter

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Number

of the day

98

The number of first-place votes the OSU baseball team received in preseason Pac-12 poll

Upcoming events M. Basketball

2/6 vs. Colorado

W. Basketball

1/22 vs. Utah

Wrestling Gymnastics

2/5 @ Cal Poly 2/8 @ Washington

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Staff Picks: Super Bowl 50

By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor

Brad Anderson | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Junior Madeline Gardiner has won four all-arounds in a row this season. She goes for No. 5 on Monday.

Gardiner

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the years,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “Her freshman year it’s kinda getting used to everything, last year she did better but struggled in different events so we had to pull her out of an event from time to time. But she has really improved on those events and is actually stronger than last year.”

Gardiner’s success in 2016 has come from being taught by the coaching staff to focus on each, and not worry about the all-around competition, but instead staying in the moment of each event. “(Chaplin) has been helping me focus on ‘what happens on one event, stays on that event,’” Gardiner said. “I tend to get

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super overwhelmed. And she is just like ‘stay calm’ and that really helps me be able to put all my energy into each event individually.”

“I almost think she is like a new gymnast,” said junior Megan Jimenez. “She is a lot more of a leader in the gym and she’s progressed and matured in her gymnastics mentally and it shows in practice and in competition.”

An accomplished international gymnast, being named an alternate on the 2012 Canadian Olympic gymnastics team, Gardiner has transition well from international competition to college completion and enjoys the team camaraderie that comes with playing at Oregon State.

“One of the biggest things that I found is that college is so team oriented, your

Women’s hoops

inside, but also, three’s are big momentum swings, you hit a couple three’s and you can be up big just like that.”

Continued from page 5 R u e c k h a s b e e n the team in both catego- impressed with the Beaver’s ries. Wiese, despite missing three-point shooting espeeight games due to a hand cially as of late, and said injury, has 29 threes on the it makes it easier now that season, while maintaining Wiese is back and healthy.

“If you look at our last a 39.2 three-point shooting four games, in the mounpercentage. tains and versus the AriBoth players shot well zona’s at home, our shot in their game against ASU, selection has improved,” combining for six threes on Rueck said. “Our point pro10 attempts. duction has gone up.”

“I definitely think (three- Defending Plum The Beavers go on the pointers) open up the court a lot,” Weisner said. road to Seattle to face the “It makes it easier to get it 16-5 Washington Huskies,

team has your back and you have you have all of theirs, and I love that aspect of it,” Gardiner said. “Whereas in (International) you are on a team, but you train individually, you see those girls once a month and there isn’t a team dynamic.”

Whether it’s the socks, the chalk or any number of superstition, the judges are taking notice.

“You can tell she puts her whole heart out there when she does her gymnastics and it’s her masterpiece that she puts together,” Jimenez said. “I think she is doing amazing and the things she accomplished has been amazing for the team.”

By Brenden Slaughter Senior Reporter

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who are No. 24 in the country. A large part of what UW does successfully is on the offensive side of the ball, which junior guard Kelsey Plum leads. She scores 27 points per game, good for second in the nation.

Plum is a matchup that OSU will have to focus on the entire game.

“She’s going to hit tough shots,” Weisner said. “That’s her mentality and that’s what she does. I think we need to contain her as best as possible, trying to take away things she wants to do and force other people to score.”

Over a quarter of Plum’s

points this season have been free throws, as she is the leader in the nation in makes at the charity stripe.

She shoots them efficiently as well, at 89.2 percent.

Rueck said it comes down to cutting down Plum’s freethrow opportunities, and limiting her playmaking ability.

By Jonathan Parrish Sports Reporter

“You need to defend without fouling, and that’s true every night,” he said. “But that’s especially true there.

We need to make her work for everything.”

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Things to watch for in the Super Bowl A list to keep track of while watching the Carolina Panthers versus the Broncos on Super Bowl Sunday

Senior Beat Reporter

By Danny Rice Sports Reporter

Remember when Seattle and Denver squared off in Super Bowl XLVIII (48)? And the Seattle defense made Peyton Manning look really, really old? Well, Manning is older and can barely get the ball 20 yards down the field.

Cam Newton and the Panthers are going to feast on the Broncos 41-17.

Amazingly, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks barnstorm their way to SB 48 and claim victory, 341 to negative 40.

Cam Newton has 12 interceptions and breaks his femur on the second play.

JK, here’s my prediction: The Panthers should win, and maybe they will. Or, Jonathan Stewart averages 2.0 yards per carry like he always does.

Broncos squeak one out, 24-21.

Peyton Manning is ancient. The Broncos should have rode Brock Osweiler into the playoffs, but chose to bench him when he was beginning to click. Carolina and “SuperMan” Cam have been nearly unstoppable this season, and it will show in their 45-10 trouncing of Denver. Sorry John Elway, you gotta wait a bit longer.

Just a few short months ago, people were calling Cam “Scam” Newton (*cough cough* Brenden), but now he is the likely MVP, and rightfully so. The Carolina Panthers are on top of the world and they will easily dispose of the once legendary Peyton Manning and his Denver Broncos in a 38-10 beatdown

With Cam Newton likely to be named MVP, here’s one stat Panthers fans will hate reading. In the past six Super Bowls which featured the MVP of that season, the MVP’s team is 0-6.

The last one to win the MVP and Super Bowl in the same season? Kurt Warner in 1999! I think Peyton Manning rides off in the sunset as the Broncos edge the Panthers 31-28.

Over/unders

• The word “Dab” will be said 20 times.

• Phil Simms will make a Goodell reference at least three times.

• Danielle Bellini will report at least three injuries.

• Demaryius Thomas will have 5 drops.

• Peyton Manning will have 4 interceptions.

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• Mike Remmers commits one penalties. frankly, we don’t care who knows. On the biggest sports day of the year coming up on Sunday, we decided to come up • CBS airs 13 promos for new dramas that will flop before with some of our own bets and predictions to make Super one season.

Bowl Sunday even more enjoyable. Here are some of the • Three billion people jump on the Carolina bandwagon best of the best. after the game.

• 10,000 former Seahawks “fans” claim they were Panthers fans since their childhood.

By Michael Kiever Sports Reporter

Which is more likely?

• A nip slip or the return of Left Shark during the halftime show.

• A 75-yard touchdown drive by Peyton Manning, or the power going out at Levi Stadium?

• Peyton manning trucks Josh Norman on a 35-yard QB option keeper or Coldplay overshadows Beyonce during the halftime show?

• A kicker winning the MVP or an opening kickoff return for a touchdown?

• Three touchdown passes from Peyton Manning or three touchdown passes from Derek Anderson (Go Beavs!)? baro.sports@oregonstate.edu

By Max Braly Sports Contributor

It’s been the year of the almighty Cam this season, and his 2015-2016 campaign will likely be what many remember as the year his reign of tyranny over the NFL began. Meanwhile, Peyton Manning has been so bad of late that even Nick Mitchell would give the Broncos a better chance to win. Panthers cruise to victory, 31-21.

Peyton Manning? Cam Newton? Peyton. Cam. These guys are interesting, BUT they aren’t the most compelling matchup. Let’s talk defense and special teams! Denver’s defense will dominate and Brandon McManus will win the game’s MVP. Yes, a kicker wins MVP. Two picks each for Peyton and Cam. Broncos beat the Panthers 19-17.

Sorry, band-wagoners.

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End conscription in U.S.

By Jackie Keating Contributor

YEA to an exciting election season filled with an array of Republican candidates, two strong Democratic candidates and continued debate on local economic issues.

NAY to the high school-esque drama that ensues. No, Mr. Trump, Cruz likely did not “steal” your votes like a bully steals lunch money. At least ... we hope that’s not the case.

YEA and NAY to how much Trump reminds us of Biff from “Back to the Future.” This is funny and scary at the same time, seeing as this man could (key term, could) be our next president.

YEA to Iowa seeing one of the greatest caucus turnouts in history.

NAY to using what appears to be an archaic voting system in the age of mailin ballots and computer systems. We know computerized systems could be just as easily manipulated, but seriously?

Assumed head counts and coin flips?

Something’s not right about this.

NAY to not hearing more on student tuition cost issues and economic concerns during some of these debates. We keep hearing buzz words such as “free” or “affordable,” but what does that even mean anymore?

YEA to Oregon State University president Ed Ray getting involved in more studentled campus activities. Love him or leave him, Ray has proven over the years that he likes to spend time with the students whenever possible.

YEA to officially being half-way through the term. Good luck on any continuing midterms, projects and other potential obstacles as you head into the sixth week.

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Correction:

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee was held, at which “for the first time, top Army and Marine Corps leaders [...] testified that they think women should register for the draft,” according to NPR. Conscription in the United States has existed since the Civil War. There is no draft currently, but all American men ages 18-25 must register for the draft in the case it would need to be reinstated.

However, this is the first time in American history in which the military is thinking very seriously about opening the draft to include women.

The comments made at the hearing Tuesday were sparked because of “Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s recent decision to open up all military positions to women, including front-line combat roles,” according to NPR. These roles being offered to women is an unprecedent-

ed step, as well as the proposal to have women be registering for the draft.

Overall, I think the proposal makes sense. If women are allowed to take on the highestintensity military roles that they previously were barred from, they should be required to register for the draft like their male counterparts. That’s fair. But honestly, it would also be fair not to make either sex register and get rid of conscription altogether, except in times of imminent threat to the United States.

There is only one instance in American history in which I think the use of the draft was acceptable, and that was World War II since a foreign power directly attacked us.

World War I does not count, by my definition, as a war that was imminently dangerous to the country. Yes, the Germans torpedoed a British ship with American passengers on board, but those passengers knew that they were sailing through a war zone during wartime, and the ship was carrying British weapons and ammunition.

It made no sense to draft during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Young men of eighteen were being drafted into these wars and carried home in coffins before they could register to vote (the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971), all

The draft is an outdated, anti-liberty system that the U.S. no longer needs.

for a number of ambiguous conflicts that we shouldn’t have been a part of in the first place.

There’s also the question of the constitutionality of the draft. The Supreme Court upheld that the draft was constitutional in 1918, but I am still hazy on whether a draft still maintains civil liberty. The government is supposed to be for the people, not the other way around.

Here’s my solution: don’t make anyone register for the vote during peacetime. If Congress and the President feel that the country is in immediate danger, then they should be able to convince the people that they are in danger with evidence and let them sign up voluntarily. If the government simply wants a list of Americans aged 18-25, they can just subpoena records of tax filings, driver’s licenses, credit cards, high school graduation records, social security cards or many other documents. It’s not as if the government needs

another layer of bureaucracy to add to the other million ways they can track us.

In any case, fewer troops are necessary anyway in this day and age thanks to unmanned drones and the American Military’s other top-notch air and missile weaponry. The draft is an outdated, anti-liberty system that the U.S. no longer needs. If men and women want to join the military as volunteers and enlist or enroll in ROTC or a military school, that’s an honorable career path that teaches valuable skills including leadership and teamwork, and they should be admired for their hard work.

Our country, which holds freedom and liberty in the highest esteem, should not be forcing its citizens to fight in wars—especially if they don’t believe in them.

The opinions expressed in Keating’s column do not necessarily reflect those of The Daily Barometer Staff. baro.forum@oregonstate.edu

Iowa caucus did not disappoint

By Riley Youngman Contributor

Do you smell that? I think something may be Berning.

Monday night’s Iowa Caucus served as the official kick off to the election season.

According to The Des Moines Register, this year’s caucus saw the second largest turnout in history with around 180,000 people gathering in gyms and town halls across the state.

The results were surprising—sort of.

On the Republican side, Ted Cruz pulled out an upset victory securing 27.6 percent of the vote, while Donald Trump took second place after many experts had projected him win.

Trump refused to participate in the last debate leading up to Monday’s caucus.

He cited “differences” between Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly and him as his reason—Kelly had asked Trump questions about his misogynistic tendencies at an earlier debate, and that decision appears to have hurt his support.

If you think about it logically, not attending an event voters use to make decisions about who they will support will very likely hurt your poll numbers.

That isn’t rocket science, but more like a simple equation that’s not hard to understand.

Or so you would think. Cue the “Donald.”

In the aftermath of the caucus, Trump has come out and accused Ted Cruz of illegally stealing the election. The best part is how Trump took to Twitter with these accusations.

“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it.

That’s why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!” one Tweet read. “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified,” Trump continued.

Trump claimed that during the Caucus, Cruz’s campaign put out a news release announcing that Ben Carson

had dropped out of the race, which did happen. And this did happen. And it is ethically wrong. But of all people to complain, Donald Trump has no room to talk.

Ben Carson is upset as well, rightfully so, and has called out Cruz. But he isn’t crying for a revote.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton received only 0.3 percent more of the vote than Bernie Sanders. 0.3 percent.

The result was the closest in history.

Iowa certainly did not disappoint.

Ted Cruz gave all the glory to God, Trump is throwing Twitter tantrums, and Marco Rubio, who took third, is gaining momentum daily. Hillary won. Technically. And she’s stoked. Bernie Lost. But he’s celebrating anyways.

Martin O’Malley quit. Who’s he again?

America has now collectively turned its attention toward New Hampshire.

Will Trump completely go off the deep end? Will Bernie’s political revolution continue? Will little Bobby ever be rescued from the bottom of the well? Tune in next week to find out.

The opinions expressed in Youngman’s column do not necessarily reflect those of The Daily Barometer staff. baro.forum@oregonstate.edu

In the guest column “Rural communities marginalized,” which ran Wednesday, Feb. 3, author Garrett Kitamura’s name was misspelled as “Garret Kutamara.” All other versions have been corrected online. The Daily Barometer apologizes for the error.

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Staff members count ballots at a caucus site in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. Ted Cruz won the Republican caucuses while Hillary Clinton took victory after a 50-50 tie with Bernie Sanders.

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Bria Robertson, mechanics engineering junior plays Bianca, Annie Parham, civil engineering junior plays Desdemona and Diana Jepsen, Corvallis resident plays Emilia in “Desdemona: A Play About A Hankerchief,” a play presented by OSU’s Theatre Department and directed by Sam Zinsli, theatre and French senior.

Women take the stage “Desdemona,” a modern version of the classic “Othello”

By Iraiza de Vera Arts & Entertainment Contributor

“Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” puts a new spin on contemporary issues. The hour long play demonstrates the different lifestyles of women and dynamics of their relationships with each other.

“Desdemona is a great show to come see, especially for women. You get to see all the different elements of a woman who is exploring her sexuality, who is trying to deal with her marriage or trying to figure out a way to get married. It’s a great look into that life,” said Annie Parham, civil engineering junior who plays Desdemona.

“Each woman is striving for what they want, whether it’s independence or freedom or that typical white picket fence, cozy home-front and it explores each of those desires and legitimizes each of them,” said Diana Jepsen, community member who plays Emilia.

The 2015-2016 theatre season is entitled, “All the World’s a Stage,” as a celebration of William Shakespeare Shakespeare is known for his tragic plays and iconic poetry. People within the theatre department see ways to learn from his work and apply it to their modern life.

“In Shakespeare’s time, it was mostly: you get married, have babies, stay in the house and listen to your husband. That’s what you do. Now it’s like no, I want to go out. I want to see the world for myself and experience as many aspects of the world as I can,” Jepsen said.

Shakespeare does not usually go in depth with the female characters in his plays however, this production shows women perspectives and their stories more. Paula Vogel, the author

of this play, introduces a new way of looking at the classic Shakespeare story, Othello. Her version of this story features three female characters: Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca. Vogel exposes the different personalities within each woman and presents them in a way people can learn from.

“I think she’s trying to show the relationships women have and also show the limitations women have in Western culture,” said Bria Robertson, mechanical engineering junior who plays Bianca.

“Women should learn openness,” Robertson said. “As women, it’s really easy to judge each other but it’s important to not do that—to not immediately form these really close-minded opinions on who we can be and fit ourselves into these narrow little boxes in the world.”

The theatre department is an inclusive community where the members can feel at home and not worry about fitting stereotypes since variation is in the nature of the art form.

“It’s a really supportive community and it’s so nice when I’m sitting in classrooms all day where I’m the only girl,” Robertson said.

Theatre enables audiences to experience various perspectives through entertainment. The performers enjoy being able to channel different characters and harness real life emotion into their work.

“It’s a great experience doing a different role and getting to act like someone I’m totally not,” said Parham.

“That’s why I like theatre. You get to play someone who you would never be in real life but you get to portray them for two hours on stage and then you’re back to your normal self. It’s fun.”

Being able to focus feelings on acting benefits the actresses because they can use their daily frustrations as inspiration in performing scenes of that nature.

“If there’s something that’s irritating

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Annie Parham getting ready and rehearsing for the shows that will take place Feb 4-6 and Feb. 7

me outside of the theatre, I can come in with that energy I would have put towards that issue and instead I can shut it all out and put all my energy into this,” Jepsen said.

Not only do the performers get satisfaction from playing their characters, but they also get to learn about themselves through theatre. The adaption and improvisational skills used in theatre are applicable outside of the artistic field.

“I’ve learned how to be a better professional in my own career. I’ve learned how to use different tactics to achieve what I need to,” Jepsen said.

Theatre is a form of entertainment that involves various skillsets and helps create a space where people can enjoy qualities of real life. Experiencing live human emotion evokes immediate response from the audience rather than other forms of media where the audience is more detached.

“It’s been scientifically proven that your whole brain is engaged when you go and watch a show in theatre. It’s not like you just sit there and watch it on TV,” said Sam Zinsli, theatre and French senior and student director of “Desdemona.”

Zinsli picked “Desdemona” because he enjoys theatre that is socially engaging and relevant to issues that arise from trying to form an individual identity.

“Theatre has the advantage that it’s not only an entertainment form, but it also represents a voice that isn’t as easily represented through television or film,” Zinsli said. “There’s something to be said for sitting down and just observing something.” baro.arts@oregonstate.edu

Date: Feb. 4-6 Time: 6-7:30 p.m.

Date: Feb. 7 Time: 2 p.m.

Location: Lab Theatre, Withycombe Hall