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Despite the lingering snow from the 20 inches that fell Thursday and Friday, Oregon State University will be fully operational Monday.

OSU’s campus closed Thursday and Friday due to the adverse weather conditions.

With dangerous conditions lingering from the storm, travel conditions are more treacherous. Students are encouraged to walk instead of drive to campus.

Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing, said he and the provost’s office expect that professors and instructors will accommodate those who cannot safely make it to campus Monday.

Dixon Recreation Center and the Valley Library both opened in a limited capacity, while the Memorial Union was closed since Thursday.

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Students grieve, seek memorial for deceased 20-year-old male OSU student

By Megan Campbell THE DAILY BAROMETER

Silently, individually or in groups, Oregon State University students stood in front of the memorial.

Some cried, others bore mournful expressions.

After taking it in, students eventually took a piece of paper and a pen to jot down a quick note to the deceased or his family.

After the death of a 20-year-old male resident assistant and former OSU wrestler, who took his life early Thursday morning by jumping off of a residence hall, Marketplace West Dining Center set up a memorial.

An OSU custodial worker found the body Thursday outside of Bloss Hall, though the student

lived in Buxton Hall.

“What we have is he jumped, intentionally, and we are looking into why,” said Oregon State Police Lt. Steve Mitchell on Friday. “There was no foul play.”

There were no witnesses with the man Thursday, and no one saw him jump.

The investigation is still ongoing. Evidence has not been released to support that it was intentional.

The university’s Student Care Team will be in touch with those who are affected by the loss.

Deanna Abramski, a friend of the deceased student, said OSU Counseling & Psychological Services will visit students in the Hawley-Buxton building Sunday.

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Followers of the MU crane raised more than $4,500 to build memorial statue

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Snowstorm’s effects linger An estimated 14 inches of snow fell between the Corvallis and Albany area over the weekend, with some areas in Corvallis recording as much as two feet of snow accumulation.

Crews were plowing along the main transit routes for the Corvallis Transit Service to continue service to customers, with some delays.

As of Sunday at 10 a.m., several portions of city streets remained closed due to hazardous conditions. The areas of Elks Drive from Samaritan Drive to Satinwood Street, Witham Hill Drive from Circle Boulevard to 36th Street and 36th Street from Grant Avenue to Lincoln Avenue were closed.

Temperatures began to rise Sunday but drivers were still urged to drive only if absolutely necessary.

Starting Saturday evening, an estimated 3,075 Corvallis residents were without power. By 11:54 a.m. Pacific Power reported that 1,720 residents were still without power.

The National Weather Service predicts warming temperatures and rain for the rest of the week, which could bring with it a risk of flooding.

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Supporters donated enough money to the campaign for the MU crane, which is located at the Student Experience Center construction site, for a memorial to be placed outside the soon-to-be constructed building.

The Oregon State University community has come together under an unlikely cause in the past month. The MU crane’s primary purpose is to aid construction on the new Student Experience Center building, which is adjacent to the Memorial Union.

Recently, it has become a campus celebrity, garnering more than 3,000 fans on the MU Crane official Facebook page.

Not long after its initial rise to fame, the coordinators and co-founders of the MU crane fan page initiated an See CRANE | page 3

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5-year-old record-holding OSU club headed to nationals in March

By Courtney Gehring THE DAILY BAROMETER

Out of 33 students randomly surveyed on campus throughout Wednesday, not one knew the Oregon State University bass fishing club existed.

But the bass fishing club is doing big things.

Not only has the OSU bass fishing club won five of six tournaments, made it to nationals two years in a row, won countless Civil War fishing battles against University of Oregon, but the club has broken the bass weigh-in college record for a two-day

tournament.

With a 54-pound, 12-ounce bass, the club still holds this record.

The club is five years old and it has been ranked sixth in the nation for several consecutive years.

Ryan Sparks, club president and senior studying fisheries and wildlife, said bass fishing isn’t that popular in Oregon and is often overlooked by salmon and steelhead.

“Places down in the south, like Alabama, they fill up football stadiums just for college (bass) tournaments,” Sparks said. “It’s insane to see how people view it down there as a sport compared to here.”

Courtesy of Ryan Sparks The OSU bass fishing club may not be recognized by a majority of students on Bass fishing club president Ryan Sparks and Zach MacDonald hold up bass after fishing in Lake Havasu in Arizona.

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The Corvallis Gazette-Times newspaper property sold Jan. 31 for $1.8 million to a group of local investors who plan to use the space for residential developments.

The group is the limited liability corporation Paper Moon and while nothing has been finalized, there are tentative plans to demolish the existing structure and build new residential housing.

This follows the City Council approval for a lift on the planned development overlay on the property in December 2013.

The Gazette-Times, in partnership with the Albany Democrat-Herald has been consolidating staff and printing operations in order to save money. While both locations used to independently process and print, all printing for both papers has been at the Albany Democrat-Herald for more than 10 years.

The current property encompasses an entire city block bordered by Southwest Jefferson Avenue, Adams Avenue, Sixth Street and Seventh Street, and the space has been underutilized. The building is more than 20,000 square feet and by

Publisher Rick Parrish’s estimates, the Gazette-Times was only using about 20 percent of the space.

While it might be easier from a financial standpoint to completely consolidate both the Albany and Corvallis papers, Parrish said it is important to the company to maintain the pertinent and diverse news for the readership in both towns.

“Albany and Corvallis are unique and distinct, and we are trying to keep that,” said Parrish.

The change in venues has prompted some pushback from community members,

but Parrish said such changes are necessary for the papers to thrive.

“We are just making smart business decisions so we can stay,” Parrish said.

The paper will be relocating to a smaller location in Corvallis, but the location and timeline for the move have not been finalized. Locations have been scouted in the area and the company is narrowing down options.

“We anticipate to move out within the next 30 to 90 days,” Parrish said.

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Students take issue with Corvallis permit system, Oregon State works to improve options for city parking

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Deciding how a growing population of students can get to class, and where they are going to park, is a never-ending task.

It is especially daunting when Oregon State University and Corvallis officials, students and residents all have opinions and a certain stake in the matter.

Cassie Huber, Associated Students of Oregon State University task force director for community affairs, said she has heard from more than 2,700 students with parking and transportation concerns, especially in light of the proposed residential zone parking permit system in the hands of the Corvallis Urban Services Committee.

“They are feeling that they have no say in this, and it’s too late to change,” Huber said.

Huber has been reaching out to individuals and student groups, keeping them abreast of city developments and answering questions.

“I am gathering more opinions to find other means to compromise,” Huber said.

A particular concern for residents in the area is the cost of parking permits on top of constantly rising tuition and other student costs. Permits would not guarantee permit holders a spot outside their own house.

“They are all kind of worried about the same thing: how to get to school,” Huber said.

The lack of available and convenient on-campus parking is a concern for many, and was aggravated by the loss of the Memorial Union parking lot and a large portion of the 15th Street and Washington Way, both of which were replaced with construction sites for new buildings.

Steve Clark, vice president for university marketing and relations, was a member of the Collaboration Corvallis parking and traffic workgroup, and is deeply familiar with the issues surrounding transportation.

Clark admitted that this is a difficult matter to address, especially when trying to limit unintended consequences for residents and students.

“The problems that occur in the neighborhoods and on campus didn’t happen overnight,” Clark said. “It takes a process to fix what’s not been right for a long time.”

Ali Lindsey is currently in a sorority but will be moving into an apartment next year and is concerned with paying for a permit.

“Paying for that is not going to be fun,” Lindsey said.

Lindsey said she would consider buying an on-campus parking permit, but none of the lots are located near her house, which is inconvenient when she needs her car to drive off campus.

Another concern is guests visiting from other areas when it is already difficult to find street parking. Under the proposed plan, guests would need to have a special permit from a permit-holding resident.

Many students and student organizations have told Huber that they would not

CAMPUS n Continued from page 2 and tree branches fell on campus. Facilities Services tagged the fallen debris Saturday and have been working to remove them Sunday and Monday, according to Mike Bamberger, emergency preparedness manager at OSU. Snow on Thursday and Friday fell too quickly for university employees to keep paths clear. Now that the extreme conditions have subsided, Facilities Services have been working to clear paths. Bamberger said full crews should be on campus Monday.

There is also a dense fog advisory from the National Weather Service, which went into effect Sunday night and will remain in effect until 9 a.m. Monday. Visibility is reported to be less than 1/4 mile.

Students, faculty and staff on campus are encouraged to be mindful of the conditions on campus.

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purchase off-campus permits, boycotting the new system if it comes into effect.

“Students wouldn’t buy off-campus parking permits, so they would have to find other means of transportation,” Huber said.

For Huber, this could result in an ideal compromise.

“The transit system for students needs to improve too,” Huber said. “That’s a big thing everyone needs to take into consideration.”

In the next six weeks, recommendations from the Collaboration Corvallis workgroup will be presented for public feedback as the city moves forward with its plan to eliminate free parking in the new residential zones.

These recommendations include alternative transportation improvements to shuttle, bike and bus systems, and the zonal parking on campus that may be implemented in fall 2014.

The zonal parking would designate different prices for permits in specific lots, like the currently underutilized Reser Stadium lot, located farther from central campus.

“We will refine the recommendations to the university to decide which to move forward with,” Clark said.

Clark, Ward 4 City Councilman Dan Brown and President of the Central Park Neighborhood Association Courtney Cloyd will be addressing the issue of the potential parking zones at the City Club of Corvallis meeting at the Boys and Girls Club Monday at 12 p.m.

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Alcohol is drug most used by teens

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PORTLAND — Alcohol abuse continues to be the number one drug abused that Oregon teens abuse. A recent state survey indicates that 18 percent of Oregon’s eighth and eleventh graders admitted to having at least one alcoholic drink within a month of responding to the questionnaire.

The survey asked teens about their health habits, covering topics including body image, sexual behavior and substance abuse.

Other drugs that teens reported using lagged far behind alcohol,

with marijuana ranking second.

Rusha Grinstad with the Oregon Health Authority says surveys like this are helpful.

“The way the state and communities benefit from them is that we will have a healthier state,” Grinstad says. “And a healthier state is made up of many healthy communities together.”

Grinstad says the findings help guide how resources will be allocated.

The statewide numbers show less than 1 percent of teenagers admitted to using heroin or meth.

Calendar Monday, Feb. 10 Meetings

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

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

Corvallis Science Pub, 6pm, Old World Deli. Cry of the Pacific Lamprey: What this ancient fish is telling us about our waters. Jeremy Monroe and Carl Schreck will take us on a trip under-water to see lamprey in their native habitat. We’ll hear what researchers are doing to understand the lamprey lifestyle.

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Thursday, Feb. 13 Meetings

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Treatment of Criminals - A discussion.

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International Students of OSU, 4pm, International Resource Center in the MU. Cultural Heritage. Informative, educational event led by a panel of students and teachers who answer questions having a cultural background and cultural knowledge.

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hosted hourly cast-off competitions against the University of Oregon’s bass fishing club. Sparks demonstrated fishing techniques to audicampus but it has caught the atten- ences daily. tion of the sport fishing industry.

The show helped the club fundSparks said club members have fishraise for upcoming tournaments. ing product sponsors, fish alongside Most of the funding comes out professionals and have persuaded of the pockets of the club members high school children to attend OSU who compete in the tournaments. to fish.

Their first couple years fishing, Members of the club have traveled Sparks said they won $10,000 each as far as Georgia to compete in touryear and all the money went into naments. In March, five members club expenses. will embark on a fishing trip to South Aside from nationals in March, Carolina to compete in nationals. the club will attend several other “Last year we went to Arkansas, we went to Georgia and now we’re going tournaments and host a Civil War to South Carolina this year,� Sparks tournament on the Columbia River said. “We fish in Utah, Arizona, in May. “It’s a competitive thing and it is California — just all over the place.� a lot more of a sport than people Wrapping up Sunday, the club is showing off its skills at a five-day think,� Sparks said. “There are a lot Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show of nerves and skill that go into it.� in Portland.

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MOURNS n Continued from page 1 Education, Student Conduct and Community Standards and Student Health Services are all the entities that contribute to the Student Care Team.

Despite the university’s effort, Abramski is unsure if it will help. Mostly, students are in shock, Abramski said. “I don’t even know how to react,� Abramski said. “He was a good friend and mentor.�

Sam Fricke, a Buxton Hall resident, could not believe that it was intentional. “I refuse to believe it,� Sam Fricke said Sunday. “There’s no way that could be possible.�

Fricke, like most students who knew the deceased male, is struggling to digest the news.

In speaking about their former RA, Fricke and Abramski described him as a happy goofball who was always willing to help others. They spoke of his relaxed nature and ability to bring a smile to other’s faces.

Fricke and Abramski both said there is widespread interest in holding a formal memorial service.

Sean Wallstrom contributed to this report.

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IndieGoGo fundraising project. The goal was to raise $2,500 in 20 days, with hopes of building a statue to memorialize the crane’s temporary but strong presence on campus.

By the time the fundraiser ended Friday, the crane and its followers had raised $4,572. The final amount is 182 percent of the initial goal, and in the process, those funding the cause unlocked additional stretch goals that the “crane council� had set along the way.

Unlocked prizes include a “bro tank� option instead of the basic T-shirt, an MU Crane EP album, the “I Am the Crane� original card game and crane-inspired Valentine’s Day cards. All unlocked gifts will be available to donors of $20 or more.

Facebook page co-founder Michael McDonald, a senior in graphic design, said the crane council is hoping to get gift sets to donors by the end of February. The team plans to focus on the Valentine’s Day cards first in order to get them to donors by Friday.

McDonald and co-founder Zak Eidsvoorg, also a senior in graphic design, have been in contact with university administrators.

Discussions have focused on timeframes for building the memorial statue, and long-

term placement for the statue. “We’re meeting with people this week to get things more nailed down so we can take these results and say, ‘Hey, this is real now,’�

McDonald said. “There’s pretty much no reason and no people so far that have really come out against this thing and said no we can’t have this in the building.�

The crane council hopes the statue will be finished over summer and then placed somewhere in conjunction with the Student Experience Center.

Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing, voiced his own support of the crane and its following. “The building has been funded by students,� Clark said. “We want students to feel it’s their building and a place they can come to and feel like part of their home. So it’s exciting to see that kind of ownership.�

Most of the students involved with the Facebook page and fundraising project have been in awe over their successes in rallying the OSU campus around the image of the MU crane. Eidsvoorg said the fundraising success is remarkable following the lull in popularity after the crane’s initial 15 minutes of fame. “It’s been great and it’s been really inspiring seeing that we can get this amount of traction for something so fun and silly with

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the right kind of motivation,� Eidsvoorg said.

After surpassing the fundraising goal, Eidsvoorg and McDonald said that much of the funds will still be going to the creation and payment for the memorial statue.

Additional funds raised will go toward costs of production for the stretch goals that were unlocked at the various fundraising markers.

Though the funds have been raised to create the memorial statue, the crane itself will be leaving OSU campus in the near future. “I know Andersen (Construction Company) wants to let us know maybe where the crane might be in the future, send us a photo or two,� McDonald said.

Eidsvoorg added that there may be a small gathering arranged so students can say farewell to the crane before it departs OSU’s campus. “We always had kind of this idea of getting people together when (the crane) comes down,� Eidsvoorg said. “So I think that’s something we want to try and arrange.�

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In the midst of a vicious winter storm, the Beavers held their own inside Gill Coliseum Saturday. They survived a late-game push from Colorado to notch a 75-63 victory.

The game, originally scheduled for Friday night, was snow- and icedelayed to a 12 p.m. tip-off Saturday.

“This morning at 8 a.m., at shootaround, that was the first thing I mentioned,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “It’s 8 a.m. It looks like we’re not going to have anybody at our game, maybe 10 people or something like that.

“Does it matter? No, it doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about stuff you can’t control and just come to play today.

And they did.”

Even so, the unusual circumstances took a bit of getting used to for both Oregon State (14-9, 6-5 Pac-12) and Colorado (13-9, 3-8). The first half was defined by two teams that could not get any separation from each other. There were nine lead changes, 10 ties and it wasn’t until there were 24 seconds left in the half that either team led by more than three points.

The Beavers were on the good side of that lead, and they closed the half on an 8-2 run to take a 36-31 lead into halftime.

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Oregon State softball got out to a .500 start to the 2014 season, going 3-3 at the Kajikawa Arizona State Invite in Tempe, Ariz., over the weekend.

The Beavers knocked of North Carolina State, 6-2, in their season opener, followed by a 6-3 loss Thursday to San Diego State.

Oregon State beat Penn State, 12-10, in its next outing followed by a 3-2 loss to Cal State Northridge, which set up Saturday night’s game against Colorado State.

Senior pitcher Amanda Najdek threw eight total innings against the Rams, striking out seven, but the Beavers ultimately fell, 3-2, in extra innings.

Najdek held the Rams to one hit through 5 1/3 innings, but a home run in the sixth tied the game at one, sending it to extras.

Colorado State scored twice in the top of the inning — only one of which was earned — putting the Beavers in a 3-2 hole. Oregon State junior center fielder Dani Gilmore scored senior Isabelle Batayola on a sacrifice fly, but the Beavers were unable to score again in the contest.

Oregon State got back on track in its tournament finale Sunday against Appalachian State.

Gilmore started the game with a leadoff home run — her third in the first six games of the season — and OSU never looked back, prevailing 12-2.

Gilmore finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate, including three runs scored and two runs batted in, and freshman pitcher Alleyah Armendariz earned the win, allowing six hits and one earned run in four innings of action.

Following the 3-3 start to the season, the Beavers will be back in action starting Friday at the Texas A&M Invite.

OSU will face Tulsa in its first game of the tournament, and will battle Texas A&M later in the day.

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Competing against the No. 2 team in the nation requires a nearly perfect game.

Oregon State managed to hang with No. 2 Arizona through most of the first half before a late push before the halftime break gave the Wildcats the momentum for good.

The Beavers never put together a second-half push and Arizona cruised to a 76-54 victory Sunday afternoon in the McKale Center.

Arizona (23-1, 10-1 Pac-12) had four players in double-digit scoring while the Beavers (13-10, 5-6) had their lowest offensive output of the season.

With OSU up 11-8 at the 13:30 mark in

the first half, senior center Angus Brandt picked up his second foul. Soon after, the Beavers fell into a slump offensively and the Wildcats took a 37-27 lead at the break.

Playing with two fouls, Brandt was the only player for OSU to make a field goal in a 11:05 stretch, which spanned the halftime break.

He led the team with 14 points, followed by 10 apiece from senior guard Roberto Nelson and senior forward Devon Collier.

Nelson had a slow first half with four points, similar to his two-point first half Thursday night against Arizona State.

The Pac-12 scoring leader — averaging 22.0 points per game coming into the game — had 24 points in the second half against ASU but only six after the break facing Arizona.

The Wildcats continued to mount a lead on the scoreboard as well as on the glass,

outrebounding OSU, 39-24, including 15 offensive boards.

After going into halftime down 10, the Beavers never brought the deficit back to single digits.

Outside of Brandt, Nelson and Collier, no other Beaver had more than five points.

Both teams attempted 12 shots from behind the arc, with OSU making four and Arizona three.

Despite the slight advantage from downtown, the Wildcats outshot the Beavers — 50.0 percent to 39.1.

Arizona was led by forwards Aaron Gordon and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who combined for 33 points.

Wildcat junior guard Nick Johnson chipped in 10 points, his 4-for-10 outing on field goals was just shy of giving every Arizona starter at least 50 percent shooting.

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Wrestling loses close dual to Arizona State in Tempe Oregon State narrowly lost to Arizona State, 17-16, in last regular season dual

Arizona State grabbed an early lead in the match when Ares Carpio knocked off OSU junior Pat Rollins, 6-2, in the 125-pound weight class.

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OSU spent 36 hours in the weight class.

Oregon State snagged a Portland Airport before finding a flight to Tempe, Ariz., where brief lead when No. 11 Scott the Sun Devils knocked off the Sakaguchi (149 pounds) and No. Beavers (10-6, 3-2 Pac-12), 17-16. 11 RJ Pena (157 pounds) won back-to-back bouts, including a n

major decision from Pena, putting the Beavers up, 10-7.

After the two schools split decisions in the 165- and 174pound weight classes, Arizona State’s Blake Stauffer defeated senior Austin Morehead, 17-8, for four team points and a 14-13 lead.

The Sun Devils took a decision in the 197-pound weight class — OSU sophomore Zach Cardwell wrestled for No. 12 Taylor Meeks — meaning the Beavers would need bonus points in the heavyweight matchup to win.

No. 14 Amarveer Dhesi beat

ASU’s Chace Eskam, 5-1, but failed to put the Beavers over the top, ultimately losing as a team, 17-16.

The loss came after Friday’s meet against Boise State was canceled. There hasn’t yet been a decision if the dual will be rescheduled.

Oregon State is back in action Sunday for the National Duals in Columbus, Ohio. It’s the Beavers’ last competition until the Pac-12 Championships on March 2.

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or not the normal atmosphere in Gill due to the weather, but I liked the energy we closed the half with. Then the second half I loved the way we played.”

When the teams returned, the Beavers came out looking fresh and re-energized. They scored six points within two minutes and further established the lead.

“During halftime, we really talked about playing as hard as we can,” said freshman guard Sydney Wiese. “We only get 80 minutes to play each week. We wanted to make sure that we had no regrets leaving the floor at the end of the second half.”

Wiese herself didn’t have any regrets after the game.

With their leading scorer, sophomore guard Jamie Weisner, out with a wrist injury, the Beavers had to get their offensive production elsewhere, and Wiese stepped up. Wiese led everyone with 20 points on 5-for-8 shooting from the floor, and she sank a career-high eight free throws.

Oregon State also got a big contribution from sophomore forward Deven Hunter.

She finished Saturday’s game with 18 points, nine rebounds and a game-high five assists.

During the past four games, Hunter has averaged 14.8 points, eight rebounds and four assists.

Additionally, sophomore center Ruth Hamblin had 11 points, seven rebounds and four blocks, while junior guard Ali Gibson had 12 points and four rebounds.

Despite OSU’s strong play to start the second half, Colorado didn’t go away. With 6:50 left to play, the Buffaloes closed the gap to three points, while the Beavers found themselves in serious foul trouble. Both Hamblin and Gibson were one foul away from fouling out, and had to sit during crucial moments down the stretch.

With them out of the game, the Beavers stayed poised and were able to bounce back.

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Senior David Fink shot a career-best 6-under 66 in the final round of play at the 24th Annual Amer Ari Invitational, finishing in fourth place at the three-day, 54-hole tournament, while helping the Beavers to a 14th-place team finish.

Fink posted a 70-67-66—203, which led the Beavers each day at the par-72, 7,074-yard Waikoloa Kings’ Course. The Hawaii native hit six birdies and 12 shots for par on Saturday, jumping from a 12th-place tie to sole possession of fourth by the end of the day.

Fink’s performance was the 18th round of his career that he has shot sub-70. Three of those instances have come this season. His previous career-low was a 5-under 67 — a feat he’s accomplished three times — most recently Friday in the second round of the invitational.

Oregon State finished in 14th place in the 20-team field, after a 10-under 285-281-288—854 performance. Fink was the only Beaver to stay under par on the final day, as the team combined to post an even-par 288.

Freshman Kevin Murphy shot a 2-over 74 Saturday, which placed him in a tie for 56th place with a 1-under 72-6974—215 in the tournament.

After Murphy, junior Alex Franklin was the next-highest finisher for Oregon State, tying for 77th after a 2-over 74 on the last day. He ended the tournament with a 2-over 72-72-74—218.

Freshman Kevin Chen shot a 6-over 75-73-74—222 that earned him a tie for 94th place, while junior Scott Kim finished with a 7-over 71-77-75—223.

The Beavers return to action Feb. 21 at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate in Palm Springs, Calif.

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said. “I think the psychology of our team is one where the confidence is really growing.”

The Beavers will host Utah Monday night at 6 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for Sunday, but was postponed one day due to the inclement weather.

No. 16 Oregon State’s gymnastics meet Saturday against No. 22 Cal was canceled due to Thursday and Friday’s campus closure and rough weather conditions in the area.

It’s not yet been decided if Oregon State will reschedule the meet or when it will be.

Fans are encouraged to keep their tickets for the possibility of a rescheduling.

Oregon State’s next scheduled home meet is Saturday against Boise State, Utah State and Seattle Pacific for the Comfort Suites Invitational starting at 6 p.m. in Gill Coliseum.

The loss puts the Beavers back under .500 in Pac12 play and the 22-point defeat to Arizona is OSU’s biggest loss of the season.

The only other doubledigit loss was an 80-69 final Jan. 4 against Utah.

Now on a two-game losing streak, the Beavers will wait a full week before taking on Oregon in Eugene on Feb. 16, a team that OSU defeated 80-72 in the first Civil War. The Beavers only have seven games remaining before the Pac-12 Tournament — the winner of which will automatically qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

Oregon State hasn’t qualified for the national tournament in 24 years.

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Sophomore forward Deven Hunter drives the lane against Colorado in Gill Coliseum Saturday afternoon. the hoop to put Oregon State up five. Then, on the next possession, freshman guard Gabby Hanson drained a 3-pointer from the corner.

“That’s one play that stands out to me,” Rueck said. “I felt like momentum was in the balance and then Gabby just hit a cold-blooded 3 when she was guarded out on the left wing. We had a lot of good

performances ... that made it a great win for us.”

With the win, the Beavers are now better than .500 in conference play for the first time this season.

“We’ve played enough tough games and against enough elite teams to know, ‘Hey, we belong’ and ‘We should expect to win,’ not ‘I hope we can win,’” Rueck

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Snow days are meant for fun, not reckless driving

Putin’s anti-gay laws worse I than drinking raw sewage ay what you want about President Barack Obama — as a citizen of the U.S., it is your inalienable right to do so. But when he was confronted with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws, at least Obama reacted — he refused to attend the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Instead, he sent gay activist athletes in his place.

The lack of reaction from the International Olympics Committee and the Olympic sponsors is disgusting. There’s keeping the peace, and there’s condoning hunting humans for sport. This is the latter.

Silence means acceptance.

If you don’t know what we mean by “hunting humans for sport,” check out the documentary, “Hunted,” which first aired on Britain’s Channel 4 Wednesday (now on YouTube). It is 49 minutes of heart-wrenching agony, but it discusses something that can’t be ignored.

Homosexuality was legalized in Russia 20 years ago. Today, it is illegal to come out of the closet. Former NBA player John Amaechi likened the current climate in Russia toward homosexuals to the Third Reich.

This is more disgusting than the raw sewage in Sochi’s tap water. Worse, we only found out about this Thursday evening, and so our editorial published Thursday completely neglected to mention it, which is why we’re publishing this now rather than something about Corvallis’ most recent snowpocalypse.

Ignoring it or refusing to bring attention to it is the same as condoning it.

Too many kids kill themselves rather than be who they are — to paraphrase Macklemore — in first-world countries in which gay marriage is legal. Can you imagine being homosexual in Russia right now? Being LGBT isn’t a choice.

Being out, being an activist, is. And we support those who make that difficult decision. But being the person you were born to be is not a choice.

Hiding can be necessary. We’re not condemning people who aren’t out.

But the necessity of having to stay hidden to protect the life and safety of yourself or others is excretable.

It is 2014.

This is the future that the Greatest Generation fought the Nazis for, even if they might not have envisioned the shape of it. If we let this stand and don’t take a stance of our own against it, can we be proud to call ourselves their descendants?

No. Coca Cola, Panasonic (U.K.), Samsung (U.K.), McDonald’s (Europe) and Visa are only a few of the Olympic sponsors that haven’t taken a stance on this. Their consumers have the ability to force the issue. You have the purchasing power to support or defy their public relations machines.

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t was a rare week for Corvallis. It was the second time this school year that it snowed. Thursday, everyone reveled in the snow, watching as the tiny snowflakes delicately fell on every surface outside. After a day and a night of heavy snowfall, people watched as their cars were enveloped in snow, in slow motion.

Eleven-and-a-half inches of snow fell in a 24-hour period Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

One of my favorite things about snow days is that anything can happen.

My roommate and I walked to the bank Friday and found ourselves in a snowball fight — forts and all — in the Walmart parking lot with a couple of random guys who had just left a nearby restaurant.

That’s what’s great about snow days,

I like to get into snow shenanigans or have an excuse to stay in and read, hang out with my roommates or get caught up on homework (someGabi times). It’s just nice to have your day canceled.

You may even get classes postponed, like we did Thursday and especially in Corvallis where snow is Friday at Oregon State University. It not a guarantee in the winter. That, is midterm season. For some, getting and the neighborly camaraderie. exams postponed is a godsend.

My roommate and I tried to dig The only thing I can’t stand when out our other roommate’s car. The snow days come around are the little side road was too bad for her ridiculous drivers on the roads. I to take the car out. But a neighbor or don’t understand why people need to two, armed with shovels, assisted us be joyriding around when the roads in our efforts to free the car from its are dangerous, especially in smaller, icy bonds. go-cartish cars.

As Saturday rolled around, the Most stores were closed Saturday, accumulation of slush on the roads so if you needed to go somewhere, rendered cars almost completely you should’ve just walked. I walked useless and all work was canceled to Market of Choice with a few of my — for me. roommates just to get outside and study somewhere new. The number I’m a fan of snow days.

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of cars we saw sliding around dangerously on the roads was crazy.

There was a 20-car pile up on I-5 Thursday, about three miles south of Albany. If that’s not a good enough reason to be careful or to stay out of your vehicle in this weather, I don’t know what is. At least in Thursday’s car disaster, people were most likely coming from work.

But on a weekend during which most businesses are closed due to inclement weather, people should be staying in, walking and playing in the snow — but still being safe. At least be mindful of others if you’re thinking about taking your car somewhere.

Snow days are great, but not if there are accidents happening that could be avoided. t

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Zombies: Metaphor for dehumanization of enemy

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remember a scene in Disney’s “Pocahontas” in which the colonists and the Powhatan tribe are getting pumped to go and kill each other. During the song, both parties describe the other as “inhuman,” “demonic” and just generally “evil.”

This makes sense — the situation is very simple as a result and if you’re writing the script then making a cartoon complex with conflicted emotions over killing other people for silly reasons would probably get you fired.

As a result, the justification for the upcoming slaughter is set — because why not kill the other side if they have no respect or concept of your values, and you’ve determined that, on the superficial level, their practices are “bad” because they’re not yours?

It’s a pretty common practice throughout wars and conflicts in history: Each side dehumanizes the other with offensive imagery and racist nicknames.

Dehumanizing the enemy serves to create a shared disgust among the dehumanizers toward the “other.” It can not only justify elimination of the enemy, but also the atrocious acts committed.

In an interview with National Public Radio, author and director of the Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology David Livingston Stone explained that when the Nazis described Jews as “Untermenschen” (subhumans), they didn’t mean it metaphorically.

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“They didn’t mean they were like subhumans,” Smith said.

“They meant they were literally subhuman.”

Somewhere along the way, humanity has become more selfaware, realized this tendency and made attempts to correct it. But these kinds of things have a spectacular way of bleeding over into creative media.

Allow me an “Ancient Aliens” moment here in which I lean toward you and say, simply, “zombies.” What an absolutely perfect fictionalized enemy — metaphorically representative of the swarming masses, and one which sets you in the role of unequivocal hero.

As a metaphorical device, zombies can actually work as a very deft form of storytelling, representing a background world disaster type of setting.

And I mean, who feels bad killing a zombie?

They can’t be reasoned with, or cured. Technically, they’re already dead.

If you kill an undead being — what a paradox — you’re not really killing them. You’re just confirming that they won’t be able to have you for lunch.

It’s just self-preservation.

Nothing personal, right?

We know that’s a lie. Why else would Treyarch amp up “Call of Duty: Black Ops” with the option for a Nazi-Zombie map?

Shoot — now you’re not just acting in self-preservation, you’re saving the world (again).

The aspect of using zombies as a dehumanizing tool is examined in “‘The Walking Dead,’ a great show but why?” by Dr. Steven Schlozman in Psychology Today.

“The humans dehumanize the zombies, and in doing so they create a kind of hierarchy of worthiness,” Schlozman wrote. “Zombies are worth less than humans, are in fact biologically or existentially dead, and therefore you can freely and with clean conscience bash in their brains.”

I’m not arguing that zombies as a trope should be treated with more respect or that all creation of zombie-themed creative media should be silenced.

I’m simply stating that the tendency for humans to dehumanize the things they want to harm exists within the zombie metaphor, and that as a creative device, folks should be aware of it and its potential deeper meanings.

So carry on and just remember the rules we learned from “Zombieland”: cardio, double tap and always check the bathroom. t

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Delegating dishes: greatest roommate battle ever faced

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oing the dishes is a lot like going to Eugene — you’re surrounded by filth, there’s that strange smell and you want to hold off on repeating the experience for as long as possible.

With every passing day, the pile of dishes in my sink keeps growing, along with my sense of dread.

After more than 18 months of living away from home, I’ve been complicit to multiple styles of doing the dishes.

Last year, my roommates and I started with a pretty loose system.

Basically we would put the dishes in the sink, and somebody would make them be clean within a couple days.

Like a stale piece of bread, this system soon crumbled. Nobody got around to doing anything about the massive pile of dishes, until we had no clean plates or cups in the house.

It was every man for himself after that. I cleaned my dishes, put them in the dishwasher and didn’t think or care about the massive pile of defiled dishes.

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BEND — A powerful snowstorm that dumped 2-plus feet of snow across much of Central Oregon also proved deadly in three storm-related fatalities — a couple walking an unplowed driveway to their home in the Crossroads area west of Sisters and a well-known Tumalo-area man who apparently collapsed and died while shoveling snow, authorities said Sunday.

A Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy responded around 5:25 p.m. Saturday to a call for a welfare check on an elderly couple in the Crossroads Loop area near Sisters that last had been seen on Friday evening, said sheriff’s Lt. Paul Garrison.

Like the reporting party, the deputy tried to contact Henry Constable, 83, and Brooke Constable, 69, by phone but was unsuccessful, Garrison said. He began to check a number of locations in the Sisters area related to the couple, including an address on Crossroads Loop, where the couple’s car was found some distance away.

With help from the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Department, the deputy found Henry Constable buried under snow a short distance from the home, Garrison said. His wife was found nearby, also covered by snow that had fallen

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since the previous night.

The couple apparently had been walking through heavy snow from the road to the home on an unplowed driveway, Garrison said.

The incident remains under investigation, but Garrison said the deaths apparently were a result of exposure to the extreme weather, over-exertion in the deep snow, a medical emergency or a combination of those factors. Foul play is not suspected, he said.

Around the same time, about 5:20 p.m.

Saturday, the sheriff’s office and Bend Fire Department medics responded to a medical emergency call on Kentucky Road in the Tumalo area, where a man later identified as Timothy Lillebo, 61, had been found by his wife, collapsed in the snow, Garrison said.

The lieutenant said Lillebo — a widely known forest activist and Eastern Oregon wildlands advocate for Oregon Wild — had been shoveling snow before his collapse and was found by his wife about a half-hour after he went outside. Medics tried performing life-saving efforts, but were unsuccessful, Garrison said.

Again, no foul play is suspected – only a result of exposure to the extreme weather, over-exertion, a medical emergency or combination, Garrison said.

being promoted in Sochi right now.

We might be judging a country by only a few of its people — but they’re the most visible. And the loudest.

If Russia wants us to change our minds about it, other changes need to be made first.

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KLAMATH FALLS — The rape case against an 18-year-old Crescent Lake man is evolving again after a mistrial was declared in late January.

The defense team for Kesson Rai Ishida-Poncil filed several motions in court this week, asking for a variety of changes to the case. One motion asks for DNA testing on a new piece of evidence, another called for Judge Roxanne Osborne to recuse herself from hearing the case.

Defense attorney Matthew Parks also is asking that the case be dismissed entirely as “further prosecution on this matter is barred by the former prosecution of the defendant,” according to court documents filed Feb. 4.

Ishida-Poncil is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse, second-degree sexual abuse and coercion. He is currently being held in the county jail in lieu of a $250,000 bail bond.

His trial began Jan. 22, but the District Attorney’s office asked that it be ruled a mistrial, as the defense violated the victim’s constitutional rights, offered improper evidence

SALING n Continued from page 7 This year is totally different. We have a strictly regimented system. We rotate whose turn it is after every load.

However, a system like this is totally unfair to those who hardly use any dishes. This last weekend, one of my roommates was gone the entire time, but when he got back it was his turn to do the dishes.

In my ideal world, everybody cleans their own dishes and puts them in the dishwasher. When the dishwasher is full, somebody will run it.

It should be simple and easy for everybody. If everybody carries their

and violated other court rules. Judge Osborne granted the mistrial motion Jan. 27.

DNA testing During a hearing Thursday afternoon, Judge Osborne did grant the motion for DNA testing on a condom Parks claims will prove his client and the alleged victim, an underage female, had consensual sex and no crime was committed. Parks said he’s hoping to get DNA from the alleged victim and send the evidence off to a state lab for analysis.

District Attorney Rob Patridge said his office intends to file an appeal blocking the request to obtain a sample from the alleged victim. He said the motion violates her constitutional right to be safe from search and seizure.

“We’re in the process of putting an appeal together,” Patridge confirmed Friday. “At this point in time, we’re looking at the legal remedies.”

He added the type of appeal the DA’s Office is considering is technical in nature and has to be filed in a timely manner. The next court date for Ishida-Poncil is a new trial set to begin March 4. Patridge was unsure when the appeal would be completed

share of the load, there shouldn’t be any problems.

When my clothes get dirty, I do my own laundry. I don’t need a rotation with my roommates to see who runs the laundry machine.

But it is what it is, an ideal. It’s like communism — it sounds great in principle, but would never work in practice.

There will always be some hitch in the process. Somebody might be running late and leave a dish in the sink.

Another person sees that dish and decides to postpone cleaning their dish, too. From there, it snowballs into an ever-increasing pile of dishes that could only be tamed by a veteran housekeeper — or a hazmat team.

So now I’m back to submitting to our

rigorous system, currently in place, and praying every time it’s my turn to do the dishes that nobody ate anything with sauce in the last couple of days.

Unfortunately, I did not win the #EsuranceSave30 sweepstakes Wednesday. You can bet if I did win, the first thing I would have done would be to hire somebody to clean my dishes.

There’s always another option — paper plates and plastic utensils. But those are only for cowards and the weak. t

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and what other hearings would occur before the new trial date.

Recusal request Parks’ motion asking Osborne to recuse herself from the case was denied during the Thursday hearing.

According to documents he filed, Parks contends Osborne has displayed a bias or prejudice against either himself or his client. He cites instances where the defense was not allowed to enter certain evidence or when he was restricted in the questions he could ask the alleged victim on the stand.

The defense was not given enough time to respond to the state’s motion for a mistrial, Parks contends in his filing. The motion was submitted the morning it was approved.

While Osborne rejected the recusal motion, there are two more pending legal issues to be decided before the trial. According to Patridge, a new bail hearing has been requested, but has yet to be scheduled.

Parks’ motion for a dismissal of the case with prejudice hasn’t been heard yet in court, Patridge said. He added the state plans on objecting to any motion to dismiss the case.