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Cultural, support center seats, SafeRide, up for debate during Wednesday night meeting
SafeRide was the tipping point. Taylor Sarman, president of the Associated Students of Oregon State University and member of the Student and Incidental Fee Committee, said he has disagreed with the SIFC’s budgeting process since the beginning of the year. But it took the SIFC proposing to cut the projected 2015-2016 budget of SafeRide to get Sarman frustrated enough to send out an email to students who have used SafeRide. Sarman and Priscilla Macy, the chair of the SIFC, both took to Wednesday’s ASOSU House of Representatives meeting to have their sides of the story told. “I don’t think it best serves students,” Sarman said of SIFC’s decision to cut the proposed SafeRide budget. With Sarman was Mackenzie Zathan, external coordinator of SafeRide. One of the major points brought up was that Sarman and Zathan are not pleased with the number of students who can’t get rides from SafeRide because of limited resources. “We have to leave over 50 percent of students stranded,” Zathan said. When Sarman sent out an email about the possibility of SafeRide projected budget cuts, both Sarman and Zathan got more than 100 emails from students saying they depended on SafeRide to get home at night. The amount of students using SafeRide is increasing, even with no marketing. “We cannot do more with the same amount of money,” Sarman said. There’s also an issue of faculty coordination. SafeRide currently has 60 student employees, but only one faculty advisor. The advisor for SafeRide, Drew Desilet, is also the advisor for the entirety of ASOSU. “Nowhere on this campus is there a unit that has 60 student employees with no dedicated pro-staff,” Sarman said. Sarman added that part of the budget that was cut was a proposal for a new professional staff member to oversee SafeRide. “I need someone I can be in contact with at any time in the day,” Zathan said. “If I have a crisis at 12:30 at night, I don’t have someone on-call for my service.” But when Macy had her turn to speak to the House, she told the representatives that late Tuesday night, the SIFC had chosen to reconsider the budget for the professional staff member. Macy cited that the new staff member would allow the service to grow and become more efficient and bud-
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he SafeRide program at Oregon State University won’t speed away anytime soon. Further conversations surrounding the program’s future took place after meetings between the Student and Incidental Fees Committee and the Associated Students of Oregon State University Tuesday night. ASOSU President Taylor Sarman sent an official email later that evening — specifically to students who use SafeRide — to address concerns for the program after disagreements on an immediate budget increase for continuing services. “Is ASOSU SafeRide going away?” the first line read. “It could be for you.” The amounts ASOSU requested for See SAFERIDE | page 2
Students prepare to bring history, emotions to life on stage Oregon State University Theatre’s production of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ shares experience, opens Thursday
Elizabeth Helman, a member of the theatre arts faculty at OSU and director of this production, Where: Withycombe Hall Main Stage had extensive experience with the story of Frank When: Feb. 12-14 and 20-21 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. and even wrote her master’s thesis on Holocaust Cost: $5 OSU student, $5 K-12 promo, $8 youth and senior and dramas. $10 general admission By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg “You don’t always get the opportunity to do THE DAILY BAROMETER something that has substance and has social relduring World War II. The Story evance,” Helman said. “When you do, you just cling Greer and roughly 60 other students involved to it. It’s so important.” “I read the diary of Anne Frank in eighth grade, probably,” said Brian Greer, a sophomore studying with the Oregon State University Theatre will be Helman explained that the department faculty theater arts. “I think everyone does at some point. presenting their own production of Frank’s story, specifically chose to use the script based on the starting Thursday night and running for two sucOther than that, it’s all passing knowledge.” updated version of “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Many are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, cessive weekends. which gives more insight and detail into Anne’s a young Jewish girl who hid away in an annexed The play will be one of several produced through experiences with her progression through puberty apartment with her and another family for two the university theatre this season, all under the See FRANK | page 3 years with limited contact to the outside world theme of War and Remembrance. n
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The Oregon State University Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society is tabling in the quad to inform students of junior standing that the application for the 2015-2016 year is currently open until Feb. 20. “We’re a group of students that have been chosen based on our scholarship, leadership and service to the Corvallis community or outreach community,” said Persia Neumann, the group’s website coordinator and a senior in animal science. The membership requirements stipulate that juniors have completed 120 credit hours by the
end of winter term, be a full-time undergraduate OSU student during the 2015-2016 academic year and maintain a minimum cumulative OSU GPA of 3.25, according to their website. “I really like this honor society, I’m a member of a number, but this one I really like because it’s not just GPA based: it’s scholarship, leadership and service all together. So they really take the people that have shown excellence in other clubs or their dedication to serving Oregon State,” said Neumann. “It’s a really rewarding feeling, and it’s a really good way to mark your end of involvement with this university.” The honor society meets three times per term and has three weekend cleanups each year. Nicki Silva, photographer news@dailybarometer.com
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Saturday evening, a patrolling Corvallis Police Department officer witnessed a woman allegedly vomiting on the sidewalk along Northwest 14th Street. According to officer logs, a portable breath test reportedly calculated the woman’s blood-alcohol content to be 0.216 percent. After identifying the woman as a legal minor, the officer logged that he cited the woman for being a minor-in-possession of alcohol and had medics transport the woman to Good Samaritan Hospital.
Acid-induced Assault A man allegedly contacted Corvallis police to report that his friend had taken LSD and was behaving uncontrollably and breaking things in his apartment on Northwest 17th Street. An attending officer reported that the misbehaving man was “shirtless and exposing his genitals, sweating and speaking rapidly and repetitively in a foreign language” when officers arrived. One officer reportedly tried to calm the man down, but the man allegedly punched the officer in the face. The man allegedly proceeded to resist arrest, even as the officers were able to restrain him and transport him to Good Samaritan Hospital. Officers charged the man with assaulting a public safety officer, assault in the fourth degree and resisting arrest.
Wrong residence Around 1 a.m. Saturday, an officer tended to a reported incident-in-progress at a home on Northwest Polk Avenue. According to CPD logs, the officer found a man, who appeared “heavily intoxicated” trying to enter a residence that was not the man’s home. The man allegedly told the officer that he had drunk a “quarter of a gallon” of rum. The officer was reportedly able to identify the man and confirm that he was younger than 21-years-old. The officer logged that he cited the man as a minor-in-possession and gave him a courtesy ride back to his actual residence on Northwest Circle Boulevard.
Wrong lane A patrolling deputy from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a driver on Highway 20 in Philomath after the driver allegedly swerved out of his lane. The deputy logged that he performed a standard field sobriety test and determined that the driver was allegedly unsafe to operate a vehicle. According to BCSO logs, the deputy brought the man into the Philomath Police Department, where he was able to obtain a sample that allegedly determined the man to have a 0.23 percent blood-alcohol content. The deputy logged he transported the man to the Benton County Jail, where the man was booked for driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving and driving while suspended. The Daily Barometer
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but this new bill will establish the same seats that the failed bill intended. Since candidates for ASOSU elections must gets could then be reviewed in coming years. be decided by week seven of this term, the bill On a more personal note, Macy shared with must past through Congress to be in effect the House that SIFC is not the monster she before next year. If the bill is tabled or failed said some people are making it out to be. She next week, the next chance to institute the bill shared her story of how she chose to remain will be in the next academic year. at Oregon State University for another year to Andrew Futerman, representative and memlook after the SIFC, making sure that students’ ber of the elections committee, best interests are represented. said that proof of membership She said she had received of cultural and support cenNowhere on this flack on social media for the ters will be determined by “propaganda” that had been campus is there a unit centers’ faculty advisors. spread about the SIFC. that has 60 student Since the bill will need to “It’s unfair to approve be passed during the joint ASOSU as the highest nonemployees with no session, ASOSU Vice President mandatory fee increase,” Macy dedicated pro-staff. Bryan Williamson and Saul continued. Boulanger, speaker of the The budgets for ASOSU, Taylor Sarman House, expressed the need including SafeRide, will be President, Associated Students of Oregon for thoughtful consideration decided next week during State University before the session and effithe ASOSU legislative joint ciency at the meeting. session. After Macy, Sarman and Zathan had conBoulanger noted the importance of the joint cluded their remarks, the House moved to session and that representatives should take discussion on a bill to establish seats for cul- their roles very seriously. tural and support centers and student groups Kat Kothen, associate news editor within the House. A similar bill failed in the Senate last night, news@dailybarometer.com
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the service expansion totaled $228,125, a 42 percent increase of the $128,607.45 that SIFC approved. The latter amount is nearly identical to SafeRide’s current operating costs and includes a contingency cost agreement that could allow when we don’t even have a professional person to ASOSU to reach out if they require additional coordinate the program yet?” Macy asked. “The needs. main thing is keeping things affordable and lookOne such use of the contingency agreement ing at the bigger picture.” allowed SafeRide to acquire an additional van In addition, Macy said Sarman’s desires to see this year. the program funded represent a conflict of interAnother decision package, which would alloest in his position, and that it reflects SafeRide cate an additional $70,534 for a professionas being the most important campus operation. al SafeRide coordinating adviser, is pending “I think it’s an important service, but all departapproval. ments need to be equitably represented,” Macy said. Priscilla Macy, chair of the SIFC, said she Macy mentioned an instance when she withdrew believes there could be a danger in approving herself out of a vote on recreational sports activisuch a large service budget without further ties during a time when she was more involved reviewing additional details, which is why most with the organization. committee members made the decision they did. Though Macy and Sarman said they believe in “The fact that (ASOSU is) saying their use maintaining lower fee levels to best help students would increase to what they’re saying on social media is not necessarily true,” Macy said. “We who struggle to pay for college, Sarman said he does not agree with setting the lowest price posjust don’t know.” Macy said she does not support an immediate sible for most programs. “It’s not about the lowest student fee,” Sarman increase in the number of SafeRide vans, but does support the continued contingency agreement said. “It’s about the lowest student fee that will and decision to hire a professional staff member. best serve and meet the needs for students.” Jennifer Creighton, faculty adviser for the SIFC, Drew Desilet, faculty adviser said additional confusion surat ASOSU, currently guides the rounds changes involved with program in addition to his other the overall decision-making I think it’s an work with students. process with budgets following “It’s not his responsibility to important service, amendments to ORS 352.105, continue managing SafeRide,” but all departments a state statute that all budMacy said. Sarman, who also serves as a need to be equitably getary decisions be approved from a “recognized student voting member of the SIFC, said represented. government.” the proposed service increases “No one has answered that would only help take care of curquestion formally for the Priscilla Macy rent issues within the program. institution,” Creighton said. Chair, Student and Incidental Fees Current funding levels conThe amendments occurred at Committee tribute to a variety of factors that a time when Oregon Senate lead to some students experiBill 270 established a board of encing 45-to-90-minute wait trustees at each major public Oregon university. times, according to Sarman. “It’s not uncommon for our drivers to give Though the board will now review final student fee budgets at OSU, President Ed Ray will still 90-minute wait times,” Sarman said. Sarman agreed that SafeRide would benefit review each item beforehand. The deliberation continues between both stufrom a professional faculty adviser whose main dent groups as they seek out a middle ground, purpose was to assist the drivers and coordinators. “The unprecedented growth of the program each with their own set of concerns regarding the has required additional guidance,” Sarman said. recent SafeRide decisions. The SIFC open hearing takes place in the “With a full-time professional faculty member, we can better train our drivers and give more atten- Memorial Union Ballroom Thursday from 5-10 p.m. The student fees budgets will then progress tion to detail to nighttime operations.” Regardless, Sarman does not believe this to the ASOSU joint session Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7 should put a hold on the proposed SafeRide p.m., where the ASOSU House of Representatives will review each item. service expansion. Macy disagrees. Sean Bassinger, editor-in-chief “Why is there an immediate need for these vans editor@dailybarometer.com
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in isolation. “(With) the original diary, before parts of it were newly published, you didn’t know half of what Anne was really feeling,â€? said Annie Parham, the civil engineering sophomore who will play the title role in the play. “You didn’t know about Anne and her longing for boys, and you didn’t really hear about her dislike towards her mother. This adaptation presents all of that. It’s the complete story.â€? Helman said she and the cast and department faculty have been “absolutely passionateâ€? about taking on the updated and more-complete version of Anne’s story. “Part of the appeal of this is Anne is such a teenager,â€? Helman said. “She’s such a teenager, and yet she’s put in the most extraordinary circumstance and the most horrific circumstance. (Frank is) this very vital, creative, wonderful person and getting to see her life and her feelings performed on stage is kind of a gift to us.â€? The Preparation The entire cast did extensive research in order to present their characters in the most honest and realistic manner possible. At one point, Helman instructed each of the cast to spend time researching their characters and bring to rehearsal one new piece of information about their roles. Parham said the discussion about what they had learned took more than an hour and a half. “You learn about the Holocaust in school and you know the basics ‌ but I did not know anything compared to what I know now,â€? Parham said. “There is so much that I couldn’t have even thought about.â€? Parham and Greer, who plays Peter Van Daan (the stage pseudonym used for the reallife Peter Van Pels who lived with Anne during the two years
task,â€? Greer said, adding that he frequently would work on homework backstage while other actors and crew members worked on the scenes he was not a part of. Parham said she was able to use some of her experiences with the play as material for her class assignments, specifically citing a paper she wrote about Frank for one of her writing courses. “It’s a little crazy,â€? Parham admitted. Despite the hectic schedule, each of the cast and crew said they would miss the experience once the show’s run is done and the set is struck. “There’s definitely moments when you get the feeling like, ‘Okay, I’m ready to just do this,’â€? Greer said. “But as soon as it closes, it’s going to be, ‘Crap. I want another weekend. I want another week.’â€? For Helman, theatre provides a never-ending cycle of “building something you love so much and letting it go.â€? “We spend so much time creating this thing,â€? Helman said. “Whatever play it is, you have to give it all your love, and it takes so much energy. And then the show closes ‌ and it’s gone. We strike the set down to the bare stage and we put the costumes away and then we have to let it go and move on to the next thing.â€? Even with the temporary nature of theatre, the cast and crew shared their hopes for the audience. Parham specifically said she hopes the audience feels entirely the horrific experiences portrayed in the story, but learns from the emotions. “Some of the emotion that she writes about in her diary, and even in the end when her diary gets taken away and they get taken off stage ‌ I want people to cry at that,â€? Parham said. “I want that to be such a horrible experience that they cry, but it’s a learning experience. It’s something that will stay with you.â€? Helman hopes that despite the show’s emotional roller coaster, audience members will be able to retain the important messages of the show. “I want to avoid getting lost in sentimentality,â€? Helman said. “I want people to feel, absolutely, and you can’t help but feel for this (story). There’s so many wonderful and humanizing moments in this. But I want people to think and I want them to act.â€?
Barbara Mason, the costume in hiding), both described some of the adjustments they had to designer for the play and an make to accurately represent associate professor for the the historical figures in the play. university, said that at times, “I’ve put a lot more effort into Frank almost seems to come reading her character because off as bratty and stereotypically I want to do Anne justice,â€? adolescent. Parham said. “It’s a very specific “One thing that the audirole, and we don’t know much ence should keep in mind is about her, but we know enough that (Frank is) a human being,â€? that it’s easy to do poorly, and Mason said. “She did in fact I do not want to do it poorly. I exist, but she’s a human. She’s don’t just want to be pretending young, she’s a teenager, she to be this young girl.â€? does stuff teenagers do.â€? Greer and Parham described Parham added that the incluhow they were able to pull sion of information from the some personal experience into re-publication of Frank’s diary their roles, but each explained adds depth and personality to their efforts to respect the real- the role. ity of who their stage characters “You follow Anne from just were as historically influential turning thirteen — she’s just individuals. coming into her own as a very “It’s an undertaking that young teenager — but she I’ve never really put myself wants to be seen as an adult,â€? in before,â€? Greer said. “I’ve Parham said. “As we go through never played a historical figthe play she ure. There are goes through little things ‌ puberty, I can choose There’s so many she’s havhow he walks, ing all these wonderful and I can choose changes. She how he uses humanizing moments has feelings his hands, but that she can’t in this. But I want it’s not somereally explain, thing I want people to think and and she can’t to change too talk about I want them to act. much. I don’t with anyone. want to create It’s such a rich Elizabeth Helman a ‘Brian Greer role.â€? Director as Peter Van Greer said Pels,’ I want that he hopes the audience to create a ‘Peter Van Pels as will be able to connect with the played by Brian Greer.â€? characters and feel the emoThe Hope tional highs and lows alongside “One of the things that I think the actors. we can’t forget is that, yeah, it is “I want them to appreciate a historical story,â€? Helman said. the humor and laughs, but I “These are real people, this is also want them to feel very a thing that happened a genmoved by the moments that eration or two generations ago. are more tender or terrifying,â€? And yet, it’s still here. Genocide Greer said. “It’s such a powerhasn’t gone away. It’s happenful story to tell and a powerful ing right now, in this world, as story to see that I want audiwe speak at this very moment.â€? ence members to contemplate Helman and her team of stuevery aspect. It’s a small piece dent and faculty participants of respect to be able to go on all felt the need to recognize that journey as Anne and the the reality and the relevance of Franks and the Van Pels did.â€? their production. The End All cast and crew who spoke Auditions took place during with The Daily Barometer emphasized the truth and uni- the last weeks of the fall 2014 versality of the story, the char- term, and the chosen actors were given winter break to acters and their emotions. memorize their lines and familiarize with their roles. They had their first formal rehearsal the on the very first evening of the winter 2015 term. Though these university Services productions are the daily jobs of the advising faculty, the 60 HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING FOR NATIONAL or so students involved with CERTIFICATION. Basic thru advanced, $1500. “The Diary of Anne Frankâ€? (541) 327-3513 (Albany) for info, or enrollment. have spent the last two months All But Dissertation group in a balancing act of school, ABD group, meets weekly Mondays 4-5:30 off campus. Leader is an experienced writing theatre and in some cases, an coach. Free initial consult; $25/week, payable weekly. Also individual academic writing coach- additional job. ing and editing for grad students, undergrads, “You’ve just got to multi-
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and Nevada, 4-2; before they faced Cal Poly. Junior pitcher Bev Miller was pitching her fourth game of the tournament when she pitched to Cal Poly, and she did everything By Mitch Mahoney in her power to come away with THE DAILY BAROMETER the win. She allowed only five hits, The Beavers opened their season and the one run she did allow was with five consecutive wins in the unearned and came in the eighth Kajikawa Classic a week ago. They inning. Unfortunately for Oregon won against Ole Miss, 2-1; Pacific, See SOFTBALL | page 6 13-0; Indiana, 10-6; Wisconsin, 5-0; n
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As the Arizona schools travel north to face the Beavers’ women’s basketball team this weekend, their respective recruiting staffs should probably kick themselves a little bit. Oregon State’s sophomore point guard Sydney Wiese hails from Phoenix, but as we all know, she ended up a Beaver. What has she done since high school? Not much; she’s only the starting point guard for the 8th-ranked team in the nation. In the 58 games that she’s started for Oregon State, the Beavers have compiled a 45-13 record. As a freshman last year, she led Oregon State to its first NCAA tournament berth since 1996. She also led the team in scoring (14.3 points per game) and assists (4.0), and the list of accomplishments goes on. When she was still a student at Pinnacle high school playing for her father — Troy, the head coach — neither Arizona school showed much interest. This is in spite of the fact that in her junior year at Pinnacle, she averaged 24.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 2.9 steals per game. “They didn’t really recruit me that hard,” Wiese said. “I was a sophomore or junior when (Arizona State head coach) Charli Turner Thorne took her sabbatical, so her assistant coach was the head coach for that year, and it was weird timing with my recruiting. U-of-A, they didn’t really go after me that much either. I don’t think I was really their style of play.” Her family still lives in Arizona, but her parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle will all travel to Corvallis to watch
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her play this weekend. They’ll get to see Wiese and the rest of the Beavers try to remain perfect in Gill Coliseum. “I love when my family comes to town,” Wiese said, “but even playing in front of Beaver Nation, it seems like I’m home. I think that’s the case for anybody on the team; we have such a great home crowd feel. It’s exciting to play in Gill just like it is going home to Arizona: I love it either way.” This past summer, instead of playing overseas like several of her teammates — freshman forward Marie Gülich played for Germany, junior guard Jamie Weisner, sophomore forward Kolbie Orum and junior post Ruth Hamblin all played for Canada, senior guard Ali Gibson played for Puerto Rico and sophomore guard Gabriella Hanson played for Sweden — Wiese spent this past summer in her hometown. “I didn’t do anything internationally, but I worked out, worked on my individual game a lot. I played with my brother like H-O-R-S-E games, just a lot of fun stuff to keep my love and passion for the game going through the summer.” While she was there, she had the opportunity to perhaps peer into the future. The 2014 WNBA western conference finals pitted the Phoenix Mercury against the Minnesota Lynx, and Wiese attended Game 1 in Phoenix. “I went to one game with my family, and it was so exciting,” Wiese said. “I was like, ‘this is great,’ I was so happy to See WIESE | page 6
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In the closing seconds of the first half, UCLA guard Bryce Alford calmly walked the ball up to the three-point line, elevated and drilled the basket, giving the Bruins a 15 point lead seconds before the halftime buzzer. It was that kind of night for the sophomore Alford and the rest of the UCLA Bruins as they went 10-19 from behind the arc — including five from Alford himself — and avoided the sweep by defeating the Beavers 75-59 Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. All season the Beavers (16-8, 7-5 Pac12) have tried to replicate the level of play that they do at Gill Coliseum — where they are 14-0 — on the road. In Los Angeles against UCLA (15-10, 7-5) the Beavers’ offense could not keep pace with the hot shooting Bruins. With just more than 11 minutes left in the first half, two free-throws from junior forward Jarmal Reid cut the Bruins lead to 20-17; the Bruins then dominated the rest of the half as they went on a 20-8 run to close out the first. The second half, UCLA and Oregon State traded baskets and each time it appeared the Beavers got within striking distance of the Bruins, they would go on a mini-run to keep and extend the lead to See MEN’S HOOPS | page 6
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WIESE n Continued from page 5 State, that lone run ended up winning the game for Cal Poly, 1-0. “It was good to get that under our belt; 5-1 is good,” said head coach Laura Berg. “We could have been 6-0, but we let that last one get away. We learned a lot of stuff, we had a lot of freshmen who got some games under their belt, so now they know what D-I ball is all about.” The loss to Cal Poly ended the Beavers’ first tournament on a sour note, as the team would have been rewarded if they had gotten that last victory. “Of course, we all wanted to go undefeated, especially coach Berg,” said senior infielder Ya Garcia. “She said if we went 6-0, we’d get In-N-Out, so that was definitely an incentive, but things didn’t work out.” Instead, the Beavers had to settle for airport food. Despite the loss, the Beavers are already two games ahead of where they were at this point last year, and Berg is eager for what’s to come this season. “Oh my gosh, it’s great,” Berg said. “At this point last year, I was already hoping for the season to be done, but now it’s just – you can tell that this is a fun group, they work hard, they want to go out and win, they’re passionate about this sport and they’re fun to be around — they’re fun to watch.” But only one week into the season and Berg has already identified one area in particular in which she wants the team to improve. “We still need to work on our killer instinct,” Berg said. “We still need to get that fight for when we are tired, we fight through it, we get through it and we battle.” They’ll have a chance to find that killer instinct again this weekend in the Campbell Cartier Classic. The Beavers will begin the tournament this Thursday at 3:30 p.m. against North Dakota State (4-1), which was a tournament team last season. Then on Friday, the Beavers play two games: the first is against Central Michigan (0-4) at 9 a.m., and the second is against San Diego State (3-2) at 4:30 p.m. The final day of the tournament is Saturday, when the Beavers play another two games. The first is against Seton Hall (5-0) at 2 p.m., and the Beavers will wrap up the tournament with a second game against North Dakota State that starts at 7 p.m.
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The Oregon State women’s basketball bench cheers their teammates on against UCLA in Gill Coliseum Feb. 2. “We’ve got a good strong tournament coming up,” Berg said, “and if we don’t play well, we’ll come back with our tails between our legs, and if we do play well we should do very well.” Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter On Twitter @MitchIsHere sports@dailybarometer.com
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as much as 19 points. Gary Payton II had an economical offensive night for the Beavers, as the junior guard scored 24 points while only taking 15 shots; he also grabbed five rebounds and swiped two steals. Outside of Payton II and junior guard Langston MorrisWalker, who added 19 points, the rest of the Beavers had an off night shooting. Junior forwards Daniel Gomis, Jarmal Reid and Olaf Schaftenaar with sophomore guard Malcolm Duvivier went a combined 2-20 from the field and finished with nine points. Next for the Beavers is a matchup against the last place team in the conference, the USC Trojans, who are 1-10 inconference and are coming off of an 80-75 point loss to Oregon. Tip off for that game will be at 5 p.m. Saturday. In addition, it was announced Wednesday that suspended guard Victor Robbins’ — who was eight games into his 10 game suspension for breaking athletic depart policies — suspension would be extended after the junior was cited for a DUII over the weekend. “Victor Robbins is going to serve an extended suspension from the team for this latest incident,” head coach Wayne Tinkle said in an official statement. “We know that he has some issues that he has to work through, and we feel that by removing basketball from the equation for the time being, it will allow him to put the focus where he needs to.” Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathebone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
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be there. It was a white-out and everyone was going crazy. It was also against Minnesota, and that’s where most of my family is from, too. So I was like, ‘if Arizona wins I’ll be happy, if Minnesota wins, whatever.’” Watching from the stands was a bit odd for Wiese, who has spent her whole life playing, and she was itching to get on the court. “It was pandemonium, man,”Weise said. “I wanted to be out there so badly. We had really good seats, so I could feel myself thinking, ‘Ah, I just want to be out there too, and feel it!’” For Wiese, playing professional basketball has motivated her through every stage of her basketball career. “I’ve had a dream to play in college and then to go on professionally,” Weise said. “That’s still a dream of mine, and it has been since I was a kid. I keep working towards that every day; obviously you have to stay focused on the now and what we’re doing here, but it’s a good reminder; waking up every morning knowing that I’ve got a bigger goal that I’m trying to reach.” She appears well on her way to making that dream a reality, but with all she’s done with the Beavers and all the success she’s had playing there, she hasn’t forgotten her roots. Having her father as a basketball coach has evidently paid off, and Oregon State has reaped the benefits. “I definitely owe a lot of who I am to him,” Wiese said. “He taught me the fundamentals and the value of work ethic at an early age.” In addition, he instilled a desire for her to keep improving. When last year’s season
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was finished, Wiese looked over her stats and wasn’t exactly satisfied. “It was definitely a trial and error last year. I looked at my stats the end of last year and saw how many turnovers I had and I didn’t like that number. It was in the triple digits,
141 assists to 109 turnovers. That was one of my big focuses in the offseason, just being a better student of the game.” This season, Wiese has 133 assists already to just 61 turnovers, and her assist to turnover ratio is the highest in the conference, which shows how quickly she’s been able to improve. And she’s still a sophomore. Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter On Twitter @MitchIsHere sports@dailybarometer.com
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SafeRide budget safe for now, needs further facilitation budget to expand the program by acquiring new vehicles and more drivers and eventually work toward finding a coordinator to wrangle said vehicles and drivers. One of the main concerns of the SIFC was that increased funding for SafeRide would raise tuition in terms of student fees in the midst of students trying to organize a rally to freeze tuition. We do give props to them for wanting to take a moment to figure out a more cost-effective way of helping to sustain this program without students breaking bank for it. Although, technically, they aren’t really breaking too much — SafeRide costs each individual student at OSU little each term, which adds up when there are about 30,000 total. It’s about the same sacrifice one makes when buying a cup of coffee — except this coffee lasts all term and keeps students safe. It’s pretty simple: ASOSU wants to give more money to SafeRide for further expansion and the SIFC wants to hold the money where it’s accountable and figure out the finer details before moving forward at full speed. While we can appreciate the desire to slow things down and talk things out, there is the factor of the students who aren’t able to catch a SafeRide van because they are all too busy and
to go away, but there are better ways to address this than scare tactics via impulsive late night emails. In addition, there is already a conspread too thin. MacKenzie Zathan, the external tingency agreement for some funds coordinator of SafeRide, said she has to in place between SIFC and ASOSU, listen every morning to the scared mes- should the program need minor assissages left by these students, expressing tance, or when ASOSU comes up with fear that they are alone in a parking lot a greater expansion marketing plan. You know, something less scary withor they just want to go home. Having a higher budget to draw from out the words “going away,” “threatened” and “slashed.” would allow SafeRide We could see how to get to those scared this looks a little over students and maybe We are very happy the top. MacKenzie’s morning that ASOSU is We’re also looking phone message list at the university in would be a lot shorter. getting passionate this scenario. As a whole, we have about something Our general premixed feelings on this and moving toward sumption is that situation. students here at We are very happy doing things... OSU are more than that ASOSU is gethappy to pay for a ting passionate about service that will help something and movget them or others ing toward doing things — especially since that something is incredibly home safe and sound. But if this requires so many student student-centric. A program that provides student fee dollars, why exactly is this not a employment and student safety, being university-funded service? promoted by student government. OSU already partially funds “The It warms the cockles of our hearts. Night Owl” from Corvallis Transit But sending out a snarky email System, previously the artist known as suggestive of the end of a very instru- “The Beaver Bus” — which trundles mental program is not a very profes- around picking up late night wanderers sional move. We don’t want SafeRide around Corvallis Thursday, Friday and
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Saturday from 8:45 p.m. to 2:45 a.m. Except it only has three routes and lacks the graceful simplicity of SafeRide. Why not help fund SafeRide? Instead of funding tsunami-zone residence halls on the coast, why isn’t the school funding this small yet necessary program that is responsible for the safe transport of OSU students every day? Apart from the obvious benefits of safety for students, it would do wonders for the school’s image. Imagine the headlines: “OSU puts its student safety first.” And finally, as students, we need to make our voices heard. There is a hearing Thursday night from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. in (blank), to discuss the budgetary concerns surrounding SafeRide. Go to this hearing even if you don’t use SafeRide — make your opinion known because this is your money and you should get a say in what happens to it. This is our school, our government and our nation. Get out there and own it. t
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ear Dr. Fit, I’m looking to lose a couple of pounds before spring break. Is there one diet that is better than others or do diet pills actually work? —Curious Dear Curious, Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? The moral of the story was slow and steady wins the race. There is one way to effectively lose weight that has been shown to also lower your risks of diseases, and that is exercise and a healthy diet full of fruits, veggies and whole grains. This does take more time and effort but will lead to a more sustainable lifestyle of weight maintenance. As a general rule for dieting, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Whether you want to lose five or 15 pounds, the most recent diets like “losing 10 pounds in 10 days” or taking diet pills will set you up for disappointment and disaster. The desire for a quick fix to lose weight is appealing, but these don’t help with sustained healthy behavior changes. If your focus is on weight loss that will last, dieting or pills are not your best bet. You may lose some weight at first, which is usually water weight caused by dehydration, and then you gain it back relatively quickly and usually more. Diet pills fall into two separate categories: Non-prescription drugs and dietary supplements. The non-prescription drugs like Alli must provide evidence to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that they are safe and effective through clinical trials, but they still have nasty side effects with regards to your bowel movements. The dietary supplements or so-called “miracle pills” you read about on social media or while watching Dr. Oz, are not regulated by the FDA and therefore it is up to the supplement manufacturer to deem the item as “safe.” Because they are not controlled and many don’t go through a clinical trial, there is very limited data on if the pills actually work. Additionally, some of these supplements don’t have an accurate ingredient list; therefore you have no idea what you are putting into your body. The supplements may have a low or modest benefit at first, but their side effects of anxiety, abdominal pain, nausea, dizziness, diarrhea and an irregular heart beat — just to name a few — might cause you more harm than good.
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A supplement that claims to suppress your appetite usually by interrupting the hunger signals to the hypothalamus doesn’t impact emotional or late night eating but rather inhibits your hunger cues. Other supplements that state they decrease dietary fat absorption means that the supplement chemically binds to the fat so it doesn’t get absorbed. In theory this may seem like a good option, but remember the fat is not bad and we need it in our diet to help with absorbing vitamin A, D, E, and K and Omega 3s. Most supplements are marketed as “natural ingredients,” but this terminology is not synonymous with safe or healthy. Do you remember ephedra? It’s an herbal stimulant that was banned from weight loss supplements after being related with 15,000 medical events ranging from insomnia to sudden cardiac death. Even now, there are still supplements that have Ephedra-like properties that can cause major health issues. With all these cautions I’ve stated, I want to be clear that I don’t recommend quick fixes or diet pills for one’s health. I also want to make sure I address another issue as there is a huge push in our society for thinness, and any time someone asks about weight loss interventions, it begs the question of why? Thinness is not equivalent to being healthy or happy. We need to realize that health comes in all different shapes and sizes and that if we focus on eating well and being active, our bodies do not need to reflect the societal ideal of thinness. So if you want to look and feel better in a couple of weeks, set a goal to eat nutritious meals and snacks each day and exercise three times a week; I think you’ll feel a difference physically and mentally. t
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t is February: the shortest of months and the longest of months, and the clouds frown upon us with their angry gray faces. If the drab weather is getting you down, a) you should have expected it, you nincompoop; this is Corvallis and b) no need to worry, because Fairbanks Hall has a new exhibit up that is bursting with vibrance. Three Oregon State University Faculty members have collaborated to create the OSU Photo Faculty Exhibition. The three artists are Julie Bradshaw, Kerry Skarbakka and Lorenzo Triburgo. Bradshaw, according to her artist’s biography, has a master’s of fine arts in photography and makes “use of photography and video to problem solve and comment on issues of the every day: such as language, social issues or just being an artist.” Bradshaw has two series in the exhibition: “Sketch-a-book” and “Stacks.” Her artist’s statement describes that the series deal with “the material and production properties of the photographic image at a time when both photography and books have gone through an inflexion point.” Her pieces are very unique, because although they are works of photography, they look extremely textured and make the viewer want to reach out and touch them. Do not act on this desire if you experience it. Danielle Bowersmith, a junior in psychology and art, said that the textural aspect of Bradshaw’s pieces made Bradshaw’s work her favorite part of the exhibition. “It doesn’t look just like a flat surface,” Bowersmith said. “You can see where the paint is coming off.” And it does look as though paint was applied straight to the
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Keating surface of each piece. Kerry Skarbakka took a different approach; his work is more recognizably photographic. In his artist’s statement, Skarbakka writes that his works show his “understanding and perspective, which relies on the shifting human conditions of the world that we inhabit.” Skarbakka’s series is the first one you see when walking into the gallery. The photographs are huge and colorful, drawing the eye immediately to them. When Bowersmith saw Skarbakka’s series, she pointed to “Window” as her favorite. “It makes me want to see if the guy is actually jumping out the window,” she said. “All of the glass pieces are perfectly positioned.” Skarbakka’s series is interesting not just because of the size of the art but also because of its detail. The photos are obviously digi-
tally altered, but are done so masterfully that it truly is hard to tell. Milla Oliveira, a junior in art, loved Skarbakka’s work because of the movement and color. “It’s a very surprising theme,” Oliveira said. “Everything else is static; the movement is nice.” This was an astute observation. While the other two artists’ photographs are still, Skarbakka’s explode with parkour-like mobility. Lorenzo Triburgo’s series, “Transportraits,” opts to “examine representations of American
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Lorenzo Triburgo’s “Transportraits” examine American mas- Julie Bradshaw’s piece “Sketch-a-book” draws the viewer into culinity and sexuality through photography and landscape. the image with its highly detail photographic textures. masculinity, photographing transgender men set against a created environment,” according to his statement. Each portrait is serene, contrasting nicely with Skarbakka’s chaotic pieces. “Transportraits,” each have a crisp clean face set against a tranquil natural background, like a beach, forest, or sunset. Bowersmith mentioned that although she hadn’t seen the exhibit before we had talked,
she had seen a few of Triburgo’s photographs around previously. “They’re posted outside a couple of the professor’s offices,” she said. “Transparents” is a fun series because although each subject is photographed in a similar way, there are striking differences between each work as well, each conveying a particular emotion. The three artists’ series complement each other fabulously
to create the exhibition. The reception for the exhibition occurred Feb. 9 and 10. The art will remain in Fairbanks until March 10, so step out of the rain sometime and get a relaxing dose of excellent and vibrant digital photography. t
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he film “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” reminded me that it is time to get angry. Singing the oft-unsung song of the women’s movement of the 1970s, this film is a reminder, in the form of a gentle slap in the face, of how much work was put in to get women rights. The movie takes the viewer from the beginnings of the women’s movement to where we are now. Back then, a woman with a Bachelor’s degree made the same amount of money as a man with three years of high school education. Back then, a woman’s place was in the kitchen, not in the workplace. Back then, a woman had to risk her life to choose not to have a child. But the scary part of it all is that “back then” was not that long ago. It was only 40 years ago. The women of this documentary share their stories and put in context the impact they had on the world. These ordinary women could be your mother, your grandmother or an aunt. There’s nothing particularly special about any of them; just that they had the courage to speak up for themselves. Combining archival footage of marches and meetings, dramatizations and interviews with the women integral to the movement, the film paints a picture of the passion and fortitude these women embodied. But it also paints the entire picture of the movement. It includes the internal strife within organizations, like the National Organization of Women, politics of class and race and the initial disregard of homosexual women. While the first incarnation of the women’s movement didn’t accurately represent the needs and feelings of African-American women, poor women and homosexual women, the film shows how these groups were able to use the foundation of the movement to get their own thoughts, feelings and needs heard. The beauty of the movie is that it takes the slogan of the movement “the personal is political” to heart. The women interviewed get to tell their own stories in their own words. The movie does justice to their stories, and a current of authenticity runs throughout the film. Interviewees, like Rita Mae Brown, Kate Millet and Susan Brownmiller, tell both heartwrenching and hilarious tales of their time in the movement. These women fought for their bodies, their careers and their children. When we descended the steps of the Darkside theatre, the friend I saw this documentary with and I were silent. There were a few moments of quiet contemplation of what we had just seen before we began to discuss the documentary.
Kat Kothen
The Daily Barometer The main feeling I took away from the film was anger. Anger that these wonderful and powerful women fought so valiantly for me and the fellow women of my generation and their voices have been becoming quieter with every passing year. Anger that the women I go to classes with most likely had no idea the despair and frustration the generations before us had. Anger that I belonged to that group of women before I had seen this movie. But as one of the interviewees of the film discussed, anger is what fuels change. So, I urge you to see this movie and get angry. We can no longer see the rights that women before us fought for ripped from our hands. We deserve the right to choose when we want to have children. We deserve equal pay. We deserve to not have to choose between a family and a career. We deserve to not hear politicians say condescending phrases like, “binders full of women” and “legitimate rape.” To those who say feminism is no longer necessary, please consider thinking about a woman’s place in the world. Let’s do an experiment to think about a woman’s place on a college campus. Ask yourself the following questions: Do you ever see a man in a crop top and booty shorts braving the streets of Corvallis on a rainy, cold and miserable Friday night? Do men have to worry about being sexually assaulted and attacked on the street? Please tell me you haven’t forgotten when some dude was bashing women over the head near campus. Do strangers at parties on the regular grope men? With that being said, I think men need feminism, too. When being called a girl is no longer an insult, we will have made good progress. Men should be able to share their feelings and have no shame when their interests extend beyond lifting weights and pounding beers. We are all humans and we all deserve to have our voices heard no matter our sexuality, skin color, socioeconomic status or gender. This movie proves that normal people can affect progress in a major way. See this movie. Get angry. Change society. t
Kat Kothen is a junior in biology. The opinions expressed in Kothen’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Kothen can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.