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8 – Men fall to UW 7 – Women win sixth straight
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MEN’S BASKETBALL: Beavers fall to Huskies by 3 at home.
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Provost, Executive Vice President Sabah Randhawa discusses university challenges By Kristin Pugmire The Daily Barometer
Provost Randhawa recently sat down with senior reporter Kristin Pugmire to discuss his duties, improvements he’s seen to the university and the ssue of campus growth. Q: What are your duties as Provost? A: The simplest way to describe it is that I serve as the university’s chief academic officer and chief operating officer. As the chief academic officer, I provide oversight to all the academic programs on campus — the 11 academic colleges, the honors college, graduate school, as well as the academic support services, student affairs and academic affairs. As
role was interesting — I started in January 2001, and for about a year and a half, I served in that role as well as Interim Dean for the College of Business, because there was a vacancy there we could not fill. The provost, my boss at the time, asked me to serve in that role for a few weeks, and that turned into about a year and a half. It was a great learning experience. I served that role until I took over this position, which was in 2005. Q: Since you’ve been in this role, what improvements to the university have you been happiest with? A: We have continuously struggled with state funding cuts and other fiscal issues, so one of the things I’m most pleased with is that right now the university is on really solid financial footing. We hired 85 faculty members last year, we will be hiring another 60-70 this year and we have put in a lot of money in terms of
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the chief operating officer, my task includes executing the strategic plan and its priorities, and serving as the president when Ed Ray is out of town. Those are the two key roles of the position. Q: Before this, what did you do? A: I started at OSU as a faculty member in the College of Engineering. My background is in a combination of chemical engineering and industrial engineering. I started as a faculty member in the department of industrial and manufacturing engineering in 1987, and in 1993 I became department head of the same unit. I was there for about six years, then served about a year and a half in the College of Engineering dean’s office as the Associate Dean of Operations for the college. Then, in 2001, I moved into central university administration as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. That
I should say that I would take the challenges associated with growth over the challenges associated with budget cuts and downsizing.
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infrastructure upgrades. The second thing I’m proud of — and really the credit goes to the faculty and academic leaders — are the changes that have been made in the academic enterprise in terms of realignment, and in terms of the research growth the university has had in the last few years. The third thing I’m proud of is the capital campaign and how well the university has done. We started off, on our first capital campaign when President Ray came here in 2004, with a goal of $625 million. We exceeded it ahead of time and set the goal for $850 million for 2013. We are almost at $800 million now, and so we’ll probably be resetting [the goal] to a billion or so going forward. So I think a lot of positive things have been going on. Q: What are the biggest obstacles you are dealing with right now, in terms of trying to improve the university? A: I would say the biggest challenge right now is associated with growth. On the other hand, I should say that I would take the challenges associated with growth over the challenges associated with budget cuts and downsizing. Nevertheless, there are some significant challenges: student enrollment has gone up quite a bit and we are limited in terms of classrooms, lab space and faculty and instructors. We are doing a lot of work in both of those areas, but one of the big issues is that there is always a time lag…after students come to campus, it takes about a year to hire faculty, so there is almost a yearlong lag before we can get faculty
and instructors on board. And yet we need the students before we can actually [hire faculty]. So I would say right now the biggest challenge would be making sure we can increase the instructional capacity of the university, both in terms of faculty and in terms of the space and infrastructure that is needed to provide quality experience to students and support research growth and enterprise. The other thing that worries me, more than state funding cuts, are federal funding cuts. It does impact students in terms of Pell Grants and some of the federal support systems that are in place, and that, at times, is even more critical than state cuts. The other way the federal cuts impact us is through cuts in federal research funding. There’s always the fear that to balance the budget they’ll cut funding for the National Science Foundation or the National Institute of Health, and that’s where faculty get most of their research grants. Q: The Oregon University System recently announced that enrollment has surpassed 100,000 students. You’ve already addressed some of the negative consequences of growth. Are there any others? What are some of the positive outcomes? A: The governor has put forth the proposal that we [as a state] get to 40-40-20 — 40 percent of Oregonians with a bachelor’s degree, 40 percent with a community college diploma or credentials and 20 percent with high school credentials. To have 40 percent with a bachelor’s degree requires quite a bit of expansion, not See RANDHAWA | page 2
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Task Force gathered preliminary information to present to OSU President Ed Ray, the Associated Students of Oregon State University passed the “Students’ Freedom Act,” a resolution that stood firmly against any type of By Evan Anderson smoke-free campus, and supported current administraThe Daily Barometer tive policy. Shortly after this strong student statement, On Sept. 1 of this year, Oregon State University will the decision was made to implement the ban in the fall implement a smoke-free policy for the OSU Corvallis of 2012. Director of the Smoke-Free Initiative Stacey Edwards campus which will extend from Monroe Avenue to Western Boulevard, and from 15th Street to well beyond said that “before last year’s ASOSU we had a previous administration that supported the policy.” But the idea of 35th. a smoke-free campus is much older than that. No one — students, visitors or faculty — will be “[The] on-campus smoking ban at OSU started as a allowed to smoke within the designated areas. See SMOKING | page 3 Last school year, while the 13-member Smoke-Free n
‘Feeble-mindedness’ receives positive reviews Play focuses on themes of women in the work place, balancing work, marriage
found themselves stepping into a high-ceilinged, musty rehearsal room that is the OSU Lab Theatre. With space for about 110 people, many students, faculty, members of the Women’s Giving Circle that By Kim Kenny provided funding for the play and The Daily Barometer “The Feeble-Mindedness of OSU President Ed Ray gathered to Woman,” by Staci Swedeen, con- hear the story of Gerty Cori. Gerty Cori was the first American cluded its four-day run yesterday at the Oregon State University Lab woman to win a Nobel Prize in sciTheatre, a production which start- ence. Born in Austria in 1896, she ed Wednesday of last week. met her husband Carl Cori in mediNavigating through the labyrinth cal school in Prague before emiof hallways that make up the OSU grating to the United States in 1922 theatre department in Withycombe to begin work at a lab in Buffalo, Hall and guided by stationed stage N.Y. As pioneering biochemists, the assistants, audience members Coris won the Nobel Prize in physin
ology, or medicine, in 1947 together for their discovery of the mechanism for blood glucose recognition. This aided in the treatment of diabetes and other diseases with a metabolic basis. Gerty Cori died in 1957 at age 61 from a rare form of bone marrow cancer, likely due to exposure to radiation during her research. The play-within-a-play leads the audience not only through Gerty Cori’s life, from the mountains of Austria to biochemistry labs in the United States, but also through the process of the making of a play, See feeble | page 3
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Jason Schubothe from the OSU Steel Band played calypso music in the Memorial Union on Friday afternoon.
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Political clashes coming over Obama budget, payroll tax cut President Barack Obama’s new chief of staff on Sunday stopped short of predicting Congress would agree to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of 2012. The issue, a top priority of the Obama administration and the focus of congressional negotiations in recent weeks, reflects the sharp partisan divide permeating Washington as Obama prepares to unveil his 2013 budget proposal on Monday. Jack Lew, the former White House budget director who just took over as chief of staff, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that Congress should resolve the dispute over extending the lower payroll tax rate from 2011. When pressed about whether a deal would get done, Lew refused to predict success. “I believe it should get solved, and I know there are people working hard even this weekend trying to solve it,” said Lew, who was scheduled to appear on CNN and four other network and cable talks shows the day before Obama releases his budget plan for next year. Both the budget proposal and the payroll tax issue continue a political debate over government spending that has dominated Washington since the 2010 congressional elections in which Republicans took control of the House and reduced the Democratic majority in the Senate. Obama’s budget proposal will forecast a $901-billion deficit in 2013, and includes plans to make targeted investments in areas like infrastructure while increasing taxes on the wealthy. The White House bills the document as a “blueprint for how we can rebuild an economy where hard work
pays off and responsibility is rewarded.” Given the intense acrimony in Washington, especially on budget issues, few provisions in the document are likely to ever become law. A protracted political fight in December brought a twomonth extension of the lower payroll tax rate from last year, giving Congress more time to work out a longer-term deal. However, the same political arguments from December continue to stymie talks being held by House and Senate negotiators. Obama and Democrats are pushing for an extension with no strings attached, while Republicans seek to tie more spending cuts and other priorities to the plan. “Congress needs to stop this middle class tax hike from happening, period,” Obama said in his weekly address to the nation Saturday. “No drama. No delay. And no ideological side issues that have nothing to do with this tax cut. Now is not the time for self-inflicted wounds to our recovery. Now is the time for common-sense action. And this tax cut is common sense.” The president encouraged listeners to contact their representatives and urge them to pass the extension. Lew also counseled a drama-free agreement Sunday. “We saw in December that it didn’t work out so well to have a big, ugly fight over the payroll tax,” he told CNN. “We can avoid that. We have enough time for Congress to get its work done.” Last week, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of deliberately undermining the payroll tax talks in order to allow Obama
to criticize Republicans for the failure to reach a deal. “It seems to me that Democrats in the Senate have sort of decided to link up with the Obama campaign and make sure that on any bipartisan discussions that occur, it actually doesn’t lead to a bipartisan agreement,” McConnell said. “I think the reason for that becomes increasingly obvious: They want to blame Republicans in Congress if nothing is accomplished.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, meanwhile, suggested Republicans were trying to scuttle a deal that could help the economy in order to improve their chances of winning back the Senate majority and the White House. “What are they going to talk about if the economy continues to improve?” Reid asked. A 20-member HouseSenate conference committee is working to extend the payroll tax cut for 10 months before the short-term extension runs out Feb. 29. The tax break is estimated to affect about 160 million Americans, saving the average family about $1,000 a year. In addition to the payroll tax measure, negotiators are also trying to extend jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and prevent a scheduled cut to the reimbursement rate for doctors who treat Medicare patients, known as the “doc fix.” The package would cost an estimated $160 billion, and the political fight focuses on where legislators will find the money. Democrats want to cover the cost of the package by imposing a surtax on income over $1 million and eliminating some corporate tax sub-
sidies, like those going to oil and gas companies. Republicans have proposed paying for a deal, in part, by extending the current pay freeze on federal workers and requiring wealthier seniors to pay higher Medicare premiums. Meanwhile, Monday’s budget proposal will unleash another round of political finger-pointing, with Obama and Democrats advocating a balanced approach to economic growth — including spending cuts, increased tax revenue and investments in rebuilding infrastructure such as highways and bridges — while Republicans argue for deeper spending cuts and lower tax rates. Both sides contend that their positions will bring the economic growth needed to stimulate significant reductions in the federal deficit and rising national debt. The Obama budget proposal will project that the deficit for fiscal year 2012 will top $1.3 trillion, before falling in 2013 to $901 billion, or 5.5 percent of gross domestic product. By 2022, the deficit is forecast to fall to $704 billion, or 2.8 percent of GDP, according to the White House. Senior administration officials who discussed details of the budget with reporters said it reflects policy themes Obama presented in a major speech last year in Kansas and in his recent State of the Union address. In the Kansas speech, Obama presented Americans with a choice: a “fair shot” with him, or a return to “you’re on your own economics” of the previous Republican administration under President George W. Bush. — CNN
Calendar Monday, Feb. 13 Meetings College Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people! Socratic Club, 7pm, MU 110. Sponsored book study of Timothy Keller’s book “The Reason for God” will meet to discuss Chapter 2. This meeting is free and open to everyone.
Events Black Cultural Center, 5-7pm, MU Lounge. Panel Discussion of Black men. Asian & Pacific Cultural Center (Diversity Developement), 4-7pm, Asian & Pacific Cultural Center (27th & Jackson). Sweet Factory: Come learn how Valentine’s Day is celebrated in different asian and pacific islander cultures! Have the opportunity to make chocolate roses and handmade cards to sweep that special someone off their feet!
Tuesday, Feb. 14 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Events Pride Center, 5-7pm, The Pride Center. A lot can happen in just 3 minutes. Come meet other people from OSU and the community and make new friends. Food and drinks will be provided.
Wednesday, Feb. 15 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend. Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Recharge your battery – Interfaith devotions and prayers – bring your favorite inspirational reading to share or just listen.
Events Black Cultural Center, 4-6pm, BCC. QPOC meeting. Monthly social event for Queer people of color. Organized by SOL. Black Cultural Center, 6-8pm, BCC. Love and Chocolate. Relationships in the Black community, in collaboration with BSU and SOL. Asian Pacific Cultural Center (Diversity Development), 6:30-8:30pm, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez (4C’s). Victim’s of Trafficking: “Sex Slaves,” which follows one man’s determination to rescue his pregnant wife — kidnapped and sold into the global sex trade.
Thursday, Feb. 16 Meetings OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111. Regular meeting. College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 132. All are welcome no matter what beliefs or political party.
Monday, Feb. 20 Meetings
RANDHAWA n Continued from page 1 just in terms of OSU but overall capacity for the system. I think an initial study that was done said that we needed another university for at least 40,000 students to get to that level. So I think it is important, for long-term economic and social development of the state, that we get to that level. The challenge, again, is bridging the investment gap, not just here but collectively in the state, to get to that higher number of students, particularly at a time when the economy is not kind to families. Q: What do you think of the claim that the Provost may have the most difficult job on campus? A: [Laughs] Oh, I don’t know. I think every job has its own challenges…I wouldn’t do the job if I didn’t enjoy it, though there are certainly some days where I’m pulling my hair. I always think the department chair position at times is quite complex because it’s at the intersection of administration and students, and you’re trying to draw that balance. And now the role of deans is very different, with fundraising expectations and external relationship expectations…and the President is accountable for the entire university. But there is a lot to my job, no doubt about it. Q: You talked about infrastructure changes that have been going on. I’ve been writing quite a bit about accessibility challenges on campus, and particularly complaints that the Able Student Alliance has put forth. Do you think the university is doing everything it can right now to make sure the campus is becoming accessible? A: We have put in quite a bit of resources toward ADA compliance and some other
accessibility issues on campus. The problem we have is that a lot of the physical space on campus is quite old. The buildings were designed when there were no seismic regulations, for example, and so many of the buildings don’t meet seismic regulations. So we did Education Hall, and we have the money to do the Strand Agriculture building next year. In terms of accessibility and ADA compliance, we have a lot of the same issues. There are buildings in which the elevators aren’t there or need to be replaced, or the ramps aren’t up to code…there are some floors that have been taken out of service, like in Fairbanks Hall, where there isn’t an elevator that goes to the fourth floor. We are trying to seek, in this coming legislative cycle, some money for Fairbanks. Certainly, [accessibility] is very high on our agenda in terms of space renovation, it’s just that we have a lot of old infrastructure. Q: In your most recent Annual Report, the university’s goals included increased faculty recruitment and retention, better student engagement and success, the creation of a leadership position to help the university expand industry-based research collaborations. How would you define the progress of these goals since President Ray announced them in October? A: Let me just preface this by saying that many of these goals are multi-year and build on each other; it’s hard to get to the endpoint in one year. For example, let’s take student engagement and success. Over the past few years, we’ve put in a significant amount of effort and resources to improve student engagement and retention. We’ve made some progress in that area, it just takes quite a bit of time. For example, if you start to invest in graduation rates, it takes five or six years before you start seeing the effects. As I mentioned earlier, we
are pretty heavily focused on intentional recruiting, both for faculty and students. For students, we are trying to diversify both internationally and in terms of U.S. diversity. Over the past five or six years, we’ve gone from 13 percent to almost 19 percent in terms of domestic diversity. We have recently created a leadership position for John Adams, who was the dean of engineering, who is now helping to expand industry-based research for the university, so he’s working in the research office, and with the faculty in terms of moving that forward. On all of them, we are making progress at different rates, but I’m pleased to see that we are making progress in most of them. Q: Is there anything new to announce about tuition increases in the near future? Will that be happening again next year? A: It’s probably a little early to say. I suspect that it will, though I don’t know how much. There’s a legislative process that’s just starting and will go through February. After that, we’ll have more of an idea of the constraints around that particular topic. More importantly, we have set up a different process this time around regarding conversation about tuition increases. We have a university budget committee, and there’s a group that consists of three members from the university and three members from the student body — the ASOSU president, vice president and a budget person. There will also be representation from the OSU Cascades campus. Probably by the time students come back from spring break, we’ll have a little better sense of where we’re headed. Kristin Pugmire, senior reporter 737-2231 news@dailybarometer.com
College Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!
Events Black Cultural Center, 6:30-8:30pm, MU Lounge. Panel Discussion of Black women.
Tuesday, Feb. 21 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Speakers Women’s Center, 3-5pm, Women’s Center. Budgets, Credit & Savings...OH MY! SisterScholars is hosting a budgeting and money management workshop to help women prepare to be financially independent and savvy!
Events Black Cultural Center, Noon-2pm, BCC. Jeopardy and wings. Jeopardy about black history, in collaboration with SOL.
Wednesday, Feb. 22 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend. Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Tranquility Zone – Interfaith meditation, devotions and prayers – share your favorite inspirational reading or story.
Events Career Services, 11am-4pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. University-wide Career Fair. Connect with more than 100 employers from various industries and graduate schools there to network with students and alumni, offer jobs and internships, and provide other future career opportunities.
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FEEBLE n Continued from page 1 along with all the frustrations and interactions between actors that accompany it. While the characters of Gerty and Carl Cori become closer through their collaboration in research as well as marriage, the actors playing them are struggling through a rough patch in their own marriage. The male actors complain of a shortage of lines and ask why they couldn’t do a play about Einstein or Edward R. Murrow, while the director and playwright constantly corrects the cast for lines she has altered or removed last minute. The play-within-a-play is scheduled to tour Piscataway, N.J. in a week as part of women’s history month, and the director, played by theatre senior Megan Grassl, still does not have a complete running order together. The actress with the role of Gerty, played by Madison Shirley, freshman in environmental science and biology, struggles to do her character justice while fighting the mounting urge to strangle her co-actor and husband. Meanwhile, the audience gets a glimpse of Gerty and
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Carl’s relationship from a romantic mountain scene, and learns about the discrimination women faced in the 1930s when interviewers tell the Coris it is “unAmerican” to collaborate with one’s wife. Eventually, the rehearsal, and the story of Gerty Cori’s life, comes together and the acting couple even begin to work out their issues. With several jokes along the way, topics such as balancing marriage and work, discrimination in the theatre as well as science, and how much has really changed in the equality between men and women since Gerty’s time are discussed by the cast. Though wishing to address the struggles of women against discrimination, playwright Staci Swedeen ensured her play was not without comic relief and that men were not portrayed to be “chauvinist pigs,” as “Man #1,” played by theatre sophomore Chris Peterman, puts it. Swedeen believes that the last and most important member of the cast in any play is the audience and that this exchange of energy between spectator and performer is a unique experience each and every perfor-
SMOKING n Continued from page 1 senior project,” said Joe Taylor, ASOSU Director of Campus Affairs at the time. Taylor further stated that after the initial idea was shot down, its originator “went on to pursue it as [their] graduate project.” A “Fresh Air Survey” was conducted in 2008, to which 623 people responded, and was comprised of 76.5 percent student answers. This survey was used as the main base of information for the Smoke-Free Task Force for the next two years. It did not address such questions as “What is the percentage of faculty and staff who smoke on campus?” In 2010 Taylor organized and sent out a survey on behalf of ASOSU which received 4,530 student responses, which Taylor said, “was more responses than students who voted in the last student election.” The survey found that a quarter of the responding students had recently used tobacco, and that there were a considerable portion of non-smokers who also opposed a smokefree campus. Ignoring the fact that more students polled favored the construction of designated smoking areas rather than a campus-wide ban, the Smoke-Free Task Force presented certain parts of the survey in several meetings, and the date was set. “The first year we’re going to emphasize education,” Edwards said. “It’s going to take some time.” The OSU administration is going to put up signs at what will be restricted areas, and will provide information about the new policy to university applicants. Edwards said that after “initial infrastructure costs,” the policy will not require much money to uphold, and pointed out that the
mance. This aspect of theatre, Swedeen says, teaches both actor and audience to engage fully in the present moment. Swedeen received a commission in 2001 from the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Sloan Foundation New Play Commission to write about women in science. The title was inspired from a chapter in Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s book, “Nobel Women in Science.” During the week, Swedeen helped teach alongside OSU faculty in theatre and women’s studies classes. Originally from Mt. Vernon, Wash., Swedeen now lives in Knoxville, Tenn., where she has formed a new theatre called “The Flying Anvil,” which she is still in the process of getting off the ground. The showing of “The Fe e b l e - Mi n d e d n e s s of Woman” at OSU is the first time the play has been performed on a college campus. Many helping hands were involved in making this happen. Charlotte Headrick, a professor in the theatre department at OSU, wrote the grant to bring the production to Corvallis. Vreneli Farber, also a professor in the theatre department, directed. Kevin
university will no longer have to spend money furnishing the on-campus smoking urns. “To be honest, I see it coming out as equal, or less,” she said. As far as punitive measures are concerned, Edwards said that the plan will be enforced “just like any other policy…public safety will be in charge of enforcing that.” The smoke-free policy is an administrative rule, not a law, and will not be enforced by Oregon State police. Though there will be no fines for violators, Edwards said that “if [violations] are egregious enough, [students] can be suspended.” When asked what the impact of a smoke-free campus will mean to international students, Edwards said, “That was a concern that came up.” The administration has looked at the statistics from other universities with smoke-free campuses, and found that “there was no drop in enrollment,” Edwards said. “It doesn’t affect their attendance rates.” Though the numbers don’t decrease, that doesn’t account for a possible student demographic shift, which would not appear in strictly numeric comparisons. When first contacted the International Students of Oregon State University, referred all questions to International Student Services. There seems to be lack of a coherent message from the departments representing OSU international students. When reached International Student Services commented that ISOSU might have a better idea of student feedback. With the policy to take effect later this year, there are still some minor details still not worked out. Taylor said, “It’s now a bigger question of who gets involved to decide how it will pan out.” Evan Anderson, staff reporter
Ahern, a professor in biochemistry at OSU, instructed the cast on how to use scientific equipment. Funding was provided by the Women’s Giving Circle, with additional support from the Center for the Humanities, College of Science, department of chemistry, Hundere Foundation, OSU Research Office, and Vice-Provost for Student Affairs. Playing opposite Shirley in the role of Carl Cori was Sam Thompson, junior in psychology. Matt O’Brien, a graduate student in political science, played multiple roles along with Peterman as “Man #2.” The assistant director was James Burgess and the stage manager was Davey Kashuba. The production was followed by a post-play discussion with members of OSU faculty and Staci Swedeen,
who fielded questions from the audience. The actors joined the discussion along with director Vreneli Farber. After commenting on how much he enjoyed the play, President Ed Ray said the relationship between Gerty and Carl reminded him of that between Linus and Ava Pauling, partners in marriage as well as a non-romantic and intellectual sense. At one point in their careers, Linus Pauling and the Coris had a friendly competition about who was next to win a Nobel Prize. The letters exchanged between them are available to view in the Linus Pauling collection at the OSU Valley Library. The next OSU theatre production is “The Sugar Wife,” the showing of which will begin in March. Kim Kenny, staff reporter
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Profit over people: State of capitalism today Part 1 of 2 apitalism, both in theory and practice, is immensely successful at creating huge amounts of wealth. That seems to be fairly obvious. However, the creation of wealth does not make it a moral system and the human cost of capitalism needs to be addressed. Another important aspect of capitalism that occurs in both theory and practice is its immorality; capitalism puts the importance of profit and wealth accumulation before the interests and human rights of people, namely the laboring class. This can be seen just by looking at the history of capitalism, starting as recently as the Industrial Revolution in the United States. When the accumulation of profit is the main priority of a society, one can logically infer that the rights and human interests of people are deemed less important. This is by no means a radical statement: Why is minimum wage not enough to live on? Why do we not raise minimum wage to $25 an hour? The answer is obvious. Anyone will tell you, companies would not make any profit. The difficulty for minimum wage workers to live and provide for themselves is not even part of the conversation. Why don’t we bring textile and electronic manufacturing back to the United States? Because
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Tipton So it Goes labor is much cheaper overseas, and this in turn leads to lower prices for the final products. The terrible working conditions of the people, the long hours, dangerous conditions, lack of job security and extraordinarily low wages are rarely brought up. Some may argue that once companies make more money, the profits will trickle down and the workers will make more money and spend more in the marketplace. This in turn would create demand for goods, so other companies create jobs and bring in profit. The problem is companies don’t willingly raise wages. Minimum wage in this country was fought for by the labor movement. People died for minimum wage until it was finally written into law; the “benevolent” corporations did not just hand it over in the interest of raising the bottom line. The labor movement also had to fight to create child labor laws, the 40-hour workweek and safer working conditions, among other things. The reason why these had to be fought for and were not handed over by corporations: profit. Corporations have a vested
interest in keeping wages as low as possible to drastically increase their profit. In a capitalist economy, this is completely logical. The end goal for everyone in society is to make as much money as possible, nevermind the human cost. This is not an issue of the past. According to an AlterNet article on iPhone manufacturing conditions: “Multinational corporations claim innocence about working conditions, but the reality is that sweatshops are inevitable when retailers don’t share their wealth with the people who produce their products. At least a third of the money we spend on a new phone or computer goes directly into the pocket of the retailer. Apple makes even more, averaging a 60 percent profit margin on its products…Only a fraction goes to workers. Take the iPad, for example…Industry analyst iSuppli estimates that Apple spends only $9 on labor for every $499 iPad. That $9 is apparently too expensive, since Foxconn has been taking steps to lower labor costs, first with the inland factories and now with the introduction of a onemillion robot workforce.” Earlier this year, the New York Times released a compilation of articles on the labor practices of China and the production of Apple products. The United States may not have draconian working conditions anymore (that’s not to say working con-
ditions cannot be bad here, just by relative juxtaposition), but terrible working conditions still exist in countries that have massive manufacturing industries, which make a majority of our products. In the NY Times article, “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, the working conditions in Foxconn, the Chinese company where iPhones are assembled, are described: “The facility has 230,000 employees, many working six days a week, often spending up to 12 hours a day at the plant. Over a quarter of Foxconn’s work force lives in company barracks and many workers earn less than $17 a day.” All the while, Apple’s top employees have been fine; “Last fiscal year, Apple’s revenue topped $108 billion, a sum larger than the combined budgets of Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Since 2005… share prices have risen from about $45 to more than $427.” If capitalism worked as it was supposed to, these laborers would be making much more money. The problem is, capitalism is working as it is supposed to: to create as much wealth as humanly possible. Apple is certainly doing that. The assumption that it makes everybody’s lives better however, is false. t
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Letters to the Editor Responses to Feb. 10 column, “Shouldn’t have to tax your way to a healthy weight” by Robert Fix Fat tax not a ban, only a market-based solution
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I would like to know what evidence Mr. Fix provides to demonstrate sugar and fat are not as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco. His arguments against taxes on sugar and fat show no effort on his part to review the scientific literature emerging on how these substances interact with human brain chemistry. First off, let’s address definitions. The “sugar” and the “fat” people consume today hardly qualify as “food” compared to what our ancestors consumed. White sugar, for example, is highly processed: juices are extracted from a plant and boiled down into crystal form with the crystals separated from other extracts. Dr. Bart Hoebel at Princeton University demonstrated how this sugar meets the criteria for an addicting substance based on its impact on the behaviors of rats. The evidence may hold true for some people as well. To be honest, as someone with a history of diabetes on both sides of my family and a childhood of extreme obesity, the prospect of monetary incentives to eat healthy sounds great. It would have helped me on diets to know that eating right was as good for my pocketbook as it was for my body. Second, Mr. Fix’s overall argument seems to imply a sugar tax is a way of telling people what to do, as if they can’t think for themselves. This punctured reasoning lacks a strong theoretical approach. In a market process, prices serve as signals to consumers. Ideally, price equals marginal cost of a good. These researchers basically propose these taxes as an attempt to price-in the social costs of the sugary and fatty foods. If this country wants to provide for its sick, including diabetics, then we should price-in the cost for such care into market goods. Then consumers receive the message, through market pricing, of the true cost of the good they are purchasing. Because the cost could very well be that sometime in the future, that consumer will get sick and place a burden on loved ones and society at large. They should be charged for this burden at the beginning of the process — when they are at the grocery store buying food. This is the idea behind the proposed “cap-and-trade” system for carbon pollution. It’s harsh, but it’s an honest, market-based approach to this problem. This approach will probably do a lot better than what Mr. Fix proposes, where we just let people make their own choices in an imperfect market. So long as we let people make their own choices without charging them the true costs associated with those choices, then they will not have the incentives to make the “optimal” choice for himself, herself or society. Matthew Palm
After reading Robert Fix’s Friday Feb. 10 column “Shouldn’t have to tax your way to a healthy weight,” I felt obligated to point out Mr. Fix’s flaws. While Mr. Fix is certainly entitled to his opinion — calling the idea of taxing unhealthy foods “ludicrous and asinine” — the arguments he presents are still disjointed and misguided at best. Mr. Fix states the problem of obesity stems from a personal choice, rather than the social climate, inferring that personal choices must then also be the solution. He states, “People choose to eat massive amounts of sugar, salt and fat…but that isn’t a reason to go around taxing or banning everything in sight. The reason why it worked with smoking and alcohol is because those caused massive amounts of deaths.” First of all, no one ever said anything about banning, only taxing. Secondly, I was blown away that the author implies that overweight/obesity and poor diet don’t cause massive amounts of deaths. The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease. The leading causes of heart disease? Being overweight/obese and having a poor diet. Obesity is unquestionably the biggest health problem the United States faces today (no pun intended), and attempting to marginalize that fact is what should be considered “ludicrous and asinine.” I also have a hard time swallowing the slippery slope chain of reasoning concerning the possible latent functions of such a tax. Fix says, “Fast food industries definitely won’t be able to sustain themselves.” Assuming this is even true, is that a bad thing? He also states that the productivity levels of workers and college students will decrease due to the lack of availability of sugarenhanced coffee drinks and caffeinated sodas. One must conclude that Fix is actually suggesting a collapse of the entire fast/junk food market — a laughable claim when considering (a) the country’s severe dependence on this market as a food source (given the inelastic demand for food), and (b) the very modest price increase a tax of this nature would bring about. Rather than a sudden crash in the market, this tax would bring about a gradual (though admittedly far from painless) shift from processed, unhealthy foods to raw natural foods — which is exactly what needs to happen. Ultimately the author dislikes the tax because it encroaches on free will (though only superficially), but this view is downright naïve. Should we also retain the free will to choose whether or not to wear seatbelts? Both are issues of life and death, but just because one is more immediately evident does not mean they aren’t equally important. Fix is right about one thing: We shouldn’t have to implement taxes to become healthier. People ought to be able to self-monitor, to change on their own terms. But it’s not about what we should do ideally, as individuals; it’s about what we need to do to affect change. And financial incentives are a time-tested means of altering behavior. Kevin Cruz
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DAVIS, Calif. — The Beavers looked like they were in postseason form Friday night, putting up a season-high of 197.400 in Davis, Calif., defeating Sacramento State (194.175) and University of California, Davis (193.875). It was by far the best performance of the season for the No. 9 Beavers. OSU showed a ton of balance in the meet, scoring more than 49 (out of 50) in vault, balance beam, uneven bars and floor. OSU’s team score of 197.400 tied the fifth highest team score in program history. Momentum accelMakayla Stambaugh erated in the early 9.950 on floor going on the floor, the first time this year Oregon State started a meet on floor. Juniors Makayla Stambaugh and Melanie Jones both scored a 9.950 on floor, and the team had their best team floor score as well. The season highs didn’t stop there as Leslie Mak they followed suit in vault and bars, setting 9.950 on bars/beam team season-highs there too. Senior Leslie Mak scored the second highest all-around mark in OSU history, and also tied her career high of 9.950 on beam. OSU will want to carry over that momentum from the big win to this Friday, as UCLA and Cal come to Corvallis for OSU’s first home meet in three weeks.
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SEATTLE, Wash. — For the first time since the 1994-95 season, the Oregon State women’s basketball program has won six consecutive conference games. The Beavers (17-7, 8-5 Pac-12) beat the University of Washington 68-63 Saturday to complete a road sweep of the schools up north. Junior guard Mollee Schwegler led OSU with 15 points off the bench Saturday and went 4-of-6 from 3-point range. Senior guard Earlysia Marchbanks tallied her fourth double-double of the season, scoring 15 and grabbing a gamehigh 11 boards. Sophomore guard Alyssa Martin (13 points), junior forward Patricia Bright and freshman guard Ali Gibson (12
points apiece) joined Schwegler and Marchbanks in double-figures. Oregon State shot 58.3 percent in the second half (14-for24) to take command of a game that was tied at 34 at halftime. The Huskies (13Mollee Schwegler 10, 5-8) were led 4-for-6 (3-pt FGs) by freshman guard Jazmine Davis, who scored 20 points and hit three 3-pointers in the game’s final minutes to keep UW within striking distance. Two years removed from a 2-16 Pac10 season, OSU now sits alone in third
TEMPE, Ariz. — Through five games, this much can be said about the Oregon State softball team: they sure can swing the bat. OSU (3-2) scored 59 runs in five games to open the 2012 season. The Beavers saw three of their games — all wins — stopped short by the mercy rule. They beat Brigham Young University, Idaho State and Nebraska by a combined score of 49-11. It wasn’t a flawless weekend for the Dani Gilmore orange and black, 8-for-15, HR, 7 RBI however. In the first of backLea Cavestany to-back games Friday, the Beavers battled 7-for-18, 2 HR, 9 RBI back from an early 6-2 deficit but came up a run short in a 9-8 loss to Georgia Tech. Later in the day, OSU lost 3-2 to McNeese State in extra innings. As a team, OSU hit .368 (50-for-136) and pounded 10 balls out of the park on the three-day trip. Pitchers Marina Demore, Paige Hall and Tina Andreana won one game each. Of the trio, Demore saw the most time in the circle, logging 13 innings in four appearances (two starts). sports@dailybarometer.com
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AMES, Iowa — The No. 16 Beaver wrestling team beat Iowa State 27-12, but lost to No. 5 ranked Iowa 22-14 Sunday to finish second in the Midwest regional. Iowa won six of ten matches that included two technical falls to hold off the Beavers. With the victory, Iowa advanced to the National Duals Final Four. No. 4 ranked junior 133-pound Mike Mangrum’s tough overtime 6-4 loss was a turning point in the closely contested dual. Despite the loss, Oregon State fought hard and gave the highly ranked Hawkeyes one of their toughest matches of the season. Redshirt sophomore 157-pound R.J. Pena and redshirt freshman 197-pound Taylor Meeks were bright spots for the Beavers, both recording major decisions. The Beavers started out the day well, winning four straight matches at one point to knock off tournament host Iowa State. John Tuck recorded his fourth pin of the season and Pena earned his nation-leading nineteenth pin of the season to lead the Beavers. With two wins on the day, No. 16 ranked redshirt sophomore 149-pound Scott Sakaguchi joined Mangrum and No. 5 ranked heavyweight Clayton Jack with 30-plus wins on the season. OSU is now off until the start of the Pac-12 Championships Feb. 26 in Boise, Idaho. The Beavers are the odds-on favorite to win the tournament. If the Beavers take care of business at the Pac-12 Championships, they will travel to St. Louis for the NCAA Championships. The Beavers will try to improve on last season’s 21st place finish.
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place in the conference standings with five regular season games remaining. The Beavers return to Gill Coliseum this week for their final two home contests of the regular season. They’ll host No. 4 Stanford University Earlysia Marchbanks Thursday at 7 p.m. 15 points and California Saturday at 2 p.m. Stanford is undefeated in Pac-12 play, while the Golden Bears reside in second in the conference standings.
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For the second game in a row, the Beavers wasted a solid outing by Jared Cunningham, who has scored 56 points in the past two games combined.
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Robinson pleased with the effort, but Oregon State isn’t able to make the plays down the stretch By Alex Crawford The Daily Barometer
The Huskies were coming off a 25-point drubbing down in Eugene and needed a win in order to keep pace in the Pac-12 title hunt. The Beavers were just trying to keep their dimming hopes a of tophalf Pac-12 finish alive. Although Oregon State made a valiant effort against the University of Washington (20-6, 10-3 Pac-12), the Beavers fell to the Huskies 75-72 Sunday in front of the biggest crowd of the year at Gill Coliseum. Despite the loss, which keeps them in a tie for eighth place in the Pac-12 — a far cry from their high expectations at the start of conference play — coach Craig Robinson remained very positive after the game. “I felt like this was a turning point for us and I am hoping that they feel the same way that I do,” Robinson said. “That effort against Washington, who I think is the best team in this league and the most talented, to be able to stick with them and fight and execute our game plan was great.” After Thursday night’s lackluster loss to Washington State University, Beaver Nation was happy to see the Beavers competing and being more aggressive against a very good team. Clearly everyone would have been more happy with a win, but it is evident that the young Beavers need one more year before they will truly be an elite team. The most notable improvement from Thursday’s game came from the team’s leading rebounder, Eric Moreland, who didn’t grab a single board against the Cougars. Moreland
finished with nine rebounds, six points and five blocks Sunday. “I can’t come out and play like [I did on Thursday] so I wanted to make sure I came out with much more energy and I wanted to make sure I came out more aggressive today and try to help the team as much as I could,” Moreland said. After a spill of Dippin’ Dots on the court at the 16:33 mark of the second half delayed the game for nearly 10 minutes, the Beavers went cold and didn’t score a field goal for over six minutes of game time. It may have appeared that the long delay sapped the Beavers of some of their momentum, but Robinson didn’t think so. “I thought we had a fantastic crowd and they were behind us the whole time and as soon as the game resumed they were just as loud as they had been before,” Robinson said. “I thought that given how intense the game, I would have had to give Jared (Cunningham) a rest and Ahmad (Starks) a rest in that second half. They were given a chance to rest without having to come out of the game (because of the delay).” This game was a microcosm of the Beavers season. A few different ball bounces — if one or two things happening differently — the Beavers are in an entirely different place in their season right now. Beaver Nation can be happy with the effort and realize that this team is like a beautiful flower that has yet to fully bloom but at the same time it is frustrating to see a team with such potential lose so many close games. Knowing this squad, Robinson and the Beavers won’t dwell on this loss. With two tough road games coming up, the Beavers need to learn from this defeat and move on one day at a time. JOHN ZHANG | THE DAILY BAROMETER “I think coach is happy with the Eric Moreland, who finished with nine rebounds and five blocks, battles two Huskies for a loose ball Sunday. See MEN’S BASKETBALL | page 7
Saturday (Seattle, Wash.) OSU 68, UW 63 1st 2nd Total OSU 34 44 78 UW 34 39 73 OSU statistics: Marchbanks: 15 pts, 11 rebounds, 4 assists Schwegler: 15 pts (4-for-6, 3-pt FGs) Martin: 13 pts, 6 rebounds UW statistics: Davis: 20 pts (4-for-8, 3-pt FGs) Rogers: 16 pts, 7 rebounds
Gymnastics Friday (The Pavilion) (8) OSU 197.400, Sacramento State 194.175, UC-Davis 193.875 Top OSU Participants Vault: Blalock (1st, 9.925), Mak (2nd, 9.875) Bars: Mak (1st, 9.950), Stambaugh (2nd, 9.925), Vivian (3rd, 9.875) Beam: Mak (1st, 9.925), Jones (2nd, 9.900) Floor: Stambaugh/Jones (T1st, 9.950), Mak (3rd, 9.900) All-Around: Mak (1st, 39.675), Stambaugh (2nd, 39.375)
Softball Thursday-Saturday (Tempe, Ariz.) OSU 22, BYU 5 OSU 16, Idaho St. 3 Georgia Tech 9, OSU 8 McNeese St. 3, OSU 2 OSU 11, Nebraska 3 +OSU statistics: Gilmore: 8-for-15, HR, 7 RBI Bouska: 7-for-15, 2 HR, 6 RBI Cavestany: 7-for-18, 2 HR, 9 RBI Also noteworthy: Senior Laura Carlyle, one of 13 Beavers to compete at the Husky Classic, set a school record in the mile with a time of 4:41.61.