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Downtown business sells colorful merchandise, offers fashionable design

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Jessica Klein, OSU alumna, owns and operates Mod Pod, located in downtown Corvallis, with her parents.

Like the Willamette River, Mod Pod’s eclectic style can’t be contained. The local business’ flavor is visible to all who pass by its Northwest Second Street locale from behind stylish metal doors and through gauze-curtained windows.

“It is colorful and fun, some retro, some contemporary; it’s just kind of a mix of functional too,” said Jessica Klein.

Klein, who graduated from Oregon State University eight years ago, owns Mod Pod along with her parents Heidi Henry and Paul Buchheit.

Klein added, “The opportunity just came to open the store.”

According to Klein, Mod Pod, which started in June of 2009, is different from other shops. She explains this as “the array of fun items ... you won’t find anywhere else in Corvallis.”

Depending on the season, jewelry, artwork, pillows, and other merchandise from local suppliers are featured in the shop. From flamingos to pillows, cards to jewelry, furniture to lamps,

Black Cultural Center prepares for transitions The Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center talks through current challenges, heritage through Black History Month

tion rates of black students, provide a safe place for all students, develop and promote events where diversity is valued and the Corvallis community can discover black heritage.

“The BCC isn’t exclusive to black students,” said Earlean Wilson Huey,

By Ryan Dawes a member of Intercultural Student The Daily Barometer Services. “Anybody can use the cenOregon State University cultural ter. People can come here to use any centers provide opportunities for of our resources and to learn about individuals of diverse backgrounds black culture and history. It’s open and to mingle and learn more about each welcome to all.” other. For over 30 years, the Lonnie The BCC is hosting several events in B. Harris Black Cultural Center has spirit of Black History Month. Events played a large role in this endeavor.

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Last night, the Associated Students of Oregon State University Senate reviewed two resolutions for the First Year Experience bill, and for tuition assistance understanding with the US Department of Defense.

The Senate barely made quorum.

Senators Tyler Hogan, Madison Parker and Terra Setzler were at work in the Student and Incidental Fee Committee open hearing.

Matthew Busse, Varsity House presi-

dent, and other students in Greek life asserted their support of the bill, calling for more discussions between ASOSU, Greek life and co-operative housing.

During the Feb. 5 Senate meeting, Larry Roper, vice provost of student affairs, mentioned students who lived in residence halls have maintained higher graduation rates than those who did not. Busse followed up this comment, making a case for a first year experience in Greek life.

“The reason for higher graduation rates in [residence halls] has been linked to a better focus on academic success and community,” Busse said.

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Mod Pod sells an array of items including jewelry, artwork and pillows among other items.

Mod Pod

Where: 115 NW 2nd St Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Mod Pod has a variety of colorful merchandise. Even Fatboy beanbags are among the merchandise sold at the shop. The bags come in many dif-

ferent colors, and are small enough for dorm rooms.

“They don’t shrink down in size,” Klein said. “They’re very sturdy.”

The merchandise in the store is priced and scaled to “smaller-size living.”

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Student organizations join to create and donate recycled crafts to local nonprofits

By Lara von Linsowe-Wilson The Daily Barometer

Oregon State University Campus Recycling paired up with the Center for Civic Engagement Tuesday to host their Recycled Craft N’ Care event, a donation event for nonprofit organizations in the Corvallis area.

The goal of the event was to teach participants the ways people can craft through reuse while giving back to the community, giving useful purpose to many items otherwise tossed in the dump. Although the majority of the crafts made were donated to local shelters, recycled cards and stickers were also available for students to decorate and take home to the people they care about.

“The crafts made by the CCE are going to be donated to local organizations who have asked us to spread some cheer to their residents,” said sophomore Samara Rufener, internal coordinator for the CCE. This is Rufener’s first year working for the CCE, and she is currently in charge of planning service and care events for the group.

Although many of the students involved with sustainability groups around campus are in environmental degree programs, there are also countless students from other interest areas who choose to volunteer as well.

Steven Burress is an electrical engineering major who decided to help out at the Craft N’ Care event this week to earn extra credit for his 300 level geoscience class.

“I decided to come support the event because I think it is important to reach out to the community and help the environment, and one way to do this is through recycling,” Burress said.

The Corvallis Manor, Home Life Inc. and the Grace Center for Adult Day Services were among the organizations receiving the crafts, including handcrafted decorations for Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras and the Chinese New Year — all made from recycled materials.

The Corvallis Manor is a local nursing facility sponsored through the Pinnacle Healthcare group that is committed to meeting the needs of their elderly residents and the families they serve each year. In addition to their Corvallis location, the organization also sponsors facilities in Eugene, Grants Pass, Medford, Roseburg and Woodburn.

The second group receiving crafts, Home Life Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization which provides safe,

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Steve Burress, a senior in electrical engineering, creates a dragon made from egg cartons to celebrate the Chinese New Year. integrated community living services for purpose of enhancing the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities. Home Life Inc. has roots dating all the way back to the 1970s, and they have since grown to fill several properties and service centers throughout Benton County.

The Grace Center for Adult Day Care operates under their mission to, “provide comprehensive quality services to meet the adult day care needs in [the Corvallis] community,” according to the organization’s official webpage.

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SIFC approves budgets, waits for clearance from the ASOSU Congress

By Ricky Zipp The Daily Barometer

The Student Incidental Fee Committee passed all budgets Tuesday night during its final open hearing.

The open hearing allowed organizations to speak about their proposed budgets, make any last minute statements or have members of the public show support and testify.

The extended meeting went through 15 budgets. While there were a few discussions held and momentary recesses to gather further information, most of the committee members were satisfied with first round of presentations and had nothing else to add.

The three major organizations discussed were Diversity Development, Our Little Village and ASOSU, who presented supporters from the public and discussion over readjustments of funding by the committee members.

Our Little Village, who asked for an increase of 15 cents per student, stressed the uniqueness of their services and the importance of a slight increase to maintain their current service level.

Joshua Sexton, a junior at OSU and a father, shared his support for the campus

program. Sexton spent $7,000 dollars on childcare last year as a student. He said the increase in funding is minimal, at a total of funding of $4.38 while athletics is receiving funding upwards of $40.

Other parents testified in front of the committee showing their support for Our Little Village and gave their stories; everything from an increase by $400 in childcare just by moving to Corvallis, to a decrease in stress which not only helps the OSU community, but the personal lives of student parents.

“The changes made are great,” committee member and ASOSU Senator Tyler Hogan said. “[There is] a small increase but you are still doing the same things.”

ASOSU’S budget was the next gaining lots of attention.

Many have been made as co-chairman of the ways and means committee, Matthew Palm, joked about this being the 30th one created.

No major problems were seen between proposed funding and past expenditures.

However, a recess was held to figure the discrepancy in $17,000 of extra funding that would be there at the end of the year. ASOSU proposed increases to Safe Ride funding, Human Services Resource Center funding and travel budgets for legislative related work including conventions on the East Coast.

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After meeting for about 10 said SIFC chairman Brad minutes in recess, the SIFC Alvarez. “You don’t see so decided to drop the initial many students come out in tentative funding of $19.15 — support of a budget … it already down from the previ- puts a face to the words and ous year of $20.42 — to $18.87 numbers.” per student per term. This The motion was placed by funding will be for fall, winter committee member Madison and spring terms. Summer Parker for the full $14.30 for term saw a drop in funding as fall, winter and spring up well from $12.50 to $6.72 but from the tentative $12.82. upon questioning members, A budget note for further ASOSU said it was for the lack conversations regarding an of services offered over sum- increase of $18,000 in other mer compared to fall, winter expenses was made with posand spring. sible reallocation to the Diversity other culDevelopment tural centers also had their on campus. showing.

This decision The main passed unandiscussion imously. was over the This is new Native not the last American step for the Longhouse’s proposed need for a SIFC budfull time Brad Alvarez get. These professional SIFC Chairman recommenemployee dations will who can act as a mentor and relieve the now move to the joint sesstress that students are feel- sion of the House and Senate ing on a daily basis by being next Wednesday, Feb. 20 in overextended by their work. the Memorial Union lounge During public testimony where they will be presented another nine speakers spoke and approved or disapproved in support of the proposal, by ASOSU. After that they will move onto and asked those in the room who are also in support of the President Ed Ray who has final hiring of a full time employee. authority in the matter. According The majority of the room, to Alvarez, Ray has never rejected 15-20 students and faculty, a proposal by SIFC. stood up in support.

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Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and Black Student Union, 4-5:30pm, Snell 427, Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center. Love Jones with BSU. Pride Center, Noon-1pm, Pride Center.

Book Club: reading “Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious” by Chris Stedman. The book explains how he went from a closeted gay evangelical Christian to an “out” atheist and humanist.

Pride Center, 10am-7pm, Pride Center.

Make cards for partners of the same, or different, gender.

SOL: LGBT Multicultural Support Network, 5-7pm, Pride Center. This Game is so Gay! Learn about gayming and discuss recent LGBT themes in games while playing Xbox.

English Student Association, 7pm, Moreland 330. Showing Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” followed by a discussion led by Professor David Robinson.

Thursday, Feb. 14 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Foundations of Civility - Devotions and discussion on the spiritual basis for civility.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107.

General meeting.

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and SOL Multicultural Support Network, 5-7pm, MU East/Snell Kitchen. Chocolate Truffle Workshop.

Pride Center, 10am-7pm, Pride Center.

Make cards for partners of the same, or different, gender.

Centro Cultural César Chávez, 5-7pm, Native American Longhouse.

Interactive activities, Q&A and free cupcakes! Our guest speaker will be Kathy Greaves and activities led by M.A.R.S. Pride Center, 5-7pm, Pride Center.

Speed Friending! A lot can happen in three minutes. Meet people from OSU and Corvallis. Food and drinks provided.

Friday, Feb. 15 Events

range from a chocolate truffle workshop, to a discussion on how the Black community is portrayed in the media and a seminar on the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Eleven events total were planned for this month, the largest of them being the Black History Month Dinner on Feb. 26, 7-9 p.m. in the Memorial Union ballroom.

“There’s lots of food and great performances by other groups on campus,” said Dominique Austin, graduate teaching assistant for the BCC. “It is a time for everyone to come together and to celebrate Black History Month.”

Along with Black History Month, another task for the BCC is building a new center significantly larger and better than the current one. The BCC plans to sell the old building and have it moved off the building site it’s on. Then the new building will be constructed where the BCC now stands.

“The new building will be great,” said Yohana Abraham, a junior in Public Health. “We’ll take advantage of the larger facility, such as having larger events hosted there, such as pre-Kwanza and Black History Month Dinner.”

With the construction preparing to commence, the BCC has moved out of the old building on Monroe Street and are temporarily relocated in Snell 427.

“Unfortunately our attendance has fallen with the move,” Austin said. “To fix this, we’re really trying to make it a point that we’ve been temporarily relocated until the new building is complete.”

The BCC’s old building has officially been on campus since 1975.

Discrimination against black students on campus in the late 1960s prompted the Black Student Union to protest and

OSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la Carte: Kate Hamilton, viola and David Oliver, piano.

Lyrical works from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Rainbow Continuum, 6-9pm, MU Basement. Rainbowl. Free LGBTQ social & bowling event. Competitions, prizes and resource tabling!

Saturday, Feb. 16 Events International Students of OSU and INTO OSU, 6pm, Milam Auditorium.

A Cultural Affair, a free multicultural showcase of international and cultural peformance, art and song.

Monday, Feb. 18 Events

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The Black Cultural Center will sell its current building (pictured above), erecting a new building on the same site.

Campus Recycling, all day, all OSU Residence Halls. Residence Halls EcoChallenge Month. Choose 3 environmental pledges. Through March 1.

Vegans and Vegetarians @ OSU, 10am-2pm, MU Quad. Free cookies and jerky! We would love if you sign our petition.

Tuesday, Feb. 19 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211

boycott against the university. In 1969, 25 black students actually withdrew because of discriminatory acts, and in response to this and other discrimination, the Office of Minority Affairs was created in 1970.

Five years later, the BCC, formerly known as the Black Student Union Cultural Center, was opened. The BCC was renamed after Lonnie B. Harris, the first director of the Educational Opportunities Program, which played an important role in the eventual founding of the BCC. BCC members aim to increase the retention rates of black students, which is

currently at 38 percent. To help with this, every Tuesday night the center makes study tables available in the library from 7-9 p.m. Every Thursday, the center hosts a social night in the BCC from 7-9 p.m. to help make black students feel involved.

“We’re here to support black students, provide a place for anyone to hang out regardless of who they are and spread cultural awareness,” Abraham said. “That’s how we help the campus community.”

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Service of Ashes & Contemplation Ash Wednesday, February 13 ~ 12:30 or 7 p.m.

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Speakers Women Returning to Higher Education, 12:30-2pm, MU Journey Room.

Lecture: Balancing School and Life with Dr. Jackie Alvarez, Director of Counseling & Psychological Services.

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 5-7pm, Snell 424, 4Cs. History of NAACP. Learn about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organization.

IFCS - Interfaith Community Services, Noon-1:30pm, Snell Hall Kitchen.

Bag-It Better Together. Bring your own lunch. Serving OSU Emergency Food Pantry.

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etween the sweat, the blood, making weight and the combat that is the sport, we know wrestlers are a tough bunch.

But the International Olympic Committee announced yesterday wrestling will no longer be a part of the Olympic Games starting in 2020.

This is a travesty and a bad decision on the part of the committee — one that should be reconsidered.

Wrestling might not be the flashiest, the most exciting or the most modern of the events contested in the Olympics. While other sports come and go and new ones attract our attention, wrestling has been a part of the Olympics since ancient times. It’s been one of the earliest events contested by the ancient Greeks alongside races, the long jump, discus and javelin, and it has been a part of every modern Olympic Games.

The mental and physical discipline required of athletes in a sport that doesn’t get the same sort of glory and attention as football or baseball shows these athletes are deserving of their day of glory during the Olympic Games. They are putting in hard work in order to be good at their sport, not because they are going to get recognized at Impulse or Qdoba, or because they are trying to go pro and earn a huge contract, but because they are dedicated to a sport that isn’t easy, that demands mental toughness and doesn’t tolerate the weak of spirit.

We know the hard work wrestlers put into their sport, from children rolling around on mats to the nationally ranked Oregon State wrestling squad, which the Barometer sports writers named as the Best OSU sports team for the 2011-12 academic year. A wrestling match may only last six minutes, but anyone who has gone that long on the mats knows those six minutes can be among the longest of your life, leaving you drained and breathless.

Which is exactly why we don’t understand why the IOC would ignore the tradition of wrestling, its place in both the ancient and modern games, and the centrality of the Olympic Games within the sport. Taking wrestling out of the Olympics is like getting rid of the Super Bowl or the World Cup — it would be devastating for the sport.

The decision appears to be motivated by the IOC’s desire to attract younger viewers. Possible replacements for wrestling include rollerblading, wake boarding and rock climbing.

Seriously, rollerblading?

It’s pace can be plodding for sure, but there is something primal and basic about wrestling that is attractive and should solidify its place at the Games. It is just one man against another, using his strength and wits to pin his opponent to the mat. There is nothing else, just two men and a clock and the desire to be the one with his arm raised at the end of the match.

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f you have been reading the Barometer, receiving timely warnings from the Oregon State Police in your inbox or simply overhearing the murmur around campus regarding the recent assaults, no doubt you, like us, would like to broaden the conversation. You, like us, may want the discourse to address the rape-normative culture in which we live, include information on the reality of non-stranger sexual assaults, and provide education about healthy, consensual relationships.

Rape culture is a term to describe the culture we live in where rape and sexual violence are common occurrences, and where everyday phenomena such as attitudes, norms, practices, and media validate, normalize, perpetuate and even condone rape. What this looks like: • When we laugh at sexist jokes, we perpetuate rape culture.

• When we say things like “that test just raped me,” we are perpetuating rape culture.

• When we tolerate sexual harassment and cat calls, we perpetuate rape culture.

• Whenever porn is tolerated, rape culture is perpetuated.

• Whenever we focus on stranger assault alone, we perpetuate rape culture.

• When we blame victims (she asked for it, short skirt, etc.), we perpetuate rape culture.

• When we teach women to avoid getting raped instead of teaching men not to rape, we perpetuate rape culture.

What we know to be true is that one in three women will experience some form of intimate partner violence or

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Guest Column sexual assault in her lifetime. What we know to be true is that rape is a crime committed against all genders, but most survivors and victims are women and most perpetrators are male. What we know to be true is that women between the ages of 16-24 experience rape at rates four times higher than the rate for all women.

What we know to be true is that the majority of assaults are committed by individuals who are known to the survivor or victim.

Yes, rape is bad. However, regrettably, it is an extremely common occurrence, and unfortunately many people don’t fully understand what constitutes rape. So let’s talk about what rape is.

• Rape is unwanted sex.

• Rape is using force to get sex.

• Rape is pressuring someone into having sex.

• Rape is creating an environment of fear so someone doesn’t feel safe to say no to sex.

• Rape is getting someone intoxicated to “loosen them up” for sex.

• Rape is rape no matter what.

On the flip side, we advocate for enthusiastic consent. So let’s talk about what consent looks like.

• Consent is a voluntary, sober, imaginative, enthusiastic, creative, wanted, informed, mutual, honest and verbal agreement.

• Consent is an active agreement — consent cannot be coerced.

• Consent is a process, which must be asked for every step of the way. If

you want to move to the next level of sexual intimacy, just ask.

• Consent is never implied and cannot be assumed, even in the context of a relationship. Just because you are in a relationship doesn’t mean you have permission to have sex with your partner.

Sometimes it’s hard to get information out about local services available to survivors and their loved ones, so we will attempt to give a very short overview of support available within our community.

The Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence is a local organization that provides many free confidential support services for both survivors and support people, and has a 24 hour hotline (541-754-0110 or 800-927-0197).

Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS), which is housed in Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), provides free confidential support for OSU students of all genders who have experienced any form of unwanted sexual contact or relationship violence (541-737-7604).

Student Health Services offers a fully integrated Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program to support students who are survivors of sexual assault. This is a confidential service; students do not have to report assaults in order to have an examination. Most services are free or include a minimal charge (541-737-9355).

If you are an individual who would like to learn more about bystander intervention, please contact Carrie Giese at Student Health Services (541-737-7880).

If you are a male identified indi-

vidual who would like to learn more ways you can support the movement to end violence, including rape and sexual assault in our community, please contact Nick Daily at Men’s Development and Engagement (nicholes.daily@oregonstate.edu).

If you would like to learn more about rape and sexual violence, or would like to host a student led workshop on these issues through the group Every1, please contact Carrie Giese at Student Health Services (541-737-7880).

If you are a survivor of rape, sexual assault or intimate partner violence, know that you are not alone. If you are a survivor of rape, sexual assault or intimate partner violence, know that we believe you and support you in your process of recovery. If you are a survivor of rape, sexual assault or intimate partner violence, know that no matter what happened, it was not your fault. If you are a survivor of rape, sexual assault or intimate partner violence, know that we know you are an incredibly strong person for surviving.

As the poet and social activist Meridel LeSuer so rightfully said, “survival is a form of resistance.”

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Steven Christian is a senior in interdisciplinary studies.

As technology advances, communications will become the new technical degree

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t’s no secret a degree in speech communications has a stigma attached to it. Some see it as only a degree that allows people to get through college quickly, while others see it as “just another Liberal Arts degree.” These may have been the case for the last decade or two, but it won’t be that way for much longer.

For the last couple of decades, engineering has been one of the leading successful degrees. Between the Bureau of Labor and Statistic’s report of more than $70,000 median pay — almost $100,000 for computer engineers — and the seemingly endless possibility of career choices, what’s not to love about an engineering degree?

Unfortunately, this surge in technological advancement our engineers catalyze is making science and technology less mysterious, and simple communication more-so.

I’ve previously addressed the clear degradation of communication in the forms of texting and using the word “like” multiple times in every sentence. These trends are shallow representations of Americans’ inability to communicate face-to-face.

We see the signs all around us, no matter where we go. From the phone

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The weekly rant - @RantsWeekly zombies walking around campus, to the dwindling participation rates in classes, it’s clear an increasing population of today’s young adults do not want to talk.

Yesterday, I was walking by a park with children playing, and one little boy was sitting on the bench playing on a phone, while all of the other kids were playing tag. A parent who allows a child to avoid a social opportunity is just mind blowing.

This lack of communication isn’t going to get better, or even stay the same, it’s only going to get worse. As time goes on, technology advances and more social networks are invented. People will find more excuses to avoid face-to-face conversations.

Children will even find themselves in isolation at younger ages. I’m honestly waiting for the day when children can get an entire standardized K-12 education on the computer — which is not that far off.

The reality of this issue is we’re never going to be able to overcome “face time” completely. Interviews, while increasingly being done over the phone — although usually only to precede an in-person interview — are never going to become a texting conversation. A relationship with a partner can’t be sustained through texting. Most jobs still require some sort of human interaction. But knowing all of this, we still push for focusing on the sciences, so less people are learning effective speech communication.

Erin Gallagher is an assistant professor of speech communications at OSU. She specializes in communication in organizations and the workplace. I asked her about college graduate’s abilities to interview for potential employment.

“Graduates today are having to get more specialized training for interviews than students 20 years ago,” Gallagher said.

When asked about the effects of texting becoming so popular, she brought up conflicts in and out of the workplace.

“We already have trouble dealing with conflicts, and texting is only making the process more difficult,”

she said.

As a result of these discrepancies, communication majors are moving up the ladder of desire. According to the “Hard Times” report, communication undergraduates are at a 7.4 percent unemployment rate and graduates at 6.3 percent. This is under the 9 percent national average of college graduates, making communication one of the few liberal arts degrees to bring that average down.

The degree is only going to become more desirable as graduates of other degrees enter the employment world with limited communication skills, and employers find themselves having to bring in experts. A recent article on Yahoo, by Terence Loose, ranked it as the second most “loved” degree. Give it five to 10 years, and communications may become the new engineering degree. In a world where everyone understands the technology, but can’t hold a faceto-face conversation for long, it just might happen. t

Alexander Vervloet is a senior in communications.

The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Vervloet can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com or on Twitter @Rantsweekly.

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Patricia Bright of the Oregon State’s women’s basketball team has played her way to a prestigious reputation, but you wouldn’t guess it from talking to her.

The senior post player had a monstrous junior season in 2011-12. She dominated the paint defensively and registered the second-highest block total in Pac-12 history. She swatted 115 shots that season, and averaged a whopping 3.5 per game.

For her efforts, Bright was named a Pac-12 All-Defense and All-Pac-12 honorable mention by the coaches and media. She was taken by surprise and stayed humble when this was revealed to her last year.

“I don’t think anything of national [recognition] or nothing,” Bright said.

“I feel like it’s just politics. I’m not really worried about national titles, blocked shots, Pac-12, this and that.”

Politics or not, Bright has earned the interest of the WNBA.

this year.

Two days after the Beavers fell to LSU in 10 innings to end their season, I wrote this in a column: “Mark my words, from this day, June 5, 2012, Oregon State University will be playing at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., a little over a year from now.”

Eight months later, I still feel confident in those words.

Apparently, the preseason polls were thinking the same thing. The Beavers come in at No. 6 by Baseball America.

The bar has been set.

So how does a team manage to hold lofty expectations in check before the season has even started?

By being pragmatic.

“It is just a preseason ranking,” said junior left hander Ben Wetzler. “Look at the football rankings this year, it didn’t really show where the teams ended up. USC was No. 1 and finished out of the top 25. Notre Dame started unranked.”

Head coach Pat Casey certainly doesn’t want the preseason adornment to make his players overconfident.

“I’ll wait and see how things progress, but at this point I’m not quite as impressed with them as Baseball America,” Casey said at media day on Jan. 30.

There is something to the ranking of sixth in the nation. The Beavers return eight of nine batters in the lineup.

Senior outfielder Ryan Barnes did undergo hand surgery last Wednesday though, and is expected to miss four to five weeks.

The rotation brings back two starters who broke out in 2012, Wetzler and junior Dan Child. Both pitched more

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Her numbers this season may not be as impressive as they were a year ago, but her 2.1 blocks per game during Pac-12 play is still the highest rate in the league, and she is playing well enough to garner some national attention.

Draftsite.com has her ranked as the No. 39 prospect in her draft class.

Thirty-six names will be called on draft night in April.

“I didn’t even know that,” Bright said.

“That’s crazy. You shocked me.”

However, if it came down to it, Bright likely wouldn’t play in the WNBA at all.

“Overseas is a possibility I want to start thinking about,” she said. “The WNBA is just — I don’t think it’s for me.”

The anthropology major isn’t looking to chase stardom.

Instead, she is pursuing a fulfilling career, which she believes could be found in playing basketball professionally overseas. If she were to do this, she would follow the footsteps of former OSU basketball players El Sara Greer and Earlysia Marchbanks. Both of them have found success playing in Europe.

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Times are tough for the Oregon State men’s basketball team right now.

The Beavers’ last five losses have come by single digits, and if they want to get another one of those elusive wins, it is going to have to come on the road against a team that has already beaten them this season.

After falling just short of the Cougars, 81-78, back on Jan. 26, the Beavers (12-12, 2-9 Pac-12) look to win the rematch against WSU (11-13, 2-9) in Pullman, Wash., tonight.

Various comments made by OSU players and head coach Craig Robinson recently should illustrate how they are feeling.

At last week’s press conference,

junior guard Roberto Nelson and senior forward Joe Burton made a point of saying that the Beavers were not a desperate team.

This week, Robinson wanted to assure the media present that he wasn’t suicidal.

“I’ll start off by thanking everyone who’s been calling, texting or emailing me to try and talk me off the ledge, but I’m actually not on a ledge,” Robinson said. “I feel like we’re playing well, but we’re just not doing some things at the end of the game.”

The Beavers haven’t won in Pullman since Feb. 14, 2009, during Robinson’s first year in Corvallis, and Washington State has won six of their last seven meetings.

“I don’t like that term, ‘having OSU’s number,’” Robinson said. “They’ve had our number, [it’s] sort of situational, but sometimes it’s just they way we’ve played against them.”

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Q: Favorite place to eat in Corvallis?

A: Mongolian Grill downtown. I probably go there once a week.

Q: Favorite activity in Corvallis?

A: There’s not a lot of options, but in the summer I like to float the river.

Q: Least favorite class you’ve taken at OSU? A: It’s up in the air between anatomy and physics. Physics because I had to take it twice.

Q: Biggest clown on the wrestling team?

A: It was [former OSU wrestler]

Clayton [Jack]. Now that he’s gone I’ll say Mike Mangrum.

Q: If you could date any Oregon State athlete who would it be?

A: I don’t know, can I pass? That’s tough. I don’t even know who’s available.

Q: Best friend that’s an athlete not on the wrestling team?

A: Clayton York [Fullback on the football team].

Q: Sport you’d play if you weren’t wrestling at OSU? A: I’d like to give it a shot at football, but I think I’m pretty good at basketball too.

Q: What position would you play?

A: I’d play tight end for football and point guard for basketball. I’ve got the handles.

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both worlds,” Bright said. “If I go overseas, I have the chance to actually view a different culture and play basketball. It’s win-win. I’ll go anywhere I can play basketball and get a culture shock.”

There is no doubt Bright could handle a change of scenery.

She has already spent significant stretches of time in different cities in the United States. She grew up in Phoenix, Ariz. When she graduated high school, Bright chose to play ball at Midland College in Texas.

“When I got there, I was like, ‘Whoa, this is the middle of nowhere,’” she said. “It was a great school, but not the school for me.”

After Midland College, she transferred again. This time it was Pensacola College in Florida.

“Better year, better program, better environment for me,” she said.

It took a trip to the NJCAA Tournament with Pensacola before Bright met with Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck, who recruited her to Oregon State.

At the tournament, Bright led Pensacola to a third-place finish. They lost to a North Idaho team spearheaded by future teammate ShaKiana Edwards-Teasley.

“I came [to OSU] on my visit, looked at the feel and I just knew they cared,” Bright said. “I needed a program that would work with people, who would care ­— just full-on effort. And I felt that Oregon State brought that.”

The women’s basketball program at OSU is tightly knit.

Bright is a big reason for that; it’s unanimous who the funniest player on the team is.

“The funniest person on our team is probably Patricia Bright,” said freshman forward Samantha Siegner. “She’s just always doing something kind of crazy, and she always has

something to say.”

Even in the face of a string of six consecutive losses, an ankle injury, and another string of losses, Bright remains positive.

She even lost her starting position since the beginning of the year.

Instead of her and Edwards-Teasley holding down the frontcourt, it’s freshman forward Deven Hunter starting alongside Edwards-Teasley.

There is no animosity between the senior and the freshman, though.

“Me and Patricia have a good relationship,” Hunter said, “We’re teammates, we talk, we laugh. In the locker room we’re friends, and off the court we’re friends.”

This season has certainly been the most challenging of Bright’s collegiate career. After a remarkable 11-win turnaround a year ago, the Beavers are struggling. OSU is currently 9-15 and sitting at No. 11 in the Pac-12.

That hasn’t hindered Bright’s composure.

“There are times when you could feel down on yourself,” Bright said. “But you’ve got to know it’s just basketball. You’ve just got to know that the effort that you bring is going to be rewarded in some way. I don’t think there are times when I’m down, but there are times that I’m doubtful, which I think is something I still need to work on.”

Bright’s basketball career at Oregon State will be over in a matter of weeks, as it does not look like the team has a postseason tournament to look forward to.

Perhaps it is not the most fitting final season for such a dominant defensive force, but Bright’s records will stand long after she has moved on and her personality will certainly not be forgotten.

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than 100 innings and had under 3.00 earned run averages.

The biggest blow to the team is losing Jace Fry, who underwent Tommy John surgery on his elbow after injuring it in the game against Belmont in regionals. The word certainty is never associated with Tommy John, but Fry expects to be back toward the end of the regular season — right in time for the postseason.

Expectations are being kept in check, but it isn’t easy.

“Looking at the polls, it’s tough to keep it out of your mind,” said senior shortstop Tyler Smith. “But we always need to get better. We have really high expectations of ourselves.”

The 2012 season ended on a gut-wrenching loss — a two-run lead blown in the final three innings, the go-ahead run scoring on a wild pitch and a scoreless ninth inning sent the Beavers packing from Baton Rouge, La. That loss eight months ago is exactly where this season — and a team ready to prove itself — begins its journey to get to Omaha.

“As soon as that game was over, we vowed to ourselves that we didn’t want to have that feeling again,” Wetzler said.

OSU making an Omaha run is an easier sell than going to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Corvallis right now. That’s saying a lot if you’ve been there on a weekend night.

“We just have so much experience, so much coming back from last year,” said Second Team All-American outfielder Michael Conforto. “We know how it feels to lose in a heart-crushing game. We bonded over that.

There’s just a feeling, I guess, that you can’t really explain that it’s going to happen. We all feel it.”

“It” being the Holy Grail of college baseball: the College World Series in Omaha.

Aside from Conforto’s obscene numbers at the plate as a true freshman (.349, 13 HRs, 76 RBIs, 1.039 on-base plus slugging percentage), there’s nothing that jumps off the page about the Beavers.

There’s also, more importantly, nothing

is the third leading scorer in the Pac-12, with 18.1 points per game and, like his team, has OSU’s number. He had 20 points and 10 rebounds against OSU last time they played.

Sophomore forward Eric Moreland guarded Motum most of the last game, and he said limiting Motum was going to be a big factor if the Beavers want to win.

“I don’t know what coach is going to do with that situation this time, but when I do get on him, I just [will have] to sacrifice some blocks and rebounds to stay with Motum because you can’t leave him,” Moreland said.

Looking for their third Pac-12 win of the season, the Beavers were leading Colorado for most of the second half on Sunday until turnovers killed them. They finished the game with 21 turnovers, including four in the final four minutes.

“I can’t remember the last time I had a game with 21 turnovers, but I probably lost that game by about 30,” Robinson said.

In fact, the Beavers had 20 turnovers back on Nov. 15 against Alabama and only lost by three points. Junior forward Devon Collier said turnovers are the key to an OSU victory on Wednesday. “[We just need to] limit our turnovers, and we’ve been playing good defense recently,” Collier said. “[It’s] just the little mess-ups that we’ve been having. We’ve just got to polish them up and we’ll be good,” Collier said.

Collier — averaging 13.5 on 51.3 percent field goal percentage — has been quiet for OSU recently, scoring a combined 14 points on 6-18 shooting over the last two games.

“If my offense is not going I just can’t limit my game,” Collier said. “That means I’ve got to pick up my defense even more if my offense is not going,” Collier said “These past games I’ve been playing good, I’ve just got to pick up my defense if my offense is not going.”

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jumping off the page in a negative way. Top to bottom, the lineup is solid and productive, yet not flashy. The rotation gets the job done.

The bullpen is the biggest question mark, especially with the team’s best reliever in 2012, Matt Boyd, taking Fry’s spot in the rotation.

Casey singled out Tony Bryant — who saw his ERA dip from 1.52 in 2011 to 3.82 in 2012 — as a guy at the back end who needs to step up this year.

Freshmen Andrew Moore and Max Engelbrekt should add a boost, and if Dylan Davis can gain more command he could be great — the guy came close to 100 mph a couple times last year.

Baseball is a grind. There are 56 games to be played in the next three months before the postseason.

It still comes down to that one goal though, the end-game to a season brimming with potential for the Beavers.

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“Absolutely,” Smith answers. “We’ve had that goal since we came in the fall, and we’re working to get there.”

“It is, for sure,” added Conforto. “If you’re not playing to go to Omaha, to win the whole thing, then what are you doing?”

Conforto’s point is true and easy: Every team wants to go to Omaha.

But too often we see the team with the target on its back fail to live up to the hype, and the team flying under the radar come away with the championship.

I wouldn’t call this team overconfident, just aware. Aware of the fact that this could be a special year if things fall into place.

This may be the most hyped Oregon State baseball team since the back-to-back national championship teams of 2006-07.

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join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

Wrestling will be included in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Obama challenges Republicans to work with him during State of the Union WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama challenged Congress to join him in taking on “our generation’s task” to ignite the growth of a “rising, thriving middle class,” using the first State of the Union address of his second term to prod Republicans to compromise on the major challenges facing the nation.

“It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country — the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love,” Obama said Tuesday night, sounding familiar themes from his re-election campaign last year.

The president emphasized economic growth and job creation, and insisted that his proposals would not increase the nation’s deficit, though the White House offered no price tag on his initiatives.

He also made an emotional

plea for Congress to hold votes on controversial proposals for tougher gun laws after the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings in December that killed 20 schoolchildren.

At the same time, Obama called for legislators to work together for the good of the nation, saying Americans “expect us to put the nation’s interests before party.”

“They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can,” he said. “For they know that America moves forward only when we do so together, and that the responsibility of improving this union remains the task of us all.”

It was his fourth State of the Union address and seventh speech to a joint sitting of Congress, and analysts considered it a crucial moment for setting the tone for the political dialogue after four years of partisan division and congressional dysfunction.

In the Republican response,

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Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida signaled little acceptance of what Obama proposed, repeating longstanding GOP criticism of what he described as jobkilling, growth-snuffing bigger government.

“Presidents in both parties — from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan — have known that our free enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity,” said Rubio, a tea party favorite considered the a rising star in the Republican Party. “But President Obama? He believes it’s the cause of our problems.”

According to Rubio, the president’s solution “to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more.”

With both sides sticking to deeply entrenched positions, the night of competing messages signaled continued partisan division and political showdowns in Washington over the federal budget and further steps to reduce the deficit and national debt.

“In many ways, what we heard tonight is the same old, same old argument,” noted CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told CNN that Rubio helped himself as a Republican leader, while Janet Granholm, the former Democratic governor of Michigan, accused the Florida senator of missing an opportunity to appeal to the political center because he overstated GOP talking points.

To CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, Rubio emerged as an attractive figure on the American political stage but was short on specifics.

“I don’t think they won the arguments tonight,” Gergen said of Republicans.

The government faces deep spending cuts mandated by a previous agreement between Obama and Congress to raise the federal debt ceiling, and Obama renewed his call on Tuesday night for a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan that includes new tax revenue coupled with spending cuts.

Taking aim at the bitter partisanship of his first term, Obama said “let’s set party interests aside, and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future.”

“And let’s do it without the brinksmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors,” he continued to applause, mainly from Democrats. “The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. We can’t do it.

Let’s agree, right here, right now, to keep the people’s government open, and pay our bills on time, and always uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America.”

In a jab at congressional Republicans who seek to shrink deficits and the size of government through deep spending

CNN

President Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Feb. 12. cuts, saying “deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan.”

Rubio’s response blamed Obama for weakening U.S. stability and potential by continued deficit spending and failing to take on needed reforms to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

“The real cause of our debt is that our government has been spending $1 trillion more than it takes in every year. That’s why we need a balanced budget amendment,” he said, accusing Obama of wanting to leave Medicare unchanged so that it goes bankrupt.

However, Obama called for “modest” reforms to Medicare in his speech, repeating proposals already raised in previous deficit-reduction negotiations that Republicans consider insufficient.

After arriving to loud cheers and prolonged applause on a night of political pomp and ceremony, Obama began the speech on a positive note, saying the nation was on sound footing to move forward.

“Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger,” he said.

The president continued his push for Congress to act on politically volatile issues such as immigration reform. Other measures in the speech included a paycheck fairness act intended to make it easier for women to fight salary discrimination without losing their jobs, and new proposals to develop alternative energy hubs in the country, and help people refinance their mortgages at today’s lower interest rates.

Headlines of the day also influenced the speech.

Obama mentioned North Korea’s latest underground nuclear test, which the State Department labeled “provocative” and “extremely regrettable.”

With victims of gun violence in the audience at the Capitol, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Obama continued his push for tighter gun laws opposed by the influential National Rifle Association and legislators from both parties.

He mentioned 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago girl killed by gun violence after returning home from taking part in inauguration activities in Washington, saying she was shot a mile from his home in the city.

The girl’s parents were guests of first lady Michelle Obama at the address. Also attending was former rock star Ted Nugent, a vocal critic of Obama and any efforts to strengthen gun controls in America.

Obama cited the major provisions of his package of gun proposals, including background checks on all gun sales, a ban on semi-automatic weapons that mimic military weapons, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.

Listing gun violence victims — Hadiya’s parents, Giffords, the families of the Newtown schoolchildren and others killed in mass shootings, Obama said “they deserve a vote” as the audience cheered loudly.

In his response, Rubio sounded the NRA line that “unconstitutionally undermining the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans is not the way to” reduce gun violence in the country.

On foreign policy, Obama announced that this time next year, another 34,000 U.S. troops will have returned home from Afghanistan.

The move will reduce by more than half the current force level of 66,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Obama and NATO previously announced that Afghan forces will take the lead in combat missions this year.

By the end of 2014, the planned official end of the com-

bat mission, the White House is considering a range of troop levels for Afghanistan, from as many as 15,000 down to zero.

One thing Obama didn’t mention Tuesday night was new regulations on carbon emissions for existing power plants a senior administration official said. Environmentalists hoped the president’s pledge in his recent inaugural address for increased steps in response to climate change would include expanding tougher standards in place for new power plants to those already in existence.

At the same time, the president promised executive action on climate change if Congress fails to address what he called a litany of evidence that the nation and the world face increasing impacts such as more frequent and powerful storms, wildfires and drought.

One new measure from the president will be an executive order signed Tuesday to address the country’s most basic cybersecurity needs.

The order will make it easier for private companies in control of our nation’s critical infrastructure to share information about cyber attacks with the government. In return, the Department of Homeland Security will share “sanitized” classified information with companies about attacks believed to be occurring or that are about to take place.

Congress has failed so far to pass any of the dozens of cybersecurity bills aimed at meaningfully securing critical infrastructure from an online criminals.

Rubio is a tea party favorite being promoted as the new face of the Republican Party due to his Hispanic heritage and strong communications skills.

Obama won overwhelming support from the Latino vote in defeating GOP challenger Mitt Romney in the November election.

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