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A Corvallis City Council public hearing was met with a full room and reprimanded applause, customary of the controversial Campus Crest development.

The council was asked to once again hold the testimony open for an additional seven days. The council will make final deliberations at the March 3 meeting.

The City Council tentatively approved the comprehensive text amendment and zone change for the 296-unit, 900-bedroom proposed apartment complex, which would be west of Harrison Boulevard and 36th Street, at the Jan. 29 meeting. Council approval sent it back to the Corvallis Planning Commission for clarified, specific recommendations for moving forward.

Some of those revisions from the planning commission concerned traffic, such as Harrison and Circle Boulevard extensions, medians and turn lanes. The

In addition to the immediate removal of Terri Fiez from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering Dean Sandra Woods was told to step down late last week.

Oregon State University Provost Sabah Randhawa authorized both decisions.

Randhawa Fiez notified all faculty and staff in the College of Engineering about the changes via email Friday, which was the first time anyone was notified.

Woods According to Steve Clark, vice president of university relations and marketing, the changes will better help outline a shared strategic direction for all schools in the College of Engineering.

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Students, staff and faculty in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science seem baffled after the sudden removal of department head Terri Fiez and College of Engineering Dean Sandra Woods.

According to an email sent to all College of Engineering staff and faculty Friday, Fiez and Woods were removed from their positions. Both, however, will stay on as tenured professors.

“Going forward, it is essential to build a leadership team within the college that shares a sense of direction and purpose,” Oregon State University Provost Sabah Randhawa said in the email.

Scott Ashford was named as Woods’ replacement for the dean of the college Friday. In addition to serving as both dean and acting head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering, he will serve as acting department head at the School of EECS. Initially, Randhawa and Woods removed Fiez as department head due to “personnel matters” on Sept. 30, 2013. The decision prompted an uproar in EECS, since the university seemingly avoided discussions

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Scott Ashford replaced Sandra Woods as dean of the College of Engineering Friday. with faculty and students. In an attempt to compromise, Woods and Randhawa allowed Fiez to serve until her contract ended in June.

Randhawa’s actions, according to EECS professor Karti Mayaram, make things worse See ENGINEERING | page 4

On the Edge of greatness: impacting lives on campus Faculty Senate President Dan Edge positively impacting co-workers, students

appears to be just as colorful and creative as the man himself.

Yet perhaps even more impressive than Edge’s actual tie collection is the amount and quality of

By Tori Hittner relationship ties he has THE DAILY BAROMETER amassed during his time Oregon State fisheries at Oregon State University.

Edge serves not only and wildlife department head Dan Edge has an as a wildlife and ecology enviable collection of professor and departties — an assortment that ment head, but also as the n

Music budget nearly denied, avoids mediation with recall vote ASOSU approves all student fee-funded budgets during joint session Tuesday night

ultimately passed after a recall vote.

Senators originally denied the budget, 3-7, which prevented a House of Representatives vote and would have sent the budget to a mediation

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THE DAILY BAROMETER Student budget mediation commitThe Student Musicians Advisory tees contain six Student & Incidental Board’s presented budget nearly failed Fees Committee members and six to earn final student approval from ASOSU congressmen. The committhe Associated Students of Oregon tee researches and debates further State University during the joint legSee BUDGET | page 4 islative session Tuesday night, but n

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Dan Edge, Faculty Senate president and fisheries and wildlife department head, sits in his office.

Faculty Senate president.

“I’m a wildlife ecologist,” Edge said. “I joke that 12 years ago, I went from being an ecologist to a psychologist. I mostly fix problems now.”

Colleagues and students stressed the good-natured personality and knack for making personal connections that make Edge such a vital part of the university.

“He’s just very generous and very engaging,” said Nancy Allen, fisheries and wildlife academic adviser. “He’ll take time out of a busy day to just chat with someone who walks through the door.”

Edge has proven to make an impression on students as much as his co-workers.

Andrew Futerman, a senior studying fisheries and wildlife, said Edge is the main reason he decided to attend Oregon State.

Futerman was on leave from a tour in Afghanistan and visiting campus when he was pulled aside and told that the department

head of his intended major wanted to speak with him.

Futerman was floored that someone in the department knew he was visiting campus and walked to Edge’s office.

The two spoke for some time before Edge looked at his watch, packed up his things and took Futerman out to the Bombs Away Cafe.

“He bought a glass of wine and I bought a beer and he told me not even why he wanted me to come to this school, but what the university had to offer me and why … I would really fit in here,” Futerman said. “It almost felt like I was being recruited to come here and it was very personal.”

Futerman’s experience is not an anomaly in his department. Futerman said Edge has invested similar amounts of personal time in many of his peers.

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Mike Royer, manager of Western Oregon University’s food pantry, which provides sustenance and supplies for students and Monmouth community members in need.

However, other studies do indicate that food insecurity is more prevalent among college students than other groups.

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SALEM — A study has found that 59 percent of students at Western Oregon University have faced food insecurity at some point in 2013, raising questions of the general financial stability of college students and its impacts on academic achievement.

Food insecurity occurs when there is uncertainty or the lack of access to adequate, safe and nutritional food. The report, which published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in January, states it is a measure of economic hardship and financial stability of a household.

This particular study is one of few out there on hunger in the college demographic. One of the authors, Oregon State University professor Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, said there’s a need for further study and that the financial stability of students should be part of statewide education policy discussions.

Sure, there is a caveat here.

WOU has a high concentration of first-generation college students as well as Latino students, so the findings might not apply generally across America’s college population.

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Pinball wizards Students and citizens of Corvallis gathered to discuss the future of 53 pinball machines within the city. A storm of controversy surrounded the machines, leading the matter to be presented in court before a circuit judge. Opponents of the machines believed that pinball was a gambling device that promoted manufactured opportunities for chance and money above individual gains. The city was asked to “protect children and youth from the devices that lure into the gambling mania.” Pinball supporters argued that the games were a form of mental relaxation and that students would spend their money however they pleased, perhaps even on pastimes of a more devious nature.

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The British Bulldog’s son crosses the pond Randolph Churchill, son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, visited Corvallis to speak about the modern state of the British Empire and its international relations. Churchill visited Oregon State as part of his second American tour.

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percent of students were food insecure. The WOU study is the first of its kind in the continental United States or in a rural area.

Lopez-Cevallos said a bigger proportion of college students are more food insecure than single mothers, also a vulnerable group.

Outside of the study, more evidence of rising needs among college students is the number of food pantries opening on college campuses.

According to the College and University Food Bank Alliance, Oregon State University, Portland State University and Southwestern Oregon Community College run food pantries. WOU also has a food pantry.

Lopez-Cevallos said with the 2008 housing crisis and rising college tuition, students are having an increasingly difficult time making ends meet.

More of their families also lack the adequate resources to support the students. So when it comes to wiggle room in their budgets, food expenses tend to be the first to be jeopardized.

“Food is one of the few areas they have flexibility to reduce,” he said. “Tuition you cannot reduce because it’s dictated by the universities.

Housing is dictated by rental agencies.”

In the big picture, food insecurity among college students could mean lower academic achievement, which in turn could lead to an inability to rise out of poverty.

It long has been established that food insecurity among students in primary and secondary schools has an impact on academic achievement, Lopez- Cevallos said. That’s why public schools today have free and reduced school lunches and breakfast.

These struggles continue for college students coming

from low-income households.

Preparing a well-trained workforce requires a closer look at how college students could be better supported, he said.

Mike Royer, a WOU senior who runs the “Hungry like a Wolf” food pantry, said he was surprised to hear the results of the study. He thought that if indeed almost 60 percent of WOU’s students had experienced food insecurity in the past year, they must hide it well.

The food pantry has been open since 2011, but it’s a small operation that has little support or visibility. It shares space with the staff break room and its main source of food is a delivery from MarionPolk Food Share once a week.

Royer said more promotion is needed to collect more donations, but the pantry would not be able to meet the increase in demands that may come with more publicity.

In January, the pantry served 45 people — and it probably couldn’t do much more than that.

Royer was working to partner with the athletics program to solicit canned food donations at basketball games. He said he hopes the study will encourage people to give to the pantry.

Lopez-Cevallos said while pantries are one tool to address hunger on college campuses, he would like to see the education system incorporate support to address the financial instability of students.

The key is to help students focus on learning and their careers so they have a shot at financial stability, he said.

“I’ve had students who come in and out,” LopezCevallos said. “They drop a term because they can’t afford it and don’t want to take on debt.

“And the risk is they won’t come back.”

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Kevin Campbell, CEO of GOBHI, said there are several other compelling reasons to transform BMRC into a facility for mentally ill inmates, including savings to Oregon taxpayers and accessing trained staff in Pendleton — a “critical mass of trained professionals� who now work at the Blue Mountain Recovery Center. “It would be a shame to squander the human resources and talent we have in Pendleton,�

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He admitted the hulking BMRC building isn’t perfect, but is better than the alternatives.

Wood shook his head at the notion that the building is crum-

bling and rundown as some pushing for BMRC’s closure have reported in the past. “It’s an old building, but it’s a functional building,� Wood said. “Talk of the building being dilapidated — it’s smoke and mirrors.

There’s nothing wrong with that building.�

The main barrier, he said, is a financial one. “The biggest hurdle is finding funds to make it happen,� Wood said. “GOHBI requested $2.5 million to fund the first year.�

Some of those funds could come from not having to mothball the current facility, he said.

The rest would need to come from the Addictions and Mental Health budget.

cerns faculty have expressed regarding compensation, fairness and trust. “It might simply be a conversation with the president and provosts saying we’ve got the resources to fix it; you guys need to buck up,� Edge said.

Edge’s involvement at OSU is widespread. He’s been an advocate for faculty at the OSU-Cascades campus, extension centers and even has strong ties to OSU’s online presence.

For more than 20 years, Edge has worked at the forefront of distant education, helping to build the Oregon State Ecampus. According to Edge, the OSU Ecampus department of fisheries and wildlife is currently the only such online field available in the nation.

It appears his impact can even go into cyberspace.

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Edge’s openness and dedication to his university leadership.

With OSU’s new board of trustees colleagues and students make his department a fun and effective place to work, earning full legal power this coming July, Edge said his primary goal for the several employees said. “He comes from this perspective where year will be developing a good, working we’re like family here,� said academic relationship between the board and the adviser Liz Kelly. “We’re here to support Faculty Senate.

So far, the transition seems promising. you ‌ and we’re all really excited about “I’m very pleased with how the board it.â€?

That sense of family is fostered even looks,â€? Edge said. “They’re very bright further with department parties, which people and very interested in what hapEdge and his wife host at their home pens at Oregon State. I’m optimistic the ‌ advantages will outweigh the challenges.â€? biannually.

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The state mental health facility, which sits next door to the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, is scheduled to close March 31. Clients at the 60-bed facility struggle with such disorders as schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder.

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by Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc. (GOBHI), would treat mentally ill prisoners who have less than a year to serve.

Advocates say the program would help inmates integrate back into society.

GOBHI and a cadre of city and state officials are backing the effort. Pendleton city councilman Chuck Wood said the group has met with legislators and representatives from the Oregon Department of Corrections and Addictions and Mental Health.

Wood said he believes such a facility is a perfect fit for the state’s prisons, which have become default mental health facilities. “Seventy-five percent of inmates statewide have mental health or addiction issues,� Wood said. “The concept is to take people who are currently incarcerated in the state prison system, inmates in need of mental health care, and provide them with appropriate treatment,� said Pendleton City Manager Rob Corbett.

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options to achieve a compromise, after which the budget is sent to university President Ed Ray. The majority of senators who opposed the bill did so under a misunderstanding of travel funds. The senators believed an upcoming international trip was funded through student fees, when in reality the travel expenses were budgeted using excess working capital.

Upon receiving clarification, the senators motioned for a recall vote, after which the budget ultimately passed. Some senators still opposed the allocation of funds based on the funding of several academic musical resources through student funds.

In addition, the request for funds to be added to the recreational sports SIFCapproved budget was denied, despite a request from SIFC chair Priscilla Macy to send the budget to mediation committee.

Now that each student fee-funded budget has been approved, the fee levels will be sent to Ray before becoming official.

commission recommended a comprehensive study of traffic, in partnership with the city, after the project has been built and occupied, to address issues and improvements as needed.

Testimony was heard on vegetation, stormwater drains, student concentration and traffic.

Before the public hearing, the also hotly contested issue of the residential parking zones was discussed in light of an update from the urban services committee.

Several councilors spoke to the existing problems and pointed fingers at Oregon State University.

“OSU considers our neighborhoods to be their overflow parking lots,” said councilwoman Penny York.

Urban Services has heard a variety of concerns about the proposed permit system to eliminate free parking in the neighborhoods around campus.

Permits for non-residents would be far more expensive than on-campus permits, in the hopes that drivers will park in the underutilized Reser lot, instead of in the neighborhoods.

“If we don’t get the economic incentive to move parking onto campus, it won’t happen,” said councilman Hal Brauner.

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Ashford will serve as dean of the College of Engineering while also serving as acting head “We did not feel that there was a cohesive for EECS and CCE. Randhawa and Ashford will address conleadership within that college,” Clark said. cerns regarding the College of Engineering In addition, Clark said Scott Ashford, and moving forward in an all-college meeting who was selected as dean for the College of Wednesday from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Talks will take Engineering Friday, will work with others in the place in the Construction and Engineering Hall college to seek new department heads for both at the LaSells Stewart Center.

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Similarly to September, Mayaram said there was too little notice and discussion between faculty and staff for such a transition — actions he describes as a continued violation of shared governance polices at a university.

“I don’t know what he’s trying to salvage here, because he’s damaging a lot of people,” Mayaram said. “Maybe he’s trying to say both were at fault. I think he’s to blame for all of this.”

Margaret Burnett, a computer science professor from the School of EECS said she and others were blindsided when she heard about the removal of both Woods and Fiez Friday.

“I was just shocked,” Burnett said.

Though content with the removal of Woods, Burnett said

dismissing Fiez in the middle of her term was childish.

Burnett was surprised the administration didn’t handle these issues sooner, but she said the university is moving in the right direction by getting rid of Woods.

Like others in EECS, Burnett said she has not received the reasoning for Fiez’s initial termination or additional transition plans addressing how to move forward.

In 2012, Ashford was one of four finalists who ran against Woods for the position of dean in the College of Engineering.

Ashford said Randhawa had to make a difficult decision regarding leadership changes.

“Having Woods and Fiez step down were his decisions,” Ashford said.

Following the months of continuing disputes, Ashford said he’s ready to help the college progress and recover.

“We lost some of our momentum across the col-

lege,” Ashford said.

Out of concern for the school’s relationship with industry partners, a special session of an industry advisory board meeting to discuss the continuation of healthy collaboration took place Feb. 5, according to Mayaram.

As dean, Ashford said he believes strongly in shared governance policies, and plans on acknowledging faculty and staff first and foremost on all future endeavors.

“That’s something I bring with me,” Ashford said. “That’s why I’m taking the time to talk with our faculty and our stakeholders on how we move forward.”

Ashford said he wants to restore stability and begin meetings with staff and faculty members, specifically from the schools of CCE and EECS this week.

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t seemed anticlimactic when Oregon State hired John Garrett as the new offensive coordinator.

A long-time positional coach in the NFL making the jump to coordinator in the college ranks felt like a safe move for the Beavers. It wasn’t the big splash that everyone seems so desperate to see head coach Mike Riley make.

But Riley’s quote in Tuesday’s official press release sparked a new take on the hiring.

“We have a senior quarterback (Sean Mannion); we aren’t changing everything out under Sean,” Riley said, “but my goal is for our offense to continue to grow and evolve, and John will certainly provide that opportunity to do so.”

This could be the first step in a longterm process of changing the offensive approach, and one that is mutually beneficial for both parties.

Garrett has been coaching different units in the NFL for 16 of the past 19 years (he had a three-year stint at the University of Virginia from 2004-06).

If he does aspire to become a coordinator or head coach at the pro level, he has to prove himself beyond being a good position coach. OSU is that opportunity.

For the Beavers, as Riley said, this is their chance for the offense to evolve, an offense that has felt complacent for the past four years. They’re not going to adopt the spread, read-option offense; Garrett isn’t going to be reinventing the wheel.

What Garrett can offer, however, is versatility. He has coached quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends.

He’s been a scout. He’s been a passing game coordinator, offensive assistant coach and a few other titles that all sound like they mean the same thing.

Garrett will coach quarterbacks and tight ends, along with his coordinator responsibilities.

He has a vast knowledge of most elements of an offense and two decades of experience, which is what Riley liked about him.

“We will have enough variety in the offense to attract all types of players,” Garrett said at Tuesday’s press conference. “We are certainly going to evolve offensively to have a lot of versatility in what we do.”

It’s difficult to analyze a positional coach’s merit. Vincent Jackson’s 1,224 receiving yards in 2013 probably had little to do with Garrett’s role as wide receivers coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

A lot of the time, the players are the only people who can provide an educated analysis of how a position coach is doing. Secondary coach Rod Perry, who will be entering his third season with the Beavers, has received nothing but praise from the defensive backs since he got here.

Jordan Poyer often cited Perry as the main reason for his All-American season in 2012.

We don’t have a verdict on Garrett.

We can’t quantify his successes and failures through wins and losses and statistics.

From what we do know, he can make this offense grow. Working with the offense, and specifically with quarterbacks and tight ends, means his attention will be directed all over the place. Garrett said he isn’t worried about being spread too thin.

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Twenty-two days after former offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf left Oregon State for the quarterback coaching position with the New York Giants, the Beavers announced the hiring of his replacement.

John Garrett, fresh off a one-year stint coaching wide receivers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be OSU’s offensive coordinator, quarterback and tight ends coach starting in 2014.

Tuesday, he spoke with the media for the first time since accepting the position.

“I’m thrilled to be a part of the Oregon State football program and Beaver Nation,” he said.

Garrett played wide receiver for two seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills, as well as a season with the San Antonio Riders of the World Football League, which is where he first met Oregon State head coach Mike Riley.

“I’ve known Mike Riley since I played for him in 1991,” Garrett said.

“When he went to coach the San Diego Chargers, he actually tried to hire me as the receivers coach, and timing-wise it didn’t work out, but I would’ve loved to do it.”

Garrett has coached wide receivers, tight ends and has been an assistant head coach for the offense at the University of Virginia, but never a coordinator during his career.

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“John comes from a great football family and brings with him to Oregon State a wealth of knowledge about the

game,” Riley said in a press release Tuesday. “In addition to his NFL experience, he has coached at the college level and knows the recruiting aspects of the game at this level.”

His only collegiate experience was as the wide receivers coach and assistant head coach for the offense at Virginia from 2004-2007.

Despite the transition from the NFL to the college ranks, Garrett is

confident not much will be different.

“Football is football,” he said. “This is major college football. There’s not really a drop off that much with the elite talent on the team from what I’m used to. It’s really not going to be much of an adjustment that way with a regard to scheming or anything like that.”

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The coach had felt the pressure mounting in the days leading up to the game.

His team was coming off a loss, and another defeat may have led to questions about whether or not he was the right man for the job.

But on this particular night, he coached his team to victory. So as he sat down to face the media after the game, he felt vindicated and relieved.

“We followed the game plan,” the coach began. “We got it to our guys down low, got some 3s. The guys played hard. The 1-3-1 really disturbed (the other team). We got some steals out of that, got some breakaway layups. It was a good

overall game.”

Had Craig Robinson been in the building, he probably would have agreed with the coach’s assessment.

Only this wasn’t Gill Coliseum, and it wasn’t an Oregon State men’s basketball game being discussed.

Meet Roberto Nelson, head coach of the “Managers,” an intramural men’s basketball team.

The Managers, who won 38-27 Monday night in Nelson’s third game as coach, are composed primarily of team managers for the Oregon State men’s basketball team, which Nelson starts for.

Though the Managers are in the “B” league, which is less competitive than the “A” league, you’d never guess it. They strategically use timeouts to set up plays. They switch defenses to keep their opponents on their heels. They’re, well, a much-much-less-talented version of a Division I basketball team.

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Less than one month ago, the Oregon State women’s basketball team had just finished a road trip in Los Angeles.

There, they lost decisively to the Trojans and lost a close game to UCLA. After the losses, the Beavers’ record took a hit and dipped down to 2-4 in conference games, putting them alone at eighth place in the Pac-12.

Fast-forward to now and the Beavers are 7-1 in the last eight games, and they’ve jumped up into a tie for third in the conference.

As it turns out, there was one moment during that road trip that may ultimately be responsible for the Beavers’ dramatic turnaround, because the Beavers set a goal for themselves that weekend.

The Beavers want to clinch a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The vocalization of that goal has been one the team has since rallied behind.

“It sparked a new energy, because in January your body starts to get worn down a little bit and you’re a little fatigued,” said freshman point guard Sydney Wiese. “But if you’re working for something as a team and as a unit it really helps bring a new energy into your soul.”

For a team as young as the Beavers (nine of 11 players are either freshmen or sophomores) and who don’t have a lot of court experience, sharing that common goal has given them something to strive for. They were able to reconstruct a season that could have headed in the wrong direction.

“The question was, ‘How are they going to handle adversity?’” said head coach Scott Rueck. “‘Are we going to let a tough loss demoralize us and set us back, or are we going to take that tough

lesson and be better for it?’ This group has handled every bit of adversity the correct way and they just continue to improve.”

Perhaps no greater example of that growth is that despite an 81-60 loss to USC a month ago, the Beavers played them again Sunday. In that game, they faced a seven-point first-half deficit, but came back from it all to notch a 58-48 victory.

The Beavers’ recent success has been so staggering that even Rueck didn’t see it coming. During Sunday’s postgame press conference, right after the Beavers beat the Trojans, Rueck was asked if he’d imagined his team could be tied for third in the conference.

“I couldn’t have said that at the beginning of the year,” Rueck said. “We were picked eighth and, to be honest, based on experience and our success a year ago, I thought that was high. They are See WIESE | page 6

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Harrison found perfect match with Oregon State Sophomore swimmer Sammy Harrison holds 3 school records, knew OSU ‘would be a special experience’

Her performance qualified her for the 2013 NCAA Championships, where she was the only OSU swimmer that year and first ever in the 1,650 freestyle.

This was all as a freshman.

She came into a program, which usually sends maybe one or two swimBy Scott McReynolds mers to the NCAA Championships per THE DAILY BAROMETER When people hear about an athlete year, and in her first year she was the who has broken multiple records in only one.

OSU isn’t one of the top swim procollege, it is usually assumed that athlete is an upperclassman. That’s not the grams in the country, but Harrison case for sophomore Sammy Harrison entered as a good prospect and one of the top swimmers in the country of the Oregon State swim team.

Harrison held three school records in her respective events, the distance for the Beavers after her freshman freestyle.

“I came here and I really liked the year: the 500-yard, 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle. And she has nearly Pacific Northwest, (head coach) Larry broken her own records for all three (Liebowitz) was really pushing it, and I could tell that by the way he treated this season.

She recorded the record-breaking me when I was being recruited, that times last year at about the same time, if I came here it would be a special at the Pac-12 Championships. She is experience,” Harrison said. “I knew he one of only two OSU swimmers ever wouldn’t take me for granted or anyto place in the top five in the 1,650 thing (like) if I went to a bigger school.”

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GARRETT n Continued from page 5 While Garrett’s primary responsibilities will be with the quarterbacks and overseeing the offense, he will also work with the tight ends.

He spent seven seasons with three different NFL teams as the primary tight ends coach, and is looking forward to his variety of responsibilities with the Beavers.

“As the offensive coordinator, I’ll be involved heavily with the quarterbacks, the passing game and just the whole offensive side of the ball,” Garrett said. “I’ll be a little bit more involved with tight ends because we’ll have some younger guys.”

Garrett said Tuesday that Riley has not yet decided who will call the plays when the season starts. Riley has split play calling with past offensive coordinators, but called the offense exclusively himself the past two seasons.

“I’m always prepared to (call plays),” Garrett said.

“That’s something that Coach Riley will decide.”

Garrett said Oregon State’s recent success and its prostyle offense were two things that attracted him to the position.

While he’s not yet fully acclimated with OSU’s roster, he’s excited with the talent the Beavers possess and the possibilities for the future.

Oregon State will run the same pro-style offense that Riley has always run in years’ past, but Garrett did hint that there could be some new wrinkles down the road.

For the short-term he said his focus would be learning players’ strengths and putting them in optimal positions to make plays.

“I’m excited about the guys,” Garrett said. “I met Sean Mannion and he’s a terrific player and a super person. I’m excited about the running backs, the tight ends, some good linemen and there’s talent at all the positions.”

Garrett was especially excited about the opportunity to coach Mannion, who will return to Corvallis as OSU’s starting quarterback for his senior season. Mannion was second in the nation in passing yards (4,662) and fourth in touchdowns (37) last year for the Beavers.

“He’s big, he’s smart, he’s got a strong arm, he’s accurate, he reads defenses well, he understands the offense and he understands all aspects of it,” Garrett said.

“In the time I’ve been able to watch tape with him, I’m really impressed.”

Garrett said his biggest adjustment will likely be learning Pac-12 defenses.

Having never coached in the conference, he’s still unfamiliar with what he’s up against.

In the meantime, he’ll continue to get comfortable before spring practices start March 31, his first real coaching opportunity with the Beavers.

“I will be getting used to living in the great Northwest,” he said. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity.”

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Nev., holds the high school state record for the 500-yard freestyle.

“I told her we were going to try to build our program, that I was needing someone like her to Harrison be a leader and that we could build our whole program around,” Liebowitz said.

The new leadership role was something that was foreign to Harrison, and she’s embraced that role more during her sophomore year. It’s a role that she said has helped her in her personal growth.

Coming to Oregon State was a perfect scenario for both the OSU swim program and Harrison.

Harrison provided a top talent around which a program could

WIESE n Continued from page 5 giving some people without a lot of experience a lot of credit. I thought that about the coach’s vote.”

What nobody predicted is how well Oregon State has been able to synthesize its young talent into a cohesive basketball team, and Wiese is a big factor in that.

“Point guards are the coach on the floor; they’re the ones with the ball in their hands, calling plays, directing the team,” Rueck said, “That’s been fun to watch this year, because Sydney has evolved into that as the year has gone on.”

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NELSON n Continued from page 5 That, of course, is a product of their coach, who spends games hooting and hollering on the sidelines as if there’s a Pac-12 title on the line.

“This intramural ball, (Nelson) takes it so seriously, like it’s an actual thing,” said freshman Brain Seekamp, the Managers’ leading scorer Monday.

Nelson, the Pac-12’s leading scorer, mimics Robinson’s mannerisms.

“He could be Coach Robinson’s son, I think,” Seekamp said. “Just the way he talks.”

Nelson gives players carte blanche in games, but is quick to revoke that freedom when players abuse it.

Like on Monday, when Seekamp followed back-to-back made 3s with consecutive airballs. Nelson temporarily pulled his star player following the sequence.

“When a player isn’t giving

be built, and it provided just what Harrison wanted from a school.

“It was exactly what I wanted,” Harrison said. “At Oregon State I would be the best, but in the Pac-12 I would not be, so I could get the claim to fame and also the competition I needed to get better all four years and I got the best of both worlds.”

Harrison hopes to be someone the other swimmers can look to and realize that they can be as good as she is.

She hopes that with the other swimmers seeing her success, they will raise their goals, because they are all going through the same training.

Harrison has already left her mark on OSU swimming, but with two years left until she graduates, she still has much she can accomplish.

Harrison will look to build on her career next week when she heads to Washington for the 2014 Pac-12 Championships.

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scored the third-most points among freshmen in the Pac-12, and her 4.2 assists per game leads all Pac-12 freshmen. Wiese says that setting up her teammates to score is her favorite thing to do, and Rueck recognizes the work she’s been doing.

“There is a feel great players have for the timing and delivery of passes, when to push, when not to,” he said. “Some of those things are natural instincts for her,” Rueck said. “Her teammates are getting the ball on time, they’re getting the ball in place where they’re the most open, and that’s one of the things that stands out to me: she has a sixth sense in delivering the basketball.”

With Wiese at the helm, and with their common vision, the Beavers are shooting a

his best effort, how quickly he says, ‘Alright, get him,’” said Jacob Biviano, describing one of the many similarities between Nelson and Robinson’s coaching styles.

Robinson, who’s been to one Managers’ game, spoke highly of Nelson the coach.

“Of course I like Roberto’s coaching style, because he’s doing everything I do,” Robinson said. “I remind him of that on a daily basis.”

Nelson dresses the part, too.

In each of the past three games, he’s dressed like a different OSU coach. On Monday, he copied assistant Nate Pomeday’s sweater look.

“He pulls it off,” Seekamp said.

Nelson is the first to admit he couldn’t pull off the whole coaching thing alone.

Daniel Gomis, an OSU teammate of Nelson’s, and Brett Martin, an OSU team manager who’s currently injured, are assistant coaches for the Managers.

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“It’s an ongoing process,” Garrett said. “Here at Oregon State and with Mike’s extensive knowledge of offensive football, we all work together, we all can bring up ideas and we’ll decide together what we’re going to do and what we’re going to feature, both in the passing game and the run game.”

The specifics of what Garrett will bring to OSU’s offense is a mystery. With Garrett doing double-duty positional coaching and being offensive coordinator, it’d be shocking if Riley gave him play-calling duties as well, though Garrett said that is still undecided.

The Beavers are getting a seven-year wide receivers coach, seven-year tight ends coach and two-year quarterbacks coach all wrapped up into one Princeton alumnus. It’s hard to say no to that.

If it doesn’t work out, at least the NFL pedigree will be a big boost to recruiting.

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much better percentage from the floor than they were a year ago. Last year, they shot 37.8 percent from the floor and finished the season 10-21. This year, they’re shooting 43.6 percent and sitting at 17-9.

“You know what you’re going to get from (Wiese) — she loves the game, she approaches every day professionally and she commands respect because of that,” Rueck said. “She kind of has the complete package when it comes to leadership, and now she’s gained the experience that it takes as well. She’s turning into an outstanding leader.”

every time any player on the other team touches the ball, but Nelson said Gomis’ role is invaluable.

“He’s also a trainer,” Nelson said. “So he’s kind of like (OSU assistant) Doug Stewart and (OSU trainer) Tom Fregoso combined.”

Nelson also credits Gomis with snagging the team’s “firstever five-star recruit,” Sunny Patel. Patel, who’s not an OSU manager but is related to one (Ravi Patel), did not play in the Managers’ first game.

“After the first game, we barely won, we were getting killed on the offensive boards,” Nelson said. “But with the luck of Daniel Gomis and his great recruiting skills, we were able to get another tall player (Patel) on our team.”

Martin helps Nelson keep track of fouls and holds the dryerase clipboard, which Nelson uses to diagram plays during timeouts.

“We don’t practice enough to run (OSU’s) Princeton-style offense, so I just draw up plays that I like,” Nelson said. “That’s

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how we got some of those open 3s (Monday).”

Nelson said his goal is to finish his intramural coaching career “way over .500.”

Robinson pointed out that there’s more to Nelson’s coaching adventures than wins and losses.

“How many leading scorers of any Division I team would coach their own managers?”

Robinson asked. “Forget about the fact that he’s a fifth-year senior trying to get his degree and trying to take us to the NCAA Tournament. I think that says a lot about who he is, and nobody is surprised by it.”

The Managers have one game remaining, Monday at 7:45.

Unfortunately for Nelson and the Managers, the “B” league does not have playoffs.

“If there was,” Nelson said, “I’d be out here scouting some people.”

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Will Ashford’s T appointment end the EECS controversy? ast term, College of Engineering Dean Sandra Woods fired School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Head Terri Fiez.

The subsequent outcry from faculty, staff and students was loud, and in our opinion, valid. They admired Fiez and her contributions and felt she was fired wrongly. They protested and petitioned and blamed Woods.

Provost Sabah Randhawa then backtracked on Woods’ move and “allowed” Fiez to continue in the position for the remainder of this school year, until June 2014, when her contract expires.

At the time, it was extremely difficult to get a straight answer from the administration as to why Fiez was fired. Our reporter heard the phrase “personnel matters” repeated more times than any human being should.

Jump forward a few months, and Woods and Fiez were just both let go last week, effective immediately, from their positions of dean and department head, respectively.

This whole situation over at EECS has just been one screwup after another from the beginning, and it has been handled poorly throughout.

Sadly, the decision to let both of them go is the most intelligent decision the administration, specifically Randhawa, has made in the course of this catastrophe.

Because sometimes it’s easier, and more effective, to just start over, rather than trying to slap plaster, patches and Band-Aids over the problems.

The administration’s fresh start, in the wake of Woods’ firing, is bringing in Scott Ashford as the new dean, and the acting department head of both EECS and Civil and Construction Engineering.

This is the same guy they passed over in 2012 to hire Woods. Now, he’s replacing both Woods and Fiez.

That’s one way to resolve the issue.

Even though Fiez hasn’t been reinstated, we think this might calm the hostilities a little over at EECS. There’s still going to be backlash, since both Fiez and Woods are staying on as professors, and since Ashford is going to be doing both their old jobs (plus one more).

The question is: Will any of Fiez’s supporters subside? Because they’re the ones who have been the loudest, and they’re probably why OSU has one man in charge of the college and two departments now.

Ashford is a neutral party. However, he’s a single individual helplessly entering a battlefield rife with tension and clearly defined battle-stations.

It’s not an ideal scenario, but at least we might be moving forward.

We hope.

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here may be a time in college when getting an adorable kitten or a loyal pup, or maybe even an impressive snake, seems like a good idea. You’ve always wanted one — now that you live on your own you’re able to swing it.

Even if the circumstances aren’t completely ideal, the impulse is too great to deny. When you venture on down to the humane society and ruffle that special kitten’s fur, or look into that lonely puppy’s eyes, you just can’t help but sign any paper presented to you.

Of course the Heartland Humane Society won’t blindly hand its animals over to anyone. They need to see proof that adopters are stable individuals.

Here’s the deal, even if college students fit all the requirements — one

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Scottaline of which is having all adults living in your house sign a consent form — they still aren’t always stable pet owners.

College may be the most unstable time in your life. There’s no telling how often you’ll move or what roommates you’ll have down the road. Your situation may seem permanent when you’re being hypnotized by adorable puppy eyes, but don’t be fooled.

You also need to think of your finances — yet another facet of college stress.

Owning a dog costs $360 to $2,520

or more annually and the average lifespan for a dog is 12 years, so that comes out to $4,620 for the dog’s lifetime, at the very least, according to Emily Driscoll’s column, “Should You Get a Dog in College?”

At this point you might be thinking to yourself, “but a kitten would help me de-stress” or “my sister’s friend’s boyfriend’s mom had a dog in college and it saved her life once.”

Reject these justifications.

Having a pet is like having a child.

It’s a serious responsibility and shouldn’t be dismissed as a temporary thing.

Personally, I’m a sucker for animals.

But as I get older, other people’s pets have more of an appeal. They take care of them while I temporarily enjoy them. Selfish? Maybe. But I think it’s smart to know your limitations and

consider your ability to sustain what you want.

Not to go full PETA or anything, but a love for animals spans beyond the warm and fuzzy feelings they might initially offer. One should consider long-term plans and how a pet would fit into a lifestyle, especially if the owner-to-be is a college student.

So when that forlorn kitten is trying to nudge her way into your life, and you haven’t planned and budgeted and rearranged your entire life to be able to provide a stable home, the best thing to do is break that exchange of soulful gazes and run away before temptation overcomes you. t

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Sexual side-effects, solutions for male, female diabetics D

ear Dr. Sex, What sex problems can diabetics run into, and how can they be treated?

Signed, Willing to avoid edible sugar, but still wanting my “sugah” Dear Sugar, You didn’t indicate whether you were a woman or a man, so I’ll focus on issues for both.

For years, it was thought that diabetes only had sexual side-effects for men. The main reason for this is that the most common sexual problem for men with diabetes is erectile dysfunc-

on, because the issues for women weren’t related to an inability to do the deed. But diabetic women continued to suffer the effects, which included Kathy uncomfortable or painful sex. Pain and discomfort can lead to avoiding tion. This was a fairly obvious sexual Ask Dr. Sex sex altogether.

My guess is that the tens of thouproblem and easily connectable to diabetes. From the traditional “You from the “You can’t have sex without sands of diabetic women with sexual can’t have sex without an erection” an erection” standpoint), so no one issues were just believed to be frigid.

For women, the most common standpoint, this was a big problem. So was all that concerned or felt that side effect of diabetes is a lack of a lot of research was done to address something needed to be done.

Therefore, the very first study of vaginal lubrication. When there isn’t the issue, including the development the effects of diabetes on women’s enough lubrication, intercourse can of ED drugs. be uncomfortable or even painful.

For women, however, ED isn’t an sexuality wasn’t until 1971.

Women with diabetes are also It took so long for people to catch issue (well it can be an issue, but not prone to yeast infections and urinary tract infections, two “down there” problems that can interfere with sexual intimacy. Yeast infections make vaginal tissue raw and irritated. Combine this with a lack of lubrication, and just the thought of intercourse invokes enough pain that sexual intimacy is avoided. The burning and pain associated with a urinary tract infection can have the same effect.

When you don’t feel good down there, you want to limit the “action” going on down there.

Some women also experience a decline in sexual desire and an inability to reach orgasm. Both of these are directly related to blood glucose levels. When levels are uncontrolled, it affects the microcirculation to the tiny blood vessels that feed the pelvic nerves that tell us when “certain things” feel really good.

If it doesn’t ever feel good, then why do it? Thus the frequency of sexual intimacy declines.

In terms of treatments, it’s simple, at least for vaginal lubrication — just go buy yourself some KY Jelly (or something of the sort) and the problem’s resolved.

If the issue is chronic yeast infections, you should talk to your doctor. Sometimes over-the-counter treatments may not be enough.

Additionally, studies indicate that many women need more insulin when they are premenstrual. Without the additional insulin, the excess sugar creates an ideal breeding ground for yeast in the vagina.

Finally, women really need to manage the disease as best as possible.

Keeping blood glucose levels within normal range on a very regular basis is your best defense to avoid nerve damage.

Now let’s talk about the sexual effects of diabetes for men. As I mentioned earlier, men with diabetes are at higher risk for ED, particularly when they don’t manage their blood glucose levels. Some reports suggest that as many as 75 percent of diabetic men experience ED. As with women, when men’s blood glucose levels aren’t well managed, it affects Email questions for the column to forum@dailybarometer.com, with the subject “Ask Dr. Sex.” Your name will not be published.

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GREAVES n Continued from page 7 the microcirculation to the tiny blood vessels that feed the pelvic nerves that tell the penis that the stimulation it’s getting feels good.

Diabetic men are also more likely to experience what is called retrograde ejaculation.

This occurs when the ejaculate dumps into the bladder instead of coming out of the body via the urethra. There’s a sphincter at the neck of the bladder that closes when a man gets an erection so that urine doesn’t mix with the ejaculate. Urine in the ejaculate would inhibit fertilization, so the sphincter functions to facilitate continuation of the species.

In diabetic men, retrograde ejaculation occurs for the same basic reason that ED occurs — because there’s nerve damage to the sphincter and it can’t do its job. The good news is that retrograde ejaculation isn’t a

problem unless the man in question is trying to get someone pregnant. Then it becomes an infertility issue.

For both sexual issues for diabetic men, the solution is to manage the disease as best as possible. Keeping blood glucose levels within normal range on a very regular basis is your best defense to avoid nerve damage.

Finally, there are a couple of sexual issues that both diabetic men and women can experience. The stress of managing life with diabetes can cause a lack of sexual desire.

Additionally, both men and women with diabetes are at risk for depression — and people with depression lose interest in sex.

For these two issues, the solution isn’t nearly as clear as buying lube or controlling your glucose levels (which I realize isn’t as easy as it sounds).

Doctors constantly tell people with chronic health issues

to do as much as possible to reduce stress in their life. The advice here is no different.

Life can be too short, painfully so, so try not to sweat the small stuff and keep those glucose levels in check.

Finally, if any of you have not been diagnosed with diabetes but are having some of the experiences I’ve described above, please see your health care practitioner. Often these exact symptoms precede a diabetes diagnosis, and are actually what get the patient in for diagnosis. The sooner you know your situation, the sooner you can get your glucose levels under control and avoid future nerve damage. t

Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and

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