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ASOSU settles into SEC, prepares for election Student government shifts from moving into new building to focusing on upcoming elections By Hanna Brewer THE DAILY BAROMETER
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The Associated Students of Oregon State University have moved to the Student Experience Center.
Handing out cards, showing candid photos, making speeches and casting votes. This is what’s in store for Oregon State University in the upcoming weeks as the Associated Students of Oregon State University elections kick off. “I hope that it is a wonderfully genuine election,” said Bryan Williamson, ASOSU vice president and head of the elections committee. “I hope that everybody puts their best effort in and that they are able to mobilize the voters and get them out to the polls to make sure that they have a say in who their next elected student leaders are going to be.” In the next week, there will be advertising including the details of the election. ASOSU will advertise online, on the Memorial
Union screens, by word of mouth and other Representatives from JB 06.11. outlets to get students involved. “I am excited for what is going to be com“Join the Candidate Info Session to learn ing up this year; there could be a lot of new more about the ASOSU Elections and being faces in ASOSU in a lot of different ways,” a candidate! Make your Williamson said. “Just for voice known!” reads the the sake that we grew the ASOSU Facebook page, House of Representatives I am excited for which includes a calendar by 10 seats, we could have what is going to of informational meeting a really big field on the dates for those interested be coming up this presidential, vice presiin running for office. dent and speaker ticket.” year; there could Many of those in ASOSU The filing deadline for be a lot of new faces candidates is Friday of have been preoccupied with their move into the week nine at 5 p.m. in ASOSU in a lot newly-opened Student The polls this year will of different ways. Experience Center. There be open for longer than are still offices littered a week, allowing stuBryan Williamson with boxes and waiting dents who have not yet ASOSU vice president for computer hook-ups. had time to vote, or have “There was a little bit of changed their minds on a lull,” Williamson said. “But it is nice to be a candidate, to continue to represent their in a new space.” opinions. This year’s elections will be espe“I didn’t vote last year, but this year cially interesting because of the 10 new See ASOSU | page 2 seats added to the ASOSU House of
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Researchers study effects of potential tsunami on Columbia
6th floor of Kerr building to be renovated
A new study from the Oregon State University College of Engineering provides more data to the tide of tsunami research being done in anticipation of the potential Cascadia quake. David Hill, an associate professor of civil engineering, and Kirk Kalmbacher, an OSU graduate student, studied the effects a tsunami would have on the area around the Columbia River, according to a news release from Oregon State University. “There have been previous models of Columbia River run-up as a result of a tsunami, but they had less resolution than this work,” Hill said in the release. “We carefully considered the complex hydrodynamics, subsidence of grounds that a tsunami might cause, and the impacts during different scenarios.” What Hill and Kalmbacher found was that the tsunami would have the greatest effect during high tides. Water levels could rise about 13 feet near the mouth of the Columbia River, but the effects on water levels would be mostly negligible by the time it reached Longview, Wash. — nearly 50 miles along the river — according to the release. The water level around Portland “would be so slight as to be almost immeasurable,” according to the release. The study was published in the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering. The Cascadia Subduction Zone last caused a major earthquake nearly 300 years ago and is capable of creating 9.0 quakes, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network’s website.
The sixth floor of the Kerr Administration Building will have the walls painted and the carpets replaced from March 9 to 27. The sixth floor houses the offices for the university president, provost and other upper administrative employees. This will be the first time in 24 years that the walls will be repainted, and the first time in 14 years for the carpets to be replaced for the top floor. “We felt it was time to have this work done so students and faculty can have pride in our facilities and we can provide them with a modern educational location,” said Steve Clark, the vice president of university relations and marketing at Oregon State University. The sixth floor is the most heavily visited areas in the building besides the administration office, where campus tours are coordinated and given to prospective students, according to Clark. “Not only is the sixth floor a destination for leadership, but also for students, guests, governors, legislators, donors and alumni,” Clark said. “One of the most heavily used rooms where student leaders meet with adult leaders and faculty.” Students who were asked about the renovations had not been up to the sixth floor before and were not sure if it needed renovations. “I guess that the sixth floor, being the administrators’ floor, has important people coming in and out of it,” said Emilee Heisler, a sophomore zoology major. “It should look clean like a president’s office, and if new paint will do that, then it’s a good thing.”
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The sixth floor of the Kerr Administration Building, located at 500 SW Jefferson Way, will be painted and have its carpets replaced in March. This fall, the building will be 45 years old. The administration believes it’s time to freshen up the place. “It’s hard to have pride in worn carpet and dingy walls,” Clark said. The project as a whole will cost $129,000. That includes costs for carpeting, painting and furniture removal during the process. The necessary funds are being pulled from the budget savings of the office of the provost and executive vice president through the office of
Victory for men’s basketball extends home win record Sports, page 5
finance and administration, which has been saving for this for the last five years. During the renovation, 23 people who work on the sixth floor will relocate. President Ed Ray and other student affairs workers will be moved to the Memorial Union until renovations are complete. The office of the provost and executive vice president as well as the office of academic affairs will temporarily See KERR | page 2
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Kersey’s death leaves Blazer family devastated Calendar By Kerry Eggers PORTLAND TRIBUNE
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“14 shots” At about 10:44 p.m., an officer approached three men in the quad near Cauthorn and Poling Hall, according to the log. One of the men was reportedly on the ground, while the other two tried to assist. The two men told the officer that their companion “had drunk about 14 shots of liquor” in an hour and a half. The officer gave a breath test to the ailing man, which reportedly indicated a blood alcohol level of .194 percent. Medical personnel assessed and transported the allegedly intoxicated man to Good Samaritan Hospital. The officer did not give a minor-in-possession of alcohol citation, according to the log.
Welfare check Medical personnel responded to Callahan Hall Saturday night to attend to a resident, who was reportedly unresponsive. The man’s roommate said the man had recently returned from a party when he began to vomit and became unresponsive, according to the log. The man was reportedly transported to Good Samaritan Hospital and received no citation for minor-in-possession of alcohol.
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Tracker A man reported that his phone was stolen while he was playing a game at Dixon Recreation Center. The man reportedly tracked his phone, using an app, to an apartment complex, where he knocked on the doors. According to the log, the app later directed him to the intersection of Southwest Ninth Street and Washington Way, where he discovered the phone in the bushes.
PORTLAND — One day, he is the living, breathing epitome of the Trail Blazers’ organization. The next day, he is gone. Jerome Kersey’s legacy will be as a great player, one of the best in Portland’s 45-year NBA history. But it’s so much more. That’s why Kersey’s death Wednesday at age 52 is being taken so hard by those who knew him best. “I’m devastated,” says Brian Grant, who never played with Kersey but went against him many times on the NBA hardcourts. “I grew to love the man.” “My whole family is devastated,” says Buck Williams, the power forward alongside Kersey on the great Trail Blazer teams of the early ‘90s. “We’re just heartbroken.” Kersey died of a blood clot that traveled from his left calf muscle to his left lung. It occurred six days after knee surgery and a day after Blazer ambassadors Kersey, Grant and Terry Porter spoke with Madison High students about their experiences growing up as part of Black History Month. “I saw him (Wednesday) morning in the office,” says Bill Schonely, the radio play-by-play voice for every game Kersey played as a Blazer. “I was giving him a hard time about walking around without crutches. “He said, ‘Have a great day, Schonz.’ I had a great day -- for a while.” Kersey’s death left his friends and former teammates searching for answers. “It’s like you don’t know how to process it,” says Clyde Drexler, the greatest Blazer of them all, who spent 10 1/2 seasons alongside Kersey in a Portland uniform. “I feel very sad for his wife Teri, his kids, the fans, for the city of Portland. It’s a terrible loss for the community.” It’s another in a series of hits to the
Blazer family, which began with Kevin Duckworth succumbing to heart failure at age 44 in 2008 and continued with Maurice Lucas dying of cancer at age 58 in 2010. “Blazer Nation is going through a tough time right now with the loss of Duck, Luke and now Jerome,” says Chris Dudley, who played two seasons in Portland with Kersey. “I don’t have an answer for this gonetoo-soon thing,” says Geoff Petrie, the Blazers’ general manager during Kersey’s heyday. “Duck and Luke gone. I played with Dale Schlueter and Caldwell Jones (two ex-Blazers who have died in the past eight months). “It’s just terrible to lose a guy like this, so young in the scheme of things. Jerome was just full of life.” Kersey, a native of Clarksville, Va., reared by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Kersey, from the age of 2, came to the Blazers with the 46th overall pick in the second round of the 1984 draft out of Longwood (Va.) College. Historically a women’s college, Longwood went coed in 1976, four years before Kersey started school there. It was NCAA Division III during Kersey’s years and transitioned to Division I only in 2007. Jack Ramsay was the Blazers’ head coach, Rick Adelman his only assistant, Stu Inman director of player personnel and Bucky Buckwalter assistant player of personnel and chief scout when the 6-7 Kersey caught their eye at the Portsmouth Invitational pre-draft camp. “I think I was the biggest fan of Jerome of anybody in the organization,” says Buckwalter, now retired and living in Portland. “He was a tremendous athlete, very unpolished, but with great upside. I fell in love with him. “I said, ‘Let’s draft him and work with him and take a good athlete and see if we can make him a basketball player.’ But
Stu and Jack weren’t sure if he was ready.” The idea was to send Kersey to Europe for at least a year of seasoning while retaining his rights. “Bucky was adamant about getting another athlete who could run and jump,” says Harry Glickman, the franchise patriarch who was then the club’s general manager. “Stu liked another guy at (small forward) who was maybe a little bit better, but not much.” Ramsay, Inman and Buckwalter met with Kersey, telling him he was headed for Europe. The player had other ideas. Said Buckwalter: “Jerome told us, ‘No, I want to come to training camp. I’ll take the chance. I’m going to make the team.’ He wanted it very badly.” The Blazers had just traded for Kiki Vandeweghe, a scoring machine who would lead the team during that 1984-85 season with a 22.4-point average. Kersey won a job as a backup, finding rotation minutes on a crowded front line that included Mychal Thompson, Kenny Carr, Sam Bowie and Audie Norris. “Jerome was very raw, but he came to camp and just outworked everybody,” says Adelman, who became the Blazers’ head coach in February 1989 and took the club to NBA finals appearances in 1990 and ‘92. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been around a guy in the NBA who earned his way into the league with his hard work and determination as much as Jerome. I know I never coached anybody who played harder than Jerome did.” A year later, point guard Terry Porter of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was taken by Portland with the 24th pick in the first round. Over the next couple of summers, Petrie — then a shooting specialist coach — and Adelman spent countless hours working with the two prodigies. Full article online at portlandtribune. com
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ASOSU n Continued from page 1 sounds like it will be an interesting election,” said Tim Villasenor, a junior business major. “Especially with the seats and the whole thing with the CRCs (cultural resource centers).” Not only is there change in the House of Representatives, but there is potential for an amendment to change the Senate give each college at OSU a representative. “The election committee has been meeting,” Williamson said. “They have
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Oregon State women’s basketball will finish the season atop the conference standings. After shutting down Colorado for a 66-44 victory on Friday, the No. 7 Beavers also beat Utah, 52-42 on Sunday. Against Utah, junior guard Jamie Wiesner led the Beavers (25-2, 15-1 Pac-12) with 15 points on 4-of-9 shooting. She was followed closely by junior center Ruth Hamblin, who had 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting to go with eight rebounds and seven blocks. Hamblin’s performance down low provided a scoring boost against Utah (9-18, 3-13), as the Beavers were held well below their season averages in terms of shooting. The Beavers shot 38.3 percent from the floor, well below their Pac-12 leading average of 46.5 percent. The Beavers also shot 26.7 percent from long range, well below their average of 38.2 percent from three. However, as much as Utah slowed Oregon State, the Beavers slowed the Utes in equal or greater measure. The Beavers held Utah to 34.7 percent from the floor, and the team did not make a 3-pointer. Against Utah, the game was tied at 11 apiece as late as nine minutes See WOMEN’S HOOPS | page 6
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The Oregon State softball team repeated history over the weekend in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral, Calif., with almost the exact same results as the weekend prior: three wins, two losses, a revenge victory and a walk-off win on the final game of the road trip. The Beavers avenged a loss from earlier in the season to Cal Poly on Friday, breaking a 5-5 tie in the sixth inning for a 6-5 win. In the final game of the Classic, the Beavers blew a 10-4 lead over Nebraska in the final inning before adding the winning run in the bottom of the frame to take an 11-10 victory. A throwing error by the Cornhuskers — one of seven total errors between the two teams in the game — allowed junior third baseman CJ Chirichigno to score the winning
run. Junior right fielder Sammi Noland led the way against her former team with five runs batted in and a home run. OSU (11-5) is on pace to win as many games in the nonconference season alone as last year’s squad, which finished 18-31, claimed the entire year. Noland, who transferred from Nebraska for this season, only needed two hits to reach five RBIs, using a three-run shot to left field in the sixth inning to extend OSU’s lead. The Beavers’ dramatic win over Nebraska came just eight days after another walk-off win from the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego. In that game, OSU was down 5-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning to North Dakota State before pushing across five runs and stealing the 6-5 win. That contest also avenged a previous loss to NDSU. In the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic this weekend, the Beavers opened with a 6-5 loss to Kentucky See SOFTBALL | page 6
Wayne Tinkle did not know what to expect from his team following its first loss at Gill Coliseum Thursday against Utah. A lackadaisical shootaround before Saturday’s game led the first year head coach to challenge a couple of players to elevate their games against Colorado. One of the players who elevated his game was Gary Payton II, who — after a sit down meeting with coach Tinkle — stuffed the stat sheet in the Beaver 72-58 victory over Colorado to give them their 15th victory at home — a school record — and brought their three-game losing streak to a halt. “I always listen to him, we have those talks a lot,” Payton II said. “I try to bring the energy and leadership he says to bring and sometimes I may look like I’m not, but he always gives me a little pat on the butt and tells me to stay focused and I just turn and go.” The junior guard was electric on both ends of the court. On offense he scored 24 points, which was highlighted by a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer, and with two rim-rattling dunks in the final minute of the game to put an exclamation point on the victory over Colorado. Payton added five rebounds and four steals to go along with seven blocks, which helped the Beavers hold Colorado to 12 first half points on 3-21 shooting. “Amongst the staff we said ‘well, we will see what the guys bring,” Tinkle said. ”And I think that the defensive focus was great.” In the early minutes of the game it was junior forward Daniel Gomis who found multiple ways to score using the jump hook, tipping in missed
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Junior guard Gary Payton II goes up for the 360 dunk against the Colorado Buffaloes in Corvallis Feb. 21. shots and getting to the free throw line. “Pops,” as he is called by teammates and coaches, scored six of the Beavers’ first eight points. “Those baskets he got early in the game I thought were crucial because
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The Beavers finished their four game series in the Pac-12–Big-12 Tournament with a bang as they scored 15 runs in their 15-5 victory against the Kansas Jayhawks to cap off a 3-1 record in the eight team tournament in Surprise, Ariz. The Beavers (5-3) jumped on the Jayhawks early, scoring seven runs in the opening frame, forcing Kansas (2-5) sophomore right-handed pitcher Sean Rockoski to exit the game and not be able to complete the entire inning; the Beavers sent 11 bat-
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ters to the plate in the opening frame. In the fifth inning, first basemen KJ Harrison continued his hot start to the season with a fifthinning grand slam. The freshman from Hawaii has four homeruns and 13 runs batted in, all of which lead the team. Five different Beavers had at least two RBIs against Kansas, led by Harrison with five, junior centerfielder Jeff Hendrix, sophomore outfielder Scotland Church, along with freshman left fielder Joe Gillette and second baseman Christian Donahue — each batted two runners home. Sophomore right-hander Jake Thompson got the start against the Jayhawks, but struggled for the second consecutive game and was only able to last two innings, giving up three runs, while walking another two
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batters. But the Beaver bullpen picked up the slack, as they held Kansas to only two runs the final seven innings of the game. Junior right-hander Austin Woodward picked up the victory for the Beavers after 2.1 innings in relief of Thompson, while freshman right-handed pitcher Drew Rasmussen struck out seven Jayhawks in 3.2 innings. In the matchup of the orange and black — Oregon State against No. 19 Oklahoma State (1-3) last Thursday — junior right-hander Andrew Moore picked up his first win of season after going 6.1 innings, while freshman Mitch Hickey struck out the side to earn his first career save. Sophomore catcher Logan Ice and freshman third basemen Michael Gretler drove in two runs against the Cowboys, while Harrison chipped in with three hits. The Beavers picked up their third walk-off victory of the season Friday afternoon, when pinch hitter sophomore Billy King drove in the game winner off Kansas State redshirt junior righthanded pitcher Kyle Halbohn in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Beavers a 10-9 victory in a game that featured five lead changes. A three run homerun from Harrison ignited the Beavers as they jumped out and scored six
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runs in the bottom of the second. Kansas State, however, would not go away. The Wildcats countered the six run second inning by the Beavers, by scoring two runs in the third inning, and then exploded for five runs in the fifth to take a 7-6 lead. The lone Beaver loss of the four-day tournament came on Saturday against Oklahoma, when the Sooners scored nine runs off of freshman pitcher Luke Heimlich, as the Beaver come-
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before wins of 6-5 and 6-4 scores over Cal Poly and Nevada, respectively. A 14-5 loss to BYU gave way to the 11-10 win on Sunday over Nebraska. Junior pitcher Bev Miller earned the win Sunday against Nebraska, elevating her record to 6-4. She has pitched 66 of OSU’s 102.1 innings this season. Senior pitcher Melanie Dembinski is now 4-1 with a teambest 2.10 earned run average. Chirichigno’s winning run in the Nebraska game wasn’t her only contribution Sunday. She went 3-for-4 against the Cornhuskers with a home run, a double and two runs scored. She had struggled from the plate earlier in California, going a combined 0-for-8 at the plate in the previous three games. She had
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only 10 hits this season before the Nebraska game but used Sunday’s contest to raise her batting average to .277. Her eight walks are tied for second most on the team, and she leads her squad with 38 assists in the field. The constant for the Beavers this season, though, has been senior center fielder Dani Gilmore. Her 2-for-2 performance against Nebraska with three runs scored and a tworun home run boosted her season totals to a .451 batting average, 17 hits, seven doubles, 41 total bases, an .804 slugging percentage and a .563 on base clip, all of which are tops on her team. Her three home runs are exceeded only by four from Noland. In OSU’s last four games, Gilmore has gone 8-for-11 from the plate. Noland hasn’t been far behind with a .383 batting average, 18 hits, four doubles and 34 total bases, all surpassed only by Gilmore.
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back effort fell short in the 9-6 loss. Oklahoma scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning, then added another run in the second off of the left-hander Heimlich, which was his first loss of the season. It was a career day at the plate for Trevor Morrison. The sophomore shortstop reached base safely in all five of his at-bats after a 4-4 effort at the plate, including a walk. Designated hitter junior Gabe
to go in the first half. The teams had been jockeying for the lead until senior guard Ali Gibson hit a 3-pointer to put her team ahead, 14-11. From there, the Beavers would not relinquish the lead despite Utah’s best efforts. The lead never grew larger than 12 points, and the closest Utah cut the deficit was to four
points in the middle of the second half, so it was competitive the entire 40 minutes. Not so much against Colorado, which the Beavers started slowly against. A big first half from Colorado’s senior forward Jen Reese had the score tied at 26 going into halftime. Reese had 13 of her team’s points at the break. When the teams came back from the break, Colorado scored the first basket, but then it was all Oregon State. The Beavers held Colorado without a field goal for
Clark — who did not compete in the Surprise College Baseball Classic — drove in four of the six Beaver runs, including a threerun homerun in the seventh inning. After spending the last two weeks in Surprise, the Beavers return to Corvallis to play in their season opener when they host a three-game series against Grambling State starting Friday. Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathbone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
Her 19 RBIs, however, are supplanted by no teammate. The offense for OSU showed some consistency over the Classic, totaling at least four runs in every game and ending with exactly five runs three different times. In the two previous road trips, the Beavers were shut out once each time, but also reached double-digit scoring a total of four times. OSU only reached double digits once in Cathedral, but needed the extra scoring boost after the six runs given up the top of the seventh inning to Nebraska. The Beavers have two more road trips before the Pac-12 schedule starts, starting this Friday in Fresno and before the following week with a five-game escapade to Honolulu.
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like they did last week in their game against Oregon — cut into the Beavers’ lead.With under four minutes left in the game — after junior guard Xavier Johnson hit a three — the Buffaloes were within eight points. “We ended up getting a little casual,” Tinkle said. “But they (Colorado) have a great coach and a great team with some players who made some shots.” During the very next Beaver possession, after it looked like the they were running out of gas down the stretch, sophomore guard Malcolm Duvivier delivered the dagger as he elevated and hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key to push the Beaver lead back to 11 points; Colorado would not get within single digits the remainder of the game. “Coach always says ‘shoot the ball with confidence,’” Duvivier said. “I saw the guy back up and
the game’s final 9:27 and ended the game on a 15-3 run. Weisner was the leading scorer again on Friday. She had 17 points on 5-of-6 shooting and posted a double-double thanks to her 10 rebounds. Also scoring well against the Buffaloes was senior guard Ali Gibson, who had 14 points, and sophomore guard Sydney Wiese, who had 10. The size and strength of Colorado’s two star forwards, Reese and junior forward Jamee Swan, prevented Hamblin from being a factor. Hamblin picked
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think that I was going to drive, so I just let the ball fly. I hit two other shots early in the game and I was feeling it.” The win against Colorado was the Beavers’ 15th victory at home, which is a school record and an important accomplishment moving forward for the program. “It’s great for us, especially in the first year of coach Tinkle,” Duvivier said. “It was a great milestone for us to get to and a great stepping stone for what the future holds for this program.” The win also secures a winning season for the Beavers, only the third team to do so since 1990. The Beavers will try to keep their postseason hopes alive this week when they will travel to the Bay Area to take on Stanford on Thursday, before playing Cal on Sunday. Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathbone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
up four fouls in 15 minutes of play after scoring only two points and grabbing five rebounds. Reese and Swan, meanwhile, led the Buffaloes with 19 and 13 points, respectively. The Beavers have two games remaining on their regular season schedule. They will host No. 18 Stanford Friday at 6 p.m., and they will conclude the regular season at home against California Sunday at 3 p.m. Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter On Twitter @MitchIsHere sports@dailybarometer.com
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Elections need F participation t’s that time of year again. The Associated Students of Oregon State University elections kick off soon. Potential candidates are probably picking out their favorite suit combinations and ties and slicking back their respective hair. The horse and monkey suit show is about to begin. Students have a chance to file for office until Friday night of week nine, so there is the chance that these elections will yield some fresh, diverse individuals who aren’t from the exact same fraternity. Perhaps potential candidates will make a solid, feasible bid for diversity among their government and we will all get along and everyone will get a free pony with a jewel-encrusted saddle. But we aren’t optimistic. Student voter turnout for the ASOSU elections is notoriously low — only defying the norm last year when at least 15 percent of the student body decided to vote. That still left 85 percent who didn’t care or couldn’t be bothered with clicking a few buttons. We find it hard to blame them. Many of us have been here for a while now and we haven’t witnessed any groundbreaking changes from our student government through their various incarnations. It’s a shuffling of the deck of interchangeable white men with aspirations for political science who are associated with Greek Life who promise great change and reform in their campaigns, only to sit in their offices doing homework and sucking up student fees. We get that college is supposed to prepare us for the great ugliness of the world, the hard truths and whatnot. But at least our national government does things — even if it is sinking us into debt or winning wars. The services that ASOSU provides and endorses are good — SafeRide, Vote OR Vote — but the way the government is being run needs improvement. ASOSU could do so much more, promote so much more and be involved with students on campus. But we guess it’s easier to put one’s cowboy boots up on one’s desk and nap rather than facilitate change. At this point, we should probably incite you as students to make your voices known through vigorous voting, to show that the students of OSU still care and will be watching student government in all of its awkward waltzes. We do want you to vote. But we want you to do something more than that. We want you to run for office. We want you to get up and make a difference, and take a stand for what you believe in. It doesn’t matter if you have no political experience. Add some change to this system and make it yours.
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ormer New York Mayor and amateur beatbox champion Rudy Giuliani caused a firestorm of controversy on Wednesday by bringing into question President Obama’s love of America. Giuliani, a man who once ran a presidential campaign by coldly exploiting the victims and families of 9/11, said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America [...] He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.” Outrage over these comments was swift and came from both sides of the aisle. Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz called the attacks “ugly” and “personal,” Al Sharpton claimed the comments were proof that the former mayor needed a hug and Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took a brave stance by putting issue of Obama’s patriotism on the list of topics he won’t answer questions about alongside evolution, foreign policy, same-sex marriage and federal corn subsidies. In response to the outrage, Giuliani appeared on Fox News on Friday and clarified his remarks, stating he did not mean to question the president’s patriotism, he only meant to call into question Obama’s belief in American exceptionalism. “The reality is, from all that I can see of this president, all that I’ve heard of him, he apologizes for America, he criticizes America,” Giuliani told Megyn Kelly. He went on to say, “I believe his initial approach is to criticize this country, and then afterwards to say a few nice things about it.” Despite being less relevant to U.S. politics then the Whig party or Barry Goldwater conservatism, Giuliani’s point about Obama and American exceptionalism is spot on. Despite publicly declaring his belief in American exceptionalism no fewer than eight times in the last eight years, it is obvious Obama does not blindly worship this country in the same way real Americans do. I mean, we’re talking about a man who pushed for millions of Americans to receive affordable health care. There is absolutely no doubt he’s trying to undermine the country. In a recent survey of the health care systems of 11 major industrialized nations, America outperformed each of them when it came to inefficiency of care, cost of treatment and inequity. Why would a man who claims to love this country try to change that? In every single metric where the U.S. is the world leader, President Obama has attempted to take this country out of the number one spot. He has attempted to cut military spending, he’s tried to reduce student loan debt and he’s even taken measures to reduce our enormous prison population. At this rate, there will be nothing left that the U.S. excels in. Do we really want to live in a country that imprisons fewer people than North Korea or China? At least we’re still number one in reptile deaths and riding mower fatalities. No one can take those away from us. Luckily, there are brave men and women out there who still get aroused every time they hear the “Star-Spangled Banner” start to play. Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has been very vocal in his recent defense of American exceptionalism. In a recent speech to the American Principles See CHAMBERS | page 8
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Gov. Brown plans to keep death penalty moratorium By Hillary Borrud, Capital Bureau PORTLAND TRIBUNE
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown said Friday that she will continue Oregon’s moratorium on executions, a policy initiated in 2011 by former Gov. John Kitzhaber. Oregon needs to have “a broader discussion” about the death penalty and criminal justice system, the governor said. Kitzhaber put a moratorium on executions in 2011. There are 34
people on death row in Oregon. Brown made the announcements during her first press conference since being sworn in as governor on Wednesday, following Kitzhaber’s resignation amid criminal investigations into allegations of influence peddling by the governor and his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes. Brown, who was secretary of state before Kitzhaber’s resignation, said she will announce by March 6 the appointment of a new secretary of state to serve the
remainder of her term. The governor deflected a question about whether she will run for election in 2016, saying she needs to focus on the work at hand. Brown also fielded questions about her proposed ethics and public records reforms, and legislation approved by the state Senate this week that would make permanent Oregon’s lowcarbon fuel standard. Republicans have called for that bill to be put on hold pending investigations of Kitzhaber
and Hayes, because some of the groups that paid Hayes for consulting work have also worked on campaigns to support the fuel standard legislation. Brown declined to say whether she would sign the fuel standard legislation, Senate Bill 324, if it reaches her desk. But she did signal her support. “In terms of clean fuels, the Legislature passed the original clean fuels bill in 2009,” Brown said. “For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for
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DORBOLO n Continued from page 8 sample “test” in the same online environment so that you may check your system. If something technical does go wrong during an online exam, stay calm and immediately gather the information that you need to effectively report the problem; much of this information should be gathered before you take the exam. Course number and section, instructor’s name, Web browser brand and version number, computer operating system and version, the test that you are taking, the time that you started the test, the time that the issue occurred and a short factual description of what went wrong. Take screen shots of errors or alerts that occur when taking the exam; see my blog for suggested screen capture software. With this information in hand, call the OSU computer help desk at 541-737-3474 or send an email to osucomputerhelpdesk@oregonstate.edu; send the same information to your instructor. Do not assume that you are to blame, don’t panic and be civil, because support people are here to help you and causing them to share frustration and anger will not increase your chances of being helped. I believe it is likely that in your lifetime people will go to Mars where they must be prepared and trust their own competence in order to survive. By preparing your computer environment in advance and knowing your abilities you will be better able to succeed at online exams and will breathe easier under the pressure. t
Dr. Jon Dorbolo is the associate director of Technology Across Curriculum at Oregon State University. Dorbolo supports instructors and students with technology and teaches philosophy. The opinions expressed in Dorbolo’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Dorbolo can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
CHAMBERS n Continued from page 7 Project, Jindal denounced the recent move to teaching criticism of the United States in schools. “What happens when we stop teaching American exceptionalism to our students?” Jindal asked. “What happens when the American history they’re taught is not the one you and I were taught, but a history of grievances?” It’s a question worth asking. Especially with states like Oklahoma now attempting to ban history classes that teach unflattering or negative views of U.S. history.
What will happen when we stop teaching our children that America is the best country in the world and should be worshipped without question? What will happen when we start teaching them to think critically about the actions of our past? What happens when young people begin to follow in the shoes of radical socialists and Marxists like President Obama, demanding that the nation change to fulfill his vision of a better world? What happens then? t
Travis Chambers is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in Chambers’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Chambers can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.