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Oregon State University Provost and Executive Vice President Sabah Randhawa sits in his office on the sixth floor of the Kerr Administration Building.

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Provost Randhawa seeks cohesion in College of Engineering; says firing Fiez was Woods’ decision

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Oregon State University Provost Sabah Randhawa wants stability restored to the College of Engineering after a storm of leadership changes in various departments.

On Feb. 14, Randhawa told Sandra Woods, former dean of the College of Engineering, to step down. On Sept. 30, 2013, Woods fired Terri Fiez, department head at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, without warning.

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Heated discussions erupted among faculty and staff within the school, who then reached out to external industry partners for support.

As a result, Woods quickly told Fiez she could serve the remainder of her contract, which ended in June 2014.

Woods approached Randhawa and the deliberation began on whether or not to keep Fiez on as the school’s head.

“It was ultimately the dean’s decision,” Randhawa said.

Randhawa removed Woods as dean Feb. 14 after concluding the college’s structure lacked stability and needed to change its direction. Fiez was also told to step down as EECS department head.

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Visiting author Nathan Schneider visits Oregon State to talk ‘Occupy’ movement, redefinition of modern anarchy

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Nathan Schneider, author of “Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse,” gives a lecture Monday in the MU Journey Room.

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The Benton County Board of Commissioners is seeking to showcase local student talent.

This new student art program hopes to encourage artistic youth talent and strengthen the ties between the county, schools and the greater community.

Art instructors at local schools can nominate student art pieces and the selected pieces will be displayed at the Board of Commissioners Building in downtown Corvallis and at the Sunset Building in west Corvallis.

Quarterly, three to five pieces of art will be chosen for display in the public buildings as well as on the county’s web and social media sites.

Artists will receive public recognition and certification of selection at formal board meetings. Also, if the artists wish to submit to the Benton County Fair and Rodeo, the entrance fee for their work will be waived.

The theme of the art is open to artist choice, as long as the piece does not violate religious or political views, or discriminate against any individuals.

Fiez and Woods will maintain their tenure as faculty professors.

Scott Ashford, head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering, took over as dean. He will also serve as acting head for both EECS and CCE until an internal search for interim heads begin.

The first step toward stability includes locating these leaders for EECS and CCE, according to Randhawa. The overall process to select permanent department heads for the College of Engineering could take anywhere between six and eight months.

Nathan Schneider’s academic career focused on religious studies and social organizations, later venturing into political and social movements, which gave him the topic for his book, “Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

The book was the topic of one of two lectures Schneider gave at Oregon State University Monday evening in the Memorial Union Journey Room. Schneider attended Brown University and briefly University of California at Santa Barbara before leaving academia for journalism.

Roughly 40 students, faculty and interested community members came to hear Schneider speak on definitions of anarchy and the organizational starts of the 2011 “Occupy” movement that spread across the United States in the wake of the economic collapse of 2008.

“It’s really interesting because I would have never thought of orga-

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nization in the ways that we’re learning,” said Olivia Ponce, a third-year student in human development family sciences. “From what I was gathering from his lecture about the ‘Occupy’ movement … it functions on a very horizontal and consciousness-raising structure.”

Ponce attended the lecture as a part of the Theories of Community Organizing class in the peace studies program.

Students in the audience said Schneider’s views on the evolution and multiple definitions of anarchy stood out in the discussion.

“Remember than an American president was killed by an anarchist and another anarchist assassination set off World War I,” Schneider read from an excerpt he wrote for a collection of stories by Noam Chomsky.

“There are still unmarked gashes on buildings along Wall Street, left over from anarchist bombs. More usefully, and actually more dangerously, anarchists used to travel across the country, teaching industrial workers how to organize themselves and demand a fair share from their robber baron bosses.”

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victim flagged troopers down and said Zachary Gray, 18, punched him in the face and knocked out his tooth onlay. The victim was attempting to intervene in a dispute between Gray and his girlfriend when the punch was thrown. Gray was later arrested for disorderly conduct II, assault IV and minor-in-possession of alcohol.

Slam the door on the cops, get slammed Someone reported a large party near Adams Avenue and 11th Street. When Corvallis police arrived, approximately 50 people exited the house. Police tried to make contact at the door, it was slammed in response. Investigation revealed a party with a lot of minors and the owners continued to resist, so a search warrant was used. The five residents were eventually cited for 28 counts of housing a party for minors and 20 counts of furnishing alcohol to minors.

Saturday, February 22 on Ninth Street to buy some. At the meet, Tommie Willis Jr., 19, was arrested Self-accused after the detective identified him as the Oregon State police were notified of dealer. He was booked for delivery of a an allegedly intoxicated male who was scheduled substance II and possession continuously hitting the emergency of a scheduled substance II. blue light button at the intersection of Monday, February 17 Campus Way and 30th Street at 2:19 a.m.

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Triplex fire displaces Pendleton families

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Events Political Science Honor Society, 5:30-6:30pm, Gilkey 305. “Pizza and Politics” returns! Take a break from studying for the upcoming finals to eat pizza and discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. All are welcome!

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PENDLETON — The fire Sunday on Pendleton’s southeast section of town left several people homeless, but no one suffered serious injuries.

Alex Dean Radford, 26, and wife Danielle Atkins, 20, lived in one apartment of the splitlevel triplex. Radford said their cat — not much more than a kitten — knocked over a candle that started the fire at 801 S.E. Sixth St. He called 9-1-1 at 7:16 p.m. and fled.

“I didn’t grab my shoes or nothing,” he said.

Pendleton fire inspector John Lindstrom said a couple of people received treatment for inhaling smoke, but otherwise there were no injuries.

One cat, though, died.

Daylight illuminated the stark scene Monday morning. State fire marshal Scott Goff walked around Radford’s gutted apartment, using bluegloved hands to poke through the ash and cinder. Outside, glass and debris lay scattered on blackened grass and mud.

Wires and gutters hung loose.

A CenturyLink worker on a nearby pole was busy replacing a 40-foot section of telephone

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Firefighters mop up in a smoke-filled apartment after a fire burned through the structure on Sunday of Southeast Sixth Street in Pendleton. cable.

Lindstrom said he and Goff were not able to determine the cause of the fire but the cat may have played a role and possibly a heater.

Donald Ferguson reported he and his family lived in the

bottom level of the house, and another woman lived in the top level with her cat.

“My wife got out with the kids and our dogs,” he said in a written message. “We have a 4-year-old girl in a Spica cast and a 16-year-old boy. We will

be returning (Monday) to see if we can salvage anything from smoke and water damage. And try to find a place to live.”

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Q&A: Details of the PPS teacher contract State databases back online following cyberattack

By Rob Manning

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The 85-page agreement that averted what would have been a first-ever teachers’ strike in Oregon’s largest district is now before Portland teachers. Building-level representatives of Portland Association of Teachers learned details of the tentative agreement at a Monday meeting. They’ll share the contents of the contract Tuesday with rank-and-file teachers, in advance of a ratification vote, due to be finished Thursday night.

OPB’s education reporter, Rob Manning, got early access to the agreement from the teachers union and analyzed the contract.

1.) What are the biggest changes in the contract?

There are changes on nearly every page of this 85-page contract. But some of the biggest are: From the union’s standpoint, the biggest gain is the addition of 150 teaching staff. That’s 50 more at high schools, 70 more in elementary and middle grades, and 30 more in special education.

One of the parts that the school district had as a big priority was to phase out the early retirement incentives currently offered to teachers. Right now, it offers teachers who are eligible for retirement - but aren’t 65 yet, and therefore can’t qualify for Medicare - five years of health insurance and a monthly stipend. Under this agreement - teachers who have less than 15 years of experience by fall 2016 won’t be able to get early retirement when they get older.

The school district really wanted to extend the school year, and they’ve basically done that. But the Portland Association of Teachers got its way - that

the longer school year would be scaled back if there are budget cuts, before staff would be laid off. It works like this: there’s a “standard” calendar that’s the same length as the current school year.

There’s an “extended” calendar in teh contract, too, which adds two days to the year for the whole district, and could add another three days for “focus” and “priority” schools - those are schools that have been labeled that way due to their low test scores.

2.) What happens now?

Union leaders are briefing building representatives. Those reps will then go back to their buildings and brief teachers Tuesday. Because this is so complex an agreement, the union is also offering meetings Wednesday, for teachers to visit the union office and ask questions. Then the vote will be final on Thursday night.

The school board votes on Monday night.

PAT president Gwen Sullivan earlier today says the agreement reflects concessions and improvements for her members.

Her view is that their bottom line goal of improving things for students was accomplished. “It’s important to know that this contract was all about making things better on the ground,” says Sullivan. “And that - after we get finished with ratifying this contract - it’s far from over. It’s a first step into making things better on the ground, in the classroom.”

3.) What about the district’s view?

They’re not speaking on the record at this point, because they agreed not to until the deal is ratified.

Neither side wanted a strike, so I think on that score, they’re both happy. But both side wanted more, and both had to give in.

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PORTLAND — Two heavily-trafficked online databases maintained by the Oregon’s Secretary of State’s office were brought back online over the weekend.

That announcement comes nearly three weeks after administrators were forced to shut down the systems following a cyber attack.

Spokesman Tony Green says in the weeks since the attack, computer experts have made a number security enhancements, both to Oregon’s central business registry and to ORESTAR, which is the state’s campaign finance reporting system.

Green says it’s not clear what the hackers may have been after, but he says there’s no evidence that any personal financial information was compromised.

“The one thing we have urged users of our system to do..we’re requiring them to reset their passwords. We’re also urging them if they use that same password in another account to change it there as well,” said Green.

Green declined to say what’s known about those who carried out the attack, a question he said should be directed to the FBI. But on its website the agency says the attack appeared to be quote “an orchestrated intrusion from a foreign entity.”

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Inmate health care costs rising in Oregon

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KLAMATH FALLS — A mother and father from Klamath Falls have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of 2nd-degree manslaughter.

Danielle and Thomas Hevener were arrested last Thursday in connection with the death of their son, 18-month-old Jeffrey Hevener.

The toddler was found dead in their home on February 16th.

The medical examiner ruled the cause of death as accidental strangulation.

The DA says that while the death was not intentional, the

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parents may still be responsible. “We took our time with the facts on this, and had additional investigation, and interviews, and made the determination this was manslaughter by neglect.� said Klamath County District Attorney Rob Patridge. “The charges that were filed on this were manslaughter 2, criminal mistreatment on 5 counts for the 5 different children, and child neglect times 5.� said Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Detective Nick Kennedy.

Police say the couple had been locking their children in their bedrooms from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.

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Bryan Nguyen, R.N., fills cups with medication doses for inmates in the medical unit at the Marion County Jail.

A medically fragile inmate got pneumonia, which eventually killed him. Washington County was billed $200,000 for his hospitalization.

In Multnomah County, an inmate was taken to the hospital when he started throwing up blood due to an old gunshot wound that had damaged his bowels. He had two surgeries and a colostomy bag, was transferred to a long-term care facility for 21/2 months then taken to Multnomah County Inverness Jail. The costs of his care were $250,000 to $300,000.

Representatives of the health insurance industry, however, maintain that it is the government’s legal duty to provide and pay for the care of people in its custody. “It’s my understanding that providing health care is a requirement in the constitution for inmates,� Health Net’s Lisa Trussell said during a Feb. 12 committee hearing.

Myers said the Marion County Sheriff’s Office spends more than $2 million on inmate health care annually — making up 13 percent to 15 percent of the jail budget.

And the costs are rising. During the past year, Myers said, Marion County saw a nearly 12 percent

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increase in health care expenses. “My budget isn’t increasing, it’s staying flat,� he said. “As those costs go up, we have to look at other services like jail beds or patrol.�

Some examples of costly care the jail pays for are cardiac treatments, dialysis and pacemakers.

Washington County sees a lot of high-risk pregnancies with drug

and alcohol addicted women, according to written testimony.

Myers said as the jail’s health care costs rise quicker than it can afford, the only place it can cut is jobs. That would lead to a loss of patrol deputies in the community or jail beds. “That’s where we don’t want to go,� Myers said.

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PSU faculty at contract impasse

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PORTLAND — Just days after Oregon’s largest school district avoided a teachers’ strike, faculty at the state’s biggest university declared a contract impasse Monday.

Talks at Portland State University have gone on for months.

The president of PSU’s American Association of University Professors, Mary King, says teachers are through staying quiet.

King said, “For a long time, we did, not wanting to really wash any dirty linen in public. But we’ve reached the end of our patience on that, to take a stand in defense of the quality of education at Portland State.�

The union wants PSU to reduce its reliance on short-term instructors and to increase faculty wages. King says the union’s also defending its policy role at PSU. Administration officials say they’re committed to negotiating a settlement, but have procedures in the event of a strike.

Although mediated talks are continuing, an impasse declaration gives both sides a week to submit final proposals, followed by a 30-day cooling-off period. After that, the union could vote to strike - or the administration could impose its final offer.

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SALEM — Oregon’s county sheriffs, including Marion County Sheriff Jason Myers, are looking to the Oregon Legislature to alleviate the burden of inmate health care costs on their budget.

Even if jail inmates have health insurance when they get arrested, as soon as they’re incarcerated, benefits end.

The result is that sheriff’s offices, which already have been cash strapped in recent years, are footing the bill of often costly care of inmates. House Bill 4110 would require private insurance carriers to continue paying for policy holders’ care while they’re in jail pretrial, meaning they’ve been charged but not convicted.

The bill is currently in the joint budget committee, after having passed the House health care and rules committees.

Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, said during the health care committee work session that excluding pre-adjudicated inmates from benefits would amount to discriminating against them on the basis that they can’t make bail.

If it passes, it would apply to a pretty small portion of the jail population.

But when it comes to high-risk patients, capturing reimbursement for even one of them could pay for the salary of a deputy, said Darrell Fuller, general manager and lobbyist for the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association. “What kills us is when we get the $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 inmate,� Fuller said. “It takes one person to save $100,000 a year.�

Fuller said the association plans to head to Washington, D.C., to lobby for similar changes in federal law for inmates covered

by Medicaid and Medicare.

The sheriff’s association submitted examples to the House health care committee to help illustrate the type of medical services sheriff’s offices pay for.

They often cite having negotiated a significantly lower rate with medical providers.

An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge in Wasco County had surgery for a brain tumor then died of a heart attack. The bill: $300,000.

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Internal BLM memo recommends killing sick wild horses on range

By Vince Patton

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PORTLAND — An internal memo has surfaced that shows the U.S. government’s wild horse program is in dire financial trouble. It also calls for “drastic changes”including the possibility of killing sick horses on the range.

In August last year, Joan Guilfoyle called for an immediate halt to all roundups.

That’s something independent scientists called for last summer. This is the first time the public has learned that someone at Bureau of Land Management agreed.

Guilfoyle is not just anybody. She’s in charge of the BLM’s wild horse division.

The halt to roundups is one of several recommendations revealed because a wild horse advocate sought documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Debbie Coffey, Vice President of the Wild Horse Freedom Foundation, says the BLM sent her two versions of the memo, one with large sections blacked out. But a duplicate titled “Internal Working Document” were completely uncensored. She thinks BLM goofed.

“I saw they had given me an un-redacted version as well,” says Coffey. “So, just for fun, I decided to post that and let the public know what’s really going on.”

Coffey is most troubled by one of Guilfoyle’s

PROVOST n Continued from page 1 Woods was in the second year of her three-year term as dean, which Ashford will conclude. Administrators will then work with faculty and an outside organization to conduct a formal review near the beginning of year three.

These discussions allow faculty, staff and administrators to decide how they want to move forward.

“It gives us time to start the recruitment process,” Randhawa said.

Randhawa said it was the dean’s responsibility to conduct similar reviews for department heads who reach the end of their terms.

Since they stepped down before the end of their terms, neitherWoods nor Fiez received such a review before stepping down.

In addition, the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering will also search for a permanent department head following the departure of Greg Warr, who now works as a project director at the National Science

proposals.

In the memo, the division chief recommends that BLM should euthanize horses on the range “as an act of mercy if animals decline to neardeath condition as a result of declining water and forage resources.”

Coffey says, “Suddenly they’re going to kill off the wild horses because there’s a man-made drought cause by the BLM’s own mismanagement of our public lands. They need to rethink how they’re managing public land if they can’t sustain wild horses they have a mandate to protect.”

Coffey blames BLM for allowing other users of public land to use up so much water, leaving little for wildlife including horses.

The BLM has said in the past it is legally required to manage public land for multiple uses.

Oregon’s BLM wild horse officials referred our questions about the memo to the Washington DC office, which did not respond.

The recommendation to halt roundups was not followed.

In January of this year, the BLM signed two more contracts to continue roundups. They will cost taxpayers $12 million.

The memo suggests it could be another 20 years before the BLM is able to sustainably manage wild horses on the range.

Foundation. Joe McGuire, CBEE professor, currently serves as interim head.

Martin Erwig, professor from EECS said he sees the decisions made Feb. 14 like a repeat in history and doesn’t understand how they could create additional stability.

“That doesn’t make sense to me,” Erwig said.

Erwig said it was probably a good decision to have Woods step down. However, many faculty and staff still seem confused with Randhawa’s decisions.

“We were all not happy about what happened in the fall,” Erwig said. “And I think many people are still not happy with where we are now.”

Erwig said additional discussions will take place between EECS staff and faculty on how to move forward and handle the matters at hand.

“I honestly don’t know what will happen,” Erwig said.

Randhawa said both he and OSU President Ed Ray remain committed to shared governance.

“We’re very transparent in terms of almost everything we do,” Randhawa said.

Personnel matters, Randhawa said, can be sensitive and may not always involve shared gov-

ernance. In addition, he said he did reach out to faculty senate leaders.

When the initial removal of Fiez occurred in September 2013, Randhawa said there wasn’t enough time for Woods to put her decision in proper context for others.

“The entire industry was on our case because the decision got leaked, in a sense,” Randhawa said.

Ashford, who is now operating as dean of the college and head of two departments, said he values integrity, teamwork and an understanding of OSU’s land-grant mission for the prospective new department heads.

As a strong advocate for shared governance, Ashford said he believes staff and faculty at each school will participate in discussions about new department heads once the national search for permanent candidates begins.

Ashford said he met with engineering faculty almost every day last week.

“It’s been a tough week for everybody,” Ashford said.

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FIRE n Continued from page 2 the night when the fire took off. Four-year-old Kassidy lay on the love seat, the cast covering her left leg and half her right. Nathan Vandusen was in his bedroom. Tammy prepared a snack in the kitchen. Suddenly, pounding on the front door invaded the quiet. It was Radford, a new neighbor whom she had never met.

“He said, ‘The house is on fire. You’ve got to get out,” he said.

Tammy wrangled her children and dogs into the car and pulled it farther down the street.

Today, she feels disbelief at how quickly disaster happened.

“Our apartment was a complete loss,” she said. “All the water they pumped on the fire flooded our apartment. We lost all our furniture and our clothing.”

She said she feels gratitude to her husband’s co-workers at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution who footed Sunday night’s hotel bill and Red Cross, which is paying for meals and three more nights of lodging.

ANARCHY n Continued from page 1 varied applications of the term “anarchist” and how flexibly it is used to describe those who fight against cultural norms.

“Anarchism is a corner backed into, rather than a conscious choice,” Schneider said. “An emphatic last resort and a fruitful one. It permits being political outside the red and blue confines of what is normally referred to as politics in the United States, without being doomed to a political party’s inevitable betrayal.”

Alyson Wade, a first-year student in the wood science and engineering master’s program, enjoyed the comparison of anarchism to “a corner backed into.” “(It’s a) different way of looking at and understanding anarchy —” Wade said, “what that means to us now, our generation versus what it meant

Pamela Dye, friend of the Fergusons, said she and Stacey McCorkel, their relative, set up a relief fund for the family at Bank of the West, Pendleton. Day also said people can contact her at 541-377-3208 or McCorkel at 541-2153405 to donate clothing or other physical items.

Radford returned to the place Monday morning. Fire, water, ash and soot ruined almost everything, he said, but he found two pair of shoes and a basket of clothes. They were wet and smelled of smoke, he said, but would work after a good washing. Monday morning Atkins’ Great Dane also returned to the home.

The couple did not have renter’s insurance, Radford said. Atkins moved into the apartment a month ago, and Radford moved in just last week. For now, though, he said he was OK and planned to get back to work at his job at the Sinclair service station on Southgate, Pendleton.

Victoria Calvert of Pendleton started fundraising for “Alex and Danille’s starting over” using gofundme.com. Calvert set a $5,000 goal there to help the couple.

to other generations or other things in the past.”

She referenced the confusing state of American politics and how the United States is a complex blend of democratic, republican, socialist and capitalist ideas.

“We’re kind of just rejecting all of that and saying we just need to find a new way to do things and so we’re going to start from nothing, which is anarchy, and move forward from there,” she said.

When it came to the “Occupy” movement, Schneider explained, organizers had intended to come together with a single demand and see that demand fulfilled.

In the end, though, the movement became more about raising awareness of the issues at hand.

“Positive and negative statements, principles, beliefs, commitments, but not necessarily demands,” Schneider

said. “It was upon those that the movement really built itself, developed its energy, became a place where, in New York City and in cities all around the country, people poured their creative energy.”

When asked if the “Occupy” movement could be seen as a failure or a success, Schneider said it depended on how it is looked at.

“The kind of perceived failure of the movement is kind of, ‘You made this big stink about say corporate personhood,’” Schneider said. “Well, we still have corporate personhood.

So what I’m suggesting is that the success was in promulgating these ideas and in creating a framework for this society to talk about inequality and to aspire toward something different … and the failure was in not satisfying that longing.”

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Oregon State men’s basketbal head coach Craig Robinson watches the action Thursday against Washington State in Gill Coliseum.

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mity of the situation” game.

“I’m trying to anticipate your question of why do I think this happened,” Robinson said to reporters after the Grady game. “I don’t know, but if I had to The Beavers, their sixth-year coach guess, I suspect it’s the enormity of surmised, couldn’t handle the presthe situation.”

4th and 5 sure of playing with something on the It’s tough to disagree with that line. So used to playing late-season assessment. games that don’t really matter, OSU Inside OSU men’s basketball The fact that OSU got outreboundcrumbled when it could have moved It was Washington 86, Oregon ed, 43-23, wasn’t a product of a lack of one step closer to the program’s first effort. The Beavers didn’t quit.

State 62. respectable postseason tournament “I don’t think we’re checked out But I’ll remember it as the “enor- — we have too much at stake,” since 2005.

Robinson said. “The enormity of uncharted territory can sometimes be overwhelming.”

In 2012, the Beavers were 15-10 overall and 5-8 in conference through 13 conference games. The Beavers entered Saturday’s contest 14-11 overall and 6-7 in conference.

Technically speaking, this season qualifies as uncharted territory since those records aren’t identical.

Washington didn’t come into Gill Coliseum and run OSU out of the gym because it had two days to prepare for the game in comparison to OSU’s one.

“If I really thought this was an extra day issue, I would say,” Robinson said. “I really think, like I said, there’s a lot riding on everything we do. This is the first time for anybody in this group at Oregon State to have this much riding this late in the game.”

A Pac-12 Tournament semifinal game pales in comparison. After upsetting top-seed Washington in the 2012 Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals, the Beavers led Arizona by seven at halftime and were 20 minutes from advancing to the championship game.

Actually, Robinson would probably take an appearance in a Pac-12 Tournament championship game over a 7-7 conference record, so I must be misinterpreting that quote.

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No. 4 Oregon State eked out a 3-2 win Monday against Washington in the Beavers’ fourth and final game in Surprise, Ariz.

Oregon State (6-2) fell behind 1-0 after a solo home run in the third inning, but rallied in the fourth inning.

Junior left fielder Michael Conforto and junior right fielder Dylan Davis grounded out to start the inning, but senior first baseman Kavin Keyes followed with a single and eventually scored on a double from freshman catcher Logan Ice. OSU junior Michael Howard and Ice would later score, making the score 3-1 in Oregon State’s favor.

Freshman right-hander Jake Thompson, making his second career start, threw 6 2/3 innings

of one-hit baseball, allowing one earned run and pushing his record to 2-0 in the process.

Freshman right-hander Kevin Flemer then threw two innings before sophomore left-handed reliever Max Engelbrekt replaced him in the ninth inning.

UW singled in a run, cutting OSU’s lead to one, but freshman righthander Chandler Eden ended the threat by inducing a groundout to give the Beavers a 3-2 victory.

Oregon State dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in the national rankings after dropping two games earlier in the weekend during the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge, but bounced back to win the final two contests.

The Beavers are back in action Friday when they start a four-game homestand against Wright State, their first time playing in Goss Stadium in 2014.

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three blocks and three assists.

Hamblin leads the Beavers in rebounds and blocks this season, averaging 8.7 and 3.7, respectively.

She’s also third on the team in scoring at 10 points per game.

Hamblin’s play has helped spark the Beavers to seven straight wins Hamblin and third place in the Pac-12 standings with two games to play before THE DAILY BAROMETER the start of the Pac-12 Tournament.

Sophomore center Ruth Hamblin At 19-9 and 11-5 in the Pac-12, is the Barometer Athlete of the week Oregon State has a chance to qualify for the second time this year after for the NCAA Tournament. two impressive performances in Gill The Beavers look to keep their winColiseum over the weekend. ning streak alive Friday when they Against Washington State Friday, host Arizona at 7 p.m., followed by Hamblin led the Beavers to vic- another home contest with Arizona tory with 15 points, 15 rebounds, State Sunday at 1 p.m. six blocks and an assist. She led the After that, OSU heads to the PacBeavers in points and rebounds.

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Women’s golf sets school record Oregon State beat the previous school record by 10 strokes at Westbrook Spring Invitational Monday

Telles shot 1-over 73 all three rounds of the tournament, and Saelee had scores of 70-75-74—219.

Senior Lauren Sewell and junior Anica Yoo each finished with a 5-over 221 to tie for 39th place. Sewell shot 4-under 68 to tie a school record in the opening round and followed that THE DAILY BAROMETER up with 76-77. Yoo got better each round with After a slow start to the tournament, the 76-73-72.

Oregon State women’s golf team beat its previous Freshman Krissy Peterson got her first start three-round school record by 10 strokes. with the Beavers, and she finished in a tie for The Beavers posted a 10-over 874 at the 55th with a 9-over 72-78-75—225.

Westbrook Spring Invitational, which concluded Ohio State finished first, shooting a 281-278Monday.

279—838 while Pac-12 rival Oregon placed The previous three-round school record was second, shooting a 279-274-295—848. a 20-over 884 at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Behind Oregon State and Indiana’s sixth Kauai, Hawaii, in 1998. place, Wisconsin placed third and the College of The Beavers completed the 54-hole tourna- Charleston and Nebraska tied for fourth. ment with a 10-over 283-297-294—874 at the The Beavers will play again next week at the par-72, 6,269-yard Westbrook Village Golf Club Bruin Wave Invitational in Tarzana, Calif., beginand managed to tie for sixth with Indiana in the ning Monday.

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Senior David Fink led the way for Oregon State, placing 10th overall in Palm Springs, Calif.

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In the Wyoming Cowboy Desert Intercollegiate over the weekend, the Oregon State men’s golf team finished in fifth place and senior David Fink tied for 10th individually Sunday.

Fink was the leader of the tournament in the second round, but continued to shoot a 4-over 76 to end the tour-

nament. He posted another top-10 finish with a 4-under 69-67-76—212 at the par-72, 7,305-yard Classic Club.

As a team, the Beavers fell down the rankings as they shot a 1-over 289 Sunday after shooting back-to-back 5-under 283s the first two days to finish fifth with a 9-under 855.

Pac-12 rival Oregon finished first with a 27-under 837 and Colorado finished second with a 24-under 840.

Freshman Kevin Murphy placed second and junior Scott Kim placed third individually for the Beavers (behind Fink) Sunday, with Murphy posting

a 2-under 70 and Kim shooting a 1-under 71. Murphy finished in a tie for 19th place with a 3-under 70-73-70—213 and Kim improved eight spots into a tie for 42nd with a 1-over 74-7271—217 in the tournament.

Junior Alex Franklin also tied for 42nd with a 1-over 72-7174—217 and sophomore Brian Jung finished with an 8-over 72-78-74—224.

The Beavers will play next on March 10 at the San Diego Intercollegiate in San Diego.

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T-Rob to rescue for undersized Blazers

By Kerry Eggers PORTLAND TRIBUNE

PORTLAND — As they offered high-fives, back-slaps and butt-pops in the Trail Blazers’ locker room Sunday night, Thomas Robinson’s teammates had a nickname ready for him.

“We were joking around, calling him ‘Thomas Aldridge,’ “ Damian Lillard said.

Robinson is not be confused with LaMarcus Aldridge, Portland’s All-Star power forward, who was missing for the third straight game with a groin injury.

But Robinson was the man of the hour, contributing 14 points, a career-high 18 rebounds and some important defensive work on Kevin Love in the Blazers’ come-from-behind 108-97 victory over Minnesota at the Moda Center.

The Blazers (38-18) are woefully shorthanded up front with the injuries to Aldridge and reserve centers Joel Freeland and Meyers Leonard. It leaves Aldridge and Robinson as the only true 4-5’s on the roster.

The 6-10, 240-pound Robinson was up to the task Sunday night in a virtuoso 33-minute performance off the bench, one that left him deserving at least sharing the game ball with Lillard, who had another splendid outing with 32 points.

“He was huge for us,” Lillard said. “He went out and got a lot of rebounds outside of his box.

He had a lot of tough finishes, ran the floor, protected the paint. He made some big-time plays that came at the perfect time.”

Robinson, the fifth pick in the 2012 draft, is on his third team in his second NBA season.

The former Kansas great came into Sunday’s game averaging 4.3 points and 3.8 rebounds, with flashes of brilliance sur-

rounded by longer moments of mediocrity.

Coach Terry Stotts said Robinson -- who finished 6 for 13 from the field -- provided “a little bit of everything. His toughness with Kevin Love. … his physicalness in the paint was important for us. He was getting rebounds in a crowd.

The way we finished the first half set the table for the second half, and Thomas was a big part of that. That’s how we need him to play, and he knows that.”

Minnesota (27-29) got the drop on Portland, jumping to leads of 22-11 and 46-30 and 52-34 and finally 60-44 with 2 1/2 minutes left in the first half.

The Blazers closed the half with an 8-0 flurry though, to get within 60-52 at the break.

The second half was all Portland’s, as the flustered Timberwolves -- playing the second of back-to-back games after a 121-104 win at Utah Friday night -- shot only .326 and scored 37 points after intermission.

“The second half was really exciting,” Stotts said. “I loved the energy. It was a very good defensive half for us. Our attitude, our demeanor coming out at halftime was what made the difference.”

Minnesota coach Rick Adelman saw it another way.

“We got tired in the third quarter,” the former Blazer boss said. “Playing a back-to-back and an early game today, it’s just one of those things you have to live with in this league.”

Love -- who entered the game off the first triple-double of his career with 37 points, 12 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists at Salt Lake City -was on fire early, sinking 5 of 5 shots and scoring 13 points in the first nine minutes. The Lake Oswego High grad cooled from there, but still finished with 31 points and 10 boards

despite serving as the focus of Portland’s defense during his 35 minutes on the court.

Robinson was one of four players who spent time guarding Love.

“You can’t let up when you’re guarding somebody like Kevin Love,” Robinson said. “I just wanted to be in tune and ready for him at all times. Never know what he’s got in the bag.”

Robinson and Victor Claver teamed to hold Love to 14 points in the second half.

“I can’t say (Robinson) shut down Kevin Love, but he made him work,” Portland’s Nicolas Batum said. “He showed who he is. He can be a good player in this league, for sure.”

Robinson’s career rebounding night was by design on a night when the Blazers had precious little otherwise inside.

“It was just me going after the boards, making the effort, attacking the glass,” he said. “we’re short a couple of bigs so I have to help out. That’s all that was.”

Robinson had the defensive play of the night, a sensational block of a Corey Brewer dunk attempt early in the fourth quarter that turned into a Will Barton dunk off a lob pass the other way, a 10-second sequence that brought the house down.

“That lifted something up under us,” Lillard said. Brewer “tried to go dunk on T-Rob, and T-Rob sent it back the other way. And then it went straight into a lob. Another energy play, him hustling back and going back to get that block.”

Said Robinson: “It was a timing thing. I wanted to go get it.

When I did, it gave me a rush.

Adrenaline shot through me.

I was hyped. Probably said a bunch of stuff -- don’t remember what I said. After Will scored on the dunk, it made the play even better.”

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1. No. 5 Stanford (26-2, 15-1 Pac-12)

7. Washington State (15-13, 9-7)

against Arizona State, USC, Washington and Washington State, which are all solid teams.

9. Colorado (15-12, 5-11)

Guards Lia Galdeira and Tia Presley were phenomenal in a track meet With Stanford’s latest victory, it has clinched with Oregon. They won 108the best record in the conference. It’s the 14th 88 behind Presley’s 32 points straight year that the Cardinal and Galdeira’s 27. What hurts are either Pac-12 champion or the Cougars is that outside of co-champion. those two players, there aren’t Their only remaining games are as hosts to Washington and a lot who opponents need to watch out for.

Washington State. The Huskies, 8. UCLA (12-16, 6-10) coincidentally, are the only Pac-12 team to Wins have been hard to come by for the beat Stanford, so the Cardinal will be looking Bruins, who have just two to avenge that earlier defeat. wins in their previous nine games. They have three 2. No. 18 California (20-7, 12-4) outstanding players in forWinners of six games in a ward Atonye Nyingifa, and row, the Golden Bears have guards Thea Lemberger and held steady as the second-best team in the conference. Their Nirra Fields, but like the Cougars, they get only winning streak includes wins small contributions from the rest of the team.

3. Oregon State (19-9, 11-5)

The Beavers love February. They are a perfect 7-0 during the month, and they’ve won every game by 10 or more points. In their latest game against Washington, the Beavers looked virtually unstoppable, holding a lead as large as 31 points. Everything is coming together at the right time for this young team, and they could do some serious damage in the Pac-12 Tournament.

4. No. 20 Arizona State (22-6, 11-5) The Sun Devils followed a three-game losing streak with consecutive wins against Colorado, 55-51, and Utah, 60-40.

They’ve lost a few puzzlers throughout the season, including a surprising loss to the cellar-dweller Wildcats. Still, this team is loaded with contributors at all spots on the floor.

It’s been quite the year for the Buffaloes.

They opened the season with nine consecutive nonconference wins and were at one point ranked as the No. 11 team in the nation.

Since then, they’ve gone 6-12 and are 1-3 in their last four games.

They have one of the worst records in the Pac-12, and their blazing start is nothing but a distant memory.

10. Oregon (13-14, 4-12)

The Ducks have one of the most potent offenses in the entire nation, averaging 93.3 points per game, but they don’t have the defense to capitalize on it, as they allow 89.6 points per game. So despite the fact that they put up 100 points against Washington and 88 against Washington State, they ended up losing both games.

The Ducks have lost five games in a row, but will wrap up their season against Arizona, which they’ve beaten this year.

11. Utah (11-16, 4-12)

The Utes are the exact opposite of the Ducks. They feature one of the lowest scorPrior to this weekend, the Trojans were in ing offenses in the league (60.6 a three-way tie for third place in the Pac-12 points per game), as well as one with Oregon State and Arizona State. But of the better defenses (64.3). thanks to losses to Stanford However, like the Ducks are and California, they tumble to a finding out, basketball requires three-way tie for fifth place with offense and defense. Just having one or the Washington and Washington other is not a winning strategy. The Utes are State, and USC is 2-6 in its last 1-6 in their last seven games, with their sole eight games. win coming against Arizona.

The good news for them is that the 12. Arizona (5-22, 1-15) Washington schools each face Stanford and The good news for Arizona is that its California to end the season, while the Trojans nightmare season is almost over. Multiple get to play Utah and Colorado. players tore their ACLs, and 6. Washington (16-11, 9-7) multiple others either transDespite being the only Pac-12 team to hand ferred schools or quit the team Stanford a loss, the Huskies entirely. Playing with a mere got worked by the Beavers seven players on their active in their most recent game, roster, the Wildcats did manage to secure a 77-57. Their road gets tougher win against Arizona State, but that lone win from there as their final two was surrounded by 15 losses. games are road matches against Stanford Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter and California.

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GARRETT n Continued from page 5 Hallice Cooke and Langston Morris-Walker were still in high school in March 2012, Robinson’s technically right — even if Roberto Nelson, Angus Brandt, Devon Collier and Eric Moreland each played significant minutes in the 2012 Pac-12 Tournament.

The Beavers’ loss Saturday wasn’t a result of them taking the game lightly. With a 5-1 record in conference home games, they didn’t think they could beat the Huskies just by showing up.

“I don’t think the confines have anything to do with what happened out there,” Robinson said. “We shot (40.9) percent from the foul line … that’s a good indicator of nerves.”

The nerves must not have been as abundant when the Beavers shot 48 percent from the field in a 71-67 win over UCLA on Feb. 2. After all, that wasn’t an absolute must-win game.

Hypothetically speaking, OSU could have lost to UCLA and still gone on to finish with a 13-5 conference record. Saturday’s game, meanwhile, was a must-win — a loss ended any hope of receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

And Saturday’s result didn’t come down to OSU’s inability to slow down Washington’s CJ

Wilcox (23 points) and Nigel Williams-Goss, who followed up last month’s 32-point outburst versus OSU with a 14-point, 10-assist effort.

“We didn’t want Nigel to get 32, but CJ had his normal game,” Robinson said. “This is a game where we could spread the wealth on what happened wrong. As I said earlier, I really believe we got caught up in the enormity of the situation and it might have been overwhelming.”

Never mind the fact that basketball players are measured by their ability to perform under pressure. And never mind the fact that at some point in their basketball careers, each of OSU’s 13 scholarship players shone in the spotlight — otherwise they wouldn’t have received a Division I scholarship.

The bummer with the way postgame press conferences are set up is that players speak before Robinson, so you don’t get the chance to ask them about the points their coach makes.

So for now, we just have to take Robinson’s word for it.

Not that his argument doesn’t make perfect sense, right?

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To curve or not to curve: Do professors’ grading methods hurt you?

Provost to blame Grading on a curve helps for continuing poor test-takers to succeed EECS conflict M rovost Sabah Randhawa is going back on what he said, weaving a tangled web of words in the wake of the most recent upheaval in the College of Engineering.

When we say “most recent,” we mean when Randhawa let Sandra Woods go as Dean of the College of Engineering on Valentine’s Day, though she stayed on as a tenured professor.

Woods was the one who fired Terri Fiez from her position as head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science back in September.

Fiez was the head of EECS, and when she was fired from the position back in September, the administration agreed that she would stay on until the end of the school year — after the students, staff and faculty of EECS kicked up a fuss.

However, when Woods was fired, Fiez was removed as head of EECS — effective immediately.

As well as being the brand-new dean of the College of Engineering, Scott Ashford is currently the acting head of both EECS and the School of Civil and Construction Engineering. The School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering also only has a temporary head right now, though it’s an interim position rather than an acting one.

Amazingly, it isn’t Ashford.

Oregon State University prides itself on its College of Engineering. Our mascot builds dams, for Pete’s sake. But if the school wants to keep attracting exemplary and exceptional students and keep being courted by large companies, it needs to step up.

Last term, Randhawa kept saying that Fiez’s firing was a decision made and supported by the administration. Now, however, he’s saying that her firing was ultimately ex-Dean Woods’ decision, and that Woods was the one who had brought the topic up in the first place.

Someone’s playing the blame game.

And he’s not the only one.

But the people brave enough to accuse Randhawa of being the cause, as well as the catalyst, are some outspoken EECS faculty and a couple of anonymous commenters on the online version of our Feb. 19 editorial, “Will Ashford’s appointment end the EECS controversy?”

The commenters requested that “OSU’s Napoleon” step down in order to stop the endless string of controversies in the administration.

This was a problem. Randhawa was at the root of from the start — Woods may have started it, but Randhawa ended it.

He was always visible whenever it escalated.

Eventually, due to what we assume was pressure from elsewhere in the administration, Randhawa cut the cord — Woods didn’t last long after that.

Randhawa needs to take some responsibility for this situation, instead of finding the next target of for his deflections. And he needs to do it soon, for the sake of this fine college’s stability and credibility.

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ethods of grading are always going to be controversial.

But not all methods of grading are created equal.

Because of its rules of relativity, grading on a curve promotes a healthy competition in the classroom. But in most scenarios when a professor or instructor grades on a curve all test scores are bumped up, which ultimately means that curving helps everyone.

The most common concern for this type of grading is the possibilGabi ity of ruthless competition between students and the potential unfairness of relative test scores.

“Traditionally, grading on the curve has been viewed as motivational by teachers because it fosters competition,” Kit Richert wrote in “Why Grading on the Curve Hurts.”

But it’s not all about great students flushing out the average ones. Consider the bad test-takers out there. I’m sure all of those poor, nervous people — myself included — are stoked to have a better chance of earning a better grade, even if it means you get a low “B” instead of a high “C.” Poor test-takers would do worse in school if it weren’t for the curve, regardless of how much they’ve learned in the class.

I understand that if the curve were extensively assessed, melodramatic conclusions could be made about it.

The example of Peter Frohlich, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, comes to mind. In 2005, Professor Frohlich’s classroom boycotted one of his final exams because of his infamous curve-grading. They gathered among themselves and decided they would skip out on the exam so that they could all get “A’s” by receiving a 0 percent grade.

Touche, Professor Frohlich’s students. But you don’t need to be so dramatic. Boycotts can be organized and followed through on, sure — but we’re in school to learn, not to plot elaborate schemes to get out of doing work or to prove our professors wrong.

Not every professor grades on a curve, but maybe the ones that do are preparing us for our future in a competitive world. We don’t have to be cutthroat about it, but the cold, hard truth is that the career world is full of competition.

Maybe learning how to do your best while being professional and levelheaded is a better use of your time than plotting out diabolical schemes to boycott the hard things in life.

Curve-grading generates a hard-working attitude from students and offers poor testers a chance at better exam results. Of course, we can find a bone to pick with this grading method, but flaws can be found in every corner of academia.

Embrace curve grading. It’s not out to get you. It’s only trying to help.

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Grading on a curve doesn’t fix deeper problems behind students’ grades

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he first time I ever experienced someone attempting to cheat off my paper was during an inclass quiz. Two gentlemen flattered me with the thought that I was smarter than they were because I had done the reading and knew where Latvia, Czechoslovakia and Romania were located on the map.

Angered that my hard work might benefit a couple of slackers, I wrote down a majority of wrong answers, waited for the two to turn in their quizzes and then erased my facetious answers and corrected my mistakes.

I did well, they did poorly, and my vengeance was complete.

As a result, I have never reacted well to the idea of someone who did not put in the same amount of effort Cassie unequally benefiting from my work.

I don’t doubt that the majority of students here at Oregon State University are hard workers. We’re here on our own dime (or our parents’ or the government’s, if we’re so lucky), and I think most of us understand the incredible importance of our grade point average.

In some cases, one point can determine whether you get to stay in school and get your degree, or if you have to compete in our rat-race of a minimum-wage job market.

That’s a lot of stress to contend with on a daily basis. Ultimately, it means when you get an “A” in a class, you know that you earned that sucker with your blood, sweat, tears and voluntary insomnia.

Coming from that perspective, I can almost understand grading students on a curve. On the Brigham Young University website, instructors were asked why they curved grades.

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The answers were basically that students were more motivated to study if they understood that only a few people will get “A’s” — that grading on a curve was a way to guard against grade inflation and that some instructors wanted to soften the blow of high-stakes exams.

While I agree with the second and third points, the concept of curving as a study motivator just doesn’t cut it.

Human performance doesn’t fit a standard bell curve. A study by Herman Aguinis at Indiana University, found that rather than having a few folks who fail, a few who succeed and the majority falling in between, the majority of the test group proved successful rather than average.

Those statistics suggest that when a bell curve is applied to an overall class in an attempt to soften the bad grades for the students who didn’t do so well and to raise the grades of folks who almost made it, it doesn’t work. Instead, it hurts the “average” group who would do well normally.

Sometimes there are awful classes, in which no one does well except the chosen few who magically understand the subject. In those situations, a curve can mean the difference between passing or retaking the course.

In these cases, the overall instruction and student level of participation needs to be re-evaluated. Do the majority of students not show up to lecture, or ignore the lecture in favor of gossiping with friends? Is the instructor unhelpfully difficult, or refusing to give assistance based on preconceived notions of student performance?

In the end, a wide variety of factors can affect a student’s GPA, self-caused and otherwise.

Trying to cover this up with bell curves is like trying to fix a severed limb with a Band-Aid. In the long term, no one learns anything, and we all turn into the Black Knight from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” thinking that yes, we are invincible. t

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Our picks for the 2014 Academy Awards Warner

Here at the Arts & Entertainment page, we’ve covered everything from the best films of 2013 Shelly to Ricky Gervais’ pet projects. We love pop culture, and there is not one day in the year more important in the pop culture world than the Academy Awards.

My Name is That’s why in this edition of A&E, the two of us have hijacked the entire page to provide you, the loyal readers you are, with an extensive breakdown of this year’s eight most important Oscar categories. If you’re not as big a fan of watching the Oscars, don’t fret, this can at least be a motivator to go to watch some of the best performances in film of the past year.

These are our picks. Those smart people in Las Vegas, and those who are paid much more handsomely than we are to review films, have already enlightened us on which actors and films are probably going to win. But that’s not as fun. Without further ado, we present our picks for the 2014 Academy Awards.

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Best Director: Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”

This film is about a free black man living in the North who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-emancipation South. It is nothing but profound.

Based on a true story, it’s gritty and real. It’s not afraid to portray the horrors of slavery in the most uncomfortable and seatsquirming of ways.

Technically, “12 Years a Slave” is beautifully realized.

The set design, costumes, cinematography and actors hold nothing back. Director Steve McQueen has created a raw, breathtaking view of the American South in the mid-1800s, saturating the screen with color and the theater with sound.

Since it’s adapted — from a memoir, even — the story is rich with detail and heart-wrenching depth. The protagonist, Solomon Northup, manages never to lose his humanity as he struggles within the brutality of his circumstances, yet still fully realizes a complete 180-degree character shift.

Supporting actress nominee Lupita Nyong’o adds to the depth of his journey, managing to steal the show for a few enthralling minutes.

This isn’t necessarily enjoyable to watch, but it is amazingly done in an unforgettable way. This year’s Best Picture nominees are all deserving (except “Captain Phillips”), but we have a clear No. 1 choice: “12 Years a Slave.”

What will actually win: “12 Years a Slave”

Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort, the character DiCaprio plays in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is by far the most hateable in this list of five nominees. That’s saying a lot, considering that list includes a homophobic cowboy, a sleazy con man and an alcoholic, absentee father.

But Belfort is the poster child for why Communism isn’t such a bad idea.

Still, DiCaprio is phenomenal as Belfort, and while it appears the voters are favoring Matthew McConaughey or Chiwetel Ejiofor, DiCaprio is our pick.

Though DiCaprio’s character in “Wolf” can be described aptly with many four-letter words, the performance is memorable for multiple reasons.

DiCaprio somehow manages to play this compelling character for three entire hours, and we followed his story arc as we leaned forward in our seats for all 180 minutes, and half of that time he is popping Quaaludes like they are Skittles.

He makes the audience laugh hysterically, cringe in disgust and sometimes even feel sorry for the him.

It is a complete performance that will ultimately be cast aside for the simple reason that the character is so unlikable, through and through, that no one would want to feel like they were awarding Jordan Belfort with an Oscar, even if it lands in DiCaprio’s hands.

Who will actually win: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”

This might be the most loaded crop of Best Supporting Actor candidates we’ve ever seen. It’s rare that there are four candidates who we could see conceivably taking home Oscar gold in a supporting category (the fifth being Barkhad Abdi, but we have no idea why he, or anyone or anything from “Captain Phillips,” got near these nominations).

Fassbender, Jared Leto, Jonah Hill and Bradley Cooper are all great in their supporting roles, but we’re giving it to Fassbender for his portrayal of Edwin Epps, the violent and relentless slave-owner who makes audiences cringe in fear every time he appears on screen.

In fact, Fassbender is so remarkable in this role that we think he’s the reason Ejiofor won’t win Best Actor — because in the second half of the movie, Fassbender steals the show, for better or for worse, from Ejiofor.

His inhuman persona and dead-eyed vitriol is scary enough to make us want to close our eyes, but good enough to keep them wide open against our will.

Who will actually win: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

With this film, McQueen was the type of director who trusted his team. He left the technical production to a well-selected crew and concentrated solely on crafting deep performances from his actors. It was a smart decision, considering that it is a character-driven film, one that uses action and filming techniques to boost characterization rather than actual plot.

Slavery is a tough subject. However, McQueen and writer John Ridley decided not to sugarcoat any actual history. They often leave the audience uncomfortable with intentionally intense, long and static shots. It was an unnerving, deliberate choice that serves its purpose of creating a thought-provoking experience rather than an entertaining film.

The saturated color of “12 Years a Slave” was also an intentional choice by McQueen, whose wife found the memoirs of real-life protagonist Northup after Ridley and McQueen decided to make a film on this subject matter. McQueen said avoiding the desaturated color schemes of most epic films meant putting the reality of the situation in the forefront, highlighting the history and lessons to be learned. A fabulous choice.

Who will actually win: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”

Best Actress: Judi Dench, “Philomena”

Dench can do no wrong. Whether she’s playing James Bond’s sassy handler or this year’s Philomena in the film of the same name, when the Dame graces the screen, it’s nothing less than magic.

In “Philomena,” Dench tackles the character of a mother whose child is taken by nuns and put up for adoption without her knowledge or permission.

Fifty years later, with the help of a journalist, she sets out to find her son.

Dench pulls off a character who is broken, strong and adorably ditzy. She manages a lovable Philomena who has a twist of snarky spark, and who completes a long and deep character arc.

It’s hard for an actor who has as much fame and prestige as Dench to trick an audience into seeing anything but the celebrity on the screen portraying a character. But in this film, Dench becomes Philomena without showing any hint of the great Dame.

The subtlety of this character’s complete journey is brilliant and could not have been realized by any other actor. Though Dench is deserving, the myriad awards and praise throughout her tenured career makes it harder for her to win anything, lest the academy snub an edgier performance.

Who will actually win: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

Last year, Anne Hathaway won her Oscar in this category for a threeminute scene that haunted audiences and the Academy. Newcomer Lupita Nyong’o has managed to do the same as a pre-Civil War slave in the American South.

Because her performance is so authentic — due to dialect, cadence and subtle mannerisms — there’s no doubt she will be in Hollywood to stay.

She won her nomination with a single monologue partway through the film, a speech that was chilling and powerful, delivered with passion and depth.

The Mexican-Kenyan actress, who until this film worked behind the scenes on movies like “The Constant Gardener,” landed the role of Patsey right out of Yale, from which she had just earned an MFA. Beautiful, smart and talented, Nyong’o deserves every one of the abundance of accolades she received for this role.

Who will actually win: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Original Screenplay: “Nebraska” This screenplay could win purely because it was Bob Nelson’s first-ever screenplay, and it took more than 10 years to actually make it to the big screen.

During production of “About Schmidt,” Nelson gave his script for “Nebraska” to director Alexander Payne. Payne was in pre-production for “Sideways” at the time and didn’t want to make back-to-back road-trip movies. Payne committed to eventually making Nelson’s screenplay a reality, because he loved it.

He held true, and now we think “Nebraska” deserves to take home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

It has quirkiness, realistic characters and dialogue and a slow, yet enjoyable, pace. The way in which the writing and overall direction of the story feels so relatable to real life makes it equally beautiful and sad.

What will actually win: “Her”

Best Adapted Screenplay: “12 Years a Slave”

In 2008, Steve McQueen contacted writer John Ridley about a film the director knew Ridley wanted to make, about slavery in the American South. The project remained undefined for years, until McQueen’s wife came across an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a free black man from the North who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. After reading the book, which McQueen compared to “The Diary of Anne Frank,” he made it his mission to get the story to the big screen.

Hollywood has become a world of adapted stories — screenwriters are told that if they want their ideas made into film, they need to write the book first, because a speculative, or “spec,” screenplay will never get past a studio intern’s back-room desk. Therefore, this Oscar category is always a nail-biting competition.

Luckily, adapting a story means a lot of rich material and arc with which to work. But adapters always run the risk of changing a story too much or omitting the details that bring it to full realization.

There’s mixed speculation about the historical accuracy of this screenplay, though it can’t be forgotten that the original source was a memoir.

Whether accurate or not, the story is deep and moving, and doesn’t lack any element that should traditionally be upheld. It does what a story is supposed to do — it makes the audience think, and ultimately, feel.

What will actually win: “12 Years a Slave”

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ “Fiddler on the Roof” is performing in the Corvallis High School Main Stage Theatre this weekend and next.

This production features the work of award-winning professionals, local artisans, talented community actors as well as wonderful students from Corvallis and Philomath school districts.

Performances are at 7 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for students 12-19, $5 for youth aged 11 and younger and are available online.

Chamber Music Corvallis The 55th season of Chamber Music Corvallis continues with the “Ebene Quartet: Mozart Meets Lennon and McCartney” on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center.

The Ebene Quartet will play Mozart’s “Quartet in E-flat, K. 428”; Bartok’s “Quartet 4” and arrangements of jazz and popular songs by Arlen, Shorter, Corea, Springsteen, LennonMcCartney and others.

Individual tickets are available online, at the door and from Grass Roots Bookstore in Corvallis. Ticket prices range from $24 to $27.

The Majestic presents the Vagabond Opera The Vagabond Opera will perform on the Majestic Theatre’s main stage March 8 at 7:30 p.m.

The Vagabond Opera is a six-piece, Portland-based, European-style Bohemian Cabaret, featuring vintage Americana, Balkan belly dancing, neo-classical opera and old-world Yiddish theater.

Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera — lusty voices singing in 13 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing, sparkling lyrics and indomitable stage presence, all played with exuberance, skill and a gritty Vagabond edge. Vagabond Opera’s goal is to liberate and reinvent Opera so it’s enjoyable for everyone.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door (the advance price will still apply at the door for students, seniors, veterans and Majestic members), and are available online at majestic.org/tickets or by phone at 541-738-7469.

‘Beyond Therapy’ Oregon State University Theatre’s 2013-2014 Season of American Voices continues with Christopher Durang’s “Beyond Therapy.” Durang’s play, student-directed by Davey Kashuba-Reum, follows two adults as they try to better themselves through therapy, and also — more importantly — find love.

The show will run March 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. and March 9 at 2 p.m. in the Withycombe Hall Lab Theatre.

Tickets are $4 for OSU students, $6 for seniors and $8 for adults, and are available at the OSU Theatre box office, online or by calling 541-737-2784.