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Oregon State proposal for ADA compliance needs shrinks from $10 million to $8.6 million

By Sean Bassinger THE DAILY BAROMETER

Oregon State University’s proposal to draw $10 million from the state for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance needs fell to $8.6 million.

The Oregon Legislature dropped the amount due to a limited amount of capital construction funds available for colleges. OSU students and administrators continue discussions on how to improve ADA compliance on campus, but funding only comes primarily from requested state bonds.

The original $10 million, which followed a $200 million request the state granted to Oregon Health & Science University, sought to address accessibility barriers in campus buildings and better access to outdoor ramps. One large barrier, which will still be addressed with the $8.6 million, lies between the Valley Library and Joyce Collin Furman Hall.

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After 14 years with Blackboard, Oregon State University weighing options to upgrade online course delivery system

alternative options for the current system.

“We’ve been using Blackboard for so long,” said Lynn Greenough, an instructional technology specialist for TAC. “Because the learning management system is kind of a key part of a learning, technology-driven environment or platform, we

By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg THE DAILY BAROMETER want to make sure we’re using a system that really For students and instructors who are frustrated meets our needs and is going to continue to meet with Blackboard, rejoice. A replacement for the our needs going forward.” current learning management system may be on Oregon State University has been using its way.

Blackboard for at least 14 years. It was initially used The Technology Across the Curriculum depart- and expanded through the Ecampus program, but ment is currently working to survey and evaluate 95 percent of students and 75 percent of instructors n

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currently use it for at least one or more classes.

The movement to switch systems is being carried out through an initiative called eLearn@OSU. According to the initiative’s blog, their goal is to “review, connect and optimize technologies for teaching and learning at OSU.” “With a big system like this, it’s not a bad idea once in a while to go in and see what else is available in the marketplace,” Greenough said.

Canvas — a system similar to Blackboard — and a remotely hosted form of Blackboard are See BLACKBOARD | page 4

Designers create clothing out of environmentally friendly recycled materials

By Courtney Gehring THE DAILY BAROMETER

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Emily Oldfield wears Maureen Dorsett’s design, made of life jackets, old fabric and newspaper.

Student designers scavenged, collected and assembled pieces of scraps and turned them into runway-ready garments.

The Oregon State University Fashion Association hosted the 24th annual Recycled Fashion Show. Students collected trash, scrap material or anything they could find and creatively assembled it into clothing.

Senior design student Natalie Potts collected materials throughout the year in anticipation for the show Thursday night. The dress Potts designed was inspired by a project she did in a draping class last year.

Her grandmother donated sweaters and she collected leftover fabric from a pattern class and corset class she had previously taken. The entire piece took her more than 15 hours to construct.

“I like the recycled fashion show because you never know what people are going to come up with and students get really creative with it,” Potts said.

The show was open to all students of any major but the requirements were stringent. The garments in the show had to be made of 95 percent recycled mateSee FASHION | page 4

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OSU soccer player Will Seymore wears Bethany Imperial’s design, which won the best construction award.

Out of Africa: lessons for the rest of us

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Matar Ndoye hands a recommendation for pesticide risk reduction to Dr. Makfousse Sarr in Mbidieum, Senegal.

Oregon State researchers use first widespread study to identify pesticide risks in West Africa

sprayed fields to fathers applying chemicals in short-sleeves, the level of exposure was “unbelievable,” Paul Jepson said.

“I’ve been doing this work for a long time – and I’m really shocked at what we found,” said Jepson, lead author of the study and

By Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova director of the IPPC. THE DAILY BAROMETER With looming global food shortages and New tools, farmer trainings and better climate change, OSU researchers are creating regulations could transform pesticide use ways to navigate around the problems and around the world — all thanks to Oregon hoping it can help as far away as Oregon State University researchers cultivating new farmers coping with similar issues. ground.

Jepson and the IPPC group began their The International Plant Protection Center research in 2005. The goal was to uncover at OSU completed the first widespread study what pesticides accumulate in western of its kind measuring human health and African waters and how researchers and environmental risks of pesticides in western their partners can educate farmers to use Africa. The study, published Monday in the fewer pesticides.

London-based Royal Society Journal, reveals Researcher Kathy Blaustein, an expert in how farming communities can dramatically international public health, came on board cut their use of chemicals in agriculture. with IPPC specifically for this project. Her Researchers painted a picture of extreme See AFRICA | page 4 exposure. From children playing in recently n

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Bill offers veteran grad students in-state tuition

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Under a bill passed into legislation this week in the Oregon State Senate, student veterans will be charged instate tuition levels for attending graduate school at public universities.

The enrolled, or final, draft of House Bill 4021 amends a previously enacted law, which allows undergraduate student veterans to pay in-state tuition at public universities and community colleges. HB 4021 adds to the concession by including graduate students.

Students who qualify under the bill include veterans who were honorably discharged or given a “general discharge under honorable conditions.”

In addition, students must provide proof of their physical presence in Oregon within 12 months of their enrollment.

The amendment will apply to “persons admitted as new graduate students but not continuing graduate students for enrollment to a public university on or after Sept. 15, 2014.”

OSU Veteran Resources Coordinator Gus Bedwell said he would like to gain further clarification regarding the treatment of student veterans enrolled in higher education before the Sept.

15 date. Bedwell mentioned the possibility of establishing a protocol that would allow current students to be grandfathered into the system.

Now that the bill has passed in both the House of Representatives and Senate, it awaits the governor’s signature before being immediately enacted.

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He mentioned that this was the third time this had happened and he would tell his friend to stop calling authorities so quickly.

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The hasty lumberjack A concerned 68-year-old man called Benton County sheriffs to complain about someone cutting down trees on his property. When authorities arrived, they spoke with the man accountable for the cutting. He said he leased the property on both sides of the man’s farm and was cutting them for clearance for his combine. The caller agreed, but wanted the man to tell him first before he does it again. managing@dailybarometer.com

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Veterans’ Service officer Renee French visits Oregon State University to speak with female student veterans

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State of Oregon Veterans’ Service officer Renee French attended an open house Thursday in the Veterans’ Lounge to reach out to the university’s female veteran population.

A handful of female veterans dropped by the event, which was open for anyone. French said she was happy to meet the students who attended but hopes to continue reaching out to more of a population that sometimes goes overlooked.

“A lot of women veterans don’t even identify themselves as veterans, so (I hope to help) them want to take pride in what they did and consider themselves a veteran,” French said. “We have veterans from 80 years old to 20 years old, so there’s quite a gap to reach.”

Although French officially works for the Oregon State Department of Veterans’ Affairs, she also serves as the state’s women veterans coordinator. One of her duties is helping host the 2014 Oregon Women Veterans Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Eugene. Part of French’s plan for outreach includes recruiting women to attend the conference.

“Supposedly we have 28,000 women (veterans) in the state of Oregon and we only have 250 right now that are registered for the conference, so that’s a very small number,” French said.

The conference provides female veterans the opportunity to “make sure that they actually get a little time to focus on just them,” French said. Activities and workshops at the conference will provide information on the kinds of benefits and programs that are available for veterans in Oregon.

The conference, held March 28-29, attracts numerous organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and even some employers that express great interest in involving female veterans.

French hopes to continue reaching female veterans across the state through events like the conference and Oregon State open house to educate them regarding the resources they have at their disposal to make civilian life as comfortable as possible.

“I don’t know why women wouldn’t want to (be identified as veterans) because I take pride in being a veteran,” French said. “I am interested in finding out why so many women don’t.”

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students on the risks associated with eating disorders

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One in four college-aged women struggle with an eating disorder.

Whether they shun from food or binge and purge, the problem exists and is far more prevalent than many assume.

The Oregon State University nutrition and dietetics club strives to raise awareness of eating disorders and improve body image among students on campus.

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 25 percent of college-aged women engage in bingeing and purging as a way to maintain their weight. The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of death for females between the ages of 15 and 24.

“If we can raise awareness of eating disorders and remove the stigma that surrounds talking about them, we can increase the chances that people will receive treatment and prevent their eating disorder from becoming deadly,” said Stephanie Moore, an officer with the nutrition and dietetics club.

Moore and her committee from the club have a concrete understanding of the high prevalence of eating disorders among college-aged students and the emotional consequences that stem from an eating disorder.

During the past week, members of the club tabled in the Memorial Union quad and hosted a concert in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness week. The club is driven toward promoting the importance of fueling and nourishing the body — something that students with eating disorders often overlook.

“The passion behind spreading awareness of eating disorders originally came from my own struggle and recovery from an eating disorder,” Moore said. “But also because there wasn’t enough being done on campus to raise awareness of eating disorders.”

The concert was free and featured the band, Tuesday Nights, last year’s Battle of the Bands winner.

Information on eating disorders and pizza was provided for those who attended.

A paper mache life-size replica of Barbie was among those present at the concert. Members of the club, along with students, stood next to the Barbie to demonstrate her unrealistic proportions in comparison to the average American female.

“I have first-hand experience of how detrimental an eating disorder can be and it is my goal to help prevent my peers from suffering from the same consequences I faced,” Moore said.

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SALEM — Dedication is planned for June 6, on the 70th anniversary of D-Day The onsite construction of Oregon’s World War II Memorial started on the grounds of the state Capitol on Feb. 3.

While no formal ceremony occurred, World War II Memorial Foundation board members and President Lou Jaffe, Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs Director Cameron Smith and supporters observed the start of construction.

A formal dedication ceremony at the memorial is planned for June 6, the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day. Jaffe said the purpose of the memorial is not only to honor that war’s veterans but to educate young people. The memorial will honor members of the armed services plus everyone on the home front who demonstrated

support through their work in the shipyards, in hospitals, as coast watchers, on the farms and elsewhere.

That includes women who built ships in Portland and schoolchildren who held scrap metal drives and hauled wagons full of tin cans to make their small but significant contributions.

“It was probably our nation’s finest hour, coming together in a unified manner,” Jaffe said. “And that’s what we’re trying to preserve. All will be acknowledged in a series of storyboards that highlight Oregon’s involvement in the war on the home front and specific military units.

“The veterans, families and Oregonians who participated in World War II deserve to have a memorial.”

Located at the corner of Cottage and State streets, the memorial will cover a 75-by75-foot area. At its center will be a 33-foot-high obelisk, because Oregon is the 33rd state in

the union. A world map will be engraved on the memorial’s footprint with markers for major battles and theaters of operation in the war.

Oregon has been one of only six states in the U.S. without a World War II memorial to honor its resident veterans.

In 2011, then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the Oregon Legislature formalized a task force and foundation, authorizing it to build an official memorial in Salem.

The foundation’s late-2013 fundraising efforts activated several matching grants that helped the project come closer to its needed goal of raising $1.135 million before construction could begin.

Jaffe expressed deep appreciation for the generosity of the Larry and Jeannette Epping Family Fund, the Murdock Charitable Trust, the R.H. Parker/United Foundation, Dick Withnell, and several other major contributors

who helped make this endeavor a reality.

“But the largest donation came from the state of Oregon, (which) provided funding and support,” he said. “We are incredibly grateful to (it) and to the hundreds of private donors too.”

Along the corner of a low wall on the memorial will be the engraved names of the Oregon service members who died in or as the result of combat.

Two black granite benches will invite visitors to sit and reflect on the nation’s and Oregon’s shared sacrifice during wartime.

With more than 1,200 veterans from that war passing away each day nationally, there has been a strong sense of urgency to build the memorial.

Approximately 152,000 Oregonians served in World War II and of those, more than 3,700 gave their lives. There are more than 20,000 Oregonian World War II veterans still living.

Calendar Friday, Feb. 28 Meetings

Educational Activities Committee, 11am-12:30pm, MU 207. Meeting.

Events Women’s Center, Noon-1pm, Women’s Center. Voices is a CAPS sponsored support group for OSU women. This confidential drop-in group is designed to be a safe place to offer and receive support and information surrounding a variety of concerns related to interpersonal/sexual violence and harassment.

Saturday, March 1 Events

Coalition for Community Dialogue, 10am-4pm, MU 211. Winter Training: Exploring Systems of Oppression. This training will guide participants through an examination of these systems and their impact, as well as provide a space to envision modes of resistance.

Free, RSVP required.

Sunday, March 2 Events

Omani Students Association (OSA), 6-8pm, MU Ballroom. Omani Night (Cultural Night).

Monday, March 3 Meetings

Campus Recylcing, 5:30-6:30pm, Student Sustainability Center. Waste Watchers Weekly Meetings - Come learn about volunteer opportunities and help plan waste reduction events and outreach around campus.

Events Women’s Center, 3-5pm, MU Lounge.

History Reception. Come learn and celebrate how far women have come & how far we want to go. Come enjoy the celebration & activities.

Human Services Resource Center, 10am-2pm, MU Quad. Celebrate the HSRC’s 5th Birthday with Benny!

Tuesday, March 4 Meetings

ASOSU Elections Committee, 1pm, MU 208. Candidate meeting for the ASOSU election. Required for any potential candidates.

Wednesday, March 5 Meetings

OSU College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Join us for discussion of club and current events. Come have fun with like-minded people.

ASOSU Elections Committee, 3pm, MU 208. Candidate meeting for the ASOSU election. Required for any potential candidates.

Thursday, March 6 Meetings

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. The Causes of the Difference in the Character of Human Beings - A discussion.

Events Women’s Center, Noon-1pm, Women’s Center. Mental Wellness Series. Join us and learn how to manage depression and anxiety during stressful times.

Friday, March 7 Events

Women’s Center, 1-2pm, Women’s Center. SANE Program. Susan Keister and Kelly Kendall from SANE and Judy Neighbors will present in collaboration with the Women’s Center on the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) Services at SHS and other services for sexual assault survivors offered through SASS. Women’s Center, Noon-1pm, Women’s Center. Voices is a CAPS sponsored support group for OSU women. This confidential drop-in group is designed to be a safe place to offer and receive support and information surrounding a variety of concerns related to interpersonal/sexual violence and harassment.

Monday, March 10 Meetings

ASOSU Elections Committee, 4pm, MU 208. Candidate meeting for the ASOSU election. Required for any potential candidates.

Events Corvallis Science Pub, 6-8pm, Old World Deli, 341 SW 2nd St. The Science of Skin. Speaker: Arup Indra, OSU College of Pharmacy.

Wednesday, March 12 Meetings

Campus Recylcing, 5:30-6:30pm, Student Sustainability Center. Waste Watchers Weekly Meetings - Come learn about volunteer opportunities and help plan waste reduction events and outreach around campus.

OSU College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Join us for discussion of club and current events. Come have fun with like-minded people.

Thursday, March 13 Meetings

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. A discussion - Can Wealth and Poverty be Balanced?

ASOSU Elections Committee, Noon, MU Council Room. Candidate meeting for the ASOSU election. Required for any potential candidates.

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ILWU member Marcel DeBord walks in a crosswalk in front of a van entering the United Grain facility on Feb. 19. nal. Members of the ILWU are still able to get work at other facilities at the port under separate contracts with the Pacific Maritime Association.

But United Grain’s lockout decision, eliminating up to 44 positions, has curtailed employment opportunities for the Vancouver union members. And there’s an additional impact of the lockout on union workers in Portland, where Columbia Grain froze out an estimated 50 to 75 ILWU members in May. In Vancouver, ILWU members who’d normally head to United Grain for work now arrive at the dispatch hall instead, in hopes of tapping a much smaller pool of jobs, said Brett Lynch, 46, who is a Class A dockworker.

It’s another ripple effect that makes it difficult for even Class A workers, who get first dibs on the work that’s available, to secure employment. Lynch said his income has plummeted by 30 percent.

That has left Class B workers such as DeBord in an even tighter spot.

The lockout’s been hard on his family, he said, throwing its economic security into doubt. “My wife is working now,� he said. They’ve also refinanced their mortgage to cope, he said. In his long trips to other ports to find work, which have taken him everywhere from Tacoma to Coos Bay, Ore., he’s often come up empty-handed.

The contracts the ILWU and employers have agreed to over the years include robust pay and benefits. They also contain other provisions, including the Pay Guarantee Plan, or PGP, which provides a weekly income supplement to Class A and Class B workers who are unable to obtain a week’s work.

Such workers must meet certain eligibility requirements. They must be available to work in a given payroll week, and they can’t have refused any work offered for which they’re qualified.

Vancouver dockworkers DeBord and Lynch have both received “some PGP,� said Sargent, the ILWU spokeswoman, “but it’s only a partial wage replacement and has not been enough to buffer the lockout’s impacts on their families.�

The ILWU and United Grain decline to comment on the nature of their ongoing contract negotiations, but what they’ve said publicly in the past indicates the dispute isn’t about wages and benefits.

Instead, it’s about workplace rules and hiring policies — it’s about which side gets the upper hand over control of labor issues on the region’s waterfronts.

Details are few, but two basic arguments frame the larger conflict between

the ILWU and Northwest grain terminal operators: To boost their competitiveness, the grain handlers say they want a new contract that mirrors employer-friendly terms the ILWU signed in February 2012 with Export Grain Terminal in Longview.

Similar terms are in place at Kalama Export Company’s terminal at the Port of Kalama.

But the union says the demands by United Grain, Columbia Grain in Portland and Louis Dreyfus Commodities — which operates facilities in Portland and Seattle — aim to break the union. And the union says it made concessions, but still maintained fair workplace polices, in a temporary agreement it reached with Temco, which operates grain export facilities in Portland, Tacoma and Kalama.

Pat McCormick, spokesman for the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association — whose membership includes United Grain, Columbia Grain and Louis Dreyfus Commodities — said the companies only want contract terms that the union has already agreed to elsewhere. “Our interest is in reaching a fair agreement with the union that allows us to operate competitively with our colleagues in the grain export business, including EGT and Kalama Export,� McCormick said.

He said United Grain continues to operate smoothly since the lockout. The company has reassigned some nonunion employees and its replacement workers, McCormick said, are “appropriately trained for the tasks they’re performing and have the appropriate clearances they need.�

Sargent, the ILWU spokeswoman, said in an email to The Columbian that Mitsui — a reference to United Grain’s Japanbased parent company — “has been incredibly profitable in Vancouver under our 80-year-old agreement, and they can continue to do so by maintaining high standards for workers and the community that depends on good jobs. “Further,� she said, “the EGT contract was a first contract, and like all first contracts, is a starting point that will be built on.�

A year after the lockout, there are no obvious signs the conflict will end anytime soon.

But DeBord, who’s lived it every step of the way, including joining his fellow union members on the picket lines, said he’s optimistic a resolution will be reached. “It’s in both sides’ interest,� he said, “to make it work.�

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — Two years ago, Marcel DeBord, 61, earned the right to call himself a regular “B man,� a promotion and prideful place in the world of union dockworkers.

In a nine-month period in 2012, he logged 1,726 hours at United Grain Corp.’s terminal at the Port of Vancouver, driving forklifts and trucks, as well as operating locomotives hauling grain-filled rail cars.

For all of 2013, however, his hours plunged 33 percent to 1,156 hours.

The slashing of his employment — and the resulting impacts on his family’s livelihood — began a year ago today, when United Grain locked out up to 44 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

The company’s action — which it based on its private investigator’s conclusion that a Longshore member had sabotaged the company’s machinery — occurred about six months into fruitless negotiations between United Grain and the ILWU over a new collective bargaining agreement.

A year after the lockout, its ripple effects persist. Court battles unfold in local and national legal settings. Regional and state political and business leaders repeatedly call for a resolution to what amounts to a larger conflict involving several grain terminal operators in the Northwest. Although agricultural products keep flowing to overseas markets, the contract quarrel briefly threatened to halt the state inspections at United Grain that are required to keep cargo moving.

An estimated 3.2 million metric tons of grain moves in an average year through the Port of Vancouver.

And while the ILWU and United Grain say they’re continuing to talk, dockworkers like DeBord are still hurting as they observe other people — some brought in out of state — take the jobs that once belonged to them.

DeBord scrambles for work every day — sometimes traveling to other ports in the region only to find there’s nothing available, sometimes arriving at the Local 4 dispatch hall in Vancouver only to come up empty. “I’m in the hall day and night,� he said, “seeing if I can get work.�

United Grain said it locked out workers based on its assertion that union member Todd Walker had damaged a grain-loading machine. The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office ultimately declined to file charges against Walker.

Prosecutors said it was impossible to identify the person captured by video or to be certain “that the person in the video is actually damaging the machine.�

Still, the company pursues a civil lawsuit against Walker, seeking more than $300,000 in damages. Walker, through a Portland attorney, has called the company’s suit frivolous.

Meanwhile, other locked-out union workers face a different kind of pressure: a steep decline in employment.

There are 193 registered Longshore workers in Vancouver, encompassing Class A and Class B workers. It can take 15 years or more to achieve Class A status.

It means you’ve got plenty of experience under your belt, as well as seniority. A “B� worker is like a journeyman, someone who’s earned the classification after five years or more of work.

Work at ports varies depending on the ups and downs of the economy. As a result, the workforce needs of terminal operators fluctuates. At the Port of Vancouver, the contract dispute and lockout are limited to the grain termi-

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BLACKBOARD n Continued from page 1 being more closely examined for potential replacement of the current system.

With the current system, in which the Blackboard software is hosted on servers on-site, system administrators have to receive the updates from the company and physically install them to servers. This process often requires shutting down the Blackboard system for hours at a time.

A remotely hosted system would allow updates to occur more fluidly than the current, on-site system.

When inspecting new systems, TAC and eLearn@OSU weigh the benefits of a new system over the hassle of switching an entire university to a new learning management system.

If the university decides to switch to a new system, copious tech-support and assistance will be offered to help instructors and students transition.

“One of the things that we find … is that for some instructors, they’re really using all of Blackboard’s fairly robust and complicated features and there are some instructors that are using Blackboard in its most basic features,” Greenough said.

“One person’s complexity is another person’s ‘got to have that’ feature. Meeting everyone’s needs and making everyone 100 percent happy? Not going to happen.”

What defines a system as a

“game changer” will vary from person to person.

Liddy Detar, an instructor in women, gender and sexuality studies, still appreciates some of the updates Blackboard has made.

“Blackboard just added more editing capabilities, which I really like, but I always welcome new things that make it easier for faculty and students,” Detar said.

Justin Parcher, a junior in automotive technology who is dual-enrolled between OSU and Linn-Benton Community College, said frequent maintenance makes the system often inaccessible.

“Something more robust, that requires less maintenance downtime, and fewer outages, would be killer,” Parcher said.

“Being so integrated into the curriculum for many people means that you’re at a loss for productivity without it.

Secondly, something that is much more intuitive for the content creators and managers, like teachers and staff, to use and manage.”

Ashley Burns, a third-year senior in animal science, had the same problem as Parcher.

“They are constantly doing maintenance on it, which shuts the system down for long periods of time,” Burns said. “Also, Blackboard, at least for me, has been known to freeze up during online tests or quizzes and it doesn’t save answers.”

To help experiment and gain a sense of each new potential

system, eLearn@OSU is currently accepting applications for instructors interested in testing out the new systems during spring term. The team is looking for instructors with varying proficiency with learning management systems and varying class topics and sizes.

“We want to make it easy for people to get in and weigh in and get the right feedback,” Greenough said.

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Consulting Group listed more than 5,000 outdoor barriers on OSU’s campus.

Bryan Williamson, Associated Students of Oregon State University director of accessibility affairs, said obtaining additional funds must be addressed sooner than later.

“We need to look forward and get this finished,”Williamson said.

Williamson said acquiring the bonds from this legislature short session will help OSU move in the right direction and gain momentum for ADA compliance needs.

Williamson plans to begin discussions with members of the OSU Foundation board to look into alternative funding options from donors.

Sherm Bloomer, budget director at OSU, said there haven’t yet been any special donor funds to address accessibility and ADA compliance needs alone.

Bloomer said construction on the latest buildings goes through a review process.

“When you renovate a building or build a new building, part of the design is addressing issues of accessibility,” Bloomer said.

Taylor Sarman, ASOSU director of government relations, said the reduced amount still helps OSU improve progress with some structural barriers on campus.

“That number’s far better than zero,” Sarman said. “I think it was just a matter of looking at the funds that were available.”

focus was to assess farmers who re-enter the field after pesticide has been applied.

“From a standpoint of exposure, people are exposed very early on and throughout their lifetime because of their culture — but also because they live where they work within these small village areas, nearby to the water systems that are used for washing clothing, dishes and water for cooking and everything that you can imagine,” Blaustein said.

The OSU researchers worked with Environmental Development Action in the Third World and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ENDA played a pivotal role in designing and delivering a survey to 19 different villages in West Africa across Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Guinea.

The study validated what researchers thought could be happening with farmers, and now conclusive numbers and scientific data to back it up, Blaustein said.

Researchers identified organophosphates — neurotoxins — that they are particularly concerned about. In the U.S., such pesticides are heavily regulated, but not so in western Africa.

Now that the study is finished, Jepson is asking highranking officials, regional agencies and U.N. leadership how things got so bad.

Moving ahead, Jepson said, policy change needs collab-

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The OSUFA hosts the show each year as a way for OSU students to showcase designs made out impractical and environmentally friendly materials to a large audience. More than 150 tickets were sold to this year’s show.

Show coordinator Maureen Dorsett, who was also a designer for the show, said it offers designers some awesome networking opportunities with professionals from all sides of the apparel manufacturing and retail industry.

This year’s show featured 35 designers from various majors and grade levels.

Jali Henry, a senior studying merchandising management, was one of the audience members in the packed Memorial Union ballroom Thursday. Henry said she has attended the show for the past several years and each year she sees new spins on

the latest fashion trends.

“I love to see how the designers take the most random things and somehow turn them into fashionable clothing pieces,” Henry said. “It takes a lot of creativity to be able to do that.”

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oration from all the stakeholders. And they need to move forward together, which Jepson saw in his years of research with the people on the ground in West Africa.

“It’s a huge privilege for us here at IPPC to actually get to work with such amazing people,” Jepson said. “They are extraordinary people, incredibly capable and completely devoted to helping their countries and all of their coordinators and the people they work with are just amazing individuals. They’re amongst the intellectually brightest people in their countries and we are very optimistic about progress.”

Back home in Oregon, researchers are applying the logic derived from the African project by sharing their findings on risk communications and education throughout the state.

Jepson and IPPC colleagues are building a network of educators in West Africa who educate farmers and families about pesticide risk.

Measuring that risk in agriculture and water is considered one of the most important projects of the FAO, Jepson said.

“What we learned in West Africa has hugely influenced what we are able to deliver to farmers here,” Jepson said.

“It’s our responsibility to this work, if we have the time and motivation and OSU allows us really to deploy our skills in other places. “

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Before facing USC Thursday night, the Oregon State men’s basketball team stressed the importance of making a strong start on the road.

The Beavers came through in that category against the Trojans by jumping out to a 17-3 advantage in the first 7:29 before a chippy second half gave way to a dramatic ending.

USC stretched out a 33-12 run to cut the lead to as little as five points, but OSU avoided a disastrous finish with a 76-66 victory in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

The Beavers slumped to the finish without freshman guard Hallice Cooke, who was ejected with 3:15 left in the game on a flagrant-2 foul.

Cooke was tied up with USC senior guard J.T. Terrell before getting tossed in a scuffle away from the ball.

A prolonged discussion among the referees confirmed the decision and the Trojans cut the difference to single digits for the first time in more than 21 minutes.

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With only two major competitions left in the 2013-14 season, Oregon State wrestling enters Sunday’s Pac-12 Championships looking to defend last year’s title.

The Beavers (11-8, 3-2 Pac-12) won the Pac-12 Championship as a team and took home a handful of individual titles at last year’s tournament.

Coming off back-to-back wins against ranked opponents, Oregon State’s confidence is riding high.

OSU knocked off No. 21 North Dakota State, 23-14, and No. 20 Illinois, 18-17, at National Duals Feb. 17 in Columbus, Ohio.

Head coach Jim Zalesky said getting those two wins have done a lot to set up the remaining schedule for Oregon State.

“We finished good, team-wise, at the National Duals,” he said. “I think some guys got some good competition and confidence there in some matches that we needed. We feel good about our training going in.”

Zalesky specifically mentioned the 133- and 141-pound weight classes as areas in which he’s seen improvement.

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Senior left-hander Ben Wetzler will pitch Sunday for first time in 2014 after NCAA suspension

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The Beavers’ home opener is Friday, but it’ll be Sunday’s game that will reap the most attention.

That’s when senior left-handed pitcher Ben Wetzler will make his 2014 debut.

Eight games into the season, the No. 4 Oregon State baseball team (6-2) has been without their staff ace and senior leader because of an 11-game suspension the NCAA handed down.

The Philadelphia Phillies drafted Wetzler after his junior season in the fifth round of the 2013 MLB Draft.

Wetzler’s use of an adviser during contract negotiations was what led to the suspension, which OSU appealed.

The appeal was sent Tuesday to the NCAA, and the university is still waiting for a response, according to Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing. Clark said OSU is expecting to hear back Friday.

Regardless of the verdict, Wetzler is eligible to return Sunday — the fourth and final game in the home-opening series against Wright State — and Casey has no hesitation about inserting him as the starter.

“I just hope he controls his emotions,” Casey said. “I think it’s going to be emotional for everybody.”

Casey said he’s disappointed with the suspension and the NCAA rule that undid the first 20 percent of Wetzler’s season. He hopes this particular case will be a catalyst for change.

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team. Then, 10 games into the season, freshman forward Dezja James also tore her ACL. To top it all off, freshman guard Ashley Merrill left the team and the school for personal reasons a few weeks after that.

All of those losses have left the Wildcats with just seven active players on their roster, which has been a contributing factor to their disappointing season. With two games left, they are going to finish as the last-place team in the Pac-12.

But the Beavers know what the Wildcats are going through. A year ago, OSU finished with the secondworst record in the Pac-12. At one point, they had lost 11 games in a row.

“It was definitely hard to do, last year, when you just lose so many,” Hamblin said. “(Arizona has) been in so many close games, so we can’t underestimate them, because they’re hungry for a win. They’re upset that the season hasn’t gone the way they want. They want to prove that they’re better than what their record shows.”

In the past few weeks, the Wildcats have given it their best effort. They

notched their one conference victory a little more than two weeks ago, a 68-49 romp of then-11th ranked Arizona State.

“It was a rivalry game and anything can happen,” Rueck said. “I saw a team that just came out on fire. Their senior, Erica Barnes, just played a phenomenal game. She made plays all over the court, and their energy overwhelmed them. I don’t know — it was a really impressive performance.”

Last weekend, the Wildcats held leads over both Utah and Colorado before losing each game by five points.

“We saw a similar game against Colorado the other day, where they’re up 20 in the first half,” Rueck added.

“This is a capable team.”

For the Beavers, a win on Friday would put them one step closer to a berth in the NCAA Tournament, which hasn’t been done since 1996.

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m., in Gill Coliseum and will be streamed live via Oregon State’s Pac-12 portal.

When the Beavers play Arizona Friday, a quick glance at the Pac-12 standings shows a striking disparity between these two teams. The Wildcats (5-22, 1-15 Pac-12) have lost 15 of their last 16 games, while the Beavers (19-9, 11-5) have won seven straight, each by double digits.

But despite their records and despite Oregon State’s string of wins, they aren’t taking Arizona lightly. “(Overconfidence) is definitely something to be thinking about,” said sophomore center Ruth Hamblin.

“But when we go out on the floor each night, it’s not like we think about the records or who’s who. We just play the best basketball that we possibly can.”

That mindset has paid dividends for the Beavers this season. When Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter On Twitter @MitchIsHere they don’t give attention to extranesports@dailybarometer.com ous circumstances, the Beavers play focused and determined basketball.

It’s responsible, in part, for getting them this far.

“We’ve gotten to where we are because we’ve played hungry basketball, and I don’t think that’s going to change,” said head coach Scott Rueck.

“We’ve had some really tough losses — it hasn’t changed us. We’ve had some great wins — it hasn’t changed us. We’ve just got to keep doing what we’re doing.”

On the other side of things, the Wildcats have had little success this year. With everything that’s happened to them this season, it’s not surprising.

Originally picked to finish 11th in the Pac-12, Arizona has since endured a string of bad luck.

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The Oregon State softball team started off the Long Beach State Invite with a convincing win Thursday over Cal State Fullerton.

After opening the top of the first inning with two runs, OSU cruised to a 5-2 victory as senior pitcher Amanda Najdek picked up the win.

Najdek recorded a complete game for OSU (6-11), holding the Titans to four hits and two unearned runs.

Her 11 strikeouts were the most by a Beaver pitcher in more than two years.

Leading off for the Beavers was sophomore outfielder Kori Nishitomi with two hits and a run batted in, surpassed only by freshman Alexis Gonzalez’s three hits and two RBIs. Junior right fielder Dani Gilmore picked up three walks, moving her into fifth place in OSU history with 85 for her career.

OSU finished 9-for-29 at the plate compared to a 5-for-27 night from the Titans.

OSU has a quick turnaround after Thursday night’s game with a 9 a.m. start against Illinois Friday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL n Continued from page 5 USC’s hot shooting finally cooled off in the last 60 seconds as the Beavers made five of six free throws at the end to seal it.

The Beavers built a 26-point lead in the second half that proved to be just enough of a gap to hold off USC. The Trojans made only one of their first 12 shots and still finished at 37.3 percent despite a hot streak in the second half.

Senior center Angus Brandt and sophomore guard Langston Morris-Walker both had 11 points in the first half, but neither made a field goal after the break.

Senior guard Roberto Nelson led OSU with 14 points and junior forward Eric Moreland nabbed 14 rebounds and three blocks, giving him the OSU all-time blocks record.

Cooke and Nelson combined for 11 assists in the game of the Beavers’ 14 as a team.

For the Trojans, junior guard Byron Wesley came into the game as the team’s leading scorer but finished 4-for-13 from the field with nine points, surpassed by Terrell’s 21 points.

Wesley fouled out with 25 seconds left, and the game finally in hand for the Beavers.

No other USC player reached double-digit scoring.

The Beavers shot better than 50 percent in both halves, but committed 17 turnovers.

A game after being outrebounded by Washington 43-23, OSU cleaned up the glass with a 39-31 advantage.

The Trojans ended with one more offensive rebound than defensive and capitalized with 19 second-chance points.

With the USC victory in hand, the Beavers stay in Los Angeles to face UCLA Sunday at 6 p.m.

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BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 college baseball player could be drafted if he chooses not to be,” Casey said. “When someone’s trying to make a decision that’s going to impact the rest of their life, I believe that they should get advice and get help. I hope that it is an outcry to fix this problem.”

Wetzler is unavailable for comment until Sunday, but Casey spoke for the senior.

“It was harder on him than it was on anybody,” Casey said. “He was cooperative, he did everything he could do, but it hurt him, it pained him a bunch. When we went on the road, I think it got even worse.”

Casey said Wetzler and the team handled the turbulent situation well.

Wetzler was still actively involved as much as he could be with his teammates, despite being more than 1,200 miles away.

“He was sending us texts,” said sophomore pitcher Andrew Moore. “Even from Oregon, he was still our biggest fan. I saw him on Twitter; he’s always tweeting about the games and supporting us on there. It just shows the teammate he is. He was backing us even though he wasn’t with us.”

Moore and senior infielder Kavin Keyes both agreed that the intensity and spirit Wetzler typically provides have been the biggest areas the team needed to fill in his absence.

“The toughest part is not having him around,” Keyes said. “He’s such a big piece to our team, even when he’s not pitching. He has so much energy in the dugout. He’s one of the best teammates I’ve ever been around.”

“Obviously, he’s pretty dang good on the bump, too,” Moore added.

Wetzler, a First Team All-Pac-12 selection in 2013, was surely missed for his pitching prow-

WRESTLING n Continued from page 5 sophomore Drew Van Anrooy in the 133-pound weight class and saw instant results.

Palmer pinned North Dakota State’s Justin LaValle and followed up the performance with a convincing 10-4 decision over Illinois’ No. 13-ranked Zane Richards.

“He was a spark for us,” Zalesky said. “We felt at 125 he just couldn’t perform well.

We moved him up and didn’t know if he would get an opportunity or not but Van Anrooy kind of left the door open, gave him an opportunity and Palmer took advantage of it. He’s a 133-pounder now.”

Redshirt freshman Joey Delgado is another young wrestler Zalesky said was key at National Duals, and could be big at the Pac-12 Championships.

Delgado has had an up and down season in his first year as the starter at 141 pounds, but has wrestled well against top competition in recent weeks.

ess, but the two pitchers who got the call in his stead have pitched liked veteran starters.

Senior Scott Schultz — who started three games in his freshman year in 2010 and has been a setup man or closer for most of his career — is 2-0 with a 1.69 earned run average, 0.88 WHIP and nine strikeouts in 16 innings, which includes a complete game against thenNo. 10 Indiana.

Freshman Jake Thompson is also 2-0, and has allowed just one earned run in 13 2/3 innings.

Casey is unsure of Schultz’s future as a starter, because of bullpen inefficiencies in the early going.

OSU’s relievers have allowed 13 earned runs over 15 2/3 innings (7.47 ERA) in the first eight games. The starters have thrown 56 1/3 innings, but have actually allowed one fewer earned run, good for a 1.92 ERA. Casey cited the Michigan State game in particular, when OSU allowed three earned runs in the final two innings and blew a one-run lead in the ninth.

“The part that was difficult was taking a guy like Schultz ... and we don’t have him to throw in a setup situation because we have to keep him for starter — it affected the outcome of that game,” he said.

With five games in each of the next two weeks, Casey still plans on having Schultz start.

For the weekend series against Wright State (2-5), Casey says Moore will start Friday, and Schultz and junior Jace Fry will start in Saturday’s doubleheader.

All eyes will be on Sunday’s game — the much-awaited season debut for Wetzler.

“The impact he has on the team can’t really be measured,” Moore said. “Having him back is definitely going to be huge for us.”

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Delgado lost a close 4-3 decision against No. 16 Virginia, but went 2-0 in his remaining matches.

“Delgado had a big win over a guy that was ranked at the time in a weight we’ve been inconsistent at,” Zalesky said. “At 133 and 141, specifically, we kind of got some consistency.”

Seniors Scott Sakaguchi and RJ Pena travel to Stanford looking to claim their second Pac-12 Championships. Both lost in the finals last season after winning conference titles in their sophomore seasons.

While both ultimately hope to win national championships this season, their focus is squarely on Sunday’s meet.

“The biggest mindset I have going in is to be ready for all my matches,” said Pena, the 11th-ranked wrestler in the 157pound weight class. “Last year at NCAAs I lost my first match and didn’t feel I was ready. Every guy in these next two tournaments is tough and every guy is wrestling his heart out.”

Both Sakaguchi (ranked No.

12 in the 149-pound weight class) and Pena started their seasons out slower than expected, but have wrestled better recently.

Sakaguchi went 2-1 at National Duals while Pena went a perfect 3-0.

Following Sunday’s Pac12 Championships — which begin at 10:30 a.m., in Stanford, Calif. — the two seniors and the rest of the squad take on Boise State before the NCAA Championships, which begin March 20.

Despite larger aspirations of individual national titles, both Pena and Sakaguchi’s sole focus is on this weekend.

“They started out slow but they’ve definitely been wrestling better,” Zalesky said. “They’ve won the tournament before so it’s something they’re going back to try and win again.

“I expect it and they expect it.

Now they’ve got to go out and perform.”

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Senior Kelsi Blalock performs the floor routine against Iowa State Jan. 25. Saturday will be Blalock’s last time competing in Gill Coliseum.

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Seniors Hannah Casey, Brittany Harris and Kelsi Blalock will walk out of the tunnel and onto the floor one last time Saturday as they compete for the last time in front of their home crowd.

“It brings out a lot of excitement,” Casey said. “And then it’s also kind of sad because Gill (Coliseum) has been my home for the past four years. ... I just want to celebrate with my team.”

The No. 14 Beavers will close out their home schedule Saturday on senior night, where they will take on No. 7 Nebraska and Arizona State.

The Cornhuskers have been consistent all year, with their team score exceeding 196.000

each time.

Last week against Utah, the senior class had a rough meet, with Blalock going out of bounds on floor and falling on beam, and Harris missing on bars.

They will look to bounce back Saturday.

“It would really help my confidence if this meet went as planned,” Blalock said. “I just haven’t had a full week of practice in the gym the last couple weeks. I’m hoping that senior night can be a turning point into postseason.”

The Beavers hope they will be able to go out and get a high score in their last home meet. Because for their Regional Qualifying Score, which determines their ranking, the highest home score is dropped from the ranking system. OSU has had two favorable scores, but another would go a long way in maintaining a high RQS. Following Saturday’s home meet, Oregon State competes on the road for its final three meets before Pac-12 Championships.

“Every opportunity is big for us,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “For the rest of the time we’re going to have to be road warriors.”

The Beavers expect to be without freshman Kaytianna McMillan Saturday night — who has been one of Oregon State’s top gymnasts this season — for the second meet in a row due to a foot injury. Chaplin says she is day-to-day and week-to-week, and doesn’t have a timetable for her return.

“People had to come in and do some different things,” Chaplin said. “Most of them reacted really well to those changes, it’s just helpful if we can prepare them a little bit better.”

The team was able to better prepare for replacing McMillan this week with more time to correct mistakes.

Saturday’s meet will be held at 6 p.m. in Gill Coliseum.

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ea to the first home game for Oregon State University’s baseball team. Despite the rain, the loyal fans will be showing their full support. That turf infield sure comes in handy when it’s raining in Oregon for more than half the season.

Nay to the NCAA suspending Ben Wetzler for using an adviser to help him with six-figure contract negotiations.

Any time an organization modeled around supporting student-athletes has an opportunity to suspend a studentathlete who chose to come back to school instead of taking a big paycheck, it has to do it, right? Absurdity. Add this to the long list of reasons why the NCAA is backwards and clearly not looking out for the student-athletes it supposedly represents.

Yea to late-night run-ins with OSU athletes at bars or food establishments.

Nay to being true to human emotion and ethics in situations when you really wish you weren’t.

Yea to the return of a Barometer legend.

Nay to short-lived returns of Barometer legends.

Yea to singing karaoke from the southern Oregon coast to Corvallis.

Nay to waking up for early meetings or job interviews.

Yea to there only being three weeks left of spring term, and three weeks until spring break. It can’t come too soon.

Nay to not checking your syllabus until the end of week eight.

Yea to the realization that you have much more free time than you initially thought.

Nay to that being because you didn’t check your syllabus until week eight.

Yea to a great week of staff editorials.

Hopefully this Yeas & Nays will seal the deal. Hopefully.

Nay to last week’s Yeas & Nays being sub-par. For the loyal Friday readers, we sincerely apologize. We’re better this week, and we’ll be even better next week.

Yea to successful all-nighters.

Nay to unsuccessful ones seriously ruining the days that follow.

Yea to “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

Too long has there been a sad, unfunny hole on NBC with the Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon duo.

Nay to Meyers’ absence from “Saturday Night Live” seriously killing the show. We survived when Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg and Fred Armisen left. But with Meyers’ absence, the show feels more like “The Amanda Show” than the SNL we grew up with.

Yea to Kanye West’s interview and musical performance on Meyers’ show Tuesday. Yeezy, you can talk in circles all you want and people will devour your gospel almost as much as the new Ben & Jerry’s core-flavor pints.

Nay to Americans bombarding social media to drool over Ben & Jerrys innovations. Keep it to yourself, people. At least it’s better than the plethora of baby photos. We get it, you brought life into the world. The people who aren’t giving you the “awwww so cute” comments are judging you for your choice to have a child before you can legally rent a car.

See you at the Peacock.

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s the years progress, so does technology. We have gone from the archaic method of riding a one-horse-powered buggy to the pinnacle of driving a Ferrari.

Thanks to Wi-Fi, we are no longer shackled to a foot-long Ethernet cord plugged into a wall. Nowadays you can even get your daily dose of nicotine from an E-cigarette rather than a “death stick.”

Apparently, just as technology has progressed so has our ability for critical thinking, because nothing makes us feel safer and healthier than when we can add an “E” in front of a name.

Communication and its advances are what have recently become extremely relevant to me. We’re a

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society that’s jam-packed with social media outlets. Whether you are dipping into the Twitter-sphere, taking selfies on Instagram, trolling Facebook or the one or two people using a Kindle, everything we do now revolves around technology.

I live with four roommates; all of them have begun to use onlinemediated communication to talk to each other. Since the advent of this,

our house is less of a home and looks like a Dell tech-support center.

I haven’t seen one of my roommates in person in three weeks. Is he alive? Maybe, but I don’t know for sure. The point is, due to the amount of online and social media outlets, we are losing some of our core values.

I haven’t had a meal in our dining room since the term began. The dining table now serves as the grave for empty and discarded boxes that once carried iPhones, cameras and laptops.

But who’s to blame? Why would you walk those 15 steps down the hall to talk to a friend when you could send a group text? Who needs sunlight when you can take the alternative path and eat that eighth cup of ramen while

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You’re not fanatic enough to count as a fan, are you?

T hink about the last time you heard or saw someone mess up a song lyric of a band you like, a line from a book you cherish or the plot of a film you admire.

You were probably irritated at the butchering of something you loved, right before your eyes. Even if they’ve heard of this thing, they don’t get to love it as much as you do.

Because, for all your faults, at least you can sing the song correctly.

If you consider yourself part of fandom, the emotional results of the situation will probably be higher — especially considering the fact that the term “fan” is a shortened version

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of the word “fanatic,” and refers to enthusiastic devotees of a sport, pastime or celebrity.

Gather a large group of these devotees, and like a gaggle of geese, you have a fandom.

To be in fandom is to be part of a strangely sophisticated hierarchical order that depends on how much of the creative media you’ve consumed,

and how you intellectually apply it to your life.

This is exemplified in “The Degrees of Fandom: Authenticity & Hierarchy in the Age of Media Coverage” by Michelle L. McCudden in a section that examines the credential for being considered a fan of something by other fans or the collective.

Within each fandom exists a spectrum of categories that someone can fall under. These categories rely on certain distinctions to sort the fans.

A “true” fan is the closest a person can get in the spectrum of liking something to the point of authenticity. A true fan has extensive passion

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Skyping your three-year-old black lab Rufus back home?

I know I’ve fallen into this cyber abyss. Living in a two-story house means going downstairs involves cardio, so I FaceTime my friends downstairs before actually making that one-minute commitment to walk down.

We are losing the moments in life that are important.

Nothing says you’re living in the moment like letting the world know in 140 characters or less how you made your eggs this morning.

I can assure you I don’t care. Neither does anyone else.

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and knowledge of the subject, communicates with other fans and puts a lot of time and effort into this passion.

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Paper bag life cycle better than plastic There is much to be considered when deciding whether to use a paper, plastic or reusable bag. The life-cycle assessment of each type of bag is very relevant in making your decision.

According to ICF International, a plastic bag’s life starts with the conversion of crude oil or natural gas into hydrocarbons monomers, and then further processed into other plastics, which leaves plastic resin pellets that pollute the marine environment and potentially harm mammals.

Once the bag has been used you can either re-use it, or recycle it. Re-using a paper bag has minimal reduced impacts on the environment, according to the Environmental Agency, and only 5 percent or less of plastic bags are currently recycled because they either A) blow away as liter, B) get rejected for contamination or C) get caught in machinery, thus getting rejected, according to ICF. On the other hand, a paper bag’s end life cycle is much more uplifting. Approximately 21 percent of paper bags are recycled and many paper bags are at least 30-40 percent post-consumer recycled, according to ICF. In addition, paper bags can naturally degrade.

Last but not least, although reusable bags seem like the most environmentally friendly option, most are made of different types of heavier plastics or multiple types of cloth. The raw material consumption and construction of these bags are actually much worse for the environment than regular plastic or paper bags. You must re-use these bags hundreds of times before the environmental impacts are reduced.

Indeed, we must be adamant in our research to produce scientifically sound and correct facts.

Consider the resource use, production, transportation, secondary packaging and end-of-life processing before accusations are made about harm to the environment.

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PORTLAND — Hundreds of Portland State University professors and students took to the campus park blocks Thursday to push the administration toward a deal in faculty contract talks.

Students held signs in support of faculty members, many of them wearing their graduation caps and gowns.

Faculty and administrators are officially at impasse meaning a strike vote is possible, in a little over a month.

One of the big sticking points relates to non-tenured teachers who are on year-to-year contracts.

Sam Gioia is one of them. “Under the administration’s proposal, between adjunct faculty and non-tenure-track faculty - that’s two-thirds of PSU’s faculty - will never have a contract for the following year,” Gioia said.

The faculty union is also prioritizing pay raises for professors, and maintaining the union’s role in PSU policy making.

Students say they want the priority to be investing in the classroom.

Administrators expressed their support for students’ right to protest in a safe manner.

University officials aren’t publicly discussing proposals.

Faculty and students rally at PSU Thursday morning.

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Benton berates 14 House Republicans

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — An email from state Sen. Don Benton scolding fellow Republicans for their votes on a Democraticled bill sparked an internal brouhaha among legislators this week.

Benton took 14 House Republicans to task for voting in favor of a bill that would create new rules for signature gatherers under the state’s initiative process. House Bill 2552, which cleared the House last week, would require paid signature gatherers to register with the state and complete a training program before collecting signatures, among other requirements.

Benton said he was “deeply disturbed” by the Republicans’ yes votes on the bill. Among those in his sights: Rep. Brandon Vick, R-Vancouver, one of the bill’s co-sponsors.

“I did my due diligence and checked and confirmed that you did, in fact, vote for HB 2552, and I was completely sur-

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“Our work continues on getting the website out and available to all Oregonians. At the same time we are in the process of an alternatives analysis and that’s exploring all options should we not be able to release the site,” said Cox. Alternatives could include dropping the site to join the federal exchange, but Cox says that’s not the direction they’re going in at this point.

The Cover Oregon website is working for Oregonians who apply with a navigator. But, it’s not fully functional for members of the public applying by themselves.

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that way — most of the slang terms not present in today’s pop culture if it weren’t for these media outlets and all What’s the remedy for the problem? this new technology. If someone yells “You got pwned,” one more time, I’m I call it the “Interact 60 challenge.”

For an hour each day, go and inter- going to lose it.

If a drunk person yells “let’s get act with people in person and admire your surroundings. Roller blade, go turnt up” again, I am going to comto a park or feed some ducks. What mit crimes that will send me to jail drives me insane is when I go see a for 10-15 years.

It’s not turnt up with a “T.” That’s movie in the theater or a live concert just stupid — with an “S.” — and people are on their phones.

We can redeem ourselves, though.

Don’t write about your life, live Consider this your call to action. Put your life.

Through the prolonged use of down that phone. Don’t take that social media, there’s been an increase selfie in your bathroom mirror. Go in the production and circulation of outside and see what the sun looks slang terms and lingo, which fur- like. You can thank me later. t ther complicates normal face-to-face Alec Grevstad is a senior in speech communications. human interaction.

The opinions expressed in Grevstad’s columns do not I would have never known — and necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. would have liked it to have stayed Grevstad can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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prised to see your name on the list,” wrote Benton, R-Vancouver. “Republicans in the Legislature have diligently defended the initiative process from legislative assault by Democrats going back as far as 2003.”

The email went on: “HB 2552 is one of the most oppressive Big Government anti-initiative bills they’ve ever tried. And you voted for it! Even the ACLU opposes it. Remember the words of the First Amendment: &Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.’”

Reached by phone, Vick said Benton is free to react to the vote any way he sees fit.

“I would have handled it in a different way,” Vick said.

As for the bill itself, Vick said it’s a way to create better openness around the people and businesses that are paid to gather signatures -- a process that means handling sensitive information.

“To me, this is a bill about transparency

RUUD n Continued from page 7 times for a convention in which the stars of the show speak, give autographs and take photos with fans.

They would qualify as true fans, based on the criteria McCudden provides.

I also enjoy the show, but I am only a “big” fan under McCudden’s criteria.

I’ll watch whole seasons on Netflix in a day, but I won’t wade through commercials on TV to wait for a new episode.

Finally, there’s the casual fan — someone who enjoys the superficial qualities of the subject matter, but who is generally unknowledgeable about the subject, and who shows a lack of motivation to go through hard-

in the election process,” Vick said.

Benton’s blast received at least one written response in the form of a sarcastic email from Rep. Joel Kretz, the House Republicans’ deputy leader. Kretz began by informing Benton, a “fine gentleman,” that “someone may have hacked your online account and sent the below-attached message from your email address!”

Kretz then listed a series of Democratic proposals that Benton has supported over the years.

“We all know the high ethical standard to which you hold yourself, so there is no way I can believe that you -- who has so often crossed his own caucus and voted for Democratic bills for what some uncharitable observers might say were self-serving reasons -- would be so shameless as to try and take to task fellow elected officials whom you judge &guilty’ of the same partycrossing conduct for which you are so rightly famous,” wrote Kretz, R-Wauconda.

ship to get what they want.

There’s no Stephen King’s Trash Can Man’s “My life for you!” ideology for these folks.

Casual fans are on the lowest rung of the fandom ladder. The true and big fans see them as inferior.

Eventually, what all of this revolves around is similarity of interest between human beings — we want to be able to talk to others about things we’re passionate about. If people are incapable of understanding things the way we do, then it’s likely that the lack of common interests has the potential to drive us away from them.

When this contextual communication does exist, it has the potential to do great things — like the Harry Potter Alliance, which formed to educate folks about social issues and create civil engagement in the subjects of

literacy, equality and human rights.

They got things done. They sent supplies to Haiti, donated books around the world, advocated for marriage equality and pressured Warner Bros. to avoid the use of child labor in the their supply chain and instead work with Fair Trade initiatives.

If such good can come from a common passion for something, then maybe fandoms of the world should be celebrated, regardless of hierarchy.

More social context should be formed.

So get the song lyrics, movie lines and books right. Because Inigo Montoya put it perfectly: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” t

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expressed in Ruud’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Ruud can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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