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Students may never have to travel further than their front door to retrieve a bag of chips or a six-pack of soda.

Store to Your Door will bring it right to them.

Store to Your Door is a local food delivery business that Oregon State University students started.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Store to Your Door delivers an abundance of snacks, beverages and supplies to students residing near campus. Delivery is guaranteed to take 20 minutes or less and requires a minimum purchase of $3 with a $1 delivery fee.

To get the delivery service, residents text the Store to Your Door number and will receive a response from one of the four student deliverymen. The text must specify the items from their menu needing delivery, the delivery address and whether cash or card will be used for payment.

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Brandon Arceneaux Founder of Store to Your Door

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Brandon Arceneaux, founder of Store to Your Door, heads to another delivery location after dropping off some snacks for students on 23rd Street.

One new bill introduced in the 2014 short legislative session could alter the number of Oregon resident students who attend universities in the state.

Submitted as House Bill 4123 in the 2014 short legislative session Feb. 3, the proposal would grant the Higher Education Coordinating Commission the ability to set a minimum amount of resident students enrolled in any Oregon university that has an institutional governing board.

If signed into law, the HECC would meet to discuss the implementation of such policies and submit a timeline to each major Oregon university by December 2014.

According to figures from the office of institutional research at OSU, 17,657 students who enrolled in fall 2013 were Oregon resident students, making up around 63 percent of the university’s overall population.

Currently, Oregon State University, Portland State University and the See BILL | page 4

OSU Has Talent showcases campus’ best 8 performances light up Memorial Union ballroom Friday in annual talent show

and Amanda Schulberg (undergraduate assistant coach for the OSU gymnastics team).

The acts ranged from vocal performances, spoken word poetry, popping dance routines, acoustic duets and

By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg contemporary dance.

THE DAILY BAROMETER “I really liked it,” said Erika Graves, a Students filled the Memorial Union freshman art student. “It was really cool ballroom to see what their peers had and I thought it really neat how each perto offer. son brought something totally different.”

The fourth annual OSU Has Talent The top three acts each won a cash competition invited eight student acts, prize: $100 for third place, $200 for secout of 24 groups or individuals that audiond place and $300 for the first-place tioned, to compete for three cash prizes. winner. The winner was determined through a text-to-vote system, which had audience members send a text for who they wanted to win.

Vocal performer Gabe Fleck took home the first-place prize, with his performance of Frank Ocean’s “Wise Man,” which Fleck had dedicated to his deceased grandfather.

“OSU has talent, but this young man has a gift,” Sandidge said, following his performance.

Second place went to dancer Ryan Houlberg, who freestyled a popping dance performance.

Wiltz and the collection of judges agreed that the performance was “mesmerizing,” and Alexander described Houlberg’s performance as, “Fluidly robotic ... just freakin’ awesome.”

Third place went to duet performers, James Leathers and Austin Smith. The pair played acoustic guitar and Leathers led vocals with Smith’s harmonies and falsetto.

They performed a medley of songs COURTESY OF MEMORIAL UNION PROGRAM COUNCIL which included “Cruise” by Florida OSU Has Talent event coordinator Dan Gora (right) gives Gabe Fleck (left) Georgia Lines, “Wagon Wheel” by n

The Memorial Union Program Council, the event’s organizers, judged submissions based on four criteria: originality, stage presence, execution and overall performance.

The hosts incorporated communities from throughout Oregon State University to help make the event a hit.

Audrey Wiltz was the event’s master of ceremonies and is in charge of marketing and promotion for MUPC. Judges were Julia Sandidge (student media director), Eric Alexander (Student Leadership and Involvement director)

a $300 check for taking home first place in Friday’s talent show.

First Omani cultural night at OSU

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In the UAE, the center of camel racing in the Middle East, sophisticated training methods are used to prepare racing camels for competition.

Healthy camels win the race OSU Researchers work to save camels in the Arabian Desert from food poisoning

unseen contaminants that have the potential to cause illness in ruminants, the type of mammal group to which camels belong. In the U.S., domestic ruminants include cattle, bison, buffaBy Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova loes, deer, antelopes, sheep and goats.

THE DAILY BAROMETER Perennial ryegrass (PRG), a forage In the barren scorching deserts of grass, can serve as a host to a fungus the Middle East, camels can be found that produces the neurotoxin lolitrem B. When consumed at high levels, it in the thousands.

In the United Arab Emirates, camel causes a condition known as ryegrass racing is taken seriously. It involves staggers.

Clinical signs of the effects of lolitrem immense quantities of the best quality feed for the animals in order to provide B include an initial stiffness of gait, them with good health, well-being and which progresses to incoordination in turn, the energy necessary to achieve (ataxia), muscle weakness and tremors. top performance.

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After being forced to reschedule due to snow, the Omani Student Association hosted its first cultural night Sunday.

More than 300 people filled the Memorial Union ballroom to learn about the culture of the nation of Oman. “(Our goal is) to show the Americans and other diversities about Oman,” said Waleed Al-Zakwani, a sophomore in chemical engineering. “We found that some of them, they don’t know Oman, even on maps, so that is the main part and we want to go further than that to show them our heritage, our culture and our lifestyle.”

Oman, which gained its official independence in 1951, is located along the coast of the Arabian Sea, on the southeastern border of Saudi Arabia.

The MU ballroom was adorned with informational posters, images and objects related to Omani culture.

The performance portion of the evening opened with a student singing the Oman national anthem, followed by a reading of a passage from the Quran. OSA president Ali Almatani then gave a short speech about the roots of the first Omani cultural night at Oregon State University.

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Aisha Alsubhi, a pre-chemical engineering OSU freshman from Oman, performs at Omani cultural night in the Memorial Union ballroom. and being welcomed into the OSU and Corvallis community.

He noted the lack of widespread knowledge of Oman and the Omani culture.

“Being here we have noticed one thing,” Almatani said. “Most people don’t know much about Oman. Our vision was to create a group that would introduce Oman to the whole Oregon State University community and Corvallis as a whole.”

For many of the guests, the event was one of their first experiences with Omani culture.

“Omani Association is just kind of one thing that I’ve never seen,” said Mariam Rehman, a senior in

public health and health management and policy. Rehman had friends who were volunteering with the event and decided to attend as a guest. “I don’t think I’ve ever met an Omani person until meeting some of the people here.”

Following Almatani’s speech, student volunteers performed a medley of traditional dances, encouraging audience members to clap along with the music.

Another group of students performed a short skit, which discussed the lifestyles and experiences of women in Omani culture.

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Bar’aa dance was performed, though partially through the song, the music switched and students on stage began dancing to Ylvis’ pop sensation, “What Does the Fox Say?” The event ended with a fashion show, as Omani students walked the stage and displayed their traditional Omani attire.

“It’s pretty great,” Rehman said.

“I always love watching cultural events and seeing different aspects of different communities I’ve never seen before.”

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Second Amendment is alive and well in Clark County, with public employees now temporarily allowed to carry concealed weapons -- that is, until county commissioners investigate long-term changes to the county’s workplace violence policy.

Commissioners To m Mielke and David Madore on Wednesday directed county staff not to follow a policy prohibiting employees from carrying concealed weapons. The rationale, commissioners said, was that some employees were possibly violating the protocol already because they were unaware it existed. “We’re not telling people, &Bring your guns,’� Mielke said. “We’re not encouraging it. But people who come with concealed weapons are already doing it.�

Although commissioners said they felt employees were unaware of the no-gun policy, it is spelled out in the county’s Health and Safety Manual. The safety manual says the policy extends to conceal carry permit holders.

Still, county commissioners expressed surprise last month when they discovered there

were weapons restrictions placed on employees. There are no restrictions placed on elected officials or the general public. That discovery followed a workplace shooting at the Center for Community Health, in an office operated by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

The existing policy prohibits employees from carrying weapons at any county-owned facility. Weapons may be stored in cars, however, parked at county facilities.

Likewise, state and federal laws prohibit employees from carrying weapons at the courthouse, juvenile facilities and the community health campus. But even with the ban temporarily lifted, employees won’t be able to carry weapons in those buildings.

Chris Horne, the county’s chief civil deputy prosecutor, will continue investigating what liability measures the county would have to take, if a new, less restrictive gun policy were enacted. Questions remain regarding what’s required of the county.

Madore, for one, had insisted that a state law pre-emption superseded the county’s policy.

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CAMELS n Continued from page 1 cles of limbs as animals contract them to stand and walk.

If ingestion of lolitrem B-infected PRG continues, animals soon become unable to rise even though they struggle to do so.

The Pacific Northwest in the U.S. is the producer of 75 percent of the world’s supply of PRG. Since field burning stopped, large amounts of PRG have become available for animal feed.

And uniquely, the camels in the UAE feed on PRG that comes directly from Oregon producers.

In 2012, the UAE slowed its imports of Oregon grass due to levels of lolitrem B being too high within PRG and therefore deemed unsafe for camel health.

Local Oregon producers felt a dent in their export distribution to the area.

In the U.S., threshold levels have been established for horses, cows and sheep.

The threshold of toxicity level for camels had not yet been established, and for this reason, the OSU Endophyte Service Lab housed within the College of Veterinary Medicine came to the rescue of the camels and Oregon grass producers.

In collaboration with the scientists from Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) and UAE University in Al Ain, researchers conducted a distance study beginning in 2013, which looked at videos of camels in the UAE in order to determine and grade how much of an effect infected feeds have on the camels.

Morrie Craig, professor of toxicology at OSU and director of the lab, led the study.

The method Craig and his team applied within this study is called a feeding trial, during which researchers purposely feed camels infected feed at different threshold levels in order

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Almost immediately after the formation of the UAE in 1972, camel racing was recognized as a shared sport. to determine and then establish a viable threshold level at which the animals may consume without causing harm to them.

“We really care about the animals, and this is the motivation behind our work in the lab,” Craig said. “If there are levels of the endophyte present in the grass that is being sent overseas or being fed to animals here at home, we want to ensure that clear threshold levels are established as not to cause harm to the camels or other animals that consume Oregon grass seed.”

The question researchers sought to answer was: How much feed does it take to see clear symptoms in the camels as a result of administering infected feed?

According to Craig, the infected feeds are a big issue in the UAE as there has been no way to carry out these types of scientific tests there.

This feeding trial sought to establish a threshold toxicity level of lolitrem B in camels in order to ensure that when PRG is imported into the UAE, both camel owners and agencies there know how much they can feed the camels to remain at a safe level.

Prior to the study, the threshold of toxicity for camels in UAE was estimated at 200 parts per million, according to Craig.

“Some of the samples that we take from farmers here are low to zero levels of infected feed, but other samples have higher levels of lolitrem B,” Craig said.

“We know the established levels for horses, cows and sheep — but there are no camels here, so the work we have done in our lab is important for the camel owners in UAE and also very important for the seed farmers here in Oregon.”

The results of the study published in the Emirates Journal of

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formance to Nathan Lanier’s song, “Torn.”

Saleumvong’s performance struck a chord for some audience members.

“I thought it was really good,” Graves said. “He brought me to tears, which was weird because it was dancing. He didn’t even have to say anything for me to feel what he was feeling, which was insane.”

From the coordinators’ perspective, the event was a strong continuation of the OSU Has Talent competition.

“I felt like the quality of the show this year was amazing and I think the judges felt it too,” said Gora, event coordinator from MUPC. “I feel like every time we had someone get up (on stage), they were just blown away.”

Old Crow Medicine Show, “We Can’t Stop” by Miley Cyrus, “Say Something (I’m Giving Up On You)” by Big World featuring Christina Aguilera and ended the medley with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Judges commended and appreciated the medley, combining pop and country genres and Alexander noted the strong vocal lead of Leathers and the “beautiful” falsetto from Smith.

Though not everyone got to bring home a prize, everyone agreed that all performers gave strong performances.

Other performers included Sierra Lantz, who sang “Soulmate,” by Natasha Bedingfield; Kennedy Hays performed “Gravity,” by Sara Bareilles; and Kevin Saleumvong gave a contemporary dance per-

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MUNCHIES n Continued from page 1 to Your Door hat and a backpack full of snacks and beverages.

Brandon Arceneaux, founder of Store to Your Door and an OSU junior studying business, frequently had Jimmy Johns deliver him sub sandwiches during his freshman year. One night, all Arceneaux wanted was an oatmeal raisin cookie delivered right to his door. Jimmy Johns refused to deliver him the cookie unless he ordered a sandwich as well.

He realized that without purchasing the sandwich, students couldn’t get chips, soda or cookies delivered.

This sparked an idea.

“I decided to combine the same convenience Jimmy Johns offers and apply that same idea to 7-Eleven,” Arceneaux said.

Arceneaux began his quest to provide students with a new snack delivery company by joining the entrepreneurship club.

He pitched his idea and dipped into some money he had been saving since high school.

“I see a need that hasn’t been met, and I am going to do my best to meet it,” Arceneaux said.

Arceneaux then got a business license with the state of Oregon and teamed up with fellow students Saul Boulanger, Hendrik Tammekivi and Wyatt Travis.

Food and Agriculture in January 2014 revealed that the threshold consumption level of lolitrem B in camels is 500 parts per million, more than double than previous estimates.

This newly established threshold for camels keeps them safe from harm, but additionally opens the door for an increase in the Oregon PRG production and exportation to other areas across the Middle East.

Despite this success in making camels healthier and safer, there still exists a challenge for camel owners in the UAE. The UAE does not have the resources for such testing, which makes it difficult for camel owners to guarantee the safety of the feed for their camels.

“Establishing this threshold of toxicity is an important first step,” Craig said.

The ADFCA plans to offer its own testing of lolitrem B for farmers to keep their camels healthy.

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Arceneaux and his team of three already had bikes; all they needed was snack inventory, 2,000 business cards with menu options and contact info and lights for their bikes.

The entire start-up has cost Arceneaux just more than $300.

Store to Your Door has been servicing students who reside within 12th Street and 37th Street and in between Jefferson Avenue and Grant Avenue for three weeks.

Ashley Luechauer, a senior studying animal science, came home to find one of Store to Your Door’s business cards on her front porch several weeks ago.

At first she said she was skeptical, but just had to try it out.

“There are definitely nights when I’m already in my PJs and could use a bag of popcorn or a Dr. Pepper, but going out in public just wouldn’t be an option,” Luechauer said.

Luechauer said she is fond of the Store to Your Door’s movie pack, which includes six bags of popcorn, a six-pack of soda and two candy bars for $6.

Store to Your Door is currently in a test-run only, servicing a select area of Corvallis around campus. By the end of the school year, they hope to be servicing everywhere within a mile of campus.

Arceneaux said business has been doing well and better than they anticipated.

The delivery company prides itself on adhering to the Corvallis paper bag laws and being environmentally friendly with their packaging and transportation.

Store to Your Door’s menu and contact can be found on their Facebook page.

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Oregon State won its third consecutive Pac-12 Championship Sunday, placing in all 10 weight classes in Stanford, Calif.

The Beavers had three wrestlers take home individual Pac-12 titles, three finish second and four wrestlers take third place.

OSU scored 155.5 team points in all, followed by Stanford (134), Boise State (128.5), Arizona State (111), Cal State Bakersfield (109.5) and Cal Poly (74.5).

Seniors Scott Sakaguchi and RJ Pena and redshirt freshman Joey Delgado all earned first place for the Beavers Sunday.

No. 12 149-pounder Sakaguchi and No. 11 157-pounder Pena both won their second career Pac-12 Championships in their final collegiate seasons.

Sakaguchi beat Boise State’s Chris Castillo in the finals while Pena knocked off Arizona State’s Joel Smith.

Delgado won his first career Pac-12 Championship at 141 pounds, beating Cal State Bakersfield’s Ian Nickell.

No. 12 junior 197-pounder Taylor Meeks and No. 14 heavyweight freshman Amarveer Dhesi, meanwhile, both

Sunday’s game against the Sun Devils could not have gone better for the Beavers, and on Senior Day no less.

With a season-high 5,208 fans in attendance, the Oregon State women’s basketball (21-9, 13-5 Pac-12) routed No. 20 Arizona State (22-8, 11-7) to the tune of 66-43 in the most important game of either team’s season.

Coming into this game, the third seed in the Pac-12 Tournament was on the line and would go to the winner.

Oregon State’s win means it will finish above ASU in the standings, giving it the third seed, which sends OSU into a tie with California (which owns the tie-breaker with OSU) for second place in the conference.

Additionally, it’s the first time since 2003 that Oregon State has beaten a ranked opponent.

“That’s beautiful,” said freshman point guard Sydney Wiese. “We were just focused on our gameplan going into this. We didn’t really want to listen to all the hype — the third place — we tried to forget about it and just go out there and play our game. To hear that afterwards, that we beat a

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As senior Brittany Harris finished her last routine in front of the home crowd in Gill Coliseum, her teammates mobbed her out on the mat. Oregon State’s fans in the stands gave her a standing ovation as well.

Fellow seniors Hannah Casey and Kelsi Blalock also received loud cheers from the crowd in their last meet in Corvallis. Their performance helped lead the No. 14 Beavers to a second-place finish behind No. 7 Nebraska and ahead of Arizona State. The Cornhuskers scored 196.650, while OSU scored 196.625 and ASU finished third with a score of 195.575.

“The emotions were crazy,” Harris said. “You know it’s your last time in Gill, and being in Gill is always magical and fun. Knowing that I had a good meet overall, and my team did well, it was just a wave of emotions and excitement.”

For Casey, the emotions hit her during the intro video, but didn’t show in her performance.

Casey tied her career-best mark in her one event of the night, the uneven bars, hitting a 9.900 for the

second time in two meets.

The Beavers started the meet with a 48.950 on vault.

Junior Taylor Keeker hit a 9.900, but the team was unable to build off her performance. She was followed by Blalock (9.700), Harris (9.725) and freshman Megan Jimenez (9.750).

OSU bounced back, however, as three Beavers, junior Chelsea Tang, sophomore Erika Aufiero and Casey, all scored 9.900 on uneven bars. Their bars score ended up being 49.350, their highest for the event all season.

“I really am proud of these athletes,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. ”They’ve been thrown a lot of changes in the lineups and they’ve focused in.

That’s not an easy thing to do, so they’re learning a lot through all the changes we’re making in the lineups.”

On bars, Tang’s performance set the bar for the rest of her team as 9.900 and 9.850 were the next two scores.

“It helps a lot starting off right,” Casey said, “It helps because when the first person goes, if they hit and score well, we just keep building off of that and it just escalates to a really great score.”

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Ben Wetzler made his first start of the 2014 season 16 days later than he anticipated.

After the well-documented NCAA suspension, Wetzler, the senior left-hander, was forced to miss the first 11 games of his senior season.

Sunday’s series-ending game against Wright State was the 12th game of the season for the No. 4 Oregon State baseball team.

It was Wetzler who took the ball, went to the Goss Stadium mound he’s grown to know and love, pitched 7 2/3 quality innings and put his suspension behind him.

“I felt like a little kid going out to make his first start again,” Wetzler said. “It was fun.”

Wetzler said he felt a little jittery in the first inning or two, but then settled down to deliver a productive outing in the Beavers’ 13-2 win to close out the series against Wright State (3-8).

Head coach Pat Casey has been outspoken in his dissatisfaction with the NCAA ruling.

Casey said he’s glad Wetzler and the team can move past it.

“This whole thing has been a troubling situation for Ben, and that makes it troubling for me when you take baseball out of it,” Casey said. “It’s an unjust situation that he had to go through and endure for a long time.”

The senior needed only 89 pitches to get through 7 2/3 innings. He allowed one run on four hits and a walk, while striking out five batters in the win.

“I did an OK job,” Wetzler said. “The first couple innings, I was kind of antsy and amped up. Casey told me all week just (to) kind of control your emotions and do the best you can to just be you and control yourself. I think I was able to do that decently.”

Wetzler was modest about his season debut, but his battery counterpart, freshman catcher Logan Ice, gave the lefty more credit.

“Ben’s been through all the wars and battles,” Ice said. “He handled it well, and he knew how to handle it. There were no worries on my part or anyone else’s that he’d be too antsy and not do what he was supposed to do.”

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The Oregon State women’s golf team will continue its 2014 season Monday in Tarzana, Calif., in the Bruin Wave Invitational.

The Beavers have seen moderate success through the year in a talent-filled Pac-12 group.

In their most improved tournament of the season, the Beavers tied for sixth overall in the Westbrook Spring Invitational last week.

“Coming off of the event, we actually scored really well” head coach Rise Alexander said.

“We managed the golf course well, and that really builds confidence for us, and that is a crucial part carrying forward.”

The Beavers didn’t fair as well in the second and third rounds, however.

“It was the second and third round where we started to get drained, mentally and physically, and we need to be better prepared,” Alexander said.

The Beavers’ third round was the toughest for them in the three-day tournament, something OSU isn’t accustomed to as its tournaments are generally two rounds. A few holes had higher pars than what they were used too.

Moving forward, the Beavers look to build momentum going into the Bruin Wave Invitational.

“We mentally got a little distracted and drained, but we are always looking to improve,” Alexander said. “Last weekend was a good weekend just because of that.”

WRESTLING n Continued from page 5 finished with second-place finishes in the last two matches of the night.

Meeks was tied with Stanford’s Dan Sherer, 2-2, after three periods, sending the bout to suddendeath overtime. Sherer earned a two-point takedown early in the final period to nab the victory from the defending champion Meeks.

Dhesi faced No. 10 J. T. Felix in the heavyweight final, falling, 7-2, for a second-place finish at his first Pac-12 Championships.

Junior Pat Rollins, senior Austin Morehead and sophomores Joey Palmer and Toney Chay all finished in third place for the Beavers in their respective weight classes.

Rollins wrestled in the 125pound weight class while Palmer

Alexander and the Beavers are looking forward to the next tournament mostly because of familiarity.

“Since we are focusing on improving mentally, this will be a good way to start because everyone participating for us has played on this field before,” Alexander said. “This allows them to reflect and visualize.

Last weekend was new, and there was a focus on course management during practice because they have seen this course in previous years.”

The Beavers will start (in order) senior Seshia Telles, junior Anica Yoo, sophomore Chelsea Saelee, senior Lauren Sewell and sophomore Ashlee Pickerell.

The athletes participating are determined on a qualifying scrimmage held at practice.

Alexander is also optimistic about the season going forward.

“We have been trying to change the overall culture this year, and it has been an entire process” Alexander said.

“Looking at things differently this year than in past years is very important.”

Alexander also believes that while the physical aspect is important, golf is very much a mental game.

“Good results will come with focus on training, and we practice doing everything we can to take care of all of the details,” Alexander said. “They are doing a great job of persevering and adapting while we make this change.”

The Bruin Wave Invitational starts Monday and concludes Tuesday.

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— who traded off with Rollins as the 125-pound starter all season — took third place in the 133pound weight class.

Chay pinned Boise State’s Holden Packard in the consolation match for third place in the 165-pound weight class while Morehead gave the Beavers their final third-place finish of the day with a decision over Cal Poly’s Kent Beecham.

Based on their finishes, Palmer, Delgado, Sakaguchi, Pena, Lathum, Meeks and Dhesi all earned automatic bids to wrestle in the NCAA Championships March 20.

Oregon State’s other wrestlers have a chance to qualify as at-large bids, which will be announced March 12.

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ranked opponent, that we tied for second, it’s incredible.”

The win is also OSU’s ninth in a row, which ties for third-longest in school history and makes Oregon State’s resume that much stronger for an NCAA Tournament bid.

It didn’t come easily, however, despite what the final score might suggest. After a back-and-forth start to the game, Arizona State had managed a three-point lead with 7:19 to go in the first half.

“It took some time to get used to their pressure again,” said junior guard Ali Gibson. “We just had to go back to what we’d practiced all week. We had confidence in the second half, knowing that we could do it because we brought momentum from the first half.”

The Beavers started settling in. More specifically, Wiese started to find her shot.

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For the second straight game, Oregon State faced a team that was returning its leading scorer following a suspension.

After holding USC’s Byron Wesley to nine points, the Beavers hoped to do the same against UCLA’s two leading scorers: sophomore guards Jordan Adams and Kyle Anderson.

Adams finished with 24 points on 8-for14 shooting to combine with Anderson’s 14 points to record more than half of the Bruins’ total score.

Oregon State (15-13, 7-9 Pac-12) let an 11-point second-half lead slip away to an eventual 74-69 loss to UCLA (22-7, 11-5).

Adams hit two 3-pointers while Anderson connected on all eight of his free throw attempts.

The Beavers were in control in the middle portion of the game, going into the halftime break with a 38-29 margin.

OSU responded to a dunk from UCLA junior guard Normal Powell with 10:39 left by outscoring the Bruins 24-10 the rest of the first half.

UCLA missed seven consecutive field goals in that stretch and endured the final 7:48 of the first half with only one basket.

The Beavers extended the lead to 11 after the break, only to be negated by Adams’ seven points in a 70-second span that was the basis of a 16-5 UCLA run.

Powell’s 3-pointer six minutes into the second half resulted in the ninth and final lead change of the game.

OSU’s field goal percentage dropped from 56 percent in the first half to 38.5 percent after the half.

Nearly a quarter of the Beavers’ possessions ended in turnovers — 16 in total — which UCLA turned into 20 points.

Senior center Angus Brandt scored the first seven points for OSU but only had two more in the final 36:35 — the first time he has been held in single digits in the last 14 games.

The Beavers were paced by 23 points

from senior guard Roberto Nelson, the only other double-digit scoring output besides 15 from senior forward Devon Collier.

Junior forward Eric Moreland nabbed 13 rebounds as the Beavers grabbed a 36-31 advantage on the boards.

Collier, Brandt and Moreland combined to go 3-for-10 from the free throw line, however, as OSU finished 14-for-23 from the line as a team.

Freshman guard Hallice Cooke had a career-high 20 points in a win over UCLA on Feb. 2, but was held to only three points Sunday on 1-for-11 shooting.

For UCLA, Anderson also tallied nine rebounds and five assists to help the Bruins bounce back from a doubleovertime loss to Oregon.

The Beavers have two more regular season games left — an 8 p.m. start against No. 3 Arizona on Wednesday followed by a Saturday matchup with Arizona State.

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Seniors Brittany Harris, Hannah Casey, undergraduate student assistant coach Amanda Schulberg and Kelsi Blalock pose for a picture after Saturday night’s meet in Gill Coliseum.

start on balance beam, scoring a 9.875, a career-best, and important for the Beavers, who were without freshman Kaytianna McMillan.

Her score was the Beavers’ best on the event, but the team stayed consistent, finishing with two scores of 9.850 and two of 9.825.

Two of the three seniors anchored the team in their final event, floor, with Blalock scoring a 9.825 and Harris scoring a 9.850, earning a standing ovation one last time from the Gill Coliseum crowd.

Oregon State is back in action Sunday at 12 p.m., when they take on No. 20 Arizona on the road. The meet will be broadcasted live on the Pac-12 Networks.

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BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 were held scoreless through the first three innings Sunday.

Then, in a five-inning stretch, OSU racked up 13 runs. The Beavers tallied five runs apiece in the sixth and seventh inning, batting around in the order in both innings.

They went 3-1 over the weekend. Casey hasn’t been overly impressed with his team in the early going.

“I think that there’s a lot more to the club than what (we’ve) been showing,” Casey said. “If we want to play in the Pac-12, we’ve got to be better.”

The Beavers play again Tuesday in a nonconference game against the University of Portland. Freshman Jake Thompson is expected to start for the Beavers.

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Ruth Hamblin assisted each In Sunday’s game, she also other on back-to-back-to-back Ruth Hamblin had four rebounds, four assists layups, and then Hunter added Sophomore center and two steals. a free throw to cap a 10-0 run.

Up by 18 points, Oregon State Gibson scored 13 points, seven rebounds, was too far ahead for ASU to come back. two assists, two steals and a block, and Hunter The Beavers had four players score in double- rounded out the double-digit scorers with 11 figures, but perhaps no one had a bigger game points.

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the way with 13 points. She was followed closely by freshman forward Kelsey Moos, who had 11.

As a team, it was the Sun Devils’ second-lowest scoring total on the season, and they were held below 26 percent from the field.

During this nine-game winning streak, the Beavers’ defense has been outstanding. They’ve held opponents to 51.4 points per game, which is 10.4 points fewer than their season average.

“We’ve found fun within defense,” Hamblin said. “Like Ali, I think of her scrapping on the floor, and it just gives so much energy. For me, if I can provide blocks, it’s just a momentum-changer.”

Up next for the Beavers is the Pac-12 Tournament, which will be held in Seattle. After OSU’s first-round bye, it will play the winner of Utah vs. Washington.

The Beavers’ first game will be Friday at 8:30 p.m.

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eople watching” is an underrated form of entertainment. If you avoid being a creeper, perhaps by being with a friend, having a different agenda prior to people watching and leaving the binoculars at home, it can be an enjoyable and legal pastime.

Two years ago, a friend and I went to the Albany mall — which was a complete lapse of judgment.

As soon as we got there and discovered there was nothing to do there for two people who had short attention spans for shopping, we sat in the sad little food court and watched in amazement as people filtered through a mall that only had three open stores.

We witnessed a tiny boy running from his parents like a robber from a bank, holding a Cheerios container tight to his chest. We saw a pack of youths with dyed hair and piercings,

probably rebelling against the man and institutions (by supporting the local mall). We saw a frantic boyfriend, talking hurriedly on his cell phone about how impossible it was to find his girlfriend the perfect gift, as if his gift-giving incompetence would cost him their relationship.

We made up a story for every interesting mall-goer. I’m sure they would have all appreciated our stories for them, because we gave them all extremely exciting lives.

It’s popular advice to refrain from judging people, but judgment is not always a damning opinion of someone else. Granted, being rude to people or about people just because they seem different from you isn’t an acceptable justification of harsh treatment.

But judgment can often be observational. People watching is the perfect example of observational

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Snap judgments, referred to as the primacy effect, are often accurate in interviews and other person-toperson diagnoses, Howard N. Gard wrote in “Cognitive and social factors influencing clinical judgment in psychiatric practice.”

Speed dating is perhaps the most fertile breeding ground for snap judgments. Obviously the first and biggest factor in determining whether people are a good fit for you in a short period of time is how attracted you are to them.

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It’s a significant dinner.

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Everyone judges everyone else, it doesn’t make us horrible people

Week 9 means “P it’s time to study t’s the first day of week nine. Winter term is almost done, and it’s time to celebrate.

Well, actually, it’s time to study.

We’re as eager for this term to be over as we’re betting all of you — students, faculty and staff alike — are. But partying this week and spending the night before your exams cramming all the things you should have been studying into your brain isn’t a recipe for success.

Cramming is basically a hit-or-miss strategy that tends to fail when you need it most.

Studying is when you review the same stuff over and over and over again during the course of days and weeks.

You’re repeatedly studying the same content, even if you think you already know it, which is something called “overlearning.”

Overlearning gets you beyond the initial mastery of the topic and anchors it firmly in your brain. Considering most of the things we’re supposed to be learning here are meant to make us better at our future careers, this is something that we should all probably look into.

Overlearning “substantially reduces the initial drop or forgetting that typically occurs rapidly within about 20-30 minutes and more substantially within about 24 hours,” according to Dr. Mark Schwartz’s “Studying: Distributed Practice vs Massed Practice.”

When you cram, you’re relying on beating that initial drop. But we all know that in gambling, the house always wins.

Sure, you might have been lucky up until now. But has it really been luck?

If you’ve been going to class and doing the homework, then your cramming the night — or hour — before the final isn’t so much traditional cramming as refreshing your memory.

Cognitive scientists’ research has demonstrated that there are main principles of memory that affect how students need to prepare for exams.

The spacing effect — studying the material more than once — works better when the repetitions are spaced out, rather than one right after another.

The other principle is the testing effect — practicing retrieving the information. Combining the two works better than just reading the material over and over again, according Sean Kang in an piece called “Ask The Scientist.”

Kang works in Hal Pashler’s lab — one of those cognitive scientists — in the Interactive Memory Systems department of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, one of six Science of Learning Centers funded by the National Science Foundation.

True cramming is when you have no clue what’s going on at all in the class, and trying to teach it all to yourself the night before your exam.

This method probably works just fine for some people. However, they’re not a statistically significant part of the population on campus.

Someone somewhere once said that “Reality is indeterminate until the cat grades your final.” Keep that in mind if you’re banking on the odds being on your side again this term.

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part of the brain that’s active when someone determines if a person is attractive, according to Marcus Woo’s article “Snap Judgments During Speed Dating.”

Rostromedial prefrontal cortex is another region in the brain that’s active when we are determining people’s likability, as we compare and contrast ourselves to them.

It seems like it always comes down to the fact that we view others through ourselves. Thinking abstractly is not usually our go-to, which can be potentially harmful in our interpersonal interactions.

But I’m willing to make an exception with people watching. After all, it isn’t personal — it’s just fun. t

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ver-increasing technology has given us faster computers and smarter devices. Any information you could want is only a click away.

Many of the traditional aspects of life, like a full bookshelf or flip phones, have been replaced and are pretty much only around for nostalgia.

Another aspect of life that has undergone a face-lift, and is thus slowly becoming obsolete, is board games.

Board games: the things that teeter precariously on that top shelf in hall closets, that are played on a table with little plastic or pewter player pieces and occasionally are the cause of epic family tension.

They used to be a popular fallback option on a slow night, pulling out Monopoly, Sorry or Trivial Pursuit and making merry. But with all of life’s aspects going digital, it means board games have as well, and most of our games are now on our video game consoles, computers, phones or tablets.

Now that everyone has a smartphone glued to at least one hand, board games have lost some of their fun and appeal. Today, when a board game is pulled out, there are a few people excited for some Battleship — but most groan of boredom and return to the newest Flappy Bird remake.

I loved looking in my hallway closet and seeing stacks of games (granted, I was an only child and rarely used my board games) and knowing that if I pulled out a game when I had friends over we’d play, laugh and/or hate each other and seek mutual destruction for at least half an hour.

But my fond memories are mostly of having a good time being around each other. If I pull out my Scrabble or Uno nowadays, no one wants to play.

Just recently, we had “Game Night” at my fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. A couple people brought games to be played, but ultimately all the games just sat in a sad pile on the coffee table.

We played Cards Against Humanity for a half hour before relenting and putting on a movie, which everyone watched while doing their own things on their smartphones.

I know, such a riveting game night.

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EUGENE — Another nationally known conservative soon will give a speech in Eugene.

But unlike past years, the Lane County Republican Party isn’t bringing this speaker to town.

Mike Huckabee, a potential 2016 Republican candidate for president, will speak at a political fundraiser on April 2 at the Hilton Eugene.

Huckabee is a “nationally known figure who has an uplifting message that we thought our community would like to hear,” said Dennis Morgan, executive director of the Eugene-based political action committee organizing the event.

For much of the past decade, well-known Republicans have spoken at the Lane County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner held each February.

In recent years, the local party brought in Sarah Palin, John Bolton and other wellknown Republicans. Ticket sales to those events had been the major annual fundraiser for the county party, which enabled the GOP to support Republican candidates.

But this year’s Lincoln Day Dinner did not take place because of disputes among Lane County Republican leaders. The disagreements caused such friction that the party’s top three leaders resigned in January.

Now, the Eugene-based He a l t h y Communities Initiative hopes Huckabee’s appearance draws enough people to pay for his speaking fee, believed to be about $30,000, while raising a hefty amount for HCI’s political action committee — Community Action Network.

HCI is a three-year-old group classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit social welfare organization.

HCI is “dedicated to improving the local economy, creating jobs and enhancing the livability of the region,” Morgan said.

The group isn’t required to disclose its contributors, he said.

However, contributions made to the group’s PAC are disclosed on the Oregon

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Morgan, who co-owns a water testing firm in Eugene, is a Republican and former treasurer of the state Republican Party.

The PAC supports candidates and causes “that agree with our mission,” he said.

Candidates don’t have to be Republicans to get financial help, Morgan said.

The list of contributors to the PAC includes local wood products firms, such as Seneca Sawmill, Giustina Resources and Lost Creek Timber.

In recent weeks, the PAC has made campaign contributions to Lane County Commissioners Jay Bozievich and Faye Stewart, both Republican incumbents who have Democratic opponents in the officially non-partisan May election.

In 2008, Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president.

He is a radio and TV commentator, and has a weekend program on Fox News.

For the Huckabee speech, Morgan’s group hopes to sell 750 tickets, the vast majority at $150 apiece. Eighty tickets will be sold for a pre-dinner reception with Huckabee.

Seven of those tickets will be sold for $5,000 apiece, which will enable donors to sit at the speaker’s table with Huckabee during dinner. Other pre-dinner reception tickets will be sold for $2,500 apiece.

On Tuesday, Marie Jones, wife of Seneca Sawmill founder Aaron Jones, gave the PAC $15,000.

Morgan said Marie Jones’ contribution paid for three pre-dinner reception tickets at the Huckabee event.

In previous years, HCI and its PAC had small, private fundraisers, typically in February, Morgan said.

But last year, HCI leaders decided to have a fundraiser with a well-known speaker, similar to the Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Morgan said.

Morgan said Huckabee was the speaker “most recognized and sought out by the majority” of HCI supporters.

In early January, Morgan

said he contacted Huckabee’s speaking agency to see if Huckabee was available.

Meanwhile, the Lane County Republican Party had also contacted the same agency to see about Huckabee’s availability for a Lincoln Day Dinner, Morgan said.

But by mid-January, the county party’s bid to bring Huckabee to Eugene in February had dissolved amid a dispute involving the party’s central committee, or leadership.

In January, the county party chairman, vice chairman and secretary all had resigned.

Paul Barnett, the former chairman, declined to comment on why he resigned.

But in his resignation letter “She stated that until the party got its act together and became viable again, and stopped bickering that she would no longer fund our events,” Barnett wrote.

Being unable to put on the Lincoln Day dinner contributed to his resignation, Barnett wrote, but it was not the only reason.

“Over the past 14 months, I have attempted to do what I believed was best for the Lane County Republican Party,” he wrote. “My attempts to unify our party have sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed, partly due to the fact some of our people have an agenda that precludes us from working for unity.”

On Thursday, the party’s central committee members are scheduled to elect a new chair, vice chair and secretary to serve the rest of the year.

About 250 Republicans, most of them committee precinct persons, are eligible to vote in the election that will take place at 7 p.m. in Springfield City Hall.

Bill Young resigned in January as the party’s vice chairman. However, he agreed to be the acting chairman until the Thursday election.

Despite the turmoil, Young said Republicans still hope to have a major fundraiser, perhaps in May, though it’s unclear if Republicans will be able to attract a major speaker like Huckabee.

“All I can say is, we are going to move forward and grow the party,” Young said.

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be judged by. These questions, and this situation, have consequences in real life.

According to my businessmajor mother, sometimes potential bosses will take interviewed employees out to dinner as a way to assess their people and etiquette skills.

Considering the fact that etiquette is strongly based upon individual judgment, location and the people involved, these factors can affect the reactions to any scenario involving a check.

Most people also want to assign masculine and feminine roles in such situations — especially if they’re potentially romantic — because we’re silly like that.

I’m always psyched when-

ever someone pays for my food because hey, free food.

However, I always have my money ready and ask those who offer if they’re sure they want to foot the bill — and warn them that I won’t fight for it because I’m a cheapskate by nature.

Even then, I still try to pay for dessert or offer to leave the tip.

Why do I do this? I do it because spending money on someone else — money I spent time and energy earning — is a really nice gesture and should not be taken lightly.

This is the basis behind Esquire magazine’s “How to take a woman to dinner the right way,” which includes tips on how to give tips and demands specifically for the taker-outer to pay the bill, saying, “if she offers to go Dutch, resist her.”

Although it’s nice, it shouldn’t be a requirement for dating and

dining practices, because if the situation is romantic, hopefully you would be basing your overall conclusion on more than just salary.

If you do, you should probably go audition for “Keeping up with the Kardashians.”

In terms of group outings and friendshippy get-togethers, I adhere to the suggestion made

by QuickAndDirtyTips.com: You should always be prepared to pay for your own food, even if someone looks like they might try and do it for you.

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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.