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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331
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From small beginnings, Corvallis Coffee, Tea continues to grow By McKinley Smith The Daily Barometer
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Dennis Collett owns Corvallis Coffee and Tea, located at 215 Northwest Monroe Avenue, with his wife Casey. The Colletts began their business 10 years ago and offer 350 varieties of tea and 20 varieties of coffee weekly.
Casey and Dennis Collett have made a family business out of selling coffee and tea at their shop in downtown Corvallis. Inside of Corvallis Coffee and Tea, jars of tea and coffee dominate the walls, with smatterings of coffee cups and other related merchandise dotted around the room. The Colletts’ business began 10 years ago in the adjacent shop, now used for storage and coffee roasting. Then, it was called Oregon Legacy, and specialized in packaging coffee for gift shops. Dennis Collett received a six-toeight hour crash-course in coffee roasting from the previous owners and learned the rest on his own, reading “voraciously” and experimenting. “At the end of the roast, the difference between a medium roast and a dark roast is only about 30 seconds,” Dennis Collett said. “The difference between a good batch of dark roast and burnt coffee is only about 10 seconds.” Before Oregon Legacy, the Colletts owned other small businesses, including a skateboard shop, and when the space opened up downtown, they took it. “We saw it on a Friday and bought it on a Monday,” Casey Collett said. After six-and-a-half years, the space became too small for their growing business, Casey Collett said, and they opened up at the current location on the same block at 215 Northwest Monroe Avenue. The Colletts sell 350 varieties of tea and 20 varieties of coffee weekly, including green coffee beans for
self-roasting. The Colletts will be attending the World Tea Expo this June in Las Vegas. Casey Collett said tea sales have been climbing. “We try to offer things for people who want to take a world tour of coffee,” Casey Collett said. “I think what’s happening in this country is that coffee is popular, but teas are being discovered,” Casey Collett said. “And oddly enough in tea drinking countries like India and China, coffees are being discovered.” Casey Collett said they make an effort to include “as many organic and fair coffees as the market will bear.” “There is a price premium in some cases for organic and fair trade coffee,” Casey Collett said. “With teas, it’s a lot harder to get fair trade. We have a few fair trade teas, but we have a lot of organic teas, and we’re always looking for more.” Casey Collett said they are “very mindful of costs” and try to “make tea and coffee accessible” to their customers. “Our customers are very conscious of the working conditions of the people that both pick tea and coffee,” Dennis Collett said. Corvallis Tea and Coffee offers incentives to customers for reusing bags and bringing in their own coffee cups. “We’re a very recycling, green concept kind of family, and we just carry those concepts on to the business,” Casey Collett said. See COLLETTS | page 2
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Oregon State University signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense, allowing approximately 115 armed forces members to continue to receive tuition assistance. The university was required to sign the memorandum by a March 1 deadline in order to continue to receive money from the Defense Department for the program. “We have some work to do internally to comply, but nothing that should negatively affect students,” said Gus Bedwell, OSU veterans’ services adviser. Bedwell said staff needed training and guidance from the Department of Defense about how to upload education plans and compliance plans, which vary between the five branches. Tuition assistance is a program that See MEMORANDUM | page 2
This spring, Oregon State University will honor two professors as distinguished. Joseph Beckman, director of the Environmental Health Science Center, and Thomas Diettreich, professor of computer science and a pioneer in the field of machine learning, will become distinguished professors, an honor they will continue to hold as long as they stay with OSU. Distinguished professor is the highest recognition given by the university to an active OSU faculty member. “The honor recognizes outstanding accomplishments as well as the potential to continue to excel in the future,” said Sabah Randhawa, provost and executive vice president at OSU. Randhawa has the final decision in terms of recognizing distinguished professors. Nominations are requested around campus and a small committee of faculty who hold the distinguished professor title evaluate nominations. Both Beckman and Dietterich felt honored to be named distinguished professors. “It’s a very nice honor,” Beckman said. “I have tremendous respect for those who have been selected as
distinguished professors before, and know that many others deserve the recognition.” “We are fortunate to have excellent faculty at OSU,” Randawa added. “Dr. Dietterich and Dr. Beckman have outstanding credentials in their respective fields — Dr. Dietterich in artificial intelligence and Dr. Beckman in neurodegenerative diseases.” Dietterich and Beckman both felt they were recognized as distinguished professors in large part due to contributions to their respective fields. “I’ve made major contributions over many years in understanding the role of oxidative stress in human diseases,” Beckman said. “Also, I’ve been director of the Environmental Health Science Center for over a decade, a very important resource at OSU that’s helped drive many new discoveries.” Dietterich cites his role as an innovator in the field of machine learning. “As a graduate student, I was one of the first people to do research in this field,” Dietterich said. “I was one of the people to help grow machine learning as a scientific field.” Beckman has been interested in researching the progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, for the past 20 years. “I made a key discovery about how the oxidant peroxynitrite underlies many different diseases,” Beckman said. “Of all the disease processes that peroxynitrite affects, I focused on ALS 20 years ago because of the discov-
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Dr. Joseph Beckman with research assistant professors Dr. Valery Voinov and Dr. Yuri Vasil’ev in the Mass Spectrometry lab at OSU. ery of a mutation in an antioxidant enzyme called SOD1 that reacts with peroxynitrite.” Beckman’s research also involves looking into the cause of the death of motor neurons in ALS. “We’ve discovered, as a number of different investigators, that astrocytes, support cells that surround motor neurons, can be activated and drive the death of motor neurons,” Beckman said. As a pioneer in the field of machine learning, Dietterich was part of a group that founded the first journal in machine learning and was the first president of the international
machine learning society. “The idea of machine learning is to teach the computer by example to do particular things,” Dietterich said. “Cameras that put a square around a person’s face would be an example of the results of machine learning.” Dietterich and Beckman both work in research labs here at Oregon State University. Beckman works in the OSU mass spectrometry lab, helping develop and use new instrumentation. “We are also synthesizing and testing new types of drugs in vitro to treat ALS here at OSU,” Beckman said. Dietterich runs a research group See PROFESSORS | page 2
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PROFESSORS n Continued from page 1 here at OSU, and is interested in a wide range of things. “I joke that I have research Attention Deficit Disorder,” Dietterich said. His research group is currently working on three major projects, all involving the application of computer modeling. Dietterich received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Oberlin College in Ohio, a master’s in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford, prior to coming to Oregon State in 1985. “My master’s adviser at UrbanaChampaign named the field ‘machine learning,’” Dietterich said. Diettrich’s research group’s major projects currently involve using computer modeling to look at a variety of topics, including bird behavior and migration, invasive species and managing wildfires. “We’re trying to build a computer scientific model to answer questions about bird behavior,” Diettrich said. “Joint with Jo Albers in the department of forest ecosystems and society, I’m working on a project using computer modeling to control invasive species.” Diettrich’s third major research group project is about managing wildfires in Eastern Oregon. “We’re trying to use computer models to decide when a fire’s ignited whether to fight it or to let it burn,” Diettrich said. Along with his research duties at Oregon State, Diettrich is the deputy director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability, based out of Cornell University. “The purpose of computation sustain-
ability is to apply novel computer science techniques to solve sustainability problems,” Diettrich said. Beckman came to OSU in 2001 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he advanced from his post doctorate position to being a full professor in the department of anesthesiology. He holds an undergraduate degree in molecular biology and a masters in population biology, both from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. in botany from Duke University. After receiving his master’s degree, he worked for a surgical hospital in Korea for the U.S. Army for two years. Besides acting as the chairman of the
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agement from OSU. She’s also noticed an increase in undergraduate student customers recently.
Customers Lydia and David Maddux bought a coffee grinder that Corvallis Coffee and Tea now stocks after hearing their suggestions. The Maddux’s have been frequenting the shop since before they moved locations. “Every Saturday morning before farmer’s market you’ll probably find us sitting at that table over there,” Lydia Maddux said, referring to a table beside the window. “We tell everyone about this place.” Casey Collett has noticed an increase in the number of college-aged students, especially international students, visiting the shop. Miriam Collett, daughter to Dennis and Casey, began working at the shop in 2006 after receiving her undergraduate degree in fine arts from Oregon State University. She has a master’s in merchandising man-
“A lot of people come in and they’ll ask for something [to help] them study,” Miriam Collett said. “They need something to keep them awake, or they need something to help keep them healthy and they have specific goals for coming in.”
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Dr. Thomas Diettrich, professor of computer science, will be honored as a distinguished professor this spring. Environmental Health Science Center, Beckman is the Ava Helen Pauling Chair of the Linus Pauling Institute. He is also a professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics in the College of Science. “Joe is a valued colleague, a talented scientist and a wonderful mentor to our junior faculty, graduate students and undergraduates,” said Vince Remcho, interim dean of the College of Science. “I am so pleased to count him among our distinguished science faculty. This designation brings great honor and much positive attention to the college.” Vinay Ramakrishnan, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
“In terms of return of investment and providing support for students, it made sense,” Bedwell said. Bedwell said the number of students allows active duty and some reserve and using tuition assistance has increased over guard service members to get their tuition the last year at OSU, from 92 to 115. paid for by the Department of Defense. The The memorandum of understanding program varies between the five service is in its second draft, and a Defense branches, but pays 100 percent of the cost Department website said a third draft will of tuition, up to $4,500 annually. be issued in late spring. The memorandum
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lready, there’s been some controversy regarding ASOSU elections. Technically, those wishing to run are not allowed to begin the campaigning process until April 1. Thus far, Representative Nick Rosoff has been caught breaking this rule twice. We’re not here to defend Rosoff. We’re merely saying Rosoff’s actions are the result of a broken system. ASOSU elections rules need to change and allow for a longer campaign period. As outlined in the 2013 Election Packet provided by ASOSU, general elections are held in the first week of April. This means that candidates only have two weeks to campaign and get their names out there. This is a near impossible task, and one that has probably contributed to perpetually low voter turnout. For a candidate to be competitive, it is necessary for him or her to put together a team, find a running mate, write a platform, develop campaign material and have them printed. This is a lot of work, and candidates do most of it on the sly before the official date to start campaigning. It is absurd to pretend that other candidates aren’t already doing those things — and we know from several sources that campaigns have been picking campaign managers, creating strategy and plotting their next move. And this is why the rules of the game need to change. Candidates should be allowed the month before the official campaign season to organize their campaigns. Instead of forcing candidates to go underground to do it, giving them an extra month would allow them to build stronger campaigns, garner more interest and reach out to more students than the current system allows for. We can understand not allowing campaign signs to go up until April 1 and not having formal events between the candidates, like debates, but they should be allowed to gather supporters and build a team beforehand. They already are, and a quick change to the rules would make it so candidates aren’t punished for trying to reach out to other students about their planned runs for office. This extra time might build buzz around the elections, and get more people involved in student government and more concerned about the issues that affect them. Right now there is too much apathy about student government and the grand theater that a democratic election provides might help some of those students get excited about it — or at least know that it exists. Just because the other candidates aren’t getting caught doesn’t make the rules right. And while Rosoff shouldn’t be promising people jobs if he is elected or flouting the rules as they currently exist, the rules need to change. Changing them would level the playing field, giving candidates a larger window to operate in. t
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e applaud Oregon State for signing the memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense. Signing this memorandum will provide tuition assistance paid for by the Department of Defense for 115 Oregon State students who are in the armed forces. This assistance is designed to cover tuition costs for active duty service members, including some from the reserve and the National Guard. The memorandum not only aids servicemen and women with tuition assistance, but it is designed to protect such men and women from being taken advantage of. Now these men and women will continue to be provided with the assistance they need for spring term. The new rules may cause some extra work at first, there are still some kinks to work out, but the money it provides will go a long way. We’re happy with Oregon State’s decision to sign the memorandum. t
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arlier last week, a news story in the Barometer detailed the recent petition by PETA2 to make the campus more vegan and vegetarian friendly. PETA2 was given the headline of “The hipper, cooler PETA.” I have no clue why PETA2 would ever need to rebrand itself separate from PETA. We all know PETA as the group that puts out racist, sexist and misogynistic ads to save animals, the same group that provided support for convicted arsonists and members of the Animal Liberation Front who firebombed research laboratories, and the same group that compared the processing of chickens for food to the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust. Yeah, no need for a rebranding there at all. I’ll give PETA2 the benefit of the doubt: Maybe this hipper, cooler version of PETA has truly changed from its extremist roots and is now an educational bastion of vegan knowledge and activism. The PETA2 website certainly looks slick. Why, they even have a whole gallery of people with animal rights tattoos — how young and vibrant! I hope these people doubled checked if their tattoos were animalproduct free. Many tattoo inks are suspended in glycerin derived from animal sources, and the black color found in tattoos is usually made from animal bone. Additionally, tattoo aftercare requires treatment with lotion, which contains animal oils, or beeswax, another no-no
their figures or data, but I’ll assume they just forget to put them up on their website — like that tattoo info. I do, however, have some data to share with you, o’ gentle reader. for vegans. Surely, PETA2 would A study published by the Cancer provide information on where to Epidemiology Institute at Oxford find vegan-friendly tattoos, but it found that vegetarians have 24 peris nowhere to be found on their cent lower chance of heart disease website. Maybe they just forgot that than non-vegetarians, and vegans important detail. have a 26 percent lower rate. They OK, so tattoo follies aside, let also found that occasional meat us look at some eaters have a 20 perof their educacent lower chance tional material. Look, the human of heart disease, PETA2 websites and people who ate race is big ... claims meat eateggs and milk, called no matter what ers, specifically lacto-ovovegetariof those who eat we do, we’re always ans, have a 36 perred meat, have a cent lower chance going to squash, higher intake of of heart disease. calories, higher hurt or kill animals Also,people who just cholesterol levels ate fish and no other in the process. and an increased meat, had a 34 perrate of heart discent lower chance of ease. Additionally, heart disease. they claim the increased rate of The study also found that there cancer-related deaths is linked to an were, “no significant differences increase in meat consumption and between vegetarians and non-veghow going vegan is the best thing etarians in mortality from cereone can do for his or her health. brovascular disease, stomach canIf only health was as easy as cer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, shoving tasty food into my mouth. breast cancer, prostate cancer or all Exercise, weight loss and other other causes combined.” Numerous studies have also physical factors have a huge part to play when it comes to our health. A reached similar conclusions: meat eater who visits the gym every Excluding meat from your diet does day, gets in a good amount of cardio not help save your health. In fact, it and strength training, will most seems to harm it. The benefit of the likely be healthier than a vegan sit- vegan or vegetarian lifestyle seems ting on his or her butt all day. PETA2 See PRIDE | page 7 does not provide any sources for
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n a November 2012 report, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota examined how comprehensive indoor smoking bans reduced instances of heart attack. Their findings indicate that after comprehensive bans were put in place — prohibiting smoking in businesses such as bars, casinos and restaurants — instances of heart attacks decreased 33 percent, and the rate of sudden cardiac death declined by 17 percent. The findings are revealing, since other risk factors such as diet and exercise remained the same. The takeaway is that comprehensive bans on smoking save lives. When Oregon State University became a smoke-free campus beginning in the fall of 2012, the administration explicitly linked smoke-free living to a healthier lifestyle. On the university’s website, visitors are encouraged to educate themselves on the smoke-free policy and to “enjoy the health benefits of being in a smoke-free environment.” Opponents of smoking bans — including Philip Morris USA and smok-
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owner of private property is generally assumed to have the right to dispose of his or her property as he or she sees fit. These distinctions come into conflict when property is privately owned, but used by the public. As a society, we assume workers and patrons of businesses should not be exposed to unreasonable or unnecessary harm. Oregon’s Indoor Clean Air Act extends the privilege of a smoke-free environment to employees, but the health benefits are extended to patrons as well. Businesses in violation of the act face fines of up to $500 a day for each infraction and up to $4,000 in a 30-day period. With the implementation of the university’s smoke-free policy, smokers in compliance have moved onto Monroe Avenue. Those not in compliance simply duck behind the clock tower. Oregon’s Indoor Clean Air Act comes into play when businesses accommodate smokers within 10 feet of doors, windows or air vents. Though state law prohibits smoking within this area, few real penalties exist to challenge smokers who
break the law. Businesses, however, which allow smoking within the 10-foot zone are also in violation of the Indoor Clean Air Act. State law puts the onus of enforcement on the police; the act places it on businesses. The danger with smoking bans, however, is the tendency to condemn smokers for their choices. Generally speaking, the state — and by extension, the university — has no right to interfere with health choices made by its citizens — or student body, faculty and visitors — nor should it interfere in how one chooses to spend one’s own money unless there exists a vested public interest otherwise. The harmful effects of smoking are well known, as are the harmful effects of breathing secondhand smoke. As the costs of healthcare rise and are increasingly absorbed by the general public through insurance rates, the public has a greater interest in the private choices of individuals. In other words, these are no longer private choices. They impact See MCLAIN | page 7
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started looking ahead to the Pac-12 Tournament as soon as Oregon State started conference play 0-3, essentially ending any chance it had of snagging an at-large NCAA Tournament bid. It was at that point that the Pac-12 Tournament became more important than the rest of the regular season. Well, the Pac-12 Tournament begins next Wednesday. Can the Beavers win the thing? Heck no. But can they make a run similar to last year, when they came up one half short of the championship game? Potentially, depending on their draw. I think the draw is pretty important for OSU this year, considering the Beavers simply aren’t good enough to make a run if they don’t get the benefit of a good draw. With two games left in the regular season (one game for some teams), here are the current Pac-12 standings: 1. Oregon 12-4 (Pac-12 record) 2. UCLA 12-4 3. California 12-5 4. Arizona 11-6 5. Colorado 9-7 6. USC 9-7 7. ASU 9-8 8. Wash. 8-8 9. Stanford 8-9 10. OSU 3-13 11. Utah 3-13 12. WSU 2-14 If you’re not familiar with the tournament format, the first round matchups are: (12) vs. (5), (11) vs. (6), (10) vs. (7), (9) vs. (8). In the quarterfinals, it’s (12/5) vs. (4), (11/6) vs. (3), (10/7) vs. (2) and (9/8) vs. (1). At this point, OSU can finish 10th, 11th or 12th. But in my opinion, it’s less about what seed they get and more about whom they play. Here are three scenarios for Pac-12 Tournament matchups: the “most likely,” the worst and the best. The “most likely” scenario: The Pac-12 has been impossible to predict this season, but if there are no upsets this weekend (based on the
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No. 3 Mike Mangrum, 141-pound senior, tries for a pin against Arizona State’s Matt Kraus on Feb. 9. He didn’t end with a pin, but won with a 15-8 decision. Mangrum will try for the 141-pound National Championship on March 21.
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Last year, senior Mike Mangrum went into the NCAA Tournament ranked fourth in the nation with the goal of winning the 141-pound National Championship. He finished fifth. Most NCAA wrestlers would be content finishing top five in the entire nation. Mangrum wasn’t. This year he enters the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 3 in the 141-pound weight class. In his last collegiate season, Mangrum has only one thing in mind. “All I want is to win that national championship,” Mangrum said. “It would mean everything to me.”
It’s Mangrum’s fourth try at the NCAA tournament, something that’s almost unprecedented at Oregon State. It’s also his most realistic shot at winning the title since first qualifying in his freshman year. “This is his fourth time going to the national tournament, the first [OSU wrestler] that’s done that since I’ve been here,” said head coach Jim Zalesky. “Last year he finally got that All-American status. When you get that All-American status you’re looking for that national championship, and that’s true for him.” Mangrum’s growth as a wrestler during his OSU career has mirrored that of the program’s. Oregon State was unranked when Mangrum first stepped onto campus in 2008, but has been incrementally better since. After redshirting in his first season, OSU finished unranked in 2009, and again in 2010. The Beavers finished 21st in the nation in 2011, Mangrum’s
sophomore year, 10th in 2012 and enter this year’s NCAA Tournament at No. 9. It’s no coincidence that Mangrum’s arrival and OSU’s upward ascent happened simultaneously. “He came here when the program wasn’t where it is now,” Zalesky said. “When he came here he was probably one of the top recruits in the country, and I sold him on Oregon State when it wasn’t where it is now. He’s meant a great deal to the program.” If Mangrum could win a national title it would be the cherry on top of a historic OSU career. The senior from Auburn, Wash., currently ranks sixth all-time in career wins at Oregon State with 133. One more victory would tie him with arguably OSU’s most prolific wrestler of all-time — two-time national champion Les Gutches. “That’s going to be huge,” Mangrum said. “Coming to this school, you hear about the legSee MANGRUM | page 6
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It took the No. 4 Oregon State baseball team’s offense until the fourth game of the series to break out, and it was sophomore outfielder Michael Conforto leading the way for the Beavers. Conforto went on a tear on Saturday and Sunday, making it look like he was in the Home Run Derby, rather than playing a game. In the four-game series against Bryant University, Conforto had seven hits in 12 at-bats, including four home runs and 12 runs batted in. His performance in the four-game sweep, which gave the Beavers a 12-0 record, made him an easy
choice for The Daily Barometer’s Athlete of the Week. The highlight of his weekend was a sixth-inning grand slam on Sunday, which gave OSU a 9-0 lead. It seemed improbable for Conforto to top the grand slam, but he did just that when he sent a three-run home run well over the scoreboard in right-center field one inning later. “The ball looks huge right now,” Conforto said on Sunday. “Sometimes when you’re swinging it good, you have a lot of confidence and I feel really relaxed up there.” The home runs on Sunday were his third and fourth of the season. He hit a two-run home run in each game in Saturday’s doubleheader. Conforto was a Second Team All-American as a freshman in 2012. He led the Pac-12 in RBIs with 76, and was tied for first in home runs with 13. Before the series with Bryant, Conforto was off to a fairly slow start given the high expectations after his standout freshman year. He had not hit a home run and had only tallied four RBIs in the first eight games. It was only a matter of time before Conforto broke out. “I knew I was swinging it well and good things were coming because I was hitting balls hard,” Conforto said. “It showed [Sunday], I guess.” The Daily Barometer
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GARRETT n Continued from page 5 current conference standings, not point spreads), this would be OSU’s draw: OSU’s first round opponent: (7) Stanford OSU’s second round opponent: (2) UCLA OSU’s potential semifinal opponent: (1) Oregon What this would mean for OSU: Not good. The Beavers have lost their last four meetings with Stanford dating back to last season, and even if OSU did squeeze out an opening-round win, UCLA would be waiting in the wings. The Bruins have won four in a row and, when they’re playing together, they’re the scariest team in the conference. I think the freshmen will rally behind senior point guard Larry Drew II in a win-or-go-home game, making them a team I’d want no part of. Especially considering OSU showed no signs of being able to hang with the Bruins in a 74-64 (the score was closer than the game was) loss on Jan. 17. The worst-case scenario: OSU’s first round opponent: (5) Colorado OSU’s second round opponent: (4) Arizona OSU’s potential semifinal opponent: (1) UCLA or (1) Oregon Keys to this happening: • OSU finishes 12th (loses to Utah and Colorado, WSU beats either USC or UCLA) • USC doesn’t win more games than Colorado this week (making Colorado the five-seed) What this would mean for OSU: Not good. Not good at all. Last year, Colorado ran the table at the Pac-12 Tournament and earned an unlikely bid
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five tournaments outside the top 20 and should give her confidence heading into the final three tournaments of the year before the Pac-12 Championship. Freshman Ashlee Pickerell had one tough round that affected her overall result, a 15-over 87 in the afternoon on Monday, but still had two solid rounds to help her finish in a tie for 45th with a 25-over 77-87-77 — 241. Freshman Chelsea Saelee was unable to shoot a round in the 70’s and finished the event with a 33-over 82-84-83 — 249 for a sole 64th place finish. The Beavers have three weeks off before traveling to Hawai’i to compete in the Anuenue Spring Break Classic at Kapalua Lahaina from Monday, March 25 through Wednesday, March 27. “Now we have two weeks to prepare for a good field at Hawai’i and also finish winter term finals,” Alexander said. “We are going to talk a lot about course strategy and practice our putting in realistic course situations. That helped us prepare for this week, and we will continue that emphasis.”
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Devon Collier (left) and Joe Burton (right) try to calm Eric Moreland (middle) after a technical foul against Oregon. to the NCAA Tournament. So that’s a tournament-tested team. Experience aside, I think Colorado is by far the best team that will play on the first day of the tournament. It would take OSU’s best effort to beat Colorado, and if that did happen, there’s no way OSU would have enough left in the tank to hang with a fresh Arizona team. (And don’t point to OSU beating a fresh Washington team last year, because Arizona is much, much better this year than Washington was last year.) Best-case scenario: OSU’s first round opponent: (7) Washington OSU’s second round opponent: (2) Cal OSU’s potential semifinal opponent: (3) Oregon Keys to this happening: • UCLA wins out (beats WSU, UW) • Cal beats Stanford • Colorado beats Oregon • OSU beats Utah What this would mean for OSU: Call me crazy, but if OSU has any chance — and I’m talking a 5, 6 percent chance — of reaching the Pac-12 title game, this
team title with a 20-over 884. No. 20 UCLA was two strokes back with a 22-over 886 to finish in second and No. 8 Arizona shot the second-best score on Tuesday with a 9-over 297 to move into third place overall with a 32-over 896. “It was a very good week with a fifth-place finish and a win over a top-25 program,” Oregon State head coach Risë Alexander said about the two-day, 54-hole tournament. “We had the thirdlowest round of the day today, so we ended this four-week stretch of events on a very good note.” The stalwarts of the program, Telles and Sewell, led Tuesday’s charge up the leaderboard by each shooting a 2-over 74. Telles finished in a tie for 16th place with a 12-over 75-79-74 — 228 for her 10th career top-20 finish, while Sewell finished in a tie for 19th with a 13-over 80-7574 — 229 for her eighth career appearance in the top 20. Yoo had her best finish of the spring, and her eighth career top-20 showing, as she equaled Sewell with a tie for 19th place after shooting a 13-over 78-74-77 — 229. It breaks a string of
will be the route. The Huskies are the only decent team OSU has defeated this year, so that obviously makes them much more ideal than Colorado or Stanford. After that, the Beavers would face a Cal team that has won seven straight but is definitely not the second-best team in the conference. If you watched the Golden Bears play in Gill Coliseum a week-anda-half ago, you’d agree with me — they’re really not that good, and I don’t think it’d take a miracle for OSU to beat them. If Allen Crabbe and/or Justin Cobbs are off, Cal is capable of losing to any team in the conference. Looking past the quarterfinals, OSU wouldn’t have to face Arizona or UCLA — the only two teams I think OSU has no chance against — until the finals. A potential semifinal matchup with Oregon is enticing, because the Beavers have proven they can hang with the Ducks twice this season, and I imagine beating your rival three times in one season is no easy task.
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endary wrestlers, and Les Gutches is right there up there.” While the 141-pound senior will finish with more career victories than Gutches, it won’t mean much to Mangrum unless he can win the elusive national championship. “It’s a huge honor,” Mangrum said. “But he’s a two-time national champion, so to really be able to stand up to what Les Gutches means to this school, I need to get a national title.” While the national title is Mangrum’s ultimate goal, a Pac-12 individual championship is something he’s already accomplished — twice. Last weekend Mangrum won his second consecutive 141-pound Pac-12 Championship, leading OSU to its second consecutive Pac-12 team championship in the process. “Winning back-to-back was really nice,” Mangrum said. “It means I’m the first 141-pounder to ever have a Pac-12 title and to have back-to-back [individual] Pac-12 titles.” Mangrum was the heavy favorite going into the tournament, but his performance was still pivotal in OSU’s team success. The Pac-12 Tournament was also something of a tune-up for the NCAA Tournament. Mangrum didn’t face much
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competition, recording early-round pins in two of his three matches, but feels ready nonetheless. Mangrum will use the next two weeks before the NCAA Tournament, on March 21, to fully prepare. With three year’s experience, the senior finally feels he’s found the right mindset and approach to come out on top. “Last year and the years before, I was tentative coming out to wrestle,” Mangrum said. “I think the difference this year is I’m going to go out there and just attack from the whistle until time runs out.” Zalesky believes Mangrum is capable. There’s no question the 141-pounder is ready physically. Preparing mentally is the key this late in the season. “I think it’s just mentally getting ready to wrestle,” Zalesky said. “Mentally getting ready for that tournament and thinking about what’s going on and what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is that first opponent when you step onto the mat, and you need to be ready to go.” No matter what happens in St. Louis, in two weeks, he will go down as one of the school’s all-time greats. But winning it all would put Mangrum in the argument as the best to ever wear the orange and black. Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com
FRESNO, Calif. — Senior Nick Chianello shot an even-par 72 at the Fresno State Lexus Classic on Tuesday to finish in a tie for fifth place, and the Oregon State men’s golf team wrapped up the two-day, 54-hole event in ninth place. Chianello finished with a 7-under 66-7172 — 209 at the par-72, 6,570-yard Belmont Country Club to post his best-ever finish at Oregon State with a tie for fifth place. His previous best was a tie for sixth at the Pac12 Preview in North Plains, Ore., this past fall. The 6-under 66 in the opening round was his best under-par score in two years in Corvallis. The Beavers concluded the 6-count-5 tournament with a 15-over 364-361-370 — 1,095 to finish ninth in the 17-team field. No. 1 California ran away with the team title with an incredible 43-under 346-348343 — 1,037, which was 37 strokes better than the second-place team and host Fresno State. Senior Matt Rawitzer shot the Beavers’ second-best round of the tournament with a 3-over 70-74-75 — 219 for a tie for 35th, while freshman Tyler Carlson finished in a tie for 44th with a 4-over 76-70-74 — 220 and senior Nick Sherwood tied for 59th with a 7-over 75-71-77 — 223. Redshirt freshman Brian Jung equaled Chianello with the Beavers’ best round on Tuesday with an even-par 72 to climb 22 spots on the leaderboard and finish in a tie for 68th with a 9-over 77-76-72 — 225. Freshman Chris Tedesco concluded the tourney with a 16-over 78-75-79 — 232 for a tie for 98th place. Chianello transferred to Oregon State when the University of Portland discontinued its golf programs after his sophomore season. His best finish there was a tie for fifth place in a pair of tournaments, the Palouse Cougar Collegiate and the Wolf Pack Classic. The Beavers get right back to action when they compete at the San Diego Classic next Monday and Tuesday at the San Diego Country Club in San Diego, Calif.
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less painful than a natural predator in the environment chasing the animal down and eating bits of it still alive. Processing animals for food is messy, but this is an aesthetic point, not a moral one. Even PETA agrees with this notion, as it has awarded grant money to research institutes for lab-grown meat. This implies it is not the consumption of meat that is unethical, but rather the actual butchering process that is the cause for concern. If this is true, I would expect PETA to lobby for the ban of any and all crops harvested using large machinery. Many types of animals, rodents, birds, and even household pets, take up residence in crops, which then processed by large machinery, killing an estimated 15 animals per acre. Look, the human race is big, and we need to take big steps to sustain our
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies (CNN) — A deeply divided Venezuela is mourning its late leader and preparing to pick a new president to replace him. Venezuelan officials called for peace and unity after President Hugo Chavez’s death on Tuesday, emphasizing in state television broadcasts that all branches of the government and the military were standing together. Elections will be held in 30 days, and Vice President Nicolas Maduro will assume the presidency in the interim, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said in an interview broadcast on staterun VTV. Tearing up as he announced Chavez’s death after a long battle with cancer, Maduro called on Venezuelans to remain respectful. “We must unite now more than ever,” Maduro said. Henrique Capriles Radonski, a former presidential candidate and opposition leader, said Venezuelans should come together. “This is not the time for difference,” he said. “It is the time for unity. It is the time for peace.” Supporters of Chavez poured into a Caracas square soon after news of his death spread. Some wept openly. Others waved flags and held up pictures of the late president. There were no reports of major violence, but there was palpable tension in the streets, as some Venezuelans heading home from work tried to steer clear of Chavez’s fervent supporters. Venezuela’s military is in a “process of deploying ... to ensure the safety of all Venezuelans” and to support the country’s constitution in
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the wake of Chavez’s death, said Adm. Diego Molero, Venezuela’s defense minister. Venezuela prepares for funeral, elections Venezuela’s government has declared seven days of national mourning, Jaua said. At Venezuelan embassies around the world Tuesday, flags were flying at half mast. Chavez’s remains will be taken to a military academy in Caracas on Wednesday, Jaua said. There he will lie in state for three days. His state funeral will be held there on Friday morning, Jaua said. The announcement of Chavez’s death came hours after Maduro met with the country’s top political and military leaders about Chavez’s worsening health condition and suggested someone may have deliberately infected Chavez with cancer. Chavez first announced his cancer diagnosis in June 2011, but the government never revealed details about his prognosis or specified what kind of cancer he had Shortly before his last trip to Cuba for cancer surgery in December, Chavez tapped Maduro as the man he wanted to replace him. “He is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot,” Chavez said. Maduro made no mention of running for election in his public comments Tuesday, but he is widely expected to be the United Socialist Party of Venezuela’s candidate for the job. During Chavez’s absence from the political stage over the past three months, Maduro has been front and center. He has spoken at political rallies around the
country and delivered updates about Chavez on national television, drawing growing support from Chavez loyalists. Opposition critics have said he was campaigning for office — a claim the government has denied. Even as Jaua said Tuesday that Maduro would temporarily assume the presidency, some critics questioned whether that was constitutional, since Chavez missed his inauguration and was never officially sworn in. Opposition politicians haven’t said who will represent them in the election. But as speculation mounted over Chavez’s health in recent weeks, many had turned to Capriles, who lost to Chavez in October’s presidential contest. On Tuesday, Capriles called for a national dialogue including all Venezuelans, not just Chavez’s supporters. “Today there are thousands, maybe millions, of Venezuelans who are asking themselves what will happen, who feel anxiety, and including those who feel afraid,” Capriles said. Chavez supporters, critics react Word of Chavez’s death drew swift expressions of sorrow and solidarity from regional allies. Ecuador and Cuba both announced three days of national mourning to honor Chavez. “The national government expresses its solidarity in light of this irreparable loss that puts the Venezuelan people and all the region in mourning and at the same time sends its heartfelt condolences to the family of the late champion of Latin America,” Ecuador’s foreign ministry said in a statement.