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OSU receives fund approval, denial from state State denies $10M request for on-campus ADA improvements, approves $5.5M for OSU-Cascades expansion

Though the state denied funds for accessibility improvements, the university did receive $5.5 million for OSU-Cascades campus expansions.

The majority of those funds will be used to pay off a debt to Central Oregon Community College for Cascades Hall.

By Sean Bassinger THE DAILY BAROMETER Oregon Health & Science University received Oregon State University will not receive the pro- approval for their $200 million proposal as part of posed $8.6 million from the state for accessibility the Knight Cancer Challenge. improvements on campus.

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funds needed to repair various Americans with Disabilities Act barriers located throughout campus. As noted in the university’s accessibility plan, a barrier could involve any ramp, path or other area of access that does not comply with ADA standards.

Taylor Sarman, executive director of government affairs at the Associated Students of Oregon State University, said funds simply weren’t available.

“There were some life and safety issues on other campuses,” Sarman said.

Southern Oregon University received funding for vital infrastructure repairs.

ASOSU President Brett Deedon said administrators plan to meet Thursday to discuss a $10 million proposal to the board of trustees. Plans will then be submitted to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for review.

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Sustainability fair, town hall raises awareness, action KBVR FM wins Sixth annual event shares progress, ideas for future

people and engage people,” facilitator of the Corvallis Sustainability Initiative Annette Mills said.

By Emma-Kate Schaake Mills said a community event THE DAILY BAROMETER of this magnitude is a rich forum A deep commitment to bold for education. action.

“We bring people up to That was the idea behind the speed on what’s going on in sustainability fair and town hall the community,” Mills said. “We meeting, which aimed to bring want to give people a sense of together Corvallis residents, stu- accomplishment.” dents, businesses and non-profits The coalition has 300 parfor the goal of a sustainable ticipating members including community. businesses, schools, and nonMonday evening, the sixth profits. Sixty of those members annual event at the CH2M Hill participated in the event with Alumni Center featured local information booths to promote presenters, food and music fol- their methods of sustainability lowed by a town hall meeting to and share their achievements. facilitate discussion and spark One of the presenters was The new ideas.

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Above: Emily Stimac of the First Alternative Natural Foods Co-op chats with a visitor playing the “Price is Right” bulk food challenge.

Right: Cars from Energize Corvallis’ challenge decorate the walls at the sustainability fair. The cars show community members three sustainable actions to try for one month.

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Intercollegiate Broadcasting System recognized Oregon State University’s KBVR FM station, awarding five of the nine entries that placed.

As the only station from the West Coast and one in three to be nominated nationally, KBVR FM received the best college radio award.

Nationally, universities with more than 10,000 students submitted more than 800 entries for consideration to IBS, a not-for-profit educational association and foundation.

OSU student and station manager Jodie Davaz, student and promotions director Matt Walton and broadcasting advisor Bill Gross traveled to New York City for the 74th annual conference Saturday.

“I’m just over the moon,” Davaz said.

Apart from winning best college radio, KBVR FM staff won in four categories: • Best play-by-play football broadcast: Matt Walton and Josh Worden • Most innovative radio program: Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar • Best production director: Megan Cummings • Best promotions director: Matt Walton Staff also placed in other categories: • Best community news coverage: Jodie Davaz • Best program director: Marissa Solini • Best engineer: Jack Kemp (professional staff) Davaz hopes these awards will increase student involvement.

Currently, there are around 100 disc jockeys who work at the 24/7 station. It broadcasts on 88.7 FM with segments that include live music, sports talk shows and local news coverage.

This year was the first year KBVR FM entered submissions to IBS. managing@dailybarometer.com

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By Courtney Gehring THE DAILY BAROMETER

Interim assistant director of Greek life Brandon Lee has big plans for the Oregon State University Greek community.

Drawing on his own experience in Greek life, civic engagement, service and leadership roles and studying abroad, Lee fuels his talents into bettering the various branches of the Greek community.

“I really want to make sure the university gets exactly who they and the students feel they need to get their vision accomplished,” Lee said.

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“I hope it’s me and I believe it’s me.”

Before coming to OSU, Lee attended Baylor University, Houston Baptist University and then studied abroad in Cuba, Mexico and Spain. His experiences abroad opened his eyes to different perspectives.

After taking a few years off to run his own business and then getting his master’s degree, Lee began to teach professionally. He taught in Mexico, San Diego and Delaware before coming to OSU to share his knowledge.

Lee came to OSU originally to teach in the INTO OSU program as an English-as-a-second-language teacher specializing in teaching students on their path to achieving a master’s of business administration.

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Democratic House Speaker Tina Kotek said legislative session “delivered for the people of Oregon.”

Republican representatives took a different tone, saying it “ended with a whimper.”

Emotions and evaluations were mixed as the 2014 State of Oregon legislative session came to a close Friday afternoon. With only 35 days of action, the session saw a wide variety of education and budget reform, according to official state legislative press releases.

“We worked together in a bipartisan way to take care of many of the most important issues facing See LEGISLATURE | page 4

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ciously. The male had his hood up, and when Corvallis police rolled by him, he allegedly covered his face with a scarf. As the officers approached, he immediately ran away. The male ran into Tai Physical Therapy on Circle Boulevard and tried to hide in a bathroom. The attempt failed, and he was last seen running north across Circle Boulevard.

They always get away with it on TV An underage male was caught allegedly throwing a party at his parent’s house while they were away on a business trip. Someone reported loud noise coming from the residence on Fairmont Drive. Corvallis police cited the male for unlawful amplified sound and loud noise, and then contacted his parents to explain the situation.

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He was cited for A backpack was stolen from outside Saturday, March 1 speeding.

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Auxiliary and Activities Business Center responsible for student employment, event contracts, other administrative endeavors

By Sean Bassinger THE DAILY BAROMETER

If it involves hiring students, planning or budgeting, the Auxiliary Activities and Business Center likely assists.

Functioning throughout various units and subunits on campus, the AABC communicates with members of the Student & Incidental Fees Committee, the Memorial Union and other major organizations throughout campus in an effort to maintain budgets and operations.

“Each of the seven business centers is assigned units they support,” said Lori Wolcott, AABC human resources manager.

The seven business centers include Agricultural & Marine Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Auxiliaries & Activities, Business and Engineering, Forestry, Oceanic & Atmospheric, Health Sciences and University Administrative.

Each primary business unit on campus, including University Housing & Dining and Recreational Sports, makes decisions on who to hire and then refers student employees to AABC. Though most primary resources come from job search resources such as the Beaver JobNet, Wolcott said students

then communicate with AABC after being hired.

“We support the largest amount of student jobs (on campus),” Wolcott said.

In addition to assisting in the final stages of the hiring process, the AABC has provided students with internal employment opportunities.

“The AABC provides great opportunities in that regard,” said Mitchell Barrington, an accounting tech for AABC who works with students to outline event contracts and agreement terms.

Barrington is currently a graduate student and full-time employee with the AABC in the Memorial Union. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and pursued the employment opportunity when he noticed the listing.

Beforehand, Barrington served on the SIFC. One example Barrington mentioned was an agreement with Wildlife Safari near Roseburg when they visited campus for an event involving a live cheetah.

Barrington worked with students to define parameters for the agreement that would work best for the event.

“I was the individual basically writing the contract for Wildlife Safari telling them (what they could do),” Barrington said.

The general premise of the contracts included clauses to assure Wildlife Safari was responsible for the cheetah and that nothing would happen to the crowd.

Overall, the AABC has 52 employees

and two vacant positions. Out of these positions, 19 are listed as students and four are managers.

AABC manager Brad Dennis said the business center provides consultation to each of the different units. Assistance offered includes human resources support, assuring employees receive proper compensation and helping with budget plans.

In regards to assisting SIFC and other campus organizations, Dennis said they examine various pools of money.

“It’s not all student fees,” Dennis said.

Before AABC, all departments across OSU entered their own invoices to pay external vendors.

“We had hundreds of people entering things into the system,” Dennis said.

“We’ve dramatically reduced the number of people who have access.”

Dennis said the AABC has allowed for more expertise and efficient processing.

In addition, there’s a much lower turnover rate and reduction in needed trainings.

According to Dennis, OSU’s Vice President of Finance and Administration Glenn Ford wants to assemble a comprehensive list of specific activities each of the seven business centers provides.

“We have about two weeks until that project’s due,” Dennis said.

Sean Bassinger Higher education reporter

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Wednesday, March 12 Meetings Campus Recylcing, 5:30-6:30pm, Student Sustainability Center. Waste Watchers Weekly Meetings - Come learn about volunteer opportunities and help plan waste reduction events and outreach around campus.

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

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Thursday, March 13 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. A discussion - Can Wealth and Poverty be Balanced?

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

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Friday, March 14 Meetings ASOSU Elections Committee, 2pm, MU 211. Candidate meeting for the ASOSU election. Required for any potential candidates.

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

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Pendleton’s Rodeo City Inn cleared out after 2 years

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PENDLETON — The dilapidated Rodeo City Inn near Pendleton is really, finally, officially closed. Except for Drew Osias, the inn’s former manager, and a couple of cats, the place is empty.

Osias was there Friday afternoon. He said he is the only one staying at the 52-room former hotel at 74149 Barnhart Road, a few miles outside Pendleton. His wife and daughter stay in town most of the time, he said.

Discarded shoes, chairs, rugs, refuse and whatnot of former occupants outline the inn. Numerous rooms are missing windows, ducts for air conditioners gape open, doors stand ajar. Dust and grime even cover Osias’s electric blue Chrysler PT Cruiser.

“I keep an eye on it,” Osias said from the front seat of his vehicle.

The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office began pushing two years ago to shut down the inn as a crime-ridden property. But the deal that put the final kibosh on the place came in late January, after a handful of occupants sued to force Osias to provide basic services, including running water.

Umatilla County Circuit Court records show the occupants and management came to a deal.

The details of that deal, though, were not in public records. Will Perkinson, the Pendleton attorney who represented Osias in the lawsuit, said he could not reveal specifics of the agreement.

Whatever treaty they reached, the Rodeo City Inn shut down at midnight Jan. 28, the dozen or so occupants who squatted there are gone, and the court dismissed the lawsuit.

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The Rodeo City Inn is empty now. All that remains are the cracks, mold and remnants of the former residents. back on their feet. She said Monday her office has only two cases going for former occupants.

CAPECO and Legal Aid Services of Oregon met with residents of the inn last November, she said, and asked people to sign up for help, including to attend a “better renter” workshop, which teaches renters how to talk about difficult situations or history with landlords. No one showed for that, she said.

Umatilla County Sheriff Terry Rowan said deputies did not force out anyone when the inn closed, and under the agreement would only do so if there was a court-ordered eviction.

Rowan said a couple of weeks ago there were a few people lingering at the inn, and deputies have responded to calls for service, but the volume of the calls to the inn has dropped. And the sheriff’s

office has not noticed an uptick of crime elsewhere from former occupants of the inn. But, Rowan said, that would be hard to measure.

Pendleton police Chief Stuart Roberts also said that tracking would be difficult.

While some people lived at the inn, others used it as a flop house. Roberts said Pendleton landlords who are concerned about who they rent to can talk to community services officer Ryan Lehnert, who heads up the city’s Apartment Watch, a program that includes police checking in with landlords and property managers about calls for service.

Osias said the inn is for sale, but he did not comment on the rumor that a major hotel chain is interested in buying it.

County records show no one has bought the inn from the holding company Rodeo City Realty.

PORTLAND — Faculty members are deciding this week whether to authorize a strike at Portland State University.

There’s never been a faculty strike at any of Oregon’s public universities. Union officials predict that the PSU faculty will authorize a strike when they vote on Tuesday and Wednesday.

David Osborn is an instructor at PSU, as well as a spokesman for the faculty union.

Osborn explained, “When I go in there and vote -- and I will be voting to approve an authorization for striking - for me that’s about, and that demonstrates, our commitment to providing for the kind of quality education that we want to here at Portland State University. And we don’t take that lightly.”

Both sides acknowledge that a faculty strike would be a big disruption, though administrators say that classes at PSU would continue.

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PORTLAND — Portland Mayor Charlie Hales says he’s beginning a campaign to bring Trader Joe’s back to a stalled project in Northeast Portland.

The mayor said he met with leaders of the African-American community, neighborhood and business representatives Monday. They discussed policies that led to gentrification in Northeast Portland, and a path to development in the Interstate corridor urban renewal area.

Hales said he and his staff will look into whether the deal can be resurrected. Trader Joe’s would have been the anchor tenant of a development on a vacant lot on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street. The company dropped out of the deal last month, after the Portland African-American Leadership Forum raised questions about the transparency of the process used to come up with the development plan.

Monday’s meeting also resulted in a commitment by the Portland Development Commission to work with the Portland Housing Bureau to invest an additional $20 million over five years for more affordable housing in the area.

The PDC proposal will require support of the PDC Board of Commissioners and the Portland City Council.

The mayor’s press release quoted Cyreena Boston Ashby, PAALF’s director, who emphasized that PAALF was never opposed to Trader Joe’s, but fought for a conversation about stabilizing displacement, stopping gentrification, and addressing what she called a lack of transparency and community engagement in the city’s land development. She said PAALF now believes these issues are getting the attention they deserve, and welcomed the additional $20 million in additional housing dollars.

Hales thanked the community leaders who attended the meeting-- about 50 people in all.

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PORTLAND — A state advisory board is asking Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber to approve an emergency drought declaration in Crook County. The request came at a meeting Monday of the Oregon Drought Council.

Should the Governor approve that request, Crook would become the fifth Oregon county to declare a drought emergency so far this year. Requests by Klamath, Malheur, Harney and Lake Counties were approved by

the governor last month.

Council members had been anticipating a possible worsening of conditions in those southern counties. But USDA hydrologist Melissa Webb reported that snowpacks across the state got a big boost during the month of February.

Some places experienced precipitation that was twice the normal amount. “Unfortunately, we had four dry months leading up to March 1st. So, one month of wet weather can certainly not make up for four months of

deficit,� said Webb.

Snowpacks remain well below normal for much of the state. That could pose problems not just for irrigators, but firefighters as well.

Oregon Department of Forestry’s Nick Yonker says what little snow is there should start to melt by mid-March. “Essentially, we’re looking at another potential severe

fire season. It will all again, depend on lightning. But in Southern Oregon, where lightning is common, that’s probably going to be a factor.�

Emergency managers continue to keep an eye on Coos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Baker counties.

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PORTLAND — Seven Oregon immigration activists are among a group that plans to greet undocumented deportees involved in a anticipated border crossing and protest Monday morning in California.

The Bring Them Home project by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance plans to attempt Monday to unite 250 families separated by deportation by trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Oregon group is made up of immigrants and allies who left Thursday to be a part of the two-day demonstration.

Around 100 organizers all over the country plans to greet 150 undocumented deportees who have family in the U.S. in entering the country through the Otay Mesa checkpoint at 10 a.m. on Monday.

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Last year was the first time Bring Them Home attempted to bring deported immigrants back into the U.S. Luna says they were arrested and then processed and held for two weeks before being released in America. “We don’t know what will happen on Monday,�

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National Immigrant Youth Alliance was founded in 2010 by young undocumented immigrants. Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, almost 2 million immigrants have been deported.

CoURTESY OF Lilian Luna The Obama Administration Bring Them Home activists rally at the U.S.-Mexico border to has made some changes to immigration, like creating a greet immigrants with families in America. new policy that allows young ing to return to Oregon, so the selves at the checkpoint, and immigrants to stay in the U.S. Oregon contingent plans to Oregon organizer Lilian Luna if they’ve lived in the country assist Washington and Nevada says, “If they get released, we’ll before they were 16, if they organizers as well. welcome them and take them don’t have a criminal record and aren’t a security risk.

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BEND — It certainly would be more convenient to buy liquor along with eggs and milk, but is it right for Oregon?

A political group, “Oregonians for Competition,” is working on an initiative to get privatizing liquor sales on the November ballot. It’s a day Sisters Liquor Store Owner Bob Grooney fears. “It affects the morale of my employees,” Grooney said Monday. “There’s a lot of uncertainty to where this thing is going to go.” Despite that uncertainty, there is a recent example to look to — Washington state recently privatized its liquor industry.

It’s something Oregonians for Competition Spokesman Pat McCormick says is due to happen to Oregon.

“This is a Prohibition-era law,” McCormick said. “They (grocers) were hearing regularly from customers for more convenience in the purchase of liquor.”

Grooney prides himself in offering hundreds of types of liquors — many of which are from small, local distillers.

He said large grocers wouldn’t be inter-

ested in carrying smaller or more specialized spirits.

“You wouldn’t have nearly the variety that you have now,” he said. The measure would put the OLCC out of the business, add a 72 percent sales tax on purchases, and only allow qualified retailers — stores larger than 10,000 square feet — to sell spirits. Grooney said that would shut him down, ending the family business that’s been running for more than 20 years. “I would love to be able to hand my store over to my grandson, who works here and knows everyone in the community,” Grooney said. “That’s what makes Sisters, Sisters, and I’d like to see that carry on.”

Local distillers also say the convenience will come with a price. “With the minimum margins that anyone can operate on, we’ve calculated that prices (of spirits) will go up 30 percent,” said Oregon Spirit Distillers Owner Brad Irwin. “I really think that will have negative impact on us.”

Irwin describes the price hike like this: “There will be the wholesale price, which for say, is set by me, then there will be a

71.7 percent tax, then the wholesaler will get it and will mark it up, and then that will get distributed to the grocer and they’ll mark it up.”

Irwin said that’s exactly what happened in Washington state, and he says Oregon initiatives are very similar.

Still, lobbyists for the initiative said more competition could do the opposite. “When you go away from a completely controlled price structure to a competitive marketplace, people will find a range of prices,” McCormick said. “There’s nothing in what we’re proposing that’s intended to lower or raise prices — it’s only intended to take the state out of the business.”

McCormick also said additional funding will be built into the measure for local public safety programs — and to encourage safe and legal drinking.

Opponents of the initiative also argue grocers would have a tougher time keeping alcohol out of the hands of minors.

It’s a debate riding on a billions of dollars industry — affecting your pocketbook, your selection and your convenience.

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LEE n Continued from page 1 Through his committee work and being accessible around campus, the opportunity to work with OSU Greek life presented itself.

What started out as a teaching opportunity turned into a position as the interim assistant director of Greek life.

Lee has been working with each council and the independent chapters toward initiatives and positive growth.

This includes highlighting the great work of some of the independent chapters, the aspirations of Interfraternity Council and accomplishments of Panhellenic. In addition, he has been helping the Unified Greek Council make solid steps forward and is looking to return

and reestablish the Divine Nine council on campus.

“The spring is all about following through with some big rocks and initiatives,” Lee said.

Lee said he will soon unveil all the hard work put into the Greek system this year. Some of that hard work involved trips to Portland, hosting chapter meetings in his home, bridging gaps between councils and deepening the partnership between the Greek community and the university.

“My Greek life experience was the platform I had to do all this great stuff,” Lee said.

“I went around the world and had all these experiences and now I am here to help support students to do the same.”

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LEGISLATURE n Continued from page 1 Oregon,” Kotek said in a press release.

A statement from the House Democrats concurred, stating that “we delivered better results for our students, put more Oregonians back to work and pushed to make our state government work better.”

Among their top achievements, House Democrats listed their “Aspiration to College” bill, which will provide support for low-income students earning a community college education and the protection of affordable housing and meal programs, despite a rebalancing of the budget.

Senate Republicans disagreed with the Democrats’ assessment, stating in their own press release that the session “fail(ed) to have the promised focus and restraint needed in a short session.” The statement continued to express disappointment, saying that the session was used to “push a largely partisan and polarizing agenda.”

The Republican press release also commented that the majority did not effectively use the compact amount of time allotted during such a short session.

Republicans listed their accomplishments as protecting small business tax cuts and furthering local control over medical marijuana dispensaries.

Both parties expressed satisfaction over the joint collaborative efforts, which led to a rebalancing of the state budget and funding for a cancer research center at Oregon Health & Science University. managing@dailybarometer.com

SUSTAINABILITY n Continued from page 1 First Alternative Coop, which used a Price is Right game for participants to guess the savings of buying in bulk. The Coop provided sanitized reusable containers at its stores this year and estimated it saved more than 125,000 containers.

“We are a different model of business,” said Coop employee Emily Stimac. “We want to reemphasize that we are owned by the people and for the people.”

Energize Corvallis, a collaborative effort between city and OSU entities, was another presenter that facilitated outreach programs to spark community members into action.

Its latest project challenged residents of all ages to choose three energy saving activities to try for one month. At the end of the month, Energize Corvallis tallied up how much carbon each person was able to save.

“Our goal was to engage 10 percent of the population,” said Chrissy Lucas of Energize Corvallis.

They have surpassed that goal with more than 6,000 participants.

A demographic, which still seems difficult to reach on issues of a sustainable lifestyle

however, is students.

Matthew Miner, a senior in renewable material science and member of OSU’s Student Sustainability Initiative, said reaching students with typical college schedules and budgets can be a challenge. In many ways student involvement is dependent upon changing the focus from mere alternatives to gratifying solutions.

“We try to do things that engage students in ways that are engaging and fun,” Miner said.

The OSU sustainability office also tries to bridge the gap in student involvement as well as increase OSU’s own sustainable practices.

Paige Thompson, a senior in digital communication arts and sustainability office employee, said she works these types of events to increase student, staff and faculty awareness.

“It brings attention to things we are doing on campus,” Thompson said.

The office partners with Campus Recycling and the Student Sustainability Initiative to increase the sustainable students presence on campus.

“We want people to know what they can do to have an impact,” Thompson said.

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Morris-Walker available for tournament opener Langston Morris-Walker was arrested for DUII Friday morning, will play Wednesday against Oregon

declined to reveal why, beyond saying Morris-Walker “violated university rules.”

Morris-Walker was arrested early Friday morning for driving under the influence of intoxicants.

By Grady Garrett and He was pulled over around Warner Strausbaugh 1:15 a.m. for making an unlawful THE DAILY BAROMETER or unsignaled turn on Monroe Oregon State sophomore Avenue near Fourth Street. guard Langston Morris-Walker He was then arrested for a will be eligible to play in the Pac- DUII after it was determined 12 Tournament, Craig Robinson that he was unable to safely told reporters Monday. operate a vehicle, according to a Morris-Walker, a regular start- report from the Benton County er for the Beavers, was sus- Sheriffs Office. He registered a pended for OSU’s regular-seaSee MORRIS-WALKER | page 6 son finale Saturday. Robinson n

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Oregon State takes on Ohio State Tuesday in final tuneup before conference play

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If it were football or men’s basketball, Tuesday’s matchup between Ohio State and Oregon State would heavily favor the Buckeyes.

But in baseball, the OSU from the rainy Pacific Northwest holds the advantage.

Ohio State (8-5) is extending its stay in Oregon after a threegame series against the Ducks in which the Buckeyes lost two of three games.

The No. 4 Beavers are fresh off an eventful four-game sweep against Northern Illinois, which included a no-hitter for junior left-hander Jace Fry, three total shutouts and a series run differential of 29-2.

Despite the lopsided weekend series, Oregon State head coach Pat Casey still wants to see better and more efficient production out of his team with conference play beginning in three days.

“I was a little disappointed in our intensity for four games as an offensive group, and some of the mistakes we made running the bases and some of the mental lapses we had,” Casey said after Sunday’s 10-0 win. “We can’t afford to do that when we get into conference, it can really hurt us.”

Another setback for the Beavers was the absence of sophomore right-hander Andrew Moore from the weekend rotation. Moore was sick and Casey — while noting that it might have been overly cautious — chose to keep Moore sidelined for the series against the Huskies.

Junior right fielder Dylan Davis made his first pitching appearance of the season in place of Moore, throwing just 2 1/3 innings before a medley of relievers pitched 6 2/3 of shutout baseball to continue the weekend’s dominant pitching effort.

“We’re kind of up against it with (Moore) not feeling well and having five games in a short period of time,” Casey said.

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Senior RJ Pena has seen OSU’s program grow in 5 years, looks for elusive national championship

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On Jan. 25, RJ Pena took center stage in Gill Coliseum in Oregon State’s final home meet of the season.

Trailing No. 6 Oklahoma by a point, the No. 18 Beavers looked to their captain to recapture a squandered lead.

Less than two minutes into the match, the 157-pound All-American did what he’d already done 51 times in career.

Pena pinned Justin DeAngelis, the 19th-ranked wrestler in the nation, giving Oregon State a 15-10 advantage.

He shook his opponent’s hand as he ran to the sideline, before head coach Jim Zalesky stopped him. Instead of allowing Pena to proceed to the locker room, his coaches and teammates turned him around, ushering back out to the middle of the mat for one last standing ovation from the Oregon State faithful.

It was the last time the No. 7-ranked wrestler would compete in front of his home crowd.

“It was pretty surreal,” Pena said.

“Everyday it gets a little weirder knowing we’re almost at the end. Five years have flown by.”

The fact that Pena’s home career ended with a pin comes as no surprise.

The fact that he’s fifth all-time in program history with 52 isn’t either.

Oregon State had high expectations for Pena when he first stepped onto campus five years ago.

He had just ended his high school career at Sprague in Salem on a 147match winning streak and was the No. 1 recruit in the nation at 152 pounds.

He went 47-0 his senior season, ending every match except for two with a pin, finishing with 138 for his career.

“He could have gone anywhere he wanted,” Zalesky said. “We were lucky to get him and he turned out to be one of the building-block recruits of our program.”

Oregon State was a dominant wrestling program for a long stretch in the 1970s and early ‘80s, finishing 10th or better in 12 of 13 years at one point.

Eight different Beavers have won individual national championships in the program’s history, with four of those wrestlers winning multiple titles.

But no Oregon State wrestler has won a national championship since Les Gutches in 1996.

Pena committed to Oregon State hop-

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“I could have gone to a Big Ten school or somewhere on the East Coast where they routinely recycle national champions,” Pena said. “But I wanted to come to a place where winning that title meant more. No one has won one since Gutches and I want to be the first.

“I’m not saying Oregon State can’t be a powerhouse program, because there’s such a rich wrestling history here. But I wanted to be a part of getting it back to that level that it used to be. I wanted

to be that first guy to win a national championship.”

In Pena’s career as a Beaver, he’s amassed 130 wins, losing only 35 times.

He’s won two Pac-12 Championships and placed fifth in the NCAA Championships while being named an All-American a year ago.

Pena is sixth all-time in Oregon State history in total wins and fifth in pins with 52.

During that time, Pena’s hope of

ing just two walks.

The performance gave Oregon State a 2-0 victory, eventually sweeping the four-game series with the Huskies in Goss Stadium over the weekend.

With the win, Fry is now 3-0 on the Fry season. He’s sporting a 2.01 earned run average in four starts, including THE DAILY BAROMETER 19 strikeouts in 31 1/3 innings pitched Junior pitcher Jace Fry is The Daily this season.

Barometer Athlete of the Week after Fry missed the majority of the searecording the fifth no-hitter in Oregon son last year coming off Tommy John State history Saturday. surgery, but returned in a reliever role The left-hander used 97 pitches to for the postseason and has resumed his shutout Northern Illinois, striking out a role in the starting rotation this season.

Fry was a Baseball America Freshman career-high 10 batters while surrender-

All-America Second Team selection his freshman season, finishing with a 5-3 record and 2.45 ERA in 13 starts.

His only other career shutout came against UCLA on April 21, 2012.

His next start will come against Utah in Pac-12 play this weekend. The Beavers are back in action Tuesday against Ohio State in a nonconference game in Goss Stadium.

First pitch is scheduled 5:35 p.m., and freshman right-hander Jake Thompson is scheduled to start for the Beavers.

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Ducks seek 4 of a kind in Vegas Men’s golf in seventh after Monday

By Steve Mims

THE REGISTER-GUARD

EUGENE — Oregon is taking it one tournament at a time.

The Ducks put themselves in solid position to earn an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament by closing out the regular season on a seven-game winning streak. Oregon topped its NCAA résumé with a 64-57 win over No. 3 Arizona Saturday afternoon at Matthew Knight Arena.

“I’m not worried about the NCAA Tournament right now,” senior guard Johnathan Loyd said. “I am worried about the Pac-12 tournament. One game at a time.”

The Ducks can erase any doubt about their spot on the NCAA bracket by winning the conference tournament as they did last year. Oregon (22-8, 10-8) will face Oregon State (16-14, 8-10) in the first round at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

“We know if we win, we secure that bid, so that is how we look at it,” senior forward Mike Moser said. “Win the tournament and we are in.”

The Ducks face a tougher task than last year when they finished

tied for second in the conference and earned a first-round bye in the tournament. The Ducks finished in a five-way tie for third this year but missed out on a bye because of the tiebreaker.

Oregon went 1-3 against the other four teams that finished 10-8 — Arizona State, Colorado, California and Stanford — to fall to the No. 7 seed and an opening game against the 10th-seeded Beavers.

“With seven (straight) wins, we feel pretty good, but it is going to be tougher than last year,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “We will be playing on Wednesday, so we have to play four games instead of three, so the challenge is tougher. But I like our depth. If there is a team that could run four games, we’ve got a shot because of our depth, but again you have to win the first one and this league is deep this year.”

The Ducks feel better about their inside depth after Waverly Austin had his best game of the season with a career-high 10 rebounds and five blocked shots Tuesday against Arizona State.

Ben Carter had one of his best outings against Arizona with

five points, four rebounds, two assists, two steals and one block in 13 minutes.

“The exciting thing is, if we can play long enough, we still have a lot more there,” Altman said.

“Ben has been stepping up and making plays, Waverly’s performance in the last couple games.

It is exciting because I think we have a lot of guys that can give us some of that. We will have our chance next week and hopefully we keep playing well.”

The Ducks started the season 13-0 and finished with seven straight wins. In the middle of those streaks was a stretch where the Ducks lost eight of 10 games.

“Are you glass-half-empty or glass-half-full?” Altman said.

“The half-full says we played our tails off and really got it going. The half-empty is ‘What the heck were we doing for those eight games? I screwed a couple of them up. If I am going to ask my players to take responsibility and accountability, I just didn’t have us in the right sets, didn’t get us to execute. The connection wasn’t there, the communication wasn’t there and that is disappointing as a coach.”

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Oregon State men’s golf finished Monday at the Lamkin San Diego Classic in seventh place with one round still remaining.

The Beavers shot a 19-over 288-307—595 in three rounds, trailing leader San Diego State by 25 strokes.

OSU is on pace for the same finish as last season in the Lamkin San Diego Classic. The Beavers took seventh, losing to first place San Diego State by 26 strokes.

Oregon State is ahead of Pac-12 rival Utah, but trails USC by 23 strokes with one round to

play. OSU is sitting right in the middle of the 13-team pack currently.

Freshman Kevin Murphy led the Beavers Monday, and is tied for 11th overall after shooting an even 72-72—144.

Senior David Fink is tied for 28th with a fiveover 70-79—149, shooting nine strokes worse in the second round. Juniors Alex Franklin and Scott Kim are tied for 41st for the Beavers, shooting an identical 73-78—151 Monday.

Redshirt freshman Brett Johnson rounded out the two rounds in 64th place, shooting a 78-79—157.

The final round of the Lamkin San Diego Classic begins at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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Senior second baseman Andy Peterson gets ready to tag a baserunner in Sunday’s win against Northern Illinois.

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five innings, allowing just one hit and two walks while striking out seven batters.

Thompson is 3-0 with a to pitch in Salt Lake City 1.42 earned run average so far against Utah this weekend.

Tuesday night’s starter, this season, and has exceeded however, will be one of two expectations as the No. 4 startfreshmen — Jake Thompson er thus far.

It’s unclear how the rotation or Trent Shelton — depending on the righty versus will shake out once conference lefty matchups against the play starts and the Beavers go from five-game to four-game Buckeyes.

Last week against Portland, weeks.

Schultz has excelled as a the two combined to throw nine shutout innings. starter this season, but has Thompson got the win after been used primarily in the

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bullpen in his career. “(A rotation spot) is still up in the air, but if I keep going out there competing, that’s going to give me the edge,” Thompson said last week.

The Buckeyes went 35-23 in 2013, and did not make the postseason. They’ve lost three of their past four games, including a 20-4 loss Sunday to Oregon.

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Senior RJ Pena wrestles Oklahoma’s Justin DeAngelis Jan. 25 in Gill Coliseum. Pena eventually pinned DeAngelis in 1:53.

PENA n Continued from page 5 Oregon State reemerging as a national contender has come true. In 2011, Pena’s redshirt season, Oregon State finished 21st.

The following year, the Beavers took 10th behind Pena’s team-leading 20 pins, the most for a sophomore in school history.

Last year, Pena’s fifth-place NCAA showing led the Beavers to eighth place, the program’s best finish since 1996, the same year Gutches won OSU’s last individual national championship.

In four years — five including his redshirt season after his freshman campaign — Pena has undoubtedly left his mark.

But he’s also yet to accomplish the one thing he had set out to do in collegiate career.

Any result other than a national

championship would be considered a failure in his mind.

“When you set a goal, even a goal as big as that one, and you don’t achieve it, then you have to look at it as a failure,” Pena said. “When I look back at it all, I think I’ll be able to look at all the wins and records and be satisfied, but not even close to as much if I don’t go out on top.”

Ranked seventh in his weight class and finishing fifth at NCAAs last year, Pena will have a legitimate shot come March 20 when the NCAA Championships begin, but he won’t be the favorite.

Pena’s coach, Zalesky, knows a thing or two about national championships. OSU’s eighthyear coach — who won three national championships as Iowa’s head coach before taking over at Oregon State — won three national championships himself as a collegiate

wrestler.

In fact, he won his three titles in the same weight class Pena looks to conquer in two weeks’ time.

“It’s not going to be easy,” Zalesky said, “but he could really do it. He’s wrestled top competition before and he’s beaten top competition before. When you get to NCAAs, rankings go out the window. Anything can happen.”

Pena says his wrestling career will most likely come to an end after this season. Many NCAA competitors go on to wrestle internationally, but Pena plans to end his legacy as an Oregon State Beaver.

“This is it for me,” he said. “It’s been a great run.

Hopefully it ends with one last win.”

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Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson talks to sophomore guard Langston Morris-Walker Wednesday against Arizona.

MORRIS-WALKER n Continued from page 5

the team’s top perimeter defenders.

Senior forward Devon Collier, who began the season as a starter, started in MorrisWalker’s place on Saturday. blood-alcohol content of 0.04 percent.

Robinson did not commit to a starting OSU faces Oregon at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the conference tournament. lineup Monday, saying, “Everything is on the “We’re just happy to have (Morris-Walker) table” for the game against the Ducks.

This is Morris-Walker’s second suspension back,” Robinson said. “I thought he played well against the Ducks in our first two games in the past two years. He was suspended last (against them). We’re certainly going to need season for allegedly stealing a T-shirt from the OSU Beaver Store. him for this game.”

Sean Wallstrom contributed to this report Morris-Walker started 15 straight games for the Beavers prior to Saturday’s contest.

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Roper Assuming those involved in the offensive behaviors are students, we must acknowledge that our educational experience, to whatever extent the students have been engaged, has not had the transformative and liberating effect that the promise of our mission projects. For some reason we have fallen short in our efforts to orient the students to what it means to be caring and thoughtful members of our OSU family. We have not effectively cultivated a broad awareness that campus citizenship requires the ability to live in close relationship with others from backgrounds different than one’s own.

The offenders are part of us, as are the champions of justice and equity.

In that regard, we must own their behaviors and the profound impact of those behaviors.

Chances are we may never identify the perpetrators. We may never be in the position to singularly focus on the attitudes and oppressive behaviors of particular individuals and determine whether to pursue restorative or retributive action as the appropriate consequence for violating our campus norms. This is where the complexity of the issue should sober each of us. In the absence of specific individuals to adjudicate or disciplinary sanctions

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Injury, healing, community here at OSU ncidents of intolerance can sting.

Not just on the surface, but deep in the soul of a community. Intolerance has a way of landing on the tender spots; those places where past injuries have not healed. Acts of hate can inflict new injury, reinjure or worsen the pain of those who are already hurting from other life experiences. The pain caused within a community will not be the same for all, for some the pain can feel superficial, for others life threatening.

When incomprehensible events, like the ones that appeared on the landscape of Oregon State University last week, land so violently on our hearts, we should be jarred to consciousness and challenged to commit to a course that produces a just response. The easy response to acts of racism (or any -ism) is to chalk the behavior up to ignorance and relegate the offenders to categories that make them less than those of us who consider ourselves to be on the front lines of justice. If only life and complex problem-solving could be so easy. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your posture, those who violate our implicit campus ethos of cherishing diversity and manifesting openness to the rich cultures, lifestyles and values that so marvelously enrich our university, are part of us. While we may not want to take ownership for the chilling behaviors of those who poison our community with acts of racial violence, we must take ownership for how they, as our community members, affect our environment.

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Editorial note: In response to the hate speech on campus last week, Larry Roper, vice provost of student affairs at OSU, wrote this op-ed regarding how we, on campus, should react to racism and hate speech.

to assign, how do we bring closure to distasteful and spirit damaging episodes? How do we heal? How do we pursue our hopes for an open, respectful and nourishing campus community when we do not know exactly who to blame? My suggestion is, we adjudicate our entire community; we assign a restorative sanction to every one of us — a sanction that holds each of us accountable for healing, repairing and breathing new life into our university’s soul.

A community-wide sanction means that every member of the OSU community will and should be responsible to bring a new level of consciousness to our daily interactions, that each of us is charged to uplift the dignity of those with whom we interact in the course of our campus life. A community-wide sanction does not suggest that all of us are guilty of the offenses, only that we are accountable to overwhelm the impact of the offenses by intensifying the force of our shared hopes for a more loving and nurturing campus community. Our community sanction suggests that as we teach, we do so with greater mindfulness of the awesome responsibility that goes with preparing students to live successfully in a world that may not be recognizable, may not appear to be navigable or may provoke fear and anxiety for them. As leaders and advisers, we are changed to listen more openly, respond more sensitively and support more unconditionally. The restorative responsibility assigned to us means that we are accountable to acknowledge

and respond to the hurt and injury experienced by members of our community. As a community, we owe it to each other to be better than we have been in the days, weeks and months leading up to the publicized racial incidents. I believe deeply we have the ability and will to be kinder in our words, more thoughtful in our actions, more gentle in our treatment and more understanding of the imperfections associated with our humanness.

If we are to heal and stay on course in our journey toward a just, inclusive and equitable campus community, success will not come as a matter of chance. Success at building community, like success in most any other endeavor, requires disciplined behavior, deep commitment, persistence through struggles and unwavering determination that the destination is worthy of our best effort.

We must assertively declare that true community is our aspiration. Then, we must hold ourselves accountable for doing those things required to achieve community — nurture healthy relationships, enhance the condition of our shared space, build networks of care and acknowledge

and celebrate our shared humanity.

Building an inclusive and equitable community will require courageous action — we must name our issues and assertively pursue paths to address those issues.

I believe in Oregon State University. I believe in our community members and what I know to be the goodness in the hearts of the overwhelming majority of those who comprise our campus community.

I have no doubt we have it within ourselves to respond to the deep hurt caused to our community with a powerful display of communityfocused actions. We owe it to each other to have the best of who we are be revealed in our relationships with each other. If we do so, not only will our community and the lives of each member be enriched, but each of us may discover the joy that we can gain by being deeply connected to the beauty of those with whom we are fortunate to share space and experiences on a daily basis. t

Larry D. Roper is the vice provost for student affairs for Oregon State University. The opinions expressed in Roper’s column do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.

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State Legislature denies OSU’s request for accessibility needs; the fight could, should continue

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riday’s short legislative session ended without approval of Oregon State University’s request for $8.6 million in capital funds from the state intended for accessibility improvements on our Corvallis campus.

OSU’s request was originally for $10 million, but OSU decreased the amount it was asking for in order to increase the likelihood of the Oregon Legislature granting it.

The initial plan was to obtain funds needed to repair various Americans with Disabilities Act barriers located throughout campus.

Those barriers are any ramp, path or other area of access that do not comply with ADA standards — including the incredibly inconvenient, bronze-ish, beaver-stamped, door pulls featured in the Memorial Union and Snell Hall.

If you want to get technical, those don’t just break the ADA standards, they shatter them. They’re practically impossible for most “able-bodied” students to operate, let alone individuals with accessibility needs.

Other barriers to accessibility include the severe lack of ADA-compliant door handles, but more concerning are the ramps and pathways on campus.

When these barriers were evaluated in January, 34 percent required immediate removal, and 37 percent were recommended for removal.

Neither has happened.

The state deemed other Oregon universities’ safety issues more urgent and doled out money to them instead of OSU.

Both Oregon Health & Science University and Southern Oregon University received the funding for accessibility compliance they applied for. OHSU applied for $200 million to build a new cancer research center.

SOU received $21.8 million to upgrade their “sagging” athletic complex.

True, “sagging” isn’t a word you want to use to describe your athletic complex. That funding was also classified as intended for “vital infrastructure repairs,” according to Taylor Sarman, the executive director of government affairs with the Associated Students of Oregon State University.

But more than our athletic complex isn’t ADA compliant on the OSU campus.

A lot more than just our athletic complex.

And $8.6 million is a whole lot less than $21.8 million.

We need to get this stuff fixed.

If the State Legislature won’t give this university the money to fix things, we’ll need to get it from somewhere else.

We’re not advocating bank robbery; don’t get your hopes up.

The next step will be to go through the board of trustees and approach the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the money to make it possible for our campus to meet ADA compliance needs.

Persistent efforts to effect change haven’t netted many results, but that just means it’s not yet time to stop. t

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‘Monuments Men’ a monumental flop E

ven with an all-star cast, a noted director and the foundation of a great true story of unsung war heroes, “The Monuments Men” disappoints on many levels.

This is a tale about a group of middle-aged men — art experts — tasked with infiltrating battle-ridden Europe as World War II winds down. The “Monuments Men,” as they are dubbed, are on the search for thousands of pieces of art that the Nazis stole as they occupied Europe.

Director, co-writer and co-star George Clooney headlines the cast as a Harvard art authority, who assembles the rest of the band of art experts. Included are Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jean Dujardin and Hugh Bonneville.

For the duration of their time in Europe, the men butt heads with army officials, trying to tell them what not to destroy. We find Damon’s character in Paris, trying to persuade an art curator, played by Cate Blanchett, to give up her knowledge of some of the stolen pieces.

I spent most of my time watching this wondering what type of film it actually was. It’s far too joyful for the seriousness of the subject that it’s dealing with.

In one sequence, Damon’s character is accidentally trapped on a land mine. The group lightheartedly tries to help him out, trying to get some laughs out of the audience. In the very next scene, the group finds a barrel full of gold teeth taken from Jews at concentration camps.

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Saling The sudden shift in tone is awkward, and was extremely uncomfortable for me as an audience member.

Murray was paired with Balaban to try to create a sort of odd couple, with most of their attempts at humor coming off super cheesy and not very funny. It seems like their relationship is completely forced and awkward, with no explanation for why the two don’t get along.

Composer Alexandre Desplat’s score is offputting. It tries to recreate the effect of the 1963 film “The Great Escape,” but comes off more juvenile than heroic. It also really conflicts with some of the more solemn scenes, and feels very out of place.

The acting from the ensemble cast is as good as advertised, and undoubtedly the best part of the film. As great as the acting can be though, the plot trudges along at an unrelentingly slow pace, without much drama.

Overall, this was a disappointing vehicle for COURTESY OF COLUMBIA PICTURES Clooney, who’s had great directing success in the past (“The Ides of March,” “Good Night, Monuments Men” on late-night cable TV or and Good Luck”), because he fails to capture Netflix someday in the future. the seriousness of the subject.

Derek Saling, A&E writer I say save your money. Wait to watch “The forum@dailybarometer.com

‘Joe and Mac’ a challenging, addicting side-scroller T

here’s nothing like returning to a game you vaguely remember enjoying as a child. It’s even better if the game’s just as good — if not better — than you even remembered.

In the case of “Joe and Mac,” an arcade classic from Data East ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the side-scrolling action remains just as entertaining as it was in the 1990s.

Players assume the role of both Joe and Mac, two cavemen with blue and green hair on a quest to essentially smash dinosaurs and rescue a group of cavewomen in distress.

Though the storytelling prides itself on washed-up “save the girl” tropes, it’s the gameplay that truly makes this

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Arts & Entertainment classic shine. Moreover, an interesting mix of boss battles help complete the experience as players progress.

Essentially, you can either solo each level yourself or grab a friend to tag along. Players go from level to level beating up cavemen and dinosaurs, and collecting power-ups.

Weapon choices range from rolling stone wheels, bones, fireballs and boomerangs. Though some seem more powerful than others, each has its own perks depending on the enemy in question.

Boss battles consist of giant pterodactyls, a giant tyrannosaurus rex and

other prehistoric creatures. Though most battles are original, occasionally new bosses will function as more difficult versions of previous encounters.

Lush, colorful visuals set the scene of each level in “Joe and Mac” just right and feature some of the best backdrop visuals of their day.

Detailed boss designs also match up well with their arcade cousins that contribute to the port of this game being an overall success.

Though “Joe and Mac” continues to be one of the most entertaining arcade side-scrolling games today, players inexperienced with the genre may become easily frustrated on certain levels.

For instance, the jumping

mechanics seem a bit weighted and take patience to master. Hopping from spot to spot in certain levels could lead players to certain death if they time the moves incorrectly.

Regardless, it doesn’t ruin the game.

Players also have the option to continue for a set number of times before experiencing the dreaded “game over” screen.

With enjoyable visuals and a variety of dinosaurs to battle, “Joe and Mac” stands out as one of the mustown classics for anyone who still has the SNES. Anyone searching for a copy could likely score one for $10-15 at a local video game shop.

Sean Bassinger, A&E writer On Twitter @Seandood forum@dailybarometer.com

Time’s flat circle comes 360 in ‘True Detective’ finale I

n the grandiose conclusion to “True Detective,” HBO has proven once again that it is the best.

The best at what?

Everything.

“No one cultivates their own legend better than HBO,” said Grantland TV writer Andy Greenwald in the “Hollywood Prospectus” podcast Monday.

“Basically, every network tries to be HBO now, but HBO just swaggers. HBO is the Yankees — they just throw money at things and people still treat them like the winning team even in down seasons.”

Warning: The following contains spoilers of “True Detective” Rust Cohle’s journey into the creepiest catacombs the world has ever seen felt reminiscent of Clarice Starling descending into the depths of Buffalo Bill’s house in “The Silence of the Lambs.”

That feeling of aloneness, of an absolute lack of any control, is what makes “True Detective” transcendent.

From the moment Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) arrive at the beat-down mansion of the serial killer they’ve been chasing for 17 years, the “True Detective” finale is as pulse-pounding as any television show or movie.

The 20 minutes dedicated to Cohle and Hart

chasing the yellow king, aka Errol Childress, encapsulates the suspense that had built up for this meeting over the past seven episodes.

Cohle and Hart are walking or running, with hardly any dialogue, for an extended period of time. And yet, it demands watching from the edge of your seat. It was one of those rare times when you’re watching something with another person, and once it’s over, you realize neither of you talked for the entire hour.

The finale was a bold move for director Cary Fukunaga and writer Nic Pizzolatto. This series has been built upon the relationship between Cohle and Hart, a relationship that spanned nearly two decades.

“Form and Void,” the episode’s title, carried their relationship into a different direction: silence and separation.

For all the bickering, debauchery and hatred the two have experienced together, the relationship between Cohle and Hart became stronger through this dire situation.

There is undoubtedly some cliche along the way — the one wholly evil villain luring the heroes into his dark dwelling, only to have the good guys win — but the show’s successes in storytelling and style outweigh its pitfalls.

The show’s ending leaves more to be desired. It is strange, even, to see these two detectives who,

for the most part, despised each other throughout the series come together in a bizarre sort of buddycomedy conclusion.

There aren’t many buddy comedies that end with the two main characters bloodied up after nearly getting knifed and tomahawked to death, but it might have been the cheeriest part of the whole series.

To evaluate the first season of “True Detective” relative to other great seasons of a series will take another run-through and some more thought, but it will be an interesting debate — and one that could shape the future of television.

HBO already announced that it won’t have a two-man writer-director team for the next season.

We know McConaughey, Harrelson and this entire storyline and setting will not return for season two.

On the surface, “True Detective” could be looked at as one of the best police investigation dramas of all time. That’s pretty good for the surface level.

But McConaughey and Harrelson’s portrayals of these two detectives and the way their own relationships develop alongside the serial-killer storyline does deem this show worthy of being in the “greatest TV show” debate. It’s still too early for that.

Time is a flat circle, though, and that discussion will eventually resurface when the time is right.

Warner Strausbaugh, editor-in-chief On Twitter @WStrausbaugh editor@dailybarometer.com

The Agnieszka Laska Dancers will perform “Rite of Spring” on the Majestic Theatre’s main stage Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The “Rite of Spring” is a performance more than 100 years old, and originally featured a musical score by lgor Stravinsky and choreography

by Vaslav Nijinsky.

The Agnieszka Laska Dancers are a Portland-based dance company.

As Nijinsky’s original choreography has been largely lost, this performance of “Rite” features choreography by reputedly controversial choreographer Agnieszka Laska.

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

The Majestic Theatre and LBCC present ‘9 Lives’ Written by Nicol Greene of George Fox University, and directed by James Murray V of Linn-Benton Community College, the “student original” one-act play will be directed, designed and performed by students of Linn-Benton Community College.

Performances will be March 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m., upstairs in the Majestic’s Lab Theater.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students, seniors and veterans, and are available online at majestic.org/ tickets or by phone at 541-738-7469.

Auditions for OSU Theatre’s Spring One Acts Oregon State University Theatre’s 2013-2014 Season of American Voices will continue spring term with the spring term plays: Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” and the student-directed One-Act Festival.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” will be directed by George Caldwell and has already been cast.

Auditions for the student-directed one acts will be on April 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. in the Withycombe Hall Lab Theatre.

Chamber Music Corvallis The 55th season of Chamber Music Corvallis continues with the “Ying Quartet: Music for Healing” on April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center.

The Ying Quartet will play Samuel Barber’s “Quartet Op. 11,” the original version of Adagio for Strings/ Agnus Dei; Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia”; Billy Childs’ “Awakening” and Beethoven’s “Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.”

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