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A 60,000-year-old piece of ice melts away. Air that has been trapped and frozen in time within hundreds of microscopic bubbles tell the story of our planet.

The story of ice is the story of Earth’s air.

Ice coring research involves drilling a long cylinder of ice collected from the highest elevations in Greenland or the mountains of Antarctica. Due to the cold temperatures in these regions, the Ice Core Lab at Oregon State University drills old ice, frozen in time.

Chronological information is purely archived within the ice cores and dates back nearly 1 million years.

Researchers are able to learn when volcanic eruptions took place, study the sea salt spray and geologic dusts with what gases are trapped within ice cores.

Ice cores indicate what the earth’s atmosphere was like and what is next for the planet’s atmosphere.

Deep ice coring research began in Courtesy of Ed Brook Drillers from the University of Wisconsin work with OSU researchers in Antarctica to drill near the surface of Greenland during the early 1960s. a glacier that flows out from the east Antarctic ice sheet.

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More than 6 percent of Oregon households spend their days in hunger, regularly forced to forgo meals from lack of money, according to the Linn Benton Food Share.

Oregon State University students have the opportunity to help alleviate some of those hunger pangs Saturday by participating in the eighth annual Empty Bowls Benefit Event. Lasting from 6 to 8 p.m. in the OSU Valley Football Center, the fundraiser supports families and individuals who cannot regularly count on adequate meals.

For a small donation, participants share a meal of soup, bread and dessert while enjoying live entertainment and a silent auction. Attendees eat out of locally, hand-crafted ceramic bowls to symbolize the food insecurity, or regular inability to find food that many individuals across the world cope with.

Sponsored by the OSU anthropology program and athletics, the event is part of a larger national project, which began in 1990. Now in its eighth year, the OSU event allows students to “experience the practical application of anthropological tools, methods and theories to issues affecting humankind.”

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Oregon State University’s board of trustees voted to have tuition rates for next year and budgets for the 2015-17 biennium submitted for approval.

The trustees, who first assembled in January, met Friday and voted on both items of action before discussing additional institutional matters. The board centered around continuing research technologies at OSU, the need for accessibility improvements on campus and the overall success of the university’s $1 billion capital campaign.

The 2015-17 biennium budget will need to be approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Tuition rates, however, will be reviewed and approved by the board of higher education at the Oregon University System one last time.

With the proposed tuition rates, students taking 15 credits per term would pay $7,650 a year. The per-credit amount at this level would be $170 per credit.

Currently, students taking 15 credit hours pay around $153 per credit.

Sherm Bloomer, budget director at OSU, said the impact of eliminating

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Brubaker-Cole named Roper’s successor Susie Brubaker-Cole has been named the new vice provost for student affairs, Oregon State University announced Thursday.

Brubaker-Cole has been the associate provost for academic success and engagement at OSU since 2008 and was one of four finalists for the position.

Larry Roper held the position for more than 18 years, but announced that he was stepping down to return to a faculty teaching position.

“Larry Roper’s leadership at Oregon State has been extraordinary, and we are grateful that he is remaining at OSU,” Provost and Executive Vice President Sabah Randhawa said in a press release. “We also are fortunate that Susie Brubaker-Cole has a wellestablished track record of success as associate provost and will continue advancing student success and the goals of Student Affairs at OSU.” Brubaker-Cole will officially take over as vice provost for student affairs July 1.

The vice provost for student affairs works with various student groups, programs and departments, including the Memorial Union, Student Media, Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Leadership and Involvement and Recreation Sports.

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the plateau altogether would prompt a 23-24 percent rate increase for students taking 15 credit hours a term.

“It’s a very large chunk,” Bloomer said.

Graduate and professional student tuition rates will not be affected.

Victoria Redman, vice president of the Associated Students of Oregon

State University, presented a testimony against the current plateau system on behalf of ASOSU President Brett Deedon.

The testimonial stated that the once well-intentioned tuition plateau continues to serve as an unfair subsidy for some students.

For the second year in a row, the University of Oregon may beat Oregon State University in the RecycleMania Civil War. Though U of O has been leading the competition for the past five weeks, OSU cut the deficit in half throughout the past week.

“We are tightening that gap,” said Andrea Norris, the marketing and development coordinator for Campus Recycling. “We have three weeks to go. What gives me hope is that there’s two ways that we can catch up or gain the lead.”

Norris’ biggest hope is that Campus Recycling will draw a large crowd for its departmental shredding discount week. During finals week, university departments can take confidential files that need to be destroyed to Campus Recycling and shred the documents for just a few cents per pound.

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SALEM — The crude-oil industry’s “pipeline on wheels” is now rolling through Salem, worrying some nearby neighborhoods.

In January, a train loaded with oil tankers broke down behind Dennis Hahn’s house on Riverside Road S, on what Hahn thought was just a timber spur.

The conductor told neighbors the train had come from Canada, but wouldn’t say what was in the tankers.

“We’ve noticed more and more of those oil tanker cars,” Hahn said. “We’re concerned as homeowners. We’re trying to investigate what we can do to find out what’s being hauled.”

Oil trains are gaining attention elsewhere in Oregon as production increases at the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana.

An increasing number of oil trains are running through the Columbia River Gorge to a terminal in Portland and refineries in Washington state.

They’ve drawn concern because North Dakota crude is more flammable than conventional crude, and because many of the rail cars carrying them are outdated and less safe than newer cars.

There have been four oil train derailments in North America in the past year.

In July, a derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killed 47 people and destroyed half the city’s downtown.

Last month, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber ordered state agencies to identify gaps in state oversight of oil trains.

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley also are working to address mounting concerns about oil train safety.

Less attention has been given to oil trains heading south to California refineries, which run through Salem, Albany and Eugene.

“It does go up and down the Willamette Valley,” said Shelley Snow, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Transportation.

And even less focus has been put on Canadian tar-sands oil, which began to be shipped by rail last fall. It’s the same oil that would be carried by the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

In January, the Bloomberg news service reported that California is bringing in a record volume of oil from Canada by rail.

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Union Pacific locomotive in the Salem switchyard near Hines Street SE. Union Pacific has told the state that 300 to 450 oil cars move through Oregon each month, Snow said.

Those cars are interspersed with cars carrying other cargo.

Railroads aren’t required to tell the state what type of crude oil is transported, or on which tracks it is carried, Snow said.

Mark Davis, an Omaha-based spokesman for Union Pacific, said all of the crude running on UP tracks comes from Canada and Utah.

In Salem, the tracks that border Hahn’s home follow the Willamette River into downtown, run along Front Street, then pass through the Highland neighborhood and Keizer Station before joining Interstate 5.

Along the way, they pass Riverfront Park, Highland Elementary School, the Kroc Center, and dozens of homes.

In Oregon, there were only 14 train derailments last year, compared with 76 in 2004, Snow said.

“Still, we know it could happen and we’re doing everything we can to make sure it doesn’t,” she said.

Railroad companies are responsible for notifying emergency workers about hazardous shipments and training them to respond to spills or explosions, Snow said.

Union Pacific has not notified Salem Fire Department that crude oil is being

shipped through the city, said Steve Brown, the department’s deputy chief of training and emergency services.

“I know trains haul a lot of stuff. I didn’t know anything specific about crude oil,” Brown said. “Obviously if something was to occur here, we’d have to deal with it.”

Local emergency responders have been trained on tankers in general, Brown said, but not on crude oil.

They’ll attend a two-hour class on crude oil response at the statewide HazMat Response Teams Conference in May, he said.

Other than responding to accidents, the city has no influence or authority over rail shipments, city spokesman Mike Gotterba said.

“We are certainly aware that there’s hundreds of rail cars that pass through the city every day that have some type of flammable or corrosive or poisonous chemistry involved,” city spokesman Mike Gotterba said.

“It’s something that is done throughout the world, throughout the country,” he said. “As long as it conforms with all the regulations, it’s nothing that we have any concerns about beyond taking it seriously and training to respond to accidents.”

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PORTLAND — Oregonians spent about $2 million more on distilled spirits this past January than they did in January of last year.

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission reports that individuals and businesses spent more in dollar sales and bought more in volume.

These figures reflect the purchase of more hard liquor like tequila, vodka, bourbon, and whiskey. It does not include beer or wine.

Christie Scott is with OLCC. She says the results don’t mean Oregonians are drinking more.

“Well, when we look at the numbers, what that really says is that people aren’t necessarily buying more alcohol,” Scott says. “They’re buying more expensive alcohol. And that’s a really good indicator of economic recovery that Oregon is seeing right now, too.”

Scott says while the volume of liquor sold increased by almost 4 percent, money spent increased by about 6 percent.

Individuals spent more on hard liquor than did liquorlicensed businesses.

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Raw milk rules easier to swallow after lawsuit

By Shaun Hall DAILY COURIER

ROGUE RIVER — Teri White’s goats and cows probably don’t care much for politics. They produce milk, and she sells it. Untreated. Unpasteurized. Raw. White and her husband, Art, operate Runnymede Farm, 1831 West Evans Creek Road, near Rogue River. She milks the goats, he milks the cows. Then, they bottle it and put it out for pickup by customers. “That’s all we do is filter it and jar it up,� White explained, after milking two of her Saanen mix goats, Alice and Claire. “Today’s customers will get today’s milk.�

Now she can advertise her product, thanks to a free-speech lawsuit filed by a McMinnville-area farmer that forced the Oregon Department of Agriculture to stop enforcing a ban on advertising raw milk.

Raw milk, the sale of which is banned in nine states, is allowed to be sold from small farms in Oregon.

For the record, her customers pay $6 per half gallon and $11 per gallon for goat milk, and $4.50 per half gallon and $8 per gallon of cow’s milk.

Until recently, the Whites could have gotten in trouble with the state if they had advertised those prices. Last month, however, the state relented, promising to stop going after raw milk producers in order to settle a federal lawsuit brought against the department by Christine Anderson of Cast Iron Farm of McMinnville.

In exchange, Anderson agreed to drop the lawsuit. “Staff shall not enforce (the statute) that prohibits a person from advertising raw milk for sale,� said Katy Coba, department director, in a memo issued Feb. 12. “The exercise of ODA’s enforcement discretion is made in consultation with the Oregon Department of Justice.�

Asked to explain the department’s problem with raw milk, Food Safety Program Manager Frank Barcellos instead pointed to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which champions pasteurization, a process of heating food to kill bacteria. The CDC states that the process does not significantly change

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Teri White pours milk from bucket to bucket and through a filter, in the kitchen of her farm home. The fresh milk is put in jars and refrigerated, ready for pickup by customers. the nutritional value of milk.

But White believes raw milk is better than pasteurized milk. “For one thing, it tastes better,� she said. “A lot of people who are lactose intolerant can drink it. Those with milk allergies can drink it. And, there’s a lot of good bacteria in raw milk. “Of course, it comes with risks, but if you’re clean and safe, you’re OK.�

Runnymede Farm is part of the growing local food movement in the Rogue Valley characterized by small, family farms that embrace organic methods and are concerned about contamination from genetically engineered crops and other products. In May, voters in both Josephine and Jackson counties are being asked to ban GMOs, short for genetically modified organisms.

On her way out to the shed to milk her goats last week, White carried a bucket

of sudsy water containing a bit of bleach.

She cleaned the goats’ udders, “to make sure all the crummies are off.�

The goats readily stepped up on a platform and stuck their faces into a bucket of grain while White milked them, aiming for a bucket. She then took the milk inside her kitchen and poured it through a filter and into another bucket. “It’s like a giant coffee filter,� she said.

The milk then went into marked jars and was put in a cooler in a shed out front, ready for customers to pick it up.

They drop payment off and leave empty jars for the next round. She sells about 60 gallons a week.

White is not the only farmer who sells raw milk in the Rogue Valley. However, owing to years and continuing fears of regulatory persecution, it is difficult to say how many others there are.

Several producers and family farms that were contacted for this report politely but firmly declined to be interviewed.

The preferred method of advertising remains word of mouth.

One producer who did speak, Yvonne Roberts of RR Resources in Merlin, pointed out that while the state was no longer enforcing its ban on advertising, state statutes still call for a ban. “I just like to stay legal,� Roberts said. “The law’s still there. There’s still a law that says it’s illegal. “There’s so many worries about the USDA (the U.S. Department of Agriculture). We don’t want the USDA going, ‘Your operation is breaking the law.’�

Barcellos, of the state agriculture department, said the Oregon Legislature will be asked next year to formally lift the advertising ban.

In the meantime, he added, “ODA will not enforce the raw milk advertising ban.�

Producers continue to fly under the radar, however. Roberts said people have told her it’s hard to find places to buy raw milk. “We’re frustrated,� she said. “They would like to buy it, but they can’t find it.

There’s headway being made.�

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A protestor holds a sign during the groundbreaking ceremony.

Bend breaks ground on controversial water project

By David Nogueras

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BEND — The city of Bend broke ground Thursday on a controversial multimillion dollar overhaul of its surface water system.

Elected officials of past and present posed with city staff as heavy equipment hoisted the first section of a new 10 mile pipeline into place. Among the crowd were public employees and their families. But there were some protesters, too.

Over the last few years in Bend, there’s been ongoing debate over the project’s environmental and economic impacts.

Last month, a federal judge denied a request by two environmental groups to block the pipe from going in the ground.

Tom Hickmann is the city’s director of engineering, infrastructure and planning. He’s been working on this project for nearly a decade. “It’s been a difficult journey to get here. But ultimately to be at this point, where we’re finally constructing something that’s going to benefit the community for centuries to come is a fantastic feeling,� said Hickmann.

The project, however, is still being challenged in the courts.

The judge in that case is expected to issue a ruling sometime this summer.

Veteran officer fired shots that killed suspected kidnapper out happened just after 4 p.m.

March 12, when Romero and Central Precinct officers Sze Lai, a 22-year veteran, and Edgar Mitchell, a nine-year veteran, were near the Hillsdale Library, looking for a suspicious man driving a van.

Police said the van reported in the incident was associated with reports of a suspicious person following children.

A person who called 911 reported that the van was in the area and Mitchell, who was first to arrive, saw the van and its driver on Southwest Dewitt Street. Police said he wasn’t taken questioned because the man did not match the description of the suspicious person.

Police said as the man went into the library, Mitchell checked the van’s license plates and discovered that the back and front plates were different, with only the front plate registered to the van. When officers Lai and

Romero arrived, Mitchell went into the library to search for the man. Romero went to the van and saw the man walking on Southwest Cheltenham Street.

Several witnesses told investigating detectives that Romero told the man several times to stop, but the man kept walking, ignoring the officer. At about 4:07 p.m., the man stopped and confronted Romero, and both fired weapons. Romero was wounded.

The suspect was killed.

Romero reported that shots had been fired and took cover.

Medical personnel treated Romero’s injuries while others approached the suspect and confirmed that he was dead. A firearm was found near the suspect.

The Major Crimes Team is investigating the shooting.

Romero was placed on paid administrative leave during the investigation, which is standard procedure. The case will be presented to the Multnomah County

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And at almost the same time, ice core drilling began in Antarctica.

Ice drilling efforts were spurred by the International Geophysical Year, an international endeavor to study the earth.

Scientists involved with this research range from chemists to geologists to physicists.

For the ice to reach OSU’s lab, it is shipped by plane, boat and truck. Cold packs are placed into the box with the ice core to ensure it doesn’t melt.

Once the ice cores makes their way into the lab, Ice Core Lab director Ed Brook and his team use different analytical tools to measure gases.

Mass spectrometers are used to measure how much CO2, methane and nitrous oxide are present within the ice.

In the days before ice coring research, in order for scientists to learn what climate was like in the past, they had to look at critters that lived at the oceans’ surface. From there, they try to infer what the climate was like based on which type of organisms were living in certain places at certain times.

These research methods are known as proxies, which provide measurements of climate through an indirect approach. “(Scientists) have to interpret what these proxies are telling us,” Brook said. “But the air within the bubbles of the ice is just the air. Very little proxy interpretation is needed. We can directly measure what the CO2 was 100,000 years ago.”

Ice cores may be the only data method like this available when learning about the past, Brook said.

Brook has been working with ice cores for 20 years, and throughout this time he has learned to translate the language of the ice.

Brook does this by studying air bubbles

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The bubbles of air embedded within the ice cores allows researchers to retrace the evolution of the earth’s atmosphere throughout nearly 1 million years. embedded within the cores.

Polar ice, the kind of ice researchers study in the lab, is formed from snowfall that is slowly compressed into solid sheets of ice.

In between each grain of snow, tightly compacted spaces of air get sealed off from the outside world. Ultimately, the polar ice intricately wields itself together by melting and then freezing.

Interestingly, the bubbles are uniform in their appearance, unlike the random bubbles in man-made ice cubes.

The oldest ice core sample that is con-

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“A little over 10,000 pounds were submitted last year,” Norris said. “If we were to get that, it would almost tie us up.”

Norris’ other hope is that the end of winter term will have lots of OSU students recycling old, unwanted term papers on campus.

“If we can kind of do our finals clean-out, which is very liberating at the end of the term, it’s a very fun activity,” Norris said. “We want to encourage students to do that here, on campus. Especially those that are living in the (residence) halls.”

For the Civil War competition, U of O and OSU are competing to see which university can create more recycling and compost per person. As of Thursday, U of O led with 7.08 pounds of recycling and compost per person, beating OSU’s 6.64 pounds per person.

During last year’s competition, at eight weeks in, U of O led by a similar point difference and ended up winning by 0.2 pounds per person.

RecycleMania is a nationwide competition. Universities can compete in electricity reduction, trash reduction, water-use reduction and increases in compost and recycling.

Other events held at OSU in conjunction with Re c y c l e M a n i a include the Inter-Hall Recycling

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Past years have seen more than 200 attendees and $3,000 in donations. This year, all proceeds will go to benefit the OSU Emergency Food Pantry and World of Good, a small non-profit organization based in Junction City.

World of Good provides children around the globe with meals and close mentorships, while the OSU Emergency Food Pantry aids low-income university students in the Corvallis area.

Attendees are asked to consider a donation of between $5 and $20, while children younger than 5 years old get in for free. The first 150 participants will be able to take a handmade bowl home.

Pre-sale tickets are available for sale and pickup through the anthropology department in Waldo Hall 238. Tickets will also be sold at the door of the event.

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tinuous from top to bottom with no breaks in time is 800,000 years old.

“The oldest ice I have analyzed is 1 million years old,” Brook said. “It was pretty cool.”

Additionally, ice cores provide scientists with quantifiable data, which reveals a hotbed of climate change research.

Humans have radically changed the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — greenhouse gases have risen quite dramatically.

This is partly due to what researchers see in the ice throughout a large period of time.

They have established a direct correlation between rising temperatures and greenhouse gas levels.

Other things affect temperature, too, but today’s atmosphere is remarkably unusual with respect to the natural past, which ice core researchers have observed.

How fast CO2 is arriving now is unsettling, Brook said.

The height of CO2 levels before the Industrial Revolution was 280 parts per million. We have now arrived at 400 parts per million.

“We’re kind of on a schedule to get up to something like 800 parts per million by the end of this century — and to me, that’s what’s scary,” Brook said.

As ice core researchers continue learning about the framework of global climate change, it’s clear that humans are facing unknown air quality.

“We have never seen in the natural part of the ice core record — before humans — anything like what the atmosphere is like now,” Brook said. “(Humans) have changed the atmosphere, and we should expect climate to change because of that.”

sion of the HECC’s action plan as they continue plans moving forward as a financial governing body.

“We’re going to continue to make “A decision to phase out the tuition the case about the value of educational plateau is the correct one,” Deedon obtainment,” Nesbitt said. wrote.

According to figures outlined in the In addition, Deedon wrote that it’s unfair for students taking 12 credit action plan, 31 percent of Oregon adults hours to pay an average of $185 per have a bachelor’s degree or higher, credit when students taking 16 pay an 17 percent have an associate’s or equivalent credential and 43 percent average of $139. completed high school. An additional HECC chair Tim Nesbitt and executive 9 percent have less than a high school director Ben Cannon also attended the education. meeting on behalf of the commission.

The HECC will meet again in April Ongoing considerations within the to discuss future plans. An official HECC’s continuing plan focus on com- budget request from the HECC to Gov. munity college contributions to GED John Kitzhaber must be submitted by programs, research programs at univer- Aug. 31. sities and prioritizing educational access Sean Bassinger for Oregonians.

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ing in. It’s been really good this term, a lot of people in and out.”

For the clothing swap, students and community members are able to bring in clothing they no longer want and browse the selection of clothes left by other students. It is not required that people donate in order to take clothes they want.

“I think people feel a little guilty getting something but not giving anything,” Mehmedovic said. “We need people to take things and not just give them, otherwise we’d just have all these clothes here.”

All remaining clothes at the end of the week are donated to a non-profit organization, which gives the clothing to people in need.

Mehmedovic said the clothing swap will continue taking place once RecycleMania is over, during dead week of each term. Clothing in all sizes, for both men and women, are appreciated and encouraged.

The opportunity to work with organizations and groups across campus is one of the highlights of the RecycleMania Courtesy of Waste Watchers competition, Norris said.

Student Kathleen Knight was caught “green-handed” for using “As an organizer, I find a reusable water bottle.

RecycleMania to be a fun way to reach people who are not Competition in residence place during dead week of already engaged and to be halls, the February Repair Fair, each term, has paired up with creative in what we’re doing,” the OSU Recycled Fashion Campus Recycling for the Norris said. “We’re catching Show, the Women’s Center RecycleMania competition. people in different ways so clothing swap and the Get “It was really nice col- that we can appeal to different Caught Green Handed event. laborating with them,” said types of people.”

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t’s always a guessing game whenever a star player gets injured. It’s hard to predict how a certain team will play without its best player, although it usually goes down one of two ways.

The team either struggles to fill the void the injured player left, or it actually gets better because more players get a chance to show what they can do.

When the Oregon State women’s basketball team lost sophomore guard Jamie Weisner in early February, it was initially unclear which path it’d take. Weisner averaged a team-high 13.8 points prior to her injury. Last year as a freshman, Weisner led the team in scoring with 12.5 per game.

Widely regarded as the team’s most talented offensive player, her injury could have been crippling to the team. When she went down, OSU was sitting on a 12-9 record, and was 4-5 in conference play. The record was good, but not great.

That’s when Weisner broke her hand and had to sit out the following nine games.

The team responded by going a perfect 9-0 without her.

There are two big reasons the Beavers weathered her injury so well.

The first is that Oregon State’s schedule got a lot easier immediately after Weisner got injured. After playing five different top-25 teams with her, the Beavers played only one top-25 team during her absence.

Additionally, the majority of their nine-game winning streak came at home.

Still, that doesn’t account for the perfect record.

Oregon State was able to flourish due to the rise of two players, who stepped in to fill the void she left.

Sophomore center Ruth Hamblin and freshman guard Gabby Hanson turned into big-time contributors.

Prior to her injury, both Hamblin and Hanson had shown glimpses of their potential, but they weren’t putting it together on a game-to-game basis. When they played well, the whole team played well.

For example, during OSU’s backto-back Civil War victories, the two were unstoppable.

Hamblin had a monstrous first game against the Ducks, setting career-highs with points (27) and rebounds (16), while recording five blocks. Two days later, she came back to record the third ever triple-double in school history. She had 23 points, 12 rebounds and 10 blocks.

Hanson went off as well. She scored 19 points off 8-for-9 shooting in just 22 minutes of play. Her performance seemed to come out of nowhere, because in nonconference games to open the season, she averaged only 3.4 points and 2.4 rebounds.

Hamblin and Hanson showed they were capable of making big impacts on games, but it wasn’t until Weisner got injured that the team started banking on their production.

Fortunately for the Beavers, Hamblin and Hanson were more than ready to answer the call.

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Generally, a team sitting in first place in the Pac-12 — a conference that has won the past two College World Series — is feeling good about its play.

The No. 4 Oregon State baseball team enters Friday’s Pac-12 opener against Utah in Salt Lake City alone at the top of the conference.

The Beavers finished the bulk of their nonconference schedule with a 15-3 record, outscoring opponents 126-53 and reeling off seven straight wins.

But after coming up just short of a national championship a year ago, Oregon State isn’t anywhere near satisfied with the way it played to start 2014.

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Freshman Trever Morrison and senior Ben Wetzler celebrate after scoring a run Sunday against Northern Illinois in Goss Stadium.

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Sophomore Jaime Wright performs her floor exercise against Nebraska and Arizona State March 1 in Gill Coliseum.

Oregon State hopes to improve its RQS this weekend in Seattle before postseason

score) that we can drop,” said junior Chelsea Tang. “(Last week) makes us more confident, but we can’t get too cocky.”

That 195.000 she is referring to is one of the marks that OSU scored

By Scott McReynolds during its first two meets of the season.

THE DAILY BAROMETER The No. 12 Beavers have two more Currently, one is counting towards the team’s RQS. The top three away meets chances.

Two more meets are all the Oregon are counted toward the total score, State gymnastics team has to improve and two of four away meets have been its Regional Qualifying Score, which scores in the 195 range — not a score the team wants to include in its score. determines its postseason seeding.

With this in mind, the team is OSU is coming off of its second-best focused on improving its RQS after meet of the season, and is looking to such a successful meet last week. use that confidence to build into the “We knew we were finishing on next two meets.

The Beavers’ 2014 regular season the road at the end of the year and will come to an end Friday when they that could really be a good thing,” head to Seattle to take on Washington said associate head coach Michael and Seattle Pacific. The next weekend, Chaplin. “We are approaching this they head to Berkeley, Calif., for the meet same as last week, as a way to Pac-12 Championships, but they’re get better and improve our RQS and to set ourselves up to peak at the right staying focused on the task at hand. moment.”

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Softball unfazed by No. 5 ASU Wrestling sends 8 to NCAA Oregon State plays in Corvallis for first time this season, hosts Arizona State

the tough nonconference slate has been a useful preview for the conference schedule.

“It definitely helps us because we can feel the intensity and how

By Josh Worden fast the game can be with the topTHE DAILY BAROMETER ranked teams,” said junior second The Pac-12 softball season baseman Ya Garcia. “Just because starts Friday and Oregon State has you look across the diamond and had enough competition already it’s Tennessee or it’s Arizona State, this year to be nothing changes. prepared.

You still have to With matchIt definitely helps field the ball and ups against No. you still have to us because we feel 20 Tulsa, No. 15 score runners.” the intensity and how Texas A&M, No. Fielding the ball 13 Oklahoma and fast the game can and scoring runNo. 2 Tennessee ners won’t be easy be with the topalready this seaagainst the Sun son, adding No. ranked teams.

Devils, who are 5 Arizona State currently ranked won’t exactly be Ya Garcia atop the nation anything new for Junior second baseman in ESPN’s power OSU. rankings.

Friday’s 1 p.m.

ASU carries one of the premier start time will kick off a three-game series against ASU (26-3) as the pitching staffs in the country, led Beavers (9-13) will play in Corvallis by senior Dallas Escobedo. for the first time this year.

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Oregon State is sending eight wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, which begin Thursday in Indianapolis.

Sophomore 133-pounder Joey Palmer, redshirt freshman 141-pounder Joey Delgado, junior 174-pounder Joe Latham, senior 184-pounder Austin Morehead and freshman heavyweight Amarveer Dhesi are all competing in the NCAA Championships for the first time in their careers.

All five earned an automatic bid thanks to performances at the Pac-12 Championships on March 2.

Delgado won his first individual Pac-12 Championship in the 141pound weight class, while Latham took second at 174 pounds and Dhesi finished in second place at heavyweight.

Palmer and Morehead earned individual titles behind third-place showings.

Seniors RJ Pena (157 pounds) and Scott Sakaguchi (149 pounds), and junior 197-pounder Taylor Meeks are the three Beavers who have experience wrestling in the NCAAs. No. 7 Pena — who is coming off his second individual Pac-12 Championship — took fifth in his weight class in 2013, while No. 15 Meeks finished fourth at 197 pounds last season and participated without placing in 2012.

Sakaguchi, who won his second individual Pac-12 Championship March 2 along with Pena, is the most experienced Beaver entering Thursday, having placed seventh in his sophomore season and fifth last year during his junior campaign.

Oregon State placed 10th overall as a team last season, its best finish in nearly 20 years.

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LB Doctor granted fifth year of the year per NCAA rules.

A co-team captain in 2013, Doctor has Oregon State linebacker Michael Doctor was a team-leading 185 career tackles going granted a fifth year of eligibility Thursday by into 2014, including 17.5 for loss and three interceptions. the Pac-12 Conference.

Doctor will participate in spring practice Doctor suffered a season-ending ankle injury beginning March 31, culminating in the Spring in the second game of the 2013 season.

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Sophomore guard Jamie Weisner awaits a free throw attempt against Washington Jan. 24 in Gill Coliseum.

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Freshman Kaytianna McMillan performs on the beam against Arizona State and Nebraska March 1 in Gill Coliseum.

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letes, but with such a successful meet Sunday, the Beavers might be able to use the short This week will be a short week to their advantage.

If all goes according to plan, one for the Beavers, as they competed Sunday, and will they’ll improve their RQS and set themselves up nicely for compete again Friday. the Pac-12 Championships in “We have a pretty short eight days. week,” Tang said. “So we only The Beavers are currently have a couple days in the gym. ranked fourth among Pac-12 We’re just focusing on the little schools behind Utah, UCLA things we can fix, but we’re and Stanford, but OSU has really happy with how we did improved as of late and has last week so we just want to an opportunity to finish third. keep the ball rolling.”

With UCLA and Stanford Competing with little rest also getting hot, scoring better can lead to trouble for ath- than 197.000 in their past two

meets, it would be tough to overtake them. But overtaking Stanford, which hasn’t scored higher than 197.000 in nearly a month, would be achievable.

The next meet isn’t on the mind of the team, though. They are focused on Washington and Seattle Pacific.

That meet will be held Friday at 7 p.m., and can be viewed via live stream at osubeavers.com.

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ence games, ending the season with the best percentage in the conference from 3-point range (44.3 percent). Hanson was rewarded with a Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention.

Similarly, Hamblin only averaged 6.2 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.3 blocks during nonconference games. When Pac-12 games started, and especially after Weisner went down, she tore it up, averaging 12.7 points, 9.4 rebounds and 4.2 blocks. She was named as an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention and also got a spot on the All-Defensive Team.

Oregon State’s easier schedule and the emergence of Hamblin and Hanson were the reasons the team did so well in Weisner’s absence.

Now she’s healthy again and the team will only get better with its potent scorer back on the floor. She got some playing time during the Pac-12 Tournament, playing in all three games.

She came off the bench in those games as she’ll gradually get reintroduced to the team.

She played well, and head coach Scott Rueck said that he loved what she brought to the table.

Weisner hasn’t missed a step after sitting out for a month, while Hamblin and Hanson both got much better over that same time frame.

The three players coming together means one thing: This team could make some noise in the NCAA Tournament when it begins March 22.

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love having a target on our back, it makes every game special.”

At Wednesday’s practice, Wetzler said Oregon State isn’t the same team that finished fourth in the nation last season — he doesn’t think the Beavers are quite there yet.

He also said this team has the potential to be even better than a year ago.

“We know we can play better,” he said. “It’s going to be scary to see us when we put it all together.”

First pitch is scheduled for 5:05 p.m. PST Friday in Salt Lake City.

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Senior second baseman Andy Peterson, freshman catcher Logan Ice and freshman shortstop Trever Morrison await a pitching change Sunday in Goss Stadium. of confidence. Every inning, every game, I feel a lot better about myself, about my team and about trusting everybody. I feel good about this weekend.”

How OSU’s freshmen positional players, as well as the abundance of newcomers that have seen time out of the bullpen this season, are still a question mark entering the start of conference play.

Another is how the Beavers will play as defending Pac-12 champions with teams gunning for them every weekend.

The Beavers aren’t running from the challenge.

In fact, they’re relishing the opportunity.

“I love it. It makes every game that much more special,” Peterson said. “You see the other team get a hit in a game and get pumped and excited, then we turn a double play and they go back down. I

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Southern to open the UCLA Tournament last weekend, totaling eight strikeouts in addition to no walks and only four hits.

According to OSU players, any Beaver pitcher that enters the game this weekend will be ready.

“They are prepared to face one of the top teams in the nation,” Garcia said. “I understand that we’re not ranked as high as (ASU) or put on the same level, but any given day Amanda can come out and throw a shutout.”

Najdek and junior pitcher Melanie Dembinski have been the only two players to start a game in the last 12 matchups.

“They’ve been the most consistent,” said head coach Laura Berg. “They’re getting the job done.”

Either pitcher will have her hands full with the Sun Devils, a team that bats .350 compared to a .174 allowed average.

Of the 10 players who have recorded at least 50 at-bats, seven are hitting better than .325 this year.

Arizona State boasts 38 home runs this season and six different players have at least four long balls for the Sun Devils.

Garcia has faced the Sun Devils for the past two years and credits their batting prowess, especially their power.

“I think of them as a power team,” Garcia said. “They come ready to play in all aspects.”

Starting out the conference schedule with a team contending for a Pac-12 and national title is not something that fazes the battle-tested Beavers.

“There’s no let-up with them,” Bouska said. “It’s a fun experience.”

Friday’s game is set to start at 1 p.m., followed by a 1 p.m., start Saturday and a noon start in the final game of the series Sunday.

except the freshmen. If we stick to our plan and our pitches, we’ll be fine.” “(Arizona State will) throw Escobedo has three career no-hitters to her name and certain things we’ve seen has held opposing batters to through preseason,” Garcia a mere .108 batting average added.

In the pitching circle for the this year.

One thing against her, how- Beavers will likely be senior ever, is that the Beavers are Amanda Najdek, who has allowed just one earned run very familiar with her.

“Dallas has been there since in her last three starts, all of I was a freshman,” said senior which were complete game first baseman Hannah Bouska. outings.

Najdek picked up the “We all know the scouting report, everyone has seen her win against Charleston

BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 ing into Pac-12 play,” said senior pitcher Ben Wetzler.

“But we’re still 15-3 and finding ways to win, which is really, really exciting for what is possible for this team.”

Head coach Pat Casey has continually reiterated that OSU has yet to put everything together this season, struggling to find offensive consistency and reliable pitching from its bullpen.

On the offensive side, the Beavers are leading the nation in walks with 109, but only three everyday starters are hitting better than .300 to start the year. Oregon State has shown flashes of offensive firepower, scoring 10 or more runs in five different games, but has also scored four runs or fewer in six games.

Offense will be even harder to come by starting Friday when conference play begins against Utah (8-7). The Pac-12 is known for its elite pitching and sound defenses. Runs will be at a premium.

“Every team in the Pac-12 has great pitching,” said senior second baseman Andy Peterson. “That’s the thing you always notice is everyone has great pitching and plays great baseball.”

OSU doesn’t enter Pac-12 play unprepared, however. OSU hitters spent the entire offseason facing All-Pac-12 pitchers of their own. Wetzler and sophomore Andrew Moore were both First Team All-Pac-12 selections a year ago, and junior Jace Fry was an honorable mention his freshman season.

“We’ve been preparing like this since fall,” Peterson said. “We’ve faced (Wetzler), (Moore) and (Fry) all offseason. Facing guys like that really gets you ready for what you’re going to see in the Pac-12 because they’re the best in the country.”

While OSU has had the chance to hit against its own pitching, the Beavers enter Pac-12 play with three true freshmen in the lineup. Shortstop Trever Morrison, catcher Logan Ice and third baseman Caleb Hamilton enter Friday’s contest with just 18 collegiate games under their belts.

The trio isn’t afraid of what’s to come, despite the uncharted waters.

“We’re going through things together and we’ll definitely be fine,” Morrison said. “I’ve gained a lot

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hat would we do without good, old Craigslist? We couldn’t sell our junky cars. We couldn’t finagle our way out of paying a fair price for used goods.

It sure wouldn’t be as easy to resell broken lamps and dirty furniture.

It’s a shame that Craigslist gets a bad reputation for being a rapist website or a misleading online garage sale. A lot of people benefit from it.

Statistic Brain tells us that 50 million Americans use Craiglist annually.

Granted, there are times when Craigslist isn’t the most welcoming place.

When my little brother was about 15 years old, he wanted to sell his PlayStation Portable so he could upgrade to something newer and shinier. He posted his little timewaster on Craigslist. After several

cops cuffed my sweet little brother and brought him to justice.

I guess the guy didn’t want to brave it alone, like that Vancouver vigilante Gabi who stole her bike back from a guy who took it and tried to sell it on Craigslist. The woman couldn’t get the police to look into her case in a days, he received an email from an timely fashion, so she took matters into her own hands and rode off on interested buyer.

I’m sure he was relieved and excited her bike under the guise of a test to finally get his PSP sold. However, drive.

It’s safe to assume that Craigslist his delight was quickly squelched when he got there and was met by is not always an honest place to do the buyer and a small throng of business.

But a few things that I’ve noticed policemen.

Apparently, the “buyer” was highly that do really well — and are pretty suspicious that my innocent little risk-free — are furniture, cars and brother was the thief who stole his textbooks.

PSP. He thought he would catch my Used textbooks are tricky though, brother red-handed, twisting his because there’s always a new edition mustache and laughing while the or a book being sold that has a used

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access code.

Furniture is probably the most circulated, in my experience. I got four offers on my wood dresser in the first six hours after I posted it, and sold it within 24 hours. There’s so much stuff out there that I don’t see any reason to buy any piece of furniture new.

Ask yourself, would you rather go to Pier 1 and sell your soul to get a lamp that looks like it came from Target, or get on Craigslist and save a small fortune while simultaneously contributing to a sustainable community?

If you think about it that way, Craigslist is more of a friendly thrift store than a dangerous black market. t

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Caffeine: rays of liquid sunshine in our lives

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affeine has a high presence here in the Pacific Northwest, as well as on any college campus. It is a marvelous substance, which gives us productivity out the wazoo and the alertness of hunting cheetahs.

Coffee, tea, Red Bull, Rockstar, sodas and numerous other beverages have this wonderful component. We guzzle them day after day for the wonderful effects of caffeine. One of those great effects is being able to deal with people, life and give a needed pickme-up in the middle of the afternoon.

I’m a huge fan of caffeine. I drink a lot coffee and love every drop I drink.

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The Daily Barometer I also indulge in a Red Bull every now and then (though I stick with the “sugar free” or “total zero” so I don’t end up with diabetes later in life), because I need that extra kick that coffee sometimes won’t give me. Have you ever had those Starbucks Refreshers energy drinks made from green coffee beans? Those really pack a punch.

Caffeine stimulates the “central nervous system, heart, muscles and the centers that control blood pressure,”

according to WebMD. This allows us to feel that utopia of productivity and mental alertness and flips the “how to life” switch.

Caffeine helps me stay awake and on-task most of the time, but it also allows me to deal with all the crap life throws at me. Coffee is liquid sunshine and every cup brings more sunrays into my life.

Most days, 80 percent of my personality is caffeine. That can be good or bad, but at least I’m pleasant and get my stuff done. Isn’t that what is important?

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ne day, in the Barometer newsroom, I let out a foghorn-like belch after lunch.

Granted, it wasn’t very polite — but the newsroom has also been the location of impromptu sing-alongs, so I didn’t feel too embarrassed about it.

A fellow writer looked up and jokingly said, “That wasn’t very ladylike.”

“I never claimed to be a lady,” I replied. But it made me wonder about the social mystery of why women are supposed to avoid discussion or evidence of human bodily functions.

This exists in every woman’s life the moment she enters a public restroom to do her dirty work, and too late, notices another pair of shoes in the next stall.

I assure you, there’s a high chance that both individuals are pretending not to hear what’s happening in the next stall. When they leave the bathroom, they will absolutely, under no circumstances, make eye contact.

I come from a household where fart jokes are routine. My dad is known for his talent at turning burps into musical scores for the benefit of family and friends.

In terms of manners, the logic always was that in public, our bodily functions — regardless of gender — were to be kept as quiet and discreet as possible.

I agree with that to a certain degree.

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Letter to the Editor Regarding Saling’s March 11 review

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I was on campus Tuesday night for the baseball game, and read Derek Saling’s piece on “Monuments Men.” The reviewer should consider the times this film depicted.

For those of us who lived it, it was well done and interesting. He might also want to check his Oregon State University history. 1950s faculty member Gordon Gilkey of the Art Department was one of those then-middle-aged men who were drafted into the search for art stolen in Europe as the world war wound down.

Kurt Engelstad

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ea to spring break.

Nay to exclamation marks, even though that first “yea” thoroughly deserved one. So goes life working for a newspaper.

Yea to going on vacation to the Southwest, Midwest or to your couch in Corvallis. It’s all a great sigh of relief after 10 weeks of hell — er — school.

Nay to finals week standing between us and week-long bliss.

Yea to $40 worth of McMenamins cajun-tot runs.

Nay to the newsroom managing to only eat about 25 percent of the tots, leaving multiple containers of soggy, cold tots to sit in the dark refrigerator with a feeling of loneliness and rejection.

Those tots will be loved eventually. Time heals all wounds, you precious tots.

Yea to two weeks of no class and no work, even if one of them is finals week.

It makes us in the newsroom feel like we have something resembling lives.

Nay to comments on our spring break editorial suggesting we don’t know what it’s like in the “real world.” Thirtythree percent of the newsroom has experienced the real world before, or in between, college. We’re more than capable of saying that taking classes and working full-time at the Barometer is much harder than the “real world.”

Yea to spontaneous trips to the Oregon coast.

Nay to not having enough time to enjoy it — or go to the beach when the weather is actually decent.

Yea to the weather during dead week.

If there’s a higher power, it’s telling us, “it’ll be fine.” Enjoy the weather. You can focus on finals during finals week.

Nay to finals during dead week thwarting the previous statement.

Yea to Wednesday’s solidarity march and the support from the sixth floor of the Kerr Administration Building. It’s always nice to see administrators showing genuine care and support toward students.

Yea to Oregon State University President Ed Ray calling people “idiots.”

Nay to the idiots who are provoking hate and racism on campus. This is 2014, people.

Yea to the OSU baseball team’s Pac12 opening series against Utah. We enjoyed watching the Beavers steamroll Northern Illinois, but it’ll be a welcome sight to see some good competition at Goss Stadium.

Nay to students in the student section routinely leaving games by the fifth or sixth inning. Not to mention, students only showing up because the weather is nice. The Beavers are No. 4 in the nation and went to the College World Series last year — bring a jacket if it’s cold and watch one of the best teams in the country.

Yea to staff parties.

Nay to lazy staff members.

Yea to the last weekend of winter term.

We’re two-thirds done with the year, and it’s gone by faster than a Snapchat.

Nay to the “real world” approaching like a freight train barreling down the tracks at 70 mph. We’ll see you soon, real world. For now, we’re going to enjoy our weekends, our good friends and our baseball.

See you at the Peacock.

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pring term is just around the corner. Do you know what that means?

Everything is better.

Oregon is one of Mother Nature’s 50 children, but it’s the child that always acts up and never listens. It rains when it’s supposed to be sunny, it snows when it’s supposed to rain, and it hails, well, whenever it can.

But spring is different. For those special 10 weeks, the tantrums Oregon throws are exchanged for sunny pleasantries, and for the first time in a long time, people are happy.

We’re in the last weeks of winter term — so many people are just one more soaked raincoat away from a psychotic break.

Can you blame them?

I have an 8 a.m. class four days a week. What’s my motivation for getting out of bed and going outside? Thirty-degree temperatures and rolling fog that looks like it came out of one of the “Friday the 13th” movies.

Don’t get me wrong, winter is great. But only in moderation.

When I say “moderation,” I mean a destination vacation cabin with cocoa.

I don’t live in a cabin. I live in a pneumonia-inducing tundra house, because turning on the heat would cut into my Cup

RUUD n Continued from page 7 Naturally, it depends on who you’re with and where you’re located.

And yet, there’s still the pervasive belief that women don’t poop, fart or burp.

It’s ridiculous. The trick to this facade is extreme monitoring of one’s bodily functions and dealing with them as quietly and cleanly as possible.

There are products marketed toward women to assist in this endeavor — there’s a poop spray (yes, “poop spray”) known as “Poo-Pourri,” which creates a protective layer of essential oils to keep “embarrassing odors buried under water,” according to the advertisement.

This paranoia surrounding the breaking of our sunshine and rainbow shields shows up in the Melanie Berliet’s piece,

Alec

Grevstad Noodles money.

Let’s really look at spring and all the people it affects.

Fraternities and sororities — you get to wear your plastic, onedollar sunglasses and bro-tanks, Nike shorts, Nike socks and Nike Slides. You can set up shop in the quad and pepper the student body with oh-so-delicious baked goods for your various fundraisers.

Super-seniors doing that fifthyear victory lap — rejoice. It’s sunny out. All you need this last term is three credits. Who’s taking hiking, ultimate Frisbee and lawn yoga? You are.

This spring is going to be perfect cherry on top of your academic sundae. With that heavy classload, you’re only going to have a good 22 hours of solid free time a day, so pace yourself.

You don’t want to burn out before midterms.

Sports fans, baseball is here.

Yes, we’re still very good at it.

Throw back some Cracker Jacks and bask in the sun at Goss “It Took Me 6 Months to Poop Around My Boyfriend (and That’s Normal),” in Thought Catalog, an online magazine.

“As natural as it is to urinate, defecate and release gas, our bodies’ needs can be trumped by our desire to preserve our sex appeal — especially in the beginning,” according to Berliet.

This logic disturbs me.

And, in my limited experience, preserving the ideal of perfection is unnecessary in a relationship.

The concept of women always needing to be seen as fresh and clean with no evidence of dirty bodily fluids or functions probably hearkens back to a much older ideology.

But I’ve decided to provide you with a slice of Victorian-era logic for the sake of our contemporary minds, pulled from a series of articles compiled and analyzed by Mari Barrera in “Etiquette of a Victorian

Stadium as we pummel a team from Middle Of Nowhere, Ill. Our team’s enjoying the throne at the top of the Pac-12 standings, and looks like it will continue its successful streak all spring.

The last portion of people spring term affects is: Everybody .

We get to swap rain for heavy doses of vitamin D, sun-kissed skin and the desire to start getting ready for bikini season.

Spring is calm walks in the park, pondering life. It’s your time for Super Soaker hooliganism, your road trip with all the windows down, your flip-flop- and jean-short-wearing shenanigans and your flower-planting gardening tomfoolery. There’s also the people with their whole “balancing on a rope between two trees in the quad” thing, but I don’t know what that qualifies as — Cirque de Soleil?

Here’s the beauty of spring, though: That question doesn’t even matter.

As long as everyone can finally relax and see what this whole “sun” business is about, we can and should all be happy. t

Alec Grevstad is a senior in speech commu-

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

Lady.”

In terms of “dressing room etiquette” a lady was supposed to utilize it to always appear beautiful to her husband so that he may find her “fresh, beautiful, sweet as a flower.”

That’s a pretty high standard to roll with. Frankly, I don’t know if the body shame, constipation, insecurities and general constant monitoring are worth it.

Keep yourselves clean. I’m not advocating for mass slobbery and body odor — but understand that all human beings have bodily functions.

If you deny that, then I’m going to automatically assume you’re an alien spy from Planet X, an advance scout for the incoming armada intending take over the planet. t

Cassie Ruud is a junior in English. The opinions

expressed in Ruud’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.

Ruud can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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consumption?

The biggest realization that will hit us once we have big-kid jobs in the real world is that we don’t Most students use caffeine to keep going. But need to be constantly wired in order to enjoy what what do our caffeine habits and personalities we’re doing.

College is a crazy world where bad eating habits look like after college, after we don’t need to stay up incredibly late to finish a portfolio or study for and fashion choices aren’t seen as a problem, just like constant caffeine consumption. In the real exams?

After graduating from college, the next step is get- world, we won’t necessarily have to be hyperting a job. Once a job is acquired, a normal routine caffeinated to enjoy everything in life, which will sets in. Normal sleep and work and life routines. take me some getting used to. t The constant need for caffeine ebbs away.

Di Raffaele is a junior in English. The opinions expressed Will we see ourselves differently in the next two Brooklyn in Di Raffaele’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily to four years because our personalities or outlooks Barometer staff. Di Raffaele can be reached at forum@dailybarometer. have changed in sync with our declining caffeine com.

GOP clarifies its marriage platform

By Anna Staver

STATESMAN JOURNAL statesmanjournal.com

www.flyEUG.com

SALEM — The Oregon Republican Party is trying to make it clear that despite a vote by Republicans at the Dorchester Conference, the party platform includes an opposition to same-sex marriage.

“The institution of marriage being between men and women predates government, and has continuously served as the foundation for family structure in ordered societies for thousands of years,” according to a letter Dorchester is an annual weekend gathering of Republicans in Seaside that celebrated its 50th year last weekend. Delegates attending the 2014 conference voted 233 to 162 to support a potential 2014 ballot initiative that would overturn Oregon’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

While the vote was not binding on any political party or individuals, it highlighted a growing divide between younger party members and more socially

conservative members.

The letter “Senator Packwood explained that he designed the conference to try to pull the Republican party to the left on policy issues and that he originally set it up as a protest to exclude the official Republican party,” according to the letter.

Same-sex marriage and other social issues like abortion were cited as a reason three socially conservative groups, Oregon Right to Life, Oregon Family Council and Common Sense for Oregon, opted to skip this year’s conference in Seaside.

The groups held an alternative forum in Clackamas for Republicans eschewing the Seaside gathering this year.

Dorchester attendees didn’t seem to miss the more conservative contingent of the Republican Party.

“Holding this Dorchester without these malcontents is like going deer hunting without an accordion,” Rolf Glerum told his fellow delegates during their debate on same-sex marriage. “In other words, who cares.”