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Increase approved 2.1% 4% 4.7% Resident undergraduate tuition and mandatory fee increase for 2016/2017
Non-resident graduate tuition and mandatory fee increase for 2016/2017
Resident Honors College undergraduate tuition increase for 2016/2017
Oregon State University Board of Trustees votes 11-1 for tuition increase By Sarah Weaver News Reporter
A tuition increase for the 2016-2017 academic year has been approved by the Oregon State University Board of Trustees. The increase was voted in an 11-1 vote. Mark Baldwin, who voted telephonically was the only member of the board to vote against the increase. Baldwin couldn’t be reached for comment. After being introduced in mid-February, the increase effects several fees, including a 2.1 percent increase to resident undergraduate students. Resident students in the Honors College will see an increase of 4.7 percent for their Honors College fee while non-resident Honors college students will see an increase of 1 percent. Non-resident graduate students tuition will increase by 4 percent while tuitions for students in the veterinary medicine and pharmacy doctorate programs will increase by 2 and 3 percent respectively. Vice President of University Relations and Marketing Steve Clark stated that the Board of Trustees took the concerns of OSU students, faculty, staff and Corvallis community into account when voting. “I think every member of the Board took very seriously the comments of the students and the
faculty and the community members and their opposition to the tuition increase,” Clark said. Clark stated that the Board acknowledged the comments from concerned parties and was mindful of the impact that the increase would have on them and their families. Clark noted there was interest from the Board to increase student engagement in the budgeting process. “There was a strong interest to expand students’ interest in budgeting. As one board member put it, greater creativity,” Clark said. At around 9 a.m. Thursday prior to the vote, students and Corvallis community members began to congregate in front of the Memorial Union holding signs and writing messages in chalk demanding lower tuition rates and condemning OSU for its ties to corporations. Some messages included statistics detailing how tuition has doubled since 2008 and others argued that OSU is becoming more of a corporation than an institution of higher learning. “Welcome to OSU.CORP,” was written by one protester in bright orange chalk on the pavement in from the Memorial Union. The rally was organized by Allied Students for Another Politics (ASAP), an activist group whose mission is to fight against institutionalized oppres-
sion in various forms including student debt, according to the ASAP website. ASAP also protested the Board of Trustees meeting that was held on Wednesday. “Education is not an economic product,” former OSU anthropology student and ASAP member, Sam Christensen said. Christensen addressed the Board of Trustees at the meeting and told them how the tuition increase could affect students by telling her own personal story about trying to pay for college. Christensen had to leave OSU due to being unable to work multiple jobs, go to school full time, and take time for her well-being. Some professors are also displeased with the increase, and raised their concerns at the meeting alongside the students. OSU philosophy professor Joseph Orosco addressed the Board of Trustees and discussed how some of his students are having trouble completing their assignments due to financial issues. “It’s really hard for me as an educator. Two students came into my office hours saying they cannot complete their assignments because they’re homeless,” Orosco said. Orosco went on to mention that professors often do not see the struggles that students are facing.
Linda Richards, a history professor at OSU participated in the protest and discussed how tuition increases have affected her students. “I’ve seen the intensity raise in students. They can’t do their (school) work because they have to work,” Richards said, discussing how students often juggle full-time work to pay for their fulltime schooling. According to Richards, this increase goes against OSU President Ed Ray’s promises for reform within the university. “At the Martin Luther King breakfast, Ed Ray promised to change the university from the inside out. This is the opposite of what he promised,” Richards said. According to associate computer science professor Cara Borradaille, the costs students pay have nearly doubled compared to when she started teaching at OSU in 2009. In 2009, students paid roughly $6,000 per year in fees, Borradaille said. She continued by saying sudents pay roughly $10,000 in fees annually how. Borradaille stated that the only other financial increase of that magnitude she has seen throughout her time at OSU was the increase of the salaries of athletic coaches. The tuition increase for the Honors College,
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Luciana Leite, a second year PhD student in the College of Forestry, and Michelle Charrete, a community member along with the activist group Allied Students for Another Politics (ASAP) protested the proposed tuition increases at the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday in the Memorial Union. The board voted to increase tuition for various student demographics at the Corvallis and Cascades campuses.
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Today is a 6 — Don’t rely on an unstable source of income. The next two days are good for travel. Investigate possibilities. Act on a passionate impulse, as long as you can pay for it. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Work together to tackle financial goals today and tomorrow. Discover new savings and efficiencies. Sort, revise and file documents and payments. Discuss how to increase sales. Get creative. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Misunderstandings with a partner could slow the action today and tomorrow. Listen more and talk less. Find other ways to cut costs. Learn from past failures without getting stopped. Try artistic solutions. Compromise. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Get creative at work over the next few days, to handle increased demand. Changes at the top or a partner’s frustrations provide new obstacles. Beautify the package. Dress for success. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 5 — Practice your game over the
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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Home and family demand more attention over the next two days. Clear clutter, and free space for new endeavors. Quiet organizational projects satisfy. Tend your garden with love. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Clarify what you mean in your communications today and tomorrow. Research and investigate the data. Listen to expert considerations. Changes and temporary confusion could rattle. Speak only the truth.
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Police Beat March 29 -March 30 Compiled from the Corvallis Police Department
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Tuesday, March 29
Structure Fire Multiple officers responded to a structure fire and evacuated the tenants in the nearby apartments and assisted with traffic control. The investigation determined the woman living in the apartment dropped her cigarette or fell asleep with it in her hand which caused the fire. CFD was able to put out the fire.
Suspicious Activity Police were made aware of suspicious behavior by a man outside of City Hall, who tried to slip into the building as one of the workers left. The suspicious male told the worker he needed to go into the building to see a friend, but the worker told him there was no one left in the building. The worker described the man as transient looking
and smelled of alcohol. CPD is on the lookout for further suspicious activity. Electronics Theft A woman had her apartment broken into and had two PS2 gaming consoles, a Wii gaming console, a Galaxy tablet and several video games stolen. The woman said her front door had been left unlocked and the robbery occured overnight. The case
has no further leads. Stalking A 14-year-old boy was walking his dog when a car began to follow him. After around 15 minutes, the boy went into a neighbors house and called the police. The suspicious vehicle then parked in front of the neighbor’s house and the driver then drove towards the boy’s mother as she walked to the house,
stopping as he pulled up next to her, then backing up and getting within feet of the mother. He continued to take the car in and out of reverse before he sped off. Deputies were able to locate the car and the man driving and took him into custody for DUII and Disorderly Conduct and Recklessly Endangering Another Person.
Anti-Semitic fliers remotely printed on campus Open printer IP ports allowed group to print from remote location By Gaby Mudd News Contributor
Oregon State University received anti-Semitic flyers through networked fax devices and printers last Friday. OSU was among several universities across the nation that received anti-Semitic flyers that advocated for white supremacy and discriminated against the Jewish community. More than 20 other universities reported receiving these flyers according to an article written by Nathan Bruttell in the Corvallis Gazette-Times. The posters advocated for a neo-Nazi website called the Daily Stormer and urged readers to “join the struggle for global white supremacy.” There were two confirmed instances of the posters appearing on campus according to Clay Simmons the interim director of the equal opportunity and access office and a member of the OSU Bias response team. These flyers were sent through printers that had open IP ports that allowed students to print off campus, according to Simmons. The flyers were printed from machines that were available to the public. Steve Clark, the Vice President of University Relations and Marketing speaks to the university’s policy regarding the flyer spam. “This is not an issue about restricting free speech,” Clark said. “We have a policy against spam and the improper use of the university’s equipment and we have restricted this from happening.” The team received a notification from a unit in
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mandatory student fees and graduate non-residents will be reported to the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC), a mandate for the increase being over the 3 percent mark from the previous years fee levels. According to the OSU Director of Fiscal and Budget Planning Sherman Bloomer, the new tuition rates are now official and will be posted on the budget and fiscal planning website in the near future. Financial aid will also be affected by the increase, according to Bloomer. The Financial Aid office is looking at building costs associated with aid into packages as a part of their contingency planning. Bloomer said the increased tuition is
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Newport that had also received the flyer through their printers, according to Simmons. Simmons condemned these acts of discrimination on behalf of the university. “This is nothing that the University would ever support,” Simmons said. “We wish this would not have happened, and we try and limit these things as much as possible.” The Bias response team is an organization that is setup to respond quickly to any bias or discrimination that takes place on campus. The team investigates these types of claims and makes sanctions for people who have violated the student code of conduct and other policies, according to Simmons. Simmons spoke about how harassment and discrimination impacts the OSU community. “Mostly it impacts the people who saw or found the poster,” Simmons said. “I’m not aware of anyone who was significantly impacted by the posters, mostly everyone was just very disgusted.” Simmons also urged any student or faculty member that was affected by these flyers and is struggling to seek campus resources such as Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) or the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for counseling and support. Benjamin Barnett, the Rabbi of Beit Am Synagogue in the Corvallis community also detested the posters and spoke out about how these acts impact the Jewish community. “It’s shocking, it’s frightening and it’s terrifying,” Barnett said. “It is sad and scary for the Jewish community, but unfortunately it is disappointing that this is not the first time we have faced acts of discrimination and that we continue to.” Barnett also talked about the support from the Corvallis community and the importance of standing together with regard to issues such as the flyers.
automatically rolled into planning for financial aid for the next year. “Because many of (the financial aid packages) are based on the FAFSA cost of attendance, and for many this has raised the cost of attendance,” Bloomer said. “So that automatically gets looked at when allocating financial aid.” One of the biggest changes students will see in regards to their financial aid next year, according to Bloomer, is their potential for receiving the Oregon Opportunity Grant from the state. According to Bloomer, while the Oregon Opportunity Grant will still be available to help students pay for their higher education, the change will be found in the students who receive it. The grant will now be reserved for students with the
greatest financial need based on estimated family contribution and those who may have received the grant in past years may not receive it in years to come. “It’s a different mix of students because the state changed the eligibility criteria, so, basically, they want to target the money they have at the very neediest students - those that have zero expected family contribution. ” Bloomer said. Up to 2,500 students will be losing their Oregon Opportunity Grant funding, while 1,200 students who would not have otherwise received funding from the Oregon Opportunity Grant will receive funding at the university, Bloomer said. According to Bloomer, the financial aid office has been aware of this since fall term. Bloomer attributes this as
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Several Oregon State University printers were compromised when open IP ports allowed an off campus “White Supremacy” group to print anti-Semitic fliers last week. “We have a great support system and partners in this community,” Barnett said. “My hope is that everyone will stand by us and continue to stand by us, just as we would stand by anyone who has faced these problems.” The OSU Administration team speaks out against these flyers and condemns the hateful message.
“Acts of discrimination and harassment hurt and degrade all members of the OSU community,” Angela Batista the Interim Chief Diversity Officer said in the campus wide email. “These fliers do not represent the values of Oregon State University. We categorically reject their hateful message.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu
Students with information regarding the posters are asked to report to the bias team at:
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having partially to do with the enacting of the Oregon Promise Program, Oregon’s version of the free community college program passed by President Obama last year. Bloomer stated that OSU and U of O will see the biggest impact of this readjustment of the Oregon Opportunity Grant out of all of the schools governed by the HECC. Bloomer also addressed comments made at the Board of Trustees meeting about OSU’s ties to corporations. According to Bloomer, the 2.1 percent increase in resident undergrad tuition translates to roughly $2 million. Out of that $2 million, $900,000 will be brought back to need-based financial aid. Patricia Reser, chairwoman of the Board of Trustees also serves as a board chair and is a founder of Reser foods, the namesake of
Reser Stadium. “The trustees are a set of very distinguished people who have had careers in all different kinds of higher education and in the corporate world and nonprofit worlds - it’s a wide range,” Bloomer said. According to Bloomer, the tuition increase is set to go into
effect at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year in the fall and will remain until summer 2017. Around the middle of spring 2017, discussion will start up again to see if another increase is on the horizon, Bloomer said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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vs.
Final Four showdown FOUR FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE GAME 1. All though UConn is on an unimaginable winning streak and have never lost a national championship, they have lost in the final four a few times. Last time was in 2012 against Notre Dame.
wins away from passing John Wooden for most all time college basketball national championships with 11.
4. These two teams both sit in the top 10 of 2. This is Oregon State’s first time to the Final Four scoring defenses, UConn is number one after allowing just over 48 PPG to their opponents. in School history. OSU ranks 6 after allowing just over 51 points per 3.UConn’s head coach Geno Auriemma is two game to their opponent. Jamie Weisner (G) PPG: 19.75 RPG: 4.5 APG: 1.75
24 Sydney Wiese (G) Tournament PPG APG averages 12.25 6.5
Tournament Averages
44 Ruth Hamblin (C) Tournament PPG averages 11.5
Breanna Stewart (F) Tournament PPG RPG Averages 20.5 12
RPG 8.4
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RPG 4.0
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OREGON STATE: KEYS TO THE GAME • OSU must get production from
more than their big three in Hamblin, Weisner and Wiese. Good production from Devin Hunter is crucial, not just on the defensive end but on the scoreboard too. The Beavers need more than her tourney average of 6 PPG in order beat UConn. • Unfortunately OSU is at the mercy
Morgan Tuck (F) PPG RPG 18.5 6.5
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32 Deven Hunter (F) Tournament PPG averages 6.0
3
Katie Lou Samuelson (G) Tournament PPG RPG Averages 13.75 3.75
UCONN: KEYS TO THE GAME
of living and dying by the 3-pointer. They must continue their season average of 35 percent because UConn is going to score their points, they’ve averaged 88.4 PPG. • The Beavers need to create and capitalize on turnovers, UConn is ranked only 26 in the country in fewest turnovers, averaging almost 12 a game.
•UConn cannot get complacent, She is going to be a handful, even for they are a good team and in these
UConn’s big.
situations teams can let off if they underestimated any team this far in the tournament.
• The Huskies have to shut down the 3-point committee of Wiese and
• UConn must limit Ruth Hamblin’s
Weisner in order to maintain a lead
production on both sides of the court.
until the end and move on.
STAFF PICKS Brenden Slaughter Associate Sports Editor
The Beavers have the best field goal percentage defense in the country, and will use that defense to upset the UConn Huskies 67-66 on a last second three-point shot.
Jonathan Parrish Sports Reporter
OSU will be among the toughest teams the Huskies will face this season, but UConn will pull this one out in a tight game, winning 65-57.
Cooper Pawson Sports Editor
The Beavers must shoot lights out. We have to continue to live by the 3-pointer and hamblin in order to win this game.
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OSU set to face UConn
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The Oregon State womenʼs basketball team faces UCONN in the Final Four on Sunday. The Beavers are two wins away from a national championship. By: Michael Kiever Sports Reporter
Head coach Scott Rueck has had his fair share of hurdles during his six-year tenure at OSU, from having to build a roster out of scratch to competing in the hyper-competitive Pac-12 conference year in and year out. This Sunday in Indianapolis, he will face his biggest hurdle yet. The Beavers (32-4) will face the three-time
reigning National Champion UConn (36-0) on April 3 at 5:00 p.m. The game will be the first Final Four appearance in OSU history, marking a historic turnaround for the program. OSU advanced to the Final Four after beating Baylor 60-57 in the Elite Eight. “There’s a lot of work to be done between now and Sunday, no doubt,” Rueck said earlier this week. “I can’t wait though. That’s what this is all about. I’m excited for the challenge.”
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UConn fields a historically successful women’s basketball team. This year’s Final Four will mark the seventeenth such appearance for the Huskies, and over the span of the program’s history UConn has won 10 total National Championships. This team has yet to lose a game. A large portion of their success can be attributed to the play of senior forward Breanna Stewart, who was named the 2015 AP Player of the year and is a two-time All-American. Averaging 19.2 points and 8.7 rebounds per game on 58 percent shooting from the field, Stewart has led the Huskies to 25 victories of 40 points or more this season. Senior guard Moriah Jefferson has also played a key role for the Huskies, averaging a team-high 5.5 assists and 12.6 points per game. During the duration of Jefferson and Stewart’s careers at UConn, the Huskies have only lost a total of five games. The duo is in pursuit of their fourth National Championship in as many years. Meanwhile, OSU has 41 losses over the past four years, but has improved their win/loss record every season. Senior center Ruth Hamblin believes OSU’s gradual ascent to success may end up being beneficial against a team like UConn. “We’ve been through it all. All those losses are all lessons that have built up to this point. If we didn’t have those, we wouldn’t be here,” Hamblin said “It’s really cool that we had the complete journey over these last four years of becoming the elite program that we are today.” The teams’ respective paths to the Final Four may have been distinct from each other, but the similarities between the two teams seem to outweigh the differences. Both teams field elite defenses (UConn has a first-ranked scoring defense, while OSU is sixth-ranked,) and play within highly disciplined systems.
“(UConn) is a great team. They have some of the best players in the country. They work really well together as a team,” said OSU junior guard Sydney Wiese. “They’re very disciplined defensively, but I think that we are too. We have a great team, we have talented players and we’re very disciplined as well.” Wiese, who leads OSU in assists and stands at 6’3, may find herself at a height advantage for much of the game against UConn. She is taller than starting UConn guard Jefferson by eight inches, who stands at 5’7. Conversely, the height differences may play to OSU’s disadvantage. UConn has only one center on their team in little-used redshirt sophomore center Natalie Butler. Butler has averaged 12.6 minutes per game this year, and only played two minutes in the Huskies’ 86-65 win over Texas in the Elite Eight. This may force OSU to switch to smaller lineups to keep up with UConn, potentially leaving two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Hamblin on the bench. Senior guard Jamie Weisner will be relied upon heavily to find cracks in the UConn defense. The reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year is averaging 17.2 points per game this season and is the leading scorer for the Beavers in the NCAA tournament. Weisner scored a career-high 38 points against DePaul in the Sweet Sixteen on March 26, and is looking forward to fulfilling her dream of getting a shot at taking down the Huskies. “It’s been my dream to play UConn. (UConn) is expecting to win and everyone expects them to win,” Weisner said. “But I have all the faith in the world that this team can do it. Why not us? They haven’t lost all season, but they haven’t played us.” On Twitter @michaelkievaaa
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Softball looks to bounce back Beavers go for first Pac-12 series win on the road against Stanford, who are seeking the first conference win By Josh Worden
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Realizing the boyhood dream
By Brian Rathbone Sports Contributor
Down the left-field line at Goss Stadium, there is a door that leads to the Jacoby Ellsbury Locker Room, which was donated by the two-time World Series champion with the Boston Red Sox, and current New York Yankees center fielder, who spent his college days playing in Corvallis. On the wall, there is a blownup photo of TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., the site that hosts the College World Series. Written across the photo is a simple phrase. “In the heart of the heartland, a boyhood dream becomes a teams destiny.” Twelve years ago, that boyhood dream was just that: a goal that very few believed, outside of the players inside the clubhouse, would ever be achieved. Eleven years ago, the Beavers made their first trip the College World Series in 53 years. Belief set in, and the boyhood dream became a possibility in the eyes of many. Ten years ago, in the heart of the heartland, the Oregon State baseball team had its date with destiny. Saturday, when OSU hosts
Washington, hoping to bounce back after getting swept last week in Berkeley, Calif, it will honor a team that set the standard, not only for the baseball, but for the entire Oregon State athletic program. Outside of the cross-country team, which brought home a national title in 1961, each Oregon State team, no matter the sport, will be trying to accomplish the dream the 2006 baseball team realized. “It was a special group of guys — a group of guys that were talented, bonded, played well at the right time and had huge resolve,” said head coach Pat Casey, who was named the national Coach of the Year in 2006. “Ten years later, it’s even bigger than it was 10 years ago.” The day before the series begins, Casey delivered a message in the locker room to his sixth-ranked squad, which has lost four of its past five games. The message was made clear that the difference between the 2006 championship team and this year’s team is not the talent level, but rather the pride with which they played. That 2006 team made an impact that exceeded Corvallis, exceeded college allegiances and exceeded state lines. As a young Washington Huskies fan growing up in Marysville, Wash. — a 34-mile drive from Seattle — Kyle Nobach remembers vividly watching that Oregon State team defy the odds. “(The 2006 team) were warriors,” said the junior team captain and center fielder. “They just had the mentality that no one was going to beat them.
Opponents would have to rip the jerseys off their back if they wanted to beat them.” He recalls watching the center fielder of the team, Tyler Graham (now an assistant coach with the Beavers), play with the same grit and competitiveness that he is trying to instil in the players he is coaching now. “I remember one specific play where he’s running to third and they overthrew the ball to first and he was running to home, slides in head first, safe, and comes up with a big fist pump,” Nobach said. “Just that energetic play, you could see the passion.” Oregon State became the first team in College World Series history to play in six elimination games en route to the title. Because of that team, Oregon State has become one of the rare baseball schools in America. Casey turned a cold-weather school and built into a powerhouse through competitiveness, and with the same mindset he uses now: “You either win or you lose.” “Coach Casey was always tough,” said Graham, who caught the final out of the championship series. “In practice we were put in pressure situations that resembled pressure situations in a game.” In the biggest moments, when other teams crumbled, Casey’s squad remained unfazed by the enormity of the moment, because they were prepared. “I feel if things were easy in practice and throughout the year, we wouldn’t have been
able to win games in a big situation,” Graham said. The defense went 51 1/3 consecutive innings during the CWS without committing an error, while North Carolina committed four errors in Game 3 of the championship series, including a throwing error by second basemen Bryan Steed on a routine play, which allowed Bill Rowe to score the winning run in the eighth inning. If not for Jonah Nickerson, the CWS Most Outstanding Player, pitching 7 2/3 innings of shutout baseball against Rice on two days’ rest to send the Beavers to the showdown with UNC, and then throwing 100 pitches in the rubber match, the dream may have died. Paired with the rest of the pitching staff: Dallas Buck, Mike Stutes, Daniel Turpen and Kevin Gunderson, who delivered Herculean performances when they were most needed. Because of them, whenever Bill Walton refers to to the Pac-12 Conference as the “Conference of Champions” countless times during a basketball game — they are included in that list. Without that, the song “O-State Ballaz” would not be in every Beaver fan’s music library, while catcher Mitch Canham’s rapping would go unnoticed and underappreciated. Yearly trips to Omaha have now become the expectation. The elusive boyhood dream became a reality because group players and a handful of coaches, simply refused to lose. On Twitter @brathbone3
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For a team that finished 26-26 last year and went 20-4-1 in the nonconference schedule this season, the Oregon State softball team started 2016 well above expectations. The Pac-12 Conference, though, has a tendency to dissipate momentum in a heartbeat. The Beavers are now two weekends into Pac-12 play, and the conference that currently has five of its nine teams in the Top 25 has done its best work on OSU. OSU is 1-5 after two series with Utah and California, but head coach Laura Berg is able to point out the deficiencies. “We’ve got to have a different mentality,” she said. “They’re not quite the same team they’ve been since the Pac-12 has started. We’ve got to get back to where we were.” “It’s just their mentality. It’s definitely not their skill level. Because we’ve beaten some really good teams.” Berg has a point — OSU beat No. 18 Kentucky and No. 21 Oklahoma earlier this season. OSU was picked to finish eighth in the Pac-12 coaches poll, but the Beavers have their sights set on something higher — including their first NCAA Tournament berth since 2013. “The goals for us, I would say as a team, is we just don’t want to be where they placed us,” said freshman outfielder Shelby Weeks. “They placed us eighth. We want to work as hard as we can and outwork everyone who thought that we couldn’t get to where we could. So just play our best and upset people, that’s where our goal is as a team.” It helps that the upcoming opponent is Stanford, currently sitting at the bottom of the conference at 11-14 overall and 0-3 in the Pac-12 after a series sweep by Oregon. OSU was ranked No. 24 before the Cal series this weekend, but dropped out of the Top 25 for the first time since March 4. “As a team, I’d love to sweep (Stanford),” said freshman infielder Alysha Everett. “That’s the goal.” Music Preferences OSU has been able to practice outdoors more lately with the spring weather rolling in, making it easier to play music over the loudspeakers at the OSU softball complex. Coach Berg often lets her players decide what they want to play, though she insists it’s a privilege, not a right. “If I feel like they earn it, I let them have it on,” Berg said. “It keeps them loose. They tend to think too much, and I’m trying to get them out of that mode of thinking and just playing.” Berg says she likes all kinds of music, and “when they used to sell CDs back in the day,” she says, she’d get anything from Marilyn Manson to Louie Armstrong. Berg mentioned sophomore outfielder Lovie Lopez as the player with some of the best musical choices. “Lovie has a good range of music,” Berg said. “She’ll play the oldies and she’ll play the new people. I’ll be like, ‘Oh, is this Lil’ Wayne? They’re like, ‘No, coach Berg, this is such and such.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t know!’ So they’ll give me a hard time about it.” Kim Mulkey Coach Berg doesn’t have any problems with Kim Mulkey’s antics Monday night. The Baylor women’s basketball coach stole some of the limelight from OSU’s victory to make the Final Four by throwing her coat several feet down the sideline while arguing with an official in the second quarter, earning a technical foul. “(It was an) intense game, and her season is on the line,” Berg said. “She’s old school. I played for an old school coach like that. That stuff doesn’t surprise me at all. I like that, as an athlete. I play for that, and I see how fired up she gets. That gets me fired up and wanting to fight for her, and she’s fighting for me.” Would Berg do the same thing herself? “It depends on how heavy my coat is,” she said. On Twitter @BrightTies
The matchup: Oregon State (21-9-1, 1-5 Pac12) at Stanford (11-14, 0-3) When: Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 12 p.m. in Stanford, Calif. Upcoming: The Civil War series April 8-10 in Corvallis
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ʻBusiness as usualʼ wonʼt stop Editorial
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s students, it seems as though the price tag of our tuition continues to increase as our hopes decrease. The Oregon State University board of trustees met Thursday to conclude discussion on whether or not to approve mandatory and tuition fees for fiscal year 2017. Resident students will see an increase of 2.1 percent, nonresidents an increase of 4 percent and honors college an increase of 4.7 percent. Each member of the board voted yes on the proposals except one: Mark Baldwin, the board’s faculty representative at OSU. For the sake of essential state funds and programs, board members who prefer that the budgets be passed came to the overall conclusion decided it would be best to push forward as opposed to making any additional revisions. There’s no easy way to put it: this sucks. Across the state, university and community college students continue to struggle with access to additional funds as tuition prices climb to match a lack in state funds. We see our admins, OSU President Ed Ray included, talk of how they want college to be more affordable and work to make sure access is also improved to increase enrollment levels. These same admins also want to make sure that the programs, facilities and diversity support programs we have receive the optimal amount of funding that they need. It’s easy to point fingers and yell at the administrators, but they’re only part of this price problem, if not a potential part of a solution we merely have yet to see. We want to believe they’re trying their best to examine the best interest of students. They want to increase the life and access for students on campus, or so they claim. However, this becomes challenging with prices raising across the board. It’s also important to note that this isn’t just a state problem, but a continued challenge nationwide. Then we have the student side of this. Though there are open forums and other public meetings that take place to gauge student input, rarely do we see an increased level of students—usually no more than 15—present. We commend those who do participate—one such group was Allied Students of Another Politics (ASAP). It’s essential that administrators get this information out to students in as many ways as they can. In addition, it’s the responsibility for the Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU) to spread word and hold additional events to ensure that more information gets out there. It’s also essential for everyday students—regardless of financial background—to get involved with these discussions in some way, shape or form. We cannot blame the administration for not taking more time to consider such a decision if they only see a fraction of their stakeholders at meetings and forums. We understand that, in the end, there’s no easy solution to this problem. But if we had to point to one weakness in all of this, we would say it’s communication first and foremost. Administrators: Consider finding some way to hold an increased amount of forums so that more students could take time out of their busy schedules to get involved on a greater level. Student government: Promote, promote, promote. Make this a key issue on your website, your tabled events and through other outlets on campus. If your administration comes into office using the “A” word (that’s affordability), follow up with some action to go along with your politics. And students: Attend these events. Keep an eye on community posters, flyers and publications that may announce when such events take place. Push your administrators to host events that better help address all concerns and offer constructive suggestions. President Ray says he’s against business as usual, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to change anytime soon. It could, but it won’t be easy. It’s going to take collective action from each and every one of us. Additional information on future board of trustees meetings can be found at leadership.oregonstate.edu/trustees. If these people care about you, make them prove it. Editorials serve as a platform for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on current events, both global and local, grand in scale and diminutive. The opinions expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board’s majority.
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Get ready to game on By Luuk Van Hoomissen KBVR TV, “Split Screen”
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xciting news for all of our OSU gamers: Sp l i t S c re e n , Oregon State University’s resident gaming TV show, has jumped platforms and launched Split Screen Multimedia. Split Screen Multimedia will include: the continuation of Split Screen TV, a brand new Split Screen radio show, and a Friday column in the Daily Barometer. My name is Luuk Van Hoomissen, and I have been hosting the Split Screen TV show since I joined KBVR TV in January. I will also be in charge of the Split Screen Column. I am a junior in digital communication arts at OSU and an avid gamer. I started gaming on the Nintendo 64 with “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” and “Super Mario 64.” After switching to the PlayStation 2 I fell in love with dungeon crawling role-playing Games like “The Champions of Norrath.” These days, I play a lot of fighting games, and I’m still a huge fan of RPGs. I also enjoy board games and tabletop RPGs, the best of which is, and always has been, “Dungeons and Dragons.” Split Screen started with the idea of a few friends sitting on a couch playing video games. Since then, it has expanded to be a show that chronicles the geeky side of the OSU com-
munity. Split Screen has profiled clubs like Anime Club and Gaming Club, and has held interviews with former OSU professor Shawna Kelly. Split Screen also recently hosted a “Super Smash Bros.” doubles tournament, and plans to make a tradition of holding game tournament every fall, winter, and spring term. Split Screen is dedicated to our mission of showing off great games that you can play with your favorite people. With no lack of good ideas or geeky topics to discuss, Split Screen has decided to branch out into more media. The Split Screen Radio show will now be airing weekly on the 88.7 KBVRFM channel. Led by Nathan Graham, a Split Screen veteran
and host of the KBVR podcast Decent at Best, The radio show will feature some nerdy music, discussion of events in the gaming world, and the interview portion of Split Screen that was formerly featured on the TV show. You can also look for the Split Screen Barometer column every Friday, which will feature game reviews, geeky news, and all the info you need to keep up with Split Screen and other gaming groups around campus. Most importantly, the Split Screen will continue to broadcast our live on-the-couch format multiplayer gameplay TV show. You can look forward to seeing Split Screen TV Wednesdays at 6:00pm. You may also have a chance to par-
ticipate as Split Screen will soon become open to a live viewing audience. You might also get a chance to compete in our first invitational Hearthstone tournament in week ten, the details of which will be released soon. Finally, you can view old episodes of Split Screen on the KBVR-TV YouTube channel. So check us out! We at Split Screen believe that gaming is for everybody. Whether you’re hardcore, casual, competitive, or have never held a controller in your life, it’s always good weather for gaming. The opinions expressed in Van Hoomissen’s column do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer Staff. OrangeMediaNetwork.com
Save, protect your documents By Dr. Jon Dorbolo
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magine that you are working to meet a midnight paper submission deadline. Some days of research and writing put you in a strong position and this evening you are revising your introduction to say what you ended up writing instead of what you first intended. Suddenly your computer freezes. Reboots don’t help. The Engineering major down the hall can’t help. Midnight passes helpless. The next day the repair specialist tells you that a wicked virus trashed your machine and only a total reformatting of the hard drive will save it. It is expensive. Even worse, all of your data including your paper, drafts, research and earlier works are just plain gone. This heartbreak is a genuine possibility, but the odds against it can be radically shifted in your favor. To understand how we may ward ourselves against digital catastrophe at OSU I spoke with Lois Brooks, Vice-Provost of Information Services (IS), and Dave Nevin, Chief Information Security Officer. These guardians of our networked community had two salient calls to action for you: be aware and compute safely. Being aware means paying attention to the daily changes in our network ecosystem in order to take appropriate action. For example, are you aware that this week OSU Information Services is recommending an Apple computer patch and device update in order to address new security risks to the Apple OS? If you are not aware of this current threat, then you are not network secure, no matter what operating system you use. Nevin is blunt about the risks to the inattentive: “OSU is subject to 16 million hostile network attacks every day of the year. The hostile attacks are from criminal organizations seeking personal information and intellectual property. OSU can prevail against this assault only if students, faculty and other members contribute by safeguarding their computers and devices against the hostile hackers.” I was like, “Did I hear that right? 16 million attacks per day? Why would anyone even do that?”
The answer is that your Social Security number and other personal information is stored digitally at OSU, which criminal hackers can immediately sell it to high-end information identity thieves. Nevin observes: “It’s tough. We’re outnumbered. The people we’re fighting against to protect that information are smart, and have a lot of resources available to them. But we have smart people too, and we’re working together to do everything we can to prevent that from happening.” Brooks is OSU’s chief information officer and is ultimately responsible for the University’s information technology (IT) policy and budget. She explained to me in detail the delicate balance between security, safety and privacy at the large scale of the university enterprise. “All OSU members participate in a social compact with one another to ensure a secure community of trust and shared resources. It requires that every individual take personal responsibility to meet that overall aim.” Do your part by keeping all of your devices fully patched using current antivirus and anti-malware available to you for free from Information Services. Sometimes safety goes beyond network hacks and enters the realm of physical threat. Brooks and Nevin affirm that OSU cooperates with law enforcement to protect public safety. On occasion this involves accessing information from the accounts of individuals. Brooks emphasizes how extraordinary such instances are; “Even though we need to be able to respond when there is a problem, we at OSU go out of our way to not look at people’s data unless necessary.” Ours is a culture of respect and I speak from experience to vouch for the integrity of our university leadership in upholding these values. For you, dear reader, there follows from this balance of privacy and safety a principle based in the wisdom of discretion. That is: do not use OSU network resources to post information that potentially puts you and others at risk. Create your own balance of safety and
privacy by keeping your machines full patched against hacking and by maintaining intellectually responsible content. This is what it means on Overheard at OSU when someone posts: “Keep it classy Beavers.” Here are two simple steps that you can take to do your part in upholding safety and respect at OSU. Build your expertise about the OSU’s security ecosystem at “Be Aware!”: is.oregonstate.edu/accounts-support/ be-aware. Turn your computer and devices into a personal anti-hacking fortress by installing the free and essential software at: oregonstate.edu/helpdocs/security-and-tuning/computer-viruses/ antivirus. Nevin invites all OSU members to contact him about network security and privacy issues: Dave.Nevin@oregonstate.edu. Brooks has an open door policy concerning all OSU IT matters: Lois.Brooks@ oregonstate.edu. You can always write to me about anything. I promise to make sure that your comments get to the appropriate people and I will write you back. Have a great start to Spring term, invest some time in your network awareness and safety, and keep it classy Beavers. The opinions expressed in Dorbolo’s column do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Dr. Techʼs blog: Jondorbolo.com
FINAL FOUR
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