The Daily Barometer, April 4, 2016

VOL. CXVIII, NO. 109

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Going home

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

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OSU falls to the UConn Huskies 80-51 in Indianapolis, leave the tournament empty handed

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4 Brush with liquid while roasting 9 Jeweled headwear 14 Morse code bit 15 Electric razor brand 16 Like some short-term committees 17 Make a boo-boo

WEDNESDAY, April 6

Meeting 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Death Cafe Corvallis Location: 26th St. Beanery, 2541 NW Monroe St., Corvallis OR Come drink coffee, eat cake, and discuss death with interesting people.

18 Hotel lobby supervisor 20 Bathtub insert 22 Texter’s “Wish you hadn’t said that!”

23 Practical, as a solution 24 Working the room, as at a banquet 27 Words before uproar 28 Dipstick wiper 29 Gumshoes: Abbr.

32 Madrid museum 35 Little kid 36 Went to the bottom 37 Time of reckoning 41 Is the right size 42 Yea’s opposite 43 Short, but probably not sweet 44 Sneaky 45 Warm lining

Speaker 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. University Events Location: Grass Roots Books and Music OSU authors will be honored.

Information regarding their literary work will be available for guests.

TUESDAY, April 12

Meeting 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Death Cafe Corvallis Location: 26th St. Beanery, 2541 NW Monroe St., Corvallis OR Come drink coffee, eat cake, and discuss death with interesting people.

THURSDAY, April 14

Meeting 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove Reading Location: CH2M HILL Alumni Center Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove has been selected as the 2016 recipient of Oregon State University’s Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement.

WEDNESDAY, April 20

Meeting 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Death Cafe Corvallis Location: 26th St. Beanery, 2541 NW Monroe St., Corvallis OR Come drink coffee, eat cake, and discuss death with interesting people.

whaler 12 Stir up 13 Clearasil target 19 Fly 21 Flies like a seagull 25 Sufficient, in poetry 26 Cattle poker 29 Low poker hand 30 Quaint lodges 31 Hebrides isle 32 Many emailed image files 33 Train wheel guide 34 Suit filer: Abbr.

35 “ ... hallowed be __ name” 36 Dictation takers 38 Accustomed (to) 39 Small fruit pie 40 Four-way __

1 Quite competent 2 “Our Gang” girl 3 Decorative foundation plant 4 Consumer protection gp.

5 “Respect” singer Franklin 6 Upstream swimmer 7 Dutch bulb 8 Britannica, e.g.: Abbr.

9 Wrapping, as an ankle 10 Rover’s collar attachment 11 Melville’s obsessive

Discussion 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Baha’i Campus Association Location: Talisman Room, Memorial Union 105 Discussion topic: Is a Uniform System of Weights and Measures Necessary?

WEDNESDAY, April 13

46 Feline king 48 Congressional majority, e.g.

53 Nielsen of “The Naked Gun” films 56 Canon SLR camera 57 Indian wrap 58 When one might have a mint ... or where the first words of 18-, 24-, 37- and 48-Across can be found 61 Santa visitor’s seat 62 Fable’s lesson 63 Rear, to an admiral 64 Mao __-tung 65 Unlike poetry 66 Blended ice cream drinks 67 Buddhist sect

45 Without prejudice 46 Big name in little trains 47 What an editor’s caret indicates 48 Sincere entreaties 49 Busybody 50 Dance in triple meter 51 Wipe out 52 Mature, as fruit 53 Desk light 54 Get an __ effort 55 Houston player, informally 59 School-ofthought suffix 60 Hosp. staffers

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THURSDAY, April 7

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Horoscope Today’s Birthday (04/04/16). What will you study and learn this year?

Plan for action after 5/9. Save for a trip or classes after 8/13. Work breakthroughs arise after 9/1.

Give up outdated philosophies, especially after 9/16. Dogma, overindulgence or hypocrisy are revealed. Remember what’s most important. Choose happiness and peace.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 5 — Clarify your direction with friends. Watch for surprises, and slow for obstacles and turns.

Allow extra time for unexpected circumstances. Travel could be more challenging. Think things over.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Friends come to your rescue.

Cooperation and coordination are required to generate results today.

Keep it respectful. Consider the consequences before speaking, especially as a reaction. Listen carefully to a teacher.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 6 — Career matters hold your focus now. Take charge to complete a job. Let chaotic moments blow by without automatic reactions. Wait patiently for the right moment. Don’t disturb a watchdog.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Investigate possibilities.

Fantastical financial ideas are unlikely to pay off. Stick to realistic budgets, including for an upcoming vacation or trip. Avoid unnecessary frills. Prioritize experiences over stuff.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — The gold is in the details today.

Look for financial leaks and repair them. Review monthly fees. Are you really using those services? Trim, if not. Get clear on actual numbers.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Collaborate for efficiency and ease. Share responsibilities and delegate tasks. Use your imagination and finesse (rather than force). Crazy ideas could just work. Discuss strategies, and look before leaping.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a

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7 — Things may not go as planned.

Actions could backfire or stall. If you can’t keep a deadline, notify your crew as soon as you know.

Gentle music soothes.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5 — Everybody wants your attention. The more you do, the more you’re in demand. Stay objective in a tense situation. Avoid financial discussions. Take passion behind closed doors.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 5 — Your attention is required at home. Make repairs.

Take care with sharp edges.

Slow down to avoid breakage.

Put in more time planning, and ensure everyone agrees before committing.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 5 — Intellectual pursuits, research and writing flow now. Delays in shipping and communications look likely. Amplify plans with better detail. Look to the past. Rediscover ancient wisdom.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Work faster and make more money. Delegate what you can to your team. You may be tempted to spend on something shiny. Can you use what you have?

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Decide who you’re growing up to be. Make changes for the better. Consider consequences before launching. Put aside old fears, while avoiding obvious pitfalls. Plan bold actions for later.

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OSU App Club provides creative platform Students of all skills, backgrounds work on making ideas reality

By Jordan Taphouse News Contributor

Making phones and tablets more efficient, the Oregon State University App Club is making apps that aimed towards making life easier for college students.

Every week the club shares their plans for how they can make improvements on what they have already made, and how they can make their ideas a reality.

Current President of the App Club, Rutger Farry, has had a hand in arranging a laid back experience within the club, making sure that members find their fit.

“Students come with ideas, and varying ranges of experience,” Farry said.

One of the more successful apps the club has made is the Corvallis Bus app, according to Rikki Gibson, a member of the club.

“I started working on apps for the Corvallis bus system in the summer of 2014,” Gibson said. “I put it out (on iOS) around finals during fall term of 2014.

The iOS app for the Corvallis bus system has over a 1,000 downloads and over 125 daily users. The bus app helps people navigate the transit system by providing an updated list of arrivals and departures.

“I’ve put in probably a few thousand lines of code,” Gibson said.

More recently, the iOS application was followed up by an Android app and a web app.

A handful of students helped to make the app as successful as it is, but even with all the current traffic on the app, it can be hard to make money in the app world, according to Gibson.

“The main idea is to be able to show a prospective employer that I’ve got some initiative,” Gibson said. She is currently losing money on the app.

Making apps that get students around Corvallis is not all the club does. The OSU App Club is working on apps that can be used outside Corvallis. Other apps the club has had a hand in is a moon phase app and an App Club app.

Saha Ghafouri, OSU App club member, is currently pushing for a flashcard app to help students study across the U.S., and beyond. The app would allow students to create and share flashcards, while users collect ad revenue for what they create. It is still in the planning stage, but it could change how many students study, Ghafouri said.

“What we want to do is pay you to learn,” Ghafouri said, about the app.

“Students that are building these cards are going to be doing it anyway. Why not do it on our platform?”

Most of the members are computer science majors, but the App club welcomes all students, no matter their major.

Early this spring term, the club is hosting an event to help get people started on making their first app, some of them may even make it up on the iOS app store, according to Farry.

Farry said the club is open to anyone who is interested in making an app, and there will be plenty of help for first timers. baro.newsd@oregonstate.edu

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Although most members of the App Club are computer science majors, the club is open to anyone interested in making an app, according to club president Rutger Farry.

California lawmakers control spy agency

By Michael Doyle

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON—wThree disparate California lawmakers lead Congress’ oversight of the U.S. spy services, sharing secrets but not the same spin.

One is a former San Francisco mayor and the state’s deal-making senior senator. Another comes from the rural Central Valley, holding a master’s degree in agriculture. The third is a Harvard Law School-trained former federal prosecutor with statewide political ambitions.

When terrifying things happen, from Brussels to San Bernardino, these congressional overseers get called. Daily, even when all seems quiet, they must struggle to corral bureaucracies that keep mum about how they spend an estimated $53 billion a year.

“The CIA, by culture and instinct, is not prone to really open up and provide information,” former CIA Director Leon Panetta, himself a former California congressman, said in an interview, adding, in a reference to congressional testimony, “there were some whose instinct was to go up there and try to stonewall.”

The resulting clashes can be consequential.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, now the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, battled for years with the CIA over the committee’s still-secret study of harsh interrogation practices.

“The CIA provided extensive amounts of inaccurate information about the operation of the program and its effectiveness to the White House, the Department of Justice, Congress, the CIA inspector general, the media and the American public,” Feinstein said when releasing the report’s executive summary in 2014.

The current chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is now investigating the alleged manipulation of war assessments by the U.S. Central Command. Last year, citing anonymous sources, The New York Times alleged that Centcom officials had overstated progress against the Islamic State and other U.S. enemies.

Nunes, in an interview, said a special multi-committee task force was needed to investigate the allegations because officials were “trying to hide” from oversight through bureaucratic sleight-of-hand.

“There was manipulation of intelligence,” Nunes said, adding that “we’ve had whistle-blowers who have come forward.”

Nor is Congress immune from criticism, with the 9/11 Commission in 2004 warning that congressional intelligence

oversight was “dysfunctional” at the time. Since then, Congress has made some changes, though not all the ones recommended by the 9/11 Commission.

Each of the current intelligence overseers is a groundbreaker, in his or her own way.

Feinstein was the first woman and first Californian to chair the Senate intelligence panel.

Nunes is the first member from the Central Valley to chair the House intelligence panel. At 42, he’s second-youngest of the 14 chairmen to head the committee since it was established in 1975.

And the ranking Democrat who serves alongside Nunes, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, makes this Congress the first time members from the same state have held the House intelligence committee’s top two seats.

“We all understand the importance of our responsibilities, particularly with all that is going on in the world, and want to get things done,” Schiff, 55, said of his relationship with Nunes, adding that “it helps that we’re both Raiders fans.”

Each maintains ambitions of their own, for which effective committee performance could come in handy.

Nunes says he’d like to chair, some day, the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. Schiff, who has stockpiled $2 million in campaign cash, has eyed the Senate, declaring last year that he “would relish the chance to serve the entire state.”

Citing his intelligence committee position, Schiff ultimately ruled out a run for the seat being vacated this year by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. The next Senate opening occurs in 2018.

The 82-year-old Feinstein, first elected in 1992, has not said whether she will run again for re-election in two years.

“I have two years and nine months left, so there is ample time to make a decision,” she told The Sacramento Bee editorial board on Wednesday.

California is intimately tied to the intelligence world. From discrete contractors like Palantir Technologies, a Palo Alto-based data analytics firm that Fortune magazine valued at $20 billion, to Southern California’s vast aerospace industry, the commercial and intellectual connections abound.

“We depend a great deal on those companies that are based in California,” Panetta acknowledged.

And, each of the overseers has put a distinctive stamp on the work.

Feinstein is “always well prepared” and zeroes in with “very

specific questions,” Panetta recalled. Feinstein, who couldn’t be reached to comment for this story, can also be turf-conscious, as when she showed displeasure after the White House in 2009 didn’t check with her before tapping Panetta as director of central intelligence.

“She feels she should be consulted,” Panetta said, with a knowing laugh.

Schiff brings a lawyer’s analytical mind to bear on intelligence problems, Nunes said. The former prosecutor also regularly opines publicly on national security matters. In March, Schiff sent out five intelligence-related press releases. Nunes sent out one, and held a half-hour meeting with reporters in the Capitol.

Nunes reorganized his panel’s subcommittees and, this year, elevated to staff director his long-time aide, Tulare County native and Air Force veteran Damon Nelson. Nelson’s predecessor as chief of staff, California State University at San Bernardino graduate Jeff Shockey, was hired in January as vice president of federal legislative affairs for aerospace giant and spy satellite competitor Boeing.

Nunes has also brought his blunt speaking style, formerly deployed on issues like California water, to the intelligence work.

At one of the House committee’s rare public hearings on Feb. 25, Nunes accused the Obama administration of “delay, denial and deception” on one intelligence matter. At other times he’s targeted President Barack Obama directly.

“You’ve got the president of the United States dancing down in Argentina when he should be meeting with the leaders of Europe and other allies to try to take the fight to the enemy,” Nunes said March 27 on Fox News Sunday.

At the same time, Nunes and Schiff collaborated to shepherd the Fiscal 2016 Intelligence Authorization Act to a drama-free, 364-58 approval by the House last December.

Underscoring the sense of common cause, no amendments were offered and no one spoke against the measure on the floor. Though slightly more contentious, the intelligence panel’s cyber-security bill likewise passed by a 307-116 margin last April.

“The intelligence committee is characterized by an atmosphere of pragmatic and constructive bipartisanship,” Schiff said. “I would be hard-pressed to find a better partner.”

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Getting to know your student leaders

Kapena Chee inspires others

Leader at the Native American Longhouse, active student and friend

By Brian Nguyen News Contributor

Hawai’i is known for its diverse race of mixed ethnicity and being a Hawaiian of multiple ethnicities, Kapena Chee, the leader of the Native American Longhouse, strives to bring awareness to the Corvallis community while balancing the demands of a civil engineering student.

Chee is from Kailua where he lived in an intimate and small neighborhood that he says is uncannily similar to Oregon State University.

“Corvallis is such a small community that it correlates with the community you’d find in Hawai’i. If it’s not Honolulu or a large city it’s a really small town, and being from a small town I know what’s it’s like to see the same people every day,” Chee said. “To know everyone and share the same community with familiar faces.”

While Chee noticed some familiarity in the transition from Hawai’i to Corvallis, he also had an revelation in the difference between the norms that inspired him in his leadership.

“One thing I definitely learned coming up here is that not everyone has multiple ethnicity; everyone back home is at least five mixed.

It’s really hard to be racist, I mean if your racist towards someone you’re probably the same race,” Chee laughed. “There’s not really a problem with diversity and coming to a place where it’s spoken a lot more and seeing that racism is still prominent is eye opening.”

Chee applied to being a facilitator at the Longhouse in the fall of 2014 and says grew the confidence to become a student leader the following year.

“As I proceeded through the year I felt that I could handle the responsibility of a leadership role with my personality and skills,” Chee said.

Chee’s proudest moment working at the center was helping out during the recognition of Indigenous People’s Day with student leader Miller William, a senior in political science.

The event was endorsed by Corvallis mayor, Biff Traber back in October.

“Though it wasn’t my own event, it was still an accomplishment; to be a part of and assisting with that,” Chee said.

Chee’s duties at the Longhouse include reaching out to the community through social media, facilitating events, organizing the office, planning out meetings and attending them.

His personal definition of a student leader is someone who can find the time to balance school work while inspiring others. Colleague Michaela Merrill, a senior in bio engineering and international degree, sees that to be true in him.

“He’s always has things going on school related or extra curricular, but he always makes time for people no matter how busy he is. If you ask him something I don’t think I have ever heard him say ‘I can’t,’ he just does it, or he’ll talk to you, or if someone needs attention he’ll give it to them,” Merrill said.

Merrill enjoys working with Chee and both relate to the hectic and exhausting life of a college student.

“He’s one of my favorite coworkers. He and

I always get to complain about the engineering life and how busy we are and how stressful it is, but he is always positive to be around,” Merill said.

Chee and Merill have similar skills and both need to be organized, which includes labeling everything in the office.

“He’s a little OCD, kind of like me,” Merill said Merill also appreciates Chee’s sense of fashion.

“He just comes in so stylish and trendy; just very well put together. I actually caught him looking at watches the other day,” Merill said with a laugh.

When not managing events, studying for tough exams or checking out the latest watches, Chee is often spending his free time at the gym according to Matt Williams, a senior in ethnic studies.

“We both workout a lot in Dixon and were always talking about fitness stuff so we connect on that level,” Williams said.

Williams is a peer facilitator at the Longhouse, and he believes Chee’s success as a student leader is attributed to his unique personality traits.

“He has the two extremes, I feel like. He’s very playful sometimes and other times he’s very serious,” Williams said. “He does a good job at adjusting between the two and in a work environment we need some of both. I think those are good attributes to have.”

While Chee himself encompass leadership, it’s both his mom and dad that led and inspired him to strive.

“They’ve been a constant push, constant helping hand in helping me achieve my own goals and realizing what they were. Both my parents manage to send my brother and I to an amazing school at such a young age.

Fortunately, it gave us many opportunities and now that I’m older I realize the value of education,” Chee said. “It’s incredible that my parents were somehow able to afford that, so I try to live my life everyday hoping to repay it whether in monetary or in pride.”

Those at the Longhouse say Chee does well representing himself and the center.

“He represents the center very well. It’s good too because our staff is a pretty mixed group.

Like our center represents not just indigenous people in America but also Pacific Islanders,” Williams said. “Just the fact that he is Hawaiian and getting those perspective with issues surrounding those community helps educate the rest of the staff.”

Chee is a mix of German, Scottish, English, Irish, Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.

Chee’s favorite quote is, “Don’t follow your passion, follow your effort,” from businessman Mark Cuban. Chee hopes that others will do the same in their effort of the pursuit of prosperity.

“Don’t stop doing what you’re doing. Success comes to everyone in such different timely manners that it’s almost impossible to pinpoint when. As much as it starts to become a struggle, my best advice I can give to anyone is don’t stop,” Chee said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu

NICKI SILVA | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Kapena Chee, a senior in civil engineering, is a leader at the Native American Longhouse at Oregon State University. Chee enjoys working with others.

BRIAN NGUYEN | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Chee is from Hawaiʼi, and uses his background to further his work here at the university.

Cheeʼs duties at the Longhouse include community outreach and event planning.

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Beav’s lose Rasmussen

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Storied season comes to an end

Loss to UConn upsetting, spirits remain high

By Jonathan Parish Sports Reporter

After a loss such as No. 2 Oregon State’s 80-51 defeat at the hands of No. 1 UConn, there were plenty of reasons to be upset with the result.

Yes, the Beavers were blown out by 29 points.

Yes, they turned the ball over 18 times, sloppy passes leading to 21 points for the Huskies.

And yes, OSU put on a comparatively poor showing given how this team has played this season.

But none of that was why head coach Scott Rueck was upset at all.

“The greatest season in the history of our school, in our sport, ended tonight, and there’s one reason that I’m sad,” Rueck said. “It’s that it is the last game that this team gets to play together.”

That’s a point to highlight, as this season was, like Rueck mentioned, this program’s best.

They finished with the most wins in a season with 32, earned their second-straight Pac-12 regular season championship, and won the conference tournament for the first time as well. They earned their thirdstraight NCAA tournament berth, and reached their first Elite Eight, and with the win over No. 1 Baylor, went to their first Final Four.

With the loss in UConn, however, comes the end of this storied season, and the end of a team that showed tremendous camaraderie, and the embodiment of a family according to Rueck.

“I wish I could describe to people what it’s like to be their coach,” Rueck said on the team this season. “Where you walk into the gym everyday and just can’t wait to see them, has nothing to do with basketball. They’re committed to each other. They’re a true family.”

“We’re proud with each other,” senior guard Jamie Weisner replied on what the team talked about after the loss. She finished the game with nine points and four rebounds. “We exceeded everyone’s expectations, and (we said) that we love each other. We all just said thank you. It’s been a good ride, and I wouldn’t trade it

By Brian Rathbone Sports Contributor

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for the world.”

Weisner, and the other four seniors on this team played their final game, and have been one of the best classes in the program’s history. Just one of those seniors, center Ruth Hamblin, who scored 10 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in the game, reflected on this season and their careers with OSU. “It’s been absolutely unreal,” she said following the loss. “Just the work ethic of the people that came into this program and everyone bought into the vision that Coach Rueck had, and we’ve all kind of been in this together, us against the world.”

The loss against the Huskies was a tough pill to swallow for OSU, but with the defeat and the end of the season, the team is positive toward the future.

“It’s really exciting, the future,” Hamblin said. “We’ve kind of set the bar high for this program and everyone’s expectations are going to continue to

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be high, and we know how to handle that now.”

“I’m really excited to see what the team does in the future and how they respond next year,” she said.

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Breanna Brown agrees.

“We had a lot of accomplishments this year and we can’t let this moment overshadow that so we’ll be back,” she said.

Rueck, despite the loss, was grateful for this season, and had this to say in his final thoughts: “We’re so grateful for the way we’ve been supported, the outpouring of support not only from our fans and Beaver Nation but from everyone,” he said. “It’s been amazing to watch the basketball community embrace this team. We’re humbled by that and very appreciative.

So thank you very much.”

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32

The record setting amount of wins by the OSU Womenʼs basketball team this year.

It seemed like an April Fools’ joke gone wrong.

Hours before the Oregon State baseball team was set to open a three-game series against Washington, news broke over Twitter that sophomore pitcher Drew Rasmussen had tore his UCL, requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery.

When Rasmussen didn’t take the mound in his usual Friday slot, and emerged from the locker room with his pitching arm heavily wrapped in a sling and wearing a walking boot, the joke turned into a grim reality.

The Beavers had lost their ace.

“It sucks,” said junior captain and catcher Logan Ice. “He’s our Friday-night leader. He’s a bulldog for us. He’s a warrior.”

The Beavers will be without Rasmussen, who had a 4-1 record and led the team with 47 strikeouts on the 2016 season.

He was also a Freshman AllAmerican last year and has the school’s only perfect game on his resume.

“You can’t replace a Drew, but everyone can come around and bring the same energy that he does,” said sophomore rightfielder Jack Anderson after Saturday’s game.

As good as Rasmussen is -— one of the premier pitchers, not only in the Pac-12, but in the nation — he wasn’t the reason this OSU team is ranked in the top 10, and he alone wouldn’t carry this team into a deep playoff run this year.

One pitcher can’t do that.

Even the dominant rotation of Ben Wetzler, Jace Fry and Andrew Moore in 2014 couldn’t pitch their way out of a regional round when Oregon State was the No. 1 overall seed.

With the 2006 College World

Series championship team on hand for Saturday’s game, the 2016 team honored them not just by wearing replica jerseys, but with the way they played.

Just like the ‘06 team, which fought through six elimination games to win the title, the ‘16 squad came up with clutch performances to clinch the series against Washington.

Losers of four straight games when the team received the news of Rasmussen’s surgery Tuesday, it could have sunk the team. Instead, the Beavers responded. They overcame giving up three first-inning runs to win 9-6 against San Diego State that same day.

On Friday’s series opener, when Rasmussen usually takes the hill, senior Travis Eckert struckout nine Huskies batters en route to a 10-1 victory. Then, on Saturday, the Beavers scored five runs in the seventh and eighth innings. Including the tying and winning run against Washington closer Troy Rallings, who hadn’t given up a run for 32 consecutive innings. They grinded out a 12 inning game Sunday, during which sophomore Luke Heimlich, freshman Jordan Britton and junior Max Engelbrekt combined to give up 10 hits, and three runs over 12 inning, in a 3-2 loss in the series finale.

“I thought over the weekend our guys gave us a great effort,” said head coach Pat Casey. “With a out you are always backed up, our pitchers were outstanding all weeekend.”

Similar to the ‘06 team, this 2016 team found ways to get the job done, even without a single pitch from Rasmussen.

“He is still a big factor in the dugout, just talking to the pitchers and bringing everyone up,” Anderson said. “He’s in a sling, he’s in a boot: it’s just inspiring to see him out here a couple days after surgery” Ice put it best when he said that losing Rasmussen “sucks.” The season is over for Rasmussen, but not for the Beavers.

“He wants to be out there to battle for us,” said Ice. “So we just got to pick him up now.”

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UPCOMING EVENTS Baseball

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Softball

4/08-10 vs. Oregon

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Kayleen Shafer catches on

OSU freshman catcher Kayleen Shafer is no stranger to big moments

By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter

Bottom of the ninth inning, tie score, championship game, runner on third base.

It wasn’t a dream. It was the situation Kayleen Shafer faced in California’s CIF softball championship in 2014.

She was also facing a tremendous pitcher in Miranda Viramontes, a Utah commit and future All-Pac-12 Freshman First Teamer who hadn’t allowed a hit the entire game that day.

No problem for Shafer — she calmly laced a single up the middle for the walk-off game-winner, and the victory cemented Mission Viejo High School’s national No. 1 ranking.

“It was indescribable,” Shafer said. “Probably one of the best feelings I’ve ever had, and probably my best memory of softball so far in my career.”

Shafer is now the starting catcher at Oregon State, batting .337 this season with three home runs and a .517 slugging percentage as a true freshman.

Her experience from high school has helped.

In fact, she paired her national championship at Mission Viejo with another on her club team in the Premier Girls Fastpitch 2014 National Championship.

“It made the transition from high school to college not as big of a jump, because I feel like a lot of the girls that I’m playing now in college I played with in high school and travel ball,” Shafer said.

It wasn’t always smooth for the 5-foot-5 catcher, though. In high school, she had trouble hitting certain pitches. She struggled to find a groove in the batter’s box, but she refused to let pitchers get the best of her.

“She has some of the greatest work ethic I’ve ever seen,” said Alysha Everett, a teammate at Mission Viejo who also plays for OSU now. “She worked on it so much so that when she got here, it wasn’t even a problem for her at all. Some of

her best pitches she can hit now are the ones she couldn’t hit in high school.”

If Shafer’s hitting improvement is any indication, she just might be able to thrive in the face of unexpected developments at OSU. After all, Shafer came to Corvallis expecting to share time at catcher with senior Sammi Noland, who was supposed to finish her time at OSU helping Shafer ease into college softball.

for awhile. I wasn’t worried at all.”

“The word I have for Kayleen is ‘wow,’” added freshman outfielder Shelby Weeks. “I’m surprised.

I know the whole team is surprised. I’m ready to watch her play back there for four years, that’s going to be fun to watch.”

But even this season hasn’t been perfect. The biggest issue for the freshman, says head coach Laura Berg, is overcoming her shyness.

“When she first got here, she was very reserved, very black and white,” Berg said. “She’s had to work out of that and come out of her shyness.

She’s had to realize this game isn’t black and white, there’s a lot of gray area. We can’t be a robot when you play this game. You’ve got to read it, you’ve got to read the situations.”

Those areas are made even more important because Shafer is a catcher. She needs to have a harmonious relationship with OSU’s pitchers every game, even calming them down or encouraging them when the need arises. Berg has noticed the solid “command” Shafer has behind the plate, which didn’t take long to develop. In fact, it only took one weekend of collegiate softball before Shafer settled in.

“I kind’ve realized that college ball is very similar to the level of travel ball that I was playing at,” she said.

If Shafer can continue her success over four years, she’ll provide a consistency at the catcher position that OSU hasn’t had since 2013. After Ally Kutz graduated that year, true freshman Kylie Padilla earned the starting role in 2014 but transferred after the season and last year’s starter, Hannah Akamine, graduated after the 2015 season.

COURTESY OF OSU ATHLETICS Shafer would like to make that impact in That changed quickly; Noland played just four Corvallis. After all, she already has two national games in 2016 before being ruled out for the sea- championships to her name, and those accoson with an elbow injury. All of a sudden, Shafer lades have made her hungry for success at the needed to step up. collegiate level.

So far this year, Shafer is in the top five on the “It makes me want the same thing here,” she team in fielding percentage, batting average, said. “I think we have a great team, we have a lot doubles, home runs and total bases. of talent, and I would love to go the World Series “I was ready,” Shafer said. “On the field, I don’t with my team.” really feel like a freshman. I feel like I’ve been here On Twitter @BrightTies

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Spring into a new frame of mind

CREATIVE COMMONS

By Skye J. Lyon

Forum contributor

I

f you are barely coming out the bitter hibernation period of winter, utilize the glory of Corvallis during spring to shift out of your comfort zone.

It is easy for us to get swept up in the beaming rays of sunlight and fluttering allergies that consumed us our first week.

Thoughts of creamy frozen novelties, ice cold pints of light IPAs, and reckless nights spent weaving around Monroe may seem

harmless since there are no serious ties this early in the term. However, try to visualize the wake of spring as a clean slate. Detox. Realize that you only have nine weeks remaining of the academic year…are you ready to move on?

For underclassmen this may seem a bit of a reach, however, these habits may greatly affect you in the long run. If you devote your energy to senseless parties that result in you praising a porcelain god every weekend…trust me, you will not last long here.

Moderation, especially during the ruthless onslaught of work experienced during Spring Term, will help you to not only enjoy the beauty and pleasures of our small town, but be a success story come graduation.

I know the temptations out there. No night spent out wasting amazing memories you could have had is worth your attention.

Indulge yourself in ways that do not make you look like a sloppy mess. You want those around you to revere the person you are, not utterly detest the person you become once you hit the bottle. It is through these muddied experiences that leave you with a badge

Letter to the editor The Oregon State Ecampus staff and I would like to thank Jackie Keating for her well-written forum column on Thursday (“Know the differences between in-person college courses, Ecampus options”). In it, Jackie took a measured approach and made some great observations in discussing the benefits of the online and on-campus learning environments.

Many of the advantages Jackie mentions in her column are echoed by Ecampus distance learners, namely the ability to engage with and learn alongside Oregon State students around the world. In 2015, Ecampus served 18,823 students in all 50 states and more than 40 countries. In partnership with more than 600 OSU faculty members and 10 colleges on campus, Ecampus proudly offers the flexibility that meets the needs of both dis-

tance students and on-campus students.

And Jackie is right – you have to be very motivated to succeed in an online course. Many people thrive in the online environment, and for some, it may not be their preference. But for adult learners juggling multiple life responsibilities, online learning can be a great fit. Ecampus provides more options, including partially or fully online programs, so learners can choose what works best for them.

We always appreciate the insight of students who take Oregon State classes online, and Ecampus is committed to making an OSU education accessible to everyone.

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Ask yourself: Am I happy?

Am I feeling healthy spiritually, physically, mentally?

Do the people I surround myself with mirror who I am and/or want to be?

Am I the “master of my fate” or is someone else swaying my actions?

If any of those questions are answered negatively, listen to your heart. Seek out help from a mentor, friend, or family member. Talk, share, or journal these unsettling feelings. Bringing those emotions into the real world will help of shame for weeks after. Living happily with you take those necessary steps to improving some self-restraint gives your life a rejuvenated your term. fresh start.

I leave you with this final food for thought: As you walk from class to class let your gaze Be the “captain of your soul.” fall upon the new blooms that cover our campus with natural beauty. This image should The opinions expressed in Lyon’s column do mirror you. Do a much needed check up on yourself if everything I stated above describes not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer Staff. you.

Tuition increase necessary

By Brett Morgan

Student representative, OSU board of trustees

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ing or careless administrators. This increase is necessary to allow OSU to continue to exist and change into a better, more inclusive place.

The real issue is that the State of Oregon continues to divest in higher education. In the last several decades the state flipped from paying 70 percent of your education cost with 30 percent out of student pockets to the state paying 30 percent of your education and students making pay 70 percent out of their own pockets. That’s why I have fought and continue fight in Salem for students. Last year my work along with the work of my peers and other groups from across the state resulted in the first increase in state funding for higher education in 10 years. This is why this tuition increase is the lowest in 10 years at OSU. I take no increase lightly, and I continue to advocate to the board the extreme financial burdens that higher education shackles its students to, and I think this is reflected in the fact that OSU has the lowest increases of any of the public institutions in Oregon. Universities across the state are asking for as much as 4% or 5% in tuition increases.

While any increase is not fair to students in any regard, we must feel fortunate that OSU is working in every capacity possible to limit barriers to higher education. This isn’t to say that this is good enough. Business as usual is simply not good enough. I have challenged the board and administrators alike to think creatively and boldly to find ways to find savings in the budget any way possible to keep as many dollars in student pockets as possible.

At the end of the day the real solution to making OSU and public higher education more affordable comes from working in Salem, and making the legislature reinvest in the same public educations many of them received.

I want to reach out to my fellow students and student groups and extend that my ears are always open and I am always willing to take ideas and converse about issues.

I continue to stand by my decision, not because I think it was the idealistic thing to do, rather I stand behind it because I think it was and is the best decision for students and OSU together.

ello, students of Oregon State University. My name is Brett Morgan and I serve as the student representative on the OSU Board of Trustees.

As you may have heard on Thursday, March 31, I voted to raise tuition by 2.2 percent per credit hour for resident students. While it may seem problematic and even contradictory that I voted to increase tuition on my peers and myself alike, I felt that I owed it to my fellow students an explanation on my own thinking and decision making when approaching this complicated issue.

I want to first and foremost say that I am on the students side: your side. I have spent my three years in college fighting and empowering my peers to fight for student issues. I have missed class, given up social obligations, and foregone endless amounts of sleep lobbying and testifying in Salem, meeting with university administrators, and organizing on student issues. I have done and continue to this work in order to fight for more accessible and equitable system of education.

This coming year, the 2.2 percent credit hour increase that I voted for is vital to pay for programs that the University must have. The largest driver of this increase is mandatory employee state benefits programs: Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) and Public Employee Benefits Board (PEBB). PERS and PEBB fund healthcare and retirement savings for your professors and other public employees at OSU and across the state, and are vital for the wellbeing of all employed by OSU. In addition, this increase pays for the creation of the Office of Institutional Diversity as a part of the University’s efforts to create a more socially just campus.

These three items sit firmly in the driver’s seat of tuition for this year. I could not, in good faith, choose not fund mandatory employee benefits programs for healthcare or retirement, nor could I vote against funding for the Office of Institutional Diversity. If this tuition increase was not passed, the University would be forced to cut other student programs, not dissimilar to how the international degree program is being cut.

The opinions expressed in Morgan’s column do not While there are many moving parts in the equation of tuition, this increase was not because of wasteful spend- necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer Staff.

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Iggy Pop’s energetic, haunting return with “Post Pop Depression”

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ptly named “The Godfather of Punk,” Iggy Pop has had an enormous influence on the way music has grown over the past few decades.

With or without his signature act The Stooges, he has always had a way of making a statement and has created some of rock’s most important recordings.

But now, after a career spanning nearly fifty years, it looks as though Pop is saying farewell with his latest release, “Post Pop Depression” — and it would be an understatement to simply say he is going out on a high note.

Pop spent the last few years dabbling with jazz, blues and even French music, while creating some rather poorly received albums with The Stooges.

In comparison to that, “Post Pop Depression” is a welcome return to form for Pop— perhaps being his best studio album in decades.

His seventeenth solo release overall, “Post Pop Depression” is Pop delivering the energy and anger that made him so charming to begin with.

Pop made his solo career breakthrough with his 1977 releases; “The Idiot” and “Lust For Life,” which he created with friend and collaborator, David Bowie.

And with his passing nearly three months ago, one can’t help but feel the symbolism in Pop deciding to wrap up his career the same year that Bowie said farewell to his.

For his apparent swan

song, Pop collaborated with the talents of Queens of the Stone Age front man, Josh Homme, who produced the record.

The album also features Dead Weather guitarist Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, creating a one-of-a-kind supergroup.

With these gifted artists, Pop has managed to re-create the sound and style that made albums like “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life” so important for their time.

Like Pop’s earlier releases, “Post Pop Depression” frequently dives into the realm of “art rock.”

With avant-garde and unusual tracks such as “Gardenia” and “Paraguay,” the album takes us back to the diverse range of sounds featured on Pop’s late ‘70’s releases.

The track “Sunday” is reminiscent of “Lust for Life’s” title track with it’s infectiously danceable groove. Even “In the Lobby” is lyrically familiar to Pop’s 1977 track “Nightclubbing.”

Josh Homme’s guitar and production style also adds a distinctive to sound to the record, one that differs from Pop’s previous releases.

Homme’s distinctively dark and crunching guitar playing gives the songs a brooding, garage rock feel.

The album is at times very reminiscent of a Queens of the Stone Age record as a result. But as a whole, with its aggressive lyrical themes and musical diversity, “Post Pop Depression” is in every sense an Iggy Pop album.

With this album, Pop makes the listener feel uncomfortably paranoid, fed up with society and eager for a human touch.

“Gardenia,” the album’s lead single, praises a female who is much stronger than Pop, with flattering lyrics.

Other tracks such as “Break Into Your Heart” and “In The Lobby” can make any listener

His seventeenth solo release overall, “Post Pop Depression” is delivering the energy and anger that made him (Iggy Pop) so charming to begin with.

feel intensely paranoid, while “Vulture” will remind anyone of a 1960’s Western flick.

Other songs convey anger and dreams in everyday life.

“Paraguay” has Pop preaching his anger with the modern world, shouting “I dream of getting away to a new life, where there’s not so much f***ing knowledge.”

“Sunday” deals with the frustrations of the average work week and how we all chug through it until it starts all over again.

With it’s danceable beat and surprising, beautiful orchestration at the end, no song will make you both love and hate a day of the week as much as “Sunday.”

Even fifty years into his career, Pop shows that he is still capable of writing material that conveys people’s hopes and frustrations with everyday life.

Pop closes the album with “Paraguay,” shouting “I’m sick, and it’s your fault, and I’m gonna go heal myself now. Yeah!”

Although this song never references anyone in particular, it seems like Pop is saying goodbye to his audience by purely dissing them.

And for someone nicknamed the ‘Godfather of Punk,’ there is probably no better way to end your career than like that. baro.arts@oregonstate.edu