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Friday, April 3 concluded a long week of fun and philanthropy hosted by Oregon State University’s Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Going out with a bang, AGD’s last fundraiser was a large-scale gambling tournament known to continue for more than four hours until only a single champion remains. “It’s pretty even right now,” said JJ Hockley, a freshman in business, just a few hands into his first round. Like dozens of other Greek OSU men, Hockley attended the final evening of Alpha Gam Gentlemen in the hopes of taking home one of several prizes and the number one spot for his house. Eliminated players are allowed to re-enter by making a buy-in donation that increases every hour, ensuring the tournament goes on well into the night. Some of them wear elaborate clothing designed to improve their poker faces while sorority members act as dealers. Through the competition, Alpha Gamma Delta was able to raise more than $5,500 for diabetes research. Anne Marie Richards, a junior in agricultural science and AGD’s philanthropy coordinator, said “helping See POKER | page 2
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Members of Oregon State’s Alpha Gamma Delta sorority acted as dealers at their last philanthropic event. The sorority raised $5,500 for type-one diabetes research. Fraternities across campus participated in the poker night, raising both stakes and money.
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Oregon State University’s Fairbanks’ West gallery, will host a new exhibit, the solo work of Marissa Solini, a senior in visual arts. Solini’s exhibit, “The Peacekeeper,” will run from April 6 to 10 in the West gallery from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will be free and open to students and the Corvallis community. Solini’s exhibit will feature art across different media as she tries to let her ideas dictate the medium that she uses to best get across the message of her idea. “I try not to limit myself to a single medium. I try to find what media would best portray the message. So I’ve done performance art, video art, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and kind of everything in between,” Solini said. As a work of art, “The Peacekeeper” See EXHIBIT | page 2
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Visual arts senior Marissa Solini’s work will be displayed in the West gallery of Fairbanks Hall from April 6 to 10. Her art was inspired by recent national events dealing with social injustice and police violence.
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The elections for the next academic year’s student government are underway. Candidates will undergo their first trial as potential leaders Monday, April 6, during an open debate. Discussions will be divided into two time frames: president and vice president teams will debate first, followed by the candidates for speaker of the house. Andrew Futerman, co-vice chair of the elections committee and member of the Associated Students of Oregon State University House of Representatives, said he intends to challenge runners with “hard-hitting questions” regarding college accessibility, diversity and discrimination and the strained relationship between ASOSU and the student body. “Some of these questions are sensitive subjects, but I expect them to handle it,” Futerman said. “That’s part of their job.” This debate is open to the public and will be held at the Memorial Union Plaza from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Daily Barometer
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Wednesday, April 8 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU Journey Room. House meeting.
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Meetings Student Organization Resource for Community Engagement (SORCE), 2-4pm, SEC 354.
At 8:45 a.m. Saturday morning, a man reported his car had been broken into the previous night while parked in the parking lot of the Crop Science building, according to Oregon State Police logs. The car reportedly had broken windows, and items were allegedly stolen. Later that morning, according to the logs, it was discovered that 10 other cars had also been broken into in the Crop Science building parking lot. There are currently no suspects.
Sunday, April 12 Events Vietnamese Student Association, Doors open 5:30pm, Event starts 6pm, MU Ballroom. Annual cultural show with entertainment, skits, performances and traditional food!
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Alpha Gamma Delta’s philanthropic poker night raised money for the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation, Gales Creek Camp and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.
According to OSP logs, a man reported his trailer stolen from the Oregon State University RV lot. The man said that the trailer could have been stolen between March 27 and April 2.
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DUII On Thursday night, a woman was arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants, according to OSP logs. She was discovered in the Halsell Hall parking lot “mixing an alcoholic beverage while seated in a car.” At the OSP station, her blood alcohol content was found to be .17 percent.
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Criminal mischief Sometime between the night of March 31 and the morning of April 1, an unknown person vandalized the construction containers at the new OSU Printing and Mailing Services, according to OSP logs. Allegedly, the phrases “aliens stopped reasoning with us years ago,” “die or live trying” and “I coughed up blood today” were spraypainted on the containers.
Stealing pens According to OSP logs, a man was detained by OSU Beaver Store staff after attempting to steal $36.75 worth of pens. The man was then arrested by an OSP officer and cited for theft. The Daily Barometer
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Research Foundation, which actively works toward finding a permanent cure. support children and families According to Ashley Smart, a who have been affected by type- junior in human development one diabetes” is a special mission and family science, two years ago for the sorority, and that, as a the sorority swapped its “Deeds chapter, their goal is to “create for Diabetes” philanthropy for awareness in our community Alpha Gam Gentlemen and added about this autoimmune disorder poker to increase involvement that has touched so many.” with an exciting mix of rivalry Event proceeds will go toward and cooperation. She says even three separate foundations: The though it’s a new event that needs Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation, time to get off the ground, the Gales Creek Camp — a local non- ladies of AGD are working as profit organization that teaches hard as they can and trying to kids and young adults how to beat the previous record each confidently manage their diabe- year. Sponsors like Roxy Dawgs tes — and the Juvenile Diabetes and Monster have started lending
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has a heavy message to convey. “With a lot of my art I tend to tackle a lot of potent subjects,” Solini said. “The last few years I’ve been addressing a lot of works from a female perspective, regarding sexuality, pornography, sexual objectification, teen pregnancy and birth control — the ‘hot button’ topics.” The Peacekeeper is Solini’s thesis project that she would like to place into the graduating senior exhibit at the end of the year. The work is meant to represent the recent events that have been happening in Ferguson and police violence in general. “(The deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner) were heavily publicized last year and I saw it online, seeing a lot of videos of protest and Facebook outrage,” Solini said. “People kind of divided on the issue like party lines and it was just appalling to me, and I was seeing all of these signs about how ‘silence is consent’ and so I was looking for ways for me to verbalize that I didn’t think this was okay at all and that it was horrible. I didn’t know how to comment about it as a white female; it felt like an off limits topic for me, like what ground do I have to stand on to speak about it.” Solini ultimately decided that she needed to put something out to make people talk about racial injustice and police violence more. She was particularly inspired by the tragedy surrounding Tamir Rice, and this became her main inspiration for “The Peacekeeper.” The mold that she used to make the guns for the piece was from a children’s toy gun called the Peacekeeper; she kept the orange tip on some of the guns she made and left some of them off. While she was hesitant about tackling such a sensitive and controversial topic at first, Solini felt that it was important to make people think about it and to start the conversation. “I’m pretty sure (“The Peacekeeper”) will bother at least some people, and that doesn’t bother me,” Solini said. “But I hope I can set an example that you don’t need to be scared as a white person to talk about these MANAGING and NEWS EDITOR MCKINLEY SMITH 541-737-2231 news@dailybarometer.com
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support to the gradually growing cause. Richards placed a conservative estimate of the week’s fundraising at $5,500 with the exact amount after expenses being considerably higher. In the end, Jake Lunter from the newly reformed Sigma Nu fraternity bluffed his way to the top and took first place in the tournament. Phi Delta Theta accumulated the most participation and donation points throughout the week, making them the overall Alpha Gam Gentlemen leaders for the second year in a row.
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Multimedia artist Marissa Solini’s latest collection will be displayed in Fairbanks until April 10. issues — they’re important. We’ve got a long way to go for racial equality and justice. We pride ourselves as an accepting society, but we still have a long way to go.” Solini’s interest in art started at a young age, with both parents being artistically involved and inspiring her to be artistic as well. After graduating high school, Solini came to OSU. “It’s a small art program, but it’s a good one,” Solini said. “What I like about the art program here is that it’s tight-knit and you get a lot of time to connect with the teachers and really get one-on-one feedback from them.” Courtnee’ Morin, news reporter
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According to a press release from Oregon State University, soil could be releasing more carbon dioxide than previously thought. OSU soil scientists “showed that chemicals emitted by plant roots act on carbon that is bonded to minerals in the soil, breaking bonds and exposing previously protected carbon to decomposition by microbes,� according to the release. The carbon then is released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, according to the researchers. Failing to account for soil carbon decomposition causes an underestimate of carbon loss from soil, which could be as much as one percent loss per year. “There is more carbon stored in the soil, on a global scale, than in vegetation or even in the atmosphere,� said Markus Kleber, coauthor of the student and OSU soil scientist, in the release. “Since this reservoir is so large, even small changes will have serious effects on carbon concentrations in the atmosphere, and by extension on climate.� The research was published online in the journal Nature Climate Change. The Daily Barometer
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Hayes as FLO: What emails tell us about First Lady of Oregon By Hannah Hoffman STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — For all the headlines she has made, Cylvia Hayes has been largely unknown to Oregonians. She stood beside former Gov. John Kitzhaber at two inaugurations and made waves during his second campaign as secrets from her past came to life. She was known for her interest in policies on poverty and green energy. Her consulting company, 3E Strategies, was infamous for its contracts with the state of Oregon and some of Kitzhaber’s colleagues. For all that, it has never been clear what kind of person she is — who she is behind the public persona. The 94,000 emails released Friday by Gov. Kate Brown’s office begin to paint a picture of Kitzhaber’s fiancee. Statesman Journal reporters have examined a small percentage of the documents, but they show some aspects of Hayes that previously could only be guessed at. The records belong to Hayes’ three personal email accounts, and they are all correspondence with her colleagues in Kitzhaber’s office. Some of the details contained within them are simply colorful bits and pieces. Hayes referred to herself as “FLO� — First Lady of Oregon. She often signed off her emails with, “Peace.� She liked shows such as “Battlestar Galactica,� “Scandal� and “Grimm.� Technology was not her strong suit. Emails show Hayes requesting training on Facebook, referencing “laptop meltdowns� and fighting her Comcast service. (She also appeared to have some trouble operating the remote for the Mahonia Hall fireplace.) She had to be told where to find a photo center when she realized the governor’s staff photographer could not take her passport photo. She harbored a strong admiration for Bill and Hillary Clinton. She and Kitzhaber both shared early aspirations toward careers in marine biology. She could be effusive and kind at unexpected times. For example, in an email from April 2014, she responded to a memo from energy policy adviser Margi Hoffmann with one line: “Pure magic Ms. Hoffmann!� The emails also show a woman who could be self-aggrandizing and self-important. In April 2014, she emailed her assistant, Mary Rowinski, and
essentially invited herself to one of Kitzhaber’s meetings. “Please work on setting a meeting with me and Sean Robbins, the new Director of Business Oregon. It may be that something is in the works for a meeting with him and Gov so I could work into that one. If not, I’d like a separate meeting with him. Anytime in the next month would be fine,� Hayes wrote. Kitzhaber’s secretary, Jan Murdock, replied: “He starts with Business Oregon on May 1st. I am going to be setting up a time for the Governor to meet with Sean, so I’ll coordinate so that the three of them can meet at the same time.� At other times, Hayes clearly believed she and Kitzhaber should have some import for national-level politicians. In August 2012, she asked then-Chief of Staff Curtis Robinhold about bringing the Clintons to Oregon for unspecified reasons. (Kitzhaber was not campaigning that year.) Robinhold replied: “You may recall that at the time of our previous conversation I asked Dan (Carol) to look into options for getting him out here. Dan talked to the Clinton team, who suggested that if we want to get him out here in any form (other than on an Obama campaign swing, which is out of our hands) it would likely cost us in the range of $100k. We would need to plan to raise that money from non-state sources — which seemed to be off the table for us given the large number of other things we have going on right now. “If you would like to revisit the topic of raising the money, let me know. I just don’t think it fits our mission-critical list at this time. I’m going to copy Dan on this note — and will ask him to fill in any of the blanks that I might have missed on the costs associated with traveling Clintons.� During the same month, Hayes had demands while preparing for a trip to Washington, D.C. “Can you help me set up my upcoming DC trip? In addition to the meetings with JK that I would like to attend (Sec. of Interior, etc.) I’d like to set meetings with the following: USDA Undersecretary Kevin Concannon, Lucy Caluetti (Scott Nelson contact), and a couple of others that I will send along,� she wrote to Rowinski. In April 2014, Hayes asked Carol to use his “DC connections� to find a way for “our NW team� to garner an invita-
tion to an event hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry regarding ocean health. In an email from July 2012, she reacted badly when she found out the audience at a Portland Timbers soccer game would not be what she had anticipated. “This has been a screwy event. I was never told it was a second string game. I was told they expected a crowd of at least 20,000. I think the Food Bank thinks that this will become an ongoing event. I’d like to see it handled differently if so,� she wrote to Murdock. Repeatedly, records show Hayes as someone difficult to schedule for. She often peppered Rowinski with questions about meetings, and she often was unavailable when others needed her. In an exchange from April 2014, natural resources adviser Gabriela Goldfarb asked for time to speak with Hayes, proposing blocks of time about an hour long. In response, Hayes wrote, “I could do 3:15 for 15 minutes.� “Let’s try for another time,� Goldfarb said. During the same month, Hoffmann tried to include Hayes in a call that Hoffmann thought was scheduled ahead of time. “I had been informed that you both knew I could not make the next couple of weeks’ meeting at this time but that I probably could after that,� Hayes said. They are notable, in part, for what they do not contain. There are few examples in the emails the Statesman Journal has examined so far of Hayes discussing policy, floating ideas or debating concepts. She did not engage in many substantial conversations via email, nor did she send notes or follow-up comments after meetings. She was often copied on memos and policy briefings, but Hayes apparently offered her own quite rarely. This does not appear to fit with the role Hayes tried to create for herself. She pushed to be included in senior staff meetings, over the objections of former Chief of Staff Robinhold, and she sometimes spoke on behalf of the Kitzhaber administration. However, with some exceptions in energy policy, she seemed not to engage in substantive policy conversations. In fact, on at least one occasion, it appears clear that Chief of Staff Mike Bonetto, who replaced Robinhold in 2014, wanted Hayes to contribute more to the senior staff conversations.
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Susana Rivera-Mills, current executive associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, has been named Oregon State University’s first vice provost of undergraduate studies, according to a press release from Oregon State University. “This new position is designed to promote and improve undergraduate education and success at Oregon State,� according to the release. Rivera-Mills will have a role in development and support of experiential learning opportunities, First-Year Experience programs, academic advising and will oversee undergraduate support and engagement departments. “This is an important new leadership position at Oregon State and Susana has demonstrated that she is a highly skilled leader and collaborator who is passionate about providing access to higher education — and then helping students succeed upon coming to OSU,� said Sabah Randhawa, OSU provost and executive vice president, in the release. The Daily Barometer
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Emails: Cylvia Hayes used statepaid staff for household duties. By Tracy Loew
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SALEM — Former Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes used her taxpayer-funded staff to schedule meetings, book flights and arrange talking points related to her official duties. Previously released documents show she also used statepaid staff to book travel and schedule meetings related to her private consulting business — prohibited under Oregon ethics rules. Now, a new release of Hayes’ emails shows she used state staff to perform routine household duties, such as sorting out cable television problems and changing her cats’ litter. “Arghhhh!� Hayes emailed Mary Rowinski, a state-paid assistant, at 9:14 p.m. on a Sunday night last April. “None of the channels are showing and it says I do not (have) a subscription to view Battlestar Gallactica (sic). This is so fricking frustrating at this point.� “I have no words,� Rowinski responded.
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About three weeks earlier, Hayes had emailed Rowinski at 7:09 p.m. to complain that she could not get “Revolution,� “Scandal� or “Grimm� at Mahonia Hall, the governor’s official residence. The day after the “Battlestar Galactica� problem, Rowinski got a response that would be the envy of many other Comcast customers: The company issued a refund and an apology. “Please let the First Lady know that we are sorry for the inconvenience,� Comcast customer service supervisor Cindy Cook wrote Rowinski. During that time, Rowinski also spent time helping furnish Mahonia Hall: “I would be open to a round table for sure,� Hayes wrote Rowinski on March 19, 2014. “Might be nice to have a cool round rug and a round table. Definitely open to other options.� She took on pet duty: “Will you please check cat boxes and food next week? Thanks so much!� Hayes wrote Rowinski on March 16, 2014.
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Some students come to campus to attend class and then jet home. Some linger, staying only for a coffee or to print off assignments. On the other hand, some students stay on campus to participate in one of Oregon State University’s nearly 400 active clubs and organizations. In honor of the newly opened Student Experience Center, the Daily Barometer contacted members of nine different clubs over email to highlight the diversity of clubs on campus.
GIF Club “We’re a unique club that specializes in the art of animation, particularly animated .GIFs! This is a club meant to meet new people who love .GIFs and are interested in making them, but also a place to receive tips and advice from others. Our small club currently specializes in making .GIFs for Tumblr that range from various television shows, movies, music videos and games.” — Michael Chee-Cheung Banh, senior in environmental engineering. Club meeting times as well as example of members’ .GIF work can be found at oregonstategifclub.tumblr.com. There are no membership fees to join the club of five, and the club encourages interested students to email gifclub@oregonstate.edu if interested.
Her Campus at Oregon State “Our student-run online magazine covers anything and everything related to campus life, from seasonal outfit inspiration to what the best off-campus dining is! It’s basically the greatest form of productive procrastination.” — Lara von Linsowe-Wilson, junior in new media communications. Her Campus meets once every two weeks at the library, usually on Sundays, at 12:00 p.m. Membership is free, and the magazine can be contacted at or-state@hercampus.com.
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“We’ve started hosting ‘booty movement workshops’ to help make the Casino steps look more authentic. Our goal is to provide students with a place on campus where they can learn basic steps, go over moves they’ve learned in class, just dance for a few hours, learn about the cultural history of Cuba or learn how to properly shake the booty.” — Megan Lachowski, second-year graduate student in anthropology It is free to gain membership, and the club hosts monthly weekend events. Students can reach out to the group through email at casinosalsa@oregonstate.edu or through a Facebook message to the Casino and Rueda de Casino Salsa Club at OSU Facebook page.
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OSU App Club “It’s a place to learn about and build mobile apps for iOS and Android. Additionally, we’re involved with Google to regularly have Hackathon events. Our members built the free Corvallis Transit mobile apps for iOS (CorBus, Corvallis Bus, Transport) and Android (Corvallis Transit).” — Phillip Carter, senior in computer science. The app club meets on both Mondays and Wednesdays in Kelly Engineering 1007, and membership is free. Inquiries can be sent to carterp@onid.oregonstate.edu.
Elite Dance Team at Oregon State “We’re a club team; we are a volunteer student organization. We perform at various community and philanthropic events around campus. We perform mostly jazz or hip-hop or contemporary styles of dance. We just did a performance last term at “Breaking Down the MU,” where we taught the audience how to do our hip hop routine. This term we are learning three different routines and most of them are jazzy. We are performing at Kappa Delta’s Mock Rock next week, and the Beavs Helping Kids Danceathon, and will have a performance at Moms Weekend.” — Anna Brecheisen, junior in pre-pharmacy. The club team practices twice a week, typically on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Elite will host their next tryouts during week 3 of fall term next year.
Bhakti Yoga Club at OSU “Ancient wisdom and culture are introduced through the mediums of music, philosophy, yoga, meditation, vegetarian cooking and lecture series by prominent guest speakers. These regular events will serve you as a perfect academic stress buster and will help you to control mind, manage time, improve health and concentration.” — Venkata Saranam, doctoral student in industrial engineering. The Bhakti yoga club is a voluntary student organization, and students can join at no cost. Schedules are determined per term at a group meeting, and information can be found by emailing bhaktiyoga@oregonstate.edu or by messaging the club’s Facebook group at BhaktiYoga Club @ OSU.
OSU Archery Club “The best time was definitely shooting at a swinging water jug and watching dozens of arrows pierce it (and a few of my own too)!” — Evan Anderson, freshman in computer science and electrical engineering. The archer y club practices on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m. Members travel to and from their practice location, a Philomath shooting range, through carpooling. No owned equipment is required; the club provides several bows as well as safety equipment for new shooters to use. Additional information on the club can be found at stuorgs.oregonstate.edu/archeryclub. Jyssica Yelas, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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buy the shuttered 77-year-old stadium and the surrounding 10-acre property. “There is a lot of history in that location,” said Art Johnson, 87, who played high school football and ran track in the stadium in the 1940s, “but we are not doing it because of the history. It’s because of the potential in the property, for both the kids and the adults in the community.” The Johnsons were joined by others who didn’t want Civic demolished, including engineer Greg Ausland, Market of Choice owner Rick Wright, Kidsports Executive Director Bev Smith,
PeaceHealth Public Affairs Director Jenny Ulum, Lane United Football Club Managing Director Dave Galas, community volunteer Nancy Webber, and landscape architect Matt Scheibe. The city of Eugene is expected to buy the stadium property from the owner, the Eugene School District, by mid-April, City Attorney Glenn Klein said. The city, which has agreed to keep half an acre of the property for park use, will then sell the rest of the land to the alliance immediately. Members still need to raise an estimated $4 million to renovate
the historic wooden grandstand and install an artificial turf field for soccer and other sports. The Lane United Football Club, which had its inaugural season in Springfield last summer, hopes to play in Civic eventually. Kidsports wants to build an indoor fieldhouse next to the stadium, near Amazon Parkway. The alliance’s apparent success has surprised many, especially those who doubted it could succeed. “It’s like a lot of good things that happen in communi Full article available online at registerguard.com.
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NCAA Championships. On Saturday, the No. 12 ranked gymnastics squad in the country proved us wrong. The Beavers not only finished the event in second place with a score of 196.750 — second only to No. 1 Oklahoma’s 197.625 — but sophomore Madeline Gardiner came home with a regional By TeJo Pack title by winning the all-around. THE DAILY BAROMETER Within the NCAA Norman Regional In the summer, we as a paper made some predictions on what would happen within the Championships, only the top-two teams advance current Oregon State programs over the coming to the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. year. One prediction was that the OSU women’s Thanks to the quality performances from the gymnastics squad would again not make it to the team as a whole, the Beavers are now one of n
those teams. Last year it was the Penn State Nittany Lions who knocked the Beavers out of position for punching their ticket, but this year, the Oregon State squad was not to be deterred. Oregon State, which came into the event as the second seed, started the meet with a bye before moving to the uneven bars. Once there, the Beavers worked through their individual routines and finished as a group with a combined score of 48.975 while having nobody — whose score counted — score under a 9.750. That cumulative score on bars would be the
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After winning the first game of a threegame set with No. 8 UCLA on Thursday, 3-2, it looked as though the Oregon State baseball team was poised for a statement series victory over the first place team in the Pac-12. The Bruins (23-6, 10-2 Pac-12) bounced back with a convincing 4-1 victory in game two, however, and subsequently followed it up with a comefrom-behind win to clinch the series against OSU (22-9, 5-4). After falling behind 2-0 in Saturday’s series finale, Oregon State found a groove at the plate in the top of the fourth inning, knocking in five runs to take a lead. Oregon State scored its first run of See BASEBALL | page 6
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lowest score for the Beavers the rest of the meet. Sitting in fifth place after the rotation on the bars, the Beavers moved onto the balance beam, where soon to be all-around champ Gardiner set the pace for the squad with a 9.875. This time the group of athletes would end with 49.125 behind solid performances from everyone who took part, including senior Chelsea Tang and junior Risa Perez. Tang would come home with a 9.825, while Perez finished the rotation with the second best score on the squad with a 9.850. The Beavers then moved into a second bye
The Oregon State softball team dropped a three-game series against No. 18 Arizona that finished with Saturday’s 22-3 runaway win for the Wildcats. Arizona took Thursday’s game by a 9-3 final before Friday’s matchup was postponed due to weather and pushed to Saturday morning. The Wildcats won 7-2 in the first game before the 18-run blowout. Arizona improved to 31-9 and 7-5 in conference with its first Pac-12 series sweep of the year, while OSU (23-14. 4-8 Pac-12) has lost five of the last six in the Pac-12 schedule. The 4-8 mark in conference is a far
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cry from the Beavers’ 19-6 record in the nonconference schedule. Head coach Laura Berg said she felt confident about the team headed into the conference slate, but her exceptions have not been met yet. “I thought coming into conference play, we were doing very well,” Berg said. “I think we’re a far better team than we’re showing right now. With the talent that we have, we’re postseason talent. And we’re not showing it right now. If we keep playing like this, we’re not going to go postseason.” In the last game of the Arizona series, the Wildcats posted six runs See SOFTBALL | page 6
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BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 the game on a groundball from sophomore Billy King, and took a 3-2 lead after sophomore left fielder Kyle Nobach drove in two runs with a single. Freshman outfielder Elliott Carey pushed the Beavers’ lead to three when he hit his first career homerun — a two-run blast over the right field fence. UCLA fought back, however, scoring a run in the bottom half of the fourth, followed by runs in the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game back up at five. Oregon State managed to escape the seventh inning unscathed, but got into trouble
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in the bottom half of the eighth inning, loading the bases with one out. UCLA’s Trent Chatterton made the Beavers pay, driving in one run on a single to right field. Two batters later, the Bruins broke the game open on what appeared to be a routine fly ball to left field. Nobach misplayed the deep fly, however, as the ball landed harmlessly to the outfield turf, allowing three runs to score.
UCLA tacked on one more run for insurance, giving the Bruins five runs in the inning. OSU failed to score in the ninth inning, giving UCLA a 10-5 win and the series victory in Los Angeles. Junior right-hander Travis Eckert got the start for the Beavers, going 4 2/3 innings. Eckert allowed four earned runs on seven hits, exiting in the fifth inning. The Beavers used five relievers the rest of the way, including freshman Luke Heimlich. The left-hander was charged with the game-winning run in the eighth inning, dropping his record to 1-3 on the year. Apart from Oregon State’s five-run outburst in the fourth inning of Saturday’s loss, the Beavers scored just four runs in the three-game series. OSU combined for 18 hits over the three games — six of which came in Saturday’s loss — and
left eight on base in the finale. The Beavers have scored just 16 runs in their past six games. The series loss moves Oregon State to 5-4 in Pac-12 play, but the Beavers remain in sixth place in the conference standings, a half game back of Arizona in fifth place. UCLA remains in first place in the Pac-12 at 10-2 in conference play. Oregon State has nearly a week off between games before traveling to Eugene to take on Oregon in a three-game Civil War series starting Friday. Oregon State swept its in-state rival last season in Corvallis. The Ducks (18-14, 2-7) will be looking for their first Pac-12 series victory of the season in what will be an important series for both teams.
The Oregon State men’s golf team finished fifth at the Duck Invitational in Eugene on March 24 behind solid performances from senior Alex Franklin and junior Brian Jung. The team returns to action Friday and Saturday when it travels to Tempe, Ariz. to take part in the 43rd annual ASU Thunderbird Invitational. The tournament, which will be held on the par-70, 6,971yard ASU Karsten Golf Club, will feature 14 schools including Arizona State, Arizona and Washington State. The Beavers will run a squad consisting of Franklin, Jung, senior Scott Kim, junior Chris Tedesco and sophomore Kevin Murphy.
The Beavers have not participated in the invitational in two years, but won the individual title in 2013 behind a dominating performance from OSU alumni Nick Chianello; it was the first individual title won by a Beaver since 2009. The event will begin on Friday with a shotgun start at 7:45 a.m. and play all day, followed by a similar start on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. It will be a two-day, 54-hole tournament with 36 of those holes being played on Friday and 18 on Saturday. The topfour golfers from each five-man team — with the lowest scores for each 18-hole round — will combine scores for each round. The Oregon State squad will travel next to Dublin, Ohio to take part in the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate on April 10 and 11. TeJo Pack, sports editor On Twitter @Pack6124 sports@dailybarometer.com
GYMNSATICS n Continued from page 5 before moving to the floor exercise where the Oregon State squad is ranked seventh in the country. Not one Beaver scored under a 9.850, and sophomore Kaytianna McMillan and Tang led the squad with 9.875s, respectively. The group’s work was good enough to give it its highest score to that point, a 49.300, but the Beavers weren’t done yet. The Beavers’ last rotation was on the vault, and even though McMillan would suffer a knee injury towards the end of the rotation, the Beavers truly shined. The team scored a group high for the night with a 49.350, and senior Taylor Keeker took third at the regional within the event when she stamped down a thunderous 9.925. The Oregon State gymnasts and coaches will now have two weeks to prepare before they make their way south for the NCAA Championships April 17-19. TeJo Pack, sports editor
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in the first inning and didn’t slow down much afterwards. With four home runs helping fuel the offense, Arizona forced the 5-inning mercy rule. Senior center fielder Dani Gilmore was the only Beaver with an extra base hit: an RBI double to score one of OSU’s three runs. She also had a solo home run in Saturday’s first game, along with a solo home run from sophomore first baseman Natalie Hampton. “I think Dani is doing very well,” Berg said. “I think she’s putting a little too much pressure on herself to carry the team, but overall, she’s an athlete. She’s a pure athlete. She’s one of the ones with the ‘it’ factor.” Hampton’s home run gave the Beavers a 1-0 lead early in Saturday’s opening game but the Wildcats responded with six runs in the next two innings. Limiting Arizona’s offense was a struggle for OSU’s pitchers and defense. The Wildcats totaled 38 runs and 30 hits in the three games. OSU tallied eight runs and 13 hits. OSU has the benefit of staying in Corvallis for two consecutive weekends, as Utah comes into town with an identical 4-8 Pac-12 mark and a 26-14 overall record. Last season, the Beavers traveled to Salt Lake City for the Utah series and beat the Utes in one of the three games. “Utah’s a good team, they’re scrappy,” Berg said. “Its been awhile since they’ve made the postseason, but they’re heading in that direction. We’ve got to sweep.”
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hen I think of the United States Postal Service, I imagine the 1950s Beaver Cleaver prototype with his mailbag, cheerfully dropping letters through a little slot in someone’s door before whistling away. Like many programs and products of the ‘50s, I think the Postal Service has run its course, but is no longer useful. In fact, the only reason I can think of that this useless bureaucratic office remains intact today is to protect the pensions of the folks working there. It is so easy to send messages to people all over the world today in a matter of seconds by using text or email or any other kind of instant message. There isn’t a need for people to send letters anymore. When I get my mail, I usually end up throwing 90 percent of it away, because it consists of either hard copies of bills I’ve already received via email, or advertisements for Arby’s or Bi-Mart. Not only is Not only is email and text email and text faster, it’s cheaper than sendfaster, it’s ing a letter. The cheaper than price of stamps sending a seems to rise at least a cent letter. The every year, and price of stamps with letters now seems to raise costing 49 cents to mail, it has at least a cent become more of every year, and a hassle than it’s with letters now worth. costing 49 cents In fact, as of now, the only letto mail, it has ters people seem become more of to be sending a hassle than are those that are traditionally it’s worth. necessary, like Christmas cards or wedding invitations. But even these are starting to be sent online. And it’s not just letters that are so expensive to send. The Postal Service’s flat rate boxes are surprisingly expensive, and the prices are not going to drop anytime soon. But we need the post office, right? Wrong. Of course we still need shipping, because of the increasing boom of online shopping, but it does not have to be done by USPS. The government no longer needs to help us get our shipments to us. This can be left to private businesses like FedEx or UPS. Another reason to despise the hateful business that is the USPS is post offices. I hate post offices. The lines are almost always out the door, because despite the fact that many post offices have a many registers ready to go, there is usually only one postal worker who can’t figure out how to work the scanner, so he has to go find his manager. Or, alternatively, there is a postal worker at each register, but each one seems to be forever “on break.” In short, the United States Postal Service was a great idea for a while. But like the Pony Express preceding it, it is something that should be a fond memory, not a miserable, wasteful reality.
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hile we were working in our shiny new digs Sunday, April 5, talking shop about the paper and what kinds of stories we were covering, a shrill, harpy-ish scream rent the air. Take a moment to realize the most infuriating thing about that statement: We had to work on Easter Sunday. Please proceed. Lights flashed from the ceiling and kept pace for a terrified, frustrated run down the stairs to escape possible flames or the loss of our eardrums. As we exited into the cold rain, we saw other students leaving, their arms caked in clay from The Craft Center. So we all hung around outside like a group of 1950s greasers, standing in the rain and waiting for the officer to show up and check out the building and figure out why the system decided to go off — seemingly at random. After about 20 minutes, we were allowed back inside the multimilliondollar building. We couldn’t help but chuckle — a necessary part of the job, we have figured that if we didn’t laugh at life as much as we do, we would not be able to function — after remembering that it was this same smoke detection part that caused such an issue for folks to be able to move into the building. And now, like some possessed demon, it was enacting its plan to expel us all from its midst. We mean, that is our running theory, because we do not want to believe that the detection part was faulty or that our uncomfortable 20-minute work break was the result of human error or ineptitude for an absurdly expensive building that took forever to finish, where we are required to work on Easter Sunday. If we were more religious, perhaps we would be angrier, but if the country is going to take a day off to celebrate zombies and chocolate rabbits then we want in on that. Point being, it just felt kind of perfect for the system to go gunnybags only two weeks into our interaction with it. We get it: Fire drills, intentional or unintentional, happen. It’s just that this building has been toted to those who get to use it as state of the art, innovative; a beautiful place for interaction and creative collaboration between social justice, art, student government and the media. It’s hard to believe that when we are standing out in the rain like Linkin Park wannabes, morosely glaring at place that was supposed to love us and take care of our student needs, having betrayed us and left us out in the elements. Maybe we just need to eat some chocolate or something.
of understanding that taxes, like all political issues, are something you’re either “for” or “against.” If there was room for nuance or Travis compromise in politics, we might actually have a functioning legislaNot So Swift tive branch. And then where would we be? ronments, you might begin to think But for all of their many flaws and that Millennials are more engaged in failures — from their lack of home the complex series of changes hap- ownership following the housing pening in the technology, economy crisis to their suspicion and rejection and culture of America, but you’d of traditional free-market capitalism be sadly mistaken if you think their — their worst quality is their willinginflated sense of self worth and enti- ness to believe what everyone says tlement translates to any sort of real about them. political action. The Reason-Rupe poll found In the 2012 presidential election, that 65 percent of Americans have only 38 percent of eligible voters aged a negative view of 18-24 voted, comMillennials. pared to 32 percent It also found in 1996 and 36 perEven when they are that the majority of cent in 1988. Instead, Millennials believe engaged with the Millennials chose to the same thing. spend their time volpolitical process, They believe unteering at higher Millennials all of the articles rates than previand books writous generations in demonstrate a about how a naive attempt to shocking ignorance of ten Millennials are a use direct action to how politics work. bunch of lazy, narsolve problems. cissistic egomaniEven when they acs. They believe it are engaged with the political process, Millennials demon- when they’re denounced for buying strate a shocking ignorance of how the things the previous generations sell them, being raised the way previpolitics work. A survey of Millennial political ous generations raised them and tryopinions by the non-biased libertar- ing to live in the wreckage of a world ian group Reason-Rupe found that 58 that has been left to them. percent of Millennials believed that They believe it all. Every word. cutting taxes would help the economy Idiots. and 66 percent believed that raising t taxes on the wealthy would help the Chambers is a senior in English. The opinions economy, a perspective that journal- Travis expressed in Chambers’s columns do not necessarily ists rightly called “totally incoherent” represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Chambers and “confusing” for its complete lack can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
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illennials are easily the worst generation in American history. Sure, previous generations may have been responsible for slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment camps, Guantanamo Bay, everything that Billy Joel sang about, Billy Joel — but I think we can all agree that this list of atrocities is dwarfed by the Millennials’ general sense of entitlement and overall ignorance concerning the way the world works. For example, in a survey of more than 20,000 human resources professionals, Millennials were described in overwhelmingly negative terms. Potential employers claimed that the young men and women made outrageous demands for things like “opportunity” or “respect,” and even had the gall to question the necessity of working 40+ hours a week in an office doing tasks that could easily be accomplished via telecommuting. It’s almost like they don’t even understand the importance of office environments that were made obsolete by technology decades ago. And let’s not even get started on all the ridiculous things Millennials seem to think they deserve when it comes to higher education. Hardly a week goes by on campus without some group or another demanding debt forgiveness, tuition freezes or some other nonsense. Why can’t they do what their parents did and attend college during the ‘70s or ‘80s, when tuition cost a fraction of what it does today and could reasonably be paid for by working a part-time job at minimum wage during the summer? With all these demands for changes in professional and educational envi-
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One year later, acquisition of Eugene life sciences company still going smoothly By Sherri Buri McDonald
revenues are based in the United States, company spokesman Tom Keppeler said. The Eugene campus is a strong part of Thermo Fisher’s Life Sciences Solutions Group — one of Thermo Fisher’s four divisions, Olson-Morzenti said. The other units include Laboratory Products and Services, Analytical Instruments and Specialty Diagnostics. “They’re very committed to continuing this campus,” she said. “We have a unique set of products we manufacture here, as well as unique employees.” The Eugene site develops and manufactures reagents, or dyes, that scientists use to determine cell health and function. These products are used by researchers at governments, universities and pharmaceutical companies all over the world, Olson-Morzenti said. One example of a high-profile project that is using products developed in Eugene, Keppeler said, is research being conducted on the International Space Station to understand how proteins bind in zero gravity. Thermo Fisher’s Eugene facility is among the top 15 bioscience businesses in Oregon and Thermo Fisher is a wellrecognized brand in the industry worldwide, said Dennis McNanny, executive director of the Oregon Bioscience Association. “Thermo Fisher is a top-three company in supplying the scientific community with a range of products, especially diagnostics (and) laboratory products. You talk to any scientist across the globe and Thermo Fisher will be a brand they recognize.” McNanny said it reflects well
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EUGENE — Whenever a local company changes hands, it inevitably raises questions of whether the new owner will continue operating the local facility and if they’ll keep the local workforce. But a year after buying the former Life Technologies Corp., Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific hasn’t changed much at the biotech company’s west Eugene campus. Thermo Fisher is committed to continuing its presence in Eugene and has the potential to expand here, an official at the Eugene campus said. “From our standpoint and what we’ve seen here it’s been a very seamless transition,” said Jennifer Olson-Morzenti, associate operations director of Thermo Fisher in Eugene, which employs about 250 people. “There’s been no disruption in the day-to-day working of the site.” Thermo Fisher, which calls itself “the world leader in serving science,” bought Life Technologies Corp. on Feb. 3, 2014, for $15.3 billion, which included cash and the assumption of $2.28 billion of debt. When the deal was completed in February 2014, Marc Casper, Thermo Fisher’s CEO and president said, “With the addition of Life Technologies, we are in an even stronger position to help our customers achieve their goals for innovation and productivity.” Thermo Fisher is based in Waltham, Mass., and has more than 51,000 employees in 50 countries, according to its website. The company reported revenues of $17 billion last year. About half of the company’s employees and about half of its
on Thermo Fisher as an acquirer that it hasn’t rushed in with changes. “Certainly an acquiring facility is under no obligation to do that,” he said. “Usually it comes down to a very calculated value assessment,” McNanny said, adding that Thermo Fisher must have bought the company for the value that was already there, not the value they might gain by restructuring the business. Many of the Eugene employees, including OlsonMorzenti, carried over from Life Technologies. “We’ve had people leave through regular attrition,” she said. But “our leadership team and employees have for the most part stayed intact.” Olson-Morzenti offered no projections for employment growth this year at the Eugene campus, but she said, “we have a robust R&D pipeline and we continue to grow our product lines and the people we employ.” She said the Eugene site attracts job applicants from around the world and it benefits from “a very strong pipeline” of local candidates from the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. There’s also potential for a facilities expansion in Eugene, Olson-Morzenti said, but added she has “no further information at this time” about that possibility. Before the sale to Thermo Fisher, Life Technologies had torn down a 20-year-old, 27,592-square-foot building at the corner of Willow Creek Road and Pitchford Avenue. Life Technologies officials said the building was torn down because of its age and high maintenance
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costs and that the site offered an opportunity for future expansion. Despite the company’s deep roots in the area — Richard and Rosaria Haugland founded the original firm, Molecular Probes, in Minnesota in 1975, and moved it to Oregon in 1982 — what the company does “is still a mystery” to many in the community, Olson-Morzenti said. Thermo Fisher’s Eugene workforce, which includes cell biologists, chemists, engineers, financial analysts and marketing and development specialists, continue to do the same kind of work they have been doing for years: developing dyes for scientific research. As part of last year’s sale, Thermo Fisher bought four buildings on the 24-acre Eugene campus. It also leases from Rosaria Haugland a building, used for manufacturing and distribution, in neighboring Westec Business Park, Olson-Morzenti said. Earlier this year Thermo Fissher received the 2015 Bold Steps award in recognition of the company’s focus on the “triple bottom line” — health of its people, the environment and its finances. As part of that recognition, Olson-Morzenti said she is proudest of the company’s Community Action Council. This group of more than 90 employees has contributed more than 500 hours of volunteer service in the past year. Their service has been for various community events, such as Relay for Life, United Way and InnovationNation, a program that connects employees and local schools to create excitement about life sciences careers. Thermo Fisher also is a zerowaste facility, meaning that it diverts 95 percent of nonhazardous waste from the landfill. That rigorous certification took the company two years to obtain, Olson-Morzenti said. Life Technologies was formed in 2008 when Invitrogen merged with Applied Biosystems. Invitrogen had acquired Eugenebased Molecular Probes from the Hauglands for $325 million in 2003.
Forum to dissect Oregon’s vaccine policy, culture By Saerom Yoo STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — The Oregon Legislature this year found itself at a sensitive crossroads. Oregon had an increasing rate of nonmedical exemptions from required school shots at a time of a multistate measles outbreak. State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward decided this was the year to stand up for public health. Steiner Hayward, a Beaverton Democrat and family physician, proposed eliminating the parents’ option of avoiding vaccines for personal-belief reasons. But the opposition put up a loud and passionate fight, and Steiner Hayward lost the votes needed to pass such a policy. She has come back with another proposal that would strike more of a middle ground between Oregon’s relatively lax school immunization law and the one she imagined in Senate Bill 442. The debate about vaccine policy in Oregon has since cooled considerably. However, the issue remains alive, with the kindergarten nonmedical exemption rate at 7 percent, the nation’s highest. The Statesman Journal and Willamette University College of Law will host an April 16 forum on the vaccine issue with the aim of illuminating it from policy, medical and cultural angles. The expert panelists include Steiner Hayward; Portland pediatrician Dr. Jay Rosenbloom; Bob Reinhardt, Willamette Heritage Center executive director and Western Oregon University history professor; and Willamette professor of law Steve Green. “The Statesman Journal is in a unique position to draw together representatives from all sides of the issues,” Statesman Journal executive editor Michael Davis said. “Part of our role is to be a community connector, and we see this series of discussions as a way to bring about better understanding of
complex issues. Certainly, the topic of vaccines generates considerable heat, but our interest is in generating light.” The event, “Oregon Matters: Vaccines and our Health,” will feature a moderated discussion among the panelists and a question-and-answer period at the end. The forum is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Light refreshments will be served. While Steiner Hayward was in the forefront of Oregon’s vaccine debate in recent months, the other three panelists bring unique expertise and perspectives to the issue. Rosenbloom spearheaded efforts in 2013 to pass a law that requires parents to indicate they have been educated — either by online videos produced by Oregon Health Authority or a health care provider — on the risks of not vaccinating their children before they file a nonmedical exemption. He is also the medical director of Children’s Health Foundation and chairman of the Children’s Health Alliance committee on immunizations. Green is an expert on the intersection of religion, government and law. He submitted an amicus brief in the 2014 Hobby Lobby case in the U.S. Supreme Court, in which Green argued that allowing employers a religious exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for insurance plans to cover contraceptives would place a burden on employees. The Supreme Court decided that certain closely held businesses could be exempt from providing contraceptive services. “Willamette is a leader in the study of health care law,” Willamette law school Dean Curtis Bridgeman said. “With the recent public interest in vaccination, we’re delighted to host such an important and timely discussion.”