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Oregon’s four regional universities have begun the first steps in preparing their own institutional governing boards. The processes continued after the state’s board of higher education announced its endorsement of regional university boards April 4. Like Oregon State University, Portland State University and the University of Oregon, House Bill 4018 will allow the Oregon Institute of Technology, Western Oregon University, Eastern Oregon University and Southern Oregon University to assemble their own boards of trustees. The OSU board of trustees, granted under Senate Bill 270, first met in January to discuss board formation policies and strategies moving forward. Previously, the Oregon University System oversaw statewide finance and administration practices of all Oregon universities. Liz Shelby, SOU director of government relations, said any See BOARDS | page 3
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With an explosion of energy, hot bubbling lava shoots to the ocean’s surface, bringing gigantic plumes of hot water full of nutrients with it. Volcanic eruptions under the sea, thousands of meters below the surface, contribute to the formation of the earth’s new crust. If a plume rises fast enough, it punches through many sea layers reaching the home of phytoplankton — marine plants — that begin feeding on these nutrients. As the phytoplankton feed, large, green algal blooms are triggered, allowing for satellites to visibly detect this change from space. Robert O’Malley, a faculty research assistant within the Mike Behrenfeld research group in the department of botany and plant pathology at Oregon State University, examined these changes in sea color caused by volcanic eruptions in a research study published in January in the journal of Remote Sensing of the Environment. Courtesy of Oregon State University A majority of the research that the Scorching lava erupts onto the sea floor from an underwater volcano, which can be several thousands meters Behrenfeld research group carries out bellow sea level. See VOLCANOES | page 4
DAMchic raises the bar on fashion, on the verge of a transition in leadership
The seasonal publication conveys themes of art, youth and chaos. The team avoids the formality of popular magazines, such as Vogue, for a more simple and relatable style. Sherpe By Ria Rankine wants DAMchic to be a voice THE DAILY BAROMETER for the typical college student, It’s not every day that a class a group many fashion publicaassignment turns into an award- tions ignore. winning magazine. For the staff “I think that people on campus at DAMchic, such a tale exists. are generally interested in fashOregon State University’s premiere fashion and lifestyle ion, but they want something magazine had a humble start as that’s relatable and wearable,” a final class project in summer See DAMCHIC | page 3 2012. Eight students, assigned to create a magazine in two weeks, launched the university’s number one fashion station. Now, the staff has grown to more than 30 members. The magazine won the People’s Choice Award for Best Fashion Publisher and was nominated for Best Publication at the Portland Fashion and Style Awards. The success of DAMchic still comes as a surprise to Katie Sherpe, editor-in-chief. “To see that we’re reaching and influencing other people — it’s humbling,” Sherpe said. “I COURTESY OF DAMchic don’t know why I’m surprised. DAMchic’s metaphysical issue We’re doing really well, but I’m symbolizes a woman getting surprised at how many people lost in her passion. wanted it.”
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Be the change that you want to see. We demand equality. We demand inclusivity. We demand social justice and environmental respect. We want to love who we love and be who we want to be. These were just some of the messages that captivated the audience in the Memorial Union ballroom Thursday evening. Climbing PoeTree, a “dynamic duo” of women from Brooklyn, N.Y., was invited to Oregon State University by teams from Project Social Justice, an initiative within the Intercultural Student Services at Oregon State University. The women of Climbing PoeTree, Naima Penniman and Alixa Garcia, have worked together for more than 10 years. In their performance, Garcia and Penniman shared raps, spoken word poems and multimedia videos, often switching fluidly between Spanish and English. Charlene Martinez, the program director for Project Social Justice, was excited for the energy she anticipated from Climbing PoeTree. “The energy and the paradigms they bring, I hope will inspire students to think out of the box, think collectively and create communities of change,”
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Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree raise their fists during Thursday night’s performance in the Memorial Union ballroom. Martinez said. “(Climbing PoeTree) does it in such a lyrical way, such a creative way, and I’m hoping that students are going to be inspired by that energy.” Yamilet Alas, a first-year master’s student in women, gender and sexuality studies, said that even just after the performance she felt moved to recognize the small changes in her own life that
could create larger impacts worldwide. Alas said she learned about Climbing PoeTree as an undergraduate student but was excited and impressed Thursday night, which was her first time seeing the duo live. She said the power and resistance that showed on stage, and the message that See SPOKEN WORD | page 4
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arrived at the scene, the victim had no idea where her car was. The next day, she called to report her roommate had simply taken it to the store.
He’ll never know how he broke his wrist A concerned citizen called Oregon State police about an extremely intoxicated male. When troopers contacted the male, he allegedly didn’t know where he was and appeared to have a broken wrist. The authorities gave him a ride to Good Samaritan hospital for evaluation.
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The ultimate good samaritan A student approached an Oregon State trooper near the back lot of Adams Hall holding two dollars. He told the trooper of alcohol and the fraternity was given a in broken English he found the two dollars Friday, April 4 special response notice. and was trying to turn it in. The trooper just Tough being the man in charge told him he could keep it and they would Saturday, April 5 Corvallis police responded to a fraternity call him if anyone tried to claim it, but the Awkward roommate situations for a noise complaint at 12:44 a.m. The student insisted that the trooper to take it. Benton County sheriffs were dispatched The two dollars were put into temporary president was contacted and was allegedly visibly intoxicated. Authorities gave to Orchard Tract Road for the report of a evidence. him a citation for minor in possession stolen vehicle around 9:15 p.m. When they managing@dailybarometer.com
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PORTLAND — A local turnaround company is tackling operations at Cover Oregon. And Bruce Goldberg resigned as interim director of the state health insurance exchange. He resigned last month as the director of the Oregon Health Authority. Clyde Hamstreet & Associates will take over Goldberg’s job at Cover Oregon. The local company is known for taking businesses in bankruptcy or legal trouble and bringing them back to profitability. Local examples include the senior living provider Sunwest and Warm Springs Forest Products. The firm’s owner, Clyde Hamstreet, says the $40,000 contract lists five people, “Each of those people have a different skill set,” he said. “We might bring one in to take a look at the financial aspect. We might use someone else for another aspect of it.” Hamstreet says his company
Bruce Goldberg (file photo). has a 50 percent success rate. The Cover Oregon board is poised to decide whether to keep the health exchange website it’s worked so hard to fix, or to switch over to the federal portal. It’s decided not to go with another state’s webpage because of the expense. An audit of the agency by
“That’s the opinion of a person in that organization,” said board member Dr. George Brown. “So I would counter that by saying look at the results of what has happened in the state, in terms of the enrollment of people. Three quarters, by the math today, of people who are eligible for Medicaid have been enrolled. So despite the fact that we can’t do end to end enrollment of the individual, the services that Cover Oregon are providing to the citizens of the state have to be regarded as extremely successful.” OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING More than 217,000 people have enrolled via Cover Oregon Lake Oswego-based TKW, found and another 130,000 people its accounting has been done have been fast-tracked around the website and into Medicaid in accordance with accepted with the Oregon Health principles. Authority. But the audit also said that The Cover Oregon board legal challenges, enrollment heard that the exchange conrisks, legislative actions and a tinues to get up to 1,500 new dependence on contractors, applications every day. could raise substantial doubt The extended enrollment about Cover Oregon’s ability to window remains open until April 30. continue.
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MEDFORD — Thursday was the second day of testimony in the Bourne Huddleston murder trial. Prosecutors brought more witnesses to the stand. Jurors heard from Joseph Nuckolls, a man who said Huddleston tried to hire him to kill his wife Kristy. Another wave of officers involved in the investigation also testified. Unreleased until now, jury members saw video and pictures of the crime scene. Prosecutors and detectives also said an m-4 assault rifle, a homemade silencer and other military style weapons were all found behind a code-locked door inside Bourne Huddleston’s home. “What it appeared to be is some form of handmade silencer,” said Detective Eric Fox with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Huddleston is accused of shooting his wife Kristy in the head back in 2012 at their
home outside of Medford. Before that, prosecutors said he tried to hire a hitman to do it. That man, Joseph Nuckolls, took the stand Thursday offering a possible motive. “He said he had a $30,000 life insurance policy on her,” testified Nuckolls. Nuckolls said he knew Huddleston simply by the name “Jose.” “Is that Jose there?” asked David Hoppe, a Deputy District Attorney with the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office, as he pointed to Huddleston seated in the courtroom. Nuckolls said yes. Nuckolls cousin, Michael Yorrie who also took the stand, allegedly introduced the two. Yorrie said he and Huddleston met by chance. “He asked me what I would do for $20,000,” testified Yorrie on Thursday. Richard Thierolf, a lawyer in Medford handling Kristy Huddleston’s estate also
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testified. According to Thierolf, Kristy was a part of the Federal Employees Retirement System. “Was there a Federal Employees group life insurance policy?” asked Hoppe. “Yes,” said Thierolf. What would the benefits of Mr. Huddleston as spouse have been in the event of her death,” asked Hoppe. “$722,000” responded Thierolf. “Now in the event that Kristy Huddleston was determined to have committed suicide, would that reduce that life insurance policy?” asked Hoppe. “Yes,” Thierolf said. Jury members have also heard from Lori Roberts. Investigators said it was her home where police arrested Huddleston after Kristy was killed. It’s expected the prosecution will continue to bring more witnesses on Friday. Once they’re done, it’ll be the defense’s turn to bring their own people to the stand.
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DAMCHIC n Continued from page 1 Sherpe said. “We’re all tired and broke. Clothing is not always the number one priority, but how you present yourself is important.� Jyssica Yelas, street style editor, gets Oregon State University students involved with the publication by talking to them to see what they’re wearing. She puts a face to recent trends OSU students exhibit on campus. “I decided to do a street style to see what people wear to school,� Yelas said. “Everyone has a different way of doing it.� Like Sherpe, the magazine’s popularity surprised Yelas. More than anything, she’s excited to see what the future will bring. “I was surprised when our last issue hit half a million (readers),� Yelas said. “That was when it became real.� One person who wasn’t surprised by the publication’s success is graduate teaching assistant and founder of DAMchic, Keith Nishida. “You know how a lot of people say ‘I never would have imagined it in a million years,’ well I did,� Nishida said. “As
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Barry C. Scheck, who co-founded the Innocence Project, speaks to students and guests at Willamette University’s College of Law on Wednesday. “About 47 percent of our DNA-exonerated cases result in the real assailants being identified,� Scheck said. “This is a public safety win-win, and creates an enormous amount of optimism in our justice system.� Scheck, who noted that the national Innocence Project organization currently only takes cases where DNA evidence can prove innocence, said Oregon might initially have a tougher time getting exonerations because the state only recently implemented a proper preservation statute, but that shouldn’t deter it from trying. Kaplan said the state didn’t have such a mechanism until 2011, so it’s likely as the Oregon Innocence Project moves forward,
it will encounter some cases where DNA evidence won’t be available because it wasn’t kept properly, if it exists at all. She noted that the Oregon Innocence Project will take DNA and non-DNA evidence cases as well, and that it will have only one paid legal director, former Multnomah County public defender Stephen Wax. The project will be fully funded by private donations, and all other assistance will come from pro bono work, given by attorneys and law student volunteers. She said the Oregon Innocence Project launched Wednesday, and will begin accepting cases this summer.
the founder, I foresaw that there was an opportunity here for students to benefit past, present and future.� He’s proud that his class assignment turned into a platform for his students to gain hands-on experience and explore fashion as a viable career option. For some students, like Yelas, her work at the magazine created a passion for her merchandising management major. “We’ve had staff members gain internships on the work we’ve been doing,� Nishida said. “Industry professionals are reading, and they’re responding positively. ... We are a force to be reckoned with.� Despite its strong start, the future of DAMchic is about to face what Nishida calls a “touch-and-go� period. He and Sherpe will be leaving OSU and the magazine this summer. Nishida is moving forward to explore new career opportunities, while Sherpe will be graduating. “I think in any organization, the transition of power is a pivotal moment,� Nishida said. “There’s going to be a lot of growing pains, a lot of moments of live and learn.� He and Sherpe are preparing the team for this transitional period. The team has had creative control from start to finish, Sherpe said, and she believes the magazine
will stay strong even after her departure. On Nishida’s side, he planned a year in advance to find a suitable candidate to replace him, and he’s confident in his decision. “It’s going to be organized chaos,� Nishida said. “But once (they) realize that, (they’re) more likely to be in a better position to take on new challenges.� New challenges include tailoring editorials to include more of a male demographic. For the winter issue, the team put its first male model on the cover. The winter issue encouraged men to think outside the box and become more daring with their fashion choices. “It’s more stuff they can see themselves wearing,� Sherpe said. “I think men are taking notice.� With new changes and new leaders, there’s no telling where DAMchic will go in the coming years. For Nishida, he sees a bright future for the organization. “I have faith that future leaders (will) take it to where it can be,� Nishida said, “which can be infinite.�
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One such example Saunders gave included if Southern Oregon University were to merge with OSU and become “OSU La Grande.� According to Saunders, additional conversations will take place over the next few days to discuss how to move forward with the boards for EOU and SOU. “The board wants to make sure the financial health is in order before the final endorsement is provided,� Saunders said. The state board of higher education, administrators in each regional university and Gov. John Kitzhaber must reach an agreement on these conditions and will hold discussions to arrive at an agreement in the next 45 days. In addition, Saunders said one of the greatest challenges with the regional universities was not having as much revenue from out-of-state tuition prices due to a higher number of Oregon resident students. “They don’t have the same economy of scale the larger campuses have,� Saunders said. The board of higher education will hold governance and policy committee meetings May 16. The full board will then meet June 6 to discuss the next steps and approve next year’s tuition prices for all Oregon universities. The OSU board of trustees will begin its own administrative roles July 1.
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little things can turn into a huge change, stuck with her most. “As an activist myself, I often look for things to inspire me to do more,” Alas said. “This has definitely done that for me.” Penniman and Garcia see their passions as the driving force behind their work. “We see our art as a tool to help bring more connection, bring more positive stories, to help transform reality honestly,” Penniman said. For the audience, the duo’s “tool” was evidently hard at work. “Everything that came out of them was pure poetry, and it spoke to me,” said Leann Adam, an education abroad advisor for international programs through OSU. “Things like (the performance) empower people and help them to keep going forward and feel like a community, and I love that. It’s very beautiful.” Their performance was just one part of the pair’s visit to Corvallis. Earlier Thursday afternoon, Penniman and Garcia hosted a workshop
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S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, which stands for “Stories Testimonies Intentions Truths Confessions Healing Expressions Dreams,” is an ongoing project to collect people’s stories. focused on the art of spoken word and storytelling. Friday, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the pair is hosting an additional workshop in the Native American Longhouse, focused on the use of arts as cultural activism. The workshops are based on their own experiences and work using spoken word, music, images and multimedia resources to share the emotions, events and ideas they have had and collected from others.
Climbing PoeTree has brought their work to more than 80 cities in the United States, as well as traveling internationally, overseas and continentally. Both women said exploring new cultures and sharing stories with new people are some of the best parts of their work. “It’s cool to get to experience so many different communities, so many different environments,” Penniman said. “It’s very rewarding getting to do
paying very close attention and being able to identify repeating patterns in the data.” Observing satellite data from areas where they knew underwater eruptions were occurring, mostly throughout the Pacific Ocean, led to the discovery of the relationships between hot spots in ocean color and seamounts, which are mountains on the ocean’s floor. “It was very cool and exciting for us,” Behrenfeld said. “It opens the possibility of working in connection with other research groups who actually do underwater monitoring of volcanoes by helping them to identify the specific timing of eruptions that are documented in situ (location).” This technology does not
predict eruptions, but it helps researchers gain a better understanding of how they occur. O’Malley is the first researcher to develop and apply this methodology of observing temporal anomalies and quantifying these events on a wide scale. This research contributes to a global effort to understand the interactions between geological processes and biology in the oceans. These findings offer the chance to go directly to those sites and hopefully catch them while they are in action, O’Malley said. O’Malley applied this method to volcanoes with the test set, but he is fairly sure he can equally apply this method to upwelling in general around
work that’s very in-line with what we believe in.” After the performance, attendees were invited to contribute to S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D, which stands for “Stories Testimonies Intentions Truths Confessions Healing Expressions Dreams.” The ongoing project began after Hurricane Katrina. Penniman and Garcia collect these stories, stitch them together and carry them, in the form of a tapestry, along their travels. “My favorite part is going around the country and the world and seeing so many people inspired and activated to transform the story that they’ve inherited,” Garcia said. “I’m always amazed by people’s creativity, people’s willingness, just like true valor and courage, because it takes a lot of courage to be in the trenches. Social justice, there’s nothing glamorous about it. It’s just a lot of work but … it’s just magnificent to see all the solutions constantly evolving around me.” Though the pair is rooted in Brooklyn, they will be back to the West Coast in May to visit Portland. Kaitlyn Kohlenberg
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seamounts. “I think that this method isn’t necessarily just of interest for understanding volcanoes, but the way that I found the volcanic events,” O’Malley said. “I used a very, very, very different technique — it may or may not get traction in finding other volcanoes, but my hope is that it may be applicable in other fields.” O’Malley is currently tackling the challenge of constructing a global database, which will handle the density of data provided by the satellites. The NASA Ocean Biology and Geochemistry Program funded the research.
is based upon data provided by NASA satellites in orbit 700 kilometers above the ocean’s surface. “They are sun-synchronous polar orbiters swinging by at the same time each day,” O’Malley said. “They cover the whole earth in one to two days, which is about two observations every three days near the equator.” O’Malley’s role in the research is to process the massive amounts of incoming satellite data, while also working from a satellite record that goes back more than 10 years in Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova order to maintain an accurate Science reporter record website of satellite data managing@dailybarometer.com for researchers. When examining the satellite images, O’Malley looks for changes — if something is rare or not in either space or in time. He questions how rare these changes are or how often they happen. He meticulously counts every change of an image within each pixel and the resultant data is used to quantify chlorophyll concentration, allowing him to approximate the biomass of marine phytoplankton. Surprisingly, the abundance to phytoplankton can be indicative of geological formations thousands of meters below the surface, previously unknown to researchers. “The paper that came out on Courtesy of Robert O’Malley volcanoes was a little bit of an A 3D model of an early version of the metric OSU researchers worked with on an eruption accident,” Behrenfeld said. “It’s in the Tonga region. basically a reflection of O’Malley
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This weekend’s series for the Oregon State softball team has all the necessary factors for being the biggest matchup of the year. Not only is No. 1 Oregon coming into Corvallis for this year’s Civil War, but the Ducks also have the top ranking in the Pac-12 and in the nation. OSU’s defeat of No. 6 Arizona State in two of three games to kick off Pac12 play is a pointed display that the Beavers can topple any team, but head coach Laura Berg thinks her squad is not using that reminder like it should. “They have to know that they can compete with the top teams,” she said. “How they don’t already know that I don’t know, because we took the series against ASU, which was ranked No. 5 at the time.” The Beavers (13-20, 3-7 Pac-12) are looking to make another statement against the Ducks (34-5, 8-1) when the series gets underway Saturday at 2 p.m., after struggling in the last three conference matchups. Since the ASU series, the Beavers have lost six of eight games, three of them to No. 9 Arizona. If the Beavers hadn’t already had enough of playing top-10 teams, they’ll get more chances to do so — the two remaining Pac-12 weekends after the Civil War contests have games against No. 3 UCLA and No. 10 Washington. See SOFTBALL | page 6
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Head coach Laura Berg (right) and senior center fielder Dani Gilmore (left) talk with junior second baseman Ya Garcia (middle) during a March 16 win against Arizona State.
Track set for John Knight Twilight OSU ready for smaller meet in Monmouth, will have athletes compete in many field events
peak performances.” Ausman will be competing in three events for the first time this year — the discus, shot put and hammer throw. It’s her first time competing in the hammer. Her biggest goal for the meet, By Scott McReynolds however, will be to break the school record for discus, a mark THE DAILY BAROMETER held by Beth Nygren with a distance of 155-2. Ausman’s last Following a weekend during which the Beavers com- throw in the discus event was at Hayward Field three weeks peted with some of the top track and field athletes in ago, when she hit 150-10. the nation at the Stanford Invitational, Oregon State She will be joined in the throws by freshmen Rachel Picknell now heads north to compete in a smaller meet, the John (shot put, discus, hammer) and Tricia Ingraham (shot put), and Knight Twilight, located at Western Oregon University in sophomore Kayla Fleskes (discus, hammer, javelin). Monmouth. See TRACK | page 6 The Beavers will be sending 18 athletes to compete in multiple events: hurdles, jumps, throws, steeple, 100meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter. The meet will be held Friday, with field events beginning at 1 p.m. and track events starting at 4 p.m. The meet will include a mixture of junior colleges and a variety of Division I, II and III schools. It will be different than the last meet, for which teams had to meet a qualifying mark to compete. “It’s important to have a good little mix of meets,” said assistant coach Travis Floeck. The more you com“Bigger meets have high pete, the more comexpectations and more petitions you have, pressure, and sometimes it’s nice to go to a meet the better you get. and have a little bit less. “We know that the Melissa Ausman high competition can Freshman thrower bring out great performances, and when they do get the competition, they can usually respond to it and step up their game. But every time we can get out and compete it’s a good opportunity.” Floeck said that at these types of meets, it is never quite know who will show up, citing that assistant coach Geena Lara, an Olympian, will be racing at the meet in the 400-meter and 1,500. An example of how you need to be prepared to go up against the best for every meet. For track and field athletes, it’s important to race in competitions to help gauge progress in terms of training. Finding the sweetspot between competing in competitive meets, while also getting repetitions at multiple meets, is an important factor for the coaches, according to Floeck. courtesy of stoddard reynolds “The more you compete, the more competitions you have, the better you get,” said freshman Melissa Ausman. “It helps Sophomore Kelsi Schaer competes at the Oregon with getting yourself calm to a point where you’re going to hit Preview in Eugene.
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There have been 29 NCAA championships in baseball among current Pac-12 schools. Twenty-seven of those were California and Arizona schools. The other two? Oregon State in 2006 and ‘07. Baseball in the Pacific Northwest has always been an afterthought in college baseball. Since 1967, only nine states have been home
to national champions: California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas and Oregon. The frequent downpours of rain in the region have inhibited schools’ ability to practice year-round and recruit well. In 1995, Pat Casey’s first year as the Beavers’ head coach, the conference was split into the Pac-10 North and the Pac-10 South, with the formidable schools from sunny California and Arizona playing each other, and OSU, Washington State and Washington being grouped in with the likes of Portland, Portland State and Gonzaga — the opposite See SOFTBALL | page 6
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Four days after competing in the Redhawk Invitational in Tacoma, Wash., the Oregon State men’s golf team will be in Columbus, Ohio. The Beavers will be competing in the Robert Kepler Invitational starting Saturday, a two-day, threeround event played on Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course. The Beavers enter the tournament hoping to build off of their recent performance in the Redhawk Invitational. There, the Beavers had a great start to the tournament. After two rounds, the Beavers were in fifth place, just seven strokes back of the leading team. Freshman Kevin Murphy led the way, firing a 2-under
year at OSU. The Duck Invite, however, only featured one team that was nationally ranked, No. 45 Oregon. Saturday’s Robert Kepler Intercollegiate will feature six nationally ranked teams, including No. 4 Georgia Tech, No. 18 UAB, No. 30 Kentucky State, No. 32 UNLV, No. 38 Liberty and No. 47 Northwestern. Including Oregon State, there are 15 competing teams. The remaining eight are Ball State, Cleveland State, Eastern Michigan, Miami (Ohio), Ohio State, Missouri, Penn State and Charlotte. This is the last tournament of Oregon State’s regular season, but the team will begin play in the Pac-12 Men’s Golf Championships on April 25.
par 68 in the first round and a 1-under par 69 in the second. Those two rounds were the fourth-best of any golfer in the tournament and were Murphy’s eighth and ninth rounds below par this season. With how well the Beavers played in the first two rounds, their performance in the final round had to be somewhat deflating. Their seven-stroke deficit behind the lead grew to a 22-stroke deficit by day’s end, and the Beavers slipped from fifth place to sixth place in the overall standings. They were 10-over par in the final round. Prior to the Redhawk Invitational, the Beavers last played in the Oregon Duck Invite, which Oregon State ended up winning by nine strokes. It is the fourth team title under head coach Jon Reehoorn, who is in his fourth
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USA Baseball announced Thursday that Oregon State senior pitcher Ben Wetzler and junior left fielder Michael Conforto have been named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List. The award is given annually to the nation’s top amateur player. Wetzler and Conforto are two of 50 players on the list and two of just three Pac-12 players who were selected. Wetzler is a perfect 6-0 in six starts on the season with a 0.38 earned run average, which is second in the nation. His hits per nine innings
(3.06) and walks plus hits per innings pitched (WHIP — 0.62) are both the best in the nation. Conforto, meanwhile, leads the Pac-12 in runs batted in (35) and walks (30) and his .531 on-base percentage is fourth in the nation. He’s hitting .383, which is fourth in the Pac-12. Both players will be back in action Friday when Oregon State travels to Pullman, Wash., to take on Washington State in a three-game series. Wetzler will get the start on the mound Friday for the Beavers. The Daily Barometer
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Freshmen Helen Ann Haun and Annie Sidor will be seeing their first competition since March 29 in the pole-vault. Earlier this season, they became OSU’s first female competitors in the event. Freshmen Allison Jackson and Kaylene Rust, sophomores Jessica Lautenbach, Bethany Imperial and Michele Turney and juniors Justine Bird and Kaitlyn Mason will all be competing in the jumps. Junior Lacey London will be the sole OSU performer in the 800 at the meet. She has only raced in the event once this year, but is ninth on the all-time list with a time of 2:13.10. The 1,500, alongside assistant coach Lara, will feature freshmen Holly Cavalluzzo and Monica Anderson, along with sophomore Adrienne Demaree. Sophomore Haley Hunt and senior Hilary Sharpe will close out the night for the Beavers, competing in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 7:40 p.m.
Junior Kinsey Gomez races in the Oregon Preview in Eugene March 22.
BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 of baseball powerhouses. “For a while, I think a lot of people were underestimating (teams from the Northwest),” said junior right fielder Dylan Davis. Fast-forward 20 years and the state of the conference has turned upside down. No. 9 Washington is atop the conference standings with the No. 6 Beavers (25-6, 9-3 Pac-12) one game behind. Washington State is tied for third with UCLA and No. 25 Oregon is tied for fifth. “It’s nice to see all of us up there,” said junior left-handed pitcher Jace Fry. “I feel like that’s kind of how the Pac-12 works — everyone just beats up on each other.” The three teams from the conference in the national top 25 are all from the Pacific Northwest.
Meanwhile, traditional powerhouses USC, Stanford, Arizona State, Arizona and Cal are filling out the bottom half of the conference standings. Those five have a combined Pac-12 record of 21-33, and ASU and UCLA are the only schools from California and Arizona with a winning record in conference play. The Beavers are heading to Pullman, Wash., this weekend for a three-game series against the Cougars. WSU enters with a 15-14 overall record, with a 6-3 mark in Pac-12 play. Of the Pacific Northwest teams, the Cougars have had the least success. They haven’t won a conference title since 1995, when it was the Pac-10 North. Their combined conference record in the past three seasons is 31-56, and they haven’t finished with an overall winning percentage better than .500 since 2010. This year’s club looks reju-
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.476 on the year and .516 in Pac12 games. “She is a phenomenal athlete,” Berg said. “She’s the fivetool star that you see. There’s a reason she was drafted, there’s a reason she’s in the top 25 for USA Player of the Year.” Ceo recorded a hit in both Civil War games last year, each ending in Oregon wins. The Beavers won the 2012 matchup in Corvallis, two games to one. Though Chirichigno is playing in her first Civil War this year after transferring from Boston College, she’s familiar with at least one of the players. She and UO freshman shortstop Nikki Udria both played at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif. Both play shortstop on their respective collegiate teams now, but it was Chirichigno
who held that position at Mater Dei while Udria played third base. Chirichigno said that playing Udria this weekend won’t be a distraction. “Obviously, you’re going to notice other players on the field,” she said. “I’m more or less going to be focused on what we’re doing.” That focus will come into play Saturday when OSU will try to prove once again that a big win is not out of the question for the Beavers. “They’re in our state, so we definitely have to beat them,” Chirichigno said. “I think it would surprise a lot of people.”
OSU plays two of those teams at home, including Oregon. “We’ve beat ranked teams before, especially on our home field, so it should be an advantage for us,” said junior shortstop CJ Chirichigno. The Beavers will have to slow down the Ducks’ juggernaut offense, which has outscored opponents 246-92 this year. The Ducks even have maintained a winning record in games during which the opponent scored six or more runs Scott McReynolds, sports reporter in a single contest, managing On Twitter @scottyknows80 to outpace other teams with sports@dailybarometer.com their bats. Josh Worden, sports reporter The high-powered attack is On Twitter @WordenJosh led by senior infielder Courtney venated, and the Beavers are Ceo, who is batting a team-high sports@dailybarometer.com taking notice. “It’s just good for the whole conference every time you can have a team that’s starting to Davis said. “Three good starters, turn it around, starting to win and they’ve got a pretty good games,” said senior left-hander bullpen. And they can swing it, like always.” Ben Wetzler. Last season, the Cougars came In two road series, WSU took out of three games against into Corvallis for the last series of Arizona, and took UCLA to 11 the season. The Beavers took two innings in the rubber match, out of three, and the WSU playultimately losing the series, 1-2. ers had to watch OSU celebrate Two weeks ago, the Cougars its Pac-12 championship on the field after the final game. swept Cal. A year later, the Cougars have The Cougars have typically been solid offensively, and that something to play for. With the recent success of has continued; they’re second in conference play in batting aver- the four Northwest schools, the age (.285) and second in stolen region may finally be recognized as a formidable part of the colbases (10). The difference this year has lege baseball landscape. “It speaks amends to the kind been their ability to pitch and play defense well. WSU has a of ball we play up here,” Davis 3.14 earned run average in Pac- said. justin quinn | THE DAILY BAROMETER 12 play and ranks fourth in fieldWarner Strausbaugh, editor-in-chief Senior Kavin Keyes (3) knocks helmets with junior Michael ing percentage (.978). On Twitter @WStrausbaugh Conforto (8) against Stanford April 6. “(WSU is) solid, all-around,” sports@dailybarometer.com
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y house, commonly known as the village due to its sheer ability to shelter a variety of people at any given time, is on a health kick. We got our hands on the “Insanity” workout DVDs and went Costco shopping to buy health items in bulk. We meant business. It’s five of us, all working as a team for good, fighting evil. In this case, evil is the oh-so-delicious and cheap deep-dish pizza at Little Caesars. However, transaturated fat is a fickle mistress. If one isn’t careful, one may soon find him- or herself lost in the Hostess section of Winco, eyeing the maple bars like a hawk eyes a tasty field mouse. Shortly after the village’s health kick began, friends and roommates were at
each other’s throats. There was a lot of yelling, many tears and many Oreos. Let me take you back — before all of this happened — to a happier, more peaceful time, when we were all on great terms with our allies to the east, Ben and Jerry. It was a Tuesday. As a spring term gift, my parents got me “Insanity.” For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s basically a physically perfect freak of nature telling you to dig deeper after doing around — give or take a couple thousand — 10,000 squats. It was perfect, because I wanted to start getting healthier. I told my roommates about it, and soon the other three were on board, as well. We started doing the workouts. There may have even been workout calendars with highlighted dates and
infiltrated. The culprit was “Chicken in a Biskit.” Cue ominous music. There’s a variety of food out there: Alec food that’s good for you, food that’s bad for you and what I call Ring Food. Named for the lembas bread in “The Lord of the Rings,” Ring Food bears times. a heavy weight. When you hold it in I don’t do arts and crafts, and I’m not your hand, “recommended servings” handy with a printer, but let’s just say and “chewing” go out the window. Not glitter calendars were made and just everyone can handle Ring Food. In fact, having to look at it or even carry the leave it at that. However, in order to reshape the negative weight of pure carbohydratetemple, you can’t just remodel it. You laden goodness makes people snap. And snap they did. have to fuel it. It wasn’t long until one of our roomThat’s where produce comes in handy. We bought every alternative mates began acting strangely. He to red meat: turkey, black bean burg- smelled of guilt, shame and fructose ers, you name it. We went on like this corn syrup. for a whole week until the village was See GREVSTAD | page 8
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Stop, drop, rewind: Down with ‘Twilight’ L ast week, I wrote an April Fools’ Day column in which I argued that “Twilight” is the best love story of all time. It has come to my attention that there are readers out there who didn’t catch the facetious nature of my statements. Rather than be hurt that the masses didn’t understand my sense of humor, or be offended that my peers might actually think I’m a Twi-hard, I decided that this little misunderstanding is a great opportunity to talk about emotional abuse within relationships. The “Twilight” series displays and glorifies several characteristics of an abusive relationship. Unfortunately for
puts herself down for being clumsy, unattractive and unsuccessful in her pursuits. When Edward starts to show a Shelly romantic interest in her, she quickly becomes attached and wraps her selfworth up in his feelings for her. Without Edward, Bella loses interour youth and our society, many young girls are now looking for relationships est in life and seeks violence in order resembling that of Stephenie Meyer’s to feel. protagonists, Edward and Bella. According to loveisrespect.org, Bella’s personality contains char- Edward meets nine of 10 criteria as acteristics found to be conducive to an abusive partner. He is possessive, an abusive environment. Since she is has mood swings and an explosive the narrator, readers are privy to her temper, he is constantly jealous of consistently negative self-talk. She See LORTS | page 8
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o matter how you look at it, dates are an amusing ritual. One person asks another person to do something. However, the goal isn’t necessarily to do the thing you’ve made arrangements to do together, it’s to get to know each other. Whether you get cornered and see no way out or you genuinely like the person who asked you to spend time together and want to get to know them, agreeing to a casual date is only half the battle. Now you have to determine if that person is worth it. By “worth it,” I don’t mean in a snotty I’m-better-thanyou way, I mean that you have to be smart about the time you spend with someone else. Especially if they’re interested in you and you’re not sure about them. But getting to know someone else can be tricky. Researchers say that first impressions are everything. Generally, a first impression can tell you all you need to know about a person. You only need seven seconds to determine a person’s good and bad qualities, according to Carol Kinsey Goman’s “Seven Seconds to Make a First Impression.” But I don’t think seven seconds is enough. I think we should give people a break, especially when we’re on a date with someone. Everyone deals with nerves differently. Just because someone froze up doesn’t mean he or she isn’t interesting. So how can we really learn all there is to know about a person from a simple seven-second greeting? Dates should be in a casual setting, especially first dates. You should probably know a person pretty well before jumping into candlelit, 15-fork, romantic gushy nonsense. Breaking out those big guns too soon is unnecessary, and will likely be uncomfortable for everyone involved. So, yes, first impressions can be important. But pushing past the introduction to get a glimpse of the person behind the public face isn’t exactly a terrible idea. The key to really getting to know someone is to listen to the person you’re trying to form a connection with. Don’t interrupt, even if you completely disagree with what he or she is saying. Body language speaks louder than words, anyway. See SCOTTALINE | page 8
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LORTS n Continued from page 7 Bella’s relationships with other men and most frighteningly, he slowly isolates from her friends and her family. All-consuming love is not healthy. No one’s self-worth should come from someone else. I spent more than three years of my early twenties in a manipulative and abusive relationship. I understand — now — that there comes a time at which the rollercoaster-esque drama reaches a point when it begins to feel normal. The movies I was watching and the books I was reading confirmed that my feelings were acceptable, if not desirable. I had a hard time listening to my instincts, which were screaming that what I was experiencing wasn’t OK. Love is like a glass of liquid: If your glass isn’t full of love for
managing@dailybarometer.com • 541-737-3383 yourself, you don’t have any to give away, nor do you have the right to ask someone else to fill it for you. It isn’t until your glass is overflowing that you have the ability to give love away and be fully contented with the love you receive. Love isn’t about the completion of self. Love is about complementing the self. It’s the difference between want and need. If you feel like you need a relationship in order to be whole, you’re not ready for mature companionship. Part of the problem is that popular culture is teaching us that drama begets love. But books and movies have a formula specifically crafted to arouse our emotions in order to make money. I remember a lecture in film school during which the professor stated, “no one cares what happens after the final dramatic kiss.” Our job was to
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make the hour and a half before it exciting. But real life and real love don’t follow the formula of cinematic storycraft. Love truly is respect, and true love is about wanting the best for your partner. It’s about supporting each other, and allowing each other to flourish in individual pursuits and goals. Love is the choice to live a shared life of respectful companionship to which everyone is entitled. If you think you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, do not hesitate to seek help. There are resources available on campus like Counseling and Psychological services. CAPS can be reached by calling 541-737-2131.
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EUGENE — This is not your grandmother’s crochet. One of the most surprising exhibits of the season at the UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is Jo Hamilton’s half of a new show called “Contemporary Oregon Visions: Jo Hamilton and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.” Not to minimize Olivieri’s considerable talents in the slightest; her intricate and deep paintings of the natural world and its creatures, many of which incorporate voluminous amounts of text so tiny that it can’t be read unless seen so close as to nearly draw the viewer into the frame. Olivieri will be coming to the museum a second time in May to lead a gallery tour and talk about her exhibited work and her just-published book, “Closer to Wildness.” Right now, though, the focus will be on Hamilton’s amazing ability to take a crochet hook to yarn and turn it into portraits that look like the people and places they represent. Among her works are a wonderful self-portrait, portraits of exotic women — some recently exhibited at Paris’ Printemps — and a huge, fanciful rendition of Portland.
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Black said. “That would prove to her that she could accomplish anything with this medium. “And I think she definitely has.” A video plays on the wall of the exhibit, in which Hamilton, who grew up in Scotland but moved to Portland in 1996, talks about learning to crochet from her grandmother, she calls Gran. Hamilton started by practicing traditional “granny squares,” similar to the ones that make up thousands of afghans lying over the backs of couches throughout this country, if not the world. “She was a painter first,” Black said, “but because she could crochet she decided to see what more she might be able to do with that, more like painting. And with that, she found herself and her medium. “It was so familiar, she just experimented with it, and it’s absolutely amazing what she is able to do.” Hamilton spent years still working at the restaurant while she created her crocheted pieces, Black said. “For several years she had to do it on the side, but now she’s represented by the Laura Russo Gallery,” Black said. “I’m so happy for her.
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Pontificating is something that should be avoided at all costs, especially in the first few interactions with a person, according to Sarah Schmermund, author of “Five Communication Pitfalls That May Make Your First Date Your Last.” It’s always rude to dominate the conversation — or to state your personal opinions as facts. However, discussing our opinions as options rather than facts is the most effective and nonthreatening way to talk about who you are and where your convictions lie, which are crucial things to disclose to prospective partners-in-date. But most importantly, being comfortable with yourself is the key to success. Success in all areas of life, really, not just dating. Because other people are only as comfortable with you as you are with yourself. If you’re constantly worried about how you’re coming off to someone, it’s going to be pretty stressful and difficult for that someone to deal with. Nobody wants to babysit his or her friends, or significant others. We want to enjoy the people we choose to be around. And that’s the thing: We choose who we want to be around. So be smart, but have fun and relax. Spending time with potential significant others should be an enjoyable experience, not a chore. But don’t worry: You don’t have to determine if someone’s your soul mate over the first cup of coffee. You’ve got plenty of other things to stress about.
He’d been hoarding Twinkies. One bad apple can spoil the whole bushel, and spoil us he did. A chain is only as strong as its weakest links — so what do you do when all the chain’s links want ice cream? We got off track. Our attempt to start off on the healthy foot stumbled and tripped to an inglorious halt. However, we learned a few valuable lessons. Number one, don’t ever give up eating ice cream, it’s too delicious and life is too short. Number two, try and try again. Despite our first attempt being the complete opposite of a success, it didn’t mean that a second, third, 12th chance would hurt. Now we’re extra motivated, even in the face of failure, because we want to prove the hater part of our minds wrong. Thomas Edison’s response to being asked about his 10,000 failures to create a viable light bulb said, “I haven’t failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Maybe we didn’t get healthy right away, and maybe we didn’t accomplish our goal right away. But we now know what works and doesn’t work for us. In the end, that’s all that matters.
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The “portrait” of Portland alone took three years to complete. It has a brown, wavy stripe dividing the scene that represents Burnside Street, which really does divide the city’s address system, north from south. The work features a quadrant with old Victorian houses and one with construction cranes and modern buildings. A river appears to run through it. And remember, this is not photography or painting. This is crochet. One set of portraits commemorates the people the artist worked with at LePigeon, a restaurant on East Burnside Street in Portland. Another set of portraits she created from photographs collected by Multnomah County law enforcement. “These are so interesting for the intensity of their expressions,” said June Black, who co-curated the show with Jessi DiTillio. “I think these pieces humanize people who are often devaluated in our culture,” DiTillio said. The end wall of the exhibit hall is occupied by a gigantic, reclining male nude. “Apparently, she thought that if she could do a huge nude in crochet, she could do anything,”
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