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Friday event begins Oregon State’s new educational affiliation with LA museum By Tori Hittner
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It could have been a religious revival: crowd on its feet, hands clapping raucously in unison, choir boisterously singing in call and repeat. Though the atmosphere was certainly impassioned and joyous enough to take place in a church, participants gathered Friday afternoon in the Memorial Union lounge for a different reason: to celebrate Oregon State University’s recent partnership with the Los Angeles GRAMMY Museum. “This partnership is mutually beneficial,” said Bob Santelli, executive director of the GRAMMY Museum. “It is going to be a fabulous, hopefully well-trafficked, two-way street, and it’s going to be something that I think will endure and make Oregon State University what I have always thought it has been: a great institution with incredible opportunities in the field of art.” Santelli’s daughter, an OSU alumna herself, was also in attendance. The GRAMMY Museum, open since 2008, is an institution located in the heart of Los Angeles dedicated to preserving the legacies and stories of 166 different kinds of music. Oregon State’s recent partnership makes it one of only two of the museum’s current educational affiliates. The relationship offers students and faculty research programs, internship opportunities and professional development seminars. “The GRAMMY Museum is all about education,” Santelli said. “The idea is to create a large network of universities and cultural institutions that will allow interaction and relationships to build.” OSU President Ed Ray highlighted several of the OSU music department’s recent accomplishments and developments, including the amassment of $6 million in donations. “In our own way at Oregon State, in elevating our game and supporting the arts,” Ray said, “we’re also interested in perpetuating and saving American music alongside the GRAMMY Museum.” OSU alumnus and Broadway talent Roosevelt Credit actively demonstrated the music department’s promise and value. Alongside current OSU choir members, Credit treated the audience to his smooth vocal talents and vibrant personality. By the final number, most members of the audience were on their feet, singing and clapping along. Credit’s accomplishments include several performances on Broadway, as well as recent work on the awardwinning film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Here at Oregon State, the arts See GRAMMY | page 4
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Oregon State University’s nationally recognized Holocaust Memorial Week offers unique learning opportunities from scholars, artists, survivors By Tori Hittner THE DAILY BAROMETER
Monday marks the beginning of OSU’s nationally lauded Holocaust Memorial Week, a long-standing and proud campus tradition since 1987. Organized and facilitated by the Holocaust Memorial Week committee, the week-long event offers students and community members the chance to hear from
qualified scholars and even a Holocaust survivor herself. “Our program has always been particularly geared toward the Holocaust and exploring it from a number of angles,” said committee chair Paul Kopperman. “We’re always doing new stuff; the approach tends to be very different (each year).” Kopperman has served on the committee since its creation 17 years ago and sat as chair since 1994. He is also a professor in the school of history, philosophy and religion. Among the 2014 program’s most anticipated events is a talk by Laureen Nussbaum, a childhood friend of Anne Frank’s and one See HOLOCAUST | page 4
Holocaust Memorial Week Events Monday: The Holocaust and the Shaping of Israel When: 7:30 p.m. Where: LaSells Steward Center
Thursday: Remembering Anne Frank
Tuesday: “Forty” When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Withycombe Hall Lab Theatre
Friday: Social Justice in Policy and Education
Wednesday: Shared Suffering and Empathy: Incorporating the Holocaust into Sub-Saharan African Thought and Commemoration When: 7:30 p.m. Where: LaSells Steward Center
Where: Memorial Union Journey Room
When: 7:30 p.m. Where: LaSells Steward Center Austin Auditorium
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Friday: “In Quest of Conscience” When: 7:30 p.m. Where: LaSells Steward Center
After Dark’s finale brightens students’ weekend Final event of academic year includes pirates, casino games in Dixon Recreation Center
Tsang said the larger events of the school year can get up to 800 students in attendance, though the events average 300-400 students. Sam Matsumura, a sophomore in By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg public health, has attended several THE DAILY BAROMETER events and said some of this may be Students flocked to Dixon due to advertising. Recreation Center to socialize with “This was actually ‘fun-datory’ for friends, meet some pirates from our hall,” Matsumura said. “I know Portland and gamble the night away at this event, specifically, was super big, the last After Dark event of the school but some of the other events, maybe year Friday. the advertising is not as good.” The After Dark Matsumura said events are put on by only some of the biga coalition between I like the pirates, ger events seem to University Housing be as widely broadespecially the one and Dining Services, casted in the resiwith the accordion. the Student Events dence halls. and Activities Center The events take and Recreational place during the Kelsey Milholland Sports. first, fourth and sevFreshman in biology The Residence enth weeks of each Hall Association term, except for joined in the planning process for spring when there is not one in week the event. seven. The events have centered on “It’s just providing a space for our various themes or activities, but for on-campus residents, also our off- most students, the attraction is in the campus (residents),” said Jeffrey social aspect. Tsang, who works in the community “I just like the vibe and the people,” engagement and leadership developsaid Justin Archield, a senior in psyment program with UHDS. “You see a chology. “It’s a good experience. I lot of returning students and people get a chance to hang out with all my who are just passing by Dixon just See AFTER DARK | page 4 come and have fun.”
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Bikers ride for annual charity 6th annual Ride the Heart of the Valley charity event brings cyclists together Saturday
Meg Jacobson, a second-year veterinary student, was elected to the position of committee chair for the charity bike ride. “I really like the fact that it highBy Kaitlyn Kohlenberg lights both animal and human bonds,” THE DAILY BAROMETER Jacobson said. “In the past, we’ve been From far and wide, bicyclists able to raise quite a bit of money, and showed up as early as 7 a.m. to ride ... it’s something that has worked really in the sixth annual Ride the Heart of well and I want it to continue that.” the Valley charity bike ride Saturday. She said that because it’s a small The ride is put on by the Oregon college at OSU, most veterinary stuState University Student Chapter of dents get involved in some way or the American Veterinary Medical another, adding that she “fell into the Association. This year’s was focus position of committee chair.” was promoting both human and aniAs chair of the 2014 event, Jacobson mal health and relationships between See BIKERS | page 4 the two. n
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PORTLAND — Doctors and patients gathered in Portland this weekend for a conference on blood cancers, organized by the Northwest chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Roughly 1.3 million people in the United States are living with or are in remission from leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, and leukemia remains the most common form of cancer in children and teenagers. A team at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute recently announced an initiative to develop treatments for a particularly complex and difficult to treat form of blood cancer: AML, or acute myeloid leukemia. Patients with AML have high numbers of abnormal immature white blood cells, which crowd out healthy cells in the blood stream and the bone marrow. The initiative is called “Beat AML.” Doctors used to think of AML as a single disease, but Dr. Elie Traer, an oncologist at OHSU, says research has found dozens of different strains of AML. Each strain of the cancer is associated with a unique set of genetic mutations. The team at OHSU
is collecting blood samples from 900 AML patients and is planning to sequence the genomes of their cancer cells. “The real goal is to try to understand what are the genetic changes that cause a certain leukemia to be sensitive to a certain drug,” Traer said. Traer says at present, genomic testing for AML patients is mostly used to identify which strain of the cancer they have and to predict whether or not they’re likely to survive. The team at OHSU hopes to identify a suite of drugs that will target the specific genetic driver of each type of AML. “As opposed to what we do know, which is where we treat all acute myeloid leukemia patients with the exact same chemotherapy, even though we know they all respond differently. We just don’t have a better approach right now,” said Traer. The research is funded by a grant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and made possible by the falling cost of sequencing DNA. In 2008, it cost about a million dollars to sequence the genome of a cancer cell; today, it costs less than $5,000. OHSU is partnering with Intel and several biotech companies to analyze the
data from the gene sequences they are gathering. The genomes of cancer-causing cells are made up of about 3 trillion tiny building blocks called base pairs. Mutations can be large -- involving hundreds of thousands of base pairs -- or tiny, involving just one or two base pairs. Further complicating the picture, some mutations are actually harmless, making it challenging for researchers to pinpoint which ones cause cancer. “Intel is working with us basically to work on the computing side of all this. They’ve been interested in this as a computational problem,“ says Traer. The “Beat AML” team hopes to finish gathering genomic data and identifying potentially successful drugs within three years, and then to develop clinical trials after that. Dr. Brian Druker, the director of the Knight Cancer Institute, is leading the initiative. Druker is known for his contribution to the development of Imatanib, one of the first drugs capable of targeting and blocking the action of a cancer-causing protein. The drug, marketed as Gleevac, has revolutionized the treatment of several types of leukemia.
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Monday, April 28 Events
Student Health Services, Women’s Center, CAPS, 7pm, MU Journey Room. Film Screening: “Brave Miss World.” The film explores the trauma and stigma of sexual assault, thorugh one woman’s inspiring journey from teenage victim to empowered survivor, lawyer and advocate. Face AIDS, 6:30pm doors open, MU Ballroom. Condom Couture 2014. OSU’s third annual Condom Couture Fashion Show. HIV/AIDS awareness event. All the outfits are made almost entirely of condoms. Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Noon-4pm, Snell Hall 427. Cake, ice cream at 2 p.m. Walk through exhibit of Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center.
Tuesday, April 29 Speakers
OSU Events, 7-9pm, LaSells Stewart Center. DISCOVERY Lecture Series. Adam Braun is the Founder and CEO of Pencils for Promise, an award-winning nonprofit that has opened more than 200 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Events Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc., 5:30-7pm, Centro Cultural César Chávez. Celebrating the 14th birthday of Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc. Kappa Chapter. Small presentation with cake & refreshments to follow. Campus Recycling, 6-8pm, 644 SW 13th St. April Repair Fair - Receive free fixes for broken or damaged belongings and learn how to repair them yourself!
Wednesday, April 30 Meetings
College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Come join us for discussion on current events in the state and nation. W7OSU, 5pm, Snell 229. OSU Amateur Radio Club meeting.
Thursday, May 1 Meetings
Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. A discussion - Empowerment of junior youth.
Events Spring Creek Project at OSU, 7pm, C&E Auditorium at LaSells Stewart Center. On The Trail of the First People. Writer and world traveler Craig Childs will share stories and images from his recent travels into the American Ice Age, focusing on the relationship between humans and the landscape. Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, 11am, MU Quad. May Day Is Lei Day. Join us, along with various API organizations, and Kick off API Heritage Month! Rootbeer floats will be available while supplies last.
Friday, May 2
By Erick Bengel
CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
CANNON BEACH — After eight months soaring over the Pacific Ocean, Cannon Beach’s tufted puffins began returning to Haystack Rock in early April to commence their four-month nesting season. And on the windy, drizzly morning of April 17, many of these sea birds received a heartening welcome from the students of Cannon Beach Preschool & Children’s Center, Seaside Heights Elementary School and Arch Cape’s Fire Mountain School. From April through August, the tufted puffins — which reach their “max colony” around midMay — will lay their eggs and raise their chicks. The “Welcome Back Tufted Puffins” event, the fourth of its kind, kicked off Cannon Beach’s Twelve Days of Earth Day celebration, which runs through Monday, April 28. “It went really well despite the weather being what it was,” said Alix Lee, the Haystack Rock Awareness Program volunteer coordination and education intern. “It felt very ceremonial and was a great way to ring in the spring time and what should be a really great season on the beach this year.” Almost 60 youngsters — 25 preschoolers from the Children’s Center, 25 kindergarteners from Seaside Heights and nine kindergarteners from Fire Mountain — learned about the bird colonies and marine life at Haystack Rock’s intertidal zone. Samantha Ferber, Haystack Rock Awareness Program coordinator, and her on-site volunteers taught the students how to use binoculars and bird scopes. The high point came when
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OSU Chess Club, 4-6pm, MU Commons. Come play with us and learn more about this classic game. All skill levels welcome.
Events Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, 1-2:30pm, Asian and Pacific Cultural Center. Power of Literature. Discuss the importance and change in literature and how Asian and Pacific literature is recognized in Western society today. Also, come to create your own custom bookmark!
Saturday, May 3 Events
OSU Peace Studies Program & OSU Anarres Project, Noon-5pm, Central Park. May Day Solidarity Fair. Music, food, conversations and children’s activities.
Sunday, May 4 Events
International Students of OSU, Noon4pm, MU Quad. International Spring Festival. Come eat food from different cultures, interact with different cultural associations on campus and find out more about their culture. There is going to be live music.
Monday, May 5 Events
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Three-year-old Aliyah Watkins, a preschooler from Cannon Beach Preschool & Children’s Center, learns how to spot tufted puffins from Samantha Ferber, Haystack Rock Awareness Program coordinator. Aliyah and other sudents participated the annual “welcome home” ceremony that hails the beginning of Cannon Beach’s “Twelve Days of Earth Day” celebration. the kids sang a greeting song inspired by “The Muffin Man” (“Have you seen the puffins dive, the puffins dive, the puffins dive?”). Ferber, program volunteer Richard Larson and Twelve Days of Earth Day Chairwoman Barb Knop visited the students’ classrooms a week ahead of time, teaching them the song as well as the differences between the tufted puffin (a sea bird) and the
black oystercatcher (a land bird). Although the “welcome back” event occurred last year, the Haystack Rock Awareness Program, run by former coordinator Nala Cardillo, was not involved. Ferber, who took over as coordinator in January, chose to make the event a Haystack Rock Awareness Program function once again. She felt that Twelve Days of Earth Day was a good
opportunity to educate students about “one of the main natural resources we protect here in Cannon Beach.” The feedback from the children, their parents and, in some cases, their grandparents, was very positive. “That’s what’s most important, that the kids enjoyed their time there,” she said. www.dailyastorian.com/your_town/cannon_beach
International Students of OSU, 4:306pm, MU Lounge. Coffee Hour. Come enjoy international food, mingle with other OSU and international students and become culturally aware.
Wednesday, May 7 Meetings
College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey 113. Come join us for discussion on current events in the state and nation.
Events Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, 3-5pm, Native American Longhouse. Calligraphy Workshop. You can learn a little background on the history of calligraphy, watch a demonstration and try it yourself! Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, 5-6pm, Asian and Pacific Cultural Center. Queening the API Movements. This event will examine prominent LGBTQ API individuals and movements and their contributions to API organizing. We will also consider why they have been erased from our history.
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By Christian Wihtol THE REGISTER-GUARD
COTTAGE GROVE — Dreams of clean energy from a new hydroelectric plant on Dorena Dam have turned into a financial nightmare for the project owner and the plant’s general contractor, new legal filings show. Rather than seeing green, they are seeing red. Under construction for nearly two years and originally slated to be done last June, the innovative, privately owned power plant still is not operating. It is many millions of dollars over budget, according to recently filed documents in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Eugene. The delays have disqualified the owner, Dorena Hydro LLC, from a roughly $8 million government subsidy it was expecting, the owner said in the filings. In the lawsuit, Dorena Hydro and general contractor Mowat Construction accuse the other of bungling the project. Mowat, headquartered in Woodinville, Wash., accuses Dorena Hydro of providing shoddy, incomplete plans, repeatedly changing designs as construction progressed, failing to get crucial federal permits on time, buying a defective turbine for Mowat to install, and failing to pay Mowat $4.5 million or more for work done. Two electrical subcontractors, meantime, earlier this year filed liens against Mowat, seeking a total of $600,000. The venture is a “quagmire,� Mowat’s president wrote to Dorena Hydro in February. For its part, Dorena Hydro, an arm of a Canadian energy business, laid the blame at Mowat’s feet. Mowat failed to accomplish key tasks on time or on budget, Dorena Hydro alleges. “As the project fell further and further behind schedule, Mowat’s and Dorena’s relationship steadily declined,� wrote Dorena Hydro’s president, Peter Clermont, in a court filing last month. By the time Dorena Hydro fired Mowat in February, “the environment was corrosive,� he wrote. Project safety in dispute Mowat was lax on workplace safety, Dorena Hydro alleged. On Dec. 18, a 6.5-foot high, 31-foot long, steel-framed, 800-pound retaining wall at the site collapsed while it was being put into place, falling on a foreman and breaking his leg, according to state Occupational Safety and Health Division records. The state blamed the collapse on a lack of bracing and levied a $1,680 fine against Mowat for the “serious� violations of failing to have a satisfactory plan for erecting the wall, and failing to train workers in recognizing hazards. Mowat has appealed, saying it had an erecting plan and had trained workers in safety. Despite that incident, Mowat denies there have been major safety problems at the site. “There have been no significant safety citations on the Dorena project — perhaps
an electrical cord issue or the like,� Mowat President John Sandstrom wrote to Clermont in February. Seeking a subsidy In court filings, Dorena Hydro alleged that Mowat knew Dorena Hydro was in line to get the $8 million in aid for the project, provided that work was substantially completed by the end of 2013. But because of Mowat’s failures, the project missed the deadline, Dorena Hydro said. Dorena Hydro did not disclose specifics of the subsidy. However, it appears the company is referring to state aid under the Oregon Department of Energy’s much-criticized and soon-to-be-terminated Business Energy Tax Credit, or BETC, program. Dorena Hydro’s Clermont said in the legal filings that the subsidy was a main reason Dorena Hydro pursued the project in the first place. Further, under Mowat, the cost of the project has ballooned by at least $8.7 million, Dorena Hydro alleged. A construction budget never has been made public. Early estimates put it at over $20 million. Dorena Hydro alleges that Mowat initially quoted a price of $6.9 million for the so-called “allowance items� portion of the contract. The contract is divided into a fixed-price portion and an allowance portion, according to the filings. In a construction contract, “allowance items� are elements where details are not set when the contract is signed, but are nailed down as the job progresses. Mowat was lax in estimating the initial “allowance items� costs, which subsequently swelled to $15.6 million, Dorena Hydro alleged. A hefty debt The federal lawsuit, still ongoing, reveals the pitfalls of grafting a hydropower plant onto an old dam built for flood control. Officials and attorneys for Dorena Hydro and Mowat declined comment or did not return phone calls or emails from The Register-Guard. Dorena Hydro and its parent, Canada-based Aquila, took on heavy debt for the work. Dorena Hydro announced in 2012 that it had secured loans totaling $38 million to build the Dorena Dam plant and a smaller one in Montana. Under Dorena Hydro’s plan, Mowat was assigned to drill a 10-foot-diameter hole through the base of the dam when the lake behind it was at its lowest. A 10-foot-diameter pipe, known as a penstock, would carry water through the hole to a valve house below the dam, which would regulate water flow into two electricity-generating turbines. The diverted water would then flow into the Row River. Dorena Hydro has run a power line to Cottage Grove to connect to the grid. PacifiCorp said it has contracted with Dorena Hydro to buy the plant’s output for 20 years. Testing was halted The dam is owned and run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which gave Dorena Hydro permission to build the
hydro project. A rotating cast of hydroelectric entrepreneurs and their backers spent 11 years — often beset by disputes and delays — developing the hydro plant design and lining up money and permits. In April 2012, they hired Mowat and seemed to be in the final stretch. But the construction phase quickly turned ugly, culminating with Mowat suing Dorena Hydro in federal court in early February, and Dorena Hydro firing Mowat three days later. The corps is monitoring the project. Dorena Hydro has been trying to run water through the system to test it, corps spokesman Scott Clemans said. However, unspecified problems with one of the power plant’s turbines have halted those “wet tests,� temporarily. It’s unclear when the plant will be running. At the time it was terminated, Mowat said about $614,000 worth of work remained to be done, including tests. Delays and changes In August 2012, Dorena Hydro held a splashy groundbreaking ceremony at the site. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., lauded the project’s benefit of providing green energy. Dorena Hydro officials and others were all smiles. But in fact, Dorena Hydro and Mowat already were in the grip of delays and arguments that would only intensify. That spring and summer, Dorena Hydro failed to get government approval of a key geotechnical report on the land, pushing initial excavation late into the 2012 construction season and into rainy weather, Mowat project manager Zachary Adams said in a March 4 court filing. “Mowat could initially do nothing but order materials and equipment with long lead times, then it could order other items but not perform any site work, then it could excavate dirt but not rock, then it could excavate rock but not actually build anything,� Adams wrote. As basic site work proceeded fitfully, Dorena Hydro in fall 2012 said it was changing the design of the valve system to regulate the water flow through the penstock, Adams alleged. That pending change delayed construction of the valve building and forced Mowat to install sections of the penstock out of sequence, causing more delays, Adams said. Dorena Hydro didn’t provide final new valve-house designs until March 2013, he alleged. Conflicting stories In late 2012, Dorena Hydro also began changing the design of an access road and retaining walls on the steep terrain around the buildings and near the face of the dam, leading to many months of delays in constructing the road and walls, and in backfilling around the penstock, Adams wrote. Not until this past January did Dorena Hydro gain government approval of the newly designed retaining walls, Mowat wrote. And until the
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retaining walls were in place and the backfilling done, the government would not allow water to be run through the penstock for system testing, Mowat alleged. Further, one of the two custom-made turbines that Dorena Hydro ordered had a defective drive shaft that caused the huge blades to rub against the stationary casing, Adams said. Dorena Hydro will need to have the defective shaft removed and either modified or replaced, Adams said in the March 4 filing. The defective turbine is one of two at the plant; only one is used at a time. But Dorena Hydro tells a different narrative. “Mowat allowed and oversaw poor construction work by its staff and subcontractors, which has led to significant cost overruns, defective work and additional work and time expense related to activities to correct Mowat’s work,� Dorena Hydro’s Clermont wrote in a court filing. “Mowat also overbilled Dorena (Hydro) for additional costs to which it was not entitled.� Relations between the sides turned ever testier, to the point they fought over the behavior of Mowat’s on-site manager. Making it personal In letters in late 2013 in the court file, Clermont assails the manager’s conduct and demands that Mowat replace him. Dorena Hydro said the manager was sarcastic and argumentative in conversations and emails, had a “generally childish attitude: whistling, singing, smirking, tapping and laughing when others are talking�; tried to hire away Dorena Hydro staff; had a habit of “barging into� Dorena Hydro’s trailer and interrupting Dorena Hydro officials; and kept presenting change orders and delay claims to Dorena Hydro rather than trying to fix issues. Mowat defended the manager, saying he had pushed the project forward “under extremely difficult circumstances.� Mowat later replaced the manager with Adams. After Dorena Hydro sacked Mowat two months ago, Dorena Hydro immediately banned Mowat from the property. That prompted a whole new round of disputes. Mowat said it wanted to videotape the entire site to document its condition and protect itself legally. It also wanted a Mowat representative on site throughout every work day. But Dorena Hydro refused to let Mowat in. Mowat then sought a federal court order allowing it broad daily access to the site. Dorena Hydro fought that move, saying it was dangerous to have outsiders at a busy work site, and the presence of an official from a fired company would be disruptive. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken earlier this month ordered that Mowat be allowed on specific parts of the site two days a week, four hours a day, until the project is done.
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Student accused of sex pic soliciting of minors By Josephine Woolington THE REGISTER-GUARD
EUGENE — Eugene police last week arrested a 19-year-old male student at Sheldon High School who is accused of soliciting minors for sexual photos and videos, police said on Friday. Elliot Thomas Cumer was arrested on April 18 on the charge of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, police said. He is in Lane County Jail. Cumer was charged earlier this week with two counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. The investigation is ongoing, but police Lt. Doug Mozan said evidence shows that the alleged crimes date back at least one year. Mozan said the victims were “people familiar� with Cumer. Several victims have reported to police, he said. Cumer is enrolled at Sheldon High School, a Eugene School District spokeswoman said. A pretrial hearing is set for May 27. Using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct is a Measure 11 crime and carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of more than five years. If anyone has additional information about the case, they are asked to contact Sgt. Carl Stubbs at 541-682-8189.
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heavily impacted by the Holocaust,” Kopperman said. Miles will focus on the broader issue of genocide, examining how genocidal events in South Africa and Rwanda have affected the regional inhabitants’ views of the Holocaust. “Almost every year, we have at least one evening dedicated to comparative genocide,” Kopperman said. “If the message is, ‘Yes, this is horrible, but let’s see what we can do to make genocide less likely in the future,’ that can be incredibly empowering.” Miles will speak Wednesday at 7:30 in the LaSells Stewart Center. The 2014 program also includes two plays and a student panel discussion that will offer students a variety of outlets to look at the social impact of genocide. “Forty,” a play commemorating the Armenian genocide, and “In Quest of Conscience,” a piece analyzing the actions and motives of a Nazi perpetrator, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, respectively. The former will be held in Withycombe Hall’s Lab Theatre, while the latter debuts in the LaSells Stewart Center. A student conference will round out Holocaust Memorial Week, featuring student papers and opinions on matters of social justice around the globe. The Friday event will run from 10:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union Journey Room. “I’m very much looking forward to next week and obviously I’m hoping for a good student turnout,” Kopperman said. “Even though we try to involve the general Corvallis community … and surrounding areas, ultimately this is for students.”
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of the last living individuals mentioned in Frank’s iconic diary. Nussbaum has worked for several decades as a professor of foreign languages and literature at Portland State University. “It’s amazing how much literal physical — and also emotional — pain survivors are willing to undergo in order to keep speaking in schools,” Kopperman said. “We’ve had some of the finest Holocaust scholars here over the years. But standing ovations are typically reserved for the survivors. There’s just this extra level, this extra dimension, in terms of what they can do with an audience.” Nussbaum will talk about her experiences during the war Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in LaSells Stewart Center’s Austin Auditorium. Kopperman said he hopes Nussbaum’s testimony will draw an audience from the entire Corvallis community — particularly among its younger population. “So much of (the program) is about education and involving young people,” Kopperman said. “It’s important to make young students aware of the Holocaust. (Children) do care and I think that takes them a long way toward generally caring about other people and trying to make the world better.” Two well-known scholars will also be lecturing and answering questions throughout the week. Tom Segev and William F. S. Miles will offer unique and varying angles to approaching the issue of genocide. Segev, speaking Monday at 7:30 in the LaSells Stewart Center, will focus on Israel and its connection with the Holocaust. “As Tom Segev, in what should be an extraordinary talk, is going to be saying is that the mentality of Israelis has been
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and music are for everyone and always have been,” Ray said. “Through this relationship (with the GRAMMY Museum), OSU students and faculty will have access to our country’s rich musical history and museum archives.” Oregon State was one of only two universities selected for the pilot program out of a multitude of applicants. Santelli said the final decision was a difficult one, but also a testament to the immense growth and promise affiliated with the university and its music program. “There are a number of institutions around the country that quite honestly have a more developed, more profound, larger arts community on their campus,” Santelli said. “But what we love about Oregon State is the potential and absolute energy and excitement that I’ve experienced firsthand over the past 12 to 14 months.”
made few changes to the agendas of past years. The marathon is made up of three differentlength rides: a 12-mile route, a 30-mile route and a 62-mile route. The 62-mile route was only 60 miles in previous years, but Jacobson said this year’s committee chose to bump it up to 62 miles to make it closer to 100 kilometers, which is a common route length in bicycling events. “We wanted to bring in riders that really get into this and we wanted to cater to them and give them something to kind of work up to,” Jacobson said. There was a big turnout for the 62-mile route, which had three start times so cyclists could travel in smaller waves rather than one large group. The 30-mile and 12-mile routes, which Jacobson said are popular for local families who bring children or pets along in bike trailers, left later in the morning. Jacobson coordinated the start times with the goal of having all groups end up back at the horse arena, behind Magruder Hall, around 12:30 p.m. for an after party. The after party had free food, a live disc jockey, merchandise from the charity event and veterinary school, a raffle and informational booths. Jacobson said the hardest part of the whole thing was coordinating permits between cities and the university. She cited this as “an inter-
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AFTER DARK n Continued from page 1 coworkers and then I get a chance to meet new people as well.” Matsumura had similar experiences with the event program. “I really like coming out to these because I get to hang out with my friends,” she said. “It’s only fun if you go out and do it. Don’t be scared to ask people how to play the games and stuff like that.” Archield said that free food, games and prizes were a big draw for students. “Everyone loves free food,” he said. “That’s probably the biggest thing.” Kelsey Milholland, a freshman biology student, seemed to share the sentiment. “I heard there was poker,” Milholland said. “I heard it was a lot of fun. I like the pirates, especially the one with the accordion.” The pirates were a special addition to the casino night, which has been a recurring theme for After Dark events. Hunter Johnson, a sophomore in mechanical engineering and a coordinator for the event, went to high school with the son of one of the pirate actors and used that connection to hire the acting troupe for the end-of-year After Dark event. The actors, adorned in full pirate attire, wandered the event arena and pretended to arrest, argue and play musical instruments with one another. The camaraderie among peers was enjoyable for all in attendance, including those hosting the event. “I could not have done this without every single person here,” said Kelsey McCall, a freshman in manufacturing and industrial engineering, and a coordinator for the events. Tsang, whom McCall noted as a huge helper and coworker for the event, said that despite the sometimes-complicated process of coordinating between campus organizations, the event is always worthwhile. “This is my second year coordinating the After Dark,” Tsang said. “It’s a lot of work, but I think the result is much greater than the work.”
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Led by a pair of seniors, the Oregon State women’s golf team finished the Pac-12 Championship in ninth place Sunday. The 54-hole tournament, which Stanford won, was held at Trysting Tree in Corvallis. Playing in less-than-ideal conditions, the Beavers carded a 14-over 302 See WOMEN’S GOLF | page 6
Six days before Sunday’s series finale with No. 19 Oregon, the No. 5 Beavers found themselves on the losing end of a blown lead against Sacramento State. An inspired speech from senior Ben Wetzler — regarding OSU’s mentality and what needed to change the rest of the way — sparked a win in Tuesday’s contest, which set up Friday’s game against the Ducks (31-13, 10-8 Pac-12). Wetzler delivered and Oregon State (31-8, 14-4) snagged a 3-1 victory. Sophomore right-hander Andrew Moore followed suit and the OSU offense came alive late for a 4-2 comefrom-behind victory in Saturday’s contest. Junior left-hander Jace Fry had arguably the best game of the three Sunday, allowing just one hit while striking out 11 in eight innings. He said Wetzler’s speech was a wake-up call Oregon State needed to win against the Ducks. “That was a huge wake-up call for us,” Fry said. “Wetzler got on us, which I thought was great for everyone to finally wake up a little bit. … The energy was great, I haven’t seen our team play with that type of passion all year. Now that we’ve seen it and know we’re capable of it, I hope we thrive off it.” Having won four straight following the Sacramento State loss, Oregon State is back in control of the Pac-12 with a series against Washington still remaining. When asked if the team feels
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Junior left fielder Michael Conforto makes contact on a solo home run in the first inning of Sunday’s 7-1 victory against No. 19 Oregon. improved from six days prior, junior left fielder Michael Conforto had strong words. Getting three wins against a bitter rival can do wonders for confidence and team morale. “It feels like a different world now,” Conforto said. “We were pretty down after Sacramento State, but it just takes one at-bat to change the way you think. We try not to get in a negative mindset and be in the moment. One bad at-bat is just one bad moment, the next at-bat could just as easily be a good moment.” The biggest reason for OSU’s turn-
around was the starting pitching, once again, for the Beavers. Wetzler allowed just one run in 8 1/3 innings in Friday’s win, striking out seven against five hits. Moore allowed two runs on four hits in eight innings of action Saturday night. Together, the trio of Wetzler, Moore and Fry combined for 24 1/3 innings pitched, 10 hits, three earned runs and 25 strikeouts. Each also threw more than 120 pitches a piece. “I don’t even know what to say about the starters anymore,” Conforto said.
“It seems like every week we come back and they do their thing. They’re consistent and keep us in the games at all times. We never feel pressure as hitters because the game is always within reach.” Pitching coach Nate Yeskie credited the three’s competitive nature and friendly rivalry with one another for their continued success. When Fry came out of the game Sunday afternoon, the first thing he asked his coach was whether or not his performance See BASEBALL | page 6
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The Washington softball team dictated Sunday’s game against Oregon State, earning a series sweep in Corvallis with all three games ending via the eight-run mercy rule. The No. 11 Huskies out-hit OSU 12-5 and scored in four different innings to take a 10-2 victory in Corvallis. OSU (13-29, 3-16 Pac-12) has lost nine straight games, while (Washington 28-12, 8-8) used the three wins to jump up to .500 in conference. “They’re solid but we could have beat them,” said junior shortstop CJ Chirichigno. That’s been a consistent theme for OSU, which has lost 12 of the most recent 13 Pac-12 games just before a pair of wins over then-No. 5 Arizona State. The Beavers got two runs on solo home runs from Chirichigno and freshman designated player Alexis Gonzalez in the third and sixth innings, respectively. Both cleared the left field fence and both were the fourth home runs of the season for each player. “They got it on time, squared it up and the ball went,” said head coach Laura Berg. “She took a big hack and she was right on time,” Chirichigno added about Gonzalez’s homer. Washington junior pitcher Kaitlin Inglesby tossed the first five innings for the Huskies, giving up three hits and the home run to Chirichigno. She held OSU to one run while recording four strikeouts. “She’s an All-American for a reason,” Berg said. “She got ahead of the batters, was able to get our hitters uncomfortable and get them to hit her pitches rather than our pitches.” “I saw a lot of low and inside pitches,” added Chirichigno. “She definitely has a presence on the mound.”
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Challe Barton will not return to Oregon State for his senior season, he confirmed to The Daily Barometer over the weekend. The Swede, who’s back in Europe, said he has chosen to begin a professional career overseas. Barton becomes the third player with eligibility remaining to leave Craig Robinson’s program since OSU’s season ended a little more than a month ago. Barton, who overtook Ahmad Starks as OSU’s starting point guard midway through the 2012-13 season, started 14 games this past season before Hallice Cooke replaced him in the starting lineup. After averaging 24.2 minutes and 5.7 points in nonconference action, Barton averaged just 8.1 minutes and 0.8 points per conference game. He did not play in six of OSU’s final nine contests. See BARTON | page 6
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Junior center fielder Dani Gilmore looks on during Friday’s 6-2 loss to Washington in Corvallis. Chirichigno saw one of those inside pitches in her home run but was able to get her bat out in front of the ball and send it to left field. “I was just anticipating inside because she was pitching me inside all day,” she said. For the Huskies, the offense came early and often. After five hits and six runs in the first two innings, sophomore pitcher Sarah Shadinger replaced senior Amanda Najdek. Only four of those six runs were earned, due to a pair of errors during Najdek’s stint in the circle. In her four innings of work, Shadinger also gave up four earned runs.
“Sarah did a good job,” Berg said. “She made (Washington) put the ball on the ground. We had some defensive miscues, but she did a great job.” Shadinger began her day at the top of the third inning, pitching a scoreless frame. Senior right fielder Isabella Batayola caught a pair of fly balls in that inning before leading off the bottom of the third with a single. She and junior left fielder Kori Nishitomi were both stranded in scoring position to end the inning, however. See SOFTBALL | page 6
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The Oregon State men’s golf team finished the Pac-12 Championship in Marana, Ariz., 10th overall at 64-over. The Beavers shot a 13-over 373 in round one, a 6-over 366 in round two, and 34-over 394 in round three and an 11-over 371 in the final round. OSU was led by sophomore Brian Jung and junior Scott Kim, who each finished tied for 31st individually at 12-over. Senior David Fink and junior Alex
Franklin each finished at 13-over, good for a tie for 36th place individually. Fink, playing in the fourth conference tournament of his career, posted the best single-round score of the weekend for OSU on Sunday, when he fired a 3-under 69. Freshman Kevin Murphy (20-over) and sophomore Tyler Carlson (23-over) finished in ties for 52nd and 56th, respectively. The Beavers, who came in one stroke behind ninth-place Arizona, finished ahead of Washington State (70-over) and
Utah (121-over). The Beavers, who entered the weekend ranked 69th nationally by golfstat.com, felt like they needed a good showing in Marana to secure a spot in the Division I Men’s Golf Championships, which OSU has qualified for seven seasons in a row. The 81-team tournament field will be announced May 5. The Daily Barometer On Twitter @barosports sports@dailybarometer.com
SOFTBALL n Continued from page 5 The Beavers had just five hits in the game and went 0-for-4 with runners on second or third base. “We’re better than five hits,” Berg said. “We’ve got to start getting people on (base) so we can do some stuff, do some hit and runs, do some steals.” Senior center fielder Victoria Hayward, who is also a member of the Canadian national softball team, went 2-for-2 for the Huskies with four runs scored. “That girl can play, she’s old school,” Berg said. “She’s got that international experience and that leads into college ball.” OSU will have just one day in between the Washington series and a doubleheader against Portland State at home Tuesday, which is set for a 1 p.m. starting time. Josh Worden, sports reporter On Twitter @WordenJosh sports@dailybarometer.com
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Junior shortstop CJ Chirichigno dives for an errant throw as Washington’s Victoria Hayward slides safely into third base in Sunday’s game.
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Success seemed to be somewhat split over the weekend for the Oregon State track and field team. The team attended two separate meets, sending mostly field event participants to San Diego at the UCSD Triton Invitational, and mostly track events to Eugene for the Titan Twilight. In the Titan Twilight, which took place Thursday, OSU’s night was filled with personal records. Six Beavers finished with the best marks of their careers. Sophomore Jessica Lautenbach set the pace for the evening, winning the high jump at a height of 5-4 1/4. It would come as a PR for the sophomore, whose previous PR was set early in the season with a mark of 5-3 3/4. OSU also had a success in the sandpit, where they posted two PRs, one in the long jump and one in the triple jump. Sophomore Bethany Imperial bettered her PR from last weekend, posting a mark of 35-6 in the triple. Junior Kaitlyn Mason matched her PR in the long jump at 17-9 1/2. On the track, OSU’s lone male, sophomore Ryan Cope, bested his PR in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 55.26. In the 1,500-meter, both redshirt sophomore Haley Hunt (4:48.32) and freshman Monica
Anderson (5:05.98), had their best races in a Beaver uniform. Friday in San Diego, the results fell a little short of Thursday’s. Picknell had the best throws of her career in the hammer (146-3) and the discus (136-2). Freshman Melissa Ausman led the team in the discus with a throw of 146-1, but the mark was six inches short of her PR. Sophomore Kayla Fleskes also competed in the discus, throwing 141-11. Fleskes then competed in the javelin alongside freshman Christina MacDonald, finishing eighth overall with a throw of 130-2, while MacDonald finished 10th overall, throwing 128-5. In the shot put, Ausman finished the day with a toss of 36-11. The lone non-thrower who traveled to San Diego was sophomore Michele Turney, who traveled to compete in the triple jump. Her jump of 39-1 clinched second on the day, but fell short of her PR of 39-6 1/2. The Beavers will have two more weeks to improve before they travel to compete in the Pac-12 Championships. This weekend they will have a chance to show improvement when they compete in their second home meet of the season. The meet will be held Friday at the Whyte Track and Field Center, and will begin at noon with the javelin. The Daily Barometer
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this past season, announced he was entering the NBA Draft instead of returning for his senior season. Last week, Cooke, who averaged In three collegiate seasons, Barton — who 7.7 points per game as a freshman in 2013-14, came to OSU from Huskvarna, Sweden, in announced he was transferring. OSU is set to enter next season with seven 2011 — played in 93 contests, made 25 starts returning scholarship players. The Beavers, and averaged 2.5 points per game. Barton’s departure further complicates things who have signed four players to letters of intent, for a team that will enter next season severely now have two scholarship openings. lacking experience and depth. Grady Garrett, sports reporter On Twitter @gradygarrett Earlier this month, Eric Moreland, the sports@dailybarometer.com Beavers’ leading rebounder and shot blocker
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Junior Anica Yoo analyzes a putt at the Pac-12 Championships Saturday at the Trysting Tree golf course in Corvallis.
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Junior left-hander Jace Fry lets go of a pitch against Oregon Sunday in Goss Stadium. Fry allowed just one hit in eight innings of action.
BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 had been better than Wetzler’s. “They really compete with one another and push one another,” Yeskie said. “It’s good for us that they have each other to feed off of.” “We have a great competition with one another and we really thrive off it,” Fry added. “If one person falls off a little one week, we know they’ll be jump back on the horse and be fine the next week.” Another positive for Oregon State after the series sweep was the benefit of its underclassmen playing in a playoff-type atmosphere. Goss Stadium was sold out for all three contests and
fans were into each game even during a consistent downpour in Saturday night’s contest. Yeskie said playing a worthy rival such as Oregon was important for the Beavers to see what they need to do be successful in big games. “For our kids, hopefully they understand what it is, because that’s our best taste of playoff atmosphere that we’re going to have until we get into the postseason,” Yeskie said. “When you play them, every pitch counts. It’s just an intense environment,” added head coach Pat Casey.” The three-game sweep was big for Oregon State to remain neck-and-neck of Washington at the top of the Pac-12 stand-
ings, as well as distancing themselves from an Oregon squad that was in third place entering the weekend. Despite the end of the season fast approaching, the Beavers maintain they aren’t thinking about anything except their next series against Cal. “We’re trying to win one pitch at a time, as generic as that sounds,”Yeskie said. “Ultimately, this conference is such a challenge, week in and week out, that one pitch can cost you the game. Who knows what type of momentum one pitch could cause for your opponent the next inning or the next game.” Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com
Sunday to finish the tournament at 34-over, 15 strokes ahead of 10th-place Washington State and 29 strokes ahead of last-place Colorado. Seniors Seshia Telles and Lauren Sewell, who each played in every tournament of their fouryear OSU careers, fittingly paced the Beavers. Telles finished in a tie for 21st overall at sevenover, while Sewell finished in a tie for 25th at eight-over. “I thought I did alright, I could have played a bit better,” Telles said. “I saved myself a lot. As a whole tournament, it wasn’t too bad for it being rainy and windy and the pin placements were really hard. I thought it was OK.” Sewell credited the coaches for helping her and her teammates battle the poor weather by reminding them to “stay focused and keep making good choices.” “I felt like I did a good job of staying shot by shot and not letting the weather get to me mentally,” Sewell said. “I just tried to have fun.” Telles and Sewell both carded 3-over 75s on Sunday in likely the last round of their OSU careers. The Beavers will find out their postseason fate Monday when the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships field is announced, but head coach Rise Alexander said Friday that the Beavers probably needed a strong showing at the Pac-12 Championship to warrant consideration. “It’s starting to sink in (that the season might
be over),” Sewell said. “I’m just glad I had a fun time. My team was awesome.” “Looking back on the last four years, it’s been an up-and-down journey,” Telles said. “I feel like I’ve only gotten better since my freshman year. All the experiences that we’ve had as a team, I’m going to miss it a lot.” Telles said hosting the conference tournament is a memory she’ll cherish. “It was great, I loved it,” she said. “It was great to actually play on your home course, you don’t have to overthink anything. It was nice to see all the Pac-12 schools here playing at Trysting.” Junior Anica Yoo finished the tournament in a tie for 34th individually at 11-over. Yoo and Telles posted the best single-round scores of the tournament for OSU, with each carding an even 72 in round two. Yoo, one of six golfers expected to return next season for the Beavers, said she’ll learn and improve from the experience. “Next year I definitely need to control my emotions out there,” she said. “I tend to get really caught up on one bad shot. … Both of our seniors who played in this tournament, they definitely gave me a lot of advice. So I’ll take that advice into next season.” Sophomore Chelsea Saelee shot a 4-over 76 on each of the three rounds to finish tied for 37th at 12-over for OSU, while sophomore Ashlee Pickerell finished tied for 44th at 14-over. Grady Garrett, sports reporter On Twitter @gradygarrett sports@dailybarometer.com
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regon is currently waiting with bated breath to hear whether the federal court will declare Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban — which Oregon’s residents voted to pass in 2004 — unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Michael McShane heard the case’s opening oral arguments Wednesday. But everyone who had been hoping for a quick resolution — either way — is going to be disappointed. The Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage filed a motion to intervene in the case, apparently spurred to action by the refusal of Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to defend the same-sex marriage ban in the federal case. McShane has said that he will hear NOM’s arguments May 14, so we have at least that long to wait for a decision. Rosenblum’s refusal to defend the case meant many of us had gotten our hopes up to a quick strike down of the marriage ban. We thought we were on the cusp of catching up with the forward thinkers in Utah, as well as in Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Michigan — which are just a few of the states to have their same-sex marriage bans struck down this year (Utah did it before it was cool, back in 2013). 2014 is looking like a (rainbow) banner year for same-sex marriage in the U.S. Since section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional last year — the section wherein the federal government limited the definition of marriage to a union between one man and one woman — multiple plaints in many states have been brought against the individual states’ marriage ban laws. Success has followed, as it’s hard to declare something constitutional when the federal government ruled something almost exactly the same unconstitutional. The main hold-ups have been the lack of precedent in these cases, but the body of law grows each time another state’s same-sex marriage law is struck down. We’re riding the wave of success right now, and it’s great. But the D.C.-based organization for the “sanctity” of marriage must be panicking while we’re celebrating, evidenced by its recent butting into Oregon’s business. We might take their complaints more seriously if they weren’t so obviously spurious. The big argument they’re making now in the Oregon case is that their organization “denies that Paul and Ben,” one of the four couples bringing the case against Oregon’s ban, “two men, can together have a ‘child,’ as that is a biological impossibility.” Paul and Ben already have a child, an adopted son. Putting scare quotes around the word child is ridiculous — having gay parents doesn’t make a child an abomination. In the above quote from NOM’s motion Tuesday to intervene, the organization implies that the sole purpose of
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Society’s shrinking vocabulary a cry for help
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here are a lot of cringeworthy words and phrases being used in our modern daily life. We throw them around in conversations when we can’t think of a good comeback, or when we have nothing else to say. Inserting these words can act as shortcuts, and can even be a cathartic experience. The catch is that catharsis is a sham. Inserting unintelligent ending statements into conversations does nothing for the user’s argumentation skills. We shouldn’t practice acting like 3-year-olds in situations that call for a little more thought and discernment. Well, we could, but we’d probably end up with no friends and drive everyone else — including family and innocent bystanders — away. If you really want to drive everyone away, you could try the “most annoying word” on for size. In 2011, the most annoying word — according to a Huffington Post survey — was “whatever.” However, the list of annoying words
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Scottaline has expanded under recent demands to include such gems as: twerk, selfie, hashtag and Twittersphere. Let it be known: These are not real words. They are simply nonsensical sounds and combinations of letters that mean terrible things. I will not justify these nonsense sounds as a means to interact via verbal communication. Modern society has lost the art of speaking clearly in favor of the trendy jumble of texting, tweeting, snapchatting, Facebook messaging and Instagram captions. Our vocabularies are shrinking with every “abbreve” and “LOL.” This is a cry for help.
It’s not too late to change our ways and use our words — as our parents and elementary school teachers would advise. It is incredibly important to develop good communication skills. To be able to articulate a thought clearly and effectively is the top skill to have, whether it’s being used at work, at home with family or roommates, in school, with strangers or anyone else on the planet. We shouldn’t feed the fear of communicating face-to-face or with intelligence, on and off the screen. There doesn’t need to be a stigma surrounding presenting ourselves well, or with expressing ourselves clearly. Everyone appreciates interacting with the clear communicator more than the toocool-for-school mumbler. But, if you’re, like, not down with that ... whatever. t
Gabi Scottaline is a senior in English. The opinions
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Writing on trains, subsequent money pains
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riting, regardless of whether you’re good or bad at it, can be difficult in distracting situations. Privacy can be the greatest gift in the world for any writer, hence why renowned writers — from Mark Twain to Virginia Woolf — constructed their own “writing shacks” in order to escape the chatter of everyday life. Alas, not everyone has the funds,
college students — a colleague shared an announcement about Amtrak’s “Residency” program, all within the vicinity gave a deep sigh of longing. Cassie The residency program permits “creative professionals” to apply to be one of 24 lucky people, who are treator the time, to build their own shack ed to a long-distance cross-country in the wilderness. round trip, with a private sleeper car So when — in the Barometer news- equipped with bed, desk and window room, which is always full of starving See RUUD | page 8
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Guest Column
Activism is a project, not a product
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n the Barometer’s April 24 editorial, “Slacker activism is still ‘real’ activism,” the editorial board of The Daily Barometer outlined a common understanding of slacktivism as a kind of armchair or feel-good activism, which requires very little risk or physical action on the part of the slacktivist. I have to assume, based on the rest of the piece, that “real” in this case means something more like “useful.” Examples of this understanding of slacktivism included giving to charity, “liking” posts online and petition signing. The piece goes on to question whether the method or the results of activism are most important, drawing on a nebulous kind of nonviolent direct action from “the 1960s” as a foil from which to argue that slacktivism is not an inferior form of activism but simply a different kind. The argument is developed further to suggest that we should not care about the motivations of, or virtues displayed by, slacktivists — not when the consequences are good. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am for good consequences being the goal of social change through activism. There are, of course, a plethora of sticky issues at play when we try to decide what a “good” outcome is. I believe that for the sake of this conversation one could simply call a “good result” one that accomplishes an intended goal. Indeed, many of the problems that traditional forms of activism — as well as modern varieties of activism — attempt to solve are so huge, convergent and dynamic that a single act putting an outright end to, say, racism, sexism, poverty or environmental degradation, is difficult to conceive. Which is why goal selection is so important — so movements can make incremental progress toward alleviating the harms of such daunting problems. The aforementioned view of slacktivism as simply a variety of methods for goal satisfaction, on par with other traditional methods of activism as long as the consequences are similar, seems right within its own specious logic. See MCELHINNY | page 8
Letters to the Editor Regarding OSU and Corvallis’s student parking plans
Parking solution not yet found It was a delight to read John Caruso’s letter to the editor in the April 18 Barometer regarding student parking, for I had written vice president Steve Clark on March 10 with very similar recommendations. I’m disappointed that there has been so little opposition by the Oregon State University faculty and student body to the OSU/ Corvallis student parking plans. Complacency is not a common or worthy tradition on college campuses. It begets an unthinking electorate. Mike Wolf Corvallis Resident
Regarding Bret Barlow’s public apology
See EDITORIAL | page 8
Baby steps don’t right wrongs Thank you for using the Barometer as your platform to apologize to the community, hopefully it will reach more community members that way. We would just like to say your apology felt half-hearted and on the border of blaming the victims of the threatening speech you participated in. Your hate speech just echoed the violence and terror many people within the LGBTQ+ community face daily. Your words
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RUUD n Continued from page 7 in order to draw inspiration from the American countryside. Trains are cool. They’re expensive — but they are so cool. The travel time is generally around the same as by car, but you can get up and walk around whenever you like, the seats are huge and soft with loads of leg room — and that’s just in coach. Oh, and there are bathrooms and food services you don’t have to wait the next 40 miles to arrive at. I could probably count the number of times I’ve been on a train on one hand, but I remember each time with fondness. Naturally, the thought of a creative residency on a train makes my mouth water. And then the Washington Post posted an opinion blog piece titled “Pulling the brake on Amtrak’s writer’s residency,” wherein any and all dreams of dredging up a typewriter and watching the trees go by in a personal dance of momentum are dashed on the rocks of fact. The writer of the column, Dan Zak, raged throughout, claiming
forum@dailybarometer.com • 541-737-2231 that the residency program is a “sham” as well as on the general expensive quality of trains — given that it would cost me $287 for a round trip from Albany to New York, if I want to leave Monday and come back in a week, provided I don’t get a bed. The one issue I found in Mr. Zak’s argument was his logic that it is less expensive to take a plane than to take a train. He and I must have looked at different sources because to get a round trip to New York and back with the same factors as the train trip, I’d have to fork over at least $700. That’s more than I pay in rent each month. Solution — not counting gas guzzlers — America needs to get with the program and get bullet trains. Or, rather, get more bullet trains. America has 20 bullet trains in operation, according to the U.S. sector of the High Speed Rail Association. There are even plans in the works for a high-speed rail to pop up next month in Madera, Calif., according to The Fresno Bee. Checking the Eurorail price for one-way trip from Paris to London, the U.S. dollar con-
version is approximately $130. That’s not too shabby. But I know another travel method that we, here in Oregon, have at a significantly cheaper price — and that could, and should, be expanded to all four corners of our state. The Portland TriMet Max costs $5 for a one-day pass, and only $2.50 if you chop it down to two hours. It’s not the most glamorous way of travel — there’s a lot of plastic involved — but it’s a cheap and effective method for sightseeing and commuting. Now if that could expand all over Oregon, then that would be excellent. It would create an easier, cheaper and environmentally friendly method of travel than the majority of the ones we utilize currently. Having a statewide public transit system could also potentially lower the prices of existing train systems so that one day, we wouldn’t have to enter a contest to be able to afford to write on a train.
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made people feel unsafe and when people feel unsafe it is not uncommon when a community “tears itself apart” as a result. Yes, “as a university we’re better than this.” We are better than hate speech. Your past explanations seem to reference your alliance with the LGBTQ+ community, maybe it is time you stop calling it “your community” and start calling it our community. The LGBTQ+ community encompasses not only people who embrace their queer identity but also all of our allies. We just hope you can learn from this whole experience and educate yourself on the social implications your words can have. If you ever want to lead, if you ever want to represent, you need to start seeing this campus and all the people in it as one community. Taylor Owings Senior in sociology Jules Malango Senior in English
Regarding Bret Barlow’s public apology
Barlow doesn’t deserve hatred
Barlow’s comments. These comments, which I will not repeat, showed an extreme lack of sensitivity and intelligence, and were so atrocious as to be completely beneath the standards of OSU. Barlow’s comments were unforgivable; Barlow himself, however, is not. He is a person capable of change and improvement. I cannot say if he has changed, but I can say, as a proud supporter of LGBTQ rights and a longtime friend of someone who is openly gay, that the moral and practical course should be to forgive those who have overcome their bigotry. Even when full legal equality is finally achieved for all LGBTQ people, there will still be the issue of equality in the area of national opinion. To extend friendship to former opponents will be how we ensure their views remain rehabilitated, and it will be how we move forward as a society. I cannot say if Barlow has reformed his views; that is a judgment we would all have to make individually, hopefully after careful consideration. But I can say that every person commits grave errors, and as long as we improve ourselves then we deserve forgiveness. This is a mercy that we will all require in our lives, and so we must all be prepared to give it. Saul Boulanger
Like most Oregon State University students, I was angered and disturbed when I first read about Bret
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EDITORIAL n Continued from page 7
Unmarried same-sex couples can obviously already adopt, so trying to delegitimize Paul and Ben as parents is a ridiculous tactic for NOM to take. The legal battle to declare Oregon’s ban unconstitutional is a case about equal rights and equal privileges for Oregon’s residents — the privilege of a 20-year couple, a four-year couple or a six-month couple being able to file taxes jointly, to visit each other in the hospital, to make each other their beneficiaries, to share workplace insurance and benefits; just like different-sex couples can, after they file the paperwork for a marriage license with the government.
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marriage is for procreation, and that further, only couples who can procreate should be allowed to adopt children. If that’s true, then NOM should also focus its efforts on delegitimizing the marriages of couples that can’t have children. Had to get a hysterectomy? You need a divorce to go with that. Got your tubes tied or snipped? Can’t be married anymore. Uterine, ovary or testicular cancer? Obviously you’re not worthy of being parents, so you can’t adopt either. Spouse died? You can’t make more, so we’re taking your current kids away. It apparently doesn’t matter to NOM if there are thousands of children who need good homes, and a dearth of couples — or
even, gasp, single people — who would love to raise them as their own. But marriage isn’t about procreation, it’s about love. When did love become a bad thing? Something to hate, when it has nothing to do with you? Almost every marriage knows that simple, everyday love: The one that makes you look past people squeezing the toothpaste from the middle of the tube, constantly losing their keys, talking with their mouths full or having an unreasoning hatred of mushrooms — the ability to look beyond small annoyances to just be thrilled that they’re in your life, no matter how much the annoyances make you grumble. That’s not evil. It’s not something to start wars over — it’s a reason to come home from them again.
MCELHINNY n Continued from page 7 I believe that this is a common, and not particularly helpful, misunderstanding of slacktivism. The difference between the common understanding and what I consider to be a more useful one is that I find the ability to replicate, scale and learn from interventions to be of utmost importance when considering what slacktivism is, and is not. In my view, slacktivism is a failure of experimental process more than it is simply a collection of methods for intervention. Whether “liking” a post reaches its intended goal or not is not what makes it a slacktivist act, per se. The failure to check one’s results, learn from the outcome and develop new strategies based on the consequences is what makes a slacktivist. Interventions traditionally considered slacktivism are therefore morally permissible, but not
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necessarily morally sufficient. What this view does is tell activists that it is OK that you haven’t — by one single intervention — ended racism, sexism or poverty, but that you need to get to work learning from what you have already done, so you can leverage your experiment for better results. Engaging in some intervention without trying to develop new strategies based on the consequences of the act does not discharge one’s moral duties, and leaves some potentially valuable data unaccounted for. In this way, it is not enough simply to have one good consequence if it is not investigated, replicated and/or scaled for future use. After all, activism is a project, not just a product. t
Thomas McElhinny is a guest columnist for The Daily Barometer. The
opinions expressed in McElhinny’s column do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.
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