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Blood drive starts next week THE DAILY BAROMETER

Students will have an opportunity to donate blood from May 11 to May 15 during Oregon State University’s third American Red Cross Blood Drive of the year.

The drive will be held in the Memorial Union Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the MU Multipurpose Room May 15.

All blood types eligible are encouraged to donate, though types O negative, A negative and B negative are especially needed, according to a news release from the American Red Cross.

The drive will include both single unit donations and double red cell donations, which allow for the donation of two units of blood while the rest of the blood components — such as plasma, white blood cells and platelets — are returned to the donor along with saline.

Blood donation eligibility is mostly related to physical and medical conditions, such as weight/height ratio, illness or unhealthy blood pressure or iron levels.

Students wanting to donate can register online through the Red Cross or at the Red Cross blood drive booth in the MU quad this week.

The American Red Cross also urges students and community members to donate in these weeks leading to summer to help prevent the annual decline that commonly occurs in summer months as regular donors go on vacation.

As part of a way to encourage summer donations, the Red Cross is giving out scholarships through the Leaders Save Lives Scholarship Program, a program that works with community members 16 to 24 years old.

To be eligible for the scholarship, students must host a Red Cross blood drive over the summer, the registration for which is open now for opening a blood drive between June 1 and August 31. For more information, visit redcrossblood. org/leaderssavelives.

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The Majestic Theatre cast for “Les Miserables” holds a dress rehearsal to prepare for the play, which will open Friday, May 8. The Majestic Theatre’s final performance of “Les Miserables” will take place May 24.

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The Majestic Theatre will present its 2015 Spring Musical, “Les Miserables,” beginning with its premier performance May 8. The performance, directed by Mary Jeanne Reynales, “Les Miserables” is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. The true modern classic is based on Victor Hugo’s novel and features one of the most

memorable scores of all time,” according to the Majestic Theatre’s website.

The musical is set to show May 8, 9, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. On May 10, 17 and 24, the performance will take place at 2:30 p.m.

The May 10 showing will include will include a dessert bar and drinks, but ticket prices will increase to $25 for students, members and seniors,

and $30 for adults.

Otherwise, tickets prices will be $20 for students, members and seniors, and $25 for adults.

For more information or to buy tickets online, visit the show’s website at majestic. org/2015-spring-musical-les-miserables/.

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Yunker lecturer talks fluid mechanics at OSU

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Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon ‘69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, speaks to students about bacteria in fluids Monday in Weniger Hall.

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Princeton professor illuminates world of fluids and flows at annual Yunker lecture

“I was trained in engineering, it’s how I grew up intellectually,” Stone said.

Stone recounted some of the research he has worked on in fluid

By Courtnee’ Morin mechanics with audience members, THE DAILY BAROMETER starting off with the myriad of ways Students and professionals filled that fluid mechanics affect the world the chairs and staircases in the and organisms within it, including Weniger lecture hall May 4 to attend through disease transmission, rivers the Yunker Lecture Series presen- and oceans or in engineering and tation “Fascination with Fluids physics. and Flows” by Princeton professor Fluid mechanics have a large stake Howard Stone. in physiological biology, with many Stone conducts research in fluid aspects of the body being fluid in mechanics, and won the Batchelor nature. For example, the heart itself Prize, sponsored by the Journal of acts as a pump to push fluid blood Fluid Mechanics, in 2008 for his throughout the body. With heart failwork. ure being the leading cause of death Stone felt moving to fluid mechan- in the United States, fluid dynamics is an important area of study. ics was an obvious transition. n

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Another area where fluid mechanics is helpful involves bacteria and the biofilms that they can live in.

While bacteria tend to accumulate in areas where there is flow, not a lot of research has been conducted concerning how bacteria react to flow.

In the research conducted by Stone and his colleagues, they looked at the relationship between Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms and flow in their environment.

They collected some interesting findings — the bacteria migrated against the flow. The working hypothesis is that the unipolar pili, a hairlike appendage in bacteria that aids in movement, walk forward after the flow flips the way the bacteria are facing.

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R-G Publisher Tony Baker to step down, Calendar former Oregonian publisher hired Wednesday, May 6 Meetings

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DUII A Corvallis police officer stopped a man for speeding through an alley and driving over a nearby curb turning a corner, according to the log. The man reportedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.13 percent. The man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and cited for speeding.

Identity theft A man reported to Corvallis police that he attempted to file his taxes, but someone had already filed them in his name.

Stolen mini bike A Corvallis police officer answered a call from a man who reported his mini bike had been stolen, according to the log. The man reportedly estimated that the incident took place sometime overnight.

Cat at large A Corvallis police officer was dispatched to answer a call regarding a stray cat in custody, according to the log. The caller had reportedly found the cat — a long-haired, black-and-white female — near her apartment complex. The person who found the cat reported that they had noticed the cat wandering the area for a few days prior to when they called. The cat was transported to the Heartland Humane Society.

Marijuana possession A Corvallis police officer reportedly stopped a woman for speeding at 39 mph in a 25 mph zone. According to the log, the officer noticed a strong smell of marijuana when the woman rolled her window down. The officer allegedly found a vaporizer under the passenger seat.

The vaporizer, which reportedly belonged to another passenger, contained an oil residue that smelled of marijuana, according to the log. The officer reportedly seized the vaporizer and placed it into evidence.

Loud music A Corvallis police officer answered a call reporting loud music around 10:59 p.m., according to the log. The officer could reportedly hear two types of music coming from an apartment that could be heard 50 feet away.

This same apartment allegedly had received a citation April 26. The officer reportedly spoke with one of the apartment’s residents and issued him another special response notice for unlawful amplified sound.

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According to the city of Corvallis Code of Ordinances Section 5.01.170, “no person other than a duly authorized City employee in the performance of his or her duty or persons participating in City approved activities shall dig, remove, destroy, injure, mutilate or cut any trees, plants, shrubs, blooms or flowers or any portion thereof growing in any park.”

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EUGENE — After 28 years as editor and publisher of The RegisterGuard, Tony Baker is stepping back from day-to-day oversight of the daily newspaper and registerguard. com.

The company, owned by the Baker family, has hired veteran newspaper executive N. Christian Anderson III, a former publisher of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, to take the helm as editor and publisher.

Baker, 65, will remain on the board of directors of Guard Publishing Co. and will oversee the Baker family’s real estate holdings.

The family intends to keep the newspaper in family ownership for the long term, Baker said. The family is bringing in an accomplished professional with business and marketing skills, extensive financial experience and strong news experience to lead the company’s expansion into digital media while continuing to serve the many readers and advertisers who value the print format, Baker said.

“Chris has the entrepreneurial instincts, business savvy, news background and digital know-how that make him uniquely qualified,” Baker said.

Anderson, 64, currently is chairman of the Oregonian Media Group, which comprises The Oregonian newspaper and other Portland area media ventures. He’s also held the top executive posts at The Orange County Register newspaper in California and The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colo., as well as news management posts at newspapers in Oregon

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cally larger flow rate reduction than the biofilms that occur on the edges of the pipes, since an obstruction Stone and his research group through the middle of the pipe crealso looked at how biofilms form ates more flow problems than the in curved channels, originally plan- accumulation of debris or organning to look at the growth on the isms around the edges.

Lastly, Stone spoke of his collabosurfaces of the channel, which is all that occurs in straight chan- rated findings in the behavior of air nels. However, in curved channels, bubbles in T-junctions, a common there is also growth in the middle piping element.

While looking at fluid dynamof the pipe. ics through a This growth T-junction, the takes the form researchers found of a ‘spindle’ of This was a Yunker that when air bacteria, which lecture, it’s a big bubbles accidenStone refers to tally found their as a streamer. deal they only way into the sysAccording to happen once a year. tem, an interestStone, most everySo I came, even ing phenomenon one in the field believed that biothough it was about occurred. Most of the air bubbles folfilms only accufluid dynamics. lowed in suit of the mulate on solid water, exiting the T surfaces and grow It was good. at either end, but from the outside some formed a line in. Their bacteria, Michael Perlin at the stagnation however, took the Senior in physics point, becoming opposite approach. trapped.

The streamer This flow-driven trapping event grew all at once instead of from one end to the other, and the amount was caused through the formation of streamer formation is directly of two vortices that keep the air proportional to the amount of cur- bubbles trapped between the two of them in a line. vature in the pipe.

Stone claims that this is a vortex These streamers cause a drasti-

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Anderson will begin work in “The Register-Guard has an incredibly rich history of serving Eugene on June 1 as editor and readers and advertisers, so our goal publisher of the newspaper and as is simple: strengthen how we serve president of Guard Publishing Co., those customers by embracing which owns the paper. their changing needs,” Anderson Anderson was named president said. Readers want news and other of the Portland-based Oregonian information on a multitude of print Media Group in October 2013, and digital platforms, and adver- after serving as president and tisers want to reach customers in publisher of The Oregonian since a range of ways, Anderson said. 2009. The media group includes “In short, we must be much more The Oregonian, the OregonLive. than a newspaper. Implementing com website, that strategy will three commube our focus in the nity newspapers weeks and months In short, we must in the Portland ahead,” he said. market, and two be more than a magazines.

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Anderson is a Prior to leading major move for The Oregonian, Implementing that the newspaper. It he worked as a strategy will be our is the first time in media consulfocus in the weeks the 88 years the tant from 2007 to Baker family has 2009, and served and months ahead. owned the paper as publisher that a non-family and CEO of The Christian Anderson III member will lead Orange County Incoming publisher, The Register-Guard the company.

Register from 1999 to 2007, Baker said the family expects a Baker will lead the and as president and publisher firm at some point in the future. But of The Gazette from 1994 to 1999. he said Anderson’s skill and experi- Previously, Anderson held newsence at transitioning newspapers room editing positions at newspainto the digital era is crucial at this pers across Oregon, Washington juncture for The Register-Guard. and California, from the Albany Anderson “is a realist about the Democrat-Herald to the Walla Walla challenges facing our industry and Union-Bulletin, The Seattle Times at the same time an optimist about and The Orange County Register. how a 21st century media company Anderson, who graduated from can successfully deliver for its read- OSU with a BA in liberal studies in ers and advertisers,” he said.

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breakdown phenomena, though he acknowledges that he may need to refer to it as vortex breakdown-like.

Stone is not sure where his research will take him next, but is sure he will find something interesting with his colleagues.

“I like problem solving, and I tend to get interested in what my colleagues are interested in, so when they find something they want to work on, I’m sure I’ll be interested too,” Stone said.

Nik Patterson, a junior in exercise and sport science, enjoyed the talk, though he wished Stone had related it a little more to physiological aspects.

“He talked about blood vessels and how radius and streamers affect it a little, I just wish he had been a little more definitive on his claim,” Patterson said. “I thought it was really cool, I just thought it should have had more physiological ties.”

Michael Perlin, a senior in physics, regularly attends the Yunker lectures, and enjoyed this one, though his interest is not in fluid mechanics.

“This was a Yunker lecture, it’s a big deal they only happen once a year. So I came, even though it was about fluid dynamics. It was good,” Perlin said.

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Some Oregon health insurers seek steep rate increases Oregon advocates testify SALEM — After Oregonians saw a decrease this year on average health insurance premiums in the individual and small business markets, the rate proposals filed for the 2016 policy year are not looking as good for consumers.

Time Insurance Co. is seeking a 52 percent increase for its standard silver plan covering a 40-year-old nonsmoking Portland man. Meanwhile, Freedom Life Insurance Co. of America, a company newly entering the market next year, has proposed an even higher — the highest — premium, at $481 per month.

Jesse O’Brien, health care advocate for OSPIRG, says some of the requests, asking for more than 40 percent increases, are the highest since the rate review process has gone public. “The ones on the high end are definitely going to put the process to the test,�

O’Brien said.

Oregon’s rate review process allows the public to review what insurance carriers want to charge in premiums in the next policy year and all their data explaining how they landed on their numbers.

OSPIRG represents the public in rate review hearings.

The companies asking for steep increases say that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurance companies not discriminate against people with

preexisting conditions is more expensive than they previously thought.

Moda Health Plan, which entered the Obamacare world with a low rate and garnered 100,000 members, or about twothirds of the individual market in Oregon, is requesting a 25.6 percent rate increase. “The Affordable Care Act provided access to health care to people who hitherto had been outside the system,� Moda spokesman Jonathan Nicholas wrote in an email. “Now all of us have to work together to make that access sustainable.�

But, O’Brien, pointed out, not all insurance companies are making the same assessments about the costs of covering newly insured people. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, for one, is seeking a 1.95 percent decrease in its rates, the only decrease requested in the individual market. That gives Kaiser the fourth-cheapest premium requested for the standard silver plan.

O’Brien is not satisfied with the insurance companies’ reasoning that the expense of covering the newly insured, whose health might have been neglected due to the lack of insurance, is justification for increasing rates as much as is being requested.

He said insurers should be looking for ways to better manage their patients’ care and changing the way care is paid for and delivered. He hopes the Oregon Insurance Division will hold carriers accountable

to that.

New to this year’s rate review process is the Insurance Division’s release of its preliminary decision before it issues its final decision. The preliminary decision will be subject to public comment, and insurance carriers will have a chance to raise objections and clarify their filings in response.

Last year, Oregon’s Health CO-OP complained that the Insurance Division wouldn’t allow it to decrease its premiums as much as it requested, and it called for a reasonable step in the process to allow it to rebut the state’s findings. A House bill that would codify the changes is making its way through the Legislature this session.

Also worth noting is that Zoom Health Plan, another newcomer to the individual market, has outpriced its competitors by requesting a rate of $233 per month for the standard silver plan covering a 40-year-old male nonsmoker.

So should we blame the Affordable Care Act for what we’re seeing in the rate proposals today? O’Brien doesn’t think so. “I don’t think it’s about the Affordable Care Act,� O’Brien said. “This is about how can we get the health insurers and the health care industry to change the way they do business to make health care affordable, and the rate review process is one tool to push things in that direction.�

To see the rate proposals and the public hearing schedule, and to comment online, go to OregonHealthRates.org.

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SALEM — In the all the years and legislative sessions he’s pushed for state funding of seismic upgrades to prepare Oregon’s public schools for a major earthquake, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney said, he’s never seen this level of interest and momentum.

Courtney, D-Salem, is one of only a few legislators behind proposals for increased funding to retrofit schools to make them safer. Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, is sponsoring Senate Bill 794, which authorizes the state treasurer to issue bonds in the amount of $300 million in net proceeds for seismic rehabilitation of public schools. Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, is sponsoring SB 447, a bill that establishes a grant

program to provide matching fund grants to school districts for capital construction.

The Senate president testified Friday before the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Capital Construction on the necessity to move forward with these investments. “We’re finally at a point where we can make a real investment in protecting our schools when it comes to the big quake, which is now scientifically documented — and I think being accepted internationally as something that will take place — and it will come to the West Coast and it will particularly hit hard in the areas of California, Oregon and Washington,� Courtney said.

Courtney’s proposal, which he made in August, is to make 133 safer school buildings by funding the Seismic Rehabilitation Grant

Critics: Oregon bill could shame vaccine-averse parents

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SALEM — In the wake of newly released numbers indicating Oregon’s vaccination rate has improved, opponents of the latest vaccine legislation are saying it is “unnecessary and overreaching.�

The rate of Oregon kindergarteners who had been opted out of required school shots for personal belief reasons had been climbing steadily for 15 years, reaching 7 percent in the 2013-2014 school year, the nation’s worst. However, last week the Oregon Public Health Division announced that the rate had dropped to 5.8 percent.

The change could be due to a 2013 law that requires parents planning to file a nonmedical exemption to first receive education through the Oregon Health Authority’s video modules or a health care provider.

Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton, previously attempted to get rid ofOregon’s option for a nonmedical exemption from vaccines, but is now pursuing legislation that would require schools to report their vaccination rates to parents.

Senate Bill 895 would also require all parents and guardians who currently have a nonmedical exemption on file to receive the education. This year, only parents of kindergarteners were subject to the new rules.

SB 895 is now in the joint budget committee.

However, Oregonians for Medical Freedom, who were among the fierce opponents that brought down Steiner Hayward’s Senate Bill 442, said in a press release that requiring schools to disclose their vaccination data is burdensome and could breed shaming of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. The group also said the bill is unnecessary because the 2013 legislation appears to be working in improving vaccination rates.

Steiner Hayward responded that the bill was necessary to make it applicable to all parents, not just parents of children newly entering the school system. She said vaccination rates of kindergarteners improved, but not that of seventh graders, the other cohort that the state tracks.

Program at $200 million from general obligation bonds for the 2015-17 biennium.

A statement from the Senate President’s office said about 275 school buildings are at a high risk of collapsing, according to an assessment by the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.

Courtney described a “long and frustrating road� that led to the development of the program.

In 2001, he sponsored resolutions to create two grant programs — one for emergency services and one for school buildings. The resolutions were approved by voters in 2002 as ballot measures 15 and 16. “Stunningly, they both passed when statewide ballot measures involving money were going down,� Courtney said. “Since then the program has funded 37 schools for $34 million appropriated by the legislature.�

Following approval of the ballot measures, Courtney requested a mandated seismic assessment of schools and emergency buildings. Two bills passed in 2005 and 2012 to require the assessment and that schools maintain updated information.

In the previous three biennia, the legislature has approved grant funds as part of the Capital

Construction Budget. The result is $33.7 million spent on schools since 2009, including community colleges, public universities and K-12 schools.

Courtney told the subcommittee Friday that interest in the program is at an all-time high. “School districts are engaged, parents are engaged and lawmakers are engaged,� he said.

Aside from Devlin and Ferrioli’s bills, the governor’s proposed budget also includes $100 million for improvements.

Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Eugene, said she appreciated support on the issue. “We’re talking about buildings, but the truth is there are children and teachers in these buildings and that’s what we have to remember is when these buildings come down, it’s not just about the building — it’s about who’s in it,� Hoyle said.

As far as Courtney is concerned, making facilities safe for children should be a top educational priority. But now he feels more confident than he ever has about where the issues stands among his colleagues. “I think we’ll definitely allocate quite a bit of money this session to remodel our schools to prepare for the big quake.�

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SALEM — Advocates for a universal state health system urged legislators Monday to consider how Oregon could create a publicly funded, single-payer health system.

The Senate health care committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 631, which would establish such a system, but the proponents weren’t asking the panel to pass the bill. They acknowledged Oregon wasn’t ready to enact the policy.

Instead, they used the hearing as a platform to voice why they thought pursuing universal health care as a long-term goal was important. They asked for funding for a study to examine how Oregon could finance such a system.

Charlie Swanson, of Eugene, said the rising cost of health care in the U.S. creates hardships for individuals who cannot afford medical care (even with insurance), for employers that lose their competitive edge and for the state government that struggles to invest in other important programs.

Universal health care would cut administrative costs through simplification, he said. Ultimately, all Oregon residents and workers would have equal access to necessary health care, and providers would not have to worry about whether a particular patient can afford his or her co-pay, or whether his or her payer would reimburse their services.

Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, a chief sponsor of the bill, said, “We need to take Medicare and improve it and extend it to the entire population. This is the way health care is delivered in virtually all industrialized nations in the world.�

Dr. Paul Hochfeld told the committee that taxpayers already pay for a significant portion of the population’s health care — but that they’re getting a bad deal. The current system splits people in risk pools, and tax dollars either subsidize or fully pay for the highest risk patients — the elderly, disabled and the poor.

Instead, universal health care would put everyone in the risk pool and spread out tax money and the risk over the entire state population, he said. “There’s a lot of fear of more government involvement in health care, but I think we need to get over it and admit that we’re all paying for everybody anyway,� Hochfeld said. “And we need to design a system that reflects that reality and puts everybody in the same risk pool.�

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, chairwoman of the committee said she was concerned about how high income taxes would need to be to finance a single-payer system.

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Hercules is one of the two sheep that the OSU Sheep Club brought to campus Tuesday afternoon for OSU Ag Days.

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Oregon State head coach Pat Casey said it was business as usual Tuesday night in Goss Stadium when in-state rival Oregon invaded Corvallis for a nonconference matchup despite his club’s disappointing collapse the last time the two teams met on April 12.

It was OSU’s (30-14, 12-9 Pac-12) first matchup with U of O (27-21, 9-12) since blowing a six-run lead in the third and deciding game of a threegame series.

The Beavers jumped out to another big lead in Tuesday’s rematch, scoring the game’s first seven runs. Oregon State wouldn’t let the Ducks fight back this time around, securing a 10-2 victory to even the season series at two games apiece.

“They’re an extremely talented ball club,” Casey said. “You’ve got You’ve got to give them credit for to give them beating our tail last time out. I give our credit for club credit for coming beating back tonight and being our tail last strong.”

“It feels good to time out. put a game together I give our against them,” added junior centerfielder Jeff club credit Hendrix. for coming Oregon State strugback tonight gled to drive in runs out of the gates, stranding and being two runners through strong. two frames, but exploded for five runs in the Pat Casey third. head coach Freshman left fielder Elliott Cary started the scoring barrage off with an RBI single, and freshman first baseman KJ Harrison added to OSU’s lead with a two-RBI single off the fence in the left field two batters later.

Sophomore designated hitter Billy King then punctuated the inning with a two-RBI double the very next pitch.

“That third inning was big for us,” Hendrix said. “Sometimes it feels like we wait until the seventh, eighth or ninth to get a couple runs, so anytime you can strike early it’s definitely going to help your chances.”

OSU continued its offensive onslaught in

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Oregon State University baseball players take a moment to talk before their game against the Ducks in Goss Stadium Tuesday.

The chance for glory, to stand up on a podium with your closest friends, holding a trophy high wearing that championship tee as your name is added the OSU history books for the rest of time.

Every Oregon State student and faculty member or person with a Dixon membership has the opportunity to do just that through the intramural sports program.

While there are more than 15 league sports offered throughout the year, Softball is the current sport to be in the know about this Spring.

There are 1,597 total participants in 32 different leagues: 16 men’s leagues, 14 co-rec leagues and two women’s leagues. Although there are many leagues, there is only one champion for each type of division of men’s, co-rec and women’s leagues. Making the path to victory a challenging and drama-filled quest.

But the road to victory starts long before the first pitch of the season is thrown. It begins with assembling of the teams and managers meetings. So like most sports-related endeavors, the journey begins in meetings filled with paperwork. There were four time slots for teams to sign-up at Dixon during the second and third week of the terms, as well as an early registration option through Facebook for those teams who sought to skip the 20-minute line that inevitably accompanies registration.

Once signed up, the team managers have two opportunities to attend the mandatory managers meeting where the rules of the game and league are explained.

Teams then have a week to prepare and add the roster before league play started on Sunday, April 19.

As mentioned, the teams are divided into 32 different leagues consisting of three to six teams with a round-robin style where squads play a different team every week for four weeks. There are both A and B level leagues with the A league’s having the chance to make playoffs.

To make the playoffs, teams are required to have at least a .500 record, so they need to win two or more of their games and have a good conduct score.

The conduct scores are based on a team’s sportsmanship and are heavily considered when deciding the teams that advance to playoffs. A normal score is six while a lesser score is five or lower. Teams need a conduct score of 5.5 to make playoffs.

Usually teams with winning records are excluded from advancing because of bad conduct scores.

Oregon State recreational sports wants their participants to be champions on and off the field.

The teams that make it to the playoffs are one step closer to the podium and ultimate prize of OSU IM softball Champions of 2015.

At the conclusion of the four week regular season league, the playoff brackets are announced and a single elimination tournament is conducted over the course of a few days.

Sometimes if there are enough greek-based teams, two men’s league playoff brackets are created with one consisting of greek teams and non-greek teams.

In that case, there are two men’s league champions, who then play for the ultimate title.

The teams are currently in the middle of the regular season, fighting for a place in the playoffs. In the midst of the volume of teams, it can be a challenge to pick a team to follow.

However, there are some leagues that have shown themselves to be strong playoff contenders. For men’s A league, the teams that play at the Thursday 5:15 and 8:30 p.m. time slots and Sunday 7:25 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. have proven highly competitive good playoff prospects. The teams in the Sunday at 8:30 p.m. slot are the current reigning champs of Sig Ep A. Fraternities and sororities aren’t the only groups to participate in IM Softball — there is also a large group of co-ops and Oregon State athletes from other sports that participate. Many of the co-op teams, including Varsity House, Beaver Lodge and Antioch play on Wednesday nights.

One team with players that know what it takes to be champions is the Co-Rec team Angels in the Outfield. The Angels in the Outfield have members of the Pac-12 Champion women’s basketball team on their roster.

To catch the Angels in the Outfield or another team of interest in action, check out the softball schedule online through OSU’s recreational sports website.

With only one more round of games before playoff time, teams are gearing up for one last battle to determine their fate as they strive for the ultimate victory of University IM Softball Champions.

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Women’s golf amature Ginny Burkey is waiting for the call

By Ron Bellamy

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EUGENE — A big name in amateur golf circles in the state of Washington, a winner of multiple championships there, Ginny Burkey would like to start playing tournaments in Oregon now that she’s settling full-time in Eugene, nearly 40 years after graduating from the University of Oregon.

As it turns out, her first opportunity could come quite soon — Burkey, 60, and playing partner Lisa Smego are alternates for the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championships that begin Saturday at Pacific Dunes Golf Course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.

The U.S. Golf Association’s newest championship is based on a very old golf format — a foursome of players, divided into two-person teams, with the team with the best low-ball score winning the hole. The tournament will consist of 64 two-woman sides selected from qualifying tournaments throughout the country.

Burkey and Smego, from Olympia, finished one stroke back in a qualifying tournament in Bremerton last August, and Burkey said they are

A team of two 13-year-olds — hopeful of being added to the field if there’s a late cancellation, given their Briana Chacon and Hannah Zeman, proximity to the tournament site. The both from Southern California; the first two days of the tournament will youngest player in the tournament is consist of stroke play, after which the 12-year-old Lucy Li, who has received field will be cut to 32 teams for match national attention.

Burkey is a veteran of USGA events play Monday through Wednesday, with the final two days televised by — she played in the U.S. Women’s Open in 1990, and has played in the Fox Sports 1.

If selected, Burkey and Smego U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, Senior and Public Links tournaments. She’s would face a stellar field, including: Four-time USGA Women’s Mid- also a championship best-ball player, Amateur champion Meghan Stasi having won five PNGA Women’s Senior and her partner Dawn Woodard, a Team Championships, including four three-time Women’s Mid-Amateur straight through 2011 with then-playing partner Loree McKay of Hillsboro. stroke-play medalist.

2010 Senior Women’s Amateur She was the Washington State Golf Association senior champion Mina player of the year Hardin and her part(age 50 and over) ner Caryn Wilson, Ginny Burkey would in 2009 and 2011, a Senior Women’s like to start playing and has a national Amateur semifinalchampionship to her ist who is one of two tournaments in credit — she won women to play in the Oregon now that the Canadian Senior U.S. Open in both golf and tennis, joinshe’s settling full-time Women’s Amateur title in 2006, a touring Althea Gibson. in Eugene, nearly nament she entered 2009 Women’s 40 years after because it coincided Mid-Amateur champion Martha Leach graduating from the with a family vacation in Ottawa. and her partner/ University of Oregon.

Burkey, who plays daughter Madison to a 1.4 handicap, Gerstle and 2003 grew up in a house Wo m e n’s MidAmateur champion Amber Marsh bordering Fircrest Country Club in Tacoma, Wash.; her father was “a Elliott and her partner Katie Miller.

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Martini’s Ducks QB rankings: Lockie closes in on Adams

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EUGENE — Now that spring practices are over, it’s time to reevaluate the Oregon quarterback situation.

The Ducks, who are replacing Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota this year, had five quarterbacks competing this spring, and will add senior transfer Vernon Adams at the start of fall camp.

After weeks of relying on players and coaches for information, we finally got to see the quarterbacks play Saturday in the annual spring game.

Junior Jeff Lockie, sophomore Taylor Alie, sophomore Ty Griffin, freshman Morgan Mahalak and true freshman Travis Jonsen all competed in the spring game, giving us a chance for a better evaluation.

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golfaholic,” and she learned the game her amateur status about 14 years ago.

Burkey’s road back to Eugene from him and from the pro at Fircrest.

Her high school, in the pre-Title IX came through her relationship with era, didn’t have a girls golf team, Eugene real estate agent Dave Baslaw; they married four so she played on the years ago, bought boys team. When she a house together arrived at the UO in Burkey is a veteran about three years 1973, women’s golf of USGA events — ago, and Burkey is was essentially a she played in the transitioning from club sport, evolving her longtime famtoward varsity status U.S. Women’s Open ily home and flying by her senior year in in 1990, and has base in Tacoma to 1977, when Burkey full-time residency competed in tournaplayed in the U.S. in Eugene. With ments against playWomen’s Mida newly acquired ers such as Mary Lou Amateur, Senior and membership at Mulflur, now head Emerald Valley coach at Washington, Public Links Golf and Resort in and Rise Alexander, tournaments.

Creswell, she’s hopformer longtime ing to actually get head coach at some practice time Oregon State.

In 1982, five years after graduating this summer.

“I hit it OK,” she said. “My short from Oregon, Burkey turned pro; she played mini-tours for four years, and game suffers from lack of practice. I figures she won about $20,000 total, get off the tee pretty well and I keep it essentially enough to pay tournament straight. I don’t get into a lot of trouble. fees. She made several attempts at Q My weakness is putting. I have to work School to qualify for the LPGA Tour, on that this year.”

And, this year, Burkey is considering but “never got all that close.” In 1986, she got a job as a flight attendant, Oregon Golf Association events after figuring the travel benefits and work such a long run in Washington. She schedule would give her the best notes that the OGA Senior Amateur chance to play golf for a couple more Championships, for men and years; 29 years later, she’s still a flight women, will be in held late August attendant, with Delta. She regained — at Emerald Valley.

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the fourth inning, boosting the lead to 7-0 on a two-run double from Hendrix.

On the defensive side of the plate, freshman right-hander Sam Tweedt got his fourth start of the season on the mound for the Beavers.

Tweedt — who has also made 12 relief appearances this year — pitched well for the Beavers behind a comfortable early lead,

back rankings as of the end of spring practices: 1. Vernon Adams, Sr.: As a three-year player transferring in from Eastern Washington, he has by far the most game experience of any quarterbacks on Oregon’s roster. He has 10,438 passing yards and 110 passing touchdowns in his career to go along with 1,232 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns.

His seven touchdown passes against Washington last season and six total touchdowns against Oregon State in 2013 have me believing he’s still the best option for Oregon this fall.

2. Jeff Lockie, Jr.: He had the best day during the spring game Saturday, completing 9 of 9 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns. As the veteran member of the quarterback group competing this spring, Lockie has embraced the leadership role left behind by Mariota. Although,

I still have him behind Adams, the gap isn’t as big as it was at the start of spring practices. He should push Adams during the competition in fall camp.

3. Taylor Alie, So.: The more I see from the walk-on from Sheldon High School in Eugene, the more I like. He’s a smart, strong leader who knows the offense well. Alie completed 6 of 11 passes for 146 yards and a touchdown in the spring game.

He’s a little behind the other quarterbacks in physical ability, but he more than makes up for it with his football IQ. He could win games in the Pac-12 as the starting quarterback.

4. Travis Jonsen, Fr.: Given how young he is as a true freshman, he looked good overall in the spring game. He completed 5 of 9 passes for 64 yards and a touchdown. If everything goes right, he won’t see the field this year. But Ducks fans can expect

to see him in a starting role in the future.

5. Morgan Mahalak, Fr.: The coaching staff has expressed concern that he didn’t progress in practice last season as much as he should have. He has been praised for his dedication this spring, but he still struggled in Saturday’s spring game, completing 3 of 9 passes for 32 yards and no touchdowns. He also rushed for 18 yards and a touchdown. He still has a lot of work to do to get to the point of being a starting quarterback in the Pac-12.

6. Ty Griffin, So.: Ty Griffin really struggled in the spring game, completing 4 of 12 passes for 67 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The transfer from Georgia Tech also was sacked twice. Earlier in the spring, Griffin said he was focusing on his accuracy, but it still seems to be an issue for him.

surrendering one unearned run on three hits in 5 2/3 innings.

“With Sam, if we defend for him he shuts the other guy out for five or six innings,” Casey said. “It was nice to be in a midweek game and not have to use a lot of pitching.”

“It felt good to get a win which is all that really matters,” Tweedt added. “I didn’t have my best stuff, walked a couple guys, but it’s always good to win.

“I was a little bit hyped up at the beginning but I settled

down and made some pitches.”

Junior Josh Graham started at pitcher for Oregon, meanwhile, for the first time since missing a start due to a suspension because of an unspecified violation of team rules. The right-hander struggled from the get-go for the Ducks, lasting just 3 2/3 innings while surrendering seven earned runs.

The Ducks got on the board in the fifth inning thanks to an RBI double from freshman Jakob Goldfarb, and added their

second run of the game the following inning on a Tim Susnara RBI single.

Not to be outdone, OSU answered in the bottom half of the sixth with a run of its own, a Harrison RBI fielders’ choice, upping the lead at 8-2.

OSU rounded out its offensive outburst with two runs in the eighth, which included an RBI double from King, making the final score 10-2.

The Beavers tallied 13 hits in total Tuesday night, scoring in four different innings. OSU is now 6-1 in its past seven games.

“I think our club has grown up a little bit in the last three weeks,” Casey said. “We’re getting comfortable and seeing the ball a little better. It’s always good to win games.”

Oregon State freshman lefthander Luke Heimlich replaced Tweedt in the sixth inning, pitching 3 1/3 innings in total.

The lefty allowed just two hits in relief.

Oregon State and Oregon meet one more time this season on May 19 in Corvallis.

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crimes is that the crime is motivated simply because the victim belongs to or is believed to belong to a certain social group — race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, etc.

When a gay man writes “Sissy F*ggot” on his own chest, it is certainly not hate motivated.

Part of the idea behind the “Pride” theme is to behave outrageously for Dear Supporter of LGBT Rights, a day, so you may see some bondage, but it definitely isn’t a theme.

You ask a very good question.

Many Pride participants are there Hopefully I have a good answer to show their support for you. This is for gay rights and/ also a very timely or to remember vicquestion as this Talk about overt tims of AIDS and hate week is Pride Week heterosexual crimes. at Oregon State sexuality gone University. Let’s In fact, many start with your hate Pride parades look amuck — I’d say crime question and a lot like Carnival heterosexuals then move on to in Rio de Janeiro or the issue of Pride cornered the Mardi Gras in New parades.

Orleans where half market on You make a good naked people parade promiscuity long ago. around and straight point about the confusing nature women bare their of hate speech with breasts to straight respect to using words like f*ggot. men in exchange for beads.

The reason it’s a hate crime when So it clearly isn’t just the homosexusomeone calls a gay man a “Sissy als doing the naked thing.

F*ggot” but not when a gay man After that one day, LGBT folks go writes it on his chest is because when back to their dull and ordinary lives someone else says it, it is very likely — just like everyone else. that it is hate-motivated.

The fact is, when LGBT individuals The underlying theme to all hate simply express their sexuality in their

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he Genographic Project — a branch of National Geographic — has estimated that agriculture developed approximately 12,000 years ago.

Perhaps one of the greatest inventions of our species, farming and agriculture has allowed us to control a factor that other species can’t: Food.

Think about that for a minute.

If a food source, say antelope, travels out of reach, humans can grow their own food, provided the soil and climate function with such a plan.

Instead of scrambling over who gets to eat the bone marrow, humans can work to make sure the majority is fed.

More than that, we can farm animals we want to consume — make it so we don’t have to go running across the savannah for them.

As humans, we can literally create our own sustenance.

To give an example, if you aren’t mining in “Minecraft,” you are probably farming food and hoping Creepers don’t blow it up.

That is how significant farming is to us.

And this week you will get to experience a celebration of that tradition with “Ag Days” at Oregon State University.

We find this incredibly important since we started out as a prominent agriculture school in the Pacific Northwest.

Tuesday, March 5 held a wide variety of stalls — country western dancing, free cotton candy, small fluffy chicks, a giant chicken mascot just to remind everyone of their mortality, the opportunity to plant your own plant and take it home, goats, sheep, a baby cow, lumberjacks doing lumberjack things and of course, tri-tip steak sandwiches.

It was awesome to wander through the stalls and see a general summation of what humans have accomplished through controlling their environments.

Think about that the next time you think you can’t pass that upcoming final. Someone way before you had to learn how to grow corn to a point where it could be pleasurable to eat.

Growing food isn’t the only thing that agriculture has brought to humanity: Consider alcohol for a minute.

The hops, cereal grains or barely had to be cultivated and fermented in order to give you a glorious IPA to go with your burger — which is full of its own glorious cultivated wheat and beef.

There’s a reason why environment and temperament is one of the top priorities when NASA considers space travel to other Earth-like planets.

We want to know if we will be able to sustain ourselves with the coolest thing that humankind has taught itself to do: Grow, cultivate and maintain our food.

So this week, wander down to the displays, take home a plant friend or learn about horticulture.

ear Dr. Sex, Why are LGBT Pride Parades/Festivals/Weeks so overtly sexual?

How on earth do they expect voters in places such as Arkansas and Kentucky to vote for LGBT rights when they enforce stereotypes of promiscuity and sexual deviance? For example, it seems like most gay pride parades include some sort of bondage theme.

Furthermore, if a straight person calls a gay man a ‘sissy f*ggot’ it is a hate crime, but when a gay man paints that on his chest — as I have seen at such events — they still expect to be taken seriously.

Signed, Supporter of LGBT Rights

everyday lives it’s considered overt and deviant even when it’s not overt or deviant, but when heterosexuals express their sexuality, it’s considered quite normal — even if it is overt or deviant.

Take for example all the reality shows where the individuals are extremely sexual, like the TV shows such as “Bad Girls Club” on Oxygen, or maybe anything on MTV or VH1.

Or Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs that apparently are designed to sell clothes, but few models in the catalogs are wearing much in the way of fabric.

Talk about overt heterosexual sexuality and promiscuity gone amuck.

I’d say heterosexuals cornered the market on promiscuity long ago.

People just seem to notice it when LGBT folks are literally “on parade.”

It’s important to remember that not all people in a Pride parade are actually LGBT. Pride parades are a wonderful opportunity for allies of the LGBT community to come out in support — he he, “come out.”

These allies include members of PFLAG — Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays —local politicians, LGBT employee associations from large businesses and even LGBTfriendly churches.

The fact of the matter is most people who partake in a Pride parade in some extreme fashion — for example, in bondage gear — don’t expect to be taken seriously. That’s kind of the point of the parade.

They want to be as outrageous as possible because they can — on that day — in that parade.

The rest of the year, LGBT folks are

just like anyone else — and I would hope people (voters) would realize that.

For someone to vote against LGBT rights because they think all LGBT people behave like the people in a Pride Parade — or worse yet, believing that the folks in the Pride parade behave that way all the time — would be just as ludicrous as someone assuming most young women behave like “Girls Gone Wild” women.

That kind of jump in logic lacks basic critical thinking skills. Too bad those thinkers are also voters.

This year’s Portland Pride Parade is Sunday, June 14 beginning at W. Burnside and NW Park (the park blocks) and ending at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

For those of you who are from the PDX area and returning home for summer, this is very timely, as it is the Sunday after finals week/graduation — and perfect timing to start the summer off right. t

Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and faculty member in the college of public health and human sciences. Greaves hosts sexuality and relationship Q&A sessions in the residence halls and the co-ops, in sororities and fraternities, in the cultural centers and for community groups. The opinions expressed in Greaves’ columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Greaves can be reached at forum@ dailybarometer.com.

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t’s an all too common feeling for the college students of today: You have several midterms to study for, a job to attend, friends to acknowledge if you wish to keep said friends, homework for the same classes that you need to study for the midterms, possibly a spouse or significant other to also occasionally acknowledge and maybe even a child or two — and you feel horribly inadequate.

It’s a sentiment shared by many, myself included, and at this moment I want to own something: It is perfectly OK to feel inadequate.

Feelings of inadequacy, in all walks of life, are normal for anyone to experience, but especially college freshmen.

As Harrison Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor of counseling and coordinator of the community counseling master’s program at North Georgia College & State University stated in an online interview to Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. of psychcentral.com, “If students do not feel adequate or prepared to cope with the new environment of a college campus, they could easily become susceptible to depression and anxiety.”

By now, must of us have heard of the fact that depression in college students is fast on the rise, but the actual statistics are much more frightening.

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PORTLAND — This time of year, Oregon’s beekeepers are counting their hives and getting ready for a busy summer of tending bees and selling honey.

With growing consumer interest in locally sourced food, local honey producers expect record prices at area farmers’ markets — along with lots of questions about honey quality and authenticity.

“I have customers who won’t buy honey from the store,” said Paul Andersen, president of the 250-member Oregon State Beekeepers Association. That’s because illegally imported honey continues to plague the U.S. honey industry. Once bogus honey starts moving through the commercial system, it is nearly impossible to figure out where it came from, Andersen said.

From October through January, agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized nearly a half-million pounds of illegally imported Chinese honey valued at $2.45 million. Agents intercepted illegal honey shipments worth $1.4 million in Seattle in 2010. U.S. Department of Justice officials seized 10,000 gallons of counterfeit honey from a warehouse in Salem a few years ago.

U.S. Customs and Homeland Security investigators are on the lookout for illegal honey imports from Chinese shippers who attempt to elude millions of dollars in U.S. trade tariffs by mislabeling the honey’s country of origin. In addition, Chinese honey can be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals from improper storage or diluted with such ingredients as corn syrup.

The low-priced bogus, counterfeit and illegal honey (terms all used by industry experts) gets into the American food system and is very hard to trace. In late March, inspectors intercepted 300 55-gallon drums of “contaminated” Chinese honey at the Port of Houston. It went to a landfill for disposal.

Four years ago, the European Union Dakota with 265,000 bee colonies and North banned honey imports. That has created Dakota with 480,000 colonies. more pressure to get illegal honey into the Honey production in Oregon is slowly United States, industry experts say. Large increasing even as the number of beekeepU.S. packers buy honey from around the world — China, Australia and India, as well ing farms has grown rapidly. The number of as Argentina, Brazil and Vietnam, among honey-producing farms has increased from others nations. In some cases, China has an estimated 360 in 2007 to 530, statewide. shipped honey to these countries for relabelMeanwhile, Andersen wonders how much ing and sale in the United States. bogus honey is getting into the United Demand is there. Americans eat a lot States. more honey than domestic beekeepers can “It’s really a complex issue ... the way it’s produce. brought in, moved through brokers, and As a result, the price of wholesale honey relabeled in all sorts of ways,” he said. “It’s has steadily increased the past several years from $1.90 per pound in 2012 to this year’s a matter of opening up each barrel and testing it. It’s much better for expected price of more than everyone, and cheaper, to $2.50 per pound, reports the catch it at the ports before American Honey Producers Small producers it gets into the system.”

Association. are all benefiting Oregon beekeepers can That’s what happened expect record prices for wellfrom artisan in Houston in January sourced, small-batch honey when inspectors seized food trends at $6 to $7 per pound and up, illegal honey from China, Andersen said. Wholesale and the according to a report from production honey sells for the True Source Honey desire for $2 to $2.50 per pound.

Certification Program.

“Small producers all are locally produced These illegal imports benefiting from artisan food honey. “threaten the U.S. honey trends and the desire for locally produced honey,” he industry — from beekeepPaul Andersen said. “It’s the larger operaer to packer — by underPresident, Oregon State tors that can be impactcutting fair market prices Beekeepers Association ed by counterfeit honey. and damaging honey’s Consumers, meanwhile, reputation for quality and don’t want to pay American prices for cheap safety,” said Eric Wenger, chairman of the Chinese honey,” he said. certification effort. U.S. packers using the Last year, honey production in the United certification now represent about one-third States reached 178 million pounds and sold of the honey sold in the nation, Wenger said. at an average price of $2.16 a pound, accordAndersen, who manages 20 hives in the ing to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In Oregon, beekeepers produced 2.17 mil- Aloha area, said it is important to get the lion pounds of honey worth an estimated word out about illegal imports. But meanwhile, he said, Oregon’s beekeeping industry $5.2 million.

With only 60,000 bee colonies, Oregon continues to grow with bee populations ranks as a small producer compared to South stabilizing and increasing.

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KING n Continued from page 7 According to a study by the American Public Health Association as reported by healthline.com, suicide is now the leading cause of death among college students.

A number of factors may account for this alarming fact, but the more prevalent culprits would be anxiety, stress and depression — all of which can be attributed to too much pressure and feelings of failings and inadequacies among our college youth of today. Furthermore, as also reported by healthline.com, at least 44 percent of American college students report having symptoms of depression and yet 75 percent of college students today do not seek help for their mental health problems.

It is OK to not feel OK, but please — seek help if you feel your stress becomes overwhelming or if your current life challenges become hurdles you can’t clear anymore.

Student Health Services located at the Plageman Building is a great resource if you need to speak to a professional about your stresses and anxieties, as well as CAPS — Counseling and Psychological Services, which can be found on the fifth floor of Snell Hall.

Look, I get it: There is pressure from your family, your friends, social media and school, work, to do well.

Succeed.

Get ahead now before you fall behind.

You want to please everyone, including yourself, and you work as hard as you possibly can to do just that — and in the process, you fail sometimes.

Maybe you fail a lot.

But that is fine.

It’s fine to fail, it’s fine to not succeed and it’s fine to not be the “best.”

Your best is good enough, and you need to remember that in your times of struggle.

I need to remember it for myself, and I hope you will as well.

We are all doing the best we can in this cutthroat, fast-paced era of classes, competitive internships, career starting points and relationship challenges, and we all just need to take one big collective breath and be more accepting of our shortcomings.

You do the best you can and when — not if, because as a part of life, failure is an inevitability — you do fail, just remember that your best is good enough and failure is only a way to reinvent yourself for next time. t

Kayla King is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in King’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. King can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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