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From near death to near recovery Almost killed in 2013, former student, model returns to OSU this Saturday for the Spring Fashion Show By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter
When Jessica Neffendorf walks down the runway at the Oregon State Alumni Center on Saturday, it will be the third time she has modeled at the OSU Spring Fashion Show. She expected this moment to come a long time ago. After all, Neffendorf modeled at the show her sophomore and junior years in Corvallis in 2012 and 2013. She planned on modeling in 2014, too. Then, disaster struck. Literally. Neffendorf was driving home from class on Nov. 21, 2013. At 4:35 p.m., she turned left from Circle Boulevard onto Highway 20. Her car was struck by a drunk driver with a suspended license, who ran a red light and slammed his car directly into her driver-side door. Neffendorf suffered a broken femur, shattered pelvis and damage to her liver, bladder and spleen. She endured so much head trauma that doctors had to remove part of her skull to relieve pressure while her brain swelled. The drunk driver was able to walk immediately after the crash; Neffendorf had to be extricated from her car and rushed to the hospital, where she lay in a coma for nearly three weeks. “I don’t remember anything about the accident, which is good because I’d be afraid,” Neffendorf said this week. “He completely wrecked my car and wrecked me. [Doctors] had to really do everything on the inside of me.” After the crash, Neffendorf began questioning if any of her dreams were possible. She spent four weeks in the intensive care unit, four months in the hospital and then several more months strapped in a wheelchair. She couldn’t shower without the help of her mother and her body didn’t always respond well to the medication. She couldn’t move her limbs and thought she would never walk again. For the better part of a year, she had trouble speaking. “I had come to terms with it,” she said. Neffendorf had plenty of goals before the accident. She
was on track to graduate in the spring of 2014 and had connections with Nike for a possible job after college. She and her boyfriend Shane had talked about getting engaged before he shipped off to Afghanistan in the spring. All of these aspirations seemed unreachable in the months following her nearfatal crash. Neffendorf came to watch the OSU Fashion Show in 2014, the same show she intended to model for until the accident less than six months prior. The show was dedicated to Neffendorf and she was brought on stage in her wheelchair to be recognized, but she wasn’t ready to be in front of an audience yet. Still fighting sickness and an upset stomach, Neffendorf had to leave early. To this day, she has no recollection of the event. “She was upset because she knew that she should have been up there [modeling]. That broke my heart,” said Tessie Blake, a senior in Apparel Design who has helped put on the show since 2013. But luckily, Neffendorf had plenty of support in her rehabilitation process. Part of the proceeds as well as extra donations from that year’s Fashion Show were given to Neffendorf’s family for her medical expenses. In her time in the hospital, she was rarely unaccompanied by her family or boyfriend Shane. “She just had this determination that she was going to fight,” said Jessica’s father, Don Neffendorf. “Whatever downturn there was — she had some infection issues, the internal injuries, the brain injury— whatever it was, she was determined. She was going to fight. When the doctors said, ‘Jess, are you in there? We need you,’ we knew she was in there fighting. We knew she wasn’t going to give up.” After improving well enough to move out of the hospital, Neffendorf moved back to Gresham to live with her mother. A taxi cab would pick Neffendorf up every day to take her to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center in Beaverton. “I liked going to rehab,” NICKI SILVA | THE DAILY BAROMETER See Recovery, Page 4 Tessie Blake, (LEFT) helped to design the garments Jessica Neffendorf (RIGHT) will wear Saturday.
Celebrating Native American culture at OSU Pow-wow, salmon bake,events being held this weekend
will be offered as a prize to the best dance team during the 40th annual Klatowa Eena Pow-wow, taking place tomorrow. Along with the pow-wow, two other major events this weekend will work By Lauren Sluss towards bringing awareness and celNews Reporter After months of selling Krispy ebration to the Native American culKreme donuts outside of the Native ture—the 2016 annual Salmon Bake American Eena Haws Longhouse, the today at noon in the NAL and a perNAL and the Native American Student formance by Native rapper Supaman Association will not be keeping the tonight at 7 p.m. in the SEC Plaza. These events will educate the public profits to themselves. The money
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on current Native American traditions and will kick off American Indian Week beginning May 14, according to NASA Vice President Matt Williams. “A lot of times we talk about Native Americans in the past and in the context of U.S. history, but we’re here today,” Williams said. “These events are good opportunities to learn from current traditions.” Honoring tradition, the Salmon Bake welcomes the public to join over 1,000 people in eating salmon
donated by local tribes. The Salmon Bake honors the Native American custom of open-pit style, according to Williams. “Salmon is a staple food and an important symbol to many tribes in the Northwest,” Williams said. “It’s the Native American Longhouse’s biggest event of the entire year.” The Salmon Bake fuses the history of Native American tradition, as well as current practices, according to Williams.
“It’s a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is unique to the Northwest,” Williams said. “It’s good to acknowledge there were ways of living before modern society, and appreciate how things were done and are continuing to be done today.” After the Salmon Bake, the public is encouraged to watch Native American hip hop dancer Supaman tonight at 7 p.m. in the SEC plaza, according to
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Breaking the silence
Club pushes conversation on mental health By Gaby Mudd News Contributor
The Oregon State University Active Minds club presented the annual Daisy Project in the Memorial Union Quad on Thursday to raise awareness about mental health on campus. The quad was surrounded by over 1,000 daisies as students, faculty and the corvallis community came to read, listen and learn about mental health and suicide on college campuses in order to promote changing the way it is discussed. The Active Minds club is a national organization that is dedicated to empowering students to change the perception about mental health on college campuses. The 1,100 daisies represent the average amount of students on college campuses that die from suicide every year according to Rae Madison, the vice president of the Active Minds club and the Task Force Director of Wellness Affairs for ASOSU. “The two yellow daisies represent the two OSU students who lost their lives to suicide,” Madison said. “This event brings awareness to the point and it illustrates to students that this is the average amount of your peers that lose their lives to mental illnesses.” On average 1 in 4 students suffer from a mental illness particularly the most in the ages between 18 and 25 years old according to Madison.
Despite the frequency of these illnesses, there is still a stigma that impacts the way mental health is viewed in society Madison explained. “When we don’t have the conversations about these conditions people feel more alone and depressed,” Madison said. “It should be talked about in the same regard as other health issues and diseases such as cancer or broken limbs.” Madison explained how simply talking about mental health raises awareness. “As long as we start these conversations we can continue to de-stigmatize these issues,” Madison said. Bria Knight, a psychology major and a member of the Active Minds club saw the event as necessary. “I think that it is so important and eye opening,” Knight said. “A lot of people do not know the impact or prevalence of mental health issues, but events like this help get the conversation started.” Knight also said that people should not shy away from seeking help. “I would encourage more people to treat mental health like any other psychical condition,” Knight said. “It is nothing to be ashamed of and you should not be afraid to seek help for a mental health disorder or illness.” Katie Dillon, a psychology major and an attendee of the event, spoke about her own story regarding how mental health has affected her and how she can relate to the importance elf raising awareness about mental health. “My best friend died from
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Continued from page 1 NASA President Racheal Croucher. “Through his mash-up of fancy dancing and hip hop he is explaining our culture,” Croucher said. “Our goal is to bring in both native and non-native people to this outreach event.” Supaman is from the Crow Tribe in Montana, and is working towards bringing in the youth around the Corvallis area, according to Croucher. “We want the youth around this area to be interested in the Native American culture,” Croucher said. “Supaman will have a positive performance and will be awesome to see.” The celebration of Native American culture will conclude with the Klatowa Eena Pow-wow, taking place all day in Gill Coliseum. Klatowa Eena, meaning “Go Beavers” in Chinook jargon, will be welcoming dancers from across the country to compete for prize money raised by NASA. “The pow-wow’s important because it brings together the Native community,” Williams said. “You’ll see families who travel from pow-wow
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The OSU Active Minds club put on the annual Dasiy Project in the Memorial Union quad on Thursday to raise awareness of mental health related issues on campus. suicide so I know the impact that suicide can have,” Dillon said. “Everyday should be filled with joy and even on the bad days. Everyone should know that they matter and everyone should know that life is worth living.” Dillion also spoke gave a final message regarding the importance of events like the daisy project. “I think that there is a lot of hope when people know that they are not alone and that they matter and their life matters,” Dillion said. “They do not have to sit in silence.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu
to pow-wow because there is big prize money at some of them.” The pow-wow consists of six different dance categories. The men’s categories include traditional, grass dance and fancy dance. Women’s traditional, fancy shawl and jingle dress will be the three female competition categories. Bad Soul and Stonechild will be the co-hosts drumming to kick-off the grand entries at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and the pow-wow will be led by head woman Laura Grizzlypaws and Levi Blackwolf. The pow-wow will be accompanied by local Native vendors, selling Indian fry bread and arts and crafts. More information about the cultural events can be found in the Native American Longhouse, as well as the NASA webpage. The Salmon Bake, Supaman performance and the Pow-wow are opportunities for the OSU community to be informed about Native American culture, according to Native freshmen and biology major Emily Tom. “It’s cool to have my culture represented proudly,” Tom said. “I like it that everyone can learn about what we do.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Recovery
Continued from page 1 Neffendorf said. “They helped me. I could work out and do all these games. It was really fun.” “It seems every six months, there’s a level she reaches that we thought, ‘wow, we didn’t think that was going to happen,’” her father said. She’s still on the rehab process, making multiple trips to the gym a week with Shane or her sister Amanda, but already she feels she has made a “near” full recovery. At the very least, she will be able to walk at the Fashion Show on Saturday, which will be momentous considering how far she’s come in the last two years. “I cannot believe that because now I can walk,” she said. “It’s hard to believe that I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t even move my hands, but I can now.” Now, Neffendorf doesn’t have to stop at just feeling better. Once the idea of returning to the Fashion Show became realistic, she couldn’t resist the thought of going back to the stage she expected to model on two years ago. “I asked her about a month ago, ‘Jessica, would you like
to go back?’” her father said. “She got this polite look in her eyes and a big smile and said, “Absolutely.” The elder Neffendorf contacted Marianne Dickson, the instructor of the designing class that puts on the Fashion Show every year. Dickson started thinking of the student designers already making outfits for the show that could also put something together for Jessica to wear. Two of the first people Dickson went to were Blake and Katie Todd, both seniors in apparel design and merchandising management. They were already four months into the five-month planning process, but neither wanted to pass up the opportunity to help. “There was no doubt in my mind,” Blake said. “If she wants to do that, I’ll do whatever [I can]. I have to push myself through that distress because I want that for her and I want to be a part of it.” “We were kind’ve in agreement that these kinds of things don’t happen very often,” Todd added. “You have to take advantage of it.” Neffendorf’s recovery has not only revitalized her hopes, it also has opened up possibilities for
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others like Blake and Todd to join in her story. Neither had ever talked with Neffendorf until this past Saturday, which made designing outfits difficult without Neffendorf available to try on the prototypes earlier. At one point, Todd made five different garments for Neffendorf but did not like anything of them, so she scrapped all five and started all over again. This past Saturday, all of the show’s designers and models convened on campus for the rehearsal, which allowed Neffendorf to talk with Dickson for the first time in two years and meet Blake and Todd for the first time ever. “It was so crazy to stand at the back of the room and look at Jessica,” Dickson said. “She looks like nothing ever happened to her. I saw what that car looked like. I read about her injuries. I saw pictures on Facebook. I saw her come back and not be able to talk, not be able to move her body. And there she was, standing like nothing had ever happened. I get choked up just talking about it.” Blake arrived at 8 a.m. on the day of the rehearsal, met Neffendorf for the first time and quickly got to work completing the design. With her model finally available in person, Blake estimates she finished 30 percent of her work this week alone for the show. She also realized the dress she had made for Neffendorf unintentionally but perfectly covered all of her scars, including the one on her adam’s apple. Overall, Blake and Todd are ecstatic just to be able to contribute to Neffendorf’s return to the stage. “To me, it’s a miracle from God that she’s able to do what
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Tessie Blake (LEFT), and Katie Todd (RIGHT), both seniors in apparel design and merchandising management pose with former OSU student Jessica Neffendorf (MIDDLE) who was hit by a drunk driver in November of 2013, causing injuries that forced here to leave modeling and school. she loves,” Todd said. “I want to see her parents. I know this is big for them and they’re excited for her,” Blake added. “She might not express to me how excited she is, but if I see her parents in the crowd and they’re happy, I’m super down. As a parent to have this happen, I feel like that would be pretty rad. I want to see them and make sure they are happy and proud.” Neffendorf is just as exhilarated. Going forward, she hopes and fully expects to enroll in classes at OSU again soon. She still has the same composure as she did before the accident and for her, Saturday can’t come soon enough. “It’s going to be really cool,”
she said. “I cannot wait. I’m going to have a really good time.” She insists she won’t cry. That’s just not her style. “I’m confident,” she said. Dickson, who has helped put on the show for the last 12 years and easily recalls Neffendorf’s consistent smile and reliability in the 2012 and 2013 shows, may have a tougher time holding back tears. “I’m sure I’m going to start crying,” Dickson said. “What I can’t fathom is how to have the audience understand what they’re seeing.” Neffendorf’s family, including her four sisters as well as her parents and extended family, will be able to witness firsthand the pinnacle of her recovery:
walking at Saturday’s Fashion Show after an arduous 29 months following her accident. On Saturday, it might seem like the crash never happened. Of course, there will be some things Neffendorf can never get back, such as the car she nearly perished in that November afternoon. She still remembers the 1992 Buick Riviera that she had named Larry. She had owned Larry since she learned to drive at age 16. “He just looked like Larry,” she said. And on Saturday, for the first time in years, Jessica Neffendorf will just look like Jessica Neffendorf. baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Finding the right mindset Outfielder Christian Donahue high fives his first base coach Tyler Graham after getting a hit agianst Seattle University on May 3.
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joy to the game that was contagious to the rest of the team. “On a Friday night he would go out and start The Oregon State baseball team is in a bit of a and be serious and give everything he had,” said funk. Batters aren’t coming through with runners Nobach. “Then on Saturday he would come out on base and walks are being issued at a high rate. and be a goofball running around, just bringing The Beavers also find themselves on the wrong that kind of energy. He wasn’t out slouching side of a four-game losing streak, with their rival around, he was sprinting around and I think that the Oregon Ducks coming into town for a threemade an impact on people.” game series. To remedy the lack of production on offense Over the last week the Beavers (29-16, 10-11 that has left an average of 8.75 runners on base Pac-12) saw their chances of hosting a regional per game over the last month, head coach Pat round fiizzell up against the Arizona Wildcats Casey compared being in the batter’s box to how where they swept OSU in three games. They a surgeon acts prior to surgery. The confidence then saw their 25-game win streak end against that he exudes prior to the procedure. the University of Portland on Tuesday after a 7-4 loss where the Beavers left 11 runners on base. “When the surgeon walks down the hall they are big, there is a presence about them, you can “It’s kinda been the story of our season, not see it, you can feel it,” said Nobach. “That’s kinda being able to execute when we need to execute,” the mindset that we need, going up to the plate said sophomore left fielder Christian Donahue. believing in it. If there’s guys on base (our mind“Things aren’t really going our way recently, it’s sets need to be) ‘I’m going to drive them in no baseball, there isn’t much we can do about it, we matter what, not giving an inch, I’m not striking just have to learn from it.” out, the only thing I’m worried about is driving in While getting a series win against the Ducks these runs for my team.” (22-21, 10-11) is the goal, forming the right mindset that can carry them through the remainder of The Ducks are one of five teams in the Pac-12 the season and focusing on the task at hand has with 10 conference victories. With postseason become a top priority. berths on the line. The belief of the team is, if JOSHUA LUCAS | THE DAILY BAROMETER they can refocus then they can get back to their “The biggest thing for us is to bring a different presence to the yard and bring an energy level and Outfielder Kyle Nobach scores against Seattle University on May 3. winning ways. play for each other,” said junior center fielder Kyle mindset. The junior catcher questioned the team’s Moore was brought up during the meeting on how “It’s attitude, it’s confidence, it’s picking each Nobach. “We have nine games left and the biggest motivation to reach their ultimate goal of playing to approach the game. other up collectively as a whole,” said Donahue. thing is focusing on friday night and taking it step in the College World Series. “Our attitude going into this weekend is that we Being a starting pitcher, like Moore was, you just need to bring that fire and energy and not by step. Instead of looking at the big picture we As soon as the team got off the bus, they gath- only play in one game per week. But what the back down from anyone or any challenge. We just just have to focus on what’s in front of us.” After Tuesday’s loss to Portland, team captain ered in the locker room to refocus and get every- former All-American and second round pick of got to keep fighting.” Logan Ice was not pleased with the team’s recent one on the same page. Former pitcher Andrew the Seattle Mariners was able to do, was bring a On Twitter @Brathbone3 Senior Beat Reporter
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Exceeded expectations By Brenden Slaughter Associate Sports Editor
There was a moment for me on Wednesday night where I sat back and told myself that I have never been more proud of a Blazer team. It was amidst the Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson video game-esque shots and the roar of Oracle Arena. That moment came when
the buzzer sounded and the Blazers’ season was over. I wasn’t upset. Quite the opposite, I was proud. Now for reference, I didn’t feel this way when the Blazers were dismantled by the Memphis Grizzlies in last year’s playoffs. That team was discombobulated, and didn’t have the type of fan appeal that this one did. The 2015-2016 Blazers not only defied expectations en route to a second round matchup with the defending champion Golden State Warriors, but also stole Rip City’s heart in the process. This group took the Portland fan base through a washing machine. The Blazers started the season looking like they were playoff contenders, jumping out to a quick
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4-2 start. However, things hit rock bottom for the Blazers at Christmastime when they were 9-20, 11 games under .500 and sitting well below playoff contention. But in typical washing machine fashion, the cycle changed and the Blazers went on an absolute tear. They went 33-18 over their last 51 games and launched themselves all the way up to the fifth seed in the Western Conference, setting up a matchup with the Clippers in the first round, which Portland would go on to win. The Blazers advanced to the next round to play the Warriors, and every pundit pegged Portland as a team that didn’t belong and would be promptly swept by the defending champs. Not these Blazers. They gave the defending champs everything they can handle as they lost in five games. Thompson said after game five that this might have been the closest five-game series of all time.
How could you argue with his logic? Subtract game one where the Warriors dominated from start to finish, the Blazers held a lead in every other game. But they couldn’t close the deal. The Warriors’ greatness proved to be just too much. I said in my last column that I thought that the Blazers had a silver lining to the Western Conference Finals due to Curry’s injury, and it was a fair assumption. Until Curry’s return in game four, the Blazers looked poised to tie the series up 2-2 and force a game six in Portland. But the reigning MVP proved to be just too much as Curry’s presence was the end of the Blazers. Sure, the season may be over, but this group of guys played their hearts out and extreme credit should be given for how they never quit and didn’t settle throughout the entire season. They could have quit when they were 11-20 in December, but didn’t. They could have quit when they were down 0-2 to the Clippers, but didn’t. They could have laid down and not tried in game
five against the Warriors while down 3-1 in the series. But they didn’t. This group of guys led by point guard Damian Lillard is a few years short of being special. No one on the Blazers roster except for veteran role player Chris Kaman is older than 25. No one except for Lillard had ever been a regular starter in their entire career, but it didn’t seem to matter, as they proved doubters wrong and left Rip City feeling accomplished. However, the NBA is a business and the Blazers must now focus on how they can improve, so when they face off with the best of the west, they can come out victorious. First things first, the Blazers need to get a deeper bench. Let’s look at the Warriors for example. They have a bench that consists of Finals MVP Andre Iguodala and reliable role players like Marreese Speights, Shaun Livingston, Leandro Barbosa, Festus Ezeli, Anderson Varejao, and Ian Clark. The Blazers have Allen Crabbe, Gerald Henderson and Ed Davis. That’s a big difference when trying to make it through the rigor of the NBA playoffs. The Warriors could go 10 deep if they wanted to in the series to keep legs fresh, compared to the Blazers who were playing their starters 40 plus minutes per game, which was noticeably affecting Lillard down the stretch. Now that they have proved that they are a reliable team in the
Western Conference, they have to attract bench talent. And lastly, and perhaps most importantly the Blazers need to target a big time center who can be a rim protector and a reliable scoring option. No disrespect to Mason Plumlee, but he isn’t the type of player who is going to lock down the paint and give you a 20 point outburst every now and again. My best guess is that they target a scoring threat like Al Horford or Hassan Whiteside. Both guys would give Portland a scoring option down low and would also help them protect the paint better than they did all season. There are even more targets that are long shots such as Kevin Durant or Harrison Barnes, but no matter what, the Blazers must make the calls. They aren’t a pushover or pretender in the Western Conference, and that is appealing to NBA veterans who want to get a ring. If the Blazers can add the few missing links that would complete them, this team may be headed to an NBA Finals in just a few short years. Then, we’ll look back realize that this season was the foundation for a group of guys who wouldn’t quit, no matter the circumstances. And it all started with team that was projected to win 26 games. On Twitter: @b_slaught
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ʻOverwatchʼ worth the wait By Tyler Chilcote Split Screen
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eople everywhere are getting excited for superheroes again. With the release of Captain America: Civil War this past weekend, the flames of fandom have been stoked. Less known but also popular this weekend was the open beta of Blizzard’s latest game “Overwatch.” For those that don’t know, “Overwatch” is a leap into brand new territory for the company that has previously best known for doing real-time strategy and MMO games. “Overwatch” is one of the new genre of games known as Hero Shooters. These games put a focus on playing an individual character from a large cast of heroes. Each of these heroes has a unique set of stats and abilities that make them distinct from each other. You play your character with a group of other players against an equally matched group of players on a selection of different objective based maps. What makes “Overwatch” unique from the other hero shooters out currently is the focus on backstory. Blizzard has taken the time to painstakingly craft a completely new IP for this game. In the world of “Overwatch,” the Earth is falling out of a golden age into a time of war and strife. Thirty years prior the 1st Omnic Crisis came to a close. This war between humans and sentient robots was equivalent to one of our great world wars. The only force the humans had to stop the Omnics was a group called “Overwatch.” This group was formed of the best people from all the human nations across the world. Following the Omnic Crisis, “Overwatch” was implicated in a scandal and forcibly disbanded. Blizzard took the time to completely flesh out the backstory of the world and each character, but you don’t need to know any of this to enjoy the game. The gameplay is focused on being fast-paced and exciting. Any shooter stereotype can be found within this game. Did you play a lot of Quake back in the day? Then play Pharah, the rocketlauncher woman that has limited flight. Do you enjoy Modern Warfare? Pick up Solider: 76, the basic shoot your enemies with your assault rifle and duck behind cover to heal man. Love the engineer in Team Fortress games? Grab Torbjorn and set up your death almost anywhere on a map. Each of the maps in “Overwatch” falls under one of four types: Assault, Escort, Hybrid, and Control. Assault maps involve one team attempting to take control of two points from another team. Escort maps are similar to Payload maps
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