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Researchers calculate radioactivity from Fukushima in albacore tuna to gauge food safety, understand migration patterns By McKinley Smith THE DAILY BAROMETER
Sometimes science smells. “Imagine that you’ve got boiling meat — liquid, boiling meat that’s burning,” said Delvan Neville, a graduate researcher with Oregon State University’s radiation health physics program. “It’s disgusting; it’s this black, bubbling sludge.” The product of this “sludge” lies within stacked plastic containers on Neville’s lab table: albacore tuna, reduced to ash. Neville slowly heats the albacore to 450 degrees Celsius in a Pyrex dish using a pottery kiln. It’s a low-budget solution, and it’s effective.
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Architect Chris Downey talks at Linus Pauling Science Center Tuesday, shares lessons from life as a blind professional By Tori Hittner
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Washington Way, 15th Street realignment projects slated for completion in September
The collaborative city and OSU realignment construction project at the intersection of Washington Way and 15th Street is in full swing, with street and sidewalk closures surrounding the major work sites. The project is running slightly ahead of schedule, and 15th Street was able to close earlier than the expected date in mid-May. “We’re on schedule to meet the tight deadline of September,” said project manager Nathan Patterson, who is an associate civil engineer for OSU Capital Planning and Development. Everything should be completed around Sept. 12, in anticipation of campus refilling for fall term. “I’ve been really happy with the contractors and construction,” said City
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Delvan Neville, a graduate researcher with Oregon State’s radiation health physics program, holds an ashed sample of albacore tuna in his lab.
Neville said he has nearly 100 percent recovery of the particles he’s studying: Cesium 134 (Cs-134) and 137 (Cs-137). “When I first started working on this, I did not know much about radioecology, but believed we would be able to find some trace radionuclides from Fukushima,” said Jason Phillips, a researcher in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. “After we teamed up with Delvan and he found cesium 134, it became the obvious choice, because it was detectable and has a short half-life (~2 years) compared to cesium 137.” Phillips provided the albacore background information and the dried samples. Albacore fascinated him even before college, Phillips said. Phillips gave his graduate thesis defense on albacore stocks shortly before the Fukushima disaster. Now, he
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Last year’s annual Klatow Eena Powwow brought members of Oregon’s nine confederated tribes, among many others, to campus May 18, 2013.
Salmon bake, Powwow this weekend THE DAILY BAROMETER
The Eena Haws Native American Longhouse will host two annual cultural events on campus this weekend. The first event consists of a public salmon bake in the Memorial Union quad Friday between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., followed by the 38th annual Klatowa Eena Powwow at Gill Coliseum Saturday. The powwow will commence at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. when the grand entry begins. The powwow will feature host drum
Blacklodge Singers, honor drum Little River Singers and Anthony Bluehorse as the arena director. Nick Sixkiller will serve as the master of ceremonies for the event. In addition to the traditional ceremonies, the powwow will feature performances from the Native American sketch comedy group, the 1491s. Saturday’s powwow will feature a 5 p.m. meet-and-greet with the comedy group. Both events are free and open to the public. managing@dailybarometer.com
Renowned architect Chris Downey uses innovative acoustic and sensory research to design and create accessible spaces for people of all abilities. He has adapted his own version of PowerPoint to employ screen reading technology and enjoys avid bike riding, skiing and competitive rowing. He also happens to be blind. Downey lost his sight unexpectedly after undergoing necessary brain surgery several years ago. He had two degrees in architecture and 20 years of field experience before being suddenly forced to modify his outlook and approach on life. He shared his story with students Tuesday night in the Linus Pauling Science Center. Despite his struggle with the initial transition, Downey never allowed himself to give up. Rehabilitation was, for him, a necessity rather than an option. “I got back to work before any of (my rehabilitation) started happening,” Downey said. “I went back really to get to work before people could decide for themselves that I couldn’t
Douglas Keszler to be associate dean for research and graduate studies Douglas Keszler will be associate dean of research and graduate studies starting Friday. COURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
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The College of Science announced Douglas Keszler as the new associate dean for research and graduate studies Tuesday. Keszler will officially join the dean’s leadership team Friday, according to the College of Science’s press release. Recognized as a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry, Keszler has been an adjunct professor in the physics department and the director of the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. In his new position, Keszler will identify and facilitate academic research at the graduate and faculty
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levels. He is also charged with cultivating collaborative research projects, identifying potential industry partners and establishing start-up opportunities for the college. “I look forward to enhancing a supportive and creative research environment, advancing high quality graduate programs that support broad professional development of students, and enriching the scientific research community at OSU,” Keszler said in the press release. Keszler came to OSU in 1984 with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. managing@dailybarometer.com
work, that I couldn’t be an architect.” That sense of determination has propelled Downey to the forefront of accessible architecture, a field he describes as design with the blind in mind. Downey works to provide designs that are enjoyable for people of all abilities, both mental and physical. In doing so, he focuses on the utilization of all senses, particularly sound and touch. “What changes is your mind’s capacity to focus in ways you wouldn’t otherwise be able to,” Downey said. “The mechanics are the same. It’s the focus that’s different.” This approach leads to a richer, more engaging space, according to Downey. Working with the ARUP architectural company, Downey has been able to take virtual spaces and mimic what the acoustics will sound like in the finished, physical space. “I want to see what it sounds like,” said Downey, who relies often on acoustics to determine where he is in a building. “We get to see how a building speaks to us in digital form.” Downey still utilizes his knowledge and architectural talents, despite needing to adapt to new tools. Using a 3-D embossing printer, screen reading technology and wax sticks, Downey is able to create and modify blueprints. Heralded for his innovative techniques, Downey has given a TED talk and taught classes to high school students to empower others and prove that people exist behind the socially constructed facades of those with disabilities. “You should think of the person first,” Downey said. “A disability is not the defining aspect of a person.” Labeling his presentation “OUTsights,” Downey served as a living representation of the beliefs and guidelines he espoused. Living without sight has given Downey a new, more vibrant outlook on life — one that he appears to apply to his daily life, in addition to his professional one. “At the root of it all is the creative process,” Downey said. “Visuals are just tools.” Tori Hittner Higher education reporter managing@dailybarometer.com
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Third time’s the charm Corvallis police responded to a large party at a house on the 300 block of 25th Street for the third time during the same night. The party, allegedly hosted by Sigma Phi Epsilon, had a sound permit, but it had been expired for two hours. A resident was charged for loud noise and was given a special response notice. fear of the cops checking identifications. Approximately 100 people left the scene Officers cited the male for minor-infollowing the incident. possession of alcohol and warned for damaging property after the resident Sunday, May 4 didn’t want to press charges. You thought they’d check 100 IDs? Not quite boyfriend material A report came in about a possible As the same party was broken up around 12:10 a.m., Corvallis police heard domestic dispute in progress near the a fence crashing down near the back of 2000 block of Pickford Street. As Corvallis the house. A 20-year-old male was found police arrived, they found a female who allegedly trying to jump over to escape in explained the situation. She said she and
her “baby’s daddy” had allegedly been in a verbal argument and knocked some things over inside the residence. The man was nowhere to be found. The woman was given a special response notice for loud noise. Friday, May 9
Keeping the car bar classy Someone called in a report of an impaired driver on Highway 20 to Benton County sheriffs. When deputies caught up to the vehicle, they pulled it over and found Sergei Sveshnikov, 38. He had an open bottle of chardonnay and a wine glass in the drink holder. He was arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants after registering a blood alcohol content of 0.19 percent.
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The Daily Barometer was honored with 17 awards in the 2014 Collegiate Contest at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual Collegiate Day Friday at Linn-Benton Community College. The Barometer, which was grouped with the University of Oregon’s Emerald and Portland State University’s The Vanguard, finished in third in the general excellence category, for all-around excellence as a newspaper. Oregon State University’s student-run newspaper took first place for best special section for the “OSU 101” section in the back-to-school issue in September 2013, received
second-place honor for best design and third place for best web site. The editorial staff won first, second and third place for the best editorial category. In addition to the newspaper’s awards, 10 individuals were honored with recognition, including two for editor-in-chief Warner Strausbaugh and managing and news editor Megan Campbell. Four individuals received firstplace recognition for their work: Online editor Shelly Lorts (best review), cartoonist Ryan Mason (best cartooning), former photo editor Jackie Seus (best photography) and former photographer Neil Abrew (best sports photo). managing@dailybarometer.com
A complete list of the Barometer’s awards: • General excellence (third place) • Best design (second) • Best special section, “OSU 101” (first) • Best web site (third) • Best editorial, “Hey, NCAA: Southpaw’s not an outlaw” (first) • Best editorial, “Provost to blame for continuing EECS conflict” (second) • Best editorial, “Vacancy rates show students need housing” (third) • Best writing, Warner Strausbaugh (third) • Best photography, Jackie Seus (first) • Best news story, “Greek pressure alters FYE” by Courtney Gehring and Sean Bassinger (third) • Best feature story, “Kappa Sigma works toward future” by Megan Campbell (second) • Best review, “DiCaprio takes ‘Wolf’ into stratosphere’ by Shelly Lorts (first) • Best sports photo, Neil Abrew (first) • Best sports photo, Warner Strausbaugh (third) • Best feature photo, Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova (second) • Best graphic, Alyssa Johnson (second) • Best cartooning, Ryan Mason (first)
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A varying vernacular “That darb is dilby about another arsenic.” Need a translation? So did the Oregon State College students of 1936. An OSC instructor collected and compiled dozens of “terms and meanings of college patter” that had been previously popular on campus. The aforementioned phrase was translated as: “that campus queen is that way about another superb athlete.” Other unique terms listed included: Anchor: a “girl who dances so poorly that the young man who first dances with her will probably be the only one.” Boodling: “necking,” or making out. Buttermilk: “high school youths who loaf about a college campus endeavoring to acquire a collegiate” group of friends. — May 12, 1936
Seeing red Oregon State College students traveled to Eugene to share and hear opinions on the “problem of communism” at a study conference hosted by the University of Oregon. Sponsored by the international relations club, the conference lasted all day and included discussion on topics like the “effect of Karl Marx” and the dangers of “communism and socialism.” Students devoted 30 minutes each to breaking down four different kinds of communism and the regions from which they hail. — May 13, 1952
Brunch with a side of controversy The Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast was deemed racist by 12 local ministers, who asked the mayor in a letter to “take seriously what ‘liberty and justice for all’ means in Corvallis.” The ministers frowned upon the annual event because it was moved to the Elks Lodge, which they feared would “endorse the Elks’ racist policy.” Elks’ members defended their organization, saying they were a nondiscriminatory group, but warned, “when Americans lose the right of free choice of association, they will have lost much of their freedom.” The event had been moved to the Elks’ Lodge the previous year to expand parking availability, but had drawn no previous criticism. — May 14, 1971 All information was gathered from the Valley Library Special Archives and past issues of The Daily Barometer. managing@dailybarometer.com
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MEDFORD — A 47-year-old White City man faces 15 years in federal prison for his botched bombing of the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office in November, an act he had hoped would keep him out of prison for a burglary. The scheme earned Alan Leroy McVay a week of freedom when the hearing in which he was to accept a three-year prison sentence was rescheduled. But he was arrested on arson charges Nov. 20, one day before that new plea date was set to occur. Now, he faces the 15-year sentence after pleading guilty Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Medford to one count of malicious destruction of property by explosion. In exchange, McVay had a second count of the same charge dismissed. He also agreed to plead guilty to the burglary and theft charges he tried to avoid by the bombing. His sentence in that case will run concurrent with his federal prison time. Sentencing was set for Aug. 18. McVay admitted crafting an improvised pipe bomb by filling a carbon dioxide cylinder with gunpowder and taping it to the side of a 7-gallon propane tank. At about 4:30 a.m. Nov. 13, he lit it using a hobby fuse and hurled it through a front window of the district attorney’s office at
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PORTLAND — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is getting techy with it surrounding the issue of net neutrality. Wyden and the co-founder of the social media site reddit, Alex Ohanian, invited the public to share their questions surrounding net neutrality, open Internet, the Federal Communications Commission’s possible new rules Ă la Ask Me Anything — a reddit format in which users receive direct answers to the questions they post. Wyden writes on reddit that he’s been a “defender of the Open Internet since I had a full head of hair and rugged good looks.â€? “The only way to address threats to net neutrality now is with enforceable rules, but in the long run, what would be best for the Internet and best for consumers is more competition. That’s why the currently proposed mergers
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tion,� Senator Wyden explained earlier this afternoon in the /r/ IAmA thread. As The Atlantic reports, net neutrality is when any network traffic, like streaming movies, web pages and downloads, can move from one place to another without discrimination
— you receive information from Google, Netflix or Disney just as quickly as when you pull up the websites of start up companies. However, the FCC is considering allowing providers to create Internet “fast lanes� for companies that are willing to pay more. More likely than not, the big brands would dominate the web because they have the money to pay for the faster speeds. Wyden and other net neutrality advocates argue that those charges would stifle small companies and a free market on the Internet. “I have called the Internet the shipping lane of the 21st century, in this case, the government is fulfilling its traditional role of keeping those lanes open and toll free,� Wyden said. But the FCC argues that Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon shouldn’t have to shoulder all of the costs for high bandwidth user activities, such as streaming video.
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CONSTRUCTION n Continued from page 1 of Corvallis engineer Josh Bjornstedt. “I’m hoping we’ll start gaining on the schedule.” Right now, the street and sidewalk on 15th Street are closed from north of the existing railroad tracks up to Jefferson Street. “The idea was to start at the north end near Jefferson Street and excavate and work our way back and open it up,” Bjornstedt said. Starting in late July, the construction will continue south of the railroad tracks to Western Boulevard until the project completes in September. The second portion of the project is the realignment of Washington Way. The realignment requires a new water line, telecommunication line, gas systems and electric power poles. “We’ve completed the water line installation, and we are working with a new water line now,” Patterson said. The telecom line serving residential networks and dorm communication is also complete. Local companies serving the city are tasked with preparing the area for new gas and electric lines. “Northwest Natural Gas is working in the south doing relocations for us,” Bjornstedt said. “Pacific Power is realigning power poles.” Construction on 15th Street has brought the most visible changes in the process so far and has detoured car traffic to 11th Street, hindering pedestrian traffic near Kerr Administration Building. “We are currently excavating the roadway and prepping 15th Street for new curbs and sidewalk work and a new street profile,” said Patterson. There is a detour rerouting 15th Street traffic to 11th Street, which led to the decision to ban parking on one side of 11th Street. “We did that to accommodate the added traffic including shuttles, bikes, cars and pedestrians,” Patterson said. Keeping one side of the street clear of parked cars helps with visibility from cross streets, vehicle clearance and general safety for all commuters. The prohibited parking on 11th Street is expected for the duration of the project. “In September, we’ll pull the signs and parking will be restored,” Patterson said. The closure has affected sidewalks and pedestrian traffic on 15th Street. Because of the high volume of traffic surrounding the parking lot of 15th Street, Washington Way and Kerr Administration Building, the sidewalks are closed and rerouted in stages. “We’ve been trying to keep as much of the sidewalk as possible,” Patterson said. Emma-Kate Schaake
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Goat farm shifts its gears from milk to mohair By Elida S. Perez STATESMAN JOURNAL statesmanjournal.com
SALEM — The Fairview Farm Goat Dairy and perhaps the nation’s first goat museum is closing its doors on Memorial Day. Owners Terry and Laurie Carlson announced their retirement on Facebook on Monday. The Carlsons had been operating the dairy farm and store just south of Dallas on Highway 223 for about five years. The farm has received attention for being among the first certified goat dairies in the state. Last summer, they got still more attention when they opened an educational addition for visitors — the goat museum, a mini-attraction that’s about 200 square feet, next to the creamery store. One of the farm’s goats, Vanilla, also gave birth in April to rare quintuplet baby goats. Visitors could watch the farm’s
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a long time,” Terry said. The new business venture will become Fairview Farm Mohair Goats. He said mohair goats get up later, graze and need to be trimmed twice a year. “You’re not milking them twice a day,” he said. The other big advantage to the new goats is that their hair, unlike goat’s milk, has no expiration date, is lightweight and a luxury fiber they aim to export to Japan. Kobbi R. Blair | STATESMAN JOURNAL “That’s my hope,” Laurie said. Milk goats come in from the pasture at Fairview Farm Dairy in Dallas. The goat museum will remain closed for the time being, but once The farm will be closing its doors on Memorial Day. they get into the swing of things with the new herd, they plan to goats and sample goat milk, cheese all over the world stop in.” and ice cream made on site. But because Laurie is dealing reopen it. The museum is filled with leg- with health issues and Terry is on The Carlsons currently are sellends and facts about goats that date the cusp of his 70th birthday, they ing off the dairy goats and milking decided to retire from the dairy goat equipment. They said they will keep back 10,000 years. “We had a lot of interesting traf- business and transition the farm to the quintuplets, which will be 7 weeks old Wednesday, along with fic,” Terry said. “Not a lot of high a lower-maintenance operation. “I’ve been getting up at 4 a.m. for a few other “retiree” goats. volume, (but) we had people from
Neville compared the ages of the fish caught along the northwest coast with those that had the Cs-134 atom to get a picture of the migration and Neville have teamed up as part of a larger patterns of albacore at different ages. What he found was that all 4-year-old albagroup to study the levels of radioactive Cesium core had Cs-134, while the 3-year-olds were split, in albacore tuna. The 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor explo- with less than half of them containing Cs-134. sion in Japan released radioactive Cs-134 and Those that did, had less than the 4-year-olds, Cs-137. Since then, albacore tuna that have fed suggesting that most 4-year-olds make a transwithin the plume of water from Fukushima may pacific migration, Neville said. Every two years, half of all Cs-134 decays into have picked up these tracers. Neville said the amount of radioactivity in the nonradioactive atom, Barium 134, so the the albacore is extremely minute; that’s why he time frame for using Cs-134 is limited. Even ashes them, to concentrate the tiny amounts of so, the researchers still have a few years to use Cs-134 to trace albacore migration. Cesium so he can record readable levels. Now, with a grant from SeaGrant for $88,381 “They’re detectable as long as I take a whole lot of biomass and concentrate it down by ash- for 2014 and $89,799 for 2015, the team will sample anywhere from 100 to 200 albacore ing it,” Neville said. The radioactivity does not pose a significant all along the West Coast of the United States to evaluate two major hypotheses that exist food safety concern, according to the study. The researchers looked at 26 albacore: 19 fish in a sea of uncertainty about albacore migrafrom after the Fukushima disaster and seven tion habits. from before to use as a comparison. Fish that “We are attempting to resolve a question passed through the plume from Fukushima and about stock structure that has been around fed picked up Cs-134. for some time,” Phillips said. “Albacore tagging
studies have occurred off the West Coast of the U.S., but we are not sure where the younger fish are before they enter the fishery. I believe the radionucleotides can give us a way to determine where the younger fish came from.” In the first hypothesis, Oregon and Washington albacore would spawn somewhere differently from Californian albacore. In this scenario, only the Oregon- and Washingtoncaught albacore should have Cs-134. According to the second hypothesis, albacore migrate in a figure-eight pattern around the ocean, so all albacore along the West Coast, including those from California, should have cesium 134, Neville said. Part of their study will include informing the public about radioactivity in albacore. Kathryn Higley, from the OSU department of nuclear engineering and radiation health physics, and Richard Brodeur, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also contributed to the study. McKinley Smith
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Youth will define OSU softball next season T
he day after Oregon State’s softball season ended Saturday, I talked with former OSU player and All-American center fielder Melinda Ameele. Ameele, who played at OSU from 1976-1979 and still lives in Corvallis, was present for most home games this year and watched the Beavers finish with an 18-31 overall record and 5-17 in the Pac-12. Ameele was candid about the team’s struggles, inexperience, injuries, inability to win games in conference and the occasional Bad News Bears-like fielding. However, she was quick to point out how “unheard of” it was to have so many underclassmen in major roles, especially in the Pac-12. She expressed that she was sure that head coach Laura Berg, a 10-time gold medalist with the USA National Softball Team, would not be content with the current state of the program. The Beavers were beaten up in the Pac-12 this year, with an 18-0 loss to No. 1 Oregon April 14 being the lowest point of the season. Without prompt, Ameele brought up that game and a specific quote from freshman pitcher Alleyah Armendariz. “I will not let anyone beat me like this again, mark my words,” Armendariz said after the loss. “It will not happen.” Ameele admitted that the inexperience of OSU hurt the team’s overall play, but the “attitude” — Ameele used that word multiple times — that Armendariz showed is exactly what OSU needs to have in order to compete in conference. It’s a necessity considering the Pac-12 is to softball what the SEC is to football. Better, in fact: The Pac-12 has the No. 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9 teams in the nation. OSU started two seniors, four juniors — two of whom were firstyear transfers — and three freshmen. More important than the youth, though, is next year’s recruiting class, which StudentSports.com, an affiliate of ESPN, ranks No. 3 in the nation. Let that sink in for a second. The third-best recruiting class in the nation — with four players individually ranked in the top 40 — will arrive in Corvallis ready to play next year. There are only two schools with higher ranked classes: UCLA and Cal. That’s another sign of the Pac12’s dominance, which had its two last-place teams this year, Cal and Stanford, both ranked in the top 25 at one point. As for the three graduating seniors, their vacancies will be in high demand among the players vying for starting spots. Hannah Bouska spent the major-
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My Eyes Are Up Here ity of her final season at first base, where Natalie Hampton played during her freshman campaign of 2013. Hampton broke the OSU record in runs batted in that year, but missed the 2014 season with a hand injury. Also, the Beavers’ top recruit and the No. 23 prospect nationally, Alysha Everett, played first base in her prep career. The only other position player that OSU will not return is right fielder Isabelle Batayola, whose .198 batting average was the worst among the nine starters. The Beavers will return Christie Langlois, who tore her ACL just eight days after the season opener. Langlois, who played third base and was batting a team-leading .435 in her shortened 2014 season, did not use up a year of eligibility and will still have three years of collegiate softball left. Langlois and the two freshmen who spent time as her replacement, Kiki Pepi and Amee Aarhus, will all return for next year hoping to garner a starting spot. However, the logjam at third base could be further congested next year when incoming freshman Gina Bond arrives, a third baseman ranked No. 27 overall in the nation and one of the best home run hitters in the country. For third base and every other position, Berg won’t hesitate to supplant a returning starter with a different player — freshmen included — if she thinks it would be an upgrade to do so. Ameele, for one, was sure about that. “They’re going to have to meet her expectations or exceed them,” Ameele said. “Or they’re out.” The reprehensible part of the matter is that I’ve waited this long to mention pitching, which is probably the most important position of any softball team trying to consistently win games. Softball isn’t like baseball — teams don’t need a three-man starting rotation and a full bullpen. Softball pitchers can throw complete games without as much wear and tear on their arms, so a team with two, maybe three, really good pitchers can be dominant. The Beavers graduate their featured pitcher Amanda Najdek, who was 10-20 this season with a 4.57 earned run average (6.59 in conference). OSU returns four pitchers, including senior-to-be Melanie Dembinski See Worden| page 6
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No. 2 Oregon State struggled to score runs early Tuesday night against the University of Portland, but found a way late to win its 13th consecutive game and 21st in a row against the Pilots, thanks to the right arm and bat of junior Dylan Davis. The Beavers (39-8, 20-4 Pac-12) and Pilots (11-38) were tied at two entering the bottom of the seventh inning. With the bases loaded and two outs, Davis worked the count to 3-2. He launched the next pitch he saw over the left-field fence for a grand slam, his sixth home run of the year, giving OSU a 6-2 advantage the Beavers wouldn’t relinquish. While Davis’ biggest impact was at the plate, he also got the start on the mound for the Beavers. The righthander had arguably the best outing of his career as a pitcher, allowing just one hit in five innings, while striking out five. The bullpen didn’t fair quite as
well, combining for four innings, allowing two runs, but did enough to win. Freshman left-hander Trent Shelton tossed 1 1/3 innings of twohit baseball before lefty Zack Reser replaced him. Reser entered with two runners on and just one out in the top of the seventh inning, surrendering a hit and then sacrifice fly to even the score at two before Davis broke the tie. Sophomore left-hander Max Engelbrekt and senior right-hander Scott Schultz closed things out for the Beavers. Engelbrekt pitched the eighth inning, surrendering two hits but no runs. Schultz allowed two runs to cross the plate in the ninth, but shut the door after that, securing an 8-4 victory for OSU’s 39th win of the season. Oregon State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning when senior outfielder Nick Rulli singled in junior first baseman Gabe Clark with one out. The Beavers scored their second run in the bottom of the third inning when Davis helped himself out with a sacrifice fly to right field scoring senior second baseman Andy Peterson. After the Davis blast in the seventh inning, sophomore center fielder Jeff
Hendrix provided some insurance with an RBI triple followed by an RBI single from junior left fielder Michael Conforto. OSU combined for 11 hits as a team — Hendrix and Clark leading the way with two apiece — but it was Davis who did the most damage. The everyday right fielder had five runs batted in on the night, giving him 62 for the season, which is tops in the Pac-12. The win comes before Oregon State’s weekend series with No. 5 Washington, a three-game matchup that could potentially decide the Pac12 champion. The Beavers enter the meeting one game up on the Huskies in the Pac-12 standings, with just six conference games remaining for both squads. Washington, like Oregon State, is playing some of its best baseball of the season having won eight straight games entering Friday’s contest. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Goss Stadium, with Saturday’s game starting at 4 p.m. and Sunday’s beginning at 3 p.m. The Daily Barometer On Twitter @barosports sports@dailybarometer.com
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Oregon State celebrates a Dani Gilmore home run against Oregon April 13.
The Oregon State football team voted on its team captains for the coming 2014 season Tuesday, selecting seniors Sean Mannion, Michael Doctor and Ryan Murphy, and junior Isaac Seumalo as the four players. Mannion’s selection makes him the only Beaver to ever be named
captain three times and was the first Murphy, a senior safety, was voted sophomore in the program’s history captain for the first time. The threeyear starter has 28 career starts and to be named captain in 2012. The senior quarterback has thrown 170 career tackles. Seumalo has for 10,436 yards and could break started 25 games, mostly at center, former USC Trojan Matt Barkley’s and is considered one of the better offensive linemen in the Pac-12. Pac-12 record of 12,274 yards. Fall camp begins for the Beavers Doctor will be a team captain for Aug. 4 with the first game of the seathe second straight year after being son set for Aug. 31 against Portland granted a fifth year of eligibility State in Reser Stadium. because of ankle surgery last season. The senior linebacker missed all but The Daily Barometer two games with the injury, but is fully On Twitter @barosports sports@dailybarometer.com recovered for the start of fall camp.
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Crazy things could indeed happen for Blazers By Kerry Eggers
the regular season would begin to heat up from out there. Maybe that will happen in Game 5 SAN ANTONIO — Call me crazy — a lot of Wednesday night at the AT&T Center. LaMarcus Aldridge has averaged 22.0 points people do — but there’s a window of opportunity for the Trail Blazers to claim the final four games and 10.0 rebounds in the series, and he made 8 of of their Western Conference semifinal series with 16 shots from the field in Game 4. But due in part to San Antonio’s excellent defensive plan against San Antonio and move on to the next round. I know. No team in the history of the NBA has him, Portland’s All-Star power forward is shooting come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a best-of- only .402 (35 for 87) in the series. Aldridge was able to drive right and seven series. get to the rim a few times Monday night, So the odds are in Most of Duncan’s scores especially when defended by 6-8 Boris Portland’s favor. As Blazers guard in the last three games Diaw. Aldridge seems due for a 30-point bust-out or two. Wesley Matthews have come on tips, Nicolas Batum has been outstanding says, “It has to haplayups and jump hooks. offensively in the last three games, averpen sometime.” aging 18.3 points, 10.0 rebounds and 5.7 On the surface, He has been assists while making 22 of 37 shots from the you wouldn’t think reluctant to shoot from field (.595). He also took on the defensive it would happen the perimeter. assignment against Parker late in Game 3, against the Spurs, and helped hold the Spurs’ best player to 14 the gold standard points and one assist Monday night. Coach by which their NBA Kerry Eggers Terry Stotts is probably kicking himself that brethren have been Portland Tribune he didn’t turn to the 6-9 Batum earlier in judged over the past the series. 15 years. Robin Lopez had his best game of the series San Antonio looked bullet-proof in Game 7 of its first-round series with Dallas and again in in Game 4, with nine points, 12 rebounds, good the first three games against Portland, games in defense on Duncan and Tiago Splitter and plenty which the Spurs led by an average of 22 points at of hustle plays. Lopez has 19 offensive rebounds halftime. The Spurs looked like favorites to win in the four games; he often seems to be able to their fifth NBA championship since 1999. The reach over every other player on the court in pursuit of the roundball. Blazers looked like the Milwaukee Bucks. Then there is Matthews, who has averaged 13.5 But things were beginning to change a little even before Portland’s 103-92 victory Monday points and not shot well from the field — 18 for 46 (.387), including 8 for 24 on 3-point attempts. night at the Moda Center. For one thing, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan It would be surprising if he doesn’t come up with began to lose confidence in his outside shot after a 20-point performance one of these games. Best buds Will Barton and Thomas Robinson the opener, in which he made 5 of 9 field-goal attempts. Since then, Duncan is 18 for 41 from provided life off the bench in Game 4, giving hope the field, and 7 for 22 on shots from 10 feet and that they’ll continue to provide productivity in the area where the Blazers need it most. beyond. All these things add up to the possibility of the Most of Duncan’s scores in the last three games have come on tips, layups and jump hooks. He Blazers going into AT&T Center and stealing one has been reluctant to shoot from the perimeter. Wednesday night. If that were to happen, who When he does muster up the courage to let fly, wouldn’t think Portland could go home and hold more often than not, his clothesline set shot serve in Game 6? A win there by the Blazers would force a decidbangs hard off the front iron. For a guy who has ing Game 7, where as everyone knows, anything made a living on his 15-foot bank shot, can happen. Duncan is looking all of his 38 years old. Maybe this is all From the start of the series, Manu Call me a homer — a whistling in the dark. Ginobili — who had played well in the Maybe Pa r k e r Dallas series — has played like a guy who lot of people do — but gets rolling again turns 37 this summer. The Spurs’ legendary I won’t be shocked if Wednesday night. sixth man is a dreadful 10 for 38 (.263) from the Blazers pull off the M a y b e Duncan the field, including 2 for 12 from 3-point range. San Antonio’s starting shooting upset Wednesday night regains confidence in his shot and plays like guard, Danny Green, is only marginally and bring the series he’s 28 again. Maybe better at 9 for 28 (.321). back to Portland. Ginobili finds his The Spurs were 3 for 18 from 3-point stroke and becomes range Monday night. Tony Parker and the “A r g e n t i n e Patty Mills were the only Spurs who looked Kerry Eggers Assassin.” Maybe comfortable taking a shot from the outside Portland Tribune Gregg Popovich pressin the game. The Blazers were able to pack the middle and rule the battle in points in the es all the right buttons with the Spurs, and the paint (62-44) and second-chance points (15-8). Blazers feel the pressure of a close-out game on Portland’s Damian Lillard finally began look- the road and wilt like a rose in 100-degree heat. Call me a homer — a lot of people do — but I ing like himself in the second half Monday night, getting to the paint and scoring 15 of his game- won’t be shocked if the Blazers pull off the upset high 25 points after intermission. Lillard even hit Wednesday night and bring the series back to a couple of 3’s, making him 3 for 19 from long Portland. If that happens, the Blazers gain a little more confidence while more doubts creep into distance in the series. It would make sense that a guy who made 218 the minds of the Spurs. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over, and it ain’t over yet. treys and shot .394 from beyond the arc during PORTLAND TRIBUNE
The Trojans are still fifth in the Pac-12 standings, but have to face Oregon State The Pac-12 series we’ve been waiting weeks for is just a few short days away and in their only remaining conference series. the circumstances couldn’t be any bet- Losing two of three home games against Cal this past weekend was ter. Oregon State won 12 straight games a shot in the foot to USC’s and the Huskies have won eight straight. playoff hopes. Odds are What should have Beaver Nation excited that four or five Pac-12 is that OSU is clearly playing its best baseteams, at the most, will ball of the season and make the postseason, and has home-field advantage on its side. If the right now I have OSU, Washington, Oregon, Beavers can win two of Arizona State and Stanford as the five with three, they’ll only have the best shot to get in — assuming Stanford to win one of three games against USC the takes care of business to end the season. following weekend to clinch their second USC is 2-5 in the past seven games and has consecutive Pac-12 title. It seems likely scored just six runs in the past three games. Oregon State will win at least two in Los 7. California (21-25, 9-15) Angeles, so Washington will need to take Cal entered last weekend’s series with the this series if the Huskies want the conference title. It’s going to be awfully tough Trojans on a three-game losing streak, but considering the Beavers are hitting better showed some resolve with a series victory than they have in maybe two years and have on the road. The Golden Bears host Arizona maintained the dominant pitching they’ve for three games next weekend, followed by a game at San Francisco been known for in recent years. before finishing the sea2. No. 5 Washington son at Oregon for three games. Cal doesn’t have (37-11, 19-5) a shot at the postseason While Oregon State will be favored this at this point, but can weekend, the Huskies have all the makings for a major upset. UW is at least a take pride in potentially playing spoiler for little bit familiar with the Oregon at the end of the season. Beavers, having played them earlier this season in a nonconference matchup and is as confident as ever considering No. 5 is the highest the program has ever been ranked in its history. Like Oregon State, Washington is playing not only for the Pac12 Championship, but for a national seed as well. Both could potentially earn one, but a Pac-12 title would all but lock it up. With a home series against UCLA following this weekend’s series, it’s likely the Huskies will take care of business and win at least two of their final three games of the regular season.
8. Washington State (22-24, 12-12)
The Cougars won two of three games over the weekend, but should feel embarrassed, considering the opposition and how close the games were. The Cougars dropped their series opener to Utah 4-1, and only outscored the Utes 5-2 in the final two games. WSU is 10-10 in its last 20 and has Gonzaga, Seattle, Stanford (three games) and Arizona State (three games) to finish the year. Finishing 3. Stanford (24-21, 11-13) the season at .500 or better would be an The Cardinal are still two games worse accomplishment for the Cougars. than .500 in conference play, but are on a tear with hopes of qualifying for the 9. Utah (15-30, 4-20) postseason. Stanford lost the series openI think this is the highest I’ve had Utah er against Arizona, 3-2, in 11 in three years of doing power rankings, innings Friday, but bounced but it’s about time the Utes crawl out of back with two straight victories. the cellar even if it’s just The Cardinal face San Jose for a week. Utah managed State at home, followed by to win its fourth Pac-12 three home contests against game of the season Friday Washington State, a home and actually tied WSU 6-6 game against Pacific and finally a road in terms of runs over three series against Utah to end the year. Playing games. The Utes weren’t their best baseball of the season, I’m preable to win their first conference series of dicting the Cardinal to finish the year winthe season, but it’s baby steps at this point. ning at least seven of those eight games, Unfortunately, there’s a strong chance while ultimately qualifying for the playoffs. they’ll lose all of their remaining seven Stanford is good, the team has just struggled games against BYU, Arizona State and early in the year with a brutal schedule. Stanford to end the year.
4. Arizona State (26-21, 14-10)
The Sun Devils lost last weekend’s series opener to Oregon, but followed it up with two victories, taking the three-game set. Like Stanford, ASU has a favorable schedule the rest of the way and a strong chance of making the postseason. The Sun Devils play at UNLV, home for three against Utah, home for three against Abilene Christian and finish the year at Washington State for three games. Arizona State is better than all of those teams and should finish the year on a strong note. Twenty-three runs scored against Oregon in three games is impressive, and it looks ASU could be another team playing some of its best baseball of the season when it matters most.
5. Oregon (36-16, 14-10)
At this point, the Ducks are playing for seeding in the postseason. With 36 wins, they should be a lock to get in, but every win helps toward getting put in a better region. Unfortunately for them, the Ducks are 5-6 in their past 11 and lost two of three against Arizona State this past weekend. Oregon gets the luxury of facing UCLA and Cal to end the season, however, which should be five or six more wins.
10. UCLA (23-25-1, 10-14) What’s happened to the defending national champions? The Bruins have now lost six straight games after getting swept by Oregon State and are 1-9-1 in their last 11 contests. What’s worse is that UCLA has scored just 27 runs combined in those games, and scored two or fewer in seven of them. What’s even worse news for the Bruins? They play at UC Irvine, at Oregon and at Washington to end the season. I’m guessing they’ll win at least one game in that span, but the way they’re playing, I’m not so sure.
11. Arizona (19-30, 8-19) Someone should probably tell the Wildcats they only have four more wins than Utah this season. Considering Arizona won a national championship just two years ago, the program has fallen a long way, especially in the pitching department. The Wildcats are 2-10 in their past 12 games and dropped two of three to Stanford over the weekend. It’s been a long year for Arizona. Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com
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WORDEN n Continued from page 5 (5-9, 4.32 ERA) and Armendariz (2-1 in 10 appearances, 5.66 ERA). The fifth member and the only pitcher of the OSU recruiting class is Rainey Dyreson, whose drop-ball pitching style is similar to Najdek. Dyreson is the only incoming freshman of the five who is not a top-40 recruit, but she was named Great Basin Conference Pitcher of the Year twice in her career at Twin Falls High School in Twin Falls, Idaho. The best-case scenario for next year’s team would include a solid pitching staff that is helped by a power-hitting and run-producing offense en route to a winning record in conference. The Beavers won’t win the Pac-12 title, but with so many young players and highly touted recruits, a conference championship isn’t out of the question within a few years. In a worst-case scenario, OSU
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Oregon State head coach Laura Berg walks toward the dugout against Oregon April 13. allows an average of eight runs per game, has multiple injuries and stumbles to a couple Pac-12 victories.
no counting out this OSU team. The Beavers made the postseason just one year ago, remember, and could easily do so again.
I’d expect a scenario closer to the former, but with a coach like Berg and fans like Ameele, there’s
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he promise that the next generation will be able to go further and do better than the last one is the heart of the American Dream. I was fortunate enough to have that chance. I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood, and was the first in my family to go to college. My dad set me on that path when I was in grade school. He took me to the school and said, “If you go through those doors and you work hard, you can do just about anything here in America.” I still live in that same neighborhood and my kids go to the same high school I attended, but what I’m seeing and hearing from students and their parents is very different today. Even as college has become more critical to economic success, rising costs are putting college out of reach for more
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individual, who sees no path to fully explore his or her dreams and potential, and our society, which benefits when individuals thrive. and more Americans. The rising cost That is why I’m committed to givof college tuition has vastly exceeded ing student borrowers a fair shot by general inflation and Pell grants cover refinancing their student loans and less of the cost. Thus, student loan finding solutions to make college debt has exploded, tripling since affordable for our middle-class stu2004 and topping total credit card dents and their families. debt. Oregon graduates with loans We must do all we can to change now carry an average of more than this dynamic. That means our col$24,000 in debt. leges must work hard to cap the That debt is hurting students and growth of tuition, and Congress must our entire economy. Because of their increase Pell grants to keep pace with debt, many Americans are unable inflation. to buy a home, save for retirement, But we must also attack the high start a business or even start a family. cost of student loans. Last year, Others, wary of having student debt Congress headed off a scheduled the size of a home mortgage, are dis- interest rate hike, and as a result, suaded from going to college in the undergraduate students borrowing first place. This result hurts both the this school year are able to take
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advantage of historically low rates. That’s a start. The next step should be to enable students with previous loans to refinance these high-interest loans at the same low rates, putting more money in their pockets and strengthening our economy. We should also be exploring opportunities to promote college affordability by looking at innovative solutions. I’ve introduced legislation in the Senate to help launch pilot projects for the “Pay It Forward” model. This plan, developed by Oregon students, would create an option for students to replace traditional loans with a “Pay It Forward” grant. In exchange, the student would pledge to pay a small percentage of his or her future income into a fund for grants for the See MERKLEY | page 8
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ear Dr. Sex, Last night my girlfriend wanted to have sex. I did not. She insisted, and in the now infamous phrase, I consented by the end. It wasn’t rape, or assault, or anything, but it wasn’t really what I wanted to do and I’m kind of confused what I should do. I’m upset and confused and I don’t know why. A Confused Hetero Dude Dear Confused Hetero Dude, This is a wonderful question. If you are upset and confused, I’m not totally convinced that you weren’t sexually assaulted. What you have described may not fit our notion of sexual assault in the traditional sense, but it may fit
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believed that a woman could be raped by someone she knew. If it was rape, she would have screamed for help — tried to get away — right? If she knew him, it had to be consensual, and therefore she was “loose.” Here’s a good example of how things went 60 years ago. If a young woman went on a date with a young man and he forced her to have sex with him (or to perform some sexual act on him), See GREAVES | page 8
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American Craft T Beer Week is hipster season in Oregon ipsters love Oregon, and Oregon loves hipsters. We’re pretty sure their pilgrimage point is actually somewhere in Portland, and that most of them just forget to leave after making their journey. A few of them actually migrate elsewhere in the state after hitting Portland, though we’re pretty sure the majority of them stay there. We even have proof for this claim, beyond “Portlandia,” all those “Keep PortlandWeird” bumper stickers and the semi-annual Portland Urban Iditarod (seriously, look that one up). Travel + Leisure magazine ranked Portland America’s third best city for hipsters. Number three. Only San Francisco and New Orleans were ranked higher. That list included New York City, for Pete’s sake, which came in at number five. That’s right. Portland is more hipsterfriendly than New York City. Mind-blowing. The factors the magazine considered included “offbeat and tech-savvy locals; great microbrews and coffee bars; a buzzing live music scene and plenty of flea markets.” With one of the biggest hipster-draws being “great microbrews,” it’s no surprise that Portland’s the craft-beer capital of the state. It might not be surprising that it’s the craft-beer capital of the country. But believe it or not, it’s actually the craft beer capital of the world. Portland has more breweries than any other city on the globe, with 53 in Portland and 73 in the Portland metro area, according to OregonCraftBeer. org. In total, Oregon boasts 166 brewing companies with 207 facilities, scattered throughout only 66 cities. “A state with more microbreweries than employed people,” is how Thrillist. com described Oregon on its America’s 50 best craft breweries by state list. Obviously, Thrillist was being facetious, but sometimes it feels true, especially when you’re pounding the pavement looking for jobs and walk past three breweries on the same block. So yes, when it comes to craft beer, Oregon is pretty much the best. But that doesn’t mean we have to be hipsters to enjoy it. (Not that we’d admit it if we were.) A good beer doesn’t require pretension or irony to appreciate it. So take back this week. American Craft Beer Week is Oregon Craft Beer Week, which is Your Craft Beer Week. Kick back on your lawn or porch with a six-pack of Dead Guy Ale, Quick Wit, The Dissident, Deschutes’ Obsidian Stout and Black Butte Porter or Oakshire Espresso Stout — as long as you’re legal.
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Consumerism’s ‘free makeup bag’ effect leads to unnecessary possessions
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he “free makeup bag” effect is one that’s all-too-familiar in our consumer culture. You know what I’m talking about. Buy something, get a free useless cheap something or other. Believe me, we do not need any more incentive to buy more things. I find it interesting that even though articles like “Seven Strategies To Beat The Retail Store Apocalypse” by McKinsey & Company, offer retail advice to be original or “unique,” everyone is essentially doing the same thing: producing the same type of products, advertising with the same exact promotions. It just goes to show that there’s nothing new in this world, no originality at all. People want the free makeup bag, and they will never understand that it’s not worth buying $50 worth of makeup in order to obtain it. There’s also a little something I like to call the membership (or “rewards card”) tornado. Everyone is familiar with it. You get sucked into a membership or rewards program with a store because you happened to go in once, found something on the clearance rack, and bought it because it was dirt-cheap. Now you owe that store your loyalty because the girl behind the counter guilt-tripped you into hoarding yet another plastic card in your wallet. It’s messed up. Why don’t more people notice this? They don’t care about you, they want their branded little 2-cent makeup bag to remind you to shop at their store. They want their rewards card to get real close and personal with your debit card. Let’s not forget: With great consumerism comes great waste. In 2012, 14.3 million tons of textiles were generated in America, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website. Out of 14.3 million that year, only 15.7 percent was recovered. Translation: The majority of what See SCOTTALINE | page 8
Correction The Barometer mistakenly referred to Harry J. Mallory as Harry L. Mallory in Cassie Ruud’s column in Tuesday’s paper. Ryan Mason is a junior in graphic design
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MERKLEY n Continued from page 7 next generation. This approach might solve the problem of students foregoing education because they fear getting trapped between modest future wages and high monthly loan payments. I am grateful that my parents believed in a vision of full opportunity for every American and encouraged me to seize that opportunity. However, that vision is slipping away, and we must do all we can to restore it. I’m committed to making college more affordable, so that every student who is determined to go through the schoolhouse doors and work hard can do just about anything here in America. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) t
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SCOTTALINE n Continued from page 7 wasn’t recovered is lost in the dark, forgotten depths of consumers’ wallets and junk drawers. We have too much stuff. We all know it. We have to realize it. There’s no way we can look at our swollen closets and think, “I need all of this to survive,” or go to a store and genuinely think we require another flimsy umbrella with the purchase of twelve lip-glosses. The incentive to buy more things is pathetic. Think of it this way: When you move — and you will, given that most of us are students — you probably don’t want to find yourself in a depressing heap of useless crap. All the junk that I’ve accrued over the years translates into dollars lost. It may sound a bit stingy to look at it this way, but it will help you critically assess what you’re buying and why you’re buying it. If you think before you spend, you might realize — gasp — that you don’t even need a makeup bag. t
Gabi Scottaline is a senior in English. The opinions
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Learning to be independent is hard but necessary I
t can be difficult to separate from our attachment to home when we come to college for the first time. The place you used to live sustained you for upwards of 18 years, and now you’re bound for an experience through which you must learn to be independent — or at least quasi-independent, as I’m sure a decent chunk of us (myself included) are getting some relational financing help in attending college. College becomes a kind of training wheels for adulthood for some of us — focusing on things like feeding ourselves, taking care of our homework and perhaps even paying bills (for those of us who are truly ambitious). In this way, students learn how to sustain themselves and go on to become independent, individual contributors to society. Why is independence important in your life? Well, apart from directing you to go and watch “Step Brothers” as an instructional video, a simple reason
GREAVES n Continued from page 7 do you know what they called that? A very bad date. She wouldn’t be able to convince anyone that he raped her, so she would just warn all of her female friends not to go out with him. She would say, “I went out with him and it was a very bad date. Don’t do it.” Unfortunately, sexual assault has been occurring between non-strangers for a very long time. Sexual assault not only occurs among acquaintances (which is what we refer to as date or acquaintance rape) but also among intimate cohabiting and marital partners as well. While sex in the context of marriage is expected, it still needs to be consensual. Sixty years ago, consent was assumed simply because you were married. In fact, as recent as 2005, there were still 30 states in the U.S. that had
independence is important in our lives is the ability to function in the world as an autonomous being who can utilize your own agency. Being self-reliant is incredibly powerful; it says that you’re a grown-up who can handle all of the grown-up business in your life. If you’ve reached that level this soon, I commend you. If you haven’t: Don’t worry, you can get there. “The best thing you can do to transition from high school to college is to become more independent. Being able to take care of yourself is very important while you are in college,” Youniversity TV claims in its piece on transitioning to college. I’m not saying that you should break off all connections with home for the sake of starting fresh — all that will get you is a fat slice of bitterness and regret.
But independence is crucial if you want to carve out your own life and not be umbilically attached to your parental units for the rest of your existence. A strong recommendation from first-time college experience websites is to acclimate yourself to your college setting, if you’re living away from home. I remember this being difficult for a number of the students in my freshman dorm — homesickness afflicted everyone. But perhaps it’s better to experience this initial illness and wind up immune rather than to consistently indulge in it. The constant longing for home is not a good habit to feed. The longer you live at home, or return home every weekend, the more difficult it will be to transition to a self-sufficient and independent person, Campus Explorer explained in a piece on the pros and cons of living at home during college. Your parents love you. But they might not want to admit that you’re an autonomous adult now, so making the break freshman year — rather than dragging it out until you move across
the country for a job — is important for both of you. College life gives you a safe space to practice being independent, as it comes with the built-in safety net of long breaks between terms for visiting family, as well as the semi-adult supervision of RAs and grown-up friends. One of the main points of college, alongside getting a degree in something you love, is making yourself more desirable to your possible future employers. The best way to do that is to craft yourself in the best independent you that you can be. It doesn’t hurt that it will also help you learn how to feed yourself without contracting scurvy and remember to brush your teeth twice a day. Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. College life is real life, even if it’s not in the “real world.” Stop treating your college experience as a giant game of The Sims — start taking it seriously and the results will impress you.
exceptions for marital rape, meaning a wife had no legal grounds to claim her husband raped her. Now let’s take that information and get back to your situation. I wish I actually had more information. You said she is your girlfriend, but one thing I don’t know is if this was a situation in which it was the first time the two of you had sex or was it a situation in which you’ve been having sex for more than a year, but on this particular night you didn’t want to have sex. Some people would say it doesn’t matter. I am, however going to try and make a distinction between the two situations. If it was your first time and you felt as if you were coerced into having sex with your girlfriend, then it may have been sexual assault. If it wasn’t your first time, but it was more like, “I’m really not in the mood, but I want my partner to be happy, so I’ll go ahead and do it even though I’d rather not,” then it prob-
ably wasn’t assault. The latter typically happens in established relationships. Another thing I am wondering is if you are upset and confused because you feel you were coerced (the former situation), or are you upset and confused that your partner wouldn’t listen to you (the latter situation)? Clearly the former is more problematic than the latter, but in either case, you need to have a conversation with your partner about how this experience made you feel. It may be that she didn’t believe you when you said you didn’t want to have sex. If, however, she knows how much this experience upset you, she may never push that hard again. I can guarantee this issue of differing desires for sex will come up again in the future. If you have a conversation in advance about how to resolve differing sexual desires, it can be easier to manage it when the time comes. One solution is to go along with it to make your
partner happy. Some couples agree that each partner has one free pass (per week or month) to have sex when they want it even if the other partner isn’t in the mood. In the remaining situations of differing desires, the one desiring sex needs to accept that it’s not happening and drop it. I do want to applaud you for feeling comfortable asking this question. So often, there is a strong social stigma connected to a man admitting he didn’t want to have sex. It flies in the face of gender-normative behavior. What man doesn’t want to have sex? Clearly you didn’t want to — and believe me, you are not the only one.
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