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Relay for Life kicks off Friday evening THE DAILY BAROMETER

The 2014 Relay for Life at Oregon State University kicks off its overnight bonanza Friday in the Memorial Union quad.

So far, 47 teams and 637 participants have registered for the event and raised more than $35,000.

The Relay for Life is hosted nationwide as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Within the event, a lap of the relay is reserved for cancer survivors as a chance to celebrate their victories over cancer and be cheered on by other attendees of the event.

In the leading days to the main event, several crafts, competitions and activities were hosted for community members and participants excited and prepared for the event.

The all-night relay starts at 6 p.m. with opening ceremonies. The rest of the night will be filled with activities and competitions for teams and individuals. For each activity, teams will have the opportunity to win points.

At the end of the night, points will be tallied up and prizes awarded to the teams with the most.

The first competition of the night will start at 7 p.m. and closing ceremonies will start 7 a.m. Saturday.

Individuals still hoping to register can visit the Oregon State University Relay for Life 2014 Facebook page for more information.

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Sorority hosts sex trafficking talk Kappa Delta Chi sorority invites advocate against sex trafficking to educate listeners

a problem that … doesn’t discriminate.”

Brenneman became an advocate in November 2011, after a volunteer trip to an orphanage in Cambodia. After one month, she experienced a

By Ria Rankine world of human trafficking and abuse she never THE DAILY BAROMETER knew existed.

Volunteer advocate against sex trafficking Amanda “The things that I saw and heard about were absoBrenneman hosted the presentation, “Not for Sale,” lutely heartbreaking,” Brenneman said. “I knew that because education, she said, is half the battle.

I had seen these things for a reason and knew I had The Kappa Delta Chi sorority invited Brenneman to do something about it.” to speak Thursday evening in Stand Agriculture Hall.

Since then, Brenneman has been a grant writer “The main message that I want to get across is that and public speaker for organizations that fight sex it does not happen overseas,” Brenneman said. “It is trafficking. n

Portland may be infamously known as a hotbed for child sex trafficking, but the City of Corvallis offers the only safe house for sex trafficked victims in the state.

House of Engedi, a Christian home that a Corvallis resident established, helps victims rehabilitate their lives and get back into society.

Safe houses are what Brenneman describes as a second chance for victims. “(Safe houses) try to boost their chances of getting out and staying out,” Brenneman said.

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Languages, cultures take over Memorial Union ballroom n

OSU language programs share cultures with more than 800 visitors in Memorial Union

Second-year Chinese students Alexis Lanham, Frances Payne, Helena Bai and Nick Wong dance to Chinese poetry set to music at World Languages and Cultures Day Thursday.

By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg THE DAILY BAROMETER

In the first of what may become an annual event, the language programs at Oregon State University came together to host a World Languages and Cultures Day in the Memorial Union ballroom Thursday.

A small task force of staff and faculty coordinated the event, which hosted students from the university and several high schools from Corvallis and surrounding areas.

Catherine Liggett, a German instructor at OSU and head of the task force, said they wanted to showcase the programs OSU has to offer students and increase visibility for the programs.

“Languages don’t always have the most visibil-

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Celebrating undergraduate excellence in the Memorial Union

4 OSU students displaced in house fire Tuesday, no injuries occur THE DAILY BAROMETER

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Elisa Olsen explains her poster, which looks at how cross culture products like the Althea Goddess Headdress could be designed to meet the needs of Armenian women who are immigrating to the United States where customs may be more relaxed.

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Talia Helman presents her poster on processes that can synthesize chemicals in the environment using R5 and specific types of peptides.

This added to the variety of projects on display in the Memorial Union quad Thursday.

Students recognized for scholastic, leadership achievement THE DAILY BAROMETER

Honored students and invited faculty members and guests socialized More than 200 students were recin the Memorial Union ballroom and ognized for their outstanding academic and leadership achievements listened to an address from Oregon Wednesday night at the annual State University President Ed Ray Student Recognition Awards Dinner, before the final awards presentation. including Fulbright Scholarship final- Students received recognition in ist Annika Swanson.

17 different award and scholarship

Davis emerging as a quality pitcher

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inclusiveness, while the Critical Students were chosen not only for Language and Fulbright scholarships lauded further educational pursuits. their excellence in academics, but Dozens of students earned the their contributions to the greater Drucilla Shepard Smith Scholastic Oregon State community, as well. Award, which recognizes individuals Honors like the Clara L. Simerville who have maintained a 4.0 grade Award stressed the importance of point average while attending OSU. managing@dailybarometer.com international understanding and programs.

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The Corvallis Fire Department responded to a fire at the house of four Oregon State University students Tuesday evening. Firefighters extinguished the fire in less than an hour.

The incident occurred at 11:15 p.m. at a house on the 800 block of 10th Street.

One of the residents discovered the fire after she smelled smoke coming into her bedroom.

After investigating, the fire department concluded “careless use of smoking material” caused the fire, according to the CFD press release.

All residents were evacuated from the home prior to the fire department’s arrival. Rescue workers saved a small caged rabbit during the time of evacuation. No injures of any kind occurred.

CFD urges residents to properly dispose of smoking material by dousing it with water and removing it from inside the structure.

There were no active smoke alarms installed in the home. managing@dailybarometer.com

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Group aims to put GMO food labeling measure on the ballot in Oregon

By Cassandra Profita

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PORTLAND — Undeterred by the failure of GMO labeling measures in Washington and California, advocate groups have launched a campaign to put a similar statewide measure on the November ballot in Oregon.

A group called Oregon Right To Know announced Thursday that it will be collecting signatures for an initiative that would require new labels on foods made with genetically engineered ingredients — often called genetically modified organisms or GMOs. Among the campaign’s supporters are Food & Water Watch, the Center for Food Safety, OSPIRG and Whole Foods.

“We should have the right to choose whether we want to buy and eat genetically engineered food,” said Aurora Paulsen with the Center for Food Safety in announcing the petition.

The group will need to gather 87,213 valid signatures by July 3 to put the issue on the ballot in November.

David Rosenfeld, executive director of OSPIRG, said he’s not worried about getting enough signatures by the deadline, but he is bracing for a fight against opponents of the measure between now and November.

“We know from past experience that the big chemical companies that manufacture GMOs, like Monsanto and Dow, will spend millions to try to confuse the issue and block Oregon residents from being able to decide for themselves whether or not

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Supporters gather to announce a new initiative that would allow voters in Oregon to decide whether genetically modified foods sold statewide should be labeled. to eat GMOs,” he said. “Our side is not going to win by countering Monsanto dollar for dollar. We’ll win by talking to hundreds of thousands of Oregonians face to face, person to person, Oregonian to Oregonian. That’s what we’re going to do.”

Supporters of labeling genetically modified foods argue that there hasn’t been enough testing to ensure that GMOs are safe to eat, and that there are more environmental impacts from producing genetically modified foods such as water pollution from pesticide and herbicide run-off from farms. Thus, people should be able to identify GMO foods and choose whether or not to consume them.

Similar GMO labeling mea-

sures in Washington and California attracted large sums of money from opponents with deep pockets and were ultimately defeated. The Washington measure last year drew tens of millions of dollars in opposition from big brand names such as PepsiCo, CocaCola and Nestle, biotechnology companies and the Grocery Manufacturers Association — outspending supporters by a 2-to-1 ratio. The measure was defeated with 54 percent opposition.

In 2012, 53 percent of California voters said no to Proposition 37 after opponents spent $46 million to defeat it.

Back in 2002, 71 percent of Oregon voters turned down another GMO labeling measure.

Oregon Right to Know has raised about $800,000 for the campaign so far, most of which came from Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Mercola Health and the Organic Consumers Association, according to spokesman Sandeep Kaushik.

Kaushik said supporters of labeling GMOs have learned from failed campaigns of the past. They’ve changed some of the language in the ballot measure itself in an attempt to avoid some of the arguments used to defeat earlier GMO labeling measures. For example, they made it clear that the initiative does not apply to pet food, an issue that he says gave opponents ammunition to use against the Washington GMO measure.

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Sheriff: I’ve never lied about anything, that’s why I took the test

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GRANTS PASS — Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson has announced he paid for and passed a lie-detector test to prove his claim that County Commissioner Simon Hare spearheaded a plan in 2012 to manipulate voters into supporting a public safety levy.

“I firmly stand by my previous statements,” the sheriff said in a news release sent out Wednesday afternoon.

“Commissioner Hare’s conversation with me clearly reflected his intent to decimate the patrol division only to influence the voter’s (sic) response of the proposed 2012 Levy.”

Reacting to a story about his accusations against Hare in last Friday’s Daily Courier, Gilbertson said in a brief interview today he spent $500 of his own money to take a lie-detector test administered by Polygraph Services and Investigations because he wanted to prove he was telling the truth. Hare has strongly denied the accusation, and several other county officials and former officials have questioned the claim as

well.

Gilbertson declined to provide the test results, and the Daily Courier was unable to locate a company by that name in the area.

“I’ve never lied about anything, that’s why I took the test,” Gilbertson said.

Gilbertson’s allegations relate to a reallocation of $500,000 away from the sheriff’s budget in March 2012 and a transfer of $425,000 in public works money to the Sheriff’s Office after the election in May of that year.

Current and former county leaders say there was nothing fishy about the reallocations or their timing. They said the $500,000 was moved in March 2012 as part of the normal budgeting process for the impending fiscal year, and it was clear at that time that the $425,000 in roads money from public works would be available to replace that money after the election under a new state law. The latter transfer couldn’t happen until after the election because if the levy had passed, it wouldn’t have been necessary, according to the county finance department.

However, Gilbertson alleges the real-

location allowed local leaders to claim that if the levy failed, the Sheriff’s Office would have no money for patrols. Such statements were indeed made to voters prior to the election by both Gilbertson and the commissioners, although it was clear at that time that the roads money would be available for patrols later in the year.

Hare did not return several calls and emails seeking comment regarding Gilbertson’s announcement of the liedetector test. He has previously denied the sheriff’s claims about the transfers.

“I wouldn’t mind saying that the allegations that the sheriff made are completely false and there is no way to substantiate anything he’s talking about,” Hare said in a previous interview, also noting that he alone wouldn’t have the authority to make such money transfers, which need to be approved by the entire Board of Commissioners. Hare’s comment was published in the Daily Courier last Friday.

Roy Lindsay, who was on the sheriff’s advisory council in the spring of 2012, confirmed that Gilbertson told members of the council at that time that he

was “very disturbed” by a conversation he had just had with Hare and District Attorney Stephen Campbell in which Hare allegedly proposed taking $500,000 out of the sheriff’s budget to effectively get rid of patrols for the purposes of the election. Campbell has denied being present for any such conversation.

Lindsay said the advisory council members and Gilbertson informally discussed whether to go public with the allegation and that a decision was made not to do so.

Jeff Wolf, who was also on the sheriff’s council at the time, gave a similar account, saying Gilbertson was upset and that there was a discussion about how to go forward. He said of the decision not to go public, “It just seemed to be a negative for all the things that were in play.”

Wolf said of the sheriff, “I have always found Gil to be an honest man of his word.”

The advisory council consisted of a group of volunteers with various backgrounds who would meet with the sheriff on an informal basis to discuss pending issues.

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Report: Manager ‘cuts’ in state agencies may be an illusion Further, the state increased its payroll by 608 positions since statesmanjournal.com the law passed, according to the SALEM — State agencies report. may be faking manager “cuts�

DAS officials did not respond by reclassifying positions and to the Statesman Journal’s manipulating numbers, accord- request for comment. ing to a report released last The report raised questions week by the Legislative Fiscal about the purpose of the staffing Office, and the Department of ratios and accuracy of the numAdministrative Services has no bers, in spite of the plan having way to know for sure. strong support from the state’s The Oregon Legislature largest union, Service Employees passed a law three years ago International Union Local 503. telling agencies to start working Union leaders said reducing toward organizational structures management would make for that averaged 11 employees per a cheaper and more efficient supervisor. They report their cur- state government and proposed rent staffing levels to DAS every the law in that spirit during the year by Oct. 31, and most have height of the recession, lobbyist shown increases in their supervi- Arthur Towers said. sor ratios.

Those goals may not be provThe law applies to the 27 agen- ing accurate. cies that have more than 100 The fiscal staff outlined mulemployees, and as of Nov. 1, 2013, tiple problems with the law: only nine had achieved the goal.

The numbers DAS uses to look STATESMAN JOURNAL

at staffing ratios are often inaccurate, usually due to rounding errors. In fact, when those are corrected, only about half of agencies certified as having an 11 to 1 ratio actually do.

It encourages agencies to make minimal cuts. Agencies need to only show progress toward the ratio, so there is no incentive to get there any faster.

There is no requirement that agencies show how they achieved their “cuts.� The report states that most of the changes are likely a shifting of staff, but no one tracks whether positions were cut or reclassified, so there is no way to know.

There is no penalty beyond hiring restrictions if agencies don’t achieve their yearly required progress toward the 11 to 1 ratio.

There is no clear statement of intent behind the law and no measure of how it has impacted

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Members of SEIU held a rally outside of the Department of Human Resources in 2011. The union has been a strong supporter of a law requiring the state reduce its management staff.

daily operations within agencies.

There is also no tracking of how it has impacted agency budgets.

In short: The state isn’t measuring the cuts accurately, doesn’t know if they’re having the desired impact and isn’t clear on the law’s intent. The report recommends the state correct all these problems.

Towers said the union supports the recommendations in the report and knew it would take time to achieve the desired ratios, and he said it’s appropriate for each agency to reach the goal in its own way.

The state has allowed exceptions, such as when managers supervise high-risk work (i.e. child abuse casework), have many seasonal employees or supervise inmates who aren’t on the state’s payroll.

The union supports all those exceptions, Towers said.

The idea of mandatory staffing ratios isn’t original. SEIU proposed Oregon’s ratio based on a Texas law that used the same number, Towers said, although he couldn’t explain how Texas arrived at “11� as its number.

However, ratios like this aren’t universally accepted as a good idea.

SusanWilson, an associate professor at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management, said the idea has been revisited many times over the years, and many companies are moving away from it.

It originated in factories and on assembly lines, when the question was how many workers a manager supervised on the line, she said.

It doesn’t always translate to a modern office. For example, Texas actually found its law was sometimes counterproductive, Wilson said. Many people were removed from management but were still required to supervise others, the same situation the LFO report suggests is occurring here.

The best approach tends to be tailored to the specific workplace,

Oregon might have to pay back feds for website problems

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However, Towers said the point is streamlining government and increasing efficiency, and the report shows the issue is “being taken seriously,� he said.

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WENATCHEE, Wash. — The Washington state departments of health and agriculture are investigating increased reports of alleged pesticide-related illness in and around tree fruit orchards in Central Washington.

There have been 15 potential pesticide drift events resulting in reports of 60 people being ill in the past two months which is as many as the department normally sees in a year, according to the Department of Health.

The Department of Agriculture’s Pesticide Management Division received more than 150 complaints of alleged violations of pesticide laws last year with about half involving allegations of drift, agency officials said in a news release.

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PENDLETON — Thousands of union dollars are making their way through a new political action committee to Republican John Turner’s campaign for House District 58. And outgoing Republican Rep. Bob Jenson of Pendleton helped set up that funnel.

Jenson, who decided not to run again and endorsed Turner, filed the paperwork April 21 to create Oregonians for Rural Jobs, according to documents from the Oregon Secretary of State. That PAC is Turner’s top donor, giving him $15,700 so far. Jenson explained the account was a means to fill Turner’s campaign coffers from more donors and create some financial predictability so he could compete in the Republican primary against Greg Barreto of Cove.

“They were running up against fairly heavy expenditures on the part of the other candidate,” Jenson said.

Barreto did not return a

call seeking comment, but his wife, Chis Barreto, accused Jenson of pouring money into Turner’s campaign from Service Employees International Union Local 503, the largest labor union in Oregon, and using Rural Jobs as a mask to hide the money. Barreto supporters also have criticized Turner for taking union contributions.

SEIU’s political arm, Citizens Action for Political Education, gave $15,000 to Rural Jobs, according to Orestar, the state’s online database of campaign finances. Jenson’s committee also received $5,000 from Coalition for Healthy Oregon and $10,000 from Oregon Health Care Association.

Orestar shows Rural Jobs only has received donations from other PACs, not private donors.

Chris Barreto said she gets the health industry donations because they donated outright to Turner, just like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which gave him $5,000. But she questioned why SEIU went through

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the back door.

That move, she said, made Jenson’s PAC look like a front for union money to reach Turner.

Turner said he has not looked at Rural Jobs’ cost and expenditures, but he has made no bones of receiving union funds.

State, county and city employees throughout the district are union members, he said, from nurses in Wallowa County to prison workers in Pendleton.

And as former president of Blue Mountain Community College, Turner said he had to deal with unions. That included protected and difficult contract negations in 2011 with the faculty association that resulted in an impasse before reaching a deal.

He also rebuffed the notion these contributions would put him under a union thumb.

“I received a donation from Union Pacific Railroad. Does that mean I’ll do whatever Union Pacific wants?” Turner said. “No.” And Barreto’s anti-union stance, Turner said, is helping push organized labor his way.

started.”

Nguyen took the only available sex trafficking course at Oregon State University, industry. Some students think it’s too easy. which she said was an eye-opener.

“That course provided documentaries “Prostitution is almost as easy as walking into a department store and making a about first-hand accounts from survivors or purchase,” said Nina Nguyen, president of current victims of sex trafficking,” Nguyen said. “It covers the information in a very Delta Phi Omega.

Nguyen attended to support Kappa Delta non-biased manner. It’s not really male Chi. The topic affects her on a personal bashing.”

She would like to see other students take level. Growing up in Portland, Nguyen had the course to become aware that anyone, a friend who sold her body for money.

“She hung out with men all of her life,” anywhere, can be a victim of sex trafficking.

Brianna Santana, the special projects Nguyen said. “I think she was 16 when she

LANGUAGE n Continued from page 1 ity at OSU because OSU, as a land-grant institution, focuses on engineering and hard sciences and agriculture,” Liggett said. “We really want to make sure everybody knows about the amazing languages programs that we have.”

Between the Corvallis campus and Ecampus offerings, OSU has classes in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic and Korean.

At the event, each language was represented, as well as several other cultural student organizations and representatives from study abroad programs.

Lizzet Frias, a ninth-grader from Crescent Valley High School, said it was exciting to see performances and presentations at the event.

“The fact that there are actually a lot of OSU students here

was really good,” Frias said.

“They’re all pretty involved in their stations. They’re really interacting with us, which I really liked, because it makes me feel welcomed.”

Liggett said that one of the task force’s goals was to inform students of the lifelong benefits that come from learning additional languages.

“The only way for us to know what our cultural biases are is to learn about, and ideally live in, another culture,” Liggett said. “It’s only through being immersed in the other that we can know who we are.”

She added that multilingualism is valuable in the business sector of the increasingly global economy. Liggett said her department recently sent students to Germany on paid internships, which helped them to forge connections and contacts they will keep forever.

“Young people today need as many opportunities as possible,”

Kevin Neely handles the books for Oregonians for Rural Jobs, as well as for its smallest donor, Coalition for a Healthy Oregon, which gave Jenson $22,000 from 2008-12. Jenson said he does not know Neely, and Neely said he is a professional treasurer for more than 400 political committees. Many of those are for Democratic candidates or causes, but Neely said that is not an issue with Rural Jobs.

Jenson said he expected the charges from the Barreto camp, and while Rural Jobs received considerable SEIU money, Turner is not the PAC’s lone recipient. Vic Gilliam of Silverton and Jim Thompson of Dallas are incumbent House Republicans in tough primaries also, Jenson said, and the PAC will contribute to them.

Thompson supported samesex marriage, and Gilliam backed granting driver cards to Oregonians who can not show they are in the state legally, a move Turner also supports and which voters will decide in November.

coordinator of Kappa Delta Chi, coordinated the presentation. Santana worked with Brenneman a few years ago and knew about her passionate fight against sex trafficking. Since then, Santana has wanted to spread the word.

“It’s important for people to be aware and knowledgeable of how big of an issue human trafficking is, not just locally, but worldwide,” Santana said. “The more that we’re aware, the more we can fight.”

Liggett said. “It just makes sense to be bilingual.”

Bradley Boovy, an assistant professor of German and women, gender and sexuality studies at OSU, discussed the more political side of language at the event.

“My co-investigator (Dr. Adam Schwartz) and I are just interested in … having people think through some of the un-reflected assumptions associated with speaking English,” Boovy said.

Halfway through the event, Boovy had collected eight postersized sheets of notes and ideas that university and high school students had written about the privileges of native English speakers.

“All the people who’ve participated, whether they’re high school students or OSU students, have (given) really, really insightful comments,” Boovy said.

For the visiting high school teachers, the event was a chance to mix up the day-to-day lessons

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for their students.

Gloria Kussalanant, a Spanish teacher at Corvallis High School and Crescent Valley High School, said she hopes the OSU language departments will continue to make the event bigger and better.

“Even though we explain culture at the school, it’s not the same as if they can see it and be a part of it,” Kussalanant said.

She cited salsa lessons as a highlight for many of the students.

“That’s something I don’t teach at school, so I love for them to have that experience,” she said.

“The kids have so much energy.

So anything that involves movement, they are very engaged.”

For future years, Kussalanant said she hopes the university will have the chance to expand the event, so students will have more space to explore.

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No. 2 OSU vs No. 5 UW Davis showing he can pitch, too Junior Dylan Davis has started in right field last 3 years, has had success on mound this season

Baton Rouge Regional.

He entered in the 10th inning of the game against LSU. It was an elimination game for the Beavers.

It was Davis who took the loss — a loss that eliminated the Oregon State baseball team from

By Warner Strausbaugh the postseason in 2012.

THE DAILY BAROMETER His wild pitch scored the go-ahead run for Dylan Davis’ last pitching appearance before the 2014 season was in the final game of the the Tigers, and Davis had not seen the mound for more than a year after.

In the meantime, he went on to have a stellar 2013 season at the plate. As a sophomore, Davis was a First Team AllPac-12 selection with a teamleading .335 batting average, five home runs and a conference-leading 61 runs batted in.

Head coach Pat Casey did not give Davis an opportunity to pitch, mostly because he wanted his focus to stay in the batter’s box, as Davis played a vital role as the cleanup hitter behind Pac-12 Player of the Year Michael Conforto.

“He’s been such a big part of our offense, it’s been kind of difficult for us to get him in,” Casey said.

Davis has always had one of the best raw skillsets as a pitcher. He throws a two-seam fastball, a knuckle-curve and a changeup. His two-seam fastball registered 100 miles per hour on the radar gun in a 2012 justin quinn | THE DAILY BAROMETER game against Oregon.

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9 in Goss Stadium.

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Oregon State runs out onto the field against the University of Portland March 4 in Goss Stadium.

This weekend could decide Pac-12 Oregon State would clinch Pac-12 Championship with sweep of Washington this weekend

this weekend will be in the driver’s seat.

If Oregon State sweeps it will hold a fourgame advantage and will have clinched the conference title. If the Beavers win two of three, they’ll hold a two-game advantage and would have to win at least one of three against USC

By Andrew Kilstrom the following weekend, assuming Washington THE DAILY BAROMETER sweeps UCLA. No. 2 Oregon State versus No. 5 Washington If Washington sweeps this weekend it would has been the most widely anticipated Pac-12 have to win just one of three against UCLA, but series for a few weeks now. The top-two teams would need to sweep the Bruins if the Huskies in the conference will finally square off in a win two of three against the Beavers — assumthree-game set that will likely determine the ing OSU sweeps USC. Pac-12 champion.

Basically, whoever wins this weekend Oregon State (39-8, 20-4 Pac-12) currently will have a great shot at winning the Pac-12 sits in first place in the conference standings. Championship. The Beavers know just how Washington (37-11-1, 19-5) is one game back See BASEBALL | page 6 of the Beavers, meaning whichever team wins n

Franklin’s journey Pac-12 track championships finally here Beavers hope to have an unusual one multiple athletes score in others who rank in the top 15, but an abundance of other competitors share similar marks.

The top eight performers in each event score points, which is what every OSU athlete will aim

By Scott McReynolds THE DAILY BAROMETER for this weekend.

“We’re really, really close,” said Oregon State’s chances this weekend in the Pac-12 head coach Kelly Sullivan. “Don’t Championships should be viewed go there and be intimidated, don’t go and feel like you don’t with some perspective.

OSU might not score as high as belong — go with the idea that it did last season. But last season, it’s an opportunity. These are it only had one athlete score — the types of meets that can all sophomore Sara Almen, who is of a sudden define a career, because if you have a big day, redshirting this season.

Almen scored six points for the then you can see that talent Beavers in last season’s champi- become unleashed.” onships when she finished third The marks OSU athletes have in the high jump. achieved in recent meets have In this season’s competition, been a good sign, with many conOSU has no clear-cut scorers, but sistently finishing with personalmany are on the cusp. There is a records. One of the most imporgroup of four athletes who are tant things in track and field is ranked in the top 7-10, and a few peaking at the right moment and n

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Alex Franklin is tied for 11th after 1st round of NCAA Eugene Regional

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Alex Franklin teed off at the NCAA Eugene Regional Thursday, firing an even-par 70 as one of two Beavers in the field.

It’s not a surprise that Franklin earned an individual invite after Oregon State was left out of the postseason for the first time in eight years, given the junior’s 73.0 scoring average is the second-best on his team.

But Franklin’s journey to OSU — never mind his journey to regionals — is different than you’d imagine.

It began in 2010, when the San Rafael See GOLF | page 6

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Head coach Steve Todd has been with Oregon State rowing for 12 years, eight of which have been spent as head coach. In his time at OSU, the men’s rowing team has qualified for the IRA National Championships nine times in 11 seasons. In as little as two days, they could qualify for the 10th time in 12 seasons.

At the Pac-12 Championships Sunday, if the Beavers row their way to a top-three finish in the Varsity 8 race, they will automatically qualify for the National Championships.

The V8 race features eight different boats from

around the Pac-12, including varsity boats from No. 1 California, No. 2 Washington, No. 13 Stanford and No. 14 Oregon State. Additionally, the race features club teams from Colorado and Washington State.

The Golden Bears and Huskies will, in all likelihood, finish first and second. Washington has won the event the past four years, and California has come in second the past two. That leaves the Beavers to vie with Stanford for that final automatic qualifying spot. Stanford beat out Oregon State for third place last year.

“The Varsity 8 has been doing well,” Todd said.

“To medal, they have to have the best race they possibly can. They’ve done well throughout the season, but they’ve got to peak on Sunday.”

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staying consistent throughout the season.

Here are some of OSU’s athletes with potential of scoring this weekend: Junior Kinsey Gomez, 5,000meter: Gomez seems unlikely to score over the weekend in her event, sitting in 22nd for the event, but in distance, races time can often be less important than position and strategy.

She may also be focusing on bigger things. She will be competing in the NCAA West Preliminary Championships in a few weeks, when she will compete in the 10,000-meter. In last year’s Pac-12 Championships, she finished 26th in the 1,500-meter.

Freshman Melissa Ausman, discus/shot put: Ausman will be competing in two events over the See TRACK | page 6

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Sophomore Michelle Turney waits for her turn at the Oregon Relays April 19.

Women’s rowing needs strong finish at Pac-12s Oregon State competes against tough field including 6 ranked teams Sunday at Pac-12 Championships

At the Pac-12s, the Beavers will be one of many elite teams. The races feature No. 3 Stanford, five-time defending Pac-12 champs No. 4 California, No. 7 Washington, No. 8 USC, No. 12 UCLA and No. 15 Washington State.

By Mitch Mahoney In OSU’s previous race, the Varsity 8 boat THE DAILY BAROMETER finished in a dead tie with Washington State.

The Oregon State women’s rowing team “That doesn’t happen,” said senior Tina faces a similar, yet tougher situation than Vernazza. “You don’t even hear about ties, the men’s team this weekend. so I’m really excited to see those guys again.

The No. 19 Beavers need a great finish I’m confident that we can beat them, but at the Pac-12s to qualify for the NCAA we’ll see.”

National Championships at the end of the The Pac-12s will be the third consecutive month. The NCAAs are reserved for the top-22 rowing schools, and at No. 19, the event in which OSU and WSU will compete women’s team has less room for error than against each other. It has amounted to a the men do.

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Oregon State junior Dylan Davis prepares for a pitch against Northern Illinois March 9 in Goss Stadium

DAVIS n Continued from page 5 command of the strike zone, his importance to the lineup and OSU’s strong pitching have kept him off the mound for much of his career in college.

In 2014, Casey has given his star right fielder another opportunity to show what he can do on the mound.

“I’ve been waiting for my chance to do it,” Davis said.

Davis has made four starts this season, and has a 1.32 earned run average in 13 2/3 innings. His walk-to-strikeout rate is even, with 12 of each.

But his ability to keep runners stranded when he gets in a jam has been apparent, as he has allowed just two earned runs.

“It’s just the mentality — changes in mentality, changes in the way I think about myself, the way I think about everything,” Davis said. “I knew I was capable of it, finally just realizing and believing in myself (is) what has happened up to this point.”

When Davis pitches, he is unstoppable at the plate.

In the four games he started on the mound for the No. 2 Beavers, the batter in the lineup

who has given him the most run support is himself.

“It helps realizing that I’m going to influence the game on both sides of the ball no matter what, instead of being in the outfield where I might only get one chance to help the team win,” Davis said.

In those four games, Davis is 6-for-15 with 10 RBIs, three runs scored and two home runs — one of which was Tuesday’s grand slam against Portland.

“It helps me engage a little more on both sides,” Davis said.

“Pitching, you’ve got to stay engaged on every single pitch, and the same thing with being an outfielder and hitting.

“If I don’t get a hit ... I get kind of upset, but then I realize I’ve got to go out there and pitch and help my team on the mound, which is pretty crucial for us.”

His dominance in both aspects has not gone unnoticed. Three of his four starts have come in the Beavers’ last three Tuesday nonconference games — a spot that had been freshman Jake Thompson’s for much of the season.

“These Tuesday starts have been really big,” Casey said.

His start against Portland

TRACK n Continued from page 5 weekend, but her performance in the discus will be the one to watch. Her throw of 168-0 two weeks ago ranks her ninth in the Pac-12, and three of the marks above her occurred more than one month ago. One concerning thing is that last weekend she threw 145-5, her second worst of the season. While it could have been a poor day for throwing, it may be a sign of inconsistency.

“You don’t become great until you become consistent,” Sullivan said. “And she knows that.

You’d rather have a kid throwing 168 feet in her back pocket than have a kid who hasn’t done it yet.”

Sophomore Michele Turney, triple jump, long jump: Turney, like Ausman is competing in two events, but really focuses on one — triple jump. She’s currently ranked eighth in the Pac-12, having hit her current PR in her most recent outing.

Her consistency is one thing that should put her in scoring position this weekend. She has improved steadily throughout the season, and three of the Pac-12 marks in front of her were accomplished in February and early March. This weekend is more than just scoring for Turney, though; she is right on the edge of qualifying for the NCAA West Preliminary Championships.

She needs to improve her mark by roughly three inches to make it into contention, more if she wants to solidify a spot.

Redshirt Freshman Morgan Anderson, 1,500meter: While she is ranked 34th in the Pac-12, the difference between her and eighth place is about six seconds. This leap forward may seem daunting, but Anderson trimmed seven seconds off her time in April, and has cut two seconds off so far in May. When racing distance, especially in bigger meets, the pace can be slower, making the runner rely more on strategy during the race.

This could bode well for Anderson in terms of scoring for the Pac-12 Championships, but if she wants to qualify for the NCAA West Preliminary

three days ago was his best of the year. Davis pitched five shutout innings, allowed just one hit and two walks while striking out five batters.

The OSU bullpen, though not necessary much of the time because of the ascendant starting rotation, has been inconsistent for most of the season.

Davis’ emergence has opened Casey’s eyes, and the junior right-hander could be used out of the bullpen as the regular season winds down and postseason play begins.

“We’ll definitely use him down the stretch if the situation calls for it,” Casey said.

His last appearance in a meaningful game was the loss in Louisiana nearly two years ago. Davis is eager for the possibility of getting another shot.

“If it’s me coming out of the bullpen, me getting a start, whatever it may be, I just want to win,” Davis said. “I’m competitive and I’m just going to be ready for my name to be called. If it gets called, I’m going to make the most of my opportunity.”

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Championships, she will need to cut more time this weekend.

“We need to get a little bit of luck,” Sullivan said. “The luck that I mean is the heat that she’s in, we need it to go fast. If not, she needs to get into the final heat, and that is guaranteed to go fast.”

Senior Taylor Nowlin, 3,000-meter steeplechase: Nowlin’s mark of 10:47.90 has her sitting 12th of all the competitors, but her best time is within seven seconds of six other competitors.

Anything can happen in a race like the steeplechase. People can trip because of the water obstacle, making it anyone’s game.

She will have a little bit of extra motivation as well, because it could be her last race. Her only possible chance to continue her collegiate track career would be to run 10:35. It’s doable considering she ended last season running 10:36.75, which earned her 11th on the day.

Again, we come back to perspective. The likelihood off all the above-mentioned OSU athletes scoring is unlikely. Being on the edge, some will get pushed out by other big performances, and others will put together big marks of their own.

For this reason, they might not score as many points as last season, when Sara Almen was a top performer.

“Having more people scoring points is more important,” Turney said. “It means that your team has depth to it and we’re all helping out each other.”

OSU finished last at the Pac-12 Championships last season, and the results will likely be similar this year.

With only two of the 17 women who will be competing at Pac-12s graduating, the coaches are confident looking into the future.

“Literally two years ago, the only events we had competing at Pac-12s were the 800-meter, 1,500-meter, the steeple, 5,000-meter, 10,000meter and one young lady in the high jump,” Sullivan said. “Now we got every field event covered.”

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important the next three games are to their conference title aspirations.

“I told them it doesn’t matter who you play at the end of the year, because if you win games then they’ll be big series,” said head coach Pat Casey. “It’s kind of ironic that they’re one of the teams at the end of the year that’s right there almost tied with us, so it is a big, big series for both clubs. They’re a very good club and we’re excited to play them.”

Washington finished 15-15 in conference play last season, but has exploded onto the national scene this season. UW’s No. 5 ranking is the highest in school history, and like OSU, the Huskies are playing for a national seed and home-field advantage throughout the postseason in addition to the conference title.

Considering Washington won two of three against Oregon State last year, the Beavers know this weekend will be one of the toughest they’ve faced.

Despite Washington’s mediocre record from a season ago, junior right fielder Dylan Davis said he’s not surprised to see the Huskies at the top of the national rankings.

A native of Washington, Davis is familiar with UW. “Everyone knew what they’re capable of and they’re having a great season,” Davis said.

“In the Pac-12, anybody can beat anybody; you really can’t look past anybody. I’m looking forward to playing them, because they are from my home state. It’s going to be a great time.”

Oregon State could get a boost from two players, one of which wasn’t expected to play this weekend and another whose playing status was uncertain following an incident last weekend.

Kendall Rogers of Perfect Game tweeted that senior left-hander Ben Wetzler is expected to

pitch this weekend and isn’t expected to be suspended.

Wetzler was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly breaking a window of a house he was trying to enter while intoxicated. He thought the house was his residence.

Casey said he hadn’t made up his mind one way or another at practice Wednesday, but has now according to Rogers.

Senior first baseman Kavin Keyes, meanwhile, could potentially be reinserted into the lineup for the first time since fracturing his thumb April 13 against Washington State.

Keyes went through a full practice Wednesday and met with doctors Thursday to determine whether or not he was medically cleared to play.

If Keyes doesn’t suit up this weekend, he expects to play the following weekend against USC. If cleared, he said he feels comfortable and is excited to get back out on the field.

“I’ve been playing for a lot of years now,” Keyes said. “If there was a doubt that I wouldn’t be able to play, I wouldn’t go out there, but I feel ready if the doctors think I am.”

Regardless of who’s on the field for the Beavers Friday afternoon, Davis says OSU’s mindset won’t change. Oregon State has preached “one day at a time” since day one, and doesn’t want to get overhyped because of the opponent and what’s at stake.

Davis said that while the circumstances provide extra motivation, Oregon State will stick with what it knows.

“You can’t let your mindset change,” Davis said. “Our mindset has been hopefully winning the Pac-12 all year and it’s finally coming down to this last series. I think it’s going to add a little extra drive and fuel to our fire.”

First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday in Goss Stadium.

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heated rivalry.

“For my race, we have to beat Washington State, for sure. That’s happening,” Vernazza said. “I know the next one is UCLA, but I don’t know, we haven’t raced them yet so I’m not really sure what to expect with that. I’m confident in my boat.”

The Beavers have qualified for the NCAA Championships once in the past eight years, but that was in 2009, and every rower from that squad is long gone. Even so, this is the Beavers’ best chance to qualify since 2009, but it starts with the Pac-12s.

In the V8, 2V8 and V4, the Beavers are the seventh seed of the seven competing teams.

They are ranked fourth in the Novice 8.

Head coach Emily Ford said that if OSU finishes in the top four, she likes the team’s chances to make it to the NCAA Championships.

With the quality of the teams competing, that will be a tall order.

Oregon State competes in the Pac-12 Championships 9 a.m. Sunday in Gold River, Calif.

likely to be invited to the National Championships anyway. The Championships will feature 24 teams from around the nation, 15 of which will automatically qualify from their conference championship, leaving nine teams to be invited by the selection committee.

As the 14th-ranked team in the nation, that would probably be OSU’s fate should it miss out on automatically qualifying. Last year, the Beavers received an at-large bid following the Pac-12s.

“This season’s been better than the last few seasons,” Todd said. “We seem to be a little bit sharper. ... The depth of the team has really helped now.

We’ve had our biggest squad in years in terms of total numbers, so some of that pressure from guys outside of the top-two lineups has pushed them.

Everybody’s had to be faster and better this year.”

While the V8 is the only race to determine who goes to the IRA National Championship, the Beavers will have a boat in every race in the Pac-12s. Those are the Novice 8, Varsity 4, Second Varsity 8 and Varsity 8.

The Pac-12 Championships will be held Sunday in Gold River, Calif.

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GOLF n Continued from page 5 High School graduate enrolled at Cal Poly as a member of the men’s golf team. He played in six tournaments as a freshman for Cal Poly, averaging a 74.6 per round.

But he didn’t feel like he had a direction in life. He wasn’t sure how seriously he wanted to take golf, and he had no idea what he wanted to study in school. At Cal Poly, he wasn’t finding any answers.

“I was just going with the flow,” Franklin said.

So he decided to take a step back and evaluate things, enrolling at College of Marin, a community college less than five miles outside of San Rafael, and a school without a golf program.

He spent the next two years there, mapping out a life course. He still played golf, just in amateur tournaments — he qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2011 — on his own rather than at the collegiate level. Near the end of his first year at the College of Marin, he decided he wanted to pursue golf full on. That meant landing a Division I offer, which came courtesy of Oregon State.

A few other schools expressed interest — mostly lower Division I-level schools in California — but OSU offered to chance to play in one of the most competitive conferences in the country.

“I always knew I was going to golf, it was just a matter of what kind of level I wanted to play at,” said Franklin, who found a major he enjoyed (psychology) at OSU. “It was sort of a matter of, ‘Hey, am I going to take this seriously and really pursue a pro career?’ And that’s something I want to do.”

So he arrived at OSU this past fall with two years of eligibility remaining, having not played at the collegiate level in two years.

Franklin acknowledges there was an adjust-

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ment period — he said he wasn’t used to having set practice times, and admitted that he still hasn’t gotten used to having to work out outside of golf — but it didn’t take him long to make an immediate impact with his new team.

One of three golfers who played in all 12 tournaments for OSU this season, he was OSU’s top finisher twice and runner-up finisher five times.

He shot seven under-par rounds, including a career-best 5-under 67 at the San Diego Classic in March.

He said he hadn’t even considered the possibility of qualifying for regionals as an individual; he was set on getting there with his team.

“I was a little surprised when coach (Jon Reehoorn) told me I had made it individually,” Franklin said.

There’s still plenty Franklin would like to improve on, starting with his mentality — having the right attitude in practice and tournaments.

And physically, he admitted he’d like to be in better shape. Consistency has plagued him this season, so he’s hoping to make “his bad days better.”

But all in all, it’s been a successful first season in Corvallis.

Note: Murphy’s even-par round Thursday put him in a tie for 11th after one round. Murphy’s teammate, senior David Fink, who’s competing at regionals for the fourth time in his career, shot a 1-over 71 Thursday and resides in a tie for 14th.

The NCAA Eugene Regional is a 54-hole tournament that resumes Friday and concludes Sunday.

If Murphy or Fink are to advance to nationals, they’ll have to be the top-placing individual who’s not on one of the top-five finishing teams in Eugene. There are 13 teams in all.

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ea to the biggest series of the year for the Oregon State baseball team. Washington demolished OSU in football, embarrassed the Beavers in men’s basketball (who didn’t?), and both were in Corvallis. This is time for redemption for Beaver fans.

Nay to OSU pitcher Ben Wetzler, who was arrested Saturday and may miss his start in the biggest series of the year. The Beavers are resilient and still should be favored to win the series, but it is going to be much tougher without their best pitcher throwing Friday night.

Yea to the sun shining its pretty face in Corvallis this week. Summer is coming.

Nay to pit stains on your T-shirts.

Yea to making plans to stay up all night and accomplish a bunch of schoolwork and work tasks.

Nay to falling asleep at 11 p.m. and getting nothing done.

Yea to staying up all night and getting nothing done, other than wineinduced deep conversation.

Nay to sleeping in and still getting nothing done.

Yea to the term almost ending.

Nay to still having no direction after we’re done.

Yea to family flying out from the East Coast for graduation.

Nay to having to walk during commencement because of it. As much fun as sitting on the hot turf at Reser Stadium for hours sounds, it would be much better to just sit, talk and drink a beer.

Yea to the cat that saved a child from an attacking dog. We want a guard-cat for the newsroom; it would help fend off the people coming in to complain about something we wrote.

Nay to not being allowed to have pets in the newsroom.

Yea to finding awesome new music.

Nay to hearing it overplayed on the radio more than a month later.

Yea to cherishing these last few weeks with your friends, because life begins soon and everyone will be in a different place. Enjoy it while you can.

Nay to being too busy to see everyone.

Yea to finding the perfect job opportunity right away.

Nay to waiting for a potential future employer to call back.

Yea to taking summer to relax and write all the things we’ve been meaning to write, but life is always such a roadblock preventing us from doing what we want.

Nay to walking at graduation but not actually being done with your degree.

Yea to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., for writing a guest column in Wednesday’s Barometer.

Nay to college being a pain in the behind to pay for.

Yea to having a great week of content and an exceptional week for web traffic. It’s nice to know that we are still relevant — even if most of the 18-yearolds on campus don’t even know the Barometer exists.

Nay to apathy.

See you at the Peacock.

n May 28, Pangea Cafe in the Memorial Union will be taken over. It won’t be by a corporate giant. It’s not going to be the government coming in because of some disastrous moneyembezzlement scheme — it’s going to be Oregon State University students taking over the cafe.

When you combine the nutrition and dietetics students with a shop renowned for a delicious international cuisine, the outcome is a healthy and delicious overhaul for a day.

Pangea is on board with the idea.

After its normal breakfast hours, for the rest of the day, its menu will change drastically. The menu will be infused with the delicious tastiness of South American cuisine. You will get to pick from a variety of options such as chicken mole or Argentine steak salad — but wait, there’s more.

We’re dealing with nutritionists after all, so there of course needs to be a heavy dose of gluten-free, hearthealthy and vegetarian products.

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This is something we can all get behind. As mentioned in previous columns, the opportunity to put newly acquired knowledge to use in a real-world context is a great way to test retention of knowledge, way better than the average exam. How better to examine and fulfill my dietary needs than to eat Peruvian ceviche rather than fill out a Scantron form?

Pangea making this possible speaks volumes about the philosophy of how it operates. Not every restaurant will give its keys to a group of college students for a day.

Students have been working on this project all term. The final menu

will have 15 exotic recipes, based on entrees that encompass the essence of South America. It will be a great way to treat your taste buds, since the usual cardiac-inducing, run-of-the-mill cheeseburger from Carl’s Jr. might be getting a little old, now that we’re nipping at the heels of week eight.

Beyond the success of the project and the experience the students involved will gain in real-world applications of what they’re learning in class, adding a little extra culture to the MU for a day will be nice.

For a full menu of all the food options that will be available, check out the website for La Cocina Latina. Once you look at the items, you’ll see the real beauty in this whole thing is that the project is meant to be for everyone.

I’ll be honest, until a week ago I couldn’t tell you what gluten was — a mixture of two proteins found in many grains, especially wheat, responsible for the elasticity of

College students’ crazy fad diets lead to poor health

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ealthy eating reduces a person’s risk of heart disease, cancer and obesity.

These are pretty scary and serious ailments that pretty much everyone tries to avoid.

But what about those who eliminate important nutrients and foods out of their diets and end up with scary ailments as well? These people think they’re being healthy, but they are really doing more damage

imbalance, risk for cancers Brooklyn Di Raffaele energy and vitamin deficiencies. College students are susceptible to these even though they think they’re being healthy. We think we’re young to their bodies than anything. and invincible. We’re not.

This is seen time and time again These diseases don’t necessarily with college students. College students get caught up in fad diets and hit when a student is in college. A exercise trends that damage them few years later is when those eating habits and the lack of nutrition and cause health complications.

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dough, and is harmful to people with celiac disease — and despite how many times the crazy PETA people in the quad try to sway me, I’m still a certified meat eater. As long as it’s beating, I think my heart is fine.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy delicious food, even if it’s healthy or good for me.

I’m no foodie and I don’t rank restaurants for Buzzfeed. However, I don’t need to in order to know what a good idea this takeover is. This project gives respectable undergraduates with the knowledge of food the opportunity to gain life experience, while also helping others by creating smart and healthy food options for everyone. To me, it makes delicious and savory sense. t

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Letter to the Editor Regarding Wetzler’s arrest

It should be kept in perspective My opinions regarding Ben Wetzler’s arrest: First, I‘ve been the other side of the door where someone who didn’t live there was trying to enter. Secondly, I have friends who, while incapacitated, tried to get into a house, thinking it was theirs.

Easy mistake, many residences look similar.

When someone tried to come into my family’s home, they weren’t a clean-cut college student. We tried repeatedly to get them to stop banging on the door, yelling and to go away. They wouldn’t. We had no choice and called the police. This person had a warrant for their arrest, so was arrested. Had they not, the officer indicated they wouldn’t have done so.

We just wanted them to stop trying to enter our home. They were obviously incapacitated and we didn’t want to have confront this person ourselves.

My friends who committed this same error were not arrested.

I agree that Wetzler should be held accountable for the damages done.

I think arresting him is over the top.

If he was incapacitated, why couldn’t he be escorted to his actual residence, and given the contact information of the residents to make reparations? Yes, it’s scary to have someone trying to enter your home, especially if they are incapacitated and especially if it’s late.

But, I think it has to be kept in perspective.

When the problem was determined, it seems like less strict action could have been taken. I am not saying he should be given better treatment than anyone in the same situation, as a studentathlete. My friends were happy they weren’t arrested, certainly.

The person trying to enter my home was a different matter: They were more a threat, evidenced by an existing arrest warrant. Had they just left, we wouldn’t have involved the police.

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Passive-aggressive qualities of ‘interesting’ saves forced small-talk situations

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ords can help us escape without harm from almost any scenario. They give us polite ways to excuse ourselves from places we don’t want to be or people we don’t want to be with.

Examples of these polite deferrals would be “I wish I could keep talking, but I’ve got a lot of homework to do,” and “I’m sorry I’ve got to go, but it’s time for my bi-weekly check-in with Nana.”

These statements and others like them are simple, perfectly reasonable and can be used to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings.

Today though, I would like to pay homage to a word that has saved myself and others countless times in boring or awkward situations, a word with

or boring.”

The truly accurate definition from Urban Dictionary is, “One of the best possible responses in various levels of conversation. There are many uses.

Cassie 1. If you aren’t paying attention to an elongated conversation and are struck out of your trance-like state of boredom to realize it’s your turn to speak. such versatility that without context is impossible 2. If you are put on the spot to give your opinion to define as an insult or a compliment. of something you don’t particularly like or dislike, That word is “interesting.” but you don’t want to sound rude.

The superficial definition of the word as defined 3. If you are trying to squirm your way out of

by Merriam-Webster is in adjectival reference to awkward small-talk with someone you don’t want something that attracts attention and engages to listen to. someone’s curiosity, something that is “not dull I first witnessed the deft use of the term “interesting” by my parents whenever they were forced into small-talk situations, or if they wanted to talk about someone they didn’t like in public and had to be discreet about it.

It allowed them a kind of shared context — a sign that “interesting” could potentially mean “facetious” or “asinine” or “pretentious.”

The word is so flexible that it could easily be

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That’s just one study that shows that college diets aren’t ideal.

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It’s really easy not to develop any health complications — all it takes is eating a balanced diet. Yes, that same line said time and time again by high school football coaches, health teachers, HHS 231 instructors and Dr. Oz actually holds water.

The reason why balance is necessary is so that the body gets everything it needs — mineral, protein and vitamin-wise — to function within normal parameters.

So when fad diets like the gluten-free, sugarfree, meat-free and grain-free come out, young people who want to be “healthy” gravitate toward them and end up making their bodies unhealthy. There are people out there who have allergies or intolerances to these ingredients and physically can’t process them, but these individuals know this and get their nutrients another way.

There are people who latch on to these diet

reverted back to the superficial definition and used as a compliment.

“Interesting” has helped me out countless times throughout my college career in class discussions and paper critiques. If I am uncertain about how I feel about a peer’s paper, the word “interesting” swoops in with its cape of vagueness and ambiguity to save the day.

It also works to let me know if I might be straying into the negative part of the definition when having discussions with others. If they use the word “interesting” and don’t follow it up with a desire to know more about what I’m talking about, I know that it’s time to move onto a different and truly interesting topic.

The word “interesting” hurts no one’s feelings, and it works as an excellent contextually understood buffer and salve against harsher comments.

So here’s to the passive-aggressive utility and interesting quality of the word “interesting.”