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The south side of Fairbanks Hall fire escape is one of the eight campus building fire escapes to be renovated.

Most older buildings in Corvallis or at Oregon State University have a series of stairs leading downward on the outside.

More often than not, these are external fire escapes.

Jim Patton, fire safety officer at OSU, said the choice to examine and potentially remove external fire escapes was primarily the decision of the university.

“If they can’t be removed, they’ll look into restoring them,” Patton said.

If any building on campus has at least two additional paths of exit with illuminated exit signs and evacuation space, external fire escapes are no longer necessary, according to the 2010 Oregon Fire Code section 4604.17.1.

Many staircases constructed as external fire escapes on older buildings do not meet proper dimensions, as specified in section 4604.11, Patton said. These dimensions refer to each stair’s height and length.

“Fire escapes are a rather ancient philosophy for exiting a building,” Patton said.

Some older buildings on campus cannot be renovated See FIRE ESCAPES | page 3

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Memorial Union quad a little richer The largest cash prize, $10,000, Wednesday. went to freshman Melissa Andrews, On-site producers for “The Ellen who is studying exercise and sports DeGeneres Show” hid five boxes science. within the MU, each with a different Andrews said she skipped three cash prize inside.

All five students who found the of her classes to come out to the live boxes had been handpicked earlier taping of the television show and in the day for having some of the best borrowed clothing from her friends in the residence halls to compete in the costumes in the quad.

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Students, faculty and staff can place a carnation in the vases in the west wing of the Memorial Union to honor a veteran.

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New direction for OSU’s historically black fraternities, sororities should raise dwindling numbers

Presently, Divine Nine has one undergraduate member at Oregon State University. There is a problem.

That problem is a lack of awareness, according to Jason Dorsette.

Divine Nine, also known as the National Pan-Hellenic Council, is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American fraternities and sororities.

Back in October, Brandon Lee, interim assistant director for Greek life, stated that he was working to gain the resources to make Divine Nine have a better presence on campus.

Since working with Dorsette, the center director at Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, student participation has slightly improved.

“From my experience, a lot of students aren’t educated that there are frats and sororities with the emphasis on black (people),” Dorsette said.

“They don’t know D9 exists, and they don’t know that it can be for more than black students.”

Few people on the student, faculty and administrative level knew there was a problem to solve, Dorsette said.

Dorsette credits Larry Roper, vice provost for student affairs, and incoming vice provost Susie Brubaker-Cole for “displaying a thirst for knowledge.”

“There is definitely a commitment,” Dorsette said. “Larry Roper has been very supportive.”

The low numbers at Oregon State University are not unusual for universities along the West Coast, and certainly not within the state of Oregon.

Divine Nine organizations are at other universities, such as Portland State University and the University of Oregon. Although the community is small, Dorsette admits that Oregon is a special case.

“Oregon is a very unique place,” Dorsette said. “(High numbers) made it to California. I guess it just skipped over Oregon.”

Brubaker-Cole would like to see the fraternities and sororities in Divine Nine thrive as they does at other universities.

“Divine Nine organizations have a long tradition of thriving on many campuses that are similar to OSU, and we’d like to see them not only continue here … but grow in membership and overall impact on creating a vibrant student life at OSU,” Brubaker-Cole said.

Anderson DuBoise, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., is the only student in a Divine Nine fraternity on campus.

DuBoise agrees with Dorsette regarding the lack of awareness, but attributes the lack of black people within the community as a cause for the dwindling numbers, as well.

“When you have a larger black

THURSDAY MAY 22, 2014

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Memorial Day, for many, is just another catalyst for an extended weekend. But for those students and community members who wish to take a moment to remember its true purpose, the Veterans and Family Student Association sponsored several commemorate activities across campus.

Interested veterans and non-veterans alike are encouraged to attend a gathering Thursday in the Memorial Veterans Lounge featuring historic military memorabilia and pictures loaned by local community members.

Attendees may drop by from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. to partake in refreshments

and conversation.

Directly following the open house at 4 p.m., the ROTC rifle team will perform an exhibition routine in the Memorial Union quad.

Through Friday, OSU community members are encouraged to visit one of several booths in the MU created to honor veterans, particularly those listed as prisoners of war or missing in action. Visitors may take an orange carnation and place it in a designated vase to honor the memory of veteran.

Booths may be found throughout the MU, while the designated vase is located in the west wing, near the permanent veterans’ memorial.

“A big thing is recognizing that the Memorial Union was originally created, not to sound too pretentious, but for veterans,” said VFSA president Brian Benavidez. “It’s important reflect on this building and why it See MEMORIAL | page 3

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By Emma-Kate Schaake The Soap Creek Schoolhouse, nestled in a neighborhood north of Corvallis, offers a unique glimpse of rural 20th century life in Benton County.

The school, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, sits on approximately one acre of land, eight miles outside of Corvallis off Highway 99 in what’s known as Soap Creek Valley.

The current building, the third on the site, was built in 1935 during the heart of the Great Depression, and is owned by the Corvallis School District.

Gloria Duce, now a resident of Eugene, remembers attending school there with her siblings, starting in second grade.

Her family lived in the neighborhood and it was convenient to walk to school, but not by the standards of children today who walk around the corner to their bus stop.

“We walked over a mile to get there,” Duce said.

There was one teacher for all the students, no running water and outhouses behind the building.

Duce remembers the games the children would play at recess and the maypole that the fathers built for the annual May Day celebrations.

“I don’t know if we had the same education that kids get nowadays,” Duce said. “But it was an experience.”

The schoolhouse closed in 1946 when the district consolidated one-room schoolhouses, and local neighborhood children instead attended Mountain View elementary.

In the 1960s, after sitting vacant for many years, two women of the neighborhood approached the farmer’s

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The Soap Creek Schoolhouse is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The red schoolhouse gives a glimpse of rural 20th century life in Benton County. grange association, which owned the property, with their plans to restore and preserve the school building.

“They said they would sell it for a dollar if they agreed to do something with it and if they promised to improve it,” said Soap Creek Schoolhouse foundation treasurer Nancy Hyde.

So, with a payment of $1, the phase of schoolhouse preservation began. Since then, the responsibility of upkeep and care has shifted to volunteers in the community.

“Various neighbors have been involved and step in as caretakers,” Hyde said.

For many years until 2000, neighborhood resident Lorna Grabe was the head of the foundation. She organized volunteers, fundraised and hosted various activities in the building.

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Annual fundraising, through a garage sale and newsletter donation funds, help insure the building.

“It all goes right back into the building,” Hyde said.

Various improvement projects like painting, or roof and wooden step replacement, are meant to keep the integrity of the wooden structure intact.

“It’s as original as it can be,” Hyde said.

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PORTLAND — Portland voters have rejected a proposal to create a new water and sewer district not subject to city control. About 71 percent of voters opposed the measure, while 29 percent voted for it, according to unofficial results from Multnomah County.

As results came in Tuesday night, the measure’s supporters gathered at Club 21, a Portland bar. Kent Craford, the activist who got the measure on the ballot, winced a little when the first vote counts came in. The measure was losing by more than a 2-to-1 margin. “We’ve officially conceded,� he later said.

The defeat means Portland City Council will keep control over the Bull Run Watershed and the city’s sewer pipes, worth billions of dollars.

Craford said he will continue to advocate for lower water and sewer rates.

MEMORIAL n Continued from page 1 stands and how that affects us as students, especially with so many student veterans among us.�

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“Sometimes you need to have a big fight like this in order to bring the attention to the issues that you need to. And a lot of the revelations that came out through the course of this campaign would not have come to light were it not for this initiative,� he said.

A few miles away, City Commissioner Nick Fish was celebrating at a different election party. Fish is the commissioner in charge of the water and sewer utilities, and he put his own campaign money into the effort to defeat the measure. “I think it’s a real credit to the voters that they look really closely at this proposal,� Fish said. “And when you look at the fine print it just wasn’t the right proposal.�

Fish said that while voters left water and sewers under city control, he knows they’re frustrated with the bills they’re paying. Portland’s water and sewer rates have climbed by about 75 percent over the last decade. sure Monday, no OSU student activities will be held on Memorial Day itself. Local middle school students, however, will have the opportunity to meet the Oregon State men’s basketball team and participate in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, held in the Reser Stadium parking lot.

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Realph, a senior studying business management, said the project could not have culminated without the support of local families and community members. Fifteen households donated the use of their outdoor basketball hoops for the event and several private schools allowed him to distribute flyers to generate

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Both Benavidez and Realph expressed gratitude for the invaluable help of other OSUaffiliated organizations and individuals, including the MU staff and Veteran Resources office. Their aid made Memorial Week a possibility.

Overall, Benavidez said he hopes the events remind students to occasionally pause and reflect on the situations of others in the midst of their busy schedules. “I’m hesitant to push the ‘remember our fallen heroes’ (piece),� Benavidez said. “We just want to show and make it very clear that there are veterans on this campus that have a pretty dynamic history outside of just your traditional student.�

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In many cases, Patton said more immediate means of evacuation that allow occupants to exit from the ground floor are safer.

Rose DeBono, capital projects manager within OSU’s capital planning & development, said the university has wanted to remove unessential fire escapes as part of an overall effort to upkeep buildings on campus.

In addition, the fire escapes pose safety concerns in terms of individuals who have decided to climb onto them in the past. “If you slip, there’s nothing to catch you,� DeBono said. “It’s not safe for someone who’s not a maintenance person.�

Maintenance workers have found beer bottles, soda cans and other forms of trash atop some campus buildings, DeBono said.

Fire escapes slated for restoration will undergo an inspection process from an outside engineering firm contracted by the university. Crews will assure the steel staircases still effectively penetrate into walls and that these walls remain weatherproof so there’s no damage caused to the building’s interior. “We need to go back in and make sure everything’s connected correctly,� DeBono said.

Dan Kermoyan, director of environmental health & safety department, said the process to upkeep each external fire escape requires a series of routine maintenance checks to see whether or not they can hold a certain weight capacity. “We don’t want a fire escape that’s not needed,� Kermoyan said. “We don’t want someone to think they can use it, when in fact they don’t need to.�

Crews are currently working to remove an external fire escape outside of the Ocean Administration Building, which should be finalized in the next three weeks. Gilkey Hall’s fire escape has already been removed.

The remaining external fire escapes could be unsafe if they’re not properly tested or removed, Kermoyan said.

The overall process to renovate or remove various fire escapes will continue throughout next year. Excluding the work already approved for Gilkey Hall and the Ocean Administration Building, Kermoyan said the estimated project cost will range around $335,000.

Buildings from which existing fire escapes will be renovated include Fairbanks Hall, Covell Hall, Cordley Hall, Moreland Hall, Dryden Hall, Shepard Hall, Strand Agricultural Hall and the Pharmacy Building.

Removal or renovation of the external fire escapes on Strand will occur as part of a continuing restoration project in the building, according to Kermoyan.

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DuBoise said black culture is building here at OSU. Zeta Phi Beta, a predominantly black sorority, will come out Friday. He chose to be a part of the National PanHellenic Council as opposed to the Interfraternity Council for the history that sculpted the historically black Greek-letter houses.

And while their situation is displeasing, small numbers create a bond that’s difficult to find within other Greek organizations.

“We’re all really, really close,” DuBoise said. “I feel supported so much so that I almost forget that I don’t have support from the school.”

At this juncture, Dorsette and Lee are working on educating the community about Divine Nine. Later, they hope to receive more funding, and then membership and student interest.

Dorsette remains optimistic that the reason OSU does not recognize Divine Nine is due to a lack of awareness, not indifference. Dorsette said that in five years, if the work he and Lee do reaps little change on campus, it will change his opinion.

“I find it hard to hold people accountable for the things they do not know,” Dorsette said. “However, when you become aware of the issues, and knowledgeable of the issues, then you can be accountable.”

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“I feel so crazy and I’m so excited,” Andrews said.

“I’m just so shaky.”

Though the day was not as financially rewarding for all of the winners, each participant felt excited by the rewards.

“I definitely didn’t wake up thinking this was going to happen,” Wiltz said. “This has all been so crazy.”

Wiltz said she knew there would be some sort of competition involved with the show taping, but was already on campus when she heard about the costume competition. Luckily, Wiltz said her work with the Memorial Union Program Council always keeps “crazy stuff lying around,” and was able to pull together a costume from items around the offices and a fake mustache from Many Hands Trading Company.

“Totally worth the $4.75,” Wiltz said of the mustache.

Around 2:30 p.m., the DeGeneres crew picked a handful of the best-dressed students and lined them up in front of the crowd for filming at 3:15 p.m. Among these, were the five winners.

Despite not being picked as one of the final five, producers selected Breanne Swanson, a freshman in pre-merchandise management, for her excellent costume.

She said she and several other costumed students were put into a group to stand closest to the camera, so DeGeneres could view the great school and costume spirit of the Oregon State student body.

“We were there for a while, and we were just pumped,” Swanson said. “We just had the most energy, we had fun and we were just dancing.”

Swanson said she was disappointed she didn’t get to talk to DeGeneres, but was still pleased she got to be on national television and looks forward to seeing the episode air Wednesday.

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New men’s basketball coach Wayne Tinkle introduced to media Wednesday night

By Josh Worden

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When Wayne Tinkle was announced as the next Oregon State men’s head basketball coach Wednesday, he took the time to mention the efforts of former coach Craig Robinson. It was clear, however, that he and athletic director Bob De Carolis have planned for what De Carolis repeatedly called a “fresh start.”

“Two weeks ago, I stood before you and announced that we needed a fresh start for our men’s basketball program, a new direction and a new leader to take us there,” De Carolis said in his opening statement. “Today, we have that leader.”

Tinkle, who is leaving the University of Montana after eight seasons as the Grizzlies’ head coach, already received a pair of recommitments from two recruits who had considered not coming to OSU after all.

Tinkle announced Wednesday that Chai Baker, a shooting guard from Malone, Fla., and Gary Payton II of Salt Lake Community College, will both stay with their commitments to OSU. The decisions from the incoming

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recruiting class were going to be the earliest sign of Tinkle’s success with the Beavers, and he has already secured two of the four freshmen who committed to the Beavers.

“We spent a few hours (Tuesday) night reaching out,” Tinkle said. “We’re making ground with the others and I think we’ll be able to announce some good news here in the next day or two.”

Tinkle addressed the changes that he plans to implement in the program, starting with having all players remain in Corvallis this summer while taking classes.

“We feel that’s vital to building our team chemistry and chipping away at the academics to lighten the load a little bit during the season,” Tinkle said.

“That’s something that we put in play about five or six years back in Montana, and our GPA, I think, went up by leaps and bounds and our graduation rates as well.”

Tinkle noted that his first priority will be to gain a relationship with the current players, some of whom were present for Wednesday’s press conference.

“We had a brief meeting (Tuesday) night,” Tinkle said, turning to the players seated about 10 feet away.

“Hopefully some of them got some excitement out of it.”

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New Oregon State men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle addresses the media for the first time in Gill Coliseum.

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Sophomore Andrew Moore has struggled with mechanics in his 2nd season at OSU

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Sophomore pitcher Andrew Moore releases a pitch against Northern Illinois March 8 in Goss Stadium.

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Senior pitcher Ben Wetzler is The Daily Barometer Athlete of the week after tossing a complete-game shutout in No. 1 Oregon State’s series, clinching the victory over No. 8 Washington Sunday.

Wetzler entered the game under

public scrutiny following an arrest and two misdemeanor charges, but the left-hander shook things off by allowing just two hits and four total base runners in a 3-0 victory.

The performance earned Wetzler Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week as well as the NCBWA’s National Pitcher of the Week Tuesday.

Wetzler struck out nine batters in the win, which was his 10th of the season. His earned run average is now 0.84, which is the best in the entire nation.

The complete-game shutout came a day after junior Jace Fry did the

Andrew Moore surprised just about everyone in 2013.

As a freshman, Moore was a First Team All-American and the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year for the Oregon State baseball team.

He supplanted returning starting pitcher Dan Child in the rotation, and showed all year that it was the right decision.

Moore’s 14 wins were tied for the most in the nation, and his 1.79 earned run average was second in the Pac-12.

No one in the conference, or across the country, knew who this unstoppable freshman was.

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exact same thing, tossing a nine-hit complete game shutout. Freshman catcher Logan Ice delivered a walkoff double in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving OSU a 1-0 victory that would set the stage for Wetzler Sunday.

Wetzler and the Beavers are back in action Friday when they travel to Los Angeles to take on USC in their final three regular-season games of the year. Oregon State needs to win just one game to clinch the Pac-12 Championship.

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The Oregon State men’s rowing Varsity 8 boat competes in a race earlier this year.

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In the wake of the Pac-12 Rowing Championships, the No. 14 Oregon State men’s rowing team was left wondering whether or not they’d qualify for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.

Although the team finished third overall in the Pac-12s, it missed out on automatically qualifying for nationals when the Varsity 8 crew finished fourth behind Washington, California and Stanford.

However, Tuesday brought good fortune for the team when the IRA selection committee rewarded the Beavers with an at-large bid to race in the National Championships. The Beavers will send their Varsity 8, Junior Varsity 8 and Third Varsity 8 crews to New Jersey, where they will be one of 24 competing teams.

This will be the 10th time in 12 seasons that the Beavers have qualified for nationals.

Last year, OSU sent four boats and finished 17th overall. This season, the Beavers have already competed against a handful of different pro-

grams that also qualified for nationals and have done well against teams outside the conference.

Those teams are Drexel, Gonzaga and Wisconsin, in addition to Washington, California and Stanford from the Pac-12.

The Beavers faced then-No. 19 Drexel April 5. In the V8, the Beavers won with a time of 5:48.2, while Drexel finished in 5:52.7. In the 2V8, Drexel completed the course in 5:59.8 to OSU’s time of 6:07.4.

One week later, the Beavers competed against Gonzaga in a head-tohead dual April 12. The Beavers bested Gonzaga in the V8 with a time of 5:52.9 to Gonzaga’s 6:03.1, in the JV8 with a time of 6:07.0 to 6:10.0, and in the 3V8 6:13.0 to 6:39.0.

The Beavers then raced Wisconsin a week later. Oregon State took the V8 in 6:19.5 to Wisconsin’s time of 6:26.8, although it dropped the JV8, 6:24.8 to 6:08.0.

The Beavers will be looking to improve upon their 17th-place finish from a year ago. The IRA National Championships will begin May 30 and will be held on Mercer Lake in New Jersey.

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SANDY — The Sandy fan section fell dead silent. The Wilsonville baseball team had erased a two-run Sandy lead with a four-run rally in the sixth and seventh innings, and the Pioneer faithful could only sit in stunned stillness.

For the players and coaches in the Sandy dugout, the situation didn’t feel quite so dire. Sure, they the Pioneers trailed 5-3 with their 7-8-9 hitters due up, but they had come back to win games in the bottom of the seventh inning multiple times earlier in the season, so they knew it was more than possible to make it happen again.

Within a couple minutes, they made their fans believers, too.

Sandy scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to shock Wilsonville with a 6-5 walk-off win on Senior Day. “We just don’t give up,” Sandy coach Rick Martin said. “We don’t quit. We have come back before, and that helps, but we have a bunch of competitors on this team.”

Kyle Stipe, who entered the game in the fifth inning, sparked the late rally by leading off with a single. Sandy’s seniors then took over.

Senior Sam Kalar followed Stipe and drew a four-pitch walk, after which fellow senior Mitchell Lovely moved the runners up to second and third with a sacrifice bunt.

That took Sandy back to the top of the order and leadoff man Bryce Tilton dug in. The senior shortstop went hitless in his first four at-bats, but made his fifth count as he laced a base hit to left-center for a

MOORE n Continued from page 5 “There were no expectations he dealt with last year,” said pitching coach Nate Yeskie.

“Being a freshman coming in, anytime he did anything good, it was welcomed and appreciated, but there were no expectations other than giving us a competitive start.”

Moore sure gave the Beavers plenty of competitive starts. He was a crucial part of the second-best pitching staff in the nation, which led the Beavers within grasp of a national championship.

The nickname his teammates have bestowed upon him is the “red storm,” because of his long, unkempt shock of red hair.

This year, that storm has calmed.

Moore started off his sophomore campaign looking like he was the same dominant pitcher from a year ago. In his first four starts, he allowed a combined two earned runs against non-

two-run single. The throw back into the infield sailed over the head of the Wildcat cut-off man and Tilton jetted to second base on the play. With that one swing of the bat, Sandy’s fan section broke its silence and erupted with a choir of cheers that echoed throughout the entire campus.

With senior center fielder Nick Martin at the plate next, Tilton got a huge lead at second and took off for third, and he was in with a stolen base easily. Martin eventually walked to bring up Sandy senior catcher Cody Welty. Wilsonville brought the infield in to try and cut off the run. On a 1-2 pitch, Welty bounced a groundball between first and second. The Wilsonville second baseman dashed to his left and flagged it down, but he was too deep in the hole to get anything on his throw home, and Tilton slid across the plate for the winning run.

“We don’t have a bunch of guys who are probably going to hit the ball over the fence, but we are scrappy,” Rick Martin said. “We execute very, very well.”

The dramatic victory capped a sensational run through the Northwest Oregon Conference season for Sandy. The Pioneers lost three of their first four league games and then went on a 13-game winning streak to finish with a conference record of 14-3, giving them sole possession of second place.

Sandy traveled to Barlow on Tuesday for one last non-conference contest. The Pioneers ended the year with a top-10 ranking and they will host a play-in qualifier on Friday.

conference opponents.

Then, things started to go awry for the sophomore.

“I changed a few things in the beginning (of the season),” Moore said. “I was tipping my pitches when I was coming set, and stuff like that that was nagging at me, so I was kind of just tired of that.”

Moore has made mechanical adjustments multiple times in 2014, and while slight tinkering may not sound like much, it can drastically affect a pitcher’s performance.

In a three-game stretch, Moore had two outings during which he allowed five or more earned runs. Against Arizona, he didn’t make it out of the fourth inning after giving up six runs and 10 hits.

He even started pitching out of the stretch, rather than the windup, against Oregon and Cal. The change was something he did on his own, which showed Yeskie and OSU’s coaches that he is maturing as a player.

There has been a plethora of

Pac-12 coaching job, Tinkle — who coached at Montana under current Utah head coach Larry “It was also a sign of Krystkowiak and California head relief,” said sophomore coach Mike Montgomery — has guard Langston Morris-Walker. a solidified philosophy.

“We base our program on char“Guys were like, ‘Oh we’re fine, someone we can lean on again.’” acter, on discipline, toughness Tinkle will be taking over a team and togetherness,” Tinkle said. that will rely on a new core of play- “You’ll hear those words spoken ers after losing its five leading scor- often and we don’t compromise ers from last season. According to those areas.”

The next step in asserting Morris-Walker, the interim period between Robinson’s firing and that philosophy will be to put Tinkle’s addition showed a positive together a full coaching staff.

Freddie Owens, who joined OSU sign of the team’s work ethic. as an assistant coach last year “People are after spending still on board and four years at guys were still Montana with We need to go after working out as if Tinkle, was we had a coach,” the student body, I present during Morris-Walker Wednesday’s said. “I didn’t feel think you have to give press conferlike it was as bad them a reason to go. ence. He is a as people made it likely candidate out to be.”

Wayne Tinkle for the staff that Morris-Walker, OSU men’s basketball head coach De Carolis said OSU’s leading would be comreturning scorer, piled soon. mentioned after “Coach Tinkle is working hard Robinson’s dismissal that he and his teammates no longer felt com- to assemble a first-class coaching fortable with Robinson’s game staff of tremendous teachers and plan. Tinkle’s offensive and defen- great recruiters,” De Carolis said. sive schemes, on the other hand, “We look forward to making those announcements in the coming are a different matter.

“What really excites me most days.”

Tinkle knows that his tenure will is that he really stresses defense,” Morris-Walker said. “(He tells be measured mostly by the winning players) to work your butts off on percentage for an OSU program defense and then you can have a that struggled to get fans into Gill free range on offense. I love that; Coliseum this season.

“We need to go after the student I grew up playing that way. I’m body, I think you have to give them excited to play like that again.”

Though this will be his first a reason to go,” he said. “People talk

adjustments the sophomore has made this year, but the ultimate culprit for Moore’s struggles has been that Pac-12 opponents know who he is and what his tendencies are.

“As a team, we have a target on our back; I feel the same way” Moore said. “Teams have made some good adjustments against me, and there have been times where I haven’t made adjustments back.

I’ve made pitches (in an) 0-2 (count) against the scouting report. Little things like that eat away at you over the course of the game and the year.”

In four different games this season, Moore has allowed double-digit hits. His workload and strikeout totals are similar to 2013, but the amount of batters reaching base against him is staggeringly higher than last year.

“He’s just going through those growing pains — everybody does,” Yeskie said. “Because he won so many (games) last year, guys come out to attack him more, challenge him more.

That’s just part of it.”

His statistics in Pac-12 play are worse than his overall numbers, which can be credited to a combination of opponents’ knowledge and the talent gap between OSU’s nonconference opponents and Pac-12 teams.

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about playing an exciting brand of basketball. In a coach’s mind, that’s winning.”

One way to do that is to familiarize the team with the “glory years,” as Tinkle put it.

Former OSU players Charlie Sitton and Lamar Hurd were part of the selection process for the new coach, and Tinkle expects his players to take their involvement in the program to heart.

“One thing that we always said in Montana was that the program was in the shape it was in because of everyone that went before us,” Tinkle said. “(Our players) need to know who was here and what they did and what they stood for in the good years. They need to honor that.”

Tinkle still has plenty to accomplish in the coming months. He’ll have to finish the re-recruitment of the incoming group before starting the recruiting process for next year’s class, which will be complicated, because the Beavers do not have a senior on the roster and may not have any open scholarships.

For now, Tinkle is focused on building team chemistry with the existing players and preparing for next season.

“We’re going to live like champions every day,” Tinkle said. “When that equates to more wins than losses, that’s going to be decided.

But we’re going to turn that around from day one.

“We’re going to make Oregon State basketball relevant again.”

Josh Worden, sports reporter On Twitter @WordenJosh sports@dailybarometer.com

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Sophomore pitcher Andrew Moore gets high-fives from teammates against Northern Illinois March 8 in Goss Stadium.

Moore says there has been His fastball command has a difference in the way Pac-12 also been an ongoing issue, teams have approached him at which was not a problem for him in 2013. the plate.

“Fastball command has been He said hitters have been aggressive against his slider, something that’s really hurt compared to last year when me at times this year,” Moore said. “I’ve either fallen behind they may have laid off entirely in counts or been 0-2 and just because they were anticipating haven’t located a high fastball. a fastball.

Every pitcher wants to throw off their fastball, and when you’re not controlling that the way you want to be, you’re falling behind in counts. It’s just giving them the luxury to be comfortable and know it’s coming.”

Despite some of the struggles, Moore’s overall ERA is 2.94 in 79 2/3 innings. His Pac12 ERA is 3.54, but his record in conference play still sits at 4-2. It’s a lot easier for those numbers to look bad when his

two counterparts in the rotation — Ben Wetzler and Jace Fry — have ERAs of 1.00 or less in Pac-12 play.

Yeskie says dealing with adversity has made Moore stronger, both mentally and physically.

After a bout with mechanical issues, the sophomore says he is feeling the most comfortable he has all year. Now it’s a matter of fully returning to his 2013 form.

“I need to get that confidence back,” Moore said. “I can’t worry about what’s happened so far this year or last year, I’ve just got to get ready for USC this weekend and give everything I’ve got.”

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aiting periods can be unnerving, especially when so much is riding on an end result.

Being in college is the ultimate build up. We kill ourselves trying to participate in as many facets as we can of what is deemed the most important prerequisite to happiness and a successful career. The goal is shiny and rewarding and oh-so attainable at the stage we’re in now.

Truth is, a waiting period is almost inevitable. The first thing on a person’s lips when you tell them you’re graduating is, “Do you have anything lined up?” You shouldn’t be scared to admit that you are approaching the waiting room.

It’s awesome how optimistic college students are about changing the world when they graduate. I definitely want that as an outcome of my college career. I don’t think that that

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Scottaline attitude should be squelched, but I do think we should be prepared for a time when things aren’t going to go as expected.

All-or-nothing is the most dangerous state of mind in this moment. I know a lot of college graduates who spent valuable time twiddling their thumbs after college, just because their dream job didn’t fall into their laps.

I understand that college is a taxing time, and agree that students deserve a break from the ridiculous schedule.

But I’m not a fan of idleness.

It’s a good idea to hang on to that

job you had during college if you can, or to have a job while you’re in college in the first place.

I can’t tell you how many professors and advisers have told me that working while going to school is a bad idea.

Well, what did they want me to do — live on the street and starve to death? Where is this magical fairy godparent who will support me while I devote all my time to studying and getting the appropriate amount of beauty sleep — and why hasn’t he or she given me the heads up?

Rants aside, having a job makes it easier to get another one. Obviously.

It’s common sense. The waterfall effect means employers want to hire people who have experience working. If you’re strategic, and work your way up the job chain, you may find yourself in a very comfortable position one day.

Considering the fact that the average student’s debt is $33,000, the job market can look depressing and limited. There’s also the fact that only a small percentage of college students get a job that requires the degree they received, according to a piece by Brad Plumer.

But that’s no reason to lose heart.

There’s not a foolproof formula to landing your dream job right out of college, but I do believe that hard work and humility are always rewarding in some way or another.

And ultimately, finding a job that isn’t exactly in your field of study isn’t the end of the world.

Who knows, it could even be a super-fun plot twist in the story of your life. t

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Part-time jobs while in school make you stand out to employers

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t can be a pretty grueling experience, trying to pair work with school. Especially if you haven’t had the joy of working with the public before, or are just in the process of resume-building.

It may be hard work — you may have to learn new skills, deal with the death of your free time and work with people who seem cranky for no logical reason.

Given that it’s probably going to be a part-time job, since, as a college student, you’re going to need flexible

you your diploma and you go off to work at a big company, hopefully one suited to the skills your college courses taught you, you can say that Cassie your time in college was not entirely spent either in the library or binging on Netflix.

To employers, that’s going to look hours, you might not receive benefits like health insurance, sick leave, holi- very attractive. day pay or vacations.

It’ll say to them that you were But you’ll do it. able to balance your college educaWhy? Because you’re going to make tion and a job successfully — and if money and practice being self-suffi- you somehow manage to pull off an cient, so when President Ray hands impressive transcript as well, then

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you’re walking on the clouds when it comes to how you compare to the other applicants.

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Letter to the Editor Regarding David Williams’ May 20 letter to the editor

Freedom doesn’t mean insults are OK I was disappointed, and surprised, to see a professor at Oregon State University resistant to the idea of ridding our community of hate speech in Tuesday’s edition of the Barometer, where he spoke out against ASOSU’s “We Don’t Say” campaign.

ASOSU does not just represent the government side of OSU, as Professor Williams so unwittingly stated. On the front page of ASOSU’s website it says that “ASOSU is every student at Oregon State University. We exist as an organization to promote academic excellence, encourage the intellectual, social, cultural and physical development of the student body, and enable the student body to assert its varied interests as citizens and members of the academic community through democratic representation.”

If Williams’ generation fought for freedom rights that allowed him to tell people to “man up” — and gender stereotype by doing so — I’d assume racial/ ethnic slurs were something they fought to be acceptable as well. Understanding that this is something he thinks should still be allowed, I would also assume that Williams has not been on the victim’s side of sexism, racism or really any “-ism.” In this case, I could see why the idea of “man up” being hurtful to others might be difficult for him to grasp.

Just to be clear, this generation of college students does not fight for the freedom of hate speech.

We do not fight for freedom to bully and hurt people with what we say. This generation fights for freedom from these bullies. We fight for equality in all aspects of our lives.

Freedom of speech is a wonderful right, but having that freedom does not justify the use of hate speech.

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Don’t let depressing job market for college grads get you down

Precognition W isn’t a real thing e’re obviously working on a theme today in the Forum section, so the editorial board decided to go with the flow.

The end of spring term is approaching fast, and for some of us, it’s a double-whammy: We’re filled with the ambiguous amalgamation of thrilled ecstasy that the end of the busywork and time-suck that is school is almost here, and raw terror at the uncertain future that’s looming in front of us.

But this isn’t something that only concerns this year’s graduating seniors. No one can see the future, and none of us know what’s waiting after graduation (unless you know for absolute certain that you’re going to take over the family business after you get your applicable degree, but most of us aren’t quite that lucky).

And even if you do know what’s waiting for you after your graduation, the future is mutable. Something unexpected might happen — in fact, we can almost guarantee something unexpected is going to happen.

That’s life.

If we expected everything to be perfect, we’d expire from hypervigilance and panic attacks before ever making it out the front door on the first day of pre-K. But the thing is, if we know everything that was ever going to happen, life would be boring.

So basically, we need to be ready for anything.

It doesn’t mean that the degree you’re working toward right now is going to be meaningless or useless if you get a job that’s nowhere near your field.

A science degree gives a journalist a niche at a large newspaper, or means a science journal might actually look at their application. An English degree comes in handy when trying to translate scientist-speak to normal-person comprehensible language on requisition forms. A theater degree gives a personal assistant or public relations person the ability to smile, improvise and spin the situation when everything’s going down in flames around them. A foreignlanguage degree gives you a solid handle on grammar, and that’s a skill every copywriter needs.

The list goes on.

So don’t limit yourself to internships and part-time jobs situated smackdab in the middle of your field while you’re in school.

You never know when a random skill will catch a potential employer’s eye and make them realize that what they actually need is someone who understands that there is a difference between hierarchical and relational databases, instead of just another new-media-communications-major data-entry automaton in the cube farm.

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PRINEVILLE — According to its Economic and Fiscal Impact Study released Wednesday, Facebook’s Prineville data center has had a substantial impact on the Central Oregon economy -- over half a billion dollars worth.

The social network giant said Facebook has over the past five years added 651 jobs in Central Oregon.

And it says construction and operations investments over the five-year period 2009-2013 totaled $573 million.

The report also says every 10 jobs at Facebook drive another 14 jobs in other sectors of the Oregon economy -- the so-called “multiplier effect.”

Economic development officials in Prineville say Facebook has transformed the city.

“Hiring somebody in our community, having them buy a house in our community -- that kind of stuff is important. But it’s the secondary stuff,” said Russ Deboodt, Prineville’s economic development manager.

“It’s buying groceries for their family. It’s going out to dinner and eating at our restaurants, spending nights in our hotels,” Deboodt said. “It’s having their family and friends come stay and visit. That’s where you see the real benefits.”

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The report conducted by ECONorthwest also shows that since 2011, Facebook has also awarded almost a million dollars to Crook County schools and qualified nonprofits.

Prineville Mayor Bette Roppe says Facebook is more than just a company, it’s part of the community.

“What a good neighbor, we are tickled pink to have them here,” Roppe said. “One of the goals I have as mayor is to have a diversification of jobs.

For so many years, we were tires and timber, but if we have a diversification of jobs, it will keep us from having all our eggs in one basket.”

Roppe says she believes Apple also is in Prineville now because Facebook has been so successful there. She hopes other big corporations follow suit in the future.

Here is a link to Facebook’s full report: http:// www.econw.com/media/ap_files/Facebook_-_ Economic_and_Fiscal_Impact_Study_Executive_ Summary-FINAL.pdf Meanwhile, Bend is getting an economic boost, too. The southeast Bend call center Ibex Global, formerly known as TRG Customer Solutions (and before that, iSky) says it will more than doubling its workforce this summer, adding 450 employees to the current 400.

eries, ice cream shops, you’re OK with mopping and lifting heavy things, you’ve dealt with the most asinine of the public or even that you’re a wizard at annealing nanotubes. cocktail dress or snazzy suit.

If you’re lucky enough to find a college job But the icing on the cake, the skills that in the same field as the degree you’re seeking, employers crave, include critical-thinking skills, then you will be gaining relevant experience and innovation, a broad knowledge of liberal arts and forming a web of connections that could come sciences, a capacity for ethics and integrity and in handy after college. a desire to keep learning new skills, according Let’s not forget credentials, either — if you’re to Lynn O’Shaughnessy’s MoneyWatch piece, adding good grades and extracurricular activities “What employers want in college grads.” and you throw in a job to boot, that work-history So get out there, build a job history, experimilkshake will bring all the potential employers ence college in every facet and continue to be a to the yard.

Part-time jobs will also help you level up a student in the school of life. variety of the skills that come in handy in this t video game we call life. If you go to a job inter- Cassie Ruud is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in Ruud’s view and they ask “what can you do?” you can columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. answer with pride that you have worked in bak- Ruud can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.