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The Albany Police Department received a tip Wednesday that students at Linn-Benton Community College are planning a shooting Friday at the college. A 33-year-old male student at LBCC contacted police about a conversation he overheard among students Wednesday. According to the student’s account in the police report, “students talked about wearing ski masks, shooting people and then taking off the masks before the police arrived.” The report indicated that the day of the attack was referenced to as “Black Friday,” because it is the day students with financial holds can register for classes at LBCC. “When you start looking at some of the stuff that was overheard ... it didn’t make sense,” Albany Police Sgt. Jerry Drum said. The student is the only person who has reported this suspicious activity to police, according to Drum, who is working on the investigation. “We just don’t know the credibility of it at this point,” Drum said. “Obviously, we’re treating it as real and we’re looking at any precaution.” Drum said extra precautions will be taken Friday at LBCC, but would not release the details of what kind of presence police will have, in order to prevent the potential assailants from receiving advanced intel. Drum said officials at LBCC are aware of the report. LBCC officials who know of the incident could not be reached at this time.
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A two-story commercial complex sits on the corner of Fourth Street and Madison Avenue in downtown Corvallis, nondescript save for the Oregon State logo emblazoned on its top floor. Perhaps most recognizable for its location next to a bustling Starbucks, the building’s average exterior belies the organization it holds within: the OSU Advantage Accelerator, a hotbed of student ingenuity and business potential. The OSU Advantage Accelerator combines student and faculty entrepreneurial and innovative ideas with the economic interests and potential of start-up companies. Clients contract with the Accelerator to use the research power of the university to help their businesses flourish. These
clients can be fledgling companies or simply individuals with a business plan. Once part of the program, clients are paired with bright minds associated with the university, such as faculty researchers or student interns. “The idea of the Accelerator is to help a client through the process of launching their business,” said Ron Adams, OSU Advantage executive associate vice president. “We don’t ask our clients for current assets; we ask for a share in their future success, and it’s not very much. It’s pretty modest. Number one (in importance) is the learning opportunity it provides for students.” The Accelerator comprises only one part of the greater partnership program, the OSU Advantage. The OSU Advantage, launched in January 2013, also encompasses departments that focus on private sector partnerships, patents and licensing. “The OSU Advantage was designed See ADVANTAGE | page 4
Stone Award winner Tobias Wolff visits campus 2014 award for lifetime literary achievement winner, author talks with students Thursday
The award is given to authors who have created a body of critically acclaimed work and have spent extensive efforts mentoring young writers, explained Rachel Ratner, a creative writing program assistant at OSU. By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg “In looking at his body of work, THE DAILY BAROMETER Author Tobias Wolff visited Oregon they selected him, yes, because of his State University Thursday, after receiv- amazing literary achievement, but ing the 2014 Stone Award for Lifetime also how many young writers he’s Literary Achievement the day before helped come into their own work,” Ratner said. in Portland. Wolff’s visit to OSU was no excepThe Stone Award is a biennial tion to his mentoring practices. $20,000 award established by OSU Thursday at the Native American 1974 alum Patrick Stone and his Longhouse, Wolff met with underwife, Vicki, as a way to “spotlight graduate and graduate students for a Oregon State’s Master of Fine Arts in casual question-and-answer session. Creative Writing,” according to the Later in the evening, he spoke at event summary. the CH2M Hill Alumni Center to a Wolff is the second recipient for the public audience, reading from one award. The 2012 recipient was author See WOLFF | page 4 Joyce Carol Oates. n
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Dr. Linda Bacon, a professor of health at the City College of San Francisco and an internationally recognized expert on health, talked about the negative effects of the so-called “War on Obesity” Thursday night at Withycombe Hall Theater. Bacon emphasized the stigmatism attached to obesity and how it increases the negative health outcomes typically associated with obesity in the long run. “(Americans) don’t think critically about weight anymore,” Bacon said. “Much of my platform contradicts what is commonly believed about weight.” Bacon challenged the conventional wisdom that “obesity kills” several times during her speech. She said that the way we currently look at obesity is like
looking at a window with paintings already painted on it. It’s like thinking that what you see in the window is actually there. Bacon emphasized how discrimination against obese people now equals or even exceeds discrimination based on race or gender. “If we shifted our perspective toward respecting our bodies, we could accomplish the goal of reduced obesity,” Bacon said. “The fear and stigma of obesity by society hurts everyone.” Bacon talked about the role politics plays in the so-called “War on Obesity,” from body mass index standards to the reported health impacts of obesity. She said the United States government lowered BMI standards, which meant those who weighed less were reclassified. “In June 1998, millions of Americans were suddenly classified as obese,” Bacon said. “BMI standards are based on politics, and the pharmaceutical companies wrote the BMI standards.” Bacon cited studies that challenge the notion that obesity
is the second-leading cause of death among Americans. Data from 26 studies found that “people who were called ‘obese’ had greater longevity than those who were ‘normal weight.’” She also claimed that National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data showed that overweight people had the lowest mortality rate, while “moderately obese” people had the same mortality rate as people with “normal weight.” “The epidemiological research does not show cause and effect (between obesity and disease),” Bacon said. “Relationship does not equal cause.” Throughout the seminar, Bacon was humorous about the current perceptions and politics of obesity today. “We don’t have an obesity epidemic; we have a scaremongering epidemic,” Bacon said. Bacon encourages healthy eating and exercise, no matter what size you are. She believes that the weight will “take care
of itself.” “We need to encourage wellbeing and healthy behaviors, and let the weight take care of itself,” Bacon said. Bacon has presented on three continents, including Europe and Australia. She has a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, two master’s degrees — one in psychotherapy and one in exercise science — and a Ph.D. from University of California, Davis, in physiology. Bacon will be giving several lectures in the state of Oregon later this month, at Portland State and Pacific University in Forest Grove. Oregon State’s Healthy Campus Initiatives and the School of Psychological Science sponsored the seminar. HCI director Lisa Hoogesteger and the School of Psychological Science funded the organized and advertised event, according to Patti Watkins, an associate professor in the School of Psychological. Vinay Ramakrishnan News reporter managing@dailybarometer.com
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The Oregon Board of Higher Education proceeded with two landmark decisions that will have a lasting impact on Oregon colleges this coming year. Meetings among the Oregon Board of Higher Education concluded May 16 with an approval of the proposed tuition freeze for the 2014-15 tuition freeze and conditions assigned to the proposed governing boards for both Southern Oregon University and Eastern Oregon University. The tuition freeze, which was the first approved in more than a decade, will allow students attending Oregon colleges to pay
the same amount of money without an adjustment in price this coming year. Due to a decline in funds from the state, many colleges and universities increase tuition prices to allocate for budget shortfalls. Following last week’s approval of the EOU and SOU board terms and conditions, the two universities will now be required to submit details of enrollment analysis and continuing plans in relation to Oregon’s 40-40-20 goals to the board. The Higher Education Coordinating Commission will then review and consider the conditions in December 2015.
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Oregon has nation’s fifth-highest rate of melanoma By Peter Korn
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PORTLAND — Dr. Sancy Leachman has been studying an Oregon problem that makes no sense. Oregon has the nation’s fifth-highest rate of melanoma — the most serious kind of skin cancer — in the country. Texas? California? Florida? None of those states rank even in the top 10. But Washington and Idaho do. Clearly, something is occurring in the Pacific Northwest that is leading to this dreaded disease, and it isn’t a prolif-
eration of sunlight. Leachman, chairman of the Oregon Health & Science University department of dermatology, has for awhile had more than a few hypotheses to explain the puzzle. Now, she potentially has a means for producing answers — the OHSU Community Melanoma Registry. Leachman needs a few thousand Oregon melanoma victims to register to participate in future research — filling out forms, having their skin occasionally examined, maybe producing a blood sample. This week the Oregon State Cancer Registry
sent out letters to almost all of the state’s 30,000 or so melanoma victims asking them to join Leachman’s registry. No other state has ever tried contacting all its melanoma victims in order to use them collectively for research, according to Leachman. But Leachman needs volunteers, 2,000 at least for basic studies, 20,000 or so for detailed research that could help unlock the keys to Oregon’s high incidence of melanoma and maybe provide insight into how the disease progresses. “If I can make (the registry)
wildly successful, one of my major goals to to find out what we can do to identify the melanomas earlier so we can cut them out so they don’t kill you,” Leachman says. Every year about 2,200 Oregonians are diagnosed with melanomas. Every year about 150 Oregonians die from the skin cancers. Leachman says the disease is “epidemic” among the state’s young women. She’s guessing that might be because young women aren’t wearing enough sunscreen or because they overuse tanning beds.
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Starstruck in Oregon: More film production comes to Beaver State By Lizzy Duffy OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
PORTLAND — We may not have bold-faced named celebrities walking down the streets, but plenty of them are coming into Oregon to film movies and television shows. KPTV reports the latest show to set up shop in Oregon is called Runestone, which will be filming near Astoria.The series is about Vikings arriving to the New World. It stars Conan Stevens who is best known for HBO’s Game of Thrones and the movie The Hobbit and will employ 19 local actors. Other shows filming in Oregon include IFC’s Portlandia (of course), NBC’s Grimm, and TNT’s The Librarian. It sounds cool, right? Like a little Hollywood in the Pacific Northwest. But it’s not just the Oregon scenery that’s drawing these shows to the state. There are quite a few incentives to filming here. Such productions typically pay no state sales tax and can receive rebates for 20 percent of goods and services used. They can also get a 10 percent cash rebate for wages paid in Oregon. Other states typically have tax credits. To qualify, the productions must spend at least $1 million, which explains why big brands make their way north of the California border for filming. KPTV reports that from 2012 to 2013, productions spent more than $235 million in the state.
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SEASIDE — Moving day came early May 11 – about 5:30 a.m. – but, then, it wasn’t your usual move. Instead of packing furniture and clothes in a U-Haul and heading to a new house, the heavy equipment operators hooked up four halves of two portable classrooms to trailer hitches and maneuvered them out of Cannon Beach, over the hill and onto property in Seaside. Five hours later, Neal Wallace, board president of the South County Community Food Bank, was celebrating with a cup of coffee and a donut, toasting the safe arrival of the portables at their new home. “There were really very few hitches,� Wallace said. Once used as classrooms at the former Cannon Beach Elementary School, the portables were donated by the Seaside School District to begin a new life as the South County Community Food Bank. The portables will be set up on property the food bank bought on U.S. Highway 101 northeast of Seaside High School. Despite cars parked where they shouldn’t be, a few tight turns for the 12-foot- to 14-footwide loads and a wobbly wheel bearing on one of the trailers that halted the trip down the Cannon Beach hill for a short while, the mission was accomplished with aplomb. “This is a real thrill,� said Mary Blake, a food bank board member who brought the coffee, donuts and water to the site to refresh weary workers. Chuck Miner, a Seaside Chamber of Commerce board member, who also came to watch the procession of the portables, agreed with Blake. “This is a great community,� Miner said. “It takes so many people; it’s awesome that so many have helped with this.� The move actually started nearly three years ago when the chamber of commerce and the food bank boards partnered to begin a fundraising campaign. The food bank’s former building, donated by the Seaside Moose Lodge, needed major repairs. It was too small to contain the hundreds of families seeking food boxes every month and to store the food properly.
And, the property was for sale. When then chamber of commerce Director Al Smiles announced that the chamber would help the food bank find a new building, donations – from the chamber foundation, the food bank board, Seaside Rotary, Port of Astoria, Pacific Power, the city of Seaside and others – totaled nearly $65,000. Searching for a site But negotiations over a potential site faltered for many months, and finding a suitable building in the right location wasn’t easy. The food bank board searched for grants from foundations, but, until the board could find a site, the foundations were reluctant to make commitments. The food bank board began the application process for a state-administered community development block grant, but the amount of documentation required and the potential restrictions placed on the location discouraged the board. “It would have meant $1.5 million in taxpayer money,� Wallace said. “We would have had a beautiful building, but it would have been a government project in the area. “But this is just truly a community project, not a government-funded project. It doesn’t get any more community than this.� The project took on new energy earlier this year when the buyer of the Moose Lodge property asked the food bank to vacate the building within 30 days. The food bank board began looking for vacant property, with the idea of placing portables on it for quick setup. While talking about his plans at a Seaside Downtown Development Association breakfast, one of those attending suggested that he ask Seaside School District Superintendent Doug Dougherty if the food bank could use the portable classrooms at the former school site. Wallace did just that, and the district donated the portables. He estimated the food bank saved $35,000 by not buying new portables and gained at least 300 more square feet. In the meantime, the board found property at 2041 N. Roosevelt Drive, just north of the bus barn and along the west bank of Neawanna Creek. The property’s owner,
Bank of the Pacific, sold the property to the food bank for $169,000 and contributed $49,000 toward the property’s purchase. The bank also found a temporary location for the food bank until it could move to its new location: a portion of the CRM building just south of the permanent site. The bank is also contributing $2,000 a month toward the $2,000 monthly rent on the CRM location. “Probably the thing that sets this community apart so much is not only the volunteers, but the ability to put aside funding for the things we need to,� Blake said. “The real player in this has been the Bank of the Pacific.� “The other beautiful thing is that the food bank never missed a day of operation. The Bank of the Pacific donated that, too,� Blake said. At least another $120,000 is needed to pay off the property and complete the project, Miner estimated. A fundraising campaign will begin soon, he said. Miner credited Wallace, who also is the public works director for the city of Seaside, for shepherding the project. “With his expertise, he has been a real help,� Miner said. “He jumped in with both feet.� At first, Wallace said, he thought the move would be “no problem.� But as the date got closer, he started to worry. “There were so many pieces to put together, and after being on so many projects, I know about Murphy’s Law,� he said. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, he knew, but despite a week’s delay involving the moving permit and some lastminute glitches with parking signs, a locked gate that nearly barred the trucks from using Second Avenue in Cannon Beach to get onto U.S. Highway 101 and that wobbly wheel bearing, the move was relatively smooth. Next on the agenda is a foundation for the portables, support beams to hold heavy shelves of canned goods, a new sidewalk, landscaping, parking, refrigeration for cold storage and myriad other details that will make the South County Community Food Bank a welcome place that serves about 1,000 people every month. Wallace expects the building will be ready in August. “Now the fun begins,� Wallace said.
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PORTLAND — U.S. Senators urged the National Football League Thursday to change the Washington Redskins name. A letter signed by 50 members was sent to the NFL commissioner. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden signed the letter asking NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to push for a name change for the Washington D.C. football team. The letter says the team’s name is a slur and that “racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports.� Jacqueline Keeler is with the activist group Members of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry. She says her organization opposes all native mascots because they promote stereotypes of native people. “We will continue to call upon the NFL and Commissioner Goodell to stand up and do the right thing.� In a written response, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says “The intent of the team’s name has always been to present a strong, positive and respectful image.� All senators who signed the letter are Democrats.
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Five stars for early learners within Head Start program By Jade McDowell EAST OREGONIAN eastoregonian.com
PENDLETON — Umatilla County may not have any fivestar hotels or restaurants, but it can boast the state’s first fivestar Head Start program. Oregon’s leaders in early childhood education converged on Pendleton this week as the state Early Learning Council met with the Oregon Board of Education for the first time. As part of the trip, the Early Learning Council awarded Umatilla-Morrow Head Start a five-star rating for quality childcare — only the first such rating to be bestowed on a Head Start program. Early Learning Council president Pam Curtis called the occa-
WOLFF n Continued from page 1 of his works before engaging in another round of Q&A and book signings. At the student Q&A session, students asked questions regarding his preference for fiction versus nonfiction, his difficulties in writing and his experiences with editors in the publishing world. “It was a really good presentation,” said Danielle Holcomb, a junior in liberal studies. “We just had a lot of people who asked really good questions, so I’m sure that made it easier for (Wolff) and better for the audience to listen to.” Dan Held, a junior English major, said he wished Wolff had spoken more about his experience breaking into the publishing world and how the process of publication has changed throughout Wolff’s career. However, Held said it was promising and encouraging to hear Wolff’s words of advice. “In one of his books, he says you have to learn how to gnaw the bone until it cracks,” Held said. “That’s kind of the biggest thing with writing, is the patience it takes. It’s really inspiring, as a young writer, to hear him say that as long as you’re patient with it … that you will get there eventually and achieve the things that you want.” Indeed, Wolff said that patience is something that he wishes more of his own men-
sion “a momentous day.” “This is no small accomplishment,” she said. Umatilla-Morrow Head Start’s Milton-Freewater center was the first to actually receive the coveted five-star rating, but its centers in Hermiston, Pendleton, Umatilla and Irrigon quickly followed. Director Cathy Wamsley said a few more Head Starts around the state will likely achieve the status eventually, but Umatilla-Morrow was the most prepared when the Early Learning Council developed the childcare quality rating system last year. Wamsley was also recognized with an award during the Early Learning Council’s visit. She and House Speaker Tina Kotek, who couldn’t attend the Pendleton
tors had reminded him of. “When you start writing, there’s going to be a great difference between the work you love, that made you want to be a writer, and what you’re doing,” Wolff said. “The advice that I wish I’d had a little more of when I was starting to write, is to be patient with yourself.” Wolff encouraged young writers to seek out positive relationships with their future editors and publishers and to be suspicious of anyone who demands certain edits. He explained that if you wouldn’t tolerate the same nitpicking or critique in a romantic or platonic relationship, don’t tolerate it from an editor, find someone better. Wolff’s humor regarding his own experiences helped students relate to him. He shared that his surroundings or the Internet often distract him. “When they gave me a new computer with an Internet connection, I discovered that I have a monster inside of me that doesn’t want me to write,” Wolff confessed, sending the audience into fits of laughter. The Q&A session lasted an hour and Wolff said he enjoyed speaking with OSU students. “To see so much enthusiasm for writing and literature is just very affirming for me,” Wolff said. “Mostly, I feel encouraged by their incredible interest in literature and it makes me want to do more of it.” Kaitlyn Kohlenberg
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meeting, were both given the 2014 Lynne Angland Award for their work on early childhood education. Early Learning Council member Roberta Weaver praised Wamsley’s leadership and creativity in growing UmatillaMorrow Head Start into a multiservice agency that includes services like Court Appointed Special Advocates and WIC (Women, Infants and Children). “You see the mission broadly in an integrated way, not narrowly, and that kind of vision is what we hope to implement throughout the state,” Weber said. Pulling health care, nutrition, parenting classes, education, emotional-social development and other aspects of early childhood welfare under one umbrella is the central mission of the Early Learning Council. Right now the council is reviewing applications for a second wave of Early Childhood Hubs commissioned by the state legislature last year. The regional hubs will bring agencies such as Head Start, public schools, educational service districts and the medical community together to collaborate on programs to serve young children and their parents. The idea is to avoid duplication of services and help connect providers to families who may be in contact with one agency but not another.
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Gov. John Kitzhaber gestures while reading the book “Dog’s Colorful Day” to a group of Head Start students last year while visiting the Hawthorn School in Pendleton. Six of the 16 available contracts for hubs have been awarded. The regional hub created by Umatilla, Morrow and Union counties did not make the cut in the first round, but at the time InterMountain Education Service District director Mark Mulvihill said feedback from the state indicated the problem was in the way the grant was written, not the hub structure itself.
ADVANTAGE n Continued from page 1 to boost the university’s impact on job creation and economic progress in Oregon and around the nation,” said OSU President Ed Ray during a presentation on governance and state funding in early May. The program stemmed from a reorientation of university goals, which emphasized the importance of industry partnering and commercialization. “You might think of OSU Advantage as the interface between the university, its assets, its students and the private sector,” Adams said. Companies from around the globe tap into the university’s research and developmental potential, working with the OSU Advantage to utilize student ingenuity and world-class facilities. Prominent Advantage partners include Intel, Hewlett-Packard and PTT, a Thai petrol company. Professional partners like these receive help creating or renovating products, while students at OSU receive internship and resume opportunities. One such student, Brian Benavidez, worked with Tektronix to develop a new interface for the company’s oscilloscopes, which are electronic testing devices. “The problem with oscilloscopes is that not only are they hard to spell, they’re hard to use,” Benavidez said. “It doesn’t run parallel with the type of learning and
At Thursday’s Early Learning Council meeting Megan Irwin, the state’s Early Learning System Design Manager, gave an update on the hub process. She said when staff present the next round of hub applications in June the council will have some “very difficult choices.” The state allowed counties to hash out among themselves how they wanted to divide into regions. But the law that formed
interaction that young people have today … so we made an oscilloscope that’s a wireless touchscreen with controls that you can use right down next to you.” A senior studying electrical engineering, Benavidez has worked on several such projects through the Collaboratory, a special partnership formed between the OSU Advantage and the College of Engineering. In a variety of similar ways, the OSU Advantage offers students the unique ability to gain real-world experience in their designated fields. Although the OSU Advantage focuses mainly on student development and professional partnership, the program does generate a decent amount of revenue for the university. “Economic growth and prosperity emerge from places where intellectual capital, sweat equity and entrepreneurial culture exist,” Ray said. “I’m very proud of the fact that we have that kind of environment at OSU, in Corvallis and in Benton County.” The third and final component of the OSU Advantage is the Impact department, which handles the administrative aspects of creating new businesses, partnerships and inventions. Adams said the Advantage Impact deals with contractual arrangements and licensing involved with new patents. When the university owns a patent, it receives certain investment returns and royalties from the companies utilizing that particular patent.
the hubs only allowed for 16, yet 19 have formed. After the Early Learning Council awards the 10 remaining contracts it will have to decide what to do with the remaining counties that didn’t win approval. The Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub, led by UmatillaMorrow Head Start and InterMountain ESD, is one of the hubs that will await the council’s decision in June.
Since the program’s creation, the university’s licensing profits have continued to grow, although they still represent a rather small percentage of overall generated profit. More important than monetary gains, however, are the immense opportunities offered for students through the collaboration of the three departments within the OSU Advantage, according to Adams. “We might have an existing partner that may be a great strategic partner for a start-up company, so we look for those connections,” Adams said. “It’s a crosscutting front of the creation of businesses and products, while advancing the talent and impact of OSU.” Adams encouraged interested students to contact OSU Advantage Co-Director John Turner, who specializes in student involvement and employment. For those students with innovative and entrepreneurial ambitions, the Weatherford Garage, sponsored by the College of Business, offers additional opportunities. “What’s really behind (the OSU Advantage) is our mission as a land-grant university and the connection between that mission and economic and social progress,” Adams said. “OSU Advantage was created as a means to help deliver on that.” Tori Hittner Higher education reporter managing@dailybarometer.com
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Oregon State needs just one win in three tries this weekend to clinch its second Pac-12 Championship in as many years. Ranked No. 1 in the nation and facing a USC team that has lost six of its last nine, it seems as if the Beavers (41-10, 22-5 Pac-12) will have no problem escaping Los Angeles with at least a series win this weekend. Having lost to a Pac-12 opponent Tuesday — a 6-2 defeat to Oregon in a nonconference game — Oregon State knows it can take nothing for granted, especially this late in the season against a team fighting for its postseason life. While the Trojans (27-23, 14-13) are currently on the outside looking in at the playoff picture, a series sweep against the top team in the country could be enough to get them in. USC sits alone in fifth place in the conference standings and is playing with house money at this point. Almost nobody thought the Trojans would make the postseason this year; they’ve already exceeded expectations. In a league as good as the Pac-12, the Beavers know they can’t take anything for granted. “The Pac-12 is as good as any conference in the country,” said junior right fielder Dylan Davis after Tuesday’s loss to Oregon. “If you don’t play as hard as you can and play your best, then anybody can beat you. That won’t change this weekend; we know we have to play better.” Davis said that Tuesday’s loss was a wake-up call coming off a series vic-
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“This weekend is obviously important for a lot of reasons,” said head coach Pat Casey. “Nothing is guaranteed and we can’t play the way we played (Tuesday night) if we want to
ayne Tinkle has more than a few things in common with his predecessor. Tinkle, who this week became the 21st head coach in Oregon State men’s basketball history, is an imposing figure, a 6-foot-10 walking giant who carries himself (albeit more gingerly) like the baller he once was. His charisma was on full display Wednesday, when he spent his introductory press conference mixing in light-hearted jokes while making clear his desire to resurrect a once-proud program. He’s a people person, having spent a portion of his first afternoon on OSU’s campus handing out energy drinks to students passing through the Memorial Union quad. He embodies integrity, according to the man who hired him, and preaches discipline in the classroom. Just like Craig Robinson. All of it. Only Wayne Tinkle isn’t Craig Robinson. Need proof? This ought to be enough: “If you get those guys to buy into (defensive intensity), then the byproduct is they’re going
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Junior left fielder Michael Conforto awaits a pitch against Oregon Tuesday night in Eugene. OSU has scored just eight combined runs in its past four games. tory over No. 8 Washington that all but clinched the conference title. He said the Beavers realize the Trojans aren’t going to just hand them a victory this weekend. “Everyone is fighting at this point in the season,” Davis said. “If we don’t come out with the type of intensity we’re capable of, we’re going to get beat. This can definitely be used as a wake-up call for this weekend.”
Though winning one game, which would guarantee a conference title is the first goal this weekend, Oregon State hopes to finish the game on a three-game winning streak entering the playoffs. More important than that is the impact this weekend could have on seeding for regionals. As of now, Baseball America projects Oregon State as the No. 1 seed in the nation.
While the Beavers are considered a lock for a top-eight national seed at this point, a loss or two could drop OSU a few spots.
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Throughout the year, Oregon State athletes have had some impressive and unbelievable performances. Though this list could go on and on, the Barometer sports staff came up with 10 that stood out to us. In no particular order, here are the best individual performances of the year. Continued on page 6
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Fry’s no-hitter: March 8, 2014 In the first game of a nonconference double-header, junior left-hander Jace Fry did something that had only been done four other times in Oregon State history. The southpaw threw a complete-game shutout without allowing a hit. The lefty struck out 10 Huskies’ batters in his first career no-hitter, and was just two walks away from throwing a perfect game.
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Junior left-hander Jace Fry takes a sign against Stanford April 6 in Goss Stadium. Fry threw a no-hitter against Northern Illinois earlier in the season. Fry needed only 99 pitches to complete the feat, throwing 66 strikes while completing the game in a Goss Stadium record: one hour and 46 minutes. It was the first no-hitter an Oregon State pitcher threw since Josh Osich did it against UCLA on April 30, 2011. Fry’s performance was one Beaver Nation won’t forget for a long time.
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Senior RJ Pena waves to the Gill Coliseum crowd one last time after recording a pin against No. 6 Oklahoma Jan. 25.
Pena goes out on top: Jan. 25, 2014 Facing a heavily favored No. 6 Oklahoma squad on Senior Day, RJ Pena stepped onto the mat for the last time as an Oregon State Beaver. Against No. 19 Justin DeAngelis and trailing the Sooners, 10-9, Pena did what he does best. The senior from Salem got an early takedown and leveraged his opponent in an attempt at a much-needed pin. One minute and 53 seconds into the match, Pena pinned DeAngelis,
bringing the Gill Coliseum crowd to its feet and giving the Beavers a 15-9 advantage. Pena received a well-deserved standing ovation and head coach Jim Zalesky ushered him onto the mat for a curtain call. Oklahoma ended up claiming a come-from-behind victory, but not before Pena added a finishing touch to his illustrious career.
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GARRETT n Continued from page 5 to play their tails off every day,” Tinkle, who comes to OSU after eight seasons at Montana, said Wednesday. “That’s something we’ll never compromise.” A commitment to defense. Rejoice, Beaver Nation. That, in and of itself, is reason to believe Tinkle will prove to be a better man for the job than Robinson, whose six-year tenure in Corvallis ended after 94 wins and 105 losses. Shortly after Robinson was fired a little more than two weeks ago, I asked Langston Morris-Walker what he’d like to see in a new coach. MorrisWalker, OSU’s only returning starter, said he’d like to see a coach brought in who can “give (OSU) a defensive scheme to stop people.” But, I countered, can coaches really “coach” defense? “Not really, actually,” Morris-Walker said. “But they have to be able to motivate people; get people who aren’t really comfortable (playing defense) to play defense.” So were players not motivated to
sports@dailybarometer.com • 541-737-2231 play defense this past season? “Not everyone bought into playing defense,” Morris-Walker said. “It hurt us.” There it is, the Beavers’ 16-16 season-gone-wrong (and Robinson’s undoing) explained in one honest assessment. Morris-Walker, who was seated about 10 feet from Tinkle during Wednesday’s press conference, couldn’t help but smile when he heard his new coach’s philosophy explained. The Beavers, Tinkle proclaimed, will be a “disciplined” team offensively that relies on spacing, ball movement and selflessness. But offense, for the most part, will be an afterthought. “If they’re getting stops, rebounding the ball and being physical defensively,” Tinkle said, “then they’re going to have the freedom to go have some fun on offense.” The stats of Tinkle’s Montana team prove he wasn’t blowing smoke with his defense-first talk. In eight seasons under Tinkle, the Grizzlies never finished worse than third in the Big Sky Conference in scoring defense. Three times they finished with one of the
top-50 scoring defenses in the country – peaking at 20th in 2011 – and twice finished among the nation’s top 40 in terms of field goal percentage defense. Oregon State, meanwhile, finished last in the Pac-12 in scoring defense each of the past three seasons. This past season, the Beavers finished 299th nationally (out of 345 teams) in scoring defense (75.6 points per game) and 240th nationally in field goal percentage defense (44.9 percent). Robinson routinely talked about needing to get “four more stops a game.” But for the most part, it was just talk. Robinson’s teams prided themselves on their ability to score, and when games didn’t go their way, Robinson often blamed his players for “not following the offensive game plan.” I imagine Tinkle will sing a different tune after losses. “Some nights shots won’t fall, some nights an opponent can’t miss, but you can always control your effort and attitude,” Tinkle said. Here’s to guessing a Tinkle-led team
won’t suffer any 51-point home losses to Seattle U., or (for a more recent example) a 24-point home loss to Washington. After suffering through six mostly disappointing seasons under Robinson, Beaver fans surely have a host of questions regarding Tinkle’s coaching acumen, which can only be answered once games begin. Is he capable of making necessary in-game adjustments? Will he figure out how to best utilize the talent he has available to him? Is he a better “X’s and O’s” guy than Robinson? Those were three of Robinson’s greatest shortcomings. And we won’t know if Tinkle will be any better in those areas until he’s given an opportunity to prove he is. But arguably Robinson’s biggest shortcoming as a coach was his inability to get his teams to commit to the defensive end. And that’s a shortcoming we’ve already learned Tinkle doesn’t share.
BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 advance past regionals. We’re going to have to play our best baseball.” The biggest thing OSU hopes to get going this weekend is its offense, which scored just eight combined runs over the past four games (Oregon State went 2-2 during that span). Casey said he’s looking for his team to consistently compete at the plate against the Trojans. “We didn’t compete (Tuesday night),” Casey said. “We couldn’t sustain anything or compete for entire at-bats. We need to be better there.” Senior second baseman Andy Peterson is questionable this weekend with an ankle injury suffered in Saturday’s win against Washington. Senior first baseman Kavin Keyes played for the first time since April 13 on Tuesday — pinch-hitting in the ninth inning — but it’s uncertain how much he’ll be used this weekend. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday at Dedeaux Field. Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor
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Sophomore center Ruth Hamblin drives toward the basket against Oregon Jan. 13 in Eugene.
Hamblin’s crazy triple-double: January 13, 2014 One of the big reasons why the OSU’s women’s basketball team had such a successful season was the improved play of sophomore center Ruth Hamblin. At 6-foot-6, Hamblin is nearly unstoppable in the paint, given the right matchup. She ended the season averaging 9.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in 26.7 minutes per game and she set a Pac-12 record with 141 blocks (4.08 per game). No game better demonstrated her impact
than the Beavers’ Civil War game at home against the Ducks. The Beavers won their seventh-straight game against its rival, and Hamblin was huge. She finished with 23 points, 12 rebounds and an insane 10 blocks, giving Oregon State its first triple-double in 30 years. It was the first triple-double to include blocks. In two games against the Ducks, Hamblin averaged 25 points, 14 rebounds and 7.5 blocks.
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Quarterback Sean Mannion eyes his receiver against Colorado Sept. 28, 2013, in Reser Stadium.
Mannion’s record day: September 28, 2013 There was a time when junior quarterback Sean Mannion was a candidate for the Heisman Trophy. Through seven games, Mannion threw for 2,992 passing yards and 29 touchdowns, both of which led all Division-I quarterbacks. At the same time, he threw only three interceptions. It’s hard to choose just one game to put on this list, but his game against Colorado was historic. In that game, Mannion completed 27 passes for 414 yards and set an Oregon State school record with six touchdown passes. His performance led to the follow-
ing quote from Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre: “He threw into double-coverage three times against us, and three times (receiver Brandin) Cooks came up with it. We should have had three picks, but Sean Mannion can throw the football.” Mannion set a second school record that day. After throwing for 414 passing yards, it was the fifth-straight game he’d thrown for more than 350 yards, surpassing Derek Anderson’s record of four consecutive 350yard passing games.
Ausman makes her mark: May 2, 2014
Harrison breaks records at Pac-12s: Feb. 27, 2014
Chirichigno goes 5-for-5: May 4, 2014
Heading into the OSU High Performance meet, freshman Melissa Ausman hoped to break the previous OSU discus record of 155-3. She was close going in, roughly five feet away, and not only beat the mark, but crushed it.
Sophomore Sammy Harrison of the OSU swim team was coming off of a stellar fifth-place performance at her freshman Pac-12 meet. In her second year, she wanted more. Harrison delivered, winning the Pac-12 title in the 1,650meter freestyle, and became the first OSU swimmer to do so. In the process, she broke her own OSU record by more than 20 seconds, and achieved an NCAA “A” Standard mark. Her mark guaranteed her a spot at the NCAA Championships. In the same weekend she also finished fourth in the 500-meter freestyle, again breaking her own OSU record. Harrison went on to finish 10th in the nation in the 1,650 freestyle.
It was a game of fives for junior shortstop CJ Chirichigno: 5-for-5 at the plate, five runs batted in and her fifth home run of the season May 4 against UNLV. She also singled in the fifth inning and her home run in the next frame scored the fifth run of the game. Chirichigno’s effort gave the Beavers a comeback 10-7 win over UNLV. She didn’t take long to find pitches she liked — three of her hits came on the first or second pitch — and she showed patience when needed, hitting her home run on the 10th pitch of the at-bat and after six consecutive foul balls. Chirichigno’s 5-for-5 performance accounted for one-third of the team’s 15 hits, breaking the team’s season-high hit total.
She tossed the discus 168 feet, a personal record that bested her previous mark by nearly 20 feet. The mark earned her a spot at the NCAA Regional Prelims, and was the eighthbest freshman throw in the country. Before the throw, her PR was 151-10, a respectable mark, but nothing compared to her record-setting throw.
Reynolds’ swan song: December 24, 2013
Tang does it all against Arizona: March 9, 2014
Cooks torches Utah: Sept. 14, 2013
The Beavers suffered five consecutive losses to end the regular season, including a couple heartbreakers. The losing streak followed a six-game winning streak, and the Beavers were invited to play in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl against Boise State University. The Beavers ended up winning ,38-23, but it took a huge performance from senior cornerback Rashaad Reynolds in his final game. With three minutes remaining in the first quarter, junior defensive end Scott Crichton forced Broncos quarterback Grant Hedrick to fumble. Reynolds picked up the ball and ran it back three yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, sophomore cornerback Larry Scott punched the ball out of BSU receiver Troy Ware’s hands, and Reynolds was there again to pick up the loose ball. He returned it 70 yards for his second touchdown of the day.
The Oregon State gymnastics team had its best road score of the season: a 197.050 against Arizona. Junior Chelsea Tang had her best overall performance of the 2014 season in that meet. She scored a 9.900 in her signature event, the beam, and also recorded an impressive performance in the allaround. She scored more than 9.850 in all four events, and accounted for an all-around score of 39.500, matching a career-high. A big performance was crucial for the Beavers, because their top home score is excluded from gymnastics rankings, meaning performing at a high level on the road is vital. Tang had big performances for the Beavers all season long, but this was her best.
The numbers speak for themselves: nine catches, 210 yards and three touchdowns in a 51-48 overtime win Sept. 14, 2013, against Utah. But Cooks’ game was bigger than just gaudy numbers. He made his biggest catches when they counted most: a 48-yard grab on a fourth-and-1 trick play that helped force overtime and a game-winning overtime touchdown catch. He also had a 55-yard catch-and-run touchdown in the second quarter and an 18-yard score with 2:29 left in regulation. The Utah game was Cooks’ best of the year, statistically, and it may have made the difference in his reception of the Biletnikoff Award.
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ea to the Portland Trail Blazers’ phenomenal season, and first postseason series victory in more than a decade. Yea to our sports editor, who is a dedicated and — more importantly — practical fan of the team. He finally got his “yea.” Nay to the impractical fans who think the Blazers are going to finish 82-0 every season and win the NBA title. Yea to not having to hear about Damian Lillard for the next six months. Nay to having to hear about the NBA Draft and NFL mini-camps and training camps for the next three months. Yea to baseball, for existing and for keeping us sane. Nay to the continued overuse of sports topics in “Yeas & Nays.” Yea to U.S. District Judge Michael McShane for striking down Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban. It’s amazing how long it’s taken for this to happen, but we’re glad it did. Drunken mistakes are not limited to straight people — everyone can wake up hungover and married in Oregon now. Nay to Arkansas beating Oregon to that feat. Arkansas? Really? Yea to Ellen DeGeneres’ (virtual) appearance on campus, and for rewarding five students with many dollar bills. Hopefully that money can help pay for university. Ironically, the only reason those students were selected was because they attend this university. Nay to people constantly misunderstanding irony. Yea to being within sniffing distance of graduation. And it smells oh-so good. Nay to our soon-to-be college graduates who still refuse to register to vote, or who register and let their ballots and voter information handbooks gather dust on the coffee table. Yea to a much-needed long weekend. It’s been an exhausting term and year. An extra day off in late May is divine. Nay to the Barometer not printing again until Wednesday. We don’t make the rules here; we just follow them. But if something happens Friday through Tuesday, expect to see it in Wednesday’s paper. If you feel withdrawal symptoms, we do have a website — imagine that. Yea to Memorial Day, the actual reason we are getting a day off. For those of you who don’t know, the holiday is to honor the men and women who have died while serving their country. This isn’t just the university saying, “You know what? You’ve been a great student and human being this year, have a day off.” Nay to the U.S.’s military presence in Afghanistan continuing into its 13th year. Yea to the troops. We support our soldiers, if not the war. Yea to a change of pace. Yea to beating a team composed of football players in intramural softball. Yea to beating them in a virtual play-in game, with each team needing a win to reach the playoffs. Yea to losing by two runs with one out remaining in the game, rallying to score eight straight runs without getting an out and winning by six runs. Nay to half the team for not coming out to shake our hands and say “good game” after it was over. We know who you are — because we cover your team. See you at the Peacock.
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rying to care about what happens in the outside world when you’re swamped with homework, tests, papers and projects can be difficult. Even when the aforementioned things are not necessarily present, it’s difficult to devote enough brain space to think about genuinely pressing issues like “Bring Back our Girls” or Vladimir Putin bullying the Ukraine, when the most simplistic way to think about these issues is to sigh and conclude that if it doesn’t apply to you, it doesn’t count. And while it is understandable that students don’t want to waste time on things that don’t directly affect them, it is also inexcusable. We live in a world wherein information is immediately at our fingertips on an international level, and in which
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forming a sense of universality can only bring good things. Besides, knowing what’s going on in the world is just flat-out smart, because it gives you the opportunity to make well-informed decisions about how to live your life. It is also a key step toward self-empowerment and advancement. By being aware of what is happening in the world, and by caring about what happens humanity, we can all hopefully avoid the frog-in-boilingwater scenario.
How informed you are as an individual, as well as who does the informing, can have a huge effect on why you vote and who you vote for. If all you have in your repertoire are a series of soundbites and misinformation as reasoning for why someone is going to get your vote, instead of researched and factual data about how candidates do business and how they interact with the international side of things, you might want to go back to the drawing board. You wouldn’t buy a car without checking its history and looking at the reviews it received or listening to how the engine sounds when it starts it up, so why would you treat choosing someone who has a say in See RUUD | page 8
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he parking enforcement officer, the parking inspector, the traffic warden: these are the correct names for the people we at Oregon State University call “meter maids.” They scour the streets with what we all think is their main goal in life — ruining people’s days, $10 to $40 at a time. Maybe the student body is right; maybe these people are out to get us, by passive-aggressively making us gather every quarter we can find in our house before we go out, for fear of the government’s hammer of justice.
what more civilized in regards to our traffic wardens than the United Kingdom. Traffic wardens are in a variety of countries, but have the Alec most notoriety in the U.K. There, things are a bit different. The traffic wardens are equipped with stab vests and a pack of cotton swabs. The cotBut before such allegations can be ton swabs are, unfortunately, used to made, the position of traffic warden swab the DNA on their faces, in order should be looked at more closely. The to prosecute the individuals who spit work these individuals do is in fact on them. just that: work. That seems a bit much. It’s a job that pays the bills and I have racked up hundreds of dolcollects revenue for the government. See GREVSTAD | page 8 At least here in the U.S., we are some-
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Regarding ASOSU’s ‘We don’t say’ campaign
The ASOSU Commandments No doubt most people agree with ASOSU’s intentions in their “We Don’t Say That Here” campaign. Its paternalistic tone, however, comes across as moralizing. And despite the noble intent, it is not very far from “We don’t” to “Thou shalt not.” Steven McLain Class of 2013
Regarding parking
Hotel, parking garage plan good for Corvallis’ long-term economy Kudos to the backers of the Hyatt Place Hotel and their proposed public-private parking structure idea. Public parking is the bane of most desirable communities and historic downtown districts. Indeed, it’s hard to measure just how many dollars are being lost to area retailers and restaurants from people who get frustrated with the lack of parking spaces and drive off to other communities to shop and eat. One creative local restaurateur is offering patrons free valet parking to try and offset the downtown parking imbalance. But that’s not a permanent solution. The plan to increase the hotel size to 130 rooms and build a 155-space parking garage makes perfect sense for Corvallis. Our community is short of hotel rooms by a wide margin. This is especially apparent during OSU sports activities, when many visitors stay in surrounding communities, leaving their hotel room tax dollars, and most likely, a good portion of their food and entertainment dollars, elsewhere. The hotel will support downtown businesses by providing easy pedestrian access to downtown’s many fine restaurants, shops, the river walk and so on. The parking garage will not only support the hotel, but will provide much needed public parking, especially on busy Saturdays when locals and visitors flock to the Farmer’s Market, or stroll along First, Second or Third Streets. While the financing may appear complicated on the surface, it looks like a win-win for the city, with very little risk to local taxpayers. With other downtown developments on the horizon — the Jax 118 apartment and retail complex and the new Benton County Historical Museum — downtown Corvallis is shaping up into a very desirable place for locals and tourists alike. We encourage the City Council to take this proposal seriously and add another positive element to Corvallis’s economic future. Kevin Dwyer Executive Director Corvallis Chamber of Commerce
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I’m writing in response to Cassie Ruud’s May 18 opinion piece, “PETA aggression toward ag students prevents compromise.” This article looks as though Ruud cared more about a juicy story than actually representing the issues at hand. Agriculture students are See LETTERS | page 8 Ryan Mason is a junior in graphic design
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LETTERS n Continued from page 7 no doubt upset that peta2’s “Glass Walls” exhibit showed hundreds of OSU students the cruelty that animals face when they are raised and killed for the meat, dairy and egg industries. Peta2’s “Glass Walls” exhibit was popular at OSU in part because students were shocked to learn that in today’s industrialized meat and dairy industries, chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they’re still conscious, piglets have their tails and testicles cut off without being given any painkillers, fish are suffocated or cut open while they’re still alive on the decks of fishing boats and calves are taken away from their mothers within hours of birth. The meat industry doesn’t have animal welfare in mind when it raises animals on factory farms. In the last 50 years, there’s been a major shift in the meat, egg and dairy industries from small family farms to giant, industrialized animal factories. Pigs, chickens and turkeys are kept in massive sheds for their whole lives — the first time that they
Feds order $420K repayment over failed Prineville resort
feel sunlight on their backs is when they are being loaded onto a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. Much of the institutionalized cruelty to animals shown in PETA’s and other groups’ undercover investigations and whistle-blower reports is not a violation of animal-protection laws. Cutting chickens’ beaks off with a hot blade, castrating pigs without painkillers and burning the horns from cows’ heads with a hot iron are considered routine in an industry that slaughters billions of animals a year. Although there are some laws in place to protect animals who are used for food, they simply don’t go far enough and — quite often — aren’t followed or regularly enforced. PETA and other animal advocacy groups continue to work for stronger regulations and to demand stricter enforcement of the laws that do exist. Thankfully, there is a lot that students at OSU can do to help animals. Simply adopting a more humane, healthier vegan diet is the best thing that someone can do for animals. Kenneth Montville
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PRINEVILLE — Under a deal reached with federal officials, the president of a Portland real state firm has been ordered to repay over $420,000 to its profit-sharing plan for losses due to “imprudent” real estate investments in a planned Prineville resort that eventually failed. Under terms o a consent judgment entered into by the U.S. Department of Labor, Portlandbased Georgetown Realty Inc., the company’s owner, John Mahaffy, and the Georgetown Realty Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust, will pay $420,127 to the plan for losses due to imprudent real estate investments directed by Mahaffy. “Employee benefit plan fiduciaries have a duty to put the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries above all others when considering an investment,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security Phyllis Borzi. “This judgment means plan assets are going back where they belong – into the plan accounts and eventually into participants’ pockets.” An investigation by the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration found that, from
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they’re going to be in the spotlight, which is why it’s crucial to not stop paying attention after how your country is run any the elections. This duplicitous apathy can differently? The way to check the “car be an interesting factor for facts” of a candidate is to what gets written about in the inform yourself about local, news — for example, before I state and national issues before get to write a column, I’m comthe election; more importantly, manded to consider whether to keep yourself informed after the subject has any topical the election. Things are always and relevant application to cleaner when people know either Oregon State University
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2005 to 2007, Mahaffy used the plan’s assets to purchase property in an effort to develop it into a resort, known as the RiverGate project. The project involved purchasing parcels of land overlooking the Crooked River and the Meadow Lakes Golf Course in Prineville. By the end of 2008, Mahaffy had spent most of the plan’s cash and sold off most of its securities to fund RiverGate, officials said. Mahaffy’s actions left the plan with more than 80 percent of its assets in the RiverGate project, an illiquid investment. The project failed, the lenders foreclosed on the plan’s properties throughout 2009 and 2010, and the plan participants lost substantial retirement assets., the Labor Department noted. In addition to repaying the plan for losses, as ordered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Portland Division, Mahaffy also was barred from serving any employee benefit plan covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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GREVSTAD n Continued from page 7 lars in parking fines. I’ve had to visit the cold, desolate office of Parking and Transit Services and make the walk of shame up to the front of the line to cash out all of my little orange slips. Did it make me happy? No. That money could have gone toward space camp, or a new fishing pole. However, tickets are necessary. Imagine the anarchy there would be if there weren’t any parking inspections on our streets. Cars would be parking on lawns, fire zones would be crowded, people would be rioting in the streets. Even though they have a job that is as well-regarded by members of society as that of the dentist, they do at least deserve the common respect a fellow human should receive.
or the state of Oregon. But if something occurs of which students are aware and active concerning an international issue, there can be more freedom to address the world outside this college bubble in which we exist. t
Cassie Ruud is a senior in English. The
opinions expressed in Ruud’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Ruud can be reached at forum@ dailybarometer.com.
They aren’t out to get you. They’re just doing a job to pay the bills and support their families. All of the money made from parking tickets goes to government revenue anyway. This means that what we “give” to traffic wardens we will get back in paved roads and other public service goods we can’t live without — like the public libraries. Hopefully American society doesn’t devolve to traffic wardens with a need to wear stab vests. If anything, I think that we as a culture should have less hostility toward people who are just doing their jobs. We don’t have to like them, but we should at least respect them — and their adorable little tricycle cars. t
Alec Grevstad is a senior in speech communications. The opinions expressed in Grevstad’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Grevstad can be reached at forum@ dailybarometer.com.
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