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The Everyone Matters at OSU campaign will host a pinning ceremony on the Memorial Union steps Monday at 11 a.m. to recognize faculty and staff members who embody the organization’s core values of equality and unity.

Students nominated faculty and staff members whom they believe make OSU a better place, submitting their summaries in 140 characters or less. More than 30 individuals were nominated; those who win will receive metal lapel pins during Monday’s ceremony.

“The pins serve multiple purposes,” said committee coordinator Hannah Pynn. “They are for people to wear to say they are in alignment with our values. But the pins are also for when incidents of hate or violence occur on our campus; immediately, people can wear these pins to demonstrate that we’re working toward an inclusive campus.”

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Budget director, former College of Science dean works with college administrators, assists with major university budget decisions

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OSU budget director Sherm Bloomer keeps various rocks from active Western Pacific volcanoes around his office.

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Oregon State University’s budget director, Sherm Bloomer, knows a thing or two about numbers. However, he didn’t come from a financial background like other past directors.

Bloomer’s work for OSU began when he was the dean of the College of Science for 12 years, which followed an even more extensive career as a professor.

“They’re very different worlds, but in the end I think the goals are pretty much the same,” Bloomer said.

Bloomer obtained his bachelor’s degree in geology from Rice University in Houston.

Following this, he eventually earned his Ph.D. in oceanography and marine sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Then, his teaching career included time at Duke University, Boston University and OSU. When he assumed the role of dean in 2000, Bloomer said he worked with various science departments to help them manage changes.

“That was a period of time when the university grew tremendously,” Bloomer said.

In 2012, Mark McCambridge, former vice president of finance and operations, and Provost Sabah Randhawa approached Bloomer with the opportunity to become the university’s budget director.

“It was a good time for me to look for something new to do,” Bloomer said.

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Baseball regional to alter weekend parking New system for lost items THE DAILY BAROMETER

Due to the Corvallis Regional Tournament, parking lots on the south side of campus may require payment or permits Friday through Sunday, and potentially Monday.

The Oregon State University baseball team is hosting the four-team tournament, which begins Friday at 2 p.m.

TheWashingtonWay, Finley and Reser Stadium parking lots, along with the parking garage, will be paid parking lots.

Parking at those locations will cost $10, according to Hank Hager, OSU assistant director of athletic communications.

The Gill Coliseum and Goss Stadium lots will require permits, except for the lot behind left field, which is for tournament officials, teams and media.

The Beavers are the No. 1 national seed for the NCAA Baseball Tournament, and will play their first postseason game Friday at 8 p.m. against North Dakota State.

If a seventh game in the regional is necessary, it will be played Monday at 8 p.m.

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In an effort to change stereotypes of women in the media, and empower young girls, Greek life united to support a non-profit charity, Girls on the Run. The fundraiser began last year to provide scholarships for girls who are interested in joining the positive youth development program, Girls on the Run, but could not afford it. Ten fraternities and 10 sororities in the Oregon

What once was lost can now be found a little more easily, thanks to five senior management students.

Peter Wang, Alexandra Marias, Tyler Elliott, Brittany Baimbridge and Zhipeng Xie worked as a group in their MGMT 456 class, a management field practicum class, to come up with, create and implement a business plan for their senior capstone project.

Wang came up with the idea for a centralized lost-and-found system after his friend lost a cell phone on campus during winter term. “(My friend) never found it, because he didn’t know where he lost it,” Wang said. “So I thought there has to be a better way.”

The team came up with a web page through the Memorial Union website that building managers from each building on campus, and staff from the current lost and found services, can log on to and catalog items lost or found on campus.

Students can contact building managers or campus lost and found to report any missing items, or to turn in any found items.

Because the catalog will be available campus-wide for the authorized campus employees, students will not have to run across campus to search for items: they can now go to one building, ask about the item they are searching for and a university employee can see if the item has been logged.

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Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Gamma and Sigma Kappa stand in support of Girls on the Run outside the Sigma Epsilon house.

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A celebration of the First Lady’s life Oregon State University will host a celebration of life for Beth Ray at 4:30 p.m. Monday at the LaSells Stewart Center.

The 67-year-old wife of OSU President Ed Ray died March 21 after battling lung cancer.

After a full-ride to Rice University, she began law school in 1968 at Stanford University, where she met her husband-to-be. They were married for 44 years and had three children.

Ray was a lifetime educator and previously a business law professor, an academic counselor and an assistant dean for academic advising before moving to Corvallis in 2003.

Ray was known for her commitment to OSU students and for her philanthropy in the wider Corvallis community. She was a member of the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board, for which she planned fundraising events and helped create the Women Investing in Samaritan Health, or Wish.

In January 2014, the OSU Academic Success Center was renamed the Beth Ray Center for Academic Support in her honor.

The Ray family does not request flowers at the celebration, but people can leave well wishes for the family and attend the event to honor her life.

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GOLD BEACH — Curry County residents who were sickened by improper aerial herbicide spraying last fall want Oregon lawmakers to tighten rules around both spraying and public health investigations.

On Oct. 16, Pacific Air Research sprayed herbicides on residential areas near Gold Beach, exceeded the amount of herbicide allowed and lied about the products it used, a state investigation recently found.

Forty-five residents, including 13 children, still experience symptoms, resident John Burns told a

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The third-grade class of Andrea Cress does math problems on Thursday at West Hills Elementary School in Pendleton. Mrs. Cress’ class currently has 29 students. classrooms.

“We have prioritized class sizes, and teachers, in our limited budgets and are pleased that the efforts are appreciated and noticed,” she said in an email. “We will continue to prioritize class sizes to the greatest extent possible.”

Preparation time Other concerns varied by district, with some teachers complaining about a lack of feedback from administrators and others giving low marks to their school’s parent outreach efforts. But after class sizes, one of the most consistently low percentages was the number of teachers who agreed with the statement “The non-instructional time provided for teachers in my school is sufficient.”

Statewide, only 37 percent of teachers felt they had sufficient prep time. That number was 44 percent in Pendleton, 48 percent in Hermiston, 45 percent in Milton-Freewater, 70 percent in Umatilla and 42 percent in Morrow County.

Hermiston Superintendent Dr. Fred Maiocco said Hermiston teachers haven’t seen a reduction in preparation time, but he believes half of the district’s teachers felt their non-instructional work time was insufficient because they are now required to use so much of that time for things like inputting data instead of planning lessons.

“It’s really a matter of all the additional and ancillary demands that have crept into that prep time ... the demands on our teachers are really extraordinary and the TELL survey has really helped show that,” he said.

Overall happiness Despite challenges in staffing and preparation time, Umatilla and Morrow county schools received higher marks than the

state average on most questions, including “overall, my school is a good place to work and learn.”

Statewide 84 percent of teachers agreed with the statement, but in Hermiston 86 percent agreed and in Pendleton 88 percent agreed.

Mooney said Pendleton administrators were pleased to see that they were higher than the state average on overall job satisfaction but they won’t be completely happy until they see that number hit 100 percent.

“What would be helpful is to find that 12 percent that weren’t in agreement and ask why,” Mooney said.

The full results of the TELL Oregon survey, broken down by district and school, can be found online at www.telloregon.org/results.

Statewide, teachers agreed most with the statements “Teachers require students to work hard,” “Teachers believe what is taught will make a difference in students’ lives,” and “Faculty work in a school environment that’s safe.”

Odds and Ends • Only one third of teachers in Oregon believe they have enough instructional time to sufficiently cover all of the material they are required to teach.

• Neither Hermiston or Pendleton school districts had any statements that every teacher agreed with. In both cases the highest percentage of teachers agreed that they have reliable access to communication technology such as email and phones (98 percent in Hermiston and 95 percent in Pendleton).

• Stanfield and Ukiah did not have enough teachers complete the survey to have the results made public.

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PENDLETON — Class sizes are too big and preparation time too short, according to Oregon’s teachers who took a statewide survey published this week.

The TELL Oregon survey asked more than half of the state’s teachers 87 questions about their job. The results painted a picture of teachers who are weary of dealing with large classes and increasing demands on their time that educators say have become the new normal.

Class size Only one in four teachers in Oregon believes their school’s class sizes are “reasonable such that teachers have the time available to meet the needs of all students.”

In most districts it was the elementary school teachers who were least likely to agree that their class sizes were reasonable.

Pendleton’s assistant superintendent Tricia Mooney said the fact that class sizes were a concern for teachers wasn’t a surprise.

“In Oregon we recently went through a recession. As part of that districts had to do reductions in force, and in Pendleton we weren’t immune to that,” she said. “The good news is we are starting to come out of that and slowly add teachers back.”

However, she said the reductions in force “didn’t happen overnight” and neither has adding the teachers back, which is why Pendleton teachers are still feeling the effects.

At the beginning of the school year, an average fifth-grade class in Hermiston had 25 students and an average third-grade class in Pendleton had 30 students.

In Pendleton only 22 percent of teachers surveyed said their class sizes were reasonable. No teachers at West Hills Intermediate thought their class sizes were reasonable, only 6 percent at McKay Creek Elementary did and only 8 percent at Sherwood Heights Elementary. Sunridge Middle School had the best score, with 47 percent of teachers calling their class sizes reasonable to meet the needs of all students.

In Hermiston, where more than 90 percent of teachers completed the survey, only half said their class sizes are reasonable. At Hermiston High School that number jumps to 65 percent, but at Sunset Elementary only 16 percent of teachers agreed with the statement.

In Milton-Freewater 38 percent of teachers thought their class sizes were reasonable.

In Umatilla School District, 66 percent of teachers said their class sizes were reasonable, including 100 percent of the teachers surveyed at Clara Brownell Middle School and 52 percent at McNary Heights Elementary.

Superintendent Heidi Sipe said the district has been focused on preventing overcrowded

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One has died of sudden, unexplained heart problems.

Animals, too, are sick and dying, Burns said.

Worse, the residents told lawmakers, they got no help from state public health, forestry or agriculture officials.

“We knew we had poisons dropped on us, and we wanted to know what they were,” Burns said. “We didn’t get the answer to what the poisons were until April 8. That is a crime.”

Lisa Hanson, deputy director of the state Department of Agriculture, admitted that the department could have done a better job of communicating with

residents.

“ODA limited the information we were providing to the residents.

We were more focused on building our pesticide case,” Hanson said. “We could have done a better job with coordination among state agencies as well,” Lawmakers questioned why the Oregon Health Authority didn’t mount a public health response, testing the soil or drinking water, or testing residents for exposures.

State Epidemiologist Katrina Hedberg said that’s not the role of the agency.

“We rely on physicians to make a diagnosis and laboratories to get the test results. Our public health

lab doesn’t do testing on humans for pesticide exposure,” Hedburg said. “It’s really up to clinicians to be working with patients to make sure they get the treatment they need.”

The chemicals were meant for nearby forestland that recently had been logged. The investigation did not unearth why they were sprayed on homes and a nearby golf course.

The state Department of Justice is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine penalties in the case, Hanson said.

Both California and Washington have stricter rules for spraying than Oregon.

PORTLAND — Six monkeys died of unknown causes while in quarantine at the Oregon Zoo last Saturday. The six cotton-top tamarins were found dead by veterinary staff.

Zoo officials say the monkeys belonged to a group of nine tamarins that arrived at the zoo on May 22. They say the remaining three monkeys appear to be in good health.

Those monkeys are being closely monitored.

Tim Storms, veterinarian with the Oregon Zoo, says the zoo is investigating the cause of the monkey deaths.

“We’re working to try and find out why,” Storms says.

“They’ve got post-mortem exams and we’re waiting for histopathology results to come back shed some light on that.”

Zoo officials hope to receive the results within a few weeks.

In January, a twenty-yearold male orangutan died at the zoo after a sudden illness.

Earlier this month, the former zoo director and senior veterinarian were fired. Metro concluded that “mistakes were made” in the case of the Orangutan’s death.

Young workers missing surge of new jobs

By Sergio Cisneros

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PORTLAND — The state’s economy continues to recover from the Great Recession by adding thousands of jobs, according to a new report. But, very little of the job growth is going to younger workers Oregon analysts say.

People ages 16 to 24 make up 13 percent of the labor force, but accounted for 29 percent of Oregon’s unemployed last year. That’s according to the Oregon Employment Department.

Nick Beleiciks is a state employment economist. He says the share of unemployed young people with no previous work experience nearly doubled since the early 2000s.

“Younger workers today are competing for jobs with older workers who may have more experience and more flexible schedules.”

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PORTLAND — Governor John Kitzhaber called on the state and federal governments Thursday to take legal action against Oracle for Cover Oregon’s botched website.

The governor wrote to Oregon’s attorney general asking that the state seek damages and the recovery of payments made to the California software giant.

He also wrote to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which has the ability to fine Oracle under the False Claims Act. “This to me is the next logical step,� said Kitzhaber. “We’ve accomplished our enrollment goals. We’ve held people in state government accountable. We’ve turned Cover Oregon around and now we need to move onto the problems of the technology.�

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Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber talks to the Portland City Club March 15, 2013.

The governor has also asked Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to use their oversight authority to recoup taxpayer dollars.

At a legislative hearing, State Representative Dennis

Richardson, who’s challenging Kitzhaber in the November election, said he’s troubled that the governor has said that he had no way of knowing about the website problems.

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statement in response to the Governor’s announcement. “Contrary to the story the State is promoting, Oracle has never led the Oregon Health Exchange project. OHA and Cover Oregon were in charge and badly mismanaged the project by consistently failing to deliver requirements in a timely manner and failing to staff the project with skilled personnel.

The Governor admitted as much in his statement, and these facts are supported by extensive documentation. We understand the political nature of the announcement just made and that the Governor wants to shift blame from where it belongs.

We are proud of the work that we have done to enable over 420,000 Oregonians to enroll in health care. We look forward to an investigation that we are confident will completely exonerate Oracle.�

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State University Greek community united to help fund girls in need through a weeklong, competitive philanthropic event, Greek Team Challenge.

McKenzie Smith, a member of Delta Gamma, created the idea and it was rekindled this year through the efforts of Shannon Conklin and 20 Greek houses. Conklin, who was Smith’s little last year, continued the event due to her passion for empowering young children.

“I don’t think there ever should be a reason not to believe in yourself,” Conklin said.

Students were given tickets for Papa’s Pizza, Buffalo Wild Wings and Qdoba. When presented to these restaurants, 15 percent of the proceeds go toward scholarships.

The week saw members of the Greek community hosting a coin drive Thursday near the Milam Hall entrance. They will show a popular film called “Misrepresentation” in Milam at 5 p.m. Friday.

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“In some way or another, the operations of almost every part of the university (come through the budget office),” he said.

Kevin Gable, chemistry department chair and former faculty senate president, has worked with Bloomer during his time as budget director and College of Science dean.

“He really did his best to try and balance the competing demands on the college both on the different departments and from the different departments,” Gable said.

Gable said 2008 and 2009 were especially challenging for the university because of the recession. To this day, various departments often compete for a certain number of available resources.

“We all know we live in a world of finite resources,” Gable said.

“If I don’t ask for everything I possibly want, it’s not going to get handed to me.”

During later associations with Bloomer as budget director, Gable said it helped to know someone who had served in an

we are a unified community,” Pynn said. “While incidents are going to occur wherever we are, people can still take actions of learning and growing to be an inclusive community.”

While Pynn and the rest of the campaign team hope many students join the celebration Monday, they stressed the importance of following the nominees’ examples by continually doing the little things, one day at a time.

“Every single day, you’re working to provide an inclusive and equitable campus in your sphere and realm of influence,” Pynn said.

The pinning ceremony is free to attend and open to the public.

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“(The film) allows us to recognize the barriers that the media places on women,” Conklin said, “the bias of how women should be portrayed.”

Last year’s showing of the film was for Greek life, but this year, coordinators of the event will open it to the public. The film, Conklin hopes, will inspired girls to look at the media and realize the images presented are not the social norm.

“You don’t have to be super skinny,” Conklin said. “You can be leaders.”

The week-long event ends with a 5K run Saturday at 8 a.m.

“This is a big event for the girls, because it’s where they put all this work to the test,” Conklin said.

The winner and team that raised the most money during the week’s competition will also be announced Saturday.

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as housing and dining, parking academic role beforehand.

“He’s been really good at being and transportation and athletics.

“In each of those arenas, there able to explain the complexities of the budget in terms people are ways things work and poliwho are not budget wonks can cies and practices that exist for understand very well,” Gable a reason,” he said.

Bloomer still occasionally said.

In January and March, heads out on research expediBloomer presented various tions with colleagues when he has an opportunity. budget out“Every so lines and often when proposals to the board He’s been really good there’s a cruise out there, of trustees to plan for at being able to explain I’m able to get away for the 2015-17 the complexities of two or three biennium, a the budget in terms weeks and process that people who are not do research,” will conBloomer said. tinue when budget wonks can Though he the board understand very well. misses the becomes classroom active in July. environment, Kevin Gable Serving as Bloomer said Chemistry department chair budget direcoffering pretor has given sentations and Bloomer an additional opportunity to see how the university advice to the university’s adminfunctions outside of academia istration and board of trustees and why certain regulations has allowed him to utilize his skills as an instructor over the come into practice.

Describing the university as years.

“In a lot of ways, it’s like being a big, complicated mechanism, Bloomer said his new position in a classroom,” Bloomer said. gave him a new appreciation Sean Bassinger for the inner workings of variHigher education reporter ous other departments, such managing@dailybarometer.com

LOST n Continued from page 1 that was left in the project was to train university employees on how to login to the system and log items.

“Basically, the system will be finalized before finals,” Wang said.

The group agreed that the hardest part of the project was sorting out whom on campus to contact about implementing the web page.

After initially speaking with OSU’s central web services, the students found their way to Kent Sumner, the assistant director for Memorial Union marketing and assessment.

“From my end, it’s been a very simple process,” Sumner said. “I just sat and listened to them talk about the great idea and the enthusiasm they had about it, and then we set up a page on the website and they set up the URL and they built the page and everything related to it.”

The students said they spent a lot of time

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researching and contacting campus individuals to get help set up their web page.

Everyone involved felt it was a necessary change and will make life easier for a lot of people at OSU in future years.

“I hope that when we look back, maybe we go on the Oregon State website and see that it’s still implemented and what we did made an impact,” Elliott said.

Marias said the new system may take a while for some individuals to get used to, but once people understand how to use the web page, they seem to enjoy the convenience.

“The people who are excited, or who get it and see the benefits of it, are really excited to see it implemented and see it be used,” Marias said.

“They kind of see what we see in the fact that it’s going to benefit students later on.”

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The men’s rowing team has been in New Jersey since Tuesday, where they’ve been preparing for the final regatta of the year: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.

The No. 19 Beavers earned an atlarge bid 10 days ago when the IRA selection committee rounded out the 24 teams that will compete in the championships. The IRAs begin Friday, and will wrap up Sunday. All of the races will be held on man-made Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. “It’s beautiful. Mercer Lake is a really nice race course — one of the best in the country,” said head coach Steve Todd. “It’s been a nice place to get in and get practicing both (Wednesday) and (Thursday).”

The Beavers should be fairly wellrested. Their last event was May 18 at the Pac-12 Championships. Oregon State sent four boats to that event, and wound up taking home three bronze medals. The only crew not to medal for OSU was the Varsity 8, which finished 2.9 seconds behind Stanford.

“The three boats that came away with the bronze medals all had really good races,” Todd said. “They executed our plan very well. The two boats that came from behind to beat Stanford have something to really be proud of.

“The varsity had a good race; it’s just that we need to improve in our first half to put us in a little bit better position towards the end. A second or so faster in the first 500 meters, who knows what could happen.”

The Beavers ultimately finished third overall in the Pac-12s behind No. 1 Washington and No. 2 California, and ahead of No. 13 Stanford. All four of those teams will represent the Pac12 in the IRAs. The Beavers are sending their Varsity 8, Junior Varsity 8 and Third Varsity 8 crews to West Windsor, and quite a few crew members have prior experience racing in this event. The Beavers qualified for the national championships last year, and they finished 17th overall. Washington ended up sweeping the five openweight events for the second consecutive year.

However, last year’s regatta was held on Natoma Lake in Sacramento, Calif., where the weather was north of 100 degrees. New Jersey’s regatta looks to be vastly different.

“So far it’s been a little cloudy and cool; it’s kind of what we’re used to at home,” Todd said. “It’s supposed to get a little bit warmer over the next few days, but not into the hot, humid East Coast weather like we’ve had other times we’ve been out here.”

The Beavers’ V8 and 3V8 crews are both 15-seeds, while their JV8 is the 16-seed. Still, Todd is confident the team can improve upon last year’s results and finish better than 17th.

“If we really execute ... on Friday, and really perform the best we can, I think we can improve overall,” he said. “We’ve got a group that’s really racing well this year. These guys have performed even beyond their expectations, and hopefully that same thing happens (Friday).”

In the V8 race, the Beavers face three boats they’ve already competed against this year — No. 2 California, No. 12 Wisconsin and No. See ROWING | page 6

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Oregon State head coach Pat Casey (5) talks to his team during a pitching change against UCLA May 11 in Goss Stadium.

Oregon State entered the regular season ranked No. 2 in the nation. After 54 games, the Beavers exceeded expectations by finishing with the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament.

Now, Oregon State (42-12, 23-7 Pac12) is tasked with outlasting three other teams — North Dakota State, UNLV and UC Irvine — in this weekend’s doubleelimination regional.

With home-field advantage and the No. 1 ranking, there’s no question the Beavers are favored to advance to the Super Regionals. First, however, they’ll have to beat a North Dakota State (25-24, 10-12 Summit League) that is 8-2 in its last 10 games.

Head coach Pat Casey made it clear that OSU’s regular-season success has no bearing on what happens in the playoffs.

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Caleb Hamilton was more nervous for the first game of his Oregon State baseball career than he is for his postseason debut.

The freshman third baseman is still feeling somewhat anxious about stepping onto the field in Goss Stadium for Friday’s NCAA Regional opener against North Dakota State.

“It feels like I’m back at the first day of school,” he said. “I’m a little bit nervous, little bit of jitters (and) butterflies. But it’s just part of the fun of the game.”

Hamilton is one of three freshmen who make up the No. 1 Beavers’ (42-12, 23-7 Pac-12) remarkably young infield. Catcher Logan Ice and shortstop Trever Morrison join Hamilton around the diamond.

The three of them have not been shy about seeking advice about postseason play from the veterans in the clubhouse.

“They show us how to be bulldogs and how to be confident,” Hamilton said. “It’s really cool to see how they set an example and how they’re such leaders for us.”

None of the three freshmen have excelled at the plate this year — all have a batting average

lower than .250. Before the season started, head coach Pat Casey anticipated that hitting would be the biggest adjustment from high school to college for these 18- and 19-year-olds.

All three have proven their value in a number of other areas, though, and have been stalwarts in the lineup, with each starting at least 46 of OSU’s 54 games.

Morrison is one of three players on the team who have started all 54 games. The other two are Michael Conforto and Dylan Davis. The freshman shortstop has also provided OSU with a reliable glove in the infield; he is tied for third in the Pac-12 in assists and is tied for fifth in converted double plays.

Ice has thrown out runners attempting to steal at a 53 percent (17-of-32) rate, which is the best in the conference.

Hamilton showed his versatility by switching over to second base for the past two series after senior second baseman Andy Peterson injured his ankle.

“We’ve grown a lot,” Hamilton said. “We’ve become more mature, settled down and gotten really comfortable with where we’re at.”

“All the freshmen are doing great,” Morrison added. “The best thing was to experience the game atmosphere, this atmosphere at Goss.”

Casey joked that his advice for the freshmen in their first postseason appearance is to “close your eyes and hope it gets in your glove.”

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OSU freshmen Caleb Hamilton and Trever Morrison confer during a pitching change May 11.

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Oregon State junior Kinsey Gomez competes at the OSU High Performance May 2.

Freshman Melissa Ausman, sophomore Michele Turney and junior Kinsey Gomez are experiencing the conclusion of their season.

They are the lone OSU track and field athletes to make the postseason, and they will be heading to the NCAA Regional Preliminaries, which start Friday.

This point of the season can be a difficult transition for athletes, switching from training with teammates to training alone. Gomez is

experienced in this. She trained by herself most of the season as one of the few 10,000-meter runners, and also competed at NCAA Regionals last season.

“I’d say that it’s definitely more event-focused now,” Gomez said.

“But it can be good because you don’t have any sort of distraction. At the regional meet, there’s no room for fun, you’re there for a purpose.”

Ausman, as a freshman, is unfamiliar with the college postseason experience.

She has been training and competing with her teammates all season, and now they are gone.

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Runners better watch next step: Ducks at NCAA Preliminaries

By Chris Hansen

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EUGENE — No one needs to remind Mac Fleet about the tenuous nature of the NCAA West Prelimary meet.

Last year the Oregon runner didn’t have his best weekend during the preliminary meet and was one of the last automatic qualifiers for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 1,500.

He went on to win the national title.

Jordan Hasay wasn’t as lucky.

One of the favorites to win a title in the women’s 10,000, the Oregon senior instead failed to advance out of the prelims, her dreams dashed.

The Ducks will attempt to avoid similar pratfalls and close calls over the next three days dur-

ing the NCAA West Preliminary meet at the University of Arkansas’ Jim McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, starting at 10 a.m. today with the women’s javelin.

“It is very difficult, and I think a lot of people lose focus,” said Fleet who is again entered in the 1,500. “I was sick and that was right when the pinnacle of my training sequence really hit.

I was heavy legged and there were some really good athletes in there. If you’re not on, it’s not easy to qualify.”

After both Oregon teams won NCAA Indoor titles in March and Pac-12 championships earlier this month, the Ducks set their sights set on a dual NCAA Outdoor championship celebration as well. To help make that a reality, they took a combined 71 athletes with them to Arkansas — 12 more than any other team.

That is 36 men and 35 women trying to finish in the top 12 of their events this weekend to qualify for the NCAA championship meet, June 11-14 at Hayward Field. The top 12 from each event at the NCAA East Preliminary will join them in Eugene.

The events this weekend are essentially the first round

and quarterfinals of the NCAA Outdoor meet. For the 5,000 and 10,000, they are considered the semifinals.

“They know this is what we’ve built our season around,” Oregon coach Robert Johnson said. “I think we’re ready. We’re as ready as we’re ever going to be.

An old country boy like myself

from North Carolina would say, ‘The hay is in the barn.’ There’s not too much more we can do now.”

The Oregon men have their strength in the distance races, with freshman Edward Cheserek and seniors Parker Stinson and Trevor Dunbar each doubling in the 5,000 and 10,000.

Those three won’t have it easy.

Runners with 21 of the top 25 times in the NCAA this season are entered in the 10,000. Cheserek, Parker and Stinson are ranked, in order, No. 14, 15 and 16 after essentially running a time trial at the Stanford Invitational on April 5 to get a regional qualifier.

FRESHMEN n Continued from page 5 He then changed to a more serious tone, showing how much he respects his young infielders.

After 54 games with the three as his regular starters, Casey hardly considers them to be inexperienced. “(Whether they’re a) freshman, sophomore, junior — it doesn’t really matter,” Casey said. “This late in the season, they are prepared to handle this.”

Hamilton and Morrison said being relaxed is the most important way to alleviate any nerves or pressure this weekend.

OSU’s mantra, “one game at a time,” has been passed down to the newcomers, and that is the approach they are taking.

“We’re trying to keep it the same, just another game,” Morrison said. “Of course, we’ve got to have expectations for ourselves. We want to keep it simple.”

Last year’s club, which was two wins away from reaching the championship series at the College World Series, featured an entire infield of upperclassmen.

Freshmen make up 60 percent of this year’s infield, but Casey has deployed them with confidence all season and will continue to do so.

“These guys have played a bunch of games now,” he said. “They are all, for me, prepared to go.”

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Freshman third baseman Caleb Hamilton stands on second base against UCLA.

TRACK n Continued from page 5 two of her lowest discus throws of the season.

Her previous two throws have been some of her worst of the season.

The throw that helped her qualify for regionals, 168’, occurred nearly a month ago, but head coach Kelly Sullivan has mentioned that because of that, he always sees that she has the potential to excel in any given moment.

Gomez hopes to share her experiences with Ausman, as Gomez herself has improved each year, and looked at each step forward as a way to gain experience. As Ausman’s first postseason experience, she hopes to gain a

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Junior right fielder Dylan Davis (10) celebrates with senior infielder Jerad Casper after a home run against UCLA May 11 in Goss Stadium.

Casey said. “Nothing that happened in the regular season matters.

“I’m 100 percent sure that everyone that is here is here because they’re good and they deserve to be here. We’re all equal, we just need to go out and play good baseball.”

His players have received the message loud and clear. Losing three of the last four games of the regular season served as a wake-up call, and the Beavers say they are ready to get back to playing “Beaver baseball.”

“It’s great getting the No. 1 seed, but we can’t come out like that,” said senior second baseman Andy Peterson. “Everyone is 0-0 right now and we have to come out like we’re trying to get the same thing everyone else is. North Dakota State is going to come out and play hard.”

Peterson is a big reason why Oregon State is confident entering the weekend. Casey said after practice Thursday that the senior was a game-time decision after missing the past two weeks with an ankle injury, and that Peterson would decide Friday if he felt healthy enough to play.

Peterson erased any doubt about his status, saying he’ll be in the lineup Friday night.

“I’m going, absolutely,” Peterson said. “(My ankle) feels great. (Thursday) was the first day I really tested it. I ran around a little

lot of valuable experience that should benefit her in the future.

“I just want to share my experience with her,” Gomez said, “tell her not to be intimidated by the other athletes, because anything can happen on any day.”

Gomez was not happy with her performance at the Pac-12 Championships, where she finished 14th. She says she was disappointed at first, but was able to learn the strategy that she hopes to bring into her next race.

Gomez says that her performance at last year’s regionals, where she finished 42nd, and this year’s Pac12 Championships have lit a fire in her, and she feels confident for next weekend. Her best time in the 10K this

and put a bunt down and sprinted to first.

There will be a little bit of pain, but that’s normal. With adrenaline, I’m sure I won’t see much.”

With Peterson back at second base and senior Kavin Keyes in his usual spot at first base, Oregon State will have its opening day lineup healthy for the first time since Keyes went down with a fractured thumb April 13.

Having scored just seven runs in their past four games, it’s no surprise the Beavers are nothing less than ecstatic to get the entire team back just in time for the postseason.

“It’s going to be great to have those two seniors back,” said junior left fielder Michael Conforto. “It does a lot for us from the leadership side and from the overall feeling of coming back as a full team for the playoffs.”

“It’s a great time to get it back right when we need it the most,” added sophomore center fielder Jeff Hendrix. “I’m looking forward to playing with the whole lineup again and seeing what kind of damage we can do.”

While the Beavers are hopeful they’ll see improvement offensively, there’s still a big question mark in regards to their pitching.

Casey didn’t tell the media who will start on the mound Friday, calling it a “secret.”

Senior Ben Wetzler was Oregon State’s ace and Friday starter throughout the regular season, but was moved back in the rotation the past two weekends after serving a five-game suspension. Junior Jace Fry threw in Friday’s loss to USC, while sophomore

season, 34:37.80, has her seeded 38th.

Sophomore Michele Turney, along with Ausman, will be competing for the first time at the NCAA West Regional Preliminaries in the triple jump. Turney, who did not immediately qualify, was able to make her way into the lineup earlier this week after a pair of medical scratches.

Turney has steadily improved in her past three performances. Her personal-record, 40-4 3/4, ranks her 52nd in the West Region.

The top-12 performers in each event will move on to the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Eugene.

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Andrew Moore moved back to third in the rotation.

Casey said Moore will definitely pitch OSU’s third game of the regional, but didn’t commit to Fry or Wetzler for Friday.

“All three of those guys for me are guys that can pitch at this level and I have confidence in all three of them,” Casey said. “It’s more about who’s most ready to go than anything. … We’ll see (Friday) morning.”

Coming off a trip to the College World Series in 2013, the Beavers know they’re capable of advancing this weekend. They also know it’ll be no easy task.

Oregon State is drawing off the past two seasons’ experience this weekend. Conforto said OSU is more prepared than it was a year ago, when the Beavers came up just short of a national championship.

“We’ve got guys that played against LSU (two years ago in the Baton Rouge Regional) and then played on the biggest stage last year,” Conforto said. “There were times when the enormity of the situation and the stadium, and everyone there, got to us a little bit last year. We’re bringing back some experience … we know how to respond to those situations now.”

First pitch between Oregon State and North Dakota State is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Friday in Goss Stadium.

ROWING n Continued from page 5 33 Gonzaga. Oregon State came out ahead of both Wisconsin and Gonzaga the last time the varsity boats met.

“It does help the guys,” Todd said. “They know that they’ve done it before. It gives them some confidence to be able to do it again. Wisconsin has certainly picked up speed, but we’re really ready to race, and I think our guys have improved as well.”

This will be the 10th time in 12 seasons OSU has represented at the National Championships, and Coach Todd, in his eighth year as head coach, knows how important it is to get off to a good

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start in Friday’s races. Those will determine which teams will ultimately finish in the top 12 and which teams will finish in spots 13 through 24.

“Early on in the year, we talked about this Friday of the IRA being one of the most important days of the whole year,” Todd said.

“Almost the entire year we’ve talked about how Friday’s races at the championships are critical, you put yourself in position to either be in the top 12 or you’re in the second 12. Our goal is to make the semi-finals and hopefully be shooting for a top-10 finish.”

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ave you ever known someone who’s such a perfectionist they can’t even bring themselves to finish something if the end result doesn’t seem like it’s going to work out perfectly?

That person might be mildly annoying, but I think all of us are a little guilty of that attitude, especially with so many things demanding our time and attention.

For instance, sometimes “partial credit” reads to me like “don’t even bother,” which is completely ridiculous. We should all take what we can get — coincidentally, that’s the golden rule in college. The risk of doing partial credit work, in college and in life, is that someone somewhere will look down upon you for being lazy and/or incompetent.

Gabi

Scottaline It’s OK to want to do better. But you get in trouble when you let perfectionism hinder you from starting or finishing anything at all.

You don’t want to feed the propensity for chronic unhappiness as a result of not fulfilling your highest standards. But life is confusing for the perfectionist, because society tends to applaud their attitude and achievements.

“The reach for perfection can be painful because it is often driven by

both a desire to do well and a fear of the consequences of not doing well,” psychologist Monica Ramirez Basco is quoted in “14 Signs Your Perfectionism Has Gotten Out Of Control” by Carolyn Gregoire.

Because perfection is so hard to obtain, it’s a merciless master and a poor motivator. This, in turn, can lead to extreme procrastination, which is obviously not the best starting point for success. A perfectionist will also avoid anything that has risk of failure attached.

I know this doesn’t pertain to everyone, or even every college student for that matter, but it’s a terrible way to live.

We have to give ourselves allowances for unsuccessful acts, or even for high achievements that are deemed unsuccessful by the per-

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ast Friday, The Oregonian ran a story that recounted the daring tale of a 70-yearold man who tackled a burglary suspect and successfully pinned him — and not in the Pinterest way — until police arrived. The suspect was 20 years old.

I’m not going to lie: This ballad of the battle of James Vandecoevering from Hillsboro is more than kind of awesome.

The man put the suspect in a headlock and a chicken wing, and neither person was hurt at the end of the night.

Granted, the Hillsboro Police Department stated in the article

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that it does not encourage residents to approach or apprehend burglars, but should just call 911.

Yet, Vandecoevering utilized a form of self-defense when it came to peacefully restraining this burglar. That kind of self-assertion and control is incredibly powerful.

Self-defense is like a life jacket; you might not necessarily need

it every time you go out into the water, but it’s important to have it around and ready just in case, regardless of who you are.

Our society definitely skews the concept of self-defense as something women need to learn.

While it’s something important for women to know, everyone should know how to hold someone on the ground by the wrists until they cry “uncle” — just in case it’s ever necessary.

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Perfectionists could be more accurately termed procrastinators

Yeas & Nays H ea to the No. 1 Oregon State baseball team hosting this weekend’s regional and earning the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Beavers’ opponents are UNLV, UC Irvine and North Dakota State; unless the Anteaters take revenge on OSU for knocking them out of the 2007 College World Series, we expect to see more baseball next weekend at the Super Regional.

Nay to baseball-only parking being enforced Friday through potentially Monday. Unless you have been living under a rock, or just discovered what those four-wheeled machines moving around town are, you know that parking has been a major issue on campus all year. Construction has been enough of a deterrent for parking, but now we might as well park in Philomath and walk to campus, because it would be faster than circling the parking lots, trying to find that one open spot.

Yea to Snell Hall, the Barometer’s home for far too many years.

Nay to Snell Hall. Finding drinkable water and normal indoor temperatures has become almost as difficult to achieve as we suspect it was for cavemen.

Yea to the Forum page being littered with debate about ASOSU’s “We Don’t Say” campaign. It was not necessarily the intended purpose, but at least the advertising campaign has generated some interesting and intelligent discussion. Both sides of the spectrum have valid points.

Nay to people who say “lame.” We don’t say that.

Yea to a relaxing Memorial Day weekend. It was a well-deserved break from reality.

Nay to reality returning and not being prepared for it.

Yea to drinks on a Tuesday.

Nay to drinking on a Tuesday to mourn an intramural softball playoff loss.

Nay to being the only people at Clod’s for most of the night.

Yea to buying a cheesy-stuffed burger for the walk home. Everything is better with a burger in your hand.

Nay to realizing that there are only a few weeks remaining until it’s not socially acceptable to drink on a Tuesday with your buddies just because you can.

Yea to the FIFA World Cup quickly approaching.

Nay to not having a life in June because of it.

Yea to summer, nice weather and few responsibilities.

Nay to not having a summer vacation anymore after this.

Yea to the young students who have plenty of years ahead of them. It’s only downhill after college, they say.

Nay to “they,” since they’re always such pessimists.

Nay to the people who try too hard to relive their college years once they are years removed. Once you leave, you can’t come back. Unless you do come back — then more power to you.

Yea to finishing essays on time.

Nay to procrastinating to a stressful degree.

See you at the Peacock.

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Ryan Mason is a junior in graphic design

fectionism purist (like getting a B+).

It’s said that perfectionism is the enemy of creativity.

I’ve written a lot about myself and my attitudes in this column, but I think all English majors with a passion for writing are perfectionists.

Perhaps if perfection ever becomes less of a competition and more of a healthy driving force, it can be harnessed and used constructively.

Or maybe we’re just all doomed to a life of unfinished projects and fear of disapproval. t

Gabi Scottaline is a senior in English. The opinions

expressed in Scottaline’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Scottaline can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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Look out, Jetsons, we’re only missing flying cars D

id you ever watch “The Jetsons?” Maybe my generation is too young to know who the Jetsons are. It was a cartoon that aired in the 1960s about a family in 2062. They lived in a futuristic dreamland with robot maids, holograms, spaceship cars and nifty inventions to help them with their daily lives.

The Jetsons’ futuristic lives entertained audiences, because the futuristic lifestyle was so far-fetched.

But with the recent progress made in technology, maybe we’ll finally catch up to the Jetsons.

Within the past two years, we’ve seen advancements that will make our lives easier and more interesting.

One of the biggest advancements that’s recently gained popularity is the 3-D printer.

There’s now a printer that actually prints physical objects, with a variety of materials. Statues, children’s toys, batteries smaller than a grain of sand and hardware can all be “printed.” If that isn’t a 21st century concept, then I don’t know what is.

Actually, another advancement that blew my mind — more than printing Sesame Street plush toys at home (thanks to MakerBot) — is that scientists can bioengineer organs and veins. In 2013, doctors implanted the first bioengineered blood vessel into a live patient suffering from kidney disease. Research and experimentation are still in progress to fully bioengineer organs, but it is getting closer to becoming reality.

Even beloved celebrities can come back to life and entertain again with the help of modern technology. Michael Jackson moon-walked back on stage at this year’s Billboard Music Awards. He came back and performed “Slave to the Rhythm” on stage and captivated the audience from beyond the grave.

Many more technological oddities and saviors have emerged within the past few years at a fast rate. Every day, there’s a new advancement in some field, and it makes the world feel like it’s moving 1,000 miles a minute into the future.

We’re moving into new territory, technology-wise, and we have a lot to learn about and accept in our See DI RAFFAELE | page 8

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ters, and the victims and their families need actual help, not meaningless Facebook posts.

So if you really want to make Derek a difference, go out and do something that matters.

Donate to the victims’ familow, attention-seeking posts lies and their foundations.

Go out and advocate for that show up on social media after the fact. I saw an aston- changes to be made that could ishing number of tweets last prevent awful acts like these week that said, in some way or from happening anymore.

Do something that means another, “thoughts and prayers something to the people are with the victims.”

It is not bad to have the affected.

Back in October, star NFL victims in your thoughts and running back Adrian Peterson’s prayers. Not at all. It’s good to think about them, wish the 2-year-old son died from injubest for them, pray for them, ries he sustained after his and hopefully go out and do mother’s boyfriend abused something to help their fami- him.

After this sickening incident, lies in any way.

I saw a number of Instagram But people need to stop posting these messages on pictures of Peterson leaning down to social media. give his son When I see a kiss. As it these types of Think and pray about it turns out, the posts, I cannot if that’s what you want famous pichelp but think ture was not to do, but you do not about how even of the vain it is to do need to tell the world child that was this, and take you are doing so. killed. advantage of Personally, a terrible inciI thought it dent and try to garner attention for yourself looked like a bunch of people using the tragedy of another from it. person’s a way to get more There is nothing that anysocial media “likes.” body gains but self-glorificaThat’s pretty shameful. tion from these.

Even more so when you realThey are not informative. ize that if people actually took They do not bring any new some time to learn about what angle to the issue. happened, they would realize They do nothing but divert the picture they posted wasn’t attention away from the prob- actually a picture of the child. lem and onto whoever posted But that’s a little too much work it. for the people who “care” so To me, it seems like people much. are saying, “Hey, don’t forget Platforms are there to have about me. I still want to be discussions and talk about the noticed. Look — look how situation, to go to pray and much I care.” think with others about the Even if you do have these victims. victims in your mind and are Twitter is not that platform. genuinely concerned, tweeting There are bound to be about it does literally nothing, more wretched events that in the true sense of the word. occur. I just hope in the future, Think and pray about it if instead of pretending as if that’s what you want to do, people are making a differbut you do not need to tell the ence with Twitter, Facebook world you are doing so. or Instagram, they will actually These posts are not like the do something that could help “Bring Back Our Girls” situa- the affected people’s lives. t tion; without the large amount of social-media promotion, a Derek Saling is a sophomore in English. The expressed in Saling’s columns do lot of people might not have opinions not necessarily represent those of The Daily known about it. No, every- Barometer staff. Saling can be reached at body knows about these disas- forum@dailybarometer.com.

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s Cassie Ruud discussed in her Thursday column, a horrific tragedy occurred in Santa Barbara, Calif., last week: Elliot Rodger took the lives of six others, as well as his own, in a mass shooting and stabbing.

With every atrocity that happens in this country, like the Santa Barbara shooting, the Sandy Hook, N.J., shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing or the Aurora, Colo., shooting, there are bound to be discussions about various issues like gun control and the mental healthcare system.

Another sure thing I have noticed with these tragedies is the large amount of shal-

DI RAFFAELE n Continued from page 7 lives. When new technologies come out all at once, it feels overwhelming because it can seem like our lives are changing too quickly. But there’s a reason the future is now — some of these new advancements will help by saving lives and time and others will be to entertainment as TV was to the radio. t

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make eye contact with people — if this were a street setting — it tells others that you are argues that by learning basic aware of your surroundings self-defense training, one can and in charge of yourself. have the “ability to take care of It’s just a good general policy one’s self in many dangerous in life to be mindful of where attack situations, along with you are and what you’re doing. giving a person the confidence Add in self-defense, and you needed to take care of one’s will become capable of greater self and also to possibly never control and utilization of your be a victim in the first place.” body and will be able defend A facet of this is to be confident — or at least successfully yourself at a moment’s notice. pretend to be. Maintaining a consistent air of confidence and focus can deter attackers.

Because criminals are like lions — they’re not looking to take down the fastest antelope.

They want easy pickings, a person who is meek, weak, mild and not likely to fight back.

If you assert yourself and

Because then, you can grow up to be like James Vandecoevering when you’re 70: able to protect your home from invasion. 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.