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City Council adopts fiscal year 2014-15 budget, postpones hotel parking garage plans

By Emma-Kate Schaake THE DAILY BAROMETER

Following a Corvallis Gazette-Times article that told of the City Council agenda for Monday night, Mayor Julie Manning chose to push the discussion and action for the planned riverfront hotel and parking garage.

“I want to commend the G-T for bringing the issue to the public’s attention,” said Corvallis resident Jeff Hess.

Several residents who testified felt that trust needs to be restored between the council and its constituents.

Councilman Bruce Sorte explained that he was confident that even if the hotel and parking structure plan had come to the table, the council wouldn’t have hastily passed any approvals for the project.

“We would have stopped it with a negative vote,” Sorte said.

According to schedule, Corvallis City Council hosted the final public hearing regarding the adoption of the fiscal year 2014-15 budget.

Over the past few weeks, the Budget Commission held meetings opening each sector of the budget to the public.

Representatives of the local 2975 branch of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees labor union, AFSCME, came forward to speak.

They called for the councilors not to pass the proposed budget until a more transparent agreement could be reached for overall wage equity within the budget.

The budget was laid aside in six steps to meet council goals for the coming years. These include implementing a firm expenditure limit, integrating a priority-based budget, manage size and compensation of the workforce, examine assets and build a healthy reserve as a protection against economic downturn.

The councilors approved a resolution for the taxes levees appropriation of the budget for the fiscal year 2014-15 unanimously. The state revenue sharing funds for the fiscal year 2014-15 went forward without any public testimony and also passed unanimously.

Coming up next, following the public participation task force presentation at the beginning of the meeting, the council will host a work session Monday at 7 p.m. at the Corvallis Fire Station. Work sessions are always open to the public, but no public testimony or formal decisions will be made during this meeting.

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Remembering Beth Ray: mother, mentor, OSU’s first lady Celebration of life for Beth Ray concludes with life stories shared, music Monday evening

cried. Curious, Ed Ray said he then asked her why she did.

“She simply said, ‘I love them all,’” Ray said.

Beth and Ed Ray met during their time at Stanford University. They

By Sean Bassinger were married shortly after and shared THE DAILY BAROMETER Beth Ray believed everyone should 55 years of their lives together as they experience a life full of laughter, worked in higher education.

Stephanie Pritchard, Beth Ray’s learning and love.

Various members of the Oregon daughter, described OSU’s first lady State University and surrounding as a loving family member and mencommunities visited the LaSells tor to all who sought her advice.

“She was a sunny disposition on Stewart Center to celebrate the life of OSU’s first lady and wife of Ed Ray, a cloudy day,” Pritchard said. “She loved unconditionally. She believed president at OSU, Monday.

Beth Ray, 67, died March 21 fol- giving was its own reward.”

Michael Ray, Beth lowing a battle with Ray’s son, described lung cancer. her as an individual In mid-January, She was a sunny who saw the good OSU renamed its disposition on a in everyone and Student Success everything. cloudy day.

She loved Center as the Beth “She had time for Ray Center for unconditionally. She everyone,” he said.

Academic Support. believed giving was “My mother was Beth Ray’s legacy one of those people its own reward. lives on through the who’d put people stories and memahead of herself no ories shared by Stephanie Pritchard matter what.” friends, family and Beth Ray’s daughter When he was community memin kindergarten, bers she adored.

Michael Ray said he approached his Following the presentation of mother and asked her how he could Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 “be cool.” by the Corvallis-OSU Symphony “Yes, I asked my mother how to be Orchestra, Ed Ray began by welcoming the nearly packed auditorium cool,” Michael Ray said.

Beth Ray replied by telling her and introduced the concert that son that all he needed to do was be followed. himself.

Each piece played at the event rep“She was right,” Michael Ray said. resented various musical selections “It worked. Go Mom.” of which Beth Ray was fond.

Alana Spinrad, close friend of Beth “Beth knew she was loved and admired by many people,” Ed Ray Ray, said she spent countless hours said. “What a wonderful gift so many knitting, crocheting, gardening and cheering on the Beavers at football of you gave to her.” games.

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Following an opening performance from the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra, OSU President Ed Ray addresses attendees at the Beth Ray celebration of life in the LaSells Stewart Center.

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The William Tebeau Hall, a housing facility located on the east side of campus, will be under construction until fall.

What to name the new classroom building

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Oregon State University will name its new residence hall William Tebeau Hall, after the first black male graduate from Oregon State University, according to an OSU press release.

William Tebeau Hall is located just south of Wilson Hall on the east side of campus, and is currently under construction. It will house 324 students, and Tebeau cost $28 million in state bonds, which will be paid back through resident fees.

In 1948, graduate William Tebeau was See TEBEAU | page 4

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With armies guarding what precious resources remain in 2050 on Earth, humans are looking to Mars — and America cannot afford to fail.

As NASA sends its first manned mission to the red planet, an ancient society is forced out to protect the secrets it kept for millennia.

“Orion Connection: The Legends Trilogy,” written by two 2004 Oregon State University graduates, reached No. 51 in Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Best Sellers in First Contact Science Fiction eBooks Sunday.

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PORTLAND — You can see some of the differences between an old growth forest and one that’s been logged.

On a hike through an old growth forest near Portland, Matt Wagoner of the Forest Park Conservancy points out some of the most obvious ones: Older, taller, coniferous trees, dead trees both standing and fallen, and a wide variety of plants and animals living inside of and on top of that dead wood.

“One of the things that really defines old growth forests is biodiversity,” Wagoner says.

Wagoner and brewer Dan Hynes of Thunder Island Brewing in Cascade Locks, Oregon, want to know if that diversity carries over into the wild yeast that you can’t see.

Yeast is a fungus, as well as a fundamental building block of beer. To test the diversity of wild yeast in an old growth forest, they decided to try tasting it.

They collected wild yeast from sites within an old growth and a logged forest and used it to brew several different beers.

Ultimately, Wagoner says, they’re curious: “What if you can really taste the differences between a yeast that’s gathered in an old growth forest as opposed to a second growth forest?”

Their experiment is part of a program called Beers Made By Walking that’s leading brewers

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on hikes across the Northwest to look for local beer ingredients.

When Eric Steen created the program, he says, the idea was to tap people’s interest in beer to connect them with the local environment. The result has been beers made with native plants such as salmonberry, stinging nettle, wild ginger, vanilla leaf and the tips of spruce trees. Using yeast from a local forest takes the idea one step further.

“We’ve been joking but only half joking about the possibility of making beer not only with ingredients inspired by a trail but also in collaboration with the trail,” Steen says. “This adds another layer to learning about nature.”

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On a recent hike, brewer Dan Hynes pours samples of beer he made using yeast collected from an old growth forest near Portland. sugar water - known as wort.

They set the buckets at noteworthy locations in the forest: Alongside a decomposing nurse log teeming with moss and sprouting plants, next to a giant snag full of holes where wildlife have made their homes, under a cedar tree with a strip of bark removed in the traditional Native American style, and under a 500-year-old Douglas fir tree. The fifth location was at a site next to the old growth forest, where it adjoined a forest that was logged about two decades ago.

They left the buckets in the forest after a snow storm in February. Then, Hynes brought the yeast back to his brewery and cultivated it for three weeks.

The green, puckering taste of the resulting beer, he says, tells him that the yeast he collected in the forest is a less common type of wild yeast. He suspects that a lot of the more common yeast was less prevalent in the forest because of the cold February temperatures.

Yeast is in the air all around us, he says. But brewers normally reuse the same types of yeast that originally produced traditional lagers and ales.

“Our normal yeast is more like a cow,” he says. “It’s been bred over periods of time, and it has its different personality traits. So, you can kind of know about it.”

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of yeast is in the air now and see what kind of beer it can make.

“It’s your antelope, your elk, your moose that’s what we’re hunting down,” he says.

Can You Taste The Forest?

Over Memorial Day weekend, Wagoner, Hynes and Steen led hike of about a dozen people through the stands of trees where they harvested the yeast.

They stopped at each of the locations where they’d harvested wild yeast and poured samples of the resulting beers so hikers could see the locations and compare the flavors of the resulting beer.

Beer writer Lucy Burningham was one of the beer connoisseurs on the hike. She says the beers made from the forest yeast are sour, for sure. And she tasted elements of other sour beers she’s had before.

“But I think what’s unique is the place that we’re standing and the sounds I’m hearing as I’m tasting these beers,” she says. “This is a unique experience for me.”

She says the flavors of the forest aren’t what she was expecting. It’s not like she could literally taste cedar in the beer that was made from yeast collected under the cedar tree.

“I think it’s definitely changed the way I’m thinking about the forest,” she says. “There’s all these invisible things that are part of the forest that have now shown up in the beer.”

Steen says that’s the reaction he was hoping for. He says it’s not that the resulting beer is that much better than other beers. It’s how the beer allows people to experience the forest.

“I like the idea of thinking of these beers potentially as artwork as drinkable sculptures, as drinkable portraits,” he says.

“It’s another way to interpret the landscape, to interpret the trail.”

Steen has several more brewbased hikes planned for Forest Park this summer. The resulting beers - including the old growth forest beer and a logged forest beer made by Hynes - will be on tap at a tasting event in October.

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Report: 651 medical mistakes ended in serious injury or death in Oregon last year

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PORTLAND — Oregon’s health care facilities reported more than 650 adverse events last year, 44 percent of which ended in serious harm or death, according to a new report by the Oregon Patient Safety Reporting Program.

Adverse events include medication mix-ups, falls, infections and erroneous surgeries being performed.

The list is compiled so hospitals, nursing facilities, surgery centers and pharmacies can learn from each other’s mistakes.

And while more than 650 adverse events is the largest number ever recorded in Oregon, Bethany Walmsley of the Patient Safety Commission says that’s because more facilities are taking part, “It is not a reflection of more errors,” she said.

“Quite frankly, what you’re seeing within this reporting is acknowledgement that these errors are happening, that investigations are occurring and trying to figure out what is the root cause that caused this to happen. And then a commitment to sharing what they found,” she said.

The state doesn’t require health care facilities to report such mistakes, and only 35 percent of them did last year.

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SALEM — When the next great Cascadia subduction earthquake and tsunami hits, the only option for Oregon coast residents and visitors will be to run for the hills.

That’s run, as on foot, emergency officials told a legislative committee Friday. Cars won’t be an option.

The elderly, disabled, young children or others who can’t run will be out of luck.

And caretakers, such those with several young children or elderly parents, will face an excruciating decision: abandon the less ambulatory and save themselves, or risk near-certain drowning trying to help. “The sad reality is, there at the current moment isn’t a lot that can be done if an individual can’t evacuate themselves,� said Althea Rizzo, of the state Office of Emergency Management. “If they do choose to live in the inundation zone, it’s really an individual effort to get them to high ground.�

That’s the bad news.

The good news: State agencies are working furiously to prepare for the disaster, which, though thought inevitable, could happen decades from now as easily as tomorrow.

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries is working on a pilot model for Cannon Beach that will calculate how long it would take from any point in the city to get to safety, and the most efficient route to get there. “It’s very important people have a clear understanding how long it will take them to get out of there and what their routes are,� said Ian Madin, chief scientist at the state Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.

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A tsunami would hit the shore quickly after the earthquake starts — within about 12 minutes in Curry County and up to 20 minutes elsewhere on the coast. Since shaking may last several minutes, residents at sea level might have just six to eight minutes to evacuate, Madin said.

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State officials see boat infestations early this year

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I think we had 18 before that, but that’s for the whole season,” Boatner said. “We’re well ahead of where we generally are ... we usually Statesmanjournal.com SALEM — It could be a busy summer for don’t have five by June.”

The pontoon-boat interception was one Oregon’s boat-inspection and decontamination teams, said Rick Boatner, the invasive of a chain that lasted for the next two days.

“The next day, a Conrad’s false mussel on species program coordinator for the Oregon a boat out of Florida; that’s in the same famDepartment of Fish and Wildlife.

Since the first boat of the season, a pontoon ily (as zebra mussels, but lives in brackish houseboat, was decontaminated on May 20 water),” Boatner said about a boat headed at the Ontario check station because of zebra for Seattle. “And so the next day, so now it’s mussels, there have been three others that three in a row, we had a quagga mussel at the were infested with a variety of invasive mus- Ashland check station” on a boat from Lake sels, and a fifth that had water in the bottom Superior that was headed for Seattle.

The final boat was intercepted Thursday, from an infected lake.

All but one were intercepted at Ontario. May 29. It had zebra mussels and was headed for Puget Sound from Lake Michigan.

The first was at the station in Ashland “Last year we did 17 over the whole season.

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Boatner said. “We haven’t had any live ones, so that’s good.”

But dead mussels can slough DNA into the water when a boat is launched, and routine testing can lead to a false positive that can trigger expensive monitoring.

Earlier in May, a boat was decontaminated because it had water in the bottom and had been in Lake Powell, which was certified as being infested with quagga.

“So we gave it a hot-water flush of any areas with water in it to kill the veliger (larval) state,” Boatner said.

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We haven’t seen anything show up so far from like Lahontan Reservoir (Nevada) or anything close to us,” he said. “That’s surprising. I was expecting more boats out of the Lake

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RAY n Continued from page 1

person wolf pack” at gatherings in an effort to hunt for desserts.

While sharing strong life “We sometimes felt like we’ve known each other lessons and points, Burns since childhood, even though recalled from Beth Ray, one it’s only been four years,” must “never be afraid to eat dessert first.”

Spinrad said.

“She loved this community, “Beth Ray would want everyone to not dwell on the and this community loved loss and be grateful for the her back,” Burns said.

The celebration concluded times they had with her.”

Bridget Burns, OSU gradu- with performances from the ate and former president of OSU Chamber choir, spirithe Associated Students of tual singer Roosevelt Credit Oregon State University, said and the OSU Marching Band Ed and Beth Ray have been leading off with “Carry Me Back” and “Hail to Old OSU.” like second parents to her.

The follow-up reception “For the past 12 years, she’s been my cheerleader,” Burns took place at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center afterward. said.

Burns and Beth Ray someSean Bassinger times paired up to be what Higher education reporter Burns described as a “twomanaging@dailybarometer.com

NOVEL n Continued from page 1 the their webpage, fuel for those searching the sky for an answer to the question, “Are we alone?”

The husband and wife were inspired by the images collected by the late 1970s Viking I orbiter in the Cydroia region of Mars — which show what was perceived as a face in the highlands — and the technological marvels that predate the rise of Egypt.

The novel was published on April 2 and is the first in the trilogy. managing@dailybarometer.com

TEBEAU n Continued from page 1 admitted in to what was then Oregon State College in pursuit of an engineering degree.

Tebeau was not offered campus housing when he was first admitted in 1943, so he worked in a fraternity tending the furnace in exchange for a room in the basement.

Persevering, he earned a degree in chemical engineering and joined the State Highway Department, which is now known

as the Oregon Department of Transportation. After his 36-year career, he taught part time at Chemeketa Community College and was named teacher of the year in 1970.

In 2010, Oregon State University admitted Tebeau into the engineering hall of fame.

In July 2013, he died at age 87.

He was married for 62 years, had seven children and several greatand great-great grandchildren.

The residence hall will open in fall, and there will be an on-site ceremony in October. managing@dailybarometer.com

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UC Irvine dogpiles near the pitching mound after knocking off No. 1-seed Oregon State Monday night in Goss Stadium.

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Oregon State loses, 4-2, to UC Irvine in elimination game Monday night

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No. 1 Oregon State had its chances down the stretch in Monday night’s elimination game, but a two-run UC Irvine sixth inning and two squandered offensive opportunities for OSU (45-14) in the eighth and ninth innings kept the Beavers from advancing to the Super Regional round.

OSU battled despite a depleted pitching staff, but ultimately fell, 4-2, to the Anteaters (38-23).

Understandably, head coach Pat Casey was not happy with the outcome. The No. 1-seed Beavers had aspirations of winning their third College World Series, and they certainly expected to advance further than the regional round.

“I detest losing,” Casey said. “I’m responsible for this program. I’m responsible for not getting to where we wanted to get, not the players. The

players did a great, fantastic, outstanding job.

We fell short offensively down the stretch and that happens.”

With their backs against the wall, the Beavers handed the ball to freshman pitcher Jake Thompson. The right-hander threw 5 1/3 innings, giving up three runs on four hits.

He didn’t allow a run until hitting trouble in the fifth inning. He struck out the first batter of the inning, but a dropped-third strike allowed Kris Paulino to safely reach base.

Two batters later, Ryan Cooper chopped a hard ground ball up the middle. Thompson got a glove on it, but couldn’t come up with it as it deflected to senior second baseman Andy Peterson and allowed the runner from third to score, tying the game at one run apiece.

“I should’ve made that play,” Thompson said.

The Anteaters then captured the lead with a bases-loaded single in the sixth inning, which ended Thompson’s night.

Senior Brandon Jackson hit the next batter,

giving the Anteaters a 3-1 advantage.

The Anteaters added another run off sophomore Andrew Moore in the seventh inning.

Oregon State could never recover.

While Thompson was credited with the loss, Casey was proud of his performance. OSU’s head coach wasn’t sure if he’d go with Thompson or junior Dylan Davis to start the game, but decided on Thompson.

“Terrific performance by a freshman in a tough situation and great environment; he was outstanding,” Casey said.

Oregon State didn’t have its best pitching performance of the season, but Thompson gave OSU a chance to win. The Beavers had their chances.

With two outs and trailing by two with junior left fielder Michael Conforto on second base, Davis drove a ball to deep center field. It wasn’t deep enough, as UC Irvine’s Evan Cassolato pulled it in on the warning track to end the threat.

The Beavers put two runners on again in the ninth inning, but freshman third baseman Caleb Hamilton grounded into a game-ending double play.

“Off the bat, I thought that ball Dylan hit had a shot,” Conforto said. “Obviously it didn’t go out.

In the last inning we got some stuff rolling, but sometimes it’s just baseball. The effort was there.

There was so much passion, so much energy.

Sometimes it just doesn’t work out.”

Despite the loss, Casey said he was proud of what his team accomplished this season. Oregon State loses a strong senior class, and will likely lose three juniors — Conforto, Davis and Jace Fry — to the MLB Draft later this week.

Casey said their impact on the program would not be forgotten any time soon.

“They’ve had a tremendous impact on this university,” Casey said. “That’s why the stands were full, that’s why these guys have their heads See BASEBALL | page 6

Anteaters illuminate OSU’s offensive struggles

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Beavers score 8 runs in 3 games vs. UC Irvine, go 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position

put OSU in the loser’s bracket, the pitching came through. Wetzler threw a one-run complete game; Schultz followed it up with a two-hit complete-game shutout hours later to set up a win-or-go-home game against

By Warner Strausbaugh the Anteaters (38-23).

THE DAILY BAROMETER Even with freshman Jake The No. 1 Oregon State baseball team’s pitching was never in question. Thompson on the mound for Oregon The pitching staff’s 2.26 earned State, the pitching was not the conrun average was the third-best in the cern for this team.

It was the offense. nation. The Beavers’ (45-14) rotation Through four games in the Corvallis of Ben Wetzler, Andrew Moore and Regional, the Beavers averaged 3.5 Jace Fry carried them all season.

After a 14-2 loss against UC Irvine runs per game. Those struggles have been lingering for OSU. n

In the seven games leading up to the postseason — three vs.

Washington, one at Oregon, three at USC — the Beavers averaged 1.86 runs per game. They did not score more than three runs in any of those games, and they lost four out of the seven.

“We were a better offensive team than what we showed these last few weeks,” said senior first baseman Kavin Keyes.

The offensive inefficiencies were magnified against UC Irvine. OSU See OFFENSE | page 6

Freshman catcher Logan Ice scrambles after a wild pitch in the fifth inning of Monday’s loss to UC Irvine.

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ake Thompson said he was nervous leading up to his start Monday in the Corvallis Regional final against UC Irvine.

Warner The freshman right-hander from Siuslaw High School in Florence was not supposed to make a start in the My Name is My Name postseason.

Thompson needed 27 pitches to That was before the Anteaters (38escape the first inning without allow23) stunned Oregon State to the tune ing a run. From there, he settled in of a 14-2 win Saturday night, which and worked quickly and effectively sent the Beavers (45-14) into the losSee STRAUSBAUGH | page 6 ers’ bracket.

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“I thought we had a great pitching outing of Jake; just outstanding,” said head coach Pat Casey.

A drop-third strikeout in the fifth inning allowed UC Irvine outfielder Kris Paulino to reach first base. He moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, went to third on the second wild pitch of the inning and scored on an infield groundout.

With the score tied 1-1 in the sixth inning, things unraveled for Thompson and the Beavers.

Thompson gave up back-toback singles to begin the inning.

Up until this point in the regional, and in the entire season, Casey’s decision-making with his pitchers has never been questionable.

Typically in the postseason, when a young and inexperienced pitcher is thrust into a role he is not accustomed to, Casey errs on the side of caution and keeps a short leash on the starter.

Cleanup hitter Jerry McClanahan stepped into the box.

This was the moment Casey was supposed to go to the bullpen. He didn’t.

McClanahan laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners, and then Thompson intentionally walked designated hitter Jonathan Munoz to load the bases.

OK, time to go to the bullpen.

Nope.

Thompson remained in the game to face Grant Palmer.

UC Irvine’s freshman second baseman laced a line drive between Caleb Hamilton and Trever Morrison.

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had a good at-bat to get on and Connor Spencer had been good for us all year, he had another great hit,” Palmer said. “I was just trying not to do too much, just looking for a pitch to drive.”

Finally, the Beavers went to the bullpen. Freshman lefthander Trent Shelton got a strikeout against the only batter he went against.

Progress.

Then, OSU turned to righthander Brandon Jackson.

Jackson, while he is the best right-handed reliever in the bullpen with Scott Schultz unavailable, gave up three runs

in just 2/3 of an inning two nights prior.

I understand Casey’s desire to have the righty-on-righty matchup, but Friday’s starter, Andrew Moore, made much more sense in such a tight spot.

Maybe Moore is not going to pitch because he threw 117 pitches Friday, I thought.

That proved not to be the case; Moore pitched the seventh and eighth innings.

Jackson hit the first batter he faced, increased UC Irvine’s lead to 3-1 and was immediately removed from the game.

Casey has always been an

effective game manager. He’s proven time and again to be able to manage his bullpen and find the best matchups in certain situations.

The decision-making in the sixth inning Monday was baffling, and it cost OSU. There were obviously other problems with this team, but the pitching debacle in the sixth gave the Anteaters a two-run lead, and more importantly, it gave them the momentum they needed to sustain that lead.

Warner Strausbaugh, editor-in-chief On Twitter @WStrausbaugh editor@dailybarometer.com

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Senior first baseman Kavin Keyes is thrown out at first base in Monday’s 4-2 loss to UC Irvine in Goss Stadium.

BASEBALL n Continued from page 5 down right now. They’ve been outstanding. It hurts, but losing a baseball game is not a reflection of our program, it’s just a baseball game that we lost.”

“It’s a sad thing that it’s over here,” added senior Kavin Keyes, who went 2-for-4 in his final game as a Beaver. “I had a great time with some great memories. Being on this team was one of the most fun times I’ve ever had.”

While OSU was confident entering the weekend and heavy favorites to advance to the next round, it came up short on the offensive side of the plate. Oregon State scored

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just two runs in both Saturday and Monday’s loss to UC Irvine.

After the game, Conforto reflected on what was his last game in an OSU uniform and on a season he thought he would end differently.

“I’m very upset, obviously,” he said. “These guys have been my life for the last three years.

It’s just disappointing that I can’t be with them right now playing further this season.

“Every year I’ve been here, I’ve had this feeling, and we were working toward being that last team standing. Every one of us laid it all out there and sometimes baseball just doesn’t go in your favor.”

Though the season ended earlier than many anticipated,

OSU still managed to win 45 games and its second consecutive Pac-12 Championship. But as the top team in the country, it’s a hard loss for Casey and his team to stomach.

Now he’ll look toward putting the pieces back together for another title run next year.

“I’m really proud of the effort our guys gave us all year long,” he said. “I can’t tell you how proud I am that they acted with class and played with class all season. … I’ll remember a lot of things. From the individuals and what they’ve accomplished and what they’ve done. It’s a tough day for us.”

Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com

Monday. Starting pitcher and staff ace Andrew Morales, who threw more than 100 pitches in Friday’s regional opener, pitched one-run ball scored two, four and two runs against the through 4 1/3 innings and allowed just three Anteaters in the three games the teams squared hits and a walk.

The Anteaters then turned to crafty leftoff in the regional. handed pitcher Evan Manarino, who allowed “We were a little short recently scoring runs and it just caught up to us (in Monday’s game),” one run, two hits and a walk in 3 1/3 innings.

Then it was Mitch Merten and Saturday starter said head coach Pat Casey.

In Monday night’s 4-2 loss, Oregon State left Elliot Surrey who combined for a scoreless 1 1/3 six runners on base and was 1-for-7 with runners to finish OSU off.

“They pitched well against us,” Keyes said. in scoring position.

“We didn’t get as many good swings as we “They did what they wanted to do and executed probably could have had down the stretch,” those pitches.”

The Anteaters held OSU’s most productive Keyes said.

Keyes was one of two OSU batters to have a hitters, Conforto and right fielder Dylan Davis, multi-hit game Monday. Keyes and Ice had two to just three hits in 19 at-bats in the three games hits apiece, but shortstop Trever Morrison and they played. pinch-hitter Nick Rulli recorded the only other Warner Strausbaugh, editor-in-chief hits for the Beavers on the night.

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regon State University is having a naming contest for the new classroom building being built near the Austin Business Center.

We’d like to propose a name for your consideration: Dam Hall.

You should all vote for it. You know you want to, don’t lie.

Our mascot is the beaver.

Our focus is engineering.

Beavers and engineers both build dams.

It’s just logical.

Plus, you — or future students, if you’re leaving — would get to complain about being late for classes in “that Dam Hall.”

And wouldn’t it be a great legacy to leave behind, the facetiously named “Dam Hall” on the Beaver State’s foremost research university’s campus?

Those of us in the newsroom brainstormed a few other names for the building, including but not limited to: the Andrew Kilstrom Center for Being the Best, Pinto Colvig Hall (he was the original Bozo the Clown and an OSU graduate), the Classmates.com Building and Leatherman Hall (the founder of the former and the inventor of the latter were both OSU graduates as well).

But OSU already has enough buildings that have been branded with the stamp of some famous person’s last name, and we feel we can accurately predict how well a campaign for the name of some obscure graduate (or undergraduate) would go over with the university administration and student body.

So, as you can clearly see, after a stringent process of elimination, we decided that “Dam Hall” was the best of our, admittedly awesome, brainstorming session.

Having a dot com in the name of a building is just tacky. We know we’re in the future; we live here. It’s apparent. We don’t need to name our buildings after websites to remind ourselves.

And Leatherman Hall would — knowing college students like we do, what with being college students ourselves — likely be the butt of dirty jokes, almost as many and at least as offensive as if we proposed naming the building Beaver Hall.

The jokes about Dam Hall would be less offensive and less explicit — and as a plus, they’re so obvious that they’ll become passe in no time at all.

But, in all seriousness, we think a Dam Hall is something OSU needs.

Besides which, if the school were leery of a few dirty jokes, it never would have made its mascot the beaver.

And if we convince the administration the new building needs to be named Dam Hall, then you know that someday down the line, some freshman is going to get the bright idea to fasten a bunch of sticks to the building’s facade in order to make it resemble a beaver dam.

We support ingenuity like that here, and we think you should, too.

he Oregon Department of ing — conditions.

Education ran a massive It’s sad, because the classroom is survey on teaching condi- essentially the bedrock for humantions in Oregon schools. Its results ity’s future — the place where the were upsetting, according to Betsy next doctors, linguists, physicists Hammond from The Oregonian. and entrepreneurs become inspired.

Statewide, 76 percent of teachers You would think that this would be claimed their class sizes were too big one of the top priorities for policyto achieve the needs of every stu- makers: the bettering of our educadent; 42 percent tional environments. reported a lack of Given that these minsufficient comThe classroom is iature people are one puters, printers, day going to be paying essentially the bedsoftware and for our nursing bills rock for humanity’s Internet access; and making decisions 43 percent didn’t that have a great effect future — the place have adequate on our world, today’s where the next instructional policymakers should materials. doctors, linguists, treat their future careUpwards of 60 givers and world leadphysicists and percent said that ers with more care. entrepreneurs they didn’t have Be ca us e “( Our enough time for become inspired. analysis shows) that lesson planning, school resources are grading coursesystematically related to student work and providing their students with feedback. achievement and that those relaAnd that’s not even mentioning tions are large (and) educationthe settings of this situation, where- ally important,” the 1996 findings of in “21 percent of teachers say buildRob Greenwald, Larry Hedges and ings are dirty or poorly maintained, 22 percent say they lack the space Richard Laine made official someto work productively and more thing we all already knew. than 40 percent say technology and Adequate learning conditions can instructional materials are lacking,” also increase student investment in according to The Oregonian. attending school. They see a place It’s fair to say that these are less that’s nice to attend, that they have than preferable learning — or teach- a fun time learning in, and my guess

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is that they’re going to want to come back.

Look at it like this — if someone takes you out on a date and they show up covered in mud with absolutely nothing to contribute to a conversation, then you’re probably not going to have much of an investment in a long-term relationship with them, even if it turns out that they are, in fact, a foreman with a good work ethic.

School is important. With the direction our world is heading in, that’s something that’s not likely to change anytime soon.

Even though we enforce laws to make our children attend, for fear of truant officers, it would be nice if we could make our places of learning locations where children want to go and where teachers want to teach.

In the end, why shouldn’t we make our schools the best we can? t

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

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Letter to the Editor Regarding Kenneth Montville’s May 23 letter to the editor

U.S. agriculture struggles to convey message to PETA, animal rights activists.

Agriculture is an important industry. We raise animals through humane and sustainable methods. Unfortunately, our processes are called into question when people unfamiliar with our industry spread inaccurate information. Most consumers agree that animals have a place in our diet, and animal agriculture is necessary to provide a quality product to that consumer that we too can be proud of. The health and well-being of our livestock is at the forefront of how we raise animals.

Kenneth Montville does present some factual information in his argument in the May 23 Barometer. Unfortunately, not all of his accusations represent U.S. commercial agriculture.

For example, the statement: “chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they’re still conscious.” In fact, the industry regulations for poultry prevent commercial operations from slaughtering birds that are still conscious. In American agriculture, we utilize electric stunning equipment to render an animal unconscious before exsanguination occurs.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals frequently condemn the animal agriculture industry for not being transparent enough. It’s not that we have something to hide — in fact, we often welcome public tours of our facilities — instead we are protecting our animals from outside hazards like disease, predators and propaganda. Why does peta2 feel the need to hide their own activities? What is the rationale behind these closedoff tents and tarpaulin-walled exhibits I keep encountering?

It’s unfortunate that organizations like peta2 attack our industry without first learning about it. There are reasons we raise animals the way we do.

Although there are those who regrettably don’t meat (see what I did there?) the standards of our industry, we are working to fix the problems. However, the “few can’t outweigh the many.”

From my limited interaction with peta2, they too have room for improvement.

It is irrational to believe that the use of animals for human consumption will end overnight, or at all. As omnivores, humans are designed to consume a combination of plants and animals in their diet. As noted by Scientific American, “Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems and cooperative hunting promoted the development of language and socialization.”

Additionally, the animals we raise provide “non-food” products that are part of our daily lives. From clothing to perfume and car tires to paint, animalbased products have improved our way of life.

Please take the time to educate yourself with the way your food and other agriculture products are made. Understand the ethics behind the agriculture industry and those who attack it. The next time you drive to school, brush your teeth or eat a Calabaloo’s hamburger, thank a farmer.

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Alluring plot absent in Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ M

y friends and family hate watching movies with me. It started years ago, when I went to film school and began critiquing everything I saw on the screen.

When I began working in development at Fox Studios, my affliction got worse. Feature film development is all about the story. We received hundreds of scripts and books every week. We had to decide what was ready to be made into a movie and what needed work. After months — sometimes years — of rewrites and story development, we might finally go forward to hire directors and actors. Some projects were just abandoned.

A film is like a cake. Everything on screen in the final product is the creamy frosting and detailed designs. But when the cake is cut and the first bite taken, it doesn’t matter what the outside looks like. If the cake tastes gross or has a bad texture to its fluffy middle, it’s a bad cake.

The story is the middle. The foundation of a tasty or horrible cake.

In a movie, the editing, set design, score and actors are the icing. The story is the cake underneath. No amount of production value can save a movie from a poorly crafted story.

Such is the case with Angelina Jolie’s new film “Maleficent.”

Disney’s latest venture into the alternative fairytale looks really cool. As its title character, Jolie is all smoldering hotness and cheekbones. The setting is strange and imaginative. And the idea to tell the story of Snow White through the eyes of the not-as-evil-as-you-think villain is fabulously intriguing.

But the story falls flat.

The film opens with nearly an hour of exposition. We see the story of the fairy Maleficent during her childhood as a sweet and curious girl.

Flying around her magical forest, she meets a human boy with whom she develops a friendship.

On her 16th birthday, Stefan gives Maleficent what he calls “true love’s kiss.”

But, like most young loves, they grow up and apart.

Years later, in an effort to sack the fairy kingdom, the

a gift upon the child.

Still with me? Because here comes the familiar part.

Maleficent decrees that on her 16th birthday, Princess Aurora will prick her finger on a the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an eternal, death-like sleep, from which she can only be awakened by love’s true kiss.

Blah blah blah, you’ve seen the 1959 Disney cartoon.

It only gets interesting as Aurora begins to grow and Maleficent starts to play a surprising role in the girl’s life.

But we’re already more than halfway through the film, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting for the actual plot to start. And that’s the problem with this story: There are two competing and sloppy plots.

A film’s structure is based around the central irony of its hero — in this case, Maleficent. Which is good, because she has a central irony: What she wants is to be alone with her hate, what she needs is to love someone.

This central irony is supposed to drive the main story arc, and the film finishes in the third act when the irony has been resolved and the character shifts to face it. In this movie, the storyline of Aurora growing up and the impending doom of pricking her finger on the spinning wheel takes over. Maleficent’s emotional journey is sloppily concluded in the middle of the second act, leading to an anti-climactic finish to that storyline before switching back to the first main conflict: Maleficent and Stefan’s battle over betrayal.

OK, it wasn’t all bad. Jolie is spot-on, if a tad melodramatic. She has some great comedic moments, especially as she pits Aurora’s absentee fairy mothers against each other.

Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures But Maleficent is the only character with any depth.

I don’t know why Disney hired a first-time director for such a huge film. His inexperience is visible throughout human king declares war on Maleficent’s side of the forest, and tells his men that whomever can kill the fairy the movie, and the story isn’t developed enough to have hit the big screen in such an extravagant way. It’s as if they will become the next king. were in a hurry to get it out and since Jolie was attached, Filled with ambition and greed, Stefan heads back they weren’t too worried about the finer details. That into Maleficent’s arms and amputates her wings while woman can open a film. she sleeps after losing the nerve to kill her.

However, the movie is entertaining and worth seeing.

Hurt and betrayed, Maleficent turns villainous. The Just don’t expect anything wickedly fantastic. Now, I’m fairy kingdom becomes dark and frightening as she off to find some cake. spirals into her I-was-betrayed-by-a-man hatred. And Shelly Lorts, online editor when the king’s daughter is born, she saunters into the On Twitter @ShellyLorts forum@dailybarometer.com christening, all cheekbones and green smoke, to bestow

‘X-Men’installment entertains A manifesto on perfection: ‘The Wire’

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fter 14 years and seven movies, some people might be getting X-Men fatigue at this point in their movie-going lives.

Let me tell you, this is not the time to stop seeing them; director Bryan Singer’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is not only the best movie of the series, but one of the best superhero movies I have ever seen.

The movie opens in the apocalyptic near future, wherein supreme robots called Sentinels are hunting down and killing mutants.

We learn that Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) have put their past differences aside and renewed their friendship in order to try and put together a plan to save their race.

They gather together some mutants familiar from previous movies, like Wolverine/Logan (Hugh Jackman), Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), Storm (Halle Berry), as well as a few new characters, Bishop (Omar Sy), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore) and Blink (Bingbing Fan), whose power to create portals makes for some pretty amazing and entertaining action scenes.

They come up with a plan.

Through Kitty Pryde, they will send Logan’s consciousness back into his 1974 body, and stop the assassination of Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage)

by Mystique/Raven (Jennifer Lawrence). Professor X explains that this sequence was the catalyst for the Sentinel program, which produced the machines that are presumably going to end the mutant race.

So, Logan must find Professor X and Magneto in 1974 and convince them to

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help him stop Mystique before the assassination happens.

Most of the movie happens during the 1974 timeline, with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender playing the roles of Professor X and Magneto, respectively, but they are phenomenal throughout, with a few jumps into what’s happening in the future.

As usual, Hugh Jackman is great at being Logan, who is the main constant throughout the movie, but does not overshadow any of the other great parts “Days of Future Past” has to offer.

One of these parts involves Quicksilver (Evan Peters), a mutant who can move at speeds much greater than the eye can comprehend.

The scene goes extreme slowmotion to Jim Croce’s perfectly fitting “Time in a Bottle” as Quicksilver glides through the room showing what he does in about two minutes, while everybody else sees in a second.

It is one of the most memorable and enjoyable scenes I have seen in a movie.

Though there may be a couple plot holes (and what time-travel movie doesn’t have them), they’re something to look past so as to enjoy the excellent display of storytelling, acting and entertainment that “Days of Future Past” provides.

If you are a fan of the series, or just enjoy a good movie, see this soon.

Derek Saling, A&E writer forum@dailybarometer.com

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ur generation is impatient. We want everything. We need it now.

This is especially apparent in modern media. It has become less valuable to tell a story well, to use imagery and language in a way that grabs readers’ attention, maintains it and makes them salivate for more. Instead, the first person to report something — in whatever capacity necessary — is the winner. The long-form narrative is dead. A compelling story stays interesting until the next text message pops up.

Patience wears thin in television, too. Binge-watching is king, because of its ability to give the viewer everything at once.

For those who are still reading, and have not departed for dozens of other things deemed worthy of attention, there is one television show that deserves patience and commitment.

HBO’s “The Wire” is worth it.

“The Wire” is set in the streets of Baltimore, and finely intertwines the lives of the criminals and the police. It is an anthropological fiction about the relationships and mayhem within a metropolitan area.

The uniqueness of “The Wire,” and what makes it the best series of all time, is its ability to tell a story with no loose ends, and to do it in a way that commands the viewer’s undivided attention.

Lester Freamon, one of the members of the Major Crimes unit for the Baltimore police, characterized the show’s brilliance with four words in a seasonone episode: “All the pieces matter.”

The show follows the police and the drug kingpins of Baltimore, but it also accompanies the city government, school system, media, port system and the drug users. Any person, as insignificant as he or she may seem, can drastically affect the city’s landscape and reshape the story being told.

Because of its structure, “The Wire” is not comparable to most, if any, other shows. David Simon, one of the show’s two creators, said each season of “The Wire” is its own novel.

Producer George Pelecanos remembers Simon’s explanation prior to the show’s outset. “Each episode would be like a chapter in a book,” Pelecanos said in an interview with The New Yorker. “You could digress, in the way a novel does. And it would be about the social aspects of crime.”

This is why patience is so important. In the beginning of a novel, it is difficult for the story to

become compulsory for the reader, because the world and its characters are still being introduced.

Many series in this decade are hellbent on shock, awe and the desperation to give the audience enough of a tease to keep coming back for more.

“The Wire,” which aired from 2002-2008, is counterintuitive in comparison. It sets up the story, tells the story and ends the story. It was not built to cater to a larger audience, which it sadly never received, but instead is purely constructed to tell a brilliant story from beginning to end.

The commitment to “The Wire” is not an easy one. It takes time, diligence and a whole lot of sharp attention.

But the reward and satisfaction once that commitment is made cannot be replicated with any other series, and its rewatchability is unmatched because of the show’s commitment to detail.

The characters in the show are expendable, and the attachment to them makes that a constant fear as a viewer.

The show follows both sides of the spectrum, the law and the crime, and the juxtaposition of each aspect makes it easy to feel sympathy and anger toward the “good guys” and the “bad guys.”

“The Wire” generates philosophical discussions about politics, crime, ethics, interpersonal relationships and ultimately, what we categorize as “right” and “wrong.”

The canvas of the inner city feels as real as any fictionalized drama can. The situations some of the characters of the show, particularly the young ones, become involved in are an indictment on the way society has let people go by the wayside.

The transcendance of “The Wire” as the greatest television series ever still comes back to Freamon’s statement.

There are no scenes that are irrelevant to the story. Every development serves a long-term purpose. “The Wire” will not have mind-blowing endings to episodes like “Game of Thrones.” It will not have a polarizing lead character like “Breaking Bad.” It will not generate wild theories about the show’s mythos like “Lost.”

It will come the closest to achieving perfection, because all the pieces matter. It just takes motivation to begin this visual novel. Once it’s open, it is impossible to put down.

Warner Strausbaugh, editor-in-chief On Twitter @WStrausbaugh editor@dailybarometer.com

OSU’s Spring One-Act Festival Oregon State University Theatre Program’s annual Spring One-Act Festival returns this June to the newly renovated Withycombe Hall lab theater. This exciting lineup of ten student-directed one-act plays will be shown in two panels. The Panel A plays run June 4 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and June 7 at 2 p.m. Panel B will run June 5 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and June 8 at 2 p.m.

The 2014 One-Act Festival features an eclectic mix of comedy and drama directed by OSU Theatre’s Advanced Directing students. Jeff Goode’s “Murder at Midnight,” directed by Bryanna Rainwater is a clever, campy murder mystery featuring students J. Garrett Luna, Sarah Sutton and Kolby Baethke. “The Merchandise King” by Clyde Hendrickson, directed by Teri Straley, is a comic parody of Disney’s “The Lion King” featuring Mike Stephens, Kyle Stockdall, Erin Wallerstein, Alex Toner and Annie Parham. A.R. Gurney’s comedy “The Problem,” directed by Anna Mahaffey, features Chris Peterman and Arin Dooley as a married couple from the late 1960s. “The Sign” by Stephen Bittrich, directed by Joseph Workman, is the poignant story of two childhood friends reunited at a funeral, and features Bryan Smith and Thoman Nath.

In Jonathan Rand’s “Check Please,” directed by Deborah Shapiro, a series of blind dinner dates turn to comic chaos; it features Joe Hill, Caitlin Reichmann, Renee Zipp, Brice Amarasinghe, Mike Turner, Beth Kowal, Scott D. Shapton and Sarah Koonse. Robert Brome’s “Judgment Morning,” directed by Mark McIntyre, is the story of a trio of siblings facing judgment on the morning of a funeral. This drama features Reed Morris, Blair Bowmer and Elise Barberis. In Sam Shepard’s “Evanescence, or Shakespeare in the Ally,” directed by Ricky Zipp, a woman faces an existential crisis after sudden life changes, and features Sarah Clausen and Bryan Smith.

Walter Wykes’ “The Worker,” directed by Troy Toyama, portrays a dystopian future and a man with a secret featuring Melissa Cozzi, Kolby Baethke and Joe Hill. “The Lifeboat is Sinking,” by Shel Silverstein, directed by Sam Thompson, is a quirky comedy about marriage and compromise featuring Elise Bareris and Alex Small. Joseph Zeccola’s “Heart of Hearing,” directed

by Sam Zinsli, is a classic “will they/won’t they” drama featuring Alex Graham and Bria Love Robertson.

Tickets for the One-Act Festival are $8 for general admission, $6 for seniors, $5 for youths and students and $4 for OSU students, and are available for purchase at the box office in Withycombe Hall, over the phone by calling 541-737-2784, as well as online. The Withycombe Hall lab theater is located at the corner of 30th Street and Campus Way.