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City Council approves new residential parking plan, to be implemented Sept. 1 By Emma-Kate Schaake THE DAILY BAROMETER
After months of meetings, revision and public testimony, the Corvallis City Council approved an updated residential parking district Monday night. In August 2013, the Urban Services Committee began reviewing the Collaboration Corvallis Traffic and Parking workgroup recommendations for an expanded residential parking district program. The Urban Services See PARKING | page 4
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Name submissions for the new classroom building ends Friday. The building is under construction until fall 2015.
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OSU asks for input, offers awards to name the classroom building on the west side of campus By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg THE DAILY BAROMETER
The new classroom building, nested between Hovland, Fairbanks and Austin Halls, will open fall 2015. In the meantime, the Oregon State
University Architectural Naming Committee has come up with a new method for choosing the name for the building. Steve Clark, the vice president for university relations and marketing, explained that names are typically suggested to the naming committee, which is made up of OSU administrators and representatives from the Associated Students of Oregon See BUILDING | page 4
Data analysis shows sustainability of Corvallis OSU students, members of environmental program work for more sustainable city after collecting, analyzing data over 3 years
“There’s a perception that Corvallis is a shining star of sustainability,” Lettero said. “It’s always important to know that there’s this next frontier during the environmental movement as a community.” Each participant who signed up for the Communities Take Charge website does a pre- and post-survey. Multiple By Ria Rankine THE DAILY BAROMETER years of data analysis were created from these surveys. Lettero is excited to get her hands on the full report, An avatar that nearly duplicates an individual’s appearance is one way to encourage sustainable practices through but, initially, the abundance of data posed a challenge. Corvallis. This is one such way Energize Corvallis could Her three-person staff at Energize Corvallis had difficulty use the program Communities Take Charge to better their analyzing it on their own, so they teamed with Hilary Boudet, assistant professor in sociology in the School of environment. A group of 25-30 OSU students and Corvallis residents Public Policy, in 2012. gathered Tuesday night at the Tunison Fire Department off They had two significant reasons to tackle the data Tunison Avenue to present findings collected from 2009-13 before them. by the Communities Take Charge program. “One was to do the data analysis,” Lettero said. “The Carly Lettero, director of Energize Corvallis with the other was to look at ways to improve the program.” Corvallis Environmental Center, created Communities In many ways, Boudet and her students of applied Take Charge for many reasons. Most notably, she said, for research methods provided extra manpower for Lettero Corvallis to be an example of a “showcase community for to study the data, which can help the program plan for climate change.” She also wanted to show that a commuSee SUSTAINABILITY | page 3 nity considered to be sustainable can do more. n
Nichols wins Honors College’s Broken pipe outstanding professor award causes flooding in Milam Hall THE DAILY BAROMETER
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Students nominated history professor Christopher McKnight Nichols for the 2014 outstanding professor award within the Honors College.
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Students within the Honors College selected assistant professor Christopher McKnight Nichols to receive the award for University Honors College Outstanding Professor of the Year 2014. Nichols teaches history at Oregon State University and recently took part in a live recording of Philosophy Talk, a nationally syndicated radio show. “This is a complete surprise to me,” Nichols said. “I was really touched and happy about it.” Each year, the Oregon State University Honors College asks its students to nominate their favorite professors. A select few students send in more
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extensive, though anonymous, nominations, detailing why they’re nominating their professor of choice. “Though difficult, all of our class would gladly take another class with Nichols, because he is the best professor we have had at OSU,” wrote one student anonymously. “Nichols has pushed my limits and taught me more than any other professor has done. He is devoted and excited to help all of his students grow and love their education.” Following the initial rounds of nominations, a team of students and some faculty then work to select the awardee. “From my perspective, it’s even
The top of a pipe broke in the mechanical room of the Milam Hall, which flooded the midsection of the basement around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. “The midsection of the Milam basement flooded one classroom and numerous offices,” said Milam building manager Debi Rothermund. The cause of the break was due to old pipes; the broken piece was replaced by mid-afternoon and water was restored to the rest of the building.
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PORTLAND — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling on restaurant and cooks do more to prevent norovirus outbreaks. The CDC wants food handlers to stay home when they’re sick and practice better hygiene. Dr. Aron Hall of the CDC says norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food in restaurants, are far too common. “Norovirus is the leading cause of disease outbreaks from contaminated food in the United States,” said Hall. “Infected food workers are the most common source of norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food and CDC is calling on the food service industry to work with us and local public health partners to prevent norovirus outbreaks.” Of the outbreaks where a cause was known, food service workers were the source 70 percent of the time. Calls and emails to the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, asking for a response to the CDC findings, were not returned.
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PENDLETON — The list of Oregon counties under emergency drought conditions continues to grow heading into summer. Gov. John Kitzhaber recently signed emergency declarations in Grant and Wheeler counties in central Oregon, and Josephine County in southwest Oregon. “The western United States is plagued by historic drought conditions, and we are experiencing the troubling effects across Oregon,” Kitzhaber said in an announcement. “Counties are experiencing water shortages and anticipating low streamflows and increased fire risk later this year.” Declaring drought emergencies helps coordinate local, state and federal resources to reduce threats to agriculture, recreation and natural resources, Kitzhaber said. Drought emergencies have already been declared in Malheur, Lake, Harney, Klamath, Crook and Jackson counties. Conditions are being monitored by the state Department of Agriculture, Department of Water Resources and Office of Emergency Management. The U.S. Drought Monitor has most of southern Oregon listed in severe to extreme drought, as of the map last updated May 27. Northeast Oregon is doing better by comparison, with “abnormally dry” conditions labeled through most of Umatilla and Morrow counties. The Pendleton area had wetter-than-usual months in February and March, but was below average for precipitation in April and May, according to the National Weather Service.
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PORTLAND — People who enrolled in Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange will have to re-enroll for coverage, as Cover Oregon transitions to the federal government. Tina Edlund of the Cover Oregon Transition Project told the Oregon Health Policy Board Tuesday that come November, about 80,000 Oregonians will have to log on to healthcare.gov to get their insurance. “No matter what, people were going to have to go back. Even if they’d just stayed with Cover Oregon, they were going to have to go back and update information,” said Edlund. “You know, changes in your family, changes in your income. All of that and just like all of us have to go with our employer sponsored insurance and make up dates on an annual basis. Some of this was going to have to happen anyway.” Edlund said her main goal is to have a working website in which to enroll starting Nov. 15. About 422,000 Oregonians enrolled in new health care this year — that ranked the state seventh out of the 15 states that launched their own websites. Cover Oregon website never worked as it was meant to, and the board decided in April to move to the federal government site.
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SALEM — When it came to weather in May, high temperatures stole the show. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said that the average monthly temperature of 59.8 degrees made it the eighth warmest May in Salem since 1892. “I’d definitely say that was our biggest story,� said meteorologist Jeremiah Pyle. The average high temperature in May was more than three degrees higher than normal in Salem this year. “We had five days above 80 for the month,� Pyle said. “The average is three.� There was even a day in which the daily temperature topped the 90-degree mark. On May 14, the service recorded 91 degrees in Salem, but this wasn’t enough to break the record, which was 93 degrees in 1939. There were a number of sites in the region that broke
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Brian Wixom Jr. rides a Jet Ski at Wallace Marine Park in West Salem on Monday, June 2, 2014. Temperatures were predicted to reach high 70s. the record that day, however, including Portland, Astoria and Newport. Last month was warmer on average than past Mays, according to the National Weather Service, with an average high temperature of 71.1 degrees. The normal average high for the month of May in Salem is
SUSTAINABILITY n Continued from page 1 the future. The applied research methods class is required for master’s of public policy students in their first year at OSU. “Every year, we partner with the community, or government organization, to do a project where the students actually get to apply their (knowledge) in a real-world situation,� Boudet said. Participation of Corvallis residents was amazing, Boudet said. More than 6,000 people participated in the Communities Take Charge program, which Lettero said is one in 10 people. The retention rate, particularly because it was web-based participation, was 50 percent. Some of the findings took the group by surprise, such as the gamification finding, in which avatars that looked like the individuals encouraged them to continue the survey. And peer-to-peer competitions proved to be a greater incentive than prize
67.8 degrees. Low temperatures also were warmer than usual at 48.5 degrees. That’s 3.8 degrees warmer than the normal value of low temperatures in May is 44.7 degrees. While May was on the higher end of the scale in temperature, it was just slightly below nor-
winnings. Boudet was more than happy to assign this project to her students. It gave them a wonderful opportunity to work with what Boudet calls “messyâ€? data. “The reality is, when you work in the real world, you’re never going to be given organized data,â€? Boudet said. Another benefit of the project was to give students the chance to gain tangible skills that cannot be learned in a classroom setting, such as working with the client and meeting client expectations. The fact that they’re doing more than earning a grade, Boudet said, pushed them harder. “There’s also this added motivation of providing something to the community,â€? she said. For Brittany Gaustad, a first-year master’s of public policy student, working on Communities Take Charge allowed her to apply several tangible skills. “It was very useful ‌ working with 17 people, writing one report with them — it takes a lot of coordination,â€? Gaustad said.
She was satisfied with their findings, which can help expand Lettero’s program and Gaustad stated is one of the main goals. “It’s pretty local right now,� Gaustad said. “One of the main points of this is to look at expanding this program to other locations.� For now, Lettero plans to expand into the classroom with a Communities Take Charge geared for high-school students across the Pacific Northwest. She will also partner with OSU’s Seeds for the Sol and a statewide program called Clean Energy Works. However, her greatest step in the future is to win a competition: the Georgetown University Energy Prize, which offers a hefty cash fund. “The city that wins (the competition) wins $5 million,� Lettero said. “We’ll begin that challenge next year.�
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The state of Oregon has set an ambitious goal to graduate 100 percent of high school students by the year 2025. OPB is following more than two dozen six and seven-year-olds who are in the class of 2025. For the next twelve years, OPB aims to follow these students, in school and at home. PORTLAND — Oregon has an ambitious long-term goal for its public schools: that starting in 2025, every child will finish high school. OPB is tracking the goals for the Class of 2025 by keeping up with more than 20 students from East Portland. Top educators in Oregon are calling Oregon’s new approach to that goal “collective responsibility.” Nancy Golden is watching two preschool girls as they dump water into plastic tubes, to see how it flows. As the state’s chief education officer, she’s rarely at the water play table. But Golden says preschool isn’t about worksheets and sitting in a desk. It’s about learning while playing. “You know, when you think about kids who generally come to school ready to learn - this is what they’re doing at home,” Golden said. “They’re sitting more with a parent, or a quality daycare, and they’re doing these kinds of things. So, it’s really about giving them the same opportunities, just in a school. “That’s one of the most misunderstood things about it. So we’ve got to get good at explaining that,” Golden added. Golden visited Earl Boyles Elementary, last month, as construction crews worked on a new $7 million preschool there. Earl Boyles has run a preschool classroom for a few years. But for most students at the school - like
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ing education. Sometimes, Oregon’s leaders downplay the goal as “aspirational.” But Nancy Golden says the graduation goal she calls “40-40-20” is within reach, if kids start out right. “Everyone’s saying we’ve got to start with preschool students, because if they come to kindergarten ready to learn, we can get to that 40-40-20 goal,” Golden said. Golden says on the flip side, if students still need extra help after third grade, they’re unlikely to ever catch up. And the key to helping kids at every level, at a meeting of the Early Learning Council in February, Golden called it: “Collective responsibility - and I think that’s a really big concept.” Educators say that graduating successful young people will take
more than the public schools can do on their own. The state wants help. But, while Oregon has spent millions on new strategic investments, Golden argues “collective responsibility” doesn’t mean collecting big checks from the state. “Now, since we’ve made these strategic investments - I’m hearing people say ‘Well, if you want me to do that, you’ve got to give me a strategic investment.’ And that was never what it was intended for,” Golden said. David Douglas voters approved a bond to cover half the new preschool’s cost. City, county, and private funds are coming in, but a funding gap remains. The state hasn’t spent anything on it, though district officials expect some money after it’s built. “Collective responsibility” doesn’t end at pre-school.
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State University, OSU faculty senate, the OSU Foundation and Provost Sabah Randhawa. The committee then debates names before bringing them to university President Ed Ray, who has the ability to approve or deny the naming requests. “We thought it’d be exciting to not just do it the old way,” Clark said. “Let’s ask students, let’s ask faculty and staff, and really even alums and Corvallis people, what would be great names.” Submissions for the contest are accepted until Friday at 11:59 p.m. Anyone with a suggestion can submit either through the Oregon State University Facebook page or online through the OSU academics webpage. Names must come with a brief explanation and must fit into one of four categories. Names under the “Philosophy” theme should describe or portray the goals and philosophies of OSU. Names under the “Person” category would involve naming the building after someone significant in OSU’s history. The “Place” category is for names that describe places or local locations important to OSU. The “Purpose” category is for suggestions that relate to the purpose and goals for the new building. To make the competition more fun, four participants, regardless of whether their suggestion is chosen for the new building or not, will be randomly selected to win a prize valued at $330. Prizes include a B-zone campus parking permit for the 2014-15 school year, an OSU Beaver Store gift card, a Visa gift card or Beaver football tickets. “We want people to join, to enter names,” Clark said. “We just decided that because this building is about students, is about the learning experience, that it was time to open it up to everyone and have some fun.”
Committee held more than a dozen meetings with numerous opportunities for public input, culminating in the final approval from the council Monday. Through months of deliberations, residents were centrally concerned that a broad plan would not address each district equally, or potentially push existing problems to other boundaries. While the plan is set for now, the council and residents expect further discussion and amendments as the program is implemented. Under the new city parkingdistrict program, the three current districts will expand to seven, which border the Oregon State University campus. Permits will cost $20 per year for residents and $100 per year for employees and will be allocated two per lot with an additional permit option for every kitchen. This kitchen allocation can be utilized up to 20 permits and was put in place after residential concerns of more concentrated housing areas like apartment complexes that would fall under these districts.
There will be two-hour free parking in most districts except for those areas deemed most in demand. Violations will be enforced with a minimum fine of $35, and a standard of $50. The city is now working to install signs over the summer in preparation for the plan’s implementation Sept. 1. There will be approximately 650 new or reused signs put in place to designate the boundaries and rules of the new program. City staff hopes to begin this project this month, work through the summer months and finish by the time the districts are enforced in September. The City’s Residential Parking Program implementation coincides with OSU’s Zonal Parking system, which will begin sales for its new permits Sept. 2. OSU will have four different zone designations A, B, C and BR residence hall zones with prices corresponding to the level of demand for those areas. The OSU and city plans were aimed at reducing traffic and parking congestion both on campus and in the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Angelina Madrid’s son, Logan - kindergarten was their first school experience. “So, we taught him as much as we could at home to get him ready for kindergarten,” Madrid said. “So he just went straight into kindergarten. He didn’t have any schooling.” Logan is now in first grade at Earl Boyles. He has a younger brother, though, and Madrid hopes that her younger son will attend the new preschool. “I was really excited to hear that it’s opening up,” Madrid said with a smile. “I knew that there was a preschool at Earl Boyles already, to know that they’re building an extension - I can’t wait.” Madrid’s son Logan is in the Class of 2025. OPB intends to follow him and more than 20 others, to see how Oregon’s 100 percent graduation goal is chang-
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With the year coming to a close, The Daily Barometer sports staff decided to sit down and reflect on all that’s happened. There have been many great seasons across all sports. In no particular order, here are the top 10 individual seasons of the 2013-14 year.
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Junior quarterback Sean Mannion throws to a receiver against Colorado Sept. 28.
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Junior left fielder Michael Conforto makes contact against Wright State March 2 in Goss Stadium.
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While Brandin Cooks got a lot of the attention with his eye-popping numbers and highlight-reel touchdowns, it’s sometimes forgotten that his production was only possible with Mannion throwing him the football. The junior quarterback finished the year second in the nation in passing and fourth in touchdowns. He completed 400 of 603 passing attempts (66.3 percent), totaled 4,662 passing yards and 37 touchdowns — all of which were OSU single-season records. Returning for his senior season, Mannion is on pace to set the Pac-12 record for career passing yards and will likely go down as the most prolific passer in Oregon State history. While Oregon State struggled down the stretch, it wasn’t because of the play of its quarterback, who blossomed in his third year under the helm.
It’s a little difficult to appreciate just how special a season Conforto had this year considering the No. 1 Beavers dropped a heartbreaker Monday night to cut their season short. But while Conforto ended the year in a slump — at least for his standards — he still finished the year with an incredible .345 batting average, 56 runs batted in, seven home runs, 55 walks and .447 on base percentage. The junior made the All-Pac-12 First Team for the third time in as many seasons at OSU, and that’s just scratching the surface of his season accolades. The left fielder was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year for the second-straight year, and was also named to the All-America First Team for the second time in his career. Conforto is expected to be drafted in the first round of Thursday’s MLB Draft, and has been projected as high as fourth overall to the Chicago Cubs in mock drafts. While OSU’s season was a bit of a disappointment with the way it ended, Conforto’s career at OSU certainly was not.
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Junior center fielder Dani Gilmore, softball Gilmore had a career year and was one of the lone bright spots for an Oregon State softball team that struggled this season. Gilmore led the team in five major categories: batting average, home runs, runs batted in, walks and on base percentage. The center fielder hit .407 on the season, driving in 40 runs while blasting eight home runs. She also walked 23 times, finishing the year with a .491 on base percentage. While the Beavers had a down year after qualifying for the postseason in 2013, Gilmore was the best she’s ever been, making the Pac-12 First Team and also receiving All-Pacific Region First Team honors. Just a junior, Gilmore will return for her senior campaign next year for an OSU squad returning most of its lineup. If she continues to improve like she has her first three years, she could even be up for Pac-12 Player of the Year in a year’s time.
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Junior wide receiver Brandin Cooks reacts after making a catch against Colorado Sept. 28.
Junior wide receiver Brandin Cooks, football Cooks was arguably the best player in the entire Pac-12 this season, leading the nation in receptions and receiving yards. He pulled in 128 catches for a Pac-12 single-season record 1,730 receiving yards as well as 16 touchdowns. His video game-like numbers earned him not only a Pac-12 First Team selection, but the Biletnikoff Award for the nation’s top receiver as well. Cooks combined for more than 37 percent of Oregon State’s offense, as he also rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns. His meteoric rise this season led him to declare a year early for the NFL Draft. He ran the fastest 40-yard dash among receivers at the NFL Combine, clocking in a 4.33 seconds, making him an enticing prospect for NFL teams. Cooks ended up getting selected 20th overall in the first round by the New Orleans Saints, where he’ll join quarterback Drew Brees. Though he’ll be missed in Corvallis, Cooks is expected to be one of the focal points of the Saints’ offense next season.
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Senior guard Roberto Nelson drives in toward the basket against Arizona March 5.
Senior guard Roberto Nelson, basketball With the firing of Craig Robinson and hiring of new head coach Wayne Tinkle, Nelson’s terrific season as well as career seemed to get swept under the rug. Like the baseball team, OSU’s men’s basketball team didn’t do quite as well as many hoped, but it wasn’t because of Nelson. The senior led the Pac-12 in scoring for the secondstraight year, averaging 20.7 points per game. He shot 44.7 percent from the field and 39.9 percent from 3-point land. Add in Nelson’s 3.6 assists per game and 3.4 rebounds per game and it’s hard to argue that he wasn’t the team’s best player for the second year in a row. Many thought the senior guard was snubbed by the Pac-12 after earning Second Team honors, as some thought he even deserved consideration for Pac-12 Player of the Year. Nelson will go down as one of OSU’s best all-time scorers after a great career.
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Junior center fielder Dani Gilmore tracks down a fly ball against Washington April 27.
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Freshman point guard Sydney Wiese plays defense against Arizona Feb. 28.
Freshman point guard Sydney Wiese, basketball The Oregon State women’s basketball team had its best season in 20 years en route to a second-place tie in the Pac-12, while making it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before losing to 1-seed South Carolina. There were many factors to Oregon State’s success this season, but none were bigger than the immediate impact of Wiese. The true freshman led the Beavers in scoring and assists, while earning national recognition for her 3-point shooting. Wiese averaged 14.3 points per game, four assists per game and 3.3 rebounds per game while shooting 42.4 percent from behind the arc in her first season as a Beaver. Wiese’s play helped lead the Beavers to a No. 24 national ranking at the end of the year, and was selected to the All-Pac-12 Team. She was the first OSU freshman to do so since Tanja Kostic in 1993. She even led the entire nation in 3-point percentage for freshmen.
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Senior pitcher Ben Wetzler, baseball
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Junior Chelsea Tang, gymnastics With the departures of Makayla Stambaugh, Melanie Jones, Stephanie McGregor and Hailey Gaspar, the Oregon State gymnastics team had a need for some underclassmen to step up in 2014. Junior Chelsea Tang stepped up, and did so in a major way. Tang, from South Eugene High School, performed in the all-around in all 12 meets in the 2014 season. She earned All-Pac-12 First Team honors as an all-arounder and was one of three individual who competed at the NCAA Championships as an individual after the Beavers’ season ended in the regional round. Tang’s performance on the balance beam in the University Park Regional won her the honor of being a regional co-champion. She led the Beavers in event wins with 10 throughout the season, five of which came in the all-around. Tang returns for her final season at OSU in 2015, and comes back with a young team full of potential.
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Senior Ben Wetzler winds up against Wright State March 2.
Like Conforto, Wetzler saw his season and therefore his Oregon State career come to a close Monday night after falling to UC Irvine in the regional round of the NCAA postseason. Also like Conforto, Wetzler will go down as one of the greatest players in Oregon State history. The left-hander finished the year with a 12-1 record as well as a 0.78 earned run average that was best in the nation. He allowed just nine earned runs on the entire season and opponents hit .143 against him. He was selected to the AllPac-12 First Team after his senior campaign, and ended his career as the Oregon State all-time wins leader. Wetzler, who was drafted in the fifth round of the MLB Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies after last season, is expected to go in the early rounds of this year’s draft, which starts Thursday. There’s no telling how Wetzler will fare in the big leagues, but if his time at OSU is any indication, he’ll have no problem making an immediate impact.
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Sophomore goalie Matt Bersano stops a shot attempt against California Nov. 8, 2013, in Corvallis.
Sophomore goalie Matt Bersano, soccer The Oregon State men’s soccer team did not have the finish it wanted in the fall season. After beginning the year with a 7-2 record in nonconference play, the Beavers faltered once they faced a competitive Pac-12 schedule, and went winless in conference play. There was, however, one silver lining with the team’s disappointing season: Sophomore goalkeeper Matt Bersano was stellar. Bersano posted five shutouts in OSU’s 19 games (Bersano started all 19) in 2013, and set an OSU single-season record for saves with 101. He was an All-Pac-12 Second Team honoree and was clearly a major factor in keeping OSU’s games competitive, even when the offense was struggling to score goals.
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Senior RJ Pena wrestles against No. 4 Oklahoma in Gill Coliseum Jan. 25. Pena had the fourth most pins in OSU history.
Senior 157-pound RJ Pena, wrestling Coming off a season in which Pena was named to the All-America team, he had a lot of expectations. While he couldn’t outperform his eight-place finish at nationals from 2013, Pena did have another terrific season to end his Oregon State career. The senior finished the year with a 34-6 record, earning eight pins while going 16-1 in duals. His 57 career pins are fourth all-time in Oregon State’s record books following a prolific high school career in which he won four state championships for Sprague High School in Salem. Pena won the Pac-12 title in the 157-pound weight class this season, leading the Beavers to their third-straight Pac-12 Championship in the process. Pena had aspirations of winning an individual national championship this year, but can leave Oregon State knowing he went down as one of the all-time greats.
Ellsbury donates $1 Lights go out on Beavers’ season — but what a season it was million to baseball program By Kerry Eggers PORTLAND TRIBUNE
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New York Yankees center fielder and former Oregon State student-athlete Jacoby Ellsbury has committed $1 million to help Oregon State’s baseball program expand its locker room facilities. Goss Stadium is the oldest continuous ballpark in the nation, having been on OSU’s campus since 1907. The stadium has undergone several renovations in recent years, most recently in 2009 when 1,000 seats were added. The proposed $2.8 million project will expand the locker room, update the equipment room, add team meeting space and include both a new recruiting area and a centralized main entrance. The OSU locker room facilities will be named in honor of Ellsbury. The Daily Barometer
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CORVALLIS — The solitary figure sat crosslegged along the third-base line under the lights at Goss Stadium late Monday night, 45 minutes after the end to Oregon State’s baseball season. Pizza box beside him, senior pitcher Scott Schultz -- still wearing uniform No. 24 -- soaked in a final moment with the venue he called home for the past four years. “Don’t really want to go in and get dressed,” Schultz said softly, eyes moist. The Beavers’ dream of reaching the College World Series ended with their 4-2 loss to Cal Irvine in the Corvallis Regional finals, a bitter blow to a team that entered the NCAA Tournament with the nation’s No. 1 seed. Schultz did his part, pitching a two-hit shutout in a Sunday victory over Cal Irvine that forced a final showdown for the right to play in next weekend’s Super Regional. The 6-3, 205-pound right-hander, who spurned a pro offer after being chosen by Miami in the 17th round of last year’s major league draft to return to Oregon State, will be taken again by another team in Friday’s draft.
But Schultz’s college career was over, and reflection was beginning to take place that a great part of his young life had passed by. Then the silence of the night was interrupted. “Hi Daddy!” shouted his three-year-old, Madison, brought down to the field by her mother and Scott’s girlfriend, Allison. And soon father and daughter were running the baseline together, the young girl laughing, her father smiling. Life goes on. Cal Irvine moves to a best-of-three date at the Oklahoma State Super Regional. The Beavers pack up their bags and scatter to assorted destinations. Schultz, fellow seniors Ben Wetzler, Kavin Keyes and Andy Peterson will be playing pro ball this summer. Juniors Michael Conforto, Dylan Davis and Jace Frye will be picked in the draft and almost surely have played their final college game, too. Monday night was a bittersweet moment for coach Pat Casey, who in his 20 years has built Oregon State’s program from a nice little regional outfit to a national powerhouse. Listen to Cal Irvine coach Mike Gillespie,
who began a relationship with Casey in 1994, when Gillespie was coaching the then-powerful Southern Cal Trojans. Gillespie was making his first visit to Corvallis since 2005, the first year Casey took his Beavers to Omaha. “From the first time we ever hooked up, what jumped out at me about Pat Casey was not only was he an outstanding teacher and coach, but he was an intense competitor,” Gillespie told the assembled media. “I still feel that way. I was here when the (Beavers’) roll began, when things really got great. It’s clear the people of this community and university recognize how sensational this program has become. “This is a reflection of an elite and premier coach. This is a very difficult night for Pat and for them, but I’d be remiss if I failed to point out their top-drawer program. There is none better than this program is, for what they are and what they have done.” When it was Casey’s turn to talk, he spoke from the heart, blaming himself for his team’s failure to advance beyond the Regional. “I’m proud of the effort our guys gave us all year long,” Casey said. “It was outstanding. They played and acted with class.
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Baseball gives Beaver Nation a sport to believe in
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or students at a university in a major sports conference, it can be easy for many to consume themselves in the world of athletics. Sports may seem meaningless to some, because of their overall insignificance and lack of contribution to society’s success and failure, but it can also be the best way to bring a community together — to have people put aside their differences and collectively be a part of something out of their control. The Oregon State baseball team has done that in Corvallis. Though football and basketball are the more publicized sports in college, baseball is king on this campus. Monday night’s loss to UC Irvine, which eliminated the Beavers from the postseason and ended their season, was devastating for fans, whether they were students, university employees or Corvallis residents. That devastation was not just because OSU was expected to easily cruise all the way to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. That universal love for the team ended, just as OSU’s season did. It can confuse non-sports fan when someone has such a dedication to a team. Why do you care so much about these people playing sports? Why does it make you so sad when the team loses, and so happy when it wins? Why do you have so much memorabilia for this team? It does not make sense, when you think about it. We’re talking about adult men and women behaving like children with some insane fascination with a group of athletes who are often depicted as role-models. Most sports fans are older than the athletes they idolize. It’s weird, sure. But it is an escape from reality — a chance to be a part of something bigger than our individual lives. Being a sports fan is like being married, as Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons put it. “Sports teams are just like wives ... you can only have one wife, you can only have one sports team, and for the love of God, I will not argue about this,” Simmons wrote in an ESPN column. Our Beaver fans, the loyal and dedicated bunch they are, are married to this program. The football team generates much larger crowds. The basketball team generates more conversation (although in a negative way, in recent years). The baseball team generates hope — the hope that the team is going to be the best. Every year, OSU baseball has been one of the best teams in the country. They have even won two national championships. The ultimate prize in being a sports fan is when the team you follow is No. 1. All of this adds up to what happened Monday night. The crowd was lively. They were invested in every
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t’s the season for graduation and the festivities surrounding it. Families become sentimental, drying their tears at any and every mention of graduation ceremonies, change or childhood. Basically, anything to do with their children graduating from one of the ultimate scholastic endeavors. Their sentimental reactions may stem from the shocking realization of their children’s newfound adulthood, or because all the money they once had is now long gone. After all, on average, parents contribute about 30 percent of their children’s college expenses, according to “Students shouldering more of their college costs” by Lynn O’Shaughnessy. But, whatever the scenario, most
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parents throw for their children. Just the fact that your parents are orchestrating the event is enough to fear the “McDonald’s Play Place” party vibe. Those parties were the coolest, back when Polly Pockets and LEGOs were a thriving commodity and hot fries and chocolate cake made up the most important food groups — but not so much anymore. When you venture forth from an event in your life that is supposed to brand you as an adult, you generally prefer to leave childish things behind. I doubt all parents try to finagle their way into planning a party for their graduating children. But maybe I should give the ones who
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was set up to go on a field trip for an online geology class Saturday, leaving at 8 a.m. This was a very important trip — I had to get on the bus at eight on the dot, as the blurb on Blackboard explained that tardy people could and would be left behind and that those people would be out 50 points on their grades. I got my big-girl shoes on, bought a breakfast sandwich and headed over to Wilkinson Hall to get on a bus to head east and look at some volcanoes. I got on the first bus I saw and proceeded to make friends with my seat-partner, telling her all about the extra sweater I brought if she
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got cold and how I had doublestuffed Oreos in my bag for later. I was on my game. About 15 minutes into the trip, my new friend turned to me and said, “I really enjoy Oceanography, don’t you?” My jaw dropped and wobbled back and forth. “What?” “This is the bus for our Oceanography class — we’re going
to the tide pools.” After much swearing and a mad scramble to the front of the bus, I burst into tears before the oceanography professor, explaining how I was in the wrong place and if I didn’t get on the right bus I would be out 50 points. The professor held my hand, told me to breathe, authoritatively told the bus driver he was going to double back and talk to some other people and then swooshed out of the bus to save the day. Long story short, thanks to the kindness of this professor, his T.A. and the bus driver, I manSee Ruud | page 8
do a break. They just want to do something nice for us, filling us with food and giving us a chance to host our friends and selected classmates. Ultimately, it all boils down to how you treat a situation, and what you make it out to be. It’s better to enter a potentially uncomfortable situation like it’s going to be fun than drag your feet and make things miserable for everyone. Having your family around in a lighthearted setting can be the perfect start to the much-needed post-college detox. t
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ear readers, I am going to use this last column of the year to reflect on some issues that come up every year, either in my classroom or in my column. It is clear after teaching human sexuality for 19 years here at Oregon State University, that many of my students received, at best, an inadequate sexuality education in high school or at home, and at worst, no sexuality education to speak of at all. Most of my students tell me they heard plenty about plumbing (“This is a penis; this is a vagina; this is how you make a baby”), diseases (AIDS; sexually transmitted infections) and abstinence. Worst of all, many received the information via scare tactics. By that, I mean they were told all the negative consequences of sexual activity — and it stopped there. Few students tell me they learned sex can be a wonderful expression of love, that it usually feels really good and that most of the time it is very fun. I challenge someone to disagree with those three things. I know there is more to sex than that, but rarely are those three things ever expressed in K-12 sex education courses. What students didn’t get was sexuality education. What I mean by “sexuality education” is acknowledging the existence of behaviors beyond the obvious and the stereotypical. Many of my students come into my class with a very limited idea of what sex is, or how it plays out. Many think sex equals penilevaginal intercourse in the missionary position (man on top), and anything else is abnormal, kinky, unnatural, perverted, sick, immoral
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pitch. It was impressive for Beaver Nation, which oftentimes can be inferior to other teams’ crowds. Caleb Hamilton’s double play ended the ninth inning. It ended the season. It ended the dreams of players and fans alike of going back to Omaha and winning a national title. Fans, dejected with the loss and upset of OSU’s performance, still gathered well after the game to applaud the players for an incredible season. It didn’t end the way anyone here wanted it to, but the baseball team gives us hope, and it gives us unity. That has an intangible value.
aged to make it to my geology field trip on time to meet my group and my austere, Indiana Jones-esque professor. What I had the joy of experiencing was an act of kindness — I don’t know that I would have blamed anyone for saying “too bad” and having to learn about tide pools for the rest of the day. But instead, I was treated with the kindness I’d expect from a RAKtivist — a person actively affiliated with the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, or someone from the Humans Helping Humans Housing Foundation — a group devoted to building homes for struggling families and forming a sense of community pride. Granted, these are large-
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scale examples of the positive side of humanity and we still have a decently ugly side running with the theme of a “dog-eat-dog world.” But even on a smaller scale, the little things can mean the world, both to others and ourselves. Practicing kindness can have benefits, including, but not limited to, making us happier, giving us healthier hearts, slowing the aging process, making better relationships and being contagious in and of itself, according to Dr. David R. Hamilton, author and counselor. There isn’t a downside to kindness and the practice of it can make a world of difference, especially for a lost and confused English major. t
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his week is officially “dead” — even though some instructors and professors didn’t seem to get that memo, and still give homework like it’s just another normal week of the term. Everyone is emotionally exhausted. If we haven’t already, now’s the time a lot of us put ourselves on autopilot as we try to coast to the finish line that is summer. This is all normal of course — you’ve just clocked in 30 weeks for the year, and it’s just about time to punch that time card and relax. What I’ve seen from my friends and other classmates, however, is that dedication has disappeared and the percent of procrastination has risen out of control. You’d be surprised by the things I’m willing to do before I touch a homework assignment
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Grevstad now. Sometimes I’ll clean my house (something that rarely happens normally), sometimes I try to balance my finances (I don’t have any finances to balance. Even if I did, I’m terrible at numbers), sometimes I even try to cook (my roommates have now banned me from any meal that requires a stovetop burner). But the king of all procrastination is universal. It’s a subscription to Netflix. Netflix is a college kids’ dream. Why write a paper when you can binge on “Orange is the New Black?” The ability or desire to become anything even remotely productive goes out the window, once someone goes on Netflix. I’ve found too many people who have fallen into the ever-soclever “Netflix trap.” When you’re finished watching your shows, the next one’s immediately cued up for your convenience, on a timer. It’s almost like the universe is peer-pressuring you into being a slacker. Before you know it, you have an encyclopedic knowledge on how much a 1789 musket costs, because you accidentally marathoned five seasons of “Pawn Stars.” But Netflix doesn’t just stop at simply streaming movies and TV shows. It’s a “gateway” media, like marijuana is a “gateway” drug.
GREAVES n Continued from page 7 or wrong. The reality is most adults participate in a variety of sexual acts — and enjoy them immensely. In high school, rarely do my students hear about homosexual love relationships, anal sex, masturbation, sex after age 60, women with high sex drives or men with low sex drives. I am not saying the teacher has to approve of or condone these activities, but students have a right to know they exist and they have a right to be fully informed. Knowledge is power, because knowledge is what enables us to make informed decisions. Research shows that a sex-education program consisting solely of plumbing, disease and scare tactics produces an uninformed, erotophobic young adult who lacks sexual confidence. Someone who is erotophobic feels very uncomfortable with sexuality and guilty when, and if, they enjoy it. This is also the college student who is least likely to take my course. The end result is someone who is the most likely candidate for an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, because research also shows that erotophobes are the least likely to use contraception at all and if they use it, they are the most likely to use it inconsistently and/or incorrectly. I spend an enormous amount of time in my class trying to get students to broaden their ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman in a sexual relationship, to broaden their ideas about what “sex” itself is, and to have a sense of diversity when thinking about individuals who make choices about sexual activity. In a way, it is no fault of their own that some of my students behave immaturely in class, talking, laughing and making rude, inconsiderate or
Netflix starts you down the media-paved procrastination path. Once you’re in Netflix land, you then have to at least check out the new uploads on YouTube. While on YouTube, you have to at least look up random recipes on Tumblr, and then slide over to Facebook to check and make sure your ex is still doing terrible without you (and that you’re still winning the breakup). And before you know it, you’ve just ordered Jimmy John’s eight times and know the delivery guy on a nickname basis. The bad thing about all of this is the fact that Netflix has been interjected into your life at the expense of school, exams and finals. It’s hard because we’re all so close to the end. We can already almost taste the freedom of summer. But think of this as a friendly reminder to stick with it for just two more weeks. “Breaking Bad” in all its glory will be there waiting for you. Take time to balance your schedule so you aren’t so burnt out from school and can still indulge in watching TV shows, but don’t just chose one or the other. Just think, in two weeks, it will just be you, Bryan Cranston and an array of worried family and friends wondering why you’ve locked yourself in your room for three weeks. t
Alec Grevstad is a senior in speech commu-
nications. The opinions expressed in Grevstad’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Grevstad can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
judgmental comments. What troubles me is that many of these comments are directed at people, when it is simply the behaviors that bother the students. It is sort of a “throw the baby out with the bath water” syndrome, in that they reject the person for the behavior when they could simply express disapproval of the behavior itself. (Although frankly, I’m not sure why they feel so compelled to be critical of the consensual and highly private behavior of others.) For example, they label people who enjoy anal sex as immoral instead of labeling anal sex as an immoral act (and I’m not suggesting that is or is not immoral). Or, students have labeled the people who patronize adult stores as perverts, sickos and dirty old men, instead of saying they don’t like the products purchased by these individuals. Students have even gone so far as to label the people who work at adult stores as white trash simply because of their place of employment. It is this sort of limited thinking that results in prejudice, discrimination and intolerance. Some of you may remember OSU’s motto from about a decade ago: “Open minds. Open doors.” I have really enjoyed answering your questions in my column this year. I’ll be back next year to write my column as well as to teach Human Sexuality (HDFS 240) for the 20th year and the Contemporary Families in the U.S. (HDFS 201) for the 15th year. Have a great summer, and be safe while having a hell of a lot of fun! t
Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and faculty member in the college of public health and human sciences. Greaves hosts sexuality and relationship Q&A sessions in the residence halls and the co-ops, in sororities and fraternities, in the cultural centers and for community groups. The opinions expressed in Greaves’ columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Greaves can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.