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The Spring One-Act Festival to take place at Withycombe Hall Main Stage this week, starting Wednesday By Kyle Reed

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Alex Johnston plays the role of Cerberus in the one-act titled, “Those Who Really Go to the Crossroads,” written by Megan Grassl and directed by Abbey Pasquini.

Walking from the dressing room, actor Alex Ries prepared to showcase at Tuesday night’s rehearsal the many weeks of labor that were put into his play. The Spring One-Act Festival will take place from June 5-8 at 7:30 p.m. and on June 9 at 2 p.m. on the Withycombe Main Stage. The Festival will feature four different plays: “Those Who Really Go to the Crossroads,” “The Unfortunate Case of Mr. Billner,” “La Vie en Rose” and “Future, Future, Dear God!” Each of the plays is written, directed and performed by students, and the genres range from comedy to historical drama. Alternating each year between studentwritten work and the work of professional playwrights, the focus of the program switches between the roles of the director and the writer. This year, the students were given the opportunity to create a short play from scratch. “One of the really unique things about this program is that students get the opportunity to produce an entire show by themselves,” said professor Elizabeth Helman. “The faculty members oversee some things, but really it’s their voice and their material that they want to produce. It’s really great to see people cultivate their own original, creative material.” Helman taught the playwriting class that this year’s performances stemmed from,

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Alycia Olivar, playing the role of Shax, Brittany Potter playing Botis and Jonathan Thompson playing the role of Jayden in “Those Who Really Go to the Crossroads.” taking an advisory role. Some of the students involved, including some of the writers, have not regularly involved themselves with theater before this or are new to the scene. “There are a lot of people here who aren’t your typical theatre arts [major], or they just regularly come into plays,” said Michael Beaton, director of “La Vie en Rose.” “It’s nice to hang out with them and be able to see their skills.” The plays are a culmination of many weeks of work.

“It’s very difficult to direct a show that starts on week 10, because that’s a lot on everyone’s plate. The actors especially just have a lot of stuff to memorize,” said Ries, who directed and will star in “Future, Future, Dear God!” “But the thing is the people we are working with are really dedicated, so for me it really hasn’t been that bad at all.” Tickets for students are priced at $4 and general admission is $8. Kyle Reed, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

Simmons finds enjoyment in teaching, makes it 50 years at OSU Dale Simmons, psychology professor, has been at OSU since it was named Oregon State College with 4,500 students

community for 50 straight years. He is one of two of the longest working professors at Oregon State. Simmons started teaching at OSU in the fall of 1959 when he was appointed assistant professor of psychology and counselor in the counseling and testing center. By Greg Germano “I accepted the original appointThe Daily Barometer ment because I needed a job near the Some say if a person loves his or her job, that person will never work a day [University of Oregon] so that I could in his or her entire life. For Dr. Dale complete my Ph.D. degree,” Simmons Simmons, this statement could not be said. “I had never contemplated teaching as a career, but found that teaching more relevant. In July, Simmons will have been teach- was enjoyable.” ing and been a part of the Oregon State Simmons also noted that at the n

time of his appointment, the school was called Oregon State College and there were about 4,500 students. In the early 1960s, Simmons dropped from Oregon State to Simmons take a job as the director of the Lincoln County Mental Health Clinic in Newport, however, he still had his

residence here in Corvallis. After a year, he returned to Oregon State. “What I discovered from all of this was that I really had an extremely hard time sitting in an office [for] eight hours a day,” Simmons said. “So when OSU contacted me to see if I would come back to teaching, I accepted gladly. It was one of the best decisions I ever made because the position gave me so much more movement and I have loved my relationships with students, faculty, administrators, ‘techies’ and all the other folks at the University.” Simmons retired in 1994 and con-

tinued to teach correspondence courses for the extension division which then later turned to online web courses and now Ecampus. He reported that when the school incorporated Ecampus back onto campus, his status was demoted and now he is currently a web course instructor. Along with Robert Shultz, professor of civil and construction engineering, Simmons was recently acknowledged at the 25-year club banquet for his long devotion to Oregon State. Greg Germano, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

Oregon State professors find entrepreneurs will stick with their ventures Robert Garrett, Jr., Daniel Holland discover that entrepreneurs are more likely to stay with current businesses

preneurship, while Holland’s focuses on individual entrepreneurs. This is the first paper published concurrently between the two. “In this study, we are trying to gain a better understanding of why people choose to persist with a business,” said Holland, the principal By Vinay Ramakrishnan investigator of the study. The Daily Barometer “This study looks at starting a business when A recent study found that entrepreneurs sur- you’re already an entrepreneur,” Garrett added. veyed were more likely to stick with their current Garrett contrasted this against previous studbusiness venture, rather than switch to another ies, which looked at starting a new business for one that may provide greater returns. the first time. Conducted by Robert Garrett, Jr., assistant The sample used in the study was 135 entreprofessor of entrepreneurship at Oregon State, preneurs in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. Garrett and Daniel Holland, assistant professor of entre- and Holland focused on entrepreneurs in the preneurship at Utah State University, the study high-tech industry. is published online in the International Small “We [focused on high-tech entrepreneurs] Business Journal. because it is a dynamic industry and entreGarrett and Holland were officemates at preneurs are likely to be faced with choices of Indiana University. Holland initiated the study, considering new opportunities,” Holland said. and Garrett helped write it up for the International The data for the study was collected two years Small Business Journal. The study is titled, ago, and analyzed last year. Entrepreneurs’ Start-up vs. persistence decisions: Garrett and Holland looked at the decisions A critical evaluation of expectancy and value.” made by entrepreneurs when faced with the Garrett’s research focuses on corporate entre- decision to leave their current business for a n

more profitable venture. They gave the participants different hypothetical situations in the form of vignettes, and based on the hypothetical situation, asked them to rate the likelihood as to whether or not they would abandon their current business for a new business. “The vignettes were based on different probabilities that the new business would be successful as well as the value associated with that success,” Garrett said. The results of the study found that when entrepreneurs were faced with the tradeoff of staying with their current business or leaving for another venture that may provide greater returns, entrepreneurs were more likely to stick with their venture. “Most interestingly, entrepreneurs don’t make the decision to persist based on financial rewards,” Garrett said. “They make the decision more due to their emotional attachment to the venture.” “There are a number of factors,” Holland added. “Passion, self-justification, social norms, commitment, among other things, all play a role in persisting.”

The implications of this study on the U.S. economy are several. Garrett discusses two perspectives. “From a macroeconomic perspective, we’d want individuals to choose their best financial options,” Garrett said. “The other perspective is that we’d want entrepreneurs to be happy with what they’re doing, otherwise, they would abandon the entire entrepreneurial process.” Garrett cites the most important implication of this study for small business owners as having an “exit strategy” lined up from the get-go. “An exit strategy would do two things,” Garrett said. “First, [entrepreneurs] would have an exit plan before getting emotionally attached to the business, and second, the act of writing out an exit strategy would allow them to recognize environmental conditions indicating an attractive exit.” The study will appear in an issue of the International Small Business Journal later this year. Vinay Ramakrishnan, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

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(CNN) — Tempestuous weather is striking the United States on four fronts. It seems as if Mother Nature is trying to throw much of the nation one extreme or another. Here’s a roundup: First tropical storm of the season? An area of “disturbed weather” in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula, could bring heavy rain and flooding to the Florida Peninsula and the Georgia and Carolina coasts by Thursday, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said. Morris says he’ll be watching to see if the bad weather becomes the first tropical depression — or even the first tropical storm — of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. At a minimum, the storms could cause a lot of rainfall and flooding on the Florida Peninsula, he said. Fires A 32,000-acre wildfire is burning some old-growth chaparral that lies in the western tip of the Mojave Desert in northern Los Angeles County. Firefighters have brought the Powerhouse Fire 60 percent under control, said Ed Gilliland of the U.S. Forest Service. Six homes have been destroyed, but conditions are safe enough to lift evacuation orders and allow people to return to the communities of Green Valley, Leona Valley, Elizabeth Lake and Lake Hughes, authorities said. Higher humidity and lower temperatures should help firefighters, Gilliland said. Added Morris: “They aren’t expecting gusty winds in that area, so the conditions should be favorable for the firefighters to gain some ground there, which they have been.” In New Mexico, a wildfire is burning nearly uncontrollably in the mountains at Pecos. The Tres Lagunas Fire is only 7 percent contained and has charred 8,500 acres, authorities said, adding that crews are trying to protect structures in Holy Ghost Canyon. Floods The mighty Mississippi River is now at major flood stage in St. Louis, but the worst of it is over and waters will recede this week, Morris said. The river has risen to more than 10 feet above flood stage. Downriver, however, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, could face flooding as the surge moves downstream, Morris said. But the city will be the last along the river to face such a threat, because the river begins to widen south of there, Morris said. “We’re expecting Cape Girardeau to reach major flood stage tonight and crest at the end of the week,” Morris said Tuesday. Crews in West Alton, Missouri — a town just north of St. Louis where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet — were reinforcing their levees with sandbags. The bridge to Alton, Illinois, was shut down after a temporary flood barricade failed. On Tuesday, the Mississippi breached a 100- to 150-foot section of the levee close to the confluence, and authorities have notified 43 homes, said Rivers Pointe Fire Chief Rick Pender in West Alton. Water has reportedly traveled two miles inside the levee. Tornado Alley Still reeling from deadly twisters, Oklahoma faced a slight risk of thunderstorms Tuesday, but the good news is there’s only a slight chance of an isolated tornado, Morris said. There is, however, a chance of large hail and damaging straight-line winds in northwest Oklahoma, he said. “For most of the state, it’s just a very slight risk of severe storms,” Morris said. There is also a slight risk of severe weather for the southern half of Kansas, far northern Texas and southeast Colorado. Oklahoma’s recent storms have killed 19 people, said Shanea Scully, administrative coordinator for the Oklahoma City Fire Department.

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(CNN) — Chiefs of every military branch told a Senate committee Tuesday they opposed letting prosecutors, rather than commanders, handle sexual assault investigations, as one senator has introduced legislation aimed at doing just that. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said there may be public confusion about the military’s reporting process. Referring to media reports that there is only one way to report sexual assault, the Michigan Democrat asked each of the military heads at a hearing if there currently are multiple options in addition to notifying a unit commander. They replied yes. They also told the committee that instances of commanders ignoring their judge advocate generals’ advice in sexual assault cases are extremely rare. Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican member of the Armed Services Committee, earlier called sexual assault in the military “an enemy to morale and readiness” and urged his colleagues to tread carefully in tackling the issue. Inhofe said he is opposed to any legislation “removing commanders from their indispensable roles” in the military justice system and noted that military and civilian courts are different animals because members of the military do not enjoy the same rights as civilians. “There’s a risk of unintended consequences if we act with haste without thorough and thoughtful review,” the

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An article in Tuesday’s Barometer titled, “Professor passes 40-year mark” misstated that Marlan Carlson, OSU professor of music, is the longest standing professor at OSU. Robert Schultz in the school of civil and construction engineering and — as of this summer — Dale Simmons in the psychology department have served OSU as professors for 50 years apiece. The Barometer regrets the error.

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Oklahoma lawmaker said. The congressional committee called the unprecedented hearing, which includes testimony from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and top military lawyers, after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, introduced legislation that would remove the chain of command from the process victims go through to get their claims heard Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Raymond Odierno, chief of staff of the Army; Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of Naval operations; Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps; Gen. Mark Welsh, chief of staff of the Air Force, and Adm. Robert Papp Jr., commandant of the Coast Guard, each acknowledged that sexual assault is a serious problem but one that commanders are equipped to handle. They all used their opening statements to the committee to express opposition to Gillibrand’s proposal. “These crimes cut to the heart of the Army’s readiness for war. They destroy the very fabric of our force — soldier and unit morale,” Odierno said. But while there may be derelict commanders, he said, those are anomalous, and the chain of command must be “fully engaged and at the center of any solution” to the issue. The general later said that it was a misconception that commanders handle complaints independently of the military justice system.

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Queer studies: great addition to OSU

new program is scheduled to make its debut this summer: queer studies. Associate professor Qwo-Li Driskill has been creating the program from scratch. Only a select few universities offer a program like this. University of California, Berkeley was the first university to offer an undergraduate course on LGBTQ studies in the 1970s. The City University of New York developed the first program for gay and lesbian studies in 1986. Driskill is looking to make a pitch for queer studies to develop into a minor program at OSU, like the one offered at the University of Oregon. The program, and offering it as a minor, only makes perfect sense to us. We’re all about inclusivity. In 2010, Oregon State University received the highest rating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusiveness from the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. We were one of 19 colleges in the nation to receive this rating. Oregon State, now one of 46, still holds a five-star rating, overall. Though, there are a couple of categories where we’re lacking in the LGBTfriendly breakdown. OSU has a three-and-a-half out of five stars rating in LGBT academic life. Though, with Driskill’s program, we expect this score to rise. But it’s not about some score on the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index, which is supposed to be used as a tool to help colleges find better ways to be more respectful, welcoming and inclusive toward LGBT and Allied people. It’s about actually improving our campus and the education provided here, which is exactly what the queer studies program will do. It’s a little shocking it’s taken this long to offer the program. The program, for the 2013-14 school year, is the first time queer studies will be incorporated into the curriculum for undergraduates. Most of us are done with baccalaureate core courses, but if we could do it over again, you bet we’d sign up for a course in queer pop culture or the course that stemmed from multiple gender roles in Native American societies. We’re excited to welcome this curriculum to our university. We hope to hear great things from the courses offered. And we thank all of those who have been involved in the process, especially Driskill, in creating the program. Students can register now for QS 262-Introduction to Queer Studies for the summer and fall 2013 year. The course, which fills bacc core requirements for difference, power and discrimination, as well as writing I, will educate students in a number of areas. Curriculum includes questioning the ideas surrounding sexuality and gender and analyzing relevant queer movements.

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An exchange student’s take on Dixon T

wenty weeks ago I embarked on a goal to go to the gym daily to work out and “lift.” The hope of this objective was assurance to get strong enough to join the British Army upon my return to England. I no longer have this aspiration. Another correlative goal was improving my cricket abilities through the strength gained, or so I thought. In an attempt to stay honest to readers, and myself, there may have been a desire to improve my looks by beefing up. In turn, improving my chances of attracting females at first glance at the many honorable establishments in Corvallis. I must note that I have always been reluctant to go the gym. A conflation of the stereotypical gym-junkie-douchebag, the boredom and the pointlessness of the activities and time it consumes have been major reasons for my lack of attendance. This does not mean I disagree with spending time to keep fit — I am all for that aspect. I have partaken in countless sporting activities and enjoy doing so. Sports are a fantastic thing for the body as well as the mind. It also promotes friendship and togetherness. My disagreement with the gym revolves around the social implications and selfish norms it creates. When you observe characters in the gym, overwhelming majorities of people are going through mental pain to achieve sometimes-unobtainable goals. Constantly observing themselves in the mirrors to check if there has been some miraculous instantaneous muscle growth to the point in which they feel enough short-term satisfaction to drop the dumb bell

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Guest Column and walk home. The problem stems from a level of fulfillment that is never reached resulting in mental agony. In some cases, even an individual who is in “great shape” can be disheartened at their current physical state. This pain can be expressed in a number of ways. Most common: A lack of confidence in one’s appearance directly impacts one’s social ability and satisfaction in life. I found myself and other persistent gym-goers forcing conversation at times as a way of self-reassurance seeking the acceptance of others. However, forcing and premeditation of this kind only promotes stiff and boring conversation, not to mention how it discourages interest in others and how their lives are going. This fear, directly derived from the lack love for thy self comes with contagious affects to others, like wildfire around the gym or homes and our daily lives. Often during the 20-week period, I looked around the gym and questioned why everyone was there. Although, I understand this is everyone’s choice for the way they spend leisure time. They often look more distraught and saddened than those dragging themselves to 8 a.m. classes or the walk of shame after a blurry night at the Peacock. Obviously there are many who require certain level of strength to perform their day in, day out duties and those who do it out of love of the sport. To those I cannot hold any

disagreement. I often found these characters to be well-mannered and more approachable. This principle regarding lack of self confidence can not only be applied directly to insecure gym junkies, but also the many girls who feel the need to mask their natural beauty by applying layers of caked on makeup to the extent the budding geologists could probably identify the strata layers. Honestly, the most satisfying things I can take from the Dixon experience are the brief, but pleasant, interchanges with the staff members issuing me a locker and towel. This principle of civility and common respect for the “golden rule” is essential to everyone desiring happiness and fulfillment. There are many more connections and correlations that can be drawn to gym and its frequenters. And as anyone’s should be, I welcome critique of my thoughts. But as Hemingway most brilliantly stated, “If you know what you are going to write next, it is time to stop, put the pen down and return later.” I am not saying the gym is a physically bad place, nor should it be. I urge you to critique your goals and your behavior in it. There is no reason the lower floor of Dixon should be a male dominated pool of testosterone, where conversation stretches as far as, “How many sets you got left?” I leave you with one final question: At what point will you become satisfied enough with your looks to enjoy people around you and the real fulfillment of life and not stress over an unattainable image? t

James Lester is a junior in geology. He is an exchange

student from Manchester, England.

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Learning from the past to improve the future

ustainable agriculture has been the goal of agriculturalists in the United States for many years. Practices such as no-till, conservation tillage and organic production are being implemented to help bring nutrients from the soil. However, the Corn Belt doesn’t follow this logical progression, planting corn following corn following corn. Approximately 20 percent of the corn grown in the Midwest is corn following corn, and as demand increases for corn, this number may rise, according to sustainablecorn.org, a website run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Surprisingly, a 50-year study by a group of researchers in Wisconsin has claimed that corn following corn agriculture is sustainable. For more than 50 years, they measured the sustainability of the corn-following-corn system and experienced no significant crop decrease, according to a study posted on certifiedcropadvisor.org, a website run by the American Society of Agronomy. Corn production in the United States has increased while fertilizer use has decreased. According to the USDA and The Fertilizer Institute, corn producers have decreased the use of fertilizers by one-third over the last 30 years. Per bushel yields have increased from 95 to 155 bushels per acre. “U.S. corn is a sustainable, reliable, affordable source of food, feed, fuel and fiber,” said Steve Ebke, chair of the National Corn Growers Association’s Production and Stewardship Action Team. Paul Bertels, vice president of production and utilization, explained that U.S. corn production is continuously producing more corn with fewer inputs and is therefore clearly sustainable, according to the Southwest Farm Press. Despite what we may learn here at Oregon State in crops classes, it seems corn producers defy what we’re being taught: That mono crop systems are unsustainable, and that cover crops are necessary. Since the Dust Bowl, many advancements in agriculture have been made. Indeed, even since the steel plow was invented, agriculture has undergone changes, not only with technology but also with the modes of production. This is even relevant to the highly controversial genetic modification of crops. I would like to point out here that we have been genetically modifying foods for hundreds of years through selective breeding. The corn we eat today looks only vaguely similar to the corn that was eaten by the Native Americans when the Europeans found North America. The point I’m trying to make is that agriculturalists have both learned from the mistakes of the past and are making advancements that indicate quite clearly that they are not ignorant of their effects of the environment. OSU is one of the premier agricultural research universities, researching various forages and their qualities, studying disease and treatments, researching new cultivars and species of crops that can give us more efficiency. Some may argue that agriculturalists do undue damage to the environment, however, I argue the increase of knowledge of ecosystems and the improvement of farming techniques show that sustainability is achievable. In addition to this, efficiency also increases as technology improves, meaning more food per acre produced. This shows that agriculturalists are not ignorant to their effects on ecosystems and can be true stewards of the land. t

Tyler Pike is a junior in agricultural sciences. The opinions

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

Ryan Mason is a sophomore in graphic design.

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Sports

Athlete of the day Twitter stats

t the beginning of the 2011-12 school year, the Barometer began publishing

tion of each issue. Any Oregon State University student-athlete on Twitter is eligible for “tweet of the day.”

a “tweet of the day” in the sports sec-

By stalking student-athletes’

Beaver Tweet of the Day “Just walked into the wrong classroom and it's week 9... #senioritis” sports@dailybarometer.com • On Twitter @barosports Twitter accounts in search of tweets of the day, we’ve learned quite a bit more about the student-athletes we cover. We’ve learned who’s funny and who’s boring. We’ve identified the flirts, and learned who’s talking to who. We know who goes to bed early, and who’s most likely to post a Vine at 3 a.m. after a night out.

@oceantrail14 Ocean Trail

Basically, we’ve learned who’s worth following and who isn’t. This week, we released our top four OSU teams to follow on Twitter: men’s soccer (No. 4), men’s basketball (No. 3), football (No. 2) and women’s soccer (No. 1). Today, we included some “tweet of the day” stats — which teams and

individuals have received “tweet of the day” most often. We’d like to thank all the athletes who have made “tweet of the day” the popular staple of the sports section that it’s become. For those athletes who’ve never received “tweet of the day,” you may want to change up your style.

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Team standings

All-time: (Note: Different than our team rankings)

All-time 1. Football 2. Men’s basketball 3. Women’s soccer 4. Baseball 5. Gymnastics 6. Men’s soccer 7. Swimming 8. Women’s basketball 9. Softball 10. Wrestling T11. Volleyball T11. Men’s golf T11. Cross country

This year 77 50 46 23 15 13 10 5 4 3 2 2 2

1. Football 2. Men’s basketball 3. Women’s soccer 4. Baseball 5. Men’s soccer 6. Swimming 7. Gymnastics T8. Women’s basketball T8. Wrestling T10. Softball T10. Volleyball T10. Cross country

All-time 35 23 22 12 11 10 8 3 3 2 2 2

1. Joe Burton T2. Roberto Nelson T2. Malcolm Agnew T4. Justyne Freud T4. Natalie Meiggs T4. Eric Moreland T4. Jordan Poyer 8. Josh Smith T9. Matt Boyd T9. Kelsi Blalock T9. Richie Harrington T9. Malcolm Marable

This year 11 9 9 8 8 8 8 7 6 6 6 6

1. Josh Smith 2. Justyne Freud T3. Roberto Nelson T3. Matt Boyd T5. Eric Moreland T5. Kelsi Blalock T5. Jenna Richardson 10 tied with 3

7 6 5 5 4 4 4

Total tweet of the days This year: 133 Last year: 119

The most entertaining team on Twitter: Women’s soccer By Grady Garrett

The most underrated tweeter at OSU

Brandi Dawson (@BrandiDawson) Tweets of the day: 1 How many college students do you know who: • Are disappointed to find out a bowl of free condoms isn’t actually a bowl of free candy • Cover their feet with a blanket at night “so monsters can’t grab them” • Live-tweet a two-hour standoff with a spider on a Thursday night when most people are liveDawson tweeting their drunken shenanigans Zero? Well, meet Brandi Dawson, the most innocent student athlete on Twitter. And she’s funny while being innocent, too: • “All my friends are getting engaged and I’m just over here like, ‘Oh I thought about getting a fish once…’” • “It’s official, every Mormon I grew up with is married or engaged… looks like I’m going to have to go with plan b #prostitution” Actually, maybe she’s not so innocent… she once indirectly called out a teammate (or two) for campaigning for votes in the “face of OSU” competition, and she once tweeted “Really happy I don’t play basketball #SomeTeammates” after Victor Robbins said OSU would be better without Ahmad Starks. Oh, and check out this gem: “Does it make me a bad person if every time I see the cheerleaders running together I can’t stop laughing… #soslow” Game. Set. Match. HOW DOES BRANDI DAWSON HAVE ONLY 57 FOLLOWERS?

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Erin Uchacz (@erinu_) Tweets of the day: 4 Jenna Richardson (@JennaRich3) Tweets of the day: 5 Who’s the better tweeter between these two? They are both fantastic follows, and coincidentally, they tweet about a lot of the same things, which means we can do a categorical breakdown to determine who’s a better tweeter. Snooze-button tweets: • Uchacz: “I do 5 sit-ups every morning. May not sound like much, but there’s only so many times you can hit the snooze button.”

• Richardson: “Dear snooze button, I love u for letting me sleep but u need to get more assertive when class time is approaching. Sincerely, rushed4class.” Advantage: Uchacz. Funnier. Tanning: Richardson • Uchacz: “My motto ‘a good burn turns into a good tan’ is always one that I end up regretting” • Richardson: “I am the worst at tanning… Who’s that? It’s hot. I want lemonade. My upper lip is sweating #insidemyheadrightnow” Advantage: Richardson Valentine’s Day: • Uchacz: “My boyfriend and I a year ago #happyvalentinesday #tbt #longdistance @ harry_styles” [Instagram photo of Harry Styles and a photoshopped Uchacz] • Richardson: “Almost 4 years into it and still so giddy to receive flowers #alwaysinlove #hapUchacz pyvdaylovas” [Instagram photo of Richardson and her real boyfriend] Advantage: Uchacz. Creativity > cute. Making fun of themselves: • Uchacz: “Thought I lost my drivers license… Nope. I’ve been carrying it around in my phone case for over a week” • Richardson: “When you shout out the answer in class and you’re horribly horribly wrong… And then you continue to shout it... Yep still wrong” Advantage: Richardson. Uchacz feels dumb. Richardson looks it. School: • Uchacz: “You know that awesome feeling when you finally understand math?...... Ya me neither” • Richardson: “Call me a nerd, teachers pet or whatever you want, but office hours are so damn beneficial” Advantage: Uchacz. WAY more relatable. Call-outs: Uchacz: “If you’re staying in Corvallis for the long weekend do not hangout with women’s soccer. They are LAME and a bunch of pansies

#notcamping” • Richardson: “Dear people who constantly sub tweet, GROW A PAIR or just don’t tweet at all” Advantage: Richardson. Tough to beat “grow a pair” in all caps. Weirdness: • Uchacz: “From this weekend a great life lesson was learned… Dogs make it look a lot easier to catch frisbees in their mouths than it actually is” • Richardson: “When you go to sleep fully dressed and then you wake up in the morning naked… #thingsyoudoinyoursleep” Advantage: Push Best Vine (posted on Twitter): • Uchacz: “Blade or die” [Ucachz and Justyne Freud attempting to rollerblade] • Richardson: “Erin blows” [One-by-one, four people spit water out of their mouths, then the last one spits water into Uchacz’s face] Advantage: Uchacz. Mainly because Freud tweeted “about to attempt to rollerblade to grab more beer” shortly before that Vine was posted. Results: Uchacz wins, 4-3.

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beer doesn’t. #lifechoices” • “People always say taco Tuesday, while I’m over here like ‘it’s actually tequila Tuesday’” Some people — the bros of the world — are annoying when they tweet about drinking. But Freud’s comical tweets are totally acceptable and awesome.

The bachelorette Natalie Meiggs (@Nat_Meiggs16) Tweets of the day: 8 I don’t want to beat a dead horse; I’ve written plenty about Meiggs’s flirtatious Twitter ways (and subtweets) already. For when she’s ready to move past all that, I’ve decided to help her out by putting together a list of what she’s looking for Meiggs in a man (gathered from her Twitter): • “I’m gonna marry a man who 100% shows respect… No bad vocab/speech and no down talking anyone” • “How do guys with no game always get the girl #justawful hahahah” • “The day I meet a guy who looks like Brody Jenner is the day I will be forever off the mark… #scruff #tall #tan #muscles” • “I have simple tastes... I like EXTREMELY tall, handsome, athletic… #boom” So, to sum it up, Meiggs wants a guy who’s: tall, handsome, scruffy, tan, muscular, respectful, has game and is athletic. Shouldn’t be too hard to find in Corvallis, right?

Justyne Freud (@jfreud15) Tweets of the day: 8 It’s no secret that student athletes are told not to say or tweet certain things. There’s no better example of that than Freud. On Oct. 17, Freud was quoted in the Barometer as saying, “I don’t drink.” On Nov. 5, the night Freud’s collegiate career ended, she tweeted: “Since there is no tournament we start MARGARITA MONDAY… Freud early.” Since then, she has (unofficially) tweeted about alcohol more than The tweet-deleter Dawson has tweeted about sleep, Uchacz has Marissa Kovac tweeted about “One Direction,” Jacy Drobney (@m_kovac) has tweeted about love and Marissa Kovac has Tweets of the day: 1 tweeted about Michael Moyer — combined. Some of my favorites: Just don’t piss Marissa Kovac • “I got over trying to find places to live so I Kovac off. That’s all I’ll say. came bowling and ordered alcohol” Grady Garrett, sports reporter • “I cut myself opening my win bottle. Worth On Twitter @gradygarrett it? Oh… absolutely.” sports@dailybarometer.com • “Hearing ‘I’m sorry’ gets old. Drinking a

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