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Corvallis icon ‘Dancing Mike’ comes from troubled past, dances for pure enjoyment

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OSU Oral History Project highlights university’s past, present in honor of upcoming sesquicentennial

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What do NASA astronaut Don Petit, U.S. Major General Julie Bentz and current student-athlete Alyssa Martin have in common? All three attended Oregon State University and shared their unique experiences and memories with the developing OSU Oral History Project.

Created last year to celebrate the university’s upcoming 150 anniversary in 2018, the OSU Oral History Project is an online archive of personal interviews with individuals affiliated through a variety of ways with Oregon State.

Financially sponsored by several OSU departments and organizations, including the office of the provost, libraries and press, OSU Foundation and Alumni Association, the project will be completed spring 2016 and prominently featured in the sesquicentennial celebrations.

The Oral History Project “attempts to holistically document the history, impact and ambitions of the university through the recollections of various alumni, faculty, staff, administrators and current students affiliated with OSU,” according to the project’s official website.

The three oral historians collaborating on the project travel to the houses and workplaces of interviewees, steadily working through a contact list created by a special executive committee.

Project director Chris Petersen said that as of this spring, the oral history team had completed 47 interviews, generating more than 70 hours of material. Once completed and polished, interview videos are placed on the project’s website, along with their written transcripts. The team catalogs interviews by interviewee name, as well as topical theme.

“The folks (we interview) represent a certain time period here in campus history,” Petersen said. “We have a specially targeted focus on campus See history | page 3

Mike Ambrosius throws his gray sweatshirt onto the concrete in front of the Valley Library entrance.

“I’m working on a new move,” he says.

Three male students plant themselves a few feet away when they come up the stairs and see Ambrosius dancing, oblivious to his surroundings.

The men chuckle. Ambrosius, the 43-year-old disheveled man with long, gray hair and a braided beard, becomes aware that he is the butt of their joke.

“Watch this,” Ambrosius says to them, unfazed, pointing at the sweatshirt on the ground.

He performs a perfect cartwheel, snags the sweatshirt with his hand and puts it on once his feet are grounded again.

The men applaud, and a few others who notice the peculiarity of the scene in front of the library watch in awe and confusion.

The three men become disinterested WARNER STRAUSBAUGH | THE DAILY BAROMETER in the dancing man and make their way Mike Ambrosius, 43, known as “Dancing Mike,” dances in front of the Valley Library as a small crowd watches See MIKE | page 4 in late April.

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Free food, good music, prizes, activities, explosions and a dunk tank all played a role in helping the Oregon State University chemistry department relax and take a step back from stressful labs and exams.

In a first for the department, the department of chemistry hosted a Chemistry Is Awesome, or CIA, party Wednesday, in the courtyard at Gilbert Hall.

The idea came from Department Chair Rich Carter, who worked with Luanne Johnson, the media and event coordinator for the chemistry department, to make his idea a reality.

“Most people’s first impression of chemistry is that it’s really hard and really boring,” Johnson said. “Their impression of chemists is even worse than that and we wanted to change that impression. So we thought, what better way than to throw a giant party?”

The department worked for a little more than a month to pull together as many sponsors and activities as it could. The hope was to create a mellow, fun environment for students, staff, faculty and administrators to interact on a more casual basis.

“They’ll get a chance to hopefully wander around and talk to some of the faculty in a more relaxed environment, so it’s no longer the teacher-student environment,” Johnson said.

Students enjoyed the opportunity to snatch up some free food and show off some of their favorite chemical reactions at the activity tables throughout the courtyard.

“It’s really fun right now and it’s exciting,” said Dang Nguyen, a third-year chemistry student.

Nguyen was volunteering as a member of the chemistry club and was helping students use pH paper to write invisible messages. Nguyen said a lot of students were writing messages and giving them to their friends, who then came to the table to learn how to reveal the messages.

“It’s just a really fun experience,” he said. “I think we

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should do it again and make it bigger and more people should come.”

Jordan Ellis, a freshman microbiology student, said she was mostly there for the free food and to celebrate the end of the school year.

“I think it’s partly just to celebrate that the year’s almost over and we made it kind of,” Ellis said. “There’s a cake over there, so I’m excited.”

Johnson explained that the CIA-themed cake was a See CIA | page 3

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The Oregon University System’s board of higher education will carry out its last year until June 30, 2015.

The board, which has served Oregon in terms of budget evaluations and institutional decisions for the major and regional Oregon universities, will continue to assist with the transition toward individual governing boards.

The state’s higher education coordinating commission will regulate each board by approving budgets for each biennium and overseeing other institutional operations.

Oregon University System Director Di Saunders said seven board members are preparing to end their terms on the current board. In addition, three other new members were announced to continue the board’s last term before June 2015.

“Some of them may be moving to institutional boards at other universities as well,” Saunders said.

Two of the seven outgoing members are affiliated with OSU. Lynda Ciuffetti is a professor from the department of botany and plant pathology and Farbodd Ganjifard is a student in cultural anthropology.

“We have asked a couple of folks if they will stay until September, when there’s a new round of appointments scheduled,” Saunders said.

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SALEM — An ordinance that prohibits biotech crops in Oregon’s Jackson County is vague enough to encompass some conventionally bred crops, according to ban opponents.

The recently-passed ballot initiative contains a broad definition of genetic engineering that could make conventional growers an easy target for lawsuits, they say.

While ban proponents claim that genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, were narrowly defined, they won’t necessarily be enforcing the ordinance, said Ian Tolleson, governmental affairs associate with Oregon Farm Bureau.

“It could be interpreted a different way,” Tolleson said.

A plaintiff with an expansive interpretation of the “genetically engineered” definition could sue over crops that were never regulated by USDA, he said.

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are bred using pretty radical techniques,” said Steve Strauss, an Oregon State University forestry professor who specializes in biotechnology.

Biotech alfalfa and sugar beets genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate herbicides are prominent examples of the GMO controversy in Oregon.

These crops were developed by inserting genes from potentially pathogenic soil bacteria into alfalfa and sugar beets, so the USDA restricted their cultivation as possible plant pests.

The agency eventually deregulated the crops, allowing them to be grown freely, which triggered years of litigation.

Language in the Jackson County GMO ban, however, doesn’t appear to limit the prohibition to plants that incorporate genes from other organisms.

The ballot initiative defined genetic engineering to include gene deletion, gene doubling and changing gene positions, among other techniques.

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“Any arguments that it is over-inclusive or improper have no basis,” Kimbrell said.

Farmers in Jackson County are well aware which crops are considered genetically engineered, so the idea of litigation over conventional crops is “ludicrous,” he said.

Kimbrell did acknowledge that the GMO definition doesn’t distinguish between crops that came under USDA regulation and those that did not.

“What the USDA does or does not do is irrelevant to the ordinance,” he said.

The USDA could have partially restricted production of genetically engineered alfalfa in some areas but ultimately back away from the idea, Kimbrell said.

The agency’s unwillingness to strongly regulate GMOs was the reason the Jackson County ordinance was necessary, he said.

“Farmers are not getting the protection they’re entitled to from the federal government,” Kimbrell said.

Liquor privatization effort shelved this year

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PORTLAND — Advocates announced Wednesday they will abandon their effort to end the state monopoly on liquor sales in Oregon.

Although they had an already-approved version for circulation among voters, advocates said they ran into delays in getting approval to proceed with a preferred revision. The Supreme Court issued a decision last week on a ballot title, the official summary of a measure, but it still awaited approval for circulation.

July 3 is the deadline for filing signatures for initiatives for the Nov. 4 ballot. The measure would have required 87,213 valid signatures.

But a chief sponsor said advocates aren’t giving up on the effort to get the state out of retail liquor sales, which it has controlled since the end of Prohibition in 1933.

“We still believe Oregonians are ready to end our state’s Prohibition-era monopoly on liquor sales and allow Oregon consumers to buy liquor at qualified grocery and retail stores — just like consumers do in most other states,” said Lynn Gust, division president of retailer Fred Meyer.

Oregon is one of 18 states where liquor sales remain in state hands. Washington state voters approved a privatization measure in 2011.

The other sponsor was Lauren Johnson, chief executive of Newport Avenue Market in Bend, who said the state should con-

centrate on education, compliance and enforcement of liquor laws.

The initiative would have drawn opposition from an array of groups.

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission had prepared a plan for “modernization,” under which the state would continue to own liquor stocks but allow retail sales by stores larger than 10,000 square feet.

But lawmakers did not advance it in their 2014 session.

“As we have in the past, this is a dialogue that continues with policy-makers, including legislators,” said Pat McCormick, a spokesman for Oregonians for Competition. “But if we are not successful in achieving privatization through the legislative process, we will be back in 2016.”

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can be achieved through conventional breeding, said Scott Dahlman, executive director of Oregonians for Food and Shelter, which supports biotechnology.

The concern is that it will be up to plaintiffs to determine which method of altering gene sequences is acceptable and which isn’t, he said.

For example, modern breeders use chemical “disruptors” to force chromosome doubling in crops, said Strauss.

“You’re basically screwing up the process of chromosomal sorting,” he said.

This technique seems to fall under the ordinance’s definition of genetic engineering, as does “cutting and pasting” of genetic sequences within the same plant, he said.

“It will depend on whether someone files a lawsuit about it,” Strauss said.

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By Lizzy Duffy PORTLAND — The Supreme Court refused to put a hold on same-sex marriage in Oregon on Wednesday, in a one-sentence order issued without explanation.

The request for an emergency hold was filed by an anti-samesex marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage, following a lower court judge’s decision to overturn Oregon’s gay marriage ban last month.

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Jason Dean Green, 28, pleaded guilty Wednesday in state court in Pendleton to one count each of first-degree rape, sodomy and luring. Circuit Court Judge Christopher Brauer of the 6th Judicial District sentenced Green to 25 years without the possibility of early release, as well as lifetime registration as a sex offender and post-prison supervision.

Court records show the case began Nov. 2, 2013, when the girl’s mother reported the child told her Green touched her genital area the night before.

Green was a friend of the family and babysat the girl while the parents went out. A news release from Umatilla County District Attorney Dan Primus said the allegation “developed into a complex and lengthy investigation.”

Green initially denied the sex abuse allegations, according to Primus. Court records show the Oregon State Police crime lab in March found semen on the girl’s panties, and that semen matched Green’s DNA profile.

Pendleton and Walla Walla police arrested Green on March 27 in Walla Walla, and a Umatilla County grand jury indicted him April 3. Primus credited the Pendleton police, along with the crime lab and Walla Walla police, for building a solid case that led to Green’s arrest and successful prosecution.

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Petersen and his colleagues have traveled as far as Oklahoma and Texas to complete their interviews. The oral historians generally ask interviewees about their overall lives, time at OSU and career paths. “We are all over the place in terms of folks we are talking to,� Petersen said. “It’s a pretty rich collection, and it’s only going to get more so. People have been very generous in sharing their time with us.�

Although the project mostly covers the stories of alumni and individuals previously associated with OSU, some current students have also been interviewed. “We’re also talking to people who go here now to start sort of a time capsule, should this project last something like 100 years from now when someone might be interested in this (time period),� Petersen said. “It’s nice to document all levels of perspectives as views and ideas change as people get older.�

Despite having generated potential interest in past years, the project was only recently given funding to complete the interviews. “As the university approaches 2018 ‌ we thought it was the perfect opportunity to launch the Oral History Project and have it completed in advance of the sesquicentennial,â€? said Steve Clark, OSU’s vice president for university relations and marketing.

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Now part of the Goss Stadium complex, Coleman Field has stood on Oregon State’s campus since 1907, making it the oldest continuous college ballpark in the nation.

The partially completed project is already available for viewing online through the OSU Special Collections and Archives website.

Clark said the university hopes to create a small studio in which individuals can cre-

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ate brief recordings of their favorite OSU memories, stories or traditions. Although the project is still in the very beginning stages, possible locations include the Memorial Union or space provided by the OSU Alumni Association. “We want to create an opportunity for everyone who has memories of Oregon State to contribute their recollections,�

Clark said. “We thought it would be a real fun and engaging way for lots and lots of people to share their memories and messages of why OSU is important to them.�

In addition, the university will likely host exhibits at county fairs around the state during the 2018 summer. Sesquicentennial celebrations will begin February 2018 and conclude on campus mid-autumn of the same year, perhaps around homecoming.

Celebratory activities will occur off-site in an effort to involve the broader state community, emphasizing the encompassing nature and impact of a land grant university. “The thing that’s really exciting about this is that it’s one thing to have a party and celebrate the past,� Clark said. “But what we’re going to do is also acknowledge and celebrate the people who have made Oregon State and helped contribute to its impact around the state. It’s also a very large launching pad for the future as OSU increases its impact in Oregon and nationally and globally.�

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involve fire and hazardous materials, Johnson said the most stressful part of coordinating the event was the paperwork. “There’s so many hoops to jump through donation from Imagine Cakes. Other local as far as the university’s concerned,� she said. contributions included the live band, The “That’s been the challenge. Not so much Svens, which has multiple members who coming up with the ideas, but being able to work within the OSU chemistry department. make them happen.�

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PORTLAND — Oregon will receive nearly four million dollars from a multi-state settlement with the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.

The settlement follows allegations that GlaxoSmithKline unlawfully promoted and misrepresented its asthma drug— Advair and a couple of antidepressants—Paxil and Wellbutrin.

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, along with 44 other attorneys general, was involved in reaching a $105-million settlement with the company. GlaxoSmithKline does not admit to the allegations, but in the settlement agrees to reform its marketing and promotion of the drugs.

David Hart is an Oregon assistant attorney general who helped with the case. “The Attorney General Rosenblum will aggressively protect consumers using our laws against deceptive drug marketing and promotion.�

Hart says this is the third multi-state consumer protection settlement that Oregon’s attorney general led against the pharmaceutical company. He says overall the state has recovered more than sixteen million dollars from GSK.

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It’s a Saturday in late April, week four of spring term. The students are likely on their way to set up camp at a table for a few hours to study for midterms.

Ambrosius’ public displays of dancing have not gone unnoticed. He has garnered enough attention to reach a celebrity status in Corvallis.

He is not known as Mike Ambrosius, but by the moniker that was bestowed upon him.

He is “Dancing Mike.”

The first steps Ambrosius finds the only table with open seating. It is Saturday morning, four hours before the scene at the library. Ambrosius takes advantage of stone soup, the free-meal-assistance program at First Christian Church on Southwest Madison Avenue.

Most of the men and women who go to stone soup are homeless, Ambrosius says. He is quick to point out that he is not, because it’s the most common misconception about him.

Ambrosius lives at King’s Landing Apartments, an apartment complex off Kings Boulevard.

He stops talking when one of his neighbors at the table begins complaining about the food.

Ambrosius looks down at his own plate, using his fork to maneuver his biscuits and gravy.

“Free food is free food,” Ambrosius says under his breath.

Raucous noise persists throughout the room, which is filled with about 100 people.

Crying babies overpower the chatter, but Ambrosius seemingly does not notice.

He wants to talk about dancing.

One of his first memories is a dancing lesson. His Dutch grandmother, who had emphysema, taught him clogging.

He admires the dance in hindsight, because of its striking difference to what dancing has become in the college town.

“With older generations, you don’t bump and grind,” he says.

“You swing.”

Ambrosius had never been an active dancer until recently. Life, as he was supposed to live it, had consumed him.

“What amazes me is when people stop doing what they used to do as a kid,” he says. “They say, ‘Oh, it’s time to grow up.’”

An unstable upbringing Ambrosius was born in Lawton, Okla., in 1971. He and his younger sister were raised in a physically abusive household.

At age 3, he had a seizure. He and his sister were separated, and Ambrosius was adopted and moved with his new family to New Mexico.

He never knew he had a sister until seven years later, when his adoptive sister told him.

“To this very day, I don’t even really remember her,” he said.

He lived in New Mexico for nearly a decade, but the circumstances were not much better for him.

“My adopted father basically molested me and abused me,”

Ambrosius said.

He told his adoptive mother what was happening, but she did not believe him.

When he was 17, he fled and eventually landed in Monroe, where he lived with his adoptive sister for a year before he decided to live on his own.

He landed in Corvallis in 1996.

“I don’t like either of my parents; I’ve had bad experiences with both of them, so I cut them off,” he said. “I’m glad I got away from my family.”

Ambrosius had his second seizure when he was 21 or 22, he said. He had never consumed alcohol before and a friend wanted to see him drunk.

“It’s a weird sensation to have impulses coming from your fingers, like electricity from your left finger to your joints to your brain,” Ambrosius said. “And then all of a sudden, the only things you can say are ‘no,’ ‘yes’ and ‘damn.’”

His third seizure, the last one he has ever had, happened three years later.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is the root of the seizures, he said, because of his abusive real parents.

Since living in Corvallis, Ambrosius married and subsequently divorced. He has a son, Toron, a 16-year-old student at Corvallis High School. But Ambrosius has led a mostly solitary life since his ex-wife, Jennifer, and Toron moved to a different part of Corvallis four years ago.

“He’s got his life; I’ve got mine,” Ambrosius said. “We interact only when he kind of feels like it.”

Ambrosius receives income through supplemental security income benefits, because of his seizures and a diagnosed case of dyslexia.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development helps cover most of his rent money, and food stamps pay for his groceries.

He said he often receives criticism for using government money to make a living. His counter to that statement is that he would much rather work a normal job without the hindrance of his disabilities.

Happiness in the form of dancing Ambrosius was playing video games with his friend, Mark, a few years ago.

“Don’t you want to do something more than sitting here playing Xbox all day long?” Ambrosius asked Mark.

“No,” Mark answered. “This is our life.”

Ambrosius did not want to hurt his friend’s feelings, but he wanted to tell him, “No, this is your life.”

He got up to leave, told Mark he was going home, but went for a walk instead.

“I didn’t know what I was looking for,” he said. “All of a sudden, I started hearing music and all these old things that I used to do as a kid started popping up. It all just came back, and I embraced it.”

The music was coming from Impulse Bar and Grill on Monroe Avenue. Ambrosius did not have any money to get in, so he decided to dance on the balcony out-

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“I found that after the first time, I liked it,” he said.

Ambrosius kept dancing. First, it was on the sidewalks.

He was hesitant to go to bars and do it. In a college town, the weekend is synonymous with drunk college students swarming Corvallis.

“The first time I started thinking about dancing at a bar, I was really questioning myself,” Ambrosius said. “People don’t think when they’re drunk. People fight over the most ridiculous things.”

His mind was made up. He was going to try it out.

He danced what he knew, and picked up on different dances, like “the dougie,” from the college crowds.

Though he was dancing in a public setting, he kept quiet and to himself.

“I didn’t talk a lot when I danced, so everyone thought I was a fool,” Ambrosius said.

“Then when I’d start talking, they’d go, ‘Wait, he can talk? You can hold a conversation? You’re actually intelligent?’ ” Soon, he was building up a reputation among the college crowds. After four years of going to bars and dancing, the grayhaired dancing man who sticks out among college students had become recognizable on the city’s streets.

‘Dancing Mike’ After breakfast at the church, Ambrosius wants to find somewhere quieter. He ventures toward the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.

On the steps in front of the building, he runs into a friend who is spending the day with his granddaughter.

Ambrosius spontaneously breaks into a dance.

The girl’s attention is fully directed at Ambrosius.

After 30 seconds, she asks, “Are you an entertainer?”

With a benevolent smile, he replies, “I’m just having a good time.”

After a brief trip to the library, Ambrosius decides to walk down Monroe for some coffee at Interzone.

He takes another dancing break at an intersection. A man in the passenger seat of a car hollers at him. He obliges, waving back, which provokes a loud “woo” from the car’s occupants.

Another friend of his stops him in front of Circle K, a homeless man with a cart full of cans and bottles. The man rehashes an idea he pitched to Ambrosius

about setting up aYouTube channel on which Ambrosius rants about politics, philosophy, dancing and anything else he wants.

“Before I started dancing, I could walk across a sidewalk and nobody would recognize me,” he says. “All of a sudden, you dance and you get people’s attention, they expect stuff.”

Ambrosius has been approached countless times with requests for a dance battle or a birthday dance.

He’s only drunk alcohol a handful of times, and has not had any in more than a decade.

He’s also never done drugs, to the surprise of every person who has asked.

Being “Dancing Mike” has its pros and cons, and the cons have weighed on Ambrosius as he has become more recognizable.

“It has its moments,” he said.

“Every once in a while, I think, ‘Am I a monkey on a string?’ You ask yourself after a while when you’re doing something, are you in control of it or is it in control of you? What happens is you find it’s a little bit of both.

“People forget that just because you danced with somebody and you’re popular doesn’t mean you’re not human.”

He loves what he does, but his exponential growth in popularity, coupled with the physical toll dancing has taken on his body, has made it more likely that he will stop dancing in public altogether.

“I’m at the point where, if it stops becoming fun, I’m going to stop doing it,” Ambrosius says.

“I’ll find something else.”

Stationary Mike Back at the library, Ambrosius is alone in front of the building’s entrance. He continues dancing as if the crowd never left.

Clouds the color of his hair fill the sky. He’s done dancing, for now, and makes his way toward the sliding glass doors.

He grabs a guest pass at the front desk and makes his way to one of the computers on the second floor.

A few students glance up at the slender and unkempt man.

He sinks himself into a desk chair, planning to play computer games for a few hours before grabbing dinner.

“I’ve got nothing but time,” he says.

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Football team wins more games than in 2013 Oregon State finished the season with a 7-6 record and a bowl victory, yet the season felt like a bit of a disappointment, considering the Beavers were 6-1 at one point and ranked in the top 25. While they lost some great players — Brandin Cooks and Scott Crichton are the two obvious ones — OSU should improve on defense.

It’s the offense where things will look the most different, though. With Cooks gone and no one with any kind of experience replacing him, there’s no way Mannion will be able to put up the same type of numbers he put up last season. The passing game could struggle, but especially early in the year, the running game could be a lot better.

The coaching staff spent spring practices preaching the run game, saying OSU wants to get back to the balanced offensive attack Oregon State fans are used to seeing. With running backs Terron Ward and Storm Woods back for another season, there’s no reason to think the ground game can’t be better. OSU will have three new faces on the offensive line, but considering the Beavers were so bad running the ball last year, it at least won’t get worse.

While the team might not be a whole lot different in terms of talent from 2013, the biggest difference in 2014 will be the schedule. It’s fairly favorable all the way through, and OSU gets its toughest games at home, with the exception of Stanford.

All of that added together should mean more victories for the football team next season. OSU probably won’t compete for a Rose Bowl, but another nine-win season is by no means out of the question, and 10 doesn’t seem terribly unrealistic.

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Men’s basketball finishes last in the Pac-12 This is in no way a knock on new head coach Wayne Tinkle. His track record was very good at Montana and so far he’s done all the right things at Oregon State. He just hired a well-respected assistant coach and in a couple years, he could very well have this program back in the middle of the conference.

That being said, the team is in bad shape right now in terms of talent.

Langston Morris-Walker is the leading scorer of returning players, and he averaged just four points per contest last season.

Tinkle has already done a nice job on the recruiting front of getting players that had committed to Robinson to stay true to their word and come to OSU, but the team will be far too young and offensively challenged to do much.

At this point, Oregon State’s best hope of winning basketball games in the Pac-12 conference is by playing tremendous defense coupled with improved outside shooting. With Hallice Cooke, this team might have had a chance to replicate last year’s results. Without him, the Beavers have no clear offensive option; nobody who can create his own shot off the dribble like Cooke and Roberto Nelson could do.

The new hiring is exciting for OSU basketball, but chances are it won’t make much of a difference in the wins and loss column in the first year.

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Rupp has 15 years of coaching experience at six universities and has been a part of five NCAA Tournament teams.

He first coached at the collegiate level in 2000 after coaching 24 years of high school basketball. He spent four years at Utah and was then hired as associate head coach at Indiana from 2004-06. He has also coached at UAB, Louisiana Tech, Hawaii and most recently at Montana under Tinkle.

“I am extremely excited to join Coach Wayne Tinkle’s staff at Oregon State University,” Rupp said in a press release. “I have enjoyed working with him the past few years and have always felt like we make a good team together. Although I will miss the players at Montana, I am excited to start working on the vision and plans Coach Tinkle has already begun to implement here at Oregon State.”

Rupp spent the past two seasons with Tinkle at Montana before moving to Oregon State. There, the Grizzlies set a Big Sky Conference record with 19 league wins in 2012.

“I’m thrilled to have Kerry on our staff here at Oregon State” Tinkle said.

“He was with me the last two years at Montana and just brings a wealth of knowledge of the game, both offensively and defensively. He’s unbelievable in player development. You look at who he’s coached and where he’s been; his resume speaks volumes for his experience. We are just excited to have him here at Oregon State.”

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Women’s basketball replicates its 2014 season The Oregon State women’s basketball team burst onto the scene in the final two months of the season, winning 11-straight games at one point, which tied the school record. In about a month’s time, the Beavers went from a team that looked like it would finish toward the bottom of the conference to a team that finished the year tied for second place in the regular season conference standings, and eventually played for the Pac-12 Tournament Championship.

While the winning streak was crazy in its own right, what’s even crazier is the roster with which head coach Scott Rueck did it. Oregon State is one of the youngest teams in the conference and is returning almost everybody from last season. Alyssa Martin is the only player who had much of an impact graduating.

From here, the team could go a lot of ways. There’s a chance that the Beavers won’t be able to replicate last year’s success due to the pressure of playing with expectations. There’s a greater chance, however, that their pieces will continue to mesh together and OSU will be even better than a year ago.

Baseball will have a relatively down year While nothing is set in stone, there’s a very good chance that juniors Michael Conforto, Jace Fry and Dylan Davis will leave for the major leagues after the MLB Draft this week. All are expected to go somewhere in the first three rounds and will be offered signing bonuses, which are hard to pass up considering everything that can happen in a year.

Oregon State lost its ace and the heart of its team in Ben Wetzler, and its best pitcher out of the bullpen in Scott Schultz. The Beavers also lose their starting second baseman and first baseman — Andy Peterson and Kavin Keyes — who played great defense all year and were reliable hitters in the lineup.

When it’s all said and done, OSU will probably have to replace the first two pitchers in its starting rotation, its best option out of the bullpen and its starting left fielder, right fielder, first baseman and second baseman.

Pat Casey has built a monster of a program, but even he will have trouble replacing all that he’s lost. Oregon State will still be good, but to assume it will win the Pac-12 for a third-straight year and earn a national seed seems unrealistic, at least right now. Chances are, the Beavers will qualify for a regional, but fail to make it to the Super Regional round. Casey will likely have the program back where it’s used to being the past few years, but it would seem as though next year will be something of a down year compared to the last two.

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Oregon State sophomore righthander Andrew Moore was invited to play for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Wednesday.

Moore will take part in the team’s training camp starting June 19, where he will battle for one of 24 roster spots on Team USA. Moore is the eighth Oregon State player to play for Team USA and the first since junior left fielder Michael Conforto did it two seasons ago.

Moore finished the 2014 season with a 6-5 record and a 2.77 earned run average. He struck out a career-high 14 batters against North Dakota State in his last start of the season Friday.

Team USA will announce its roster June 29.

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Head coach Laura Berg unexpectedly took her team to the postseason in 2013 only to struggle in Pac-12 play this year. Oregon State struggled for a long time in conference play and only won four Pac-12 games in all. It wasn’t even one area that the Beavers struggled most, because it was really all over the board.

But like the women’s basketball team, the softball team is young and is returning most of its key contributors. Oregon State suffered multiple season-ending injuries at the start of the year and has one of the best recruiting classes in the nation coming in.

The Pac-12 is brutally tough, but with a new source of talent, combined with leadership from players like Dani Gilmore and Ya Garcia, who have started for three seasons now, the Beavers will have a good blend of youth and leadership to excel.

More importantly, Oregon State has Berg, who is already one of the best coaches in the nation. Her championship pedigree will bring OSU back to the playoffs, maybe even next year. While competing for a Pac-12 title will be difficult considering the strength of the league, there’s no question the Beavers will be better in 2015.

It’s not an easy prediction considering Tanya Chaplain has been on the cusp of reaching the Super Six for some time now. But looking at the roster, it’s hard to say the Beavers will be a whole lot better next season. They benefited greatly from a freshman class that excelled from the get-go, but losing Brittany Harris and Kelsi Blalock will be a blow, considering how long they’ve been in the program.

Gymnastics is different than other college sports in that freshmen more frequently have a major impact in their first year, but it’s hard to see the incoming class replace the productivity of Harris and Blalock right away.

While it seems unlikely OSU will get to the Super Six next season, it’s not at all a knock on the program. Oregon State gymnastics have been as good as any program at OSU over the past 10 years, arguably even the best. OSU finished the year ranked 14th, and if the Beavers can end the season around there again in 2015, it will be something Oregon State fans can hang their hats on.

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Sophomore Mikhail Doholis awaits the ball against Cal Nov. 8.

Men’s soccer will be better in Pac-12 play The Oregon State men’s soccer team started out the 2013 season 7-2 with a lot of momentum heading into Pac-12 play. The Beavers never won another game, going 0-8-2 in their final 10 games of the season and missing out on the postseason.

While there are many strong teams in the conference, Oregon State has shown it has enough talent to compete with other Pac-12 teams. Five of OSU’s eight conference losses were by one goal, and the Beavers tied twice. They’ve shown they’re close to getting over the hump, and with another year of experience, they could do it and sneak into the postseason.

A big key will be starting out the season hot like OSU did last year. If Oregon State can jump out of the gates and avoid some of the injuries that have plagued the Beavers in recent years, it should be able to carry over the play into the Pac-12.

The Beavers are close, now they just need to make the leap.

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OSU senior Jenna Richardson dribbles against Oregon Nov. 7, 2013.

Right now, Oregon State track and field is an incredibly young program still trying to feel itself out. Head coach Kelly Sullivan added pole vault and some quality throwers this season, and the Whyte Track and Field Center will soon be 100 percent complete.

Sullivan will be the first to tell you that it’s hard to field a competitive team in the competitive Pac-12 without good facilities, and pretty soon Oregon State is going to have that.

Maybe it will take longer than a year to get the program on par with the rest of the conference, but OSU is clearly headed in the right direction.

A year ago, Kinsey Gomez was the only Beaver to qualify for regionals. This year, Oregon State sent three. It doesn’t sound like a huge jump, but the program is on the up-and-up and should continue to grow in coming years.

Oregon State finished last at the Pac-12 Championships this year, and probably will again next year, but the Beavers will definitely score more points and be more competitive.

Women’s soccer continues to struggle next year The Oregon State women’s soccer team has underwhelmed the past two seasons. Both years, the team entered the season with expectations of qualifying for the playoffs and contending in the Pac-12 conference. Obviously, that didn’t happen, sparking a lot of wonder and intrigue inside the program.

There have been rumors of certain players transferring within the program and the team hasn’t played a spring schedule — something they generally do.

Oregon State has been very good, even great in the past, so you can’t rule out that it’ll figure things out and return to a competitive team in 2015, but at this point, that doesn’t look particularly likely.

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Losing those two guys will be tough considering they’ve been staples at the 149- and 157-pound weight classes, but Oregon State could benefit from some new faces and a year of experience for some of its younger competitors. Joey Palmer, Joey Delgado, Toney Chay and Amarveer Dhesi are just a few OSU athletes who really started to come into their own at the end of the year, and Oregon State will still be returning Taylor Meeks for his senior season.

Meeks started out the year ranked first in the nation in the 197-pound weight class, but struggled during different parts of the season. He should come back stronger than ever with something to prove, and the Beavers will be able to feed off of his intensity.

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uf Wiedersehen, goodbye.

We hate to go, and leave this pretty campus — but our future starts now(ish).

In this, our penultimate editorial, we say goodbye. There will, of course, still be a Daily Barometer at Oregon State University next year, and an editorial board, but it won’t be this one.

Most of the current editorial board is moving on, either to bigger and better things or to our parents’ basements — primarily because the administration, and it’s policy of not employing non-students in student jobs, is making us.

We don’t think that it’s a bad policy. OSU students should be the ones employed by the OSU student newspaper. However, the policy means that once the editorial board, reporters, distributors and business office all graduate, we’re suddenly completely footloose and fancy free, with no further commitments or obligations to Corvallis or OSU. Which is terrifying.

And the denizens of OSU’s relatively large student media division aren’t the only ones in this boat.

Waiting for prospective employers (holding our future “real” jobs hostage) to get back to us, and moving home to wait on tenterhooks to find out which city we need to start hunting for housing in, isn’t a predicament unique to us.

It’s a predicament that, actually, most college graduates will experience at some point or another in their lives, either directly after graduation or sometime down the line, when they are between jobs for whatever reason.

But add a recent graduation into the mix, and it dramatically increases the number of people who think they’re being helpful by suggesting, “Well, why don’t you just get a job at Dairy Queen while you’re waiting to hear back?”

Not to denigrate the fast-food industry, but if we wanted to flip burgers, we wouldn’t have put ourselves through the stress, trauma, trials and tribulations of a college degree.

Yes, getting a temporary job to fill our free time and pad our bank accounts is an excellent idea.

But remember that it is only temporary, so don’t sacrifice future opportunities for it.

Also, keep in mind that there are probably plenty of job listings for short-term contracts in your chosen field, just waiting for you to find them.

If you’re already looking for a temporary job, find one that will look good on your resume when you give it to the employers who are jealously hoarding your “real” jobs, sometime down the line.

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One thing that I find remarkable about our perception of time is that it is incredibly difficult for us to separate fantasy from reality. What allows us to get so deep into our own brains, that we can’t think of anything else but our over-exaggerations, is beyond me.

Think about it in terms of romantic relationships. The last guy was crap. He was a total jerk even when you thought he was being cute and considerate. It’s really unfortunate to not have anyone now because you are lonely and desperate and insecure but later on… Oh, later on, a Prince Charming/Indiana Jones

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Let’s recoup, shall we. Why not This attitude toward timing is allow the present to be the best time, unreasonable and obscure, even and see the past as satisfactory and though it’s obviously popular. the future as a curious mystery?

It’s our own brains that often This seems more optimistic. Plus, stand in the way of reality. Temporal our temporal lobe will always play introspection is often an unreliable tricks on us. keeper of time, according to the We might as well roll with the manuscript, “Human time perceppunches and make the best out of tion and its illusions” by David M. the present, rather than living in our Eagleman. There are many factors past or future lives. that go into temporal illusions of t duration, one of which is complex Gabi Scottaline is a senior in English. The opinions stimulation. expressed in Scottaline’s columns do not necessarily When you are distracted from represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Scottaline the clock by busywork, time seems can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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eVar Burton is bringing back the beloved show that made us all tune in to PBS — not “Arthur” or “Zoboomafoo,” but “Reading Rainbow.”

Yes, it is trying to make a comeback and it is spectacular. I watched that show all the time and I couldn’t get enough of the magical field trips I went on in all the books read on the show. You’re humming the theme song right now, aren’t you?

The show first aired in 1983 and the series ended in 2009 when directors didn’t want to continue paying to renew the show. So the rainbow disappeared for a while — until now, when the star of the show, LeVar Burton, launched his Kickstarter campaign to bring the program online and to schools.

Burton wanted to raise $1 million to put “Reading Rainbow” in disadvantaged classrooms and to bring a spin-off online. Now that the campaign has become so popular, the new goal is $5 million. In his Kickstarter video, Burton said his goal was to bring “Reading Rainbow” “back to every child, everywhere.”

The project plans to bring digital readings and virtual field trips online, because that is where the kids are today, and as Burton said, “today’s kids want today’s technology.”

Two years ago, “Reading Rainbow” came back as an iPad app through Burton’s company, RRKidz, with which children could read books digitally and take the field trips through the books at home. This Kickstarter campaign is set to bring this idea online for children to access at home and at school.

Burton has been receiving praise for his effort to get children’s reading rates higher and his mission to make children fall in love with reading.

He has also been the focus of a lot of controversy and scrutiny for his Kickstarter campaign.

People are up in arms, because Burton’s campaign did not explicitly state that the new “Reading Rainbow” would be an expansion of the app. The controversy around this whole comeback is that the money donated will be going to a for-profit company, RRKidz, instead of a nonprofit, and the schools receiving the “Reading Rainbow” program will have to pay a monthly subscription.

But don’t you remember the slogan for PBS, which stated that the programs were made possible “by viewers like you?” The show was originally financed by people donating money for the entirety of its airing, and that money went to PBS. Now people are just getting nit-picky.

Burton wants to bring the “Reading Rainbow” content and adventure to every “web-connected child,” so people are also arguing that not every child has Internet or computer access. The Washington Post has been a prompter of this argument by stating that “it’s a welldocumented fact, for instance, that low-income households are disproportionately more likely to access the Internet by cell phone. And yet ‘Reading Rainbow’ wants to put its app on desktop computers first — which requires both computer ownership and high-speed Internet access.”

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By Kristian Foden-Vencil

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PORTLAND — In 1992, the federal government told drug manufacturers they had to give hospitals steep discounts if a large percentage of their patients were elderly or low-income.

It was a money-saver for hospitals and the federal government, and the program has grown in leaps and bounds.

But drug manufacturers say the program is now bloated and badly regulated.

The feds are about to issue new rules for it, so there’s some fervent lobbying going on.

When the first Bush Administration set up the drug discount program, it had wide bi-partisan support. But the name Drug Discount Program must have been taken because they chose a more cryptic moniker: The 340B program.

Essentially, the 340B program helps the federal government stretch its Medicaid and Medicare dollars. And it allows hospitals to give its poor and vulnerable patients a break, even if they’re not enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare.

Outside David Chance’s hospital room at Oregon Health and Science University, a volunteer plays a dulcimer to help him feel better.

A few days ago, Chance turned up here saying every time he lay down, it was hard to breathe.

“They put a catheter in the vein in my leg that goes up to my heart, injected some dye so they could see the circulations around and in the vessels around the heart,” he said.

It turns out, Chance has an enlarged heart and a valve that doesn’t close properly.

“Yeah, I’ll be changing my diet and on prescriptions for a little while,” he said.

Those prescriptions include aspirin, a statin and warfarin at a cost of about $125 a month.

But Chance works at a Portland area call center and doesn’t have health insurance.

So under the 340B Program, OHSU is giving him the first month of his prescription free.

“Yeah, it’s great. I’d probably be having difficulties affording them otherwise,” said Chance.

Drug companies don’t have a problem with cases like this.

But they are upset that sometimes, instead of passing on drug discounts to patients, hospitals are selling the drugs at higher prices, then using the proceeds to open clinics and hire staff.

“That’s not what the pro-

GREVSTAD n Continued from page 7 three-shot-caramel-machiatto from breaking down and curling up in the fetal position.

There are also many other triggers out there — I cannot go to the library. I can’t study over the smell of adolescent angst and broken dreams. And avoid that one friend in your posse whom you hate. We all have one — if you don’t know what I am talking about, you are unfortunately that person.

The “N” stands for napping.

Albert Einstein was very fond of naps, and he was pretty good at that academic stuff.

Whenever you can, get your sleep. Did you know after being up more than 48 hours, you can be diagnosed as clinically insane? Not only is sleep important for cognitive reasons, but it’s also essential for your health.

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“And by doing so they can all happen for five, six days a week at six weeks at a time. So it’s very of a sudden tap into new rev-

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You know that exam you take every year during which a student hacks up a lung every five questions? Don’t be that guy.

The second “A” stands for alone time. You won’t have much time as it is, but trust me, the opportunity to unwind is key. Just take 22 minutes to stream a show and forget that you have three back-to-back finals because your teachers hate you.

You take care of you. This is the time to draw yourself a bath and drink black tea while reading “50 Shades of Grey”.

(Off topic, but I read the first 25 pages of that book and had to take a shower to get the dirty off me.)

Moving on.

The “S” stands for studying. Don’t be the kid who tries to wing it. Be prepared and know what you need to study, so you are confident in your abilities when you crack open

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that Blue Book or put pencil to that Scantron form. Too many students fail because they think the answers they first put on the page are wrong. Case in point — filling in eight consecutive “B” answers on your Scantron form and then changing them (because that can’t be right, can it? Yes, it can, because teachers are cruel like that). I don’t think there is anything more terrifying than that scenario.

The best part is, even if you do my steps and don’t get a good grade (which is impossible), at least the tests are done. You can now go back to listening to Mac Miller in the sun while wearing $1 shades and playing foosball or beer pong — you know, what college was meant for. t

Alec Grevstad is a senior in speech communications. The opinions expressed in Grevstad’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Grevstad can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

enues they couldn’t get before.”

Joe Fazio is the assistant pharmacy director at OHSU. “I wouldn’t go so far as saying there are hospitals gaming the system.” he said. “But this is an incredibly complex program.

I will say that there are institutions out there that maybe don’t understand all the rules.”

One of the things both the hospitals and the drug manufacturers can agree on, is that the federal government needs to re-write the 340B rules.

“So I’m looking forward to greater clarification, less wiggle room around how we interpret,” said Fazio.

One of the biggest issues to be dealt with, is the definition of “patient.”

“There has been relatively little clarity in regulatory guidance about which patient qualifies,” said Silverman.

“Who’s uninsured and qualifies as indigent by which measure. There are different kinds of health economics measures that have been established through different iterations of federal policy making.”

The federal Health Resources and Services Administration is expected to unveil new rules for the program this month.

It’s worth noting that the feds tried to tighten the rules in 2007.

But there was such a backlash the proposal was quietly retracted a few years later.

Now the feds are back for round two.

DI RAFFAELE n Continued from page 7 that schools have computers for students’ use.

Burton is not trying to con or dupe people out of their money or time.

He just wants to get kids excited about reading, just like he did with us when we were young. He wants to get them delving into books instead of games and social media.

Thank you, LeVar Burton, for being a voice in the fight for higher children’s literacy for all this time, and for bringing back some of the best half hours of my childhood. t

Brooklyn Di Raffaele is a junior in

English. The opinions expressed in Di Raffaele’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.

Di Raffaele can be reached at forum@ dailybarometer.com.