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Student representative on board of trustees to serve until fall, other board members receive renewals

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Taylor Sarman will continue to serve as the student representative on the university’s board of trustees two months past his original departure date.

Sarman, who has served as Associated Students of Oregon State University president and executive director of government relations, was given a week-long period to make a recommendation for his replacement. Due to a lack of time and clear processes in selecting a replacement, Sarman said he felt uncomfortable making the recommendation so quickly.

“We really need to outline the process and

define the process in how (the Associated Students of Oregon State University) gets a name to the board, or to the governor specifically,” Sarman said.

Members of the board of trustees are recommended through a series of various processes depending on their position.

It is the responsibility of the governor to appoint board members and have them confirmed by the Oregon Senate following any recommendation.

Nine board members were initially scheduled to end their term, effective June 30, 2015. Amidst the resignation of former Gov. John Kitzhaber and entry of current Gov. See TRUSTEES | page 3

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Taylor Sarman currently serves in the student seat on the Oregon State University board of trustees.

ASOSU judiciary council rules on SIFC n

Student and Incidental Fees Committee to be part of ASOSU executive branch

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Corvallis celebrates grand re-opening of Hotel Julian, affordable housing site

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The Student and Incidental Fees Committee Review has concluded, and the judicial council decided to place the SIFC within the executive branch of the Associated Students of Oregon State University.

One important point that Susie Brubaker-Cole, the vice provost for student affairs, would make is that these changes were required as per state law, and that the SIFC has always resided within ASOSU. “It’s not that the SIFC has been this independent entity and is being moved into ASOSU,” Brubaker-Cole said. “It’s always been subject to ASOSU approval and the legislative branch. That idea leads to people thinking that this is a more radical change than it is.”

James Knudsen, chair of the judicial council of ASOSU and a sophomore double majoring in industrial and mechanical engineering, compared fitting the SIFC into ASOSU to putting together pieces of a puzzle and trying to make the prettiest picture.

“We put them all together in the way that logistically made the most sense, but still fit with all of the documents,” Knudsen said.

ASOSU President Taylor Sarman, a senior in political science, is ultimately pleased with the decisions of the judicial branch of ASOSU. “It’s great that the judicial council has decided to sit SIFC in the executive branch,” Sarman said. “That provides a lot of clarity.”

ASOSU president-elect Cassie Huber, a junior in speech communication, is also pleased with the decision.

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Susie Brubaker-Cole, the vice provost for student affairs.

“I think people will realize that this is for the benefit of both organizations,” Huber said.

In moving forward into next year, Huber plans to work on building a more collaborative effort.

“Everyone wants a say, and we think it’s best that it’s a transparent process,” Huber said. “I think the judicial and executive branches are doing their best to work towards a transparent process.”

Knudsen hopes that this change will help the SIFC to function better within ASOSU and help hold each department accountable for the money it spends. He also hopes that the SIFC will look more into student feedback as to how to structure student fees.

“It isn’t to say that they’ve been doing a bad job right now,” Knudsen said. “But they can always do better.”

Knudsen pointed out that the SIFC has been good about asking for student feedback in the past through open hearings in which

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students could voice their concerns, but believes that there may be more efficient methods that could be used.

Sarman does hope that this will lead to the opportunity for the SIFC to take a more community-based approach when coming up with budget recommendations, using student feedback and other budget boards.

Knudsen also made sure to explain that this would not structurally change the student fee recommendation process very much. The process through which the fee recommendation reaches Congress will stay the same as before.

The structure was adjusted to stay consistent to Senate Bill 270, one concept that encouraged the review and ultimate changes made in the position of the SIFC within ASOSU. “Student fees can only be collected by the student government,” Brubaker-Cole said. “The SIFC has to be part of ASOSU; it’s non-negotiable.”

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown visited Corvallis Thursday to assist with the ribbon cutting of the historic Hotel Julian and speak about the significance of its re-opening.

“Communities throughout the state are struggling to meet the needs of their residents,” Brown said. “The good news is we know how to overcome these challenges.”

The Hotel Julian has been a treasured part of Corvallis history since its establishment in the 1880s and its conversion to a place of affordable housing.

Massive interior renovations and

exterior improvements began in 2014, and on the warm, sunny afternoon of Thursday, June 4, Corvallis community members, investors, project contributors and Hotel Julian residents gathered to celebrate the building’s grand re-opening.

“It’s very exciting to have this successfully completed,” said Corvallis Mayor Biff Traber. “This was a very complex project, and it’s a shining example of how you can do multiple things with one project — provide affordable housing, renovating a historic building and also improving the energy efficiency tremendously.”

The preservation of the Hotel Julian began with a nonprofit group called Northwest Housing Alternatives, which specializes in working with public and private community partSee HOTEL | page 2

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Northwest Housing Alternatives Executive Director Martha McLennan, Gov. Kate Brown and Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services Executive Director Jim Moorefield cut the ribbon at the Hotel Julian.

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earlier that day, but denied going inside. The man said that he was prohibited from being at the location according to drug court probation. The suspect then reportedly advised the officer of his probation officer’s name, and the probation officer was able to confirm with the CPD officer that the suspect’s actions were indeed a violation of his probation. The suspect was taken into custody.

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SIFC n Continued from page 1 While the SIFC committee and ASOSU can function without structural changes, recommendations were made by the Student and Incidental Fee Review Committee to look to see if there are changes that need to be made for improvement purposes.

“Feedback from other budget committees would be a useful tools for the future,” Knudsen said.

Knudsen believes that the decision of the legislative branch to place SIFC into the executive branch of ASOSU will help to make the relationship between the two organizations clearer.

There was also text in the judicial opinion to provide checks and balances to avoid any power imbalances and conflicts of interest between ASOSU and the SIFC. “One of the components is the inability of the president to vote on budget policy structure,” Knudsen said.

The president of ASOSU will still speak on behalf of ASOSU concerning budgetary matters and serve as a representative for ASOSU, but will not have the ability to cast a vote on budgetary matters.

Another balance that has been set into place is that a member serving on the SIFC committee cannot serve as a member of ASOSU. “I’m quite impressed with the system of checks and balances that are built into the SIFC process,” Brubaker-Cole said. “To ensure that no one body has the power to set fees. Mediation processes are set largely to avoid conflicts of interest.”

As for the issue of a conflict of interest, Sarman does not believe that it could have been a problem in the first place, though he does agree it makes sense to not allow the president to vote on budgetary matters.

“I think the concerns of there being a conflict of interest are really invalid,” Sarman said.

“ASOSU has always been the final fee setter while the SIFC recommends a fee.”

While the current chair of the SIFC was based on an appoint-

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ment, due to the review process that was happening during ASOSU elections, future SIFC members will be chosen on an elections-based process as before.

“Through summer, the SIFC will have a temporary chair, but we’ll hold elections in the Fall,” Knudsen said. “We don’t want to shut down the SIFC over the summer, so a temporary chair was important for us.”

Priscilla Macy and Maria Yerkes are also pleased with the decision as a whole, but also that elections-based positions will be continued.

“A desire we’ve expressed is to have special circumstances right now for ASOSU to hold interviews and have a panel select the individuals who will get the position,” Macy said.

“But we still want elected positions in the future.”

Yerkes, the current SIFC chair and a junior in finance, is happy that the decision that the judicial council has made will allow the SIFC to remain independent in its position within the ASOSU, as it has been able to be before these changes.

“This opinion essentially outlines that ASOSU and SIFC are still separate, which is something Priscilla and I have been advocating for,” Yerkes said.

Knudsen explained the goal of the process.

“What I hope is that the students of OSU recognize that we’re doing our best to reflect their hopes and wishes on how their student fees are handled, but with adherence to the documents,” Knudsen said.

As to the concerns that the judicial council did not notify students within the proper 48 hours for open hearing policy, Knudsen believes that the rush to complete the decision by the end of the year lead to miscommunication and emails being sent to the wrong places.

“I think there was a little confusion on our end versus the Barometer,” Knudsen said.

“It was a little more rushed than I would have liked it to have been. Ultimately, I think the judicial court did follow our policies to contact the Barometer.”

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Black students at U of O lobby trustees for greater support

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EUGENE — The UO Board of Trustees got an unscheduled lesson today from members of a newly formed Black Male Alliance student group.

During a public comment period in the trustees’ daylong meeting, alliance members said black students tend to lack a feeling of community, miss the guidance of black faculty and advisors, cope without having the specific life skills to make it on a predominantly white campus.

They said they wish there was a place on campus where they could gather and feel sufficiently comfortable to let down their hair — and that more people realized that not all black students are athletes.

Christina Jackson, a black/African American student retention specialist, told the board that one can tell an institution’s values by where it puts its time, effort and resources.

“The University of Oregon does not spend its time, effort or resources to promote adequate equity and inclusion,” Jackson said.

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HOTEL n Continued from page 1 ners to create and maintain affordable housing for low-income families. Under Northwest Housing Alternatives, the Hotel Julian was not only protected as a historical site, but also preserved as a means of affordable housing for elderly and disabled community members.

“There are 35 units here for folks who really need a place to call home,” said Northwest Housing Alternatives Executive Director Martha McLennan. “It’s affordable housing for people with average incomes under $10,000 a year, and by preserving the property here we also preserve the rent assistance available so people have money leftover for food, medicine, etc.”

In January 2014, Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services, another nonprofit that also specializes in providing affordable housing, purchased the Hotel Julian from Northwest Housing Alternatives, and through the efforts of both organizations, preparations were made to renovate the building.

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sionals who are present and visible, Jackson said.

Over the past decade, the number of black students, faculty and staff has been stuck at 1 to 2 percent of their respective campus populations, according to the UO’s Office of Institutional Research.

In diversity rankings, the UO performs in the bottom 10 or 20 percent by the UO’s own performance yardstick, which is its public university peers in the Association of American Universities.

In April, meanwhile, Oregon State University in Corvallis opened its new $2.4 millon, 3,500-square-foot Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center. The new center replaces a cramped center in an old house at the same location.

“White advisors will never understand what it feels like to be black,” Fevean Siyoum, an ethnic studies major and president of the Black Women of Achievement, told trustees.

“They’ll never know what we experience.You don’t know how to guide our futures and the things that we will face.”

Students said they need a space of their own where they can talk, relax, encour-

age each other — and answer questions that would be too awkward to ask in other settings.

“What we don’t have is a dedicated space for African-Americans. We don’t have a place where we can take our mask off,” said David Spencer, a senior accounting major, alliance member and Churchill High School graduate.

Desmond Harvey, a business administration major and residential assistant, said black students need a dorm community with an academic component that teaches African-American history, ethnic studies and a life skills class to help them transition into the UO’s general environment.

Trustees’ responses varied.

Ginevra Ralph said that, if she suggested such a dormitory structure, “They’d say, ‘Oh, there’s a white lady segregating everybody.’”

With such a model, “We’re never going to be talking to each other,” she said.

Trustee Andrew Colas, a Portland businessman, said students who come from Atlanta or Washington, D.C., have culture shock when they arrive on the Eugene campus.

that people living up there had to open their windows open constantly because it was just unbearable.”

The renovations done to the Hotel Julian were extensive, both inside and outside the building. The access ramp was repaired with new handrails, a new resident entry with an awning was added in addition to a new lobby and common spaces, a new roof was installed, the brick was cleaned and repaired, the wood windows were repaired and painted and new lightwell siding as well as windows and a skylight were added. Inside the building, new door hardware, doors, walls, carpeting and lighting were added along with more accessible amenities for residents and new paint jobs for the walls and ceiling.

The upgraded Hotel Julian also features some improvements to the energy efficiency of the building.

“The existing heating and ventilation systems were not functioning when we acquired the building,” said Stephen McMurtrey, housing development director at Northwest Housing Alternatives and project manager for the renovations.

“But now we have added improvements to help improve the air quality and ventilation of the building, including a new heat recovery unit that takes expelled air and reheats and re-pumps it. We also installed new indoor fans and a very advanced solar sunshade system for the custom windows

we made to help control the solar heat gain and loss, since we were required to keep the historic windows.”

The existing tenants of the Hotel Julian were mostly relocated to accommodate for the construction, and today was also their day to be welcomed back into their new apartments.

Jeanie Johnson, one of the Hotel Julian residents originally from Southern Oregon, was happy to be back in her new space. After falling on hard times, Johnson was relieved to get a call and hear that she now had a place at the Hotel Julian to call home.

“The most wonderful aspect of all of this is the relief of knowing that you’re going to survive and that I have a place to be,” Johnson said. “I’m not only out of the weather, which is what I prayed for, but moving into this apartment was just overall the best thing that has happened to me.”

Overall, the event was met with much relief from the tenants and a great deal of pride from both supporters of the project and the community.

“We’re so pleased to see this project through, and one of our primary reasons for having the event was to show our appreciation to the residents who had a chaotic few months and even had to be relocated for the project,” McLennan said.

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TRUSTEES n Continued from page 1 Kate Brown, the Oregon State University board of trustees made some adjustments.

But two members were still set to end their terms regardless: Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University, and Sarman. Out of the nine total, seven others were reinstated for terms into 2017 and 2019.

Preston Pulliams, former Portland Community College President, will fill Floyd’s position.

Because the next special legislative session of the Oregon Congress does not take place until fall, a student recommendation cannot be processed until that time.

As a result, Sarman will retain his current seat.

The methods of determining a new student board member after Sarman’s term are part a continuing discussion.

Pat Reser, chair of the board, said timing was a key factor in selecting Sarman’s replacement for the next two years. “With the changes that happened in Salem, time was compressed, so the election of his position didn’t happen soon enough to be presented to the governor,� Reser said.

Various seats on the board were extended to serve out longer

terms, according to Reser. “The original board appointments had a number of positions that were set up to expire on June 30, 2015,� said Steve Clark, vice president of university relations and marketing. “The governor reappointed a number of individuals for both two and four year terms.�

Extensions of members serving through 2017 now include Mark Baldwin and Brenda McComb. Members now serving through 2019 include Patty Bedient, Darry Callahan, Michele Longo Eder, Laura Naumes and Reser.

Baldwin, faculty representative on the board, said leadership of the Service Employees International Union OSU chapter made a quick decision when first selecting him as a recommendation for the board. “They realized they needed to have somebody, and I was the best guy,� Baldwin said.

Baldwin was selected and then recommended to Kitzhaber.

Though the decision seemed rapid, Baldwin said the SEIU continue to discuss solutions for a more solidified selection process in the future. “We will have a more formalized process selected by the union at large,� Baldwin said.

Baldwin expressed how the governor is not obligated to

ing it stolen like a bike from an outdoor rack. “Our longboards were the cheapest ones,� Celik said. “We just wanted to try them first.�

Different types of longboards are made for different types of riding. There are different styles, such as cruising, going downhill and even dancing.

Depending on the skill level of the rider, buying a board that fits the rider’s style can change the experience of longboarding. “Depending how good we get, we want to increase our level,� Celik said, “And depending on what we like, we will customize our longboards.� necessarily select whomever is recommended.

As for Sarman’s replacement, Clark said names are yet to be considered and will be further discussed in the fall. “It’s up to Taylor and the student leaders,� Clark said. “They provide names for student leadership.�

Sarman said he would like to see more student voices in the discussion for the future, and that an application process might even be ideal for finding the right candidate to recommend to the governor.

At the Friday, May 29 board meeting, Sarman expressed concern on how ASOSU would further connect with the board of trustees depending on whoever was selected to take his place. “I think it just so happens that I was student body president in this seat this year,� Sarman said

Hunter Cromwell, a freshman majoring in business, has been longboarding for five years. “It can be a really effective mode of transportation,�

Cromwell said.

Experimenting with different riding styles is also part of figuring out what a rider is comfortable with. “I’ve gone down slopes and fallen, and I don’t want to do that anymore,� Cromwell said. “It’s just a form of transportation for me.�

Learning how to ride longboards in a particular style takes time and practice, just like any other skill. When it comes to at the board meeting. “How do we get ASOSU involved if the person sitting in my seat isn’t the student body president?�

The board will continue regulations and discussions in the summer as they prepare for their final meetings of the year, Oct. 15 and 16.

Recently, the board of trustees unanimously approved a new Ph.D. program for women, gender and sexuality studies.

Meanwhile, the decision of appointing another student seat remains up in the air. Though the regular legislative session has ended, the special session in the fall will present another opportunity for the next student board member to be selected. “We’ll give it another shot in two months,� Reser said.

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Students at Oregon State University recently spotted a hive located on the west side of Langton Hall with a mass of dead bees below it.

For some, it was a big enough concern to post onto the Facebook page “Things Overheard at OSU.” Wayne Walter, a senior in biology who works in the bee lab, commented on the Facebook post.

“The hive has apparently been there for years and hasn’t caused any problem,” Walter wrote.

Carolyn Breece, head of the Oregon Master Beekeeper Program, confirmed that the hive has been there for more than

three years.

“That’s what bees do naturally in the wild: They look for some kind of cavity and in this case, they’ve found the perfect one, and it happens to be the building,” Breece said. “The thing about it that I love is that they aren’t hurting anybody; they’ve found a great place, and they’re probably not harming the building, but they do kick out the dead bees, and that’s creating a little bit of alarm.”

Concerned students who commented on the post urged those who have run-ins with beehives to contact Assistant Professor Ramesh Sagili of the Department of Horticulture to handle the situation.

Sagili is a honeybee researcher and an extension specialist who focuses on the health of bees. The large number of dead bees was not a concern for Sagili.

“There are three major problems that affects the death of bees: parasite inhabitants, nutritional problems or pesticides.”

In the past 6-7 years, honeybee colonies have been declining.

The national rate of decline is about 30 percent, and for the past five years, the state of Oregon has experienced an average decline of 25 percent.

Monocropping, which is the practice of growing only one type

of crop over a large area, plays a role in significantly affecting the diet of bees by limiting the availability of food choices. Pesticides also affect the population of bees.

Depending on the type of pesticide used, the effects may not be noticeable.

“These are not supposed to be toxic to the bees directly, but may be subtly affected,” Sagili said. “It may not be obvious immediately, but the bees can bring it back to the hives and pass it to the larvae.”

Insecticides used to treat pests in crops can cause more immediate damage to bees. A group of insecticides called neonicotinoids affect the bees’ central nervous systems, and is the most commonly used insecticide in the United States, according to Walter.

Sagili expresses the importance of bees and the detrimental results the decline in population is causing.

“With the media coverage of bees, people understand that bees are important pollinators, but I don’t think people understand how important they are for food production,” said Sagili.

“About a third of our food source comes from pollinators.”

Honeybee pollinations add about $15 billion in value to agriculture every year in the United

States, according to Sagili.

Recently, the White House has made an effort to help the declining bee — and butterfly — populations, taking the initiative to restore unused lands and make them more pollinator-friendly.

U.S. President Barack Obama issued a National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, which emphasizes the need for “comprehensive approach to tackling and reducing the impact of multiple stressors on pollinator health.”

With Walter’s knowledge of bees, he gives some recommendations on how to help the population.

“Definitely use less pesticides, because that can affect the pollen and nectar of the flowers, which is a food source for bees,” Walter said. “Be more informed about them in general, and people need to know they are not out to get you. They are just doing their job.”

Despite the statistics, Sagili and Breece have a bright outlook for the future of bees.

“I’m not saying bees don’t have problems,” Sagili said. “But when you ask me about the future ... the future looks good.”

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OSU Sport Clubs 2014-2015 Highlights Archery

National Field Archery Association: Helen Wolfram: 3rd Place Indoor State, Jessica Phillips: 3rd Indoor State & 3rd National Marked 3d, Larren Sexton: 3rd Indoor State & 4th National Marked 3d, Kat Pollan: 4th Indoor State & 3rd National Marked 3d

Baseball

North Pacific Conference Players of the Week: John Richter, Nathan Stehler, and Tre Hattori, North Pacific Conference Pitchers of the Week: Eric Raya and Dylan Ferrel

Bass Fishing

FLW Outdoors Champions: 1st Place: Zach MacDonald & Zach Martinez, 5th Place: Ryan Sparks & Chase Cochran, FLW Outdoors Top 15 Regional Qualifications: Zach MacDonald, Zach Martinez, Joey Billmaier, Eric Kennedy, Chase Cochran, and Wyatt Whitten

Archery Badminton Baseball Bass Fishing Cycling Disc Golf Dodgeball Equestrian - Dressage Equestrian - Drill Equestrian - Event Equestrian - Hunter/Jumper Gymnastics IHSA Judo Karate Kendo Lacrosse - Men’s Pistol

Disc Golf

National Collegiate Disc Golf Chamionships: 22nd Place, Oregon Collegiate Disc Golf League: 2nd Place

Gymnastics

National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs Chamionships: Women’s Gymnastics Team: 4th Place, Vanessa Fuller: 2nd Place Overall, 3rd Place on Bars, 7th Place on Vault, Alex Pederson: 2nd Place on Parallel Bars, 7th Place AA at National Finals

IHSA

Zone 8 Region 4 Regional Champions: Hunt Seat Team, Zone 8 Region 4 Regional Champions: Western Team, Semi Finals 8th Place: Western Team, Nationals Open Horsemanship National Champion Rider: Emily Honey, Nationals 6th Overall AQHA High Point Rider: Emily Honey, Nationals Novice Equitation 6th Place Rider: Jordyn Clarke

Polo-Horse Racquetball Rifle Rugby - Men’s Rugby - Women’s Running Sailing Stock Horse Soccer - Men’s Soccer - Women’s Table Tennis Tae Kwon Do Tennis Triathlon Ultimate Disc - Men’s

Kendo

Pacific Northwest Kendo Federation Rankings: Dylan Monaco: 2-Kyu, Addison Knappett: 2-Kyu, Jacob Huegel: Shodan

Men’s Lacrosse

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Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League Champions Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse All-League Awards: Nick Widmer: Defensive Player of the Year & First-Team Goaltender, Colin Kacinski: First-Team Midfield, Dylan Roach: First-Team Defense, Ben Dill: First-Team Attack, Kody Smith: Second-Team Defense, Spencer Rotenberg: Second-Team Midfield, Michael Schaefer: Second-Team Face-Off Specialist, Samuel Hart-Thompson: Second-Team Long-Stick Midfielder, Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association All-Americans: Nick Widmer, Dyland Roach, Ben Dill, and Colin Kacinski

Women’s Lacrosse

Northwest Women’s Lacrosse League Awards: Leanne Snyder: Midfield MVP, Keatgon Corder-Swanson: Defense MVP

Pistol

NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championships: Stephen Lucas: 21st Pace

Polo-Horse

US Polo Regional Champions - Women’s Team US Polo Regional Championship Awards: Carina Deck: US Polo Association Tournament Allstar, Tyler Lauzen: US Polo Association Tournament Allstar, Nicole Johnson: US Polo Association Connie Upchurch Memorial Sportsmanship Award

Rifle

Willamette Valley Smallbore League Team Co-Champions, NRA Intercollegiate Air Rifle National Qualifier: Anna King, NRA Intercollegiate Smallbore National Qualifiers: Jerika Wallace, Alex Miller, and Taylor Bovinette

Sailing

Northwest Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Race Champions, NWICSA Individual All-Northwest Awards: Brian Hickman: All-Northwest Sailing Team Leadership Award, Brian Hickman: All-Northwest Sailing Team Skipper Award, Aike Burger: All-Northwest Sailing Team Crew Award, Kyle Peterzen: All-Northwest Sailing Team, Pete McKillop: Sportsmanship Award

Stock Horse

WSSH Show of the Year limited non-pro trail: Lea Hudson: 1st Place

Women’s Soccer

Boise State University Bronco Clash Tournament: 1st Place

Table Tennis

USA Table Tennis Northwest Regional Tournament: Hongbo Yu: 1st Place Singles, Michael Groom: 2nd Place Singles, Moo Song: 3rd Place Singles, Sooie Hoe: 4th Place Singles, Yishu Qian: 5th Place Singles

Tennis

USA Ultimate NW Regionals: 5th Place

Women’s Water Polo

Collegiate Water Polo Association All-Conference Awards: Alex Davis: MVP & First Team All-Conference, Shelby Schmidt: Second Team All-Conference

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Two years ago, Hannah Akamine was catching in the Women’s College World Series as a member of the University of Tennessee. In 2013, Akamine and the Lady Volunteers went 52-12, including 16-6 in the SEC. Then in the postseason, they won their Super Regional, qualified for the World Series and advanced all the way to the finals. The Lady Vols eventually lost to Oklahoma in the Championship, but they finished the year ranked as the No. 2 team in the nation. That year, Akamine played in 60 games, started 53 at catcher and hit .285 with three home runs.

Fast-forward two years, and Akamine is graduating from an Oregon State team that failed to reach the playoffs. In her senior year, her only year at Oregon State, the Beavers finished 26-26, 6-18 Pac-12. Still, Akamine feels confident she made the right decision to transfer after her junior season.

“I just think there comes a point where you feel like you can do more for a team,” Akamine said. “I hope with me coming to Oregon State, I created some passion and some excitement and made a difference on the team. Me at Tennessee, I wasn’t really doing that, and I think there was a better place for me to be.”

For all the success the Lady Volunteers were having, Akamine’s role on the team started to shift. In 2014, a year after playing in the Championship, Akamine appeared in 44 games and started just 37. She did not appear in any of the team’s postseason games that year, and her numbers were a bit down as well. She hit .245 with three home runs, and she felt like her talents could be better used somewhere else. In fact, a few conversations with a few of her teammates at Tennessee helped Akamine decide to transfer to Oregon State.

“My roommates at Tennessee are on the Olympic Softball Team,” Akamine said. ”And they play with (Oregon State) Coach Berg who is their coach, and they’re like, ‘You should totally go there, she’s a great coach. You’ll never regret

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it, she’s the best person to play for.’ Then coach Berg had actually contacted me and asked if I was interested. Overhearing everything from my roommates, I was like ‘Yeah, I could play for someone like that.’”

Akamine felt like she could make a difference on the Beavers. In the year before Akamine arrived, injuries took their toll on the team and the Beavers finished 18-31, 5-15 Pac-12. Akamine had been on a Tennessee team that achieved success, but she didn’t feel like she was getting enough out of the sport.

“Getting in contact with Coach Berg, she definitely made me feel like this was the place to be,” Akamine said. “It’s actually turned out where she’s made a difference on me and my game. Before coming here I didn’t really have a whole lot of passion for the game — it was kind of more my job, like something that helped get me through college, paid for my school. Now it’s something that I love to do. Coach Berg really instilled that in me, and at Tennessee I wasn’t having that.”

Akamine’s rediscovered passion for softball paid dividends for the Beavers. One month into her senior year, Akamine was awarded Pac-12 Player of the Week honors after batting 8-for-14 for a weekend. At that point in the season, she was hitting .368, which is drastically improved from her junior year at Tennessee. When the season was over, Akamine’s average finished at .308 with three home runs.

“The dynamics were a little different,” Akamine said.

“I’m not saying that Tennessee wasn’t fun and exciting, I don’t OSU students who have done significant, independent want to bash on them, because research or creative efforts under the guidance of an it’s a great program. I personally OSU faculty mentor can get a permanent notation on did not feel like that was my their transcript designating them as an home, and here I feel like this is my home and this is the place I should be.” or an Despite missing out on the postseason and winning 21 fewer games this season than depending on the nature of their work. her old Alma Mater, Akamine’s senior year was more than Interested? For more information see she could have asked for. She http://oregonstate.edu/students/research/ expresses no remorse for leaving such a successful program. or send email to “No regrets, no regrets at all,” Kevin Ahern at ahernk@onid.orst.edu she said.

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hrough my four years at Oregon State I have been in many different jobs and leadership positions all with different hats to wear. One of those hats was a heavy one to wear and that was when I was a resident assistant on this campus.

I was an RA for a year and a half and it was a combination of great, awful, stressful, awesome and terrible all blended together.

When you’re an RA, your life becomes absorbed into the job and sometimes it is hard to distance yourself from it.

You feel like you have a target on your back at all times, because you are the symbol of authority no one in the hall wants to listen to.

You have to be on alert at all times because you never know what is on the other side of the knock on your

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door or call on the duty phone.

Holding the duty phone is one of the scariest things you could ever do for a job.

I am still haunted by that oldphone style ringtone whenever I hear it in public and think that something is about to go down, when in reality I am at Fred Meyer and it is just someone’s cell phone ringing.

The duty phone calls are often serious and most of the time irritating.

Often times RAs play the “who had the worst call on the duty phone” game. Some answers include “how does the Beaver Movie Channel work?,” “can you give me the num-

ber for Dominos?,” “my child has not answered their phone in two days, can you go check on them?,” “I ran around outside in the snow in my underwear and forgot my ID card inside, can you let me in?”

I’ve had some weird calls while on duty, one being a call at 8 a.m. on a Saturday with a resident informing me that a chair was stuck in the wall.

Yes, a chair.

I rushed down the lounge where the incident was supposed to have occurred and I was dumbfounded in my pajamas and wide-eyes at the fact that there was, indeed, a chair stuck in the wall about six feet up.

Where else does stuff like this happen?

I’ve handled roommate conflicts that escalated into physical and property damage, sometimes the fight

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our classroom experience is about to change.

The Learning Innovation Center (LINC) will open for classes in Fall 2015 and chances are you will attend lectures there.

LINC is going up west of the Woman’s Building and north of Austin Hall.

With three floors of classrooms seating a total of 2,200 students simultaneously and open to all departments, LINC will become a central location to most Corvallis campus learners.

The “innovation” of the LINC design includes its designated function, the informal learning

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spaces and the unique classroom configurations.

LINC is all about learning and teaching with three floors of classrooms and a fourth floor dedicated to an Instructional Resource Center (IRC) to provide pedagogical and technical support, along with a new suite for the Honors College.

Other campus buildings are combinations of departments, administration, research and classrooms.

LINC is 100 percent learning

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and teaching; a bold statement for Oregon State University to make — student advancement is a priority.

The IRC on the top floor brings together educational support units including the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Classroom Technology Services, Media Services and Technology Across the See DORBOLO | page 8

getting started about an open window or someone talking on the phone too loudly.

I’ve transported several intoxicated residents to the hospital, dealt with freshmen athletes with superiority complexes, stubborn and stuck-up residents, vomit in sinks, vomit everywhere else, fire alarms going off at five a.m. during finals week and challenging work assignments from the heads of UHDS. When you talk to an RA, they most of the time compare the job to being a glorified babysitter, and that is actually how it feels.

We are trying to live and work with so-called “adults” who act like middle-schoolers and have no respect for anyone or anything.

That is the hardest part of the job: See DI RAFFAELE | page 8

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i Dr. Ethics, I’ve seen a few homeless people around town asking for money. Whenever I walk past them I feel bad — I’d like to do something to help, but I’m not sure what the best option is to help without being patronizing or rude.

Should I offer to buy them some food? How can I do the right thing without insulting them?

—Fortunate Son Dear Fortunate Son, I admire your desire to help in a way that is respectful; too often people who want to help others arrogantly expect individuals who need economic assistance and social services should gratefully accept whatever is offered, even if the “help” is disrespectful, counterproductive, or uninformed.

When responses to people who are homeless are motivated by a desire to avoid guilt or discomfort, the interventions are, at best, superficial and more likely contribute to the dehumanization of marginalized individuals.

Although you mention that you “feel bad” when you “walk by homeless people around town,” your concern about avoiding being patronizing or insulting leads me to believe you’re experiencing a different sort of feeling bad: The kind of frustration, guilt and depression that comes from acknowledging your moral responsibility, wanting to respond, but not knowing what to do or how.

A former student in one of my ethics courses (PHL 205) discovered a compassionate way to deal with his ignorance of how to help.

While on his way to Fred Meyer to purchase new headphones, he passed a homeless man on the sidewalk.

During his shopping trip, he decided to help the man instead — after all, he didn’t really need new headphones — so he proceeded to pick up items he expected a homeless person might need. Just as he was going through the register, he realized he has no idea what someone in that situation might need, so he stopped what he was doing, went outside and started a conversation to find out.

I spoke with Kari Whitacre, Executive Director of Community Outreach, Inc. in Corvallis, to ask what students who are considered about homelessness in Corvallis can do.

She advised against giving money to individuals and recommended that, if you’d like to donate money,

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ea to a successful year of activity and organization from various campus clubs and community outreach efforts. Oregon State University truly represents one of the best campuses in terms of involvement, which is why it’s always a pleasure to hunt for the events we find.

Nay to government disorganization or unclear policies. In the end, we understand that many involved with the Associated Students of Oregon State University are like most of us: learning new things for the first time and figuring out how to do this whole life thing properly. Still, one has to wonder if the program needs an overhaul in terms of defining their overall missions or how the administration interacts with them.

Yea to surviving the final week 10 of the term and year. If students can conquer dead week, they can conquer anything … in theory.

Nay to unconquerable truths, such as often having ramen for dinner each and every night of our college careers.

Yay to not needing to eat as much ramen after college, assuming jobs are available and well-paying.

Nay for the realization that you’ll possibly have to go back onto the ramen train.

Yea for paid internship opportunities, hands-on learning experiences and research opportunities that may occur over the summer. Classroom material is essential for continued learning, but nothing can be a substitute for genuine experiential learning.

Yea to the seemingly solidified arrival of good summer weather. Hopefully we don’t see rain again until … July?

Yeah, July sounds realistic. Let’s stick with this.

Yea to 25 years of pizza across the street. Thanks again, American Dream.

Nay to sometimes eating too many hamburgers, pizza, orange chicken bowls and other probably-not-healthy foods scattered across the campus area. On the bright side, there are veggie options at most restaurants.

Nay to stomach aches, indigestion and other ailments that keep us from getting our work done.

Yea to Pept— ahh, you know where we meant to go with that.

Yea to resident assistants and the continuous work they do to assist students during their time in the position.

Nay to never finding the time to write a cat column past editors joked about. On second thought, this might be for the best. There’s only so much you can say about our fuzzy friends, and let’s face it: you can’t hug every cat.

Yea to dogs, because some people just can’t stand cats.

Yea to an extraordinary year for The Daily Barometer, Beaver’s Digest, Prism, KBVR FM and KBVR TV. We hope each graduating student leader and contributor has the best experience going forward.

Keep on singing, Corvallis — but know what you’re getting into if you sign up for “Killer Queen” during karaoke.

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to contribute to local shelters and support services. Whatever you do, she emphasized the importance of being kind and considerate. After all, if you feel bad encountering a few homeless people, imagine what it’s like to be the target of others’ anxiety, discomfort, and guilt day after day.

Because students often have limited resources, I asked what students could do to help other than donating money.

Whitacre pointed to several volunteering opportunities of varying time commitments at Community Outreach. Additionally, she urged students to donate unwanted furniture and belongings to local organizations and charities like St. Vincent de Paul or Benton Furniture Share, instead of leaving these items on the sidewalk at the end of the school year.

Donating to charities and social services may address the broader problem of homelessness in Corvallis, but it doesn’t resolve the ethical dilemma of how to respond to an individual asking for assistance.

Ethics, for philosopher Emmauel Levinas, happens in face-to-face interactions with others rather than political action.

I presented your question to my colleague to begin a conversation about this dimension of our ethical responsibility to moral others.

Dr. Jose-Antonio Orosco, associate professor of Philosophy, Director of the OSU Peace Studies certificate program, and co-founder of the Anarres Project offered the following advice: “When I think about something like this I’m reminded of the Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano (who recently passed away) and his quote: ‘I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.’”

Orosco continued: “Galeano

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doesn’t give us a principle for determining whether it’s better to give money to a houseless individual or whether we ought to give resources to a support service center or organization; instead he asks us to consider our ethical disposition to people in need.

“This past weekend at the Solidarity Fair in downtown Corvallis — a four year old gathering dedicated to community conversations about social justice — I heard several homeless individuals say that what they most resent is the way that city officials and people in the streets, especially students, disregard them or treat them like second-class citizens,” Orosco said. “They felt that the city did everything it could to accommodate student needs in town, but didn’t work hard enough to keep low-income housing available.

Orosco finished: “For these houseless speakers, what is missing in our community is a sense of solidarity among us that recognizes there are high levels of social problems such drug addiction, lack of housing and jobs, and inadequate mental health care. Many of the houseless feel there is a lot disrespect, and at the very best, a little charity.”

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

DI RAFFAELE n Continued from page 7 dealing with apathy and disrespect.

Many of us got into this job because we genuinely wanted to help new students get to know Oregon State University and navigate their first year.

After dealing with all the politics and drama of the job it gets to you and you start to resent your residents and the whole job.

I can only clean up so much vomit before I lose my sanity.

Along with dealing with all of the crazy antics that the residents put us through, we have to be under beck and call of UHDS and any policy or work changes they make, a perfectly sound approach — but those changes are not always perfectly sound.

Or when they change weekend duty so that you’re sitting at the desk from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and on half-staff

DORBOLO n Continued from page 7 Curriculum (TAC).

The IRC will be a one-stop-shop for many faculty and student support needs.

Students in LINC will appreciate the ample informal learning spaces throughout the building where they will study and collaborate.

The informal learning spaces are the result of innovative design in which classrooms stand in the structural center surrounded by a perimeter of walkway with study areas all along.

The result is a significant increase in open workspace for students and any of us who need a temporary hangout.

The LINC classrooms will be a standout feature of this impressive building.

The Arena design is 600 seats in the round with the instructor at the center and 360-degree projection displays above.

An advantage of this design is that

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Being an RA is not just being the person who cracks down on your fun, as you can see.

Many of us go into There is enough to deal with and this job because we your room party with cheap vodka is not the only concern we look forward genuinely wanted to to busting. There is so much more to help new students get the job than making bulletin boards to know Oregon State and telling you to be quiet.

It is a hard and thankless job a lot University and navigate of the time. their first year.

We tell you to quiet the hell down at midnight because we like to sleep too.

We call the paramedics and police duty circling the building every hour. to keep you safe. We put up a million That was terrible. posters about events to educate you.

We check-in with you because we Then there is dealing with staff members, not just RAs but also other care. “student leaders” that don’t do their Think back to your RA and what jobs of advising, so it falls on the RAs they had to deal with along with the making the job harder. shenanigans you pulled.

Put yourself in their place.

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the furthest student from the central instructor is only eight rows away; compare that to the 22 rows in Milam.

Another innovative design is the Parliament room in which 180 seats are divided in two sections facing one another.

You can see diagrams and descriptions of these rooms and all of LINC on my blog — jondorbolo.com.

LINC classrooms are designed to facilitate student-student and learner-instructor interaction with an emphasis on quality acoustics, visibility, accessibility, airflow and comfort.

The design process for LINC took more than two years and involved work groups of OSU students and faculty lead by Becky Warner, ViceProvost of Academic Affairs and Boora Architects.

The effectiveness of LINC and other classroom designs is under assessment by a research agenda — The Geometry of learning — which is led by TAC and CTL with the objective of correlating student achievement and instructor behavior to space/

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I am moving with my TAC team from Waldo to LINC and hope that you come up to visit.

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