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Oregon State University’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences has received an accreditation only granted to the most elite public health schools in the country. The accreditation, which OSU received from the Council on Education for Public Health, is the first of its kind granted to any Oregon school. The efforts to acquire the recognition began in 2009 as part of OSU’s ongoing strategic plan implementation. Kathryn Stroppel, director of communications and alumni relations at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, said the new endorsement makes OSU’s public health program the first accredited institution between Seattle and San Francisco. “It’s a big deal for Oregon and the west coast,” Stroppel said. “It elevates the values of what we
really do.” The new accreditation will assist in the college’s overall mission to build a stronger public health workforce in the state and focus on methods of disease prevention, water quality and air quality, Stroppel said. “People are going to recognize that,” she said. Julee Christianson, an OSU graduate who just received her masters of public health this month, said the accreditation offers OSU’s public health programs the exposure it needs. “I already knew the school was high quality and had some great faculty,” Christianson said. “It’s just great to have that accreditation behind our name.” Having a degree from an accredited institution will help her and her colleagues in the long run, Christianson said. Tammy Bray, dean at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, said she was excited to see OSU’s public health program receive the recognition after years of planning. “Now we’re the peers of Harvard, Columbia and John Hopkins,” Bray said. “We’re really in the big league now.” The country’s need for public health occupations is also on the rise due to the implementaSee HEALTH | page 4
Courtesy of | College of Public Health and Human Sciences Tammy Bray, dean at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, was thrilled to hear about her college’s accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health. The university received word of the recognition early Tuesday.
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Construction continues on east side of Memorial Union as building services staff move in below By Sean Bassinger THE SUMMER BAROMETER
Some jokingly refer to the basement at the east end of the Memorial Union as “the dungeon.” To MU building services, it’s now home. On June 2, the transition from the old office to a newer location below the former Oregon State University Bookstore location gave the organization an opportunity to move for the first time in decades. The newly renovated area allows for sectioned offices, a separate conference area and more shop space for building construction projects. The recent move is part of a continuing construction project on the entire eastern side of the MU building. Other projects on the top two floors will allow additional spaces for the cultural meals kitchen currently in Snell Hall and other departments. “The custodial staff have fairly spacious offices that they’ve never owned before,” said Sid Cooper, assistant director of building services at the MU.
However, the shift presented its own share of challenges as staff members prepared to migrate. “When you move, you find out how good you are at it,” Cooper said. “You have missing overlaps you have to account for later.” With their new location, building services now has 7,500 square feet as opposed to 6,200. In addition, crews will eventually have more centralized access to MU buildings such as Snell Hall and the Student Experience Center slated for completion in December. “It’s nice to be able to grow a little bit and not have it be at somebody else’s expense,” Cooper said. The overall move cost less than $25,000, according to Cooper. Karen Fuchs, custodial day lead at MU building services, said the transition to enclosed spaces allows for more productivity overall. “It’s nice down here,” Fuchs said. “It’s a little bit different getting used to, but we have a lot more room.” Mike Mayers, operations supervisor at building services, said the staff moved the previous office’s conference table into the lunchroom for more casual
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Sea stars along the west coast keep fighting a losing battle against wasting syndrome, a disease that presents as lesions, loss or curling of arms and deflation. Some become completely dissolved by wasting syndrome. However, scientists are fighting on their behalf. Researchers from all over the west coast are coming to Hatfield Marine Science Center’s conference, “Sea star wasting syndrome, status of the science and identification of response reaction.” “We’ve been paying close attention to (sea stars) for decades, in Oregon since the 1980s,” said Bruce Menge, the Wayne and Gladys Valley professor of marine biology at Oregon State University. Teams of researchers go out every other week in spring and summer during intertidal periods to survey the shoreline. In spring 2013, wasting syndrome was reported on the Washington coast. A year later, it was confirmed along the Oregon shoreline. “We hadn’t seen wasting until this spring, and we were hoping that we would miss it,” Menge said. “We clearly haven’t.” Researcher Pete Raimondi, professor and chair of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the principal investigator for the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network, said that Oregon has been hit hard by the delayed appearance of wasting syndrome. Raimondi said there has been a lot of damage to sea stars in the
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past year since wasting syndrome was identified off the coast of California in summer 2013. What’s unique about this event is that it’s so widespread, Menge said. “Wasting epidemics happen quickly, the animals die off and then it’s gone,” Menge said. “It’s been very hard to study because by the time a research effort can be mounted, the event has passed.” Raimondi has two hypotheses about the dramatic change in wasting syndrome, assuming it’s a pathogen. The first is that a native pathogen has “gone rogue” and become more aggressive. The second is that the syndrome is caused by an exotic pathogen. The exact cause of wasting syndrome is currently unknown. Menge put out a press release about wasting disease to involve the public in the effort. It’s easy for volunteers to learn how to identify wasting disease, Menge said. “We’ve had some people that aren’t scientists help us do counts,” Menge said. “We’ve had a lot of people send us pictures and observations via email.” Raimondi has also enlisted volunteers to aide in the battle through the seastarwasting.org. It’s part of mapping out how the syndrome is spreading. Volunteer information is vetted for verification of wasting syndrome. “The way the disease is going, the chances are good that at least sea stars will be extremely rare, at least for a period of time,” Menge said. “What we don’t know is whether they can recover.” At one site, as many as 80 percent of sea stars visibly suffered from wasting disease, Menge said. “The bottom line is that the incidence of wasting disease has increased dramatically, especially over the last month or so,” Menge said. There is some speculation about the role of climate change
in the outbreak. Warming might affect the pathogens that cause the disease, but Menge said that in Oregon at least, outbreaks have occurred during periods that saw no increase in water temperature. Ocean acidifications might also play a role, Menge said. Young sea stars have also been found with wasting syndrome, Menge said, but they may be less susceptible than adults. These juveniles are elusive and often hide under adult sea stars, but as the adults die off, sightings of the juveniles may become more common, Menge said. Purple sea stars are among five species categorized as “high mortality” from wasting disease on the University of California Santa Cruz’s website. Purple sea stars are common off the Oregon coast. If the population of purple sea stars is reduced, mussels may muscle in and take over the low shore. Mussels move using byssal threads to grip and pull them along. Menge conducted one study among many that suggests that these expanding mussel beds lead to a decrease in biodiversity. Some of the effects of their absence may be mediated by other mussel hunters, including a type of snail, called whelks, that eat small mussels. Unfortunately, the whelks can’t eat larger mussels. Another type of sea star may also help to curb the mussels’ advance. The conference, which takes place on Sunday and Monday, is organized by Janet Webster, head librarian at HMSC; Dave Hanson, Oregon Sea Grant Extension program leader; Tim Miller-Morgan, extension vet/aquatic pets at HMSC; Bob Cowen, HMSC director; and Steve Rumrill, shellfish program leader with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. McKinley Smith, Reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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Zachary Steele has never deployed with the Oregon Army National Guard, but many of his fellow soldiers have, and he knows the heartache they experience while being away from family and friends for months. He knows staying connected with loved ones is important to morale during a deployment, so he is doing his part to help facilitate those connections. Steele is collecting gently used cellphones at his Salem business for the national nonprofit Cell Phones for Soldiers, which provides cost-free communication services to active-duty military members and veterans. The organization was founded in 2004 by Robbie and Brittany Bergquist, then 12 and 13 years old, with just $21. It relies on generous donors for cash contributions and funds raised by the recycling of used cellphones. “We all have old cellphones sitting in a drawer or cupboard somewhere,” said Steele, who opened Steele Insurance Agency in February. “It’s the least I can do to help these guys.” He’s right. Many of us do have old cellphones that could be donated to this cause. The average American buys a new cellphone every 18 to 24 months, and according to the Environmental Protection Agency we discard 100 million to 125 million cellphones each year. Nearly 100 percent of a cell-
phone’s components are recyclable, yet only an estimated 20 percent of those discarded are recycled each year. Steele’s goal is to collect 100 cellphones by the end of July. He officially launched the project this month, and there’s a promotional poster in the window of his office on State Street and a collection box just inside the front door. For every donated phone valued at $5, Cell Phones for Soldiers is able to provide 2.5 hours of free talk time to American troops. Collecting 100 phones would translate into 250 hours of free talk time. “That’s a lot of hours to send overseas,” said Steele, who joined the Oregon National Guard in 2009 and is a member of the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry based in La Grande. “Why not let these soldiers get that phoning time so they can get away from the daily grind?” There’s even a chance those precious minutes will wind up in the hands of Oregon National Guard troops. About 865 soldiers with the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team are in the process of deploying to Afghanistan to provide security and support for military facilities in Kabul and the southwestern portion of the country. An additional 180 or so with the 234th Engineer Company are headed to Kuwait to work on construction projects at military facilities.
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It’s not every day that Applegate archaeologist Chelsea Rose gets to butcher a bison using primitive stone tools. In 2012, Rose, an adjunct faculty member with Southern Oregon University’s Laboratory of Anthropology, was at a bison kill site in Badger Hole, Okla., where she and a small team of veteran archaeologists, excavators and geophysicists joined local researchers to uncover the historical secrets buried there. Badger Hole was one of four places the team visited while filming the second season of the PBS series “Time Team America,” produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The show was filmed during summer 2012, and the season debuted June 16 on OPB, garnering “really great ratings,” said Kelsey Wallace, an OPB spokeswoman. “Time Team America” will air nationwide on PBS in August. “It’s part archaeology show and part reality show, and that’s what makes it dramatic and exciting,” Wallace said, adding that Rose helped carry the show with her “fun, charismatic onscreen presence.” The second episode, which aired at 10 p.m. Monday, details the team’s work in Badger Hole, where members excavated a bed of bison bones buried about 10 feet beneath the surface in a canyon where, 10,000 years ago, American Indians would trap the bison, Rose explained. This species of bison has long been extinct and was about 20 percent larger than the bison living today, she said. “These animals were so large they had to be processed on site,” she explained. “(The Indians) would butcher them and take the meat but leave the bones.” To better understand this experience, a team member killed a bison, donated by the local Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, and the whole
team participated in harvesting the meat using only stone tools. “We literally tried to replicate what had happened 10,000 ago,” Rose said. “You may think of a rock as a not very effective tool, but it was surprising how sharp it was and how easily you could cut your hand with it.” Rose said they had to butcher “the humongous beast” quickly before the heat and flies could spoil the meat, which was distributed to tribal elders and local community groups, as well as barbecued and enjoyed by everyone working on the site. “It was so fascinating that I didn’t get caught up in the gore of it,” she said. For the season premiere, the crew spent about a week excavating areas of an upscale neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., that in the early 1800s was a 270-acre plantation where Josiah Henson was enslaved. Henson was a slave for about 40 years before he escaped to Canada and later produced an autobiography, published in 1849. His account inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” “We went to that site to see if we could learn more about Josiah Henson,” Rose said, adding that they found several preserved artifacts beneath the floorboards of an existing room. At Camp Lawton in Georgia, they helped a group from Georgia Southern University map a Confederate Army stockade, built in 1864, and look for the compound’s magazine, officer quarters, prison and guard towers, Rose said. “Some of the coolest things we found there were inside the wall where the prisoners were kept,” she said. “We found a picture frame that someone probably had on them to remember their wife or family during the war.” In Colorado, the team filmed on the site of a 1,200-year-old, pre-Pueblo village, where they located pit houses and stone mortars used to grind plants, as well as pieces of ceramic vessels. Rose said the artifacts recovered there reflect a transition from “a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural lifestyle.” “Sometimes with archaeology the most exciting finds aren’t very interesting to look at,” she said. “There’s no ruby statues or anything, but if you know the exact context of an artifact, even the most humble artifact has a really big story to tell.” Rose was recommended by a friend for a role in Season 1 of “Time Team America,” filmed in 2008, and was excited to be invited back for the second season. “My main role was to coordinate the filming with the archaeology that was happening,” she said. “I had to make sure the film crews were near as things were being found or as artifacts were being brought up. “Nothing on the show was faked,” she said. Throughout the course of the show, the team had to deal with temperatures in the upper 90s, as well as tornadoes, escaped prisoners, extreme humidity and a river full of alligators, deadly snakes and snapping turtles. But Rose didn’t seem to mind any of that. “Being an archaeologist, you have to have an adventurous spirit,” she said. “It’s not uncommon for me to have to worry about scorpions, snakes or grizzly bears, but alligators was a first.”
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Three former University of Oregon basketball players have been banned from the university for at least four years after a UO investigation found them responsible for sexual misconduct, the university confirmed Monday. The players — Damyean Dotson, 19, Dominic Artis, 19, and Brandon Austin, 18 — will be suspended from the UO for a minimum of four years, university spokeswoman Julie Brown said. The suspension could last up to 10 years. John Clune, a high-profile Colorado lawyer who represented the 18-year-old victim, told The Register-Guard on Monday that the woman is “relieved to hear the outcome.� He did not return several phone calls or email messages seeking further comment. The victim said in a statement released earlier this month that she plans to finish her degree at the UO. University officials dismissed the basketball players from the team in May soon after Eugene police released a 24-page police report detailing an alleged series of sexual assaults on March 9. Police investigated the players on a first-degree rape suspicion. The victim said the three players forced her to have sex with them after a party in a home on the 1200 block of East 22nd Avenue. The players told police the sexual activity was consensual. Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner declined in April to charge the players, citing lack of evidence. Although the players were
not criminally charged, federal determining a conduct violalaw requires the university to tion would act to contradict conduct its own investigation. those declarations, no matDuring the 2012-13 school ter how strong the evidence year, seven UO students were showing consent,� Veralrud accused of sexual misconduct said. “Even the many who are under the university’s student conduct code. Of those, six offended by the nature of students were found respon- the sexual activity should sible, according to informa- agree that the consent issue tion received through a public is separate and should be reviewed fairly and impartialrecords request. The three basketball play- ly,� Veralrud said. “That could ers’ Eugene attorneys are Greg not happen in this setting.� During the minimum fourVeralrud, representing Artis; Laura Fine Moro, representing year suspension, the players Austin; and Shaun McCrea, are not allowed to participate in any university-sponsored representing Dotson. In a statement released activity or allowed to live on Monday night on behalf of all university property, according to the student three players, conduct code. Veralrud said The playhe is not sur“Even the many ers can transprised by the who are offended by fer to another suspensions, university, even though the nature of Brown said. a “wealth of the sexual activity Carol evidence� should agree that Stabile, direcsupports the claim that the consent issue is tor of the UO’s Center the sex was separate and should for the Study consensual. of Women in Veralrud be reviewed fairly Society, said said UO and impartially. suspending President Veralrud said. That the players Michael was the right Gottfredson, could not happen thing to do. “without in this setting. “It’s keephearing or ing students effort to safe, so bravo impartially Greg Veralrud for t h a t ,� review facts Attorney, representing Artis Stabile said. first, disThe sanctions, however, missed the students from the (basketball) team, all but don’t address questions that Stabile and other members of declaring them guilty.� Veralrud said Gottfredson’s the UO Coalition to End Sexual decision to dismiss the play- Violence — a group of dozens ers from the team “surely of professors and graduate dictated� the investigation’s students — have been asking the university, Stabile said. outcome. “It’s unrealistic to expect The coalition is concerned that the subordinates respon- about the university’s decision sible for both alleging and to allow Austin — who was suspended from Providence College’s basketball team in November after being investigated for sexual assault in Rhode Island — to play for the Ducks, Stabile said. “How did this happen? Buyer Beware How did he come here?� The Oregon State University Stabile asked. “There are Daily Barometer assumes no liability for ad content or response. still questions that remain Ads that appear too good unanswered.� to be true, probably are. Some students and proRespond at your own risk. fessors have criticized UO officials for declining to
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ollowing Craig Robinson’s firing and prior to Wayne Tinkle’s hiring, the Oregon State men’s basketball program had a bleak outlook. Regardless of who was coaching the team, the 2014-15 season was setting up to be a bad one. The Beavers lost their top five scorers — Roberto Nelson, Devon Collier, Angus Brandt, Eric Moreland and Hallice Cooke — and all but one starter. The returning roster has little experience and has yet to provide much production. Junior forward Langston MorrisWalker leads Oregon State’s returning players in points at 4.0 per game, followed by sophomore guard Malcolm Duvivier at 3.1. With sophomore guard Hallice Cooke transferring to Iowa State, the Beavers are left with just one returning guard (Duvivier) and no one who has proven they can get their own shot offensively. Oregon State was shaky in Pac-12 play a year ago, going 8-10, and that was with three proven seniors and its defensive stopper in Moreland. To make matters worse, the timing of Robinson’s firing meant athletic director Bob De Carolis had little time to find a replacement and little time for that replacement to recruit an incoming class. All of this added together to produce a program in shambles, made worse by the fact that the three players Robinson recruited were unsure if they wanted to go to a school without a coach. Then the Beavers made their hiring — Wayne Tinkle, a name that doesn’t jump off the page initially. Though Beaver Nation might have been a little skeptical of Tinkle right off
Men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle rounds out his staff with 2 more hirings
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Oregon State men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle addresses the media May 21 in Gill Coliseum. Tinkle is taking over for former head coach Craig Robinson. the bat, it’s becoming clear that he just might be the perfect man for the job. He’s already proven he’s likeable and his track record at Montana is a good one — three Big Sky titles and three NCAA Tournament appearances in eight seasons. By all accounts, Oregon State’s returning roster is already 100 percent behind their new leader. While it was a promising start, it still didn’t seem as though hiring him would lead to immediate success. The decision didn’t change OSU’s personnel going into next year nor the fact that OSU will have to play in one of the nation’s better conferences. But Tinkle went a step further in bolstering the optimism of Oregon State fans with his excellent staff selecjustin quinn | THE DAILY BAROMETER tions. He has formed his entire crew, Junior forward Langston Morris-Walker holds sophomore guard Malcolm Duvivier back against Washington State Feb. 20 in Gill Coliseum. See KILSTROM | page 6
Oregon State men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle made two hirings this past week, adding Stephen Thompson and Kurt Paulson to his staff as assistant coaches. Thompson joins Tinkle and the Beavers after spending the past nine seasons as the head coach of Cal StateLos Angeles. Thompson, 45, is known as one of the best college basketball players in the history of Syracuse University. There, Thompson qualified for the NCAA Tournament four times and has the second-highest field goal percentage in the tournament’s history behind only NBA Hall-of-famer Bill Walton. He is second all-time at Syracuse with 144 games played and seventh in scoring with 1,956 points. Thompson also played professionally in the NBA, CBA, ABA and oversees, and was an assistant coach at Cal State L.A. for three years before taking over as head coach. “We are really excited to be adding Coach Thompson to the staff,” Tinkle said in a press release. “He’s another guy who played at a high level and has coached at a high level. “He’s really good on the floor working out the players. He brings credibility because of his background at Syracuse and at the professional levels.” Thompson went 126-120 as the head coach at Cal State L.A. where his teams regular ranked at or near the top of Division II in scoring defense and fieldgoal percentage defense each season. He led the Golden Eagles to the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Tournament for five consecutive seasons from 2010-2014, his team finishing with a winning record in every single one of his final four seasons. “It is a great opportunity to join the Oregon State basketball staff,” See COACHING STAFF | page 6
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Oregon State junior pitcher Andrew Moore is among 29 of the country’s
top collegiate underclassmen vying for one of 24 roster spots on the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. Moore earned a tryout following a sophomore season in which he went 6-5 with a 2.77 earned run average as a part of arguably the best starting rotation in college baseball alongside Jace Fry and Ben Wetzler.
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Oregon State pitcher Andrew Moore watches a pitch against Wright State March 1 in Goss Stadium.
The team is set to embark on a summer tour that will feature “friendship series” against Chinese Taipei and Japan along with international trips to Honkbal Week in Haarlem, the Netherlands and a five-game series in Cuba. 10 players have already been guaranteed roster spots — Moore is not one of them — leaving 14 available slots for the remaining 19 players. Moore did not play in the team’s first live action of the summer against the Catawba Valley Stars on Saturday, but started against the Coastal Plain League Select squad the following day. Team USA got the victory to move to 2-0 behind a 4-2 decision. Moore picked up the victory, striking out three batters and allowing one run on four hits in three innings of work. Moore and Team USA will continue its Red, White and Blue Tour with a seven-game road trip beginning later this week. Arizona State pitcher Ryan Burr, UCLA pitcher Jake Lemoine and Arizona infielder Kevin Newman are the only other Pac-12 players on Team USA’s roster. The Daily Barometer On Twitter @barosports sports@dailybarometer.com
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Oregon State sophomore forward Gabriella Hanson has begun preparation for the U20 Women’s National Team as a member of Sweden’s national basketball team. Hanson’s first game is against Ukraine July 3 in Lisbon, Portugal. Sweden is in Group C alongside Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. It’s the fourth consecutive summer Hanson has played for Sweden. From Orange County, Calif., Hanson is eligible to play for Sweden because her father was born and raised in the country. Last summer, Hanson led Sweden to an eighth-place finish at the FIBA U18 European Championship for Women in Croatia. She led the country in rebounds (7.2 per game), assists (2.4) and steals (2.4) during the 10-day tournament. At the European Championships Hanson finished 12th overall in rebounding, seventh in steals and 13th in assists while playing 27.2 minutes per contest. At the FIBA U18 Women’s European Championships in Romania in 2012, Hanson averaged 9.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists in eight games. In nine games at the FIBA U16 European Championships in 2011, she was second on Sweden in points (10.6) and rebounds (7.4) and first in assists (2.3) and steals (2.4). Last season for Oregon State Hanson was a Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention averaging 9.7 points per game while shooting a league-best 48.1 percent from 3-point range in conference play. She was one of the key pieces to Oregon State’s historic run to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Hanson is one of three OSU’s women’s basketball players playing for national teams this summer, as juniors Ruth Hamblin and Jamie Weisner are in camp with the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team right now. The Daily Barometer
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Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob De Carolis announced June 18 that Mark Massari has been hired as OSU’s new Deputy Athletics Director. It’s Massari’s second tenure at Oregon State after spending the past six years as Director of Athletics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Massari is expected to oversee external affairs, strategic planning, business and fan development efforts and will serve as the department’s chief marketing and revenue officer. “We are fortunate to have an individual as experienced as Mark return to our cam-
pus,” De Carolis said in a press release. “He brings a wealth of knowledge to our program that will help us expand our external operations. His knowledge of our University and athletics program is also an added plus as we continue to engage Beaver Nation for future years.” Massari served several roles in his first tenure at Oregon State. As the Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs, Massari was responsible for overseeing a $115 million capital campaign that included the “Raising Reser” football facility expansions among other projects. During the past six years Massari created the first ever donor charitable program at UCSB, which included the first $1 million gift to the women’s program and the single largest gift in university history to athletics,$2 million for
scholarships. A native of Napa, Calif., and former student-athlete at Sacramento State University, Massari said he was excited about his second go-around at Oregon State. “I am incredibly thankful for this opportunity and I look forward to serving President (Ed) Ray, Bob (De Carolis), the OSU community and the coaches, staff and student athletes,” Massari said. “My mission is to grow our programs with energy and enthusiasm with a high spirit of collaboration. “We will be fan-first in our approach and open to new ways to build our base while always representing the values and traditions Beaver Nation cherishes in our University and athletics programs.” The Daily Barometer
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Michael Conforto was named a First-team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association last week, making him the first player in Oregon State history to become a consensus First-Team All-American. Conforto was the Pac-12 Player of the Year for the second-straight year. He batted .345 for the Beavers, leading the Pac-12 in slugging percentage (.547), on-base percentage (.504), walks (55) and runs scored (52). He was also second in runs batted in (56), third in home runs (seven) and doubles (16), fourth in total bases (111) and seventh in hits (70). Conforto was joined by pitcher Jace Fry on the first team while pitcher Ben Wetzler was honored as a second-team selection. Dylan Davis, meanwhile, was named a second-team all-region selection.
KILSTROM n Continued from page 5 composed of proven coaches who bring different talents to the table. His two latest hirings, Stephen Thompson and Kurt Paulson, bring unique qualities to Oregon State. Paulson is young, energetic and proved himself useful to Tinkle at Montana. Thompson is an all-time NCAA great who can connect to players because of his own past success as a player. Not to mention the fact that both Tinkle and Thompson have sons who are highly touted recruits and could possibly attend Oregon State in a years’ time. While the Beavers still face many questions on the offensive end of the ball, there’s a lot of promise here defensively. Tinkle has said from the get-go that he is a defensive minded coach and Thompson was known for great defensive teams during his nine-year stint as the head coach at Cal State-
All four Beavers were honored after being selected by various teams in the 2014 MLB Draft. Conforto went 10th overall to the New York Mets while Fry and Davis were both third round selections — Fry is going to the Chicago White Sox and Davis to the San Francisco Giants. Wetzler was a ninth round selection by the Florida Marlins. Fry finished the year with an 11-2 record and 1.80 earned run average. He threw 120 1/3 innings in his junior season and was named the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year. Wetzler finished his senior campaign with 12 wins and the lowest ERA in the nation at 0.78; a mark that was third-lowest in Pac-12 history and the best mark in NCAA Division I play in nearly 35 years. All four players have signed with their respective MLB teams. The Daily Barometer On Twitter @barosports sports@dailybarometer.com
Los Angeles. It’s still likely that Oregon State will be worse than its 8-10 Pac-12 record from a year ago, but if the Beavers have anything it’s athletes who are capable of playing good defense. Morris-Walker, Duvivier, center Daniel Gomis and guard/ forward Victor Robins are players considered prime athletes, and have shown flashes of defensive ability. If Tinkle can get his players to buy into defense — the type of basketball the Chicago Bulls play under Tom Thibodeau, for example — then OSU should at least be competitive. It remains to be seen if the Beavers will be able to get any kind of scoring, but there’s no reason Tinkle and his staff can’t have an instant impact on the defensive end. Under Robinson the Beavers were known for a relatively high-scoring offense, but were always inconsistent on the defensive end, going back and forth between a 1-3-1 zone and
COACHING STAFF n Continued from page 5 Thompson said. “Working for Coach Tinkle, who is a great coach and human being will be an honor. I look forward to assisting Coach Tinkle as he leads Oregon State men’s basketball to the top of the Pac-12.” A specific area Tinkle hopes Thompson can help out with is in recruiting. Having grown up in southern California and a Crenshaw High School graduate in Los Angeles, Thompson has strong ties to the state of California. “He has an unbelievable reputation in Southern California,” Tinkle said. “He’s another very high character guy with great energy and a lot of good recruiting contacts.” Kurt Paulson, meanwhile, is a familiar part of Tinkle’s past having coached at Montana under Tinkle the past three seasons. Paulson was officially introduced as Oregon State’s director of basketball operations Monday. Paulson, 31, spent last season at Montana after
some man-to-man. Opponents averaged 75.6 points per game against OSU last year, toward the bottom half of the conference, but that number could improve quickly under Tinkle. It’s not to say that Oregon State will suddenly become a great defensive team right out of the gate; defense is something that takes great communication and time for team chemistry to form. But if Tinkle has shown anything in his short tenure at Oregon State it’s that he’s a good motivator and his team will at least have an improved mindset. With the pieces already in place, there’s no reason to think Oregon State can’t be competitive in the first season postRobinson. There’s a great chance Tinkle and his team will exceed expectations in their first year together. Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com
serving as the head coach of Bigfork High School from 2011-13. Paulson coached for two seasons under Tinkle as a graduate assistant from 2009-10. “Kurt is a great young guy,” Tinkle said in a press release. “He was my grad assistant at Montana, left to go get some experience at the high school level and then was on my staff full time last year. He’s just a young, energetic, enthusiastic and knowledgeable basketball mind.” Paulson said he was happy to join Tinkle’s staff at Oregon State and is excited for the future. “For me, I’m just thrilled to be here,” Paulson said. “I love working for Coach Tinkle and I believe in him. I believe in his vision. He has hired me three different times now so I’m super loyal to him and what he’s doing out here.” Tinkle and his new staff are beginnning preparation for next year. Oregon State finished 16-16 overall and 8-10 in Pac-12 play a year ago under former head coach Craig Robinson. The Daily Barometer
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Dumpster diving means free goodies for poor students C ollege towns have a lot to offer: College, for example. They also offer a certain degree of
culture. Corvallis is no different. When there’s a surplus of empty alcohol bottles from the previous night’s rager overflowing the recycling bins, a constant group of collectors can be observed waiting to take that coveted treasure away to deposit for five cents apiece. As the old adage goes “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Corvallis is home to a variety of people from all walks of life, and they all do things their own way. Even though it’s against the law to “dumpster dive,” that doesn’t stop someone like Corvallis’ Christine Dashiell, who is a part-time volunteer at Oregon State’s Campus Recycling. She enjoys her hobby of combing through the tops of dumpsters with her kids, looking for anything she can resell or even donate.
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Dashiell doesn’t let anything go to waste, not working iPods or even packaged and untouched food. In fact, she has this hobby because she “hates waste.” Fair enough. The “Black Friday” of dumpster diving is when students move at the end of the academic year. This is when Dashiell really rakes in the good stuff. Let’s be honest: By the end of the year college kids are just trying to survive living with roommates. The beneficiaries of these oversights are non-profit organizations along with Dashiell’s friends and family. She tries to
get as many of her friends as possible involved, because she thinks it’s an extremely fun — and efficient — hobby. But, don’t forget your hand sanitizer. Her skill at dumpster diving rivals that of other collectors across Oregon. However, Portland takes it to a whole new level and has a name for some of those who follow the dumpster diving scene: Freegans. These people eat all of their food from dumpsters in order to sustain a cost-efficient budget. While this sounds extreme, it goes back to the original point Dashiell makes. She believes the act of recycling and donating unwanted items should be more of a concern for the students at OSU. Dashiell wants to increase outreach so everyone can be more aware of wastefulness. While I think freeganism is a little extreme, Dashiell makes some great points. I’m somewhere in the middle
when it comes to going through the garbage to find goodies. It should be noted that if I can find a working iPod, and resell for a great profit, I’m in. College kids are usually strapped for cash from university fees and rental living. That doesn’t factor in soul-crushing student loans. Dumpster diving isn’t a new idea, it pops up across the country and is extremely popular in larger cities. Though it may not be for everyone, Dashiell says “there are people who could really use this stuff.” Not only could engaging in this practice earn you money, but it could make your community better as a result. That doesn’t seem so extreme to me at all. 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 managing@dailybarometer.com.
K-12 sex education keeps failing students, needs reform T his fall term, I will be entering my 20th year of teaching human sexuality at Oregon State University. Part of what got me interested in teaching this topic was realizing how lousy my own sex education was when I was growing up. I had the “period” film in fourth grade, I think. The girls had to watch the film while the boys got to go outside and play. Excuse me? How is that fair? First of all, I would have preferred to be outside playing. More importantly though was the fact that someone — with very
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would likely spend most of their adult lives having sex with, living with and trying to conceive with menstruating women. I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe that is why the majority of men in my generation took very little interest in birth control — either the purchasing of it, the use of it or even the understanding of it — because no one ever told them, “Hey, you should know this, you should care about this.” News flash: If it weren’t for menstruation, or at least the menstrual cycle,
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as it is intricately connected to the ovulatory cycle, none of us would be here. So maybe the boys should have watched that stupid period film too. But back to my earlier experiences with sex education: I learned nothing of importance regarding sex education between fourth and 10th grade. In 10th grade, I had one week in my health class devoted to sex education. It was taught by the football coach. Needless to say, he was horrified to cover that week of information. He had giant blackboard-size drawings of the male and female sexual anatomy. On the first day, he used these drawings to give us a lesson in plumbing. For the remaining four days, we sat at our desks and read from the textbook. It is nothing short of a miracle that I made it to the place I am now: Providing sex education for more than a thousand OSU students each year. My experience teaching the class has taught me that K-12 students still aren’t getting an adequate sex education. Many of my students tell me that they wish they had learned in middle or high school what they learn in my class. For more than a decade, the painfully misinformed federal government supported abstinence-only sex education, despite there being no evidence that these programs did anything to reduce teen pregnancy rates, reduce teen initiation of sexual activity or reduce the rates of teen transmission of STDs/STIs. Beginning in 1998, $50 million a year of federal funds were devoted to encouraging school districts to adopt abstinence-only programs. By 2007, that funding rose to $176 million a year. During those nine years, the federal government spent more than $1.5 billion on programs that were unproven and ineffective. From 2007 to 2010, the government was still dumping more than $100 million a year into these programs, while simultaneously trying to figure out what might work better. In 2010, two evidence-based programs were initiated in an effort to reduce teen pregnancy and increase the use of contraceptives. Evidence-based programs are just that: Programs backed up by evidence that proves they work. These programs are not abstinencebased, but rather comprehensive sexuality education programs, which I’ll talk more about next week. But, finally and thankfully, we are taking a step in the right direction. t Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and faculty member in the college
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