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Beaver Nation Celebration starts year with bang Students crowd into Goss stadium for music, food, fireworks as Beaver Nation Celebration welcomes students to OSU
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tudents used glow sticks to form a giant version of the state of Oregon before being treated to Papa John’s pizza and a fireworks display during the Beaver Nation Celebration Friday, Oct. 10. The Oregon State University relations and marketing department hosted the event. Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing, helped put the celebration together. He said he hoped it would promote student involvement by “inspiring them to join the Beaver Nation”. See CELEBRATION | page 4
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St. Anne’s 11th Annual Greek Food Fest features record-breaking crowd, food, music, dancing, church tours during weekend
Orthodox Church welcomed a record-breaking crowd to their 11th Annual Greek Food Fest. The festival took place Saturday, Oct. 11 and Sunday, Oct. 12 at 6000 NE Elliott Circle in Corvallis. Best known for its traditional Greek food, the celebration also included performances by PortlandBy Abigail Erickson based music group “The Athenians” and traditional THE DAILY BAROMETER dancing. Additionally, church tours were given The smell of roasting food and the sound of every hour. Reader Philip, a member of the church for 20 music permeated the air as parishioners of St. Anne years, estimated Saturday’s crowd alone to be in the thousands, with even more Sunday. “We keep getting discovered,” Philip said, “so it’s really become more of a community event now.” Philip added that usually there is a football game the same weekend as the festival, but with no games scheduled for Saturday or Sunday, the crowd is even bigger this year. Father Stephen Soot, the priest at St. Anne, said that Saturday alone brought in more revenue than the entire weekend last year. “I am most proud of my people,” Soot said. “An event like this requires a lot of effort, and they do Nicki Silva | THE DAILY BAROMETER this because they love the Terra Bunn paints a Batman mask for Corbin Miller during Sunday church and the community. afternoon of St. Anne’s 11th Annual Greek Food Fest. It’s a great opportunity to n
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share our love with our neighbors and each other.” Brian Grimm, a parishioner at the church and a sophomore in anthropology at University of Oregon, was also impressed with the turnout this year. “This is my third year working at Greek Fest,” Grimm said. “I love getting out and talking to people during the festival, and the food is great too.”
Oregon State University is part of an expansive project to understand climate change. Leading the way for Oregon and OSU is Philip Mote, an atmospheric scientist and professor at OSU, as well as head of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute. In 2008, Oregon state legislature created the OCCRI. Mote was chosen as the director of the fledgling organization and moved from Seattle to Corvallis to build the institution from the ground up. The institute is based at OSU, but also includes researchers from University of Washington, University of Idaho, University of Oregon and Southern Oregon University. “Our overall vision is to be the Northwest’s climate knowledge net-
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Saturday, Oct. 11 Key theft at OSU Beaver Store An OSU student contacted university dispatch to report his keys had been stolen from the OSU Beaver Store Sept. 26. The student explained that he left his FIFA World Cup 2010 lanyard on a table at the store, forgot to pick them up and when he returned, the keys were missing. After viewing security videos, the student and OSU Beaver Store employees saw footage of a white woman picking up the keys shortly after the student had set them down. The keys have not yet been turned in to OSU Beaver Store staff or to campus lost and found services. Construction zone trespassing The manager of Knight Vision Security
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PORTLAND — As authorities work to quell fear and panic in the wake of the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States, Pacific University students at the Hillsboro campus are treating the public health scare as an opportunity to learn and teach others about the deadly virus. Chatter about the disease spiked across the nation after doctors confirmed last week that a man in Texas had Ebola. That patient, Thomas Eric Duncan — who contracted the virus in Liberia and was treated at a Dallas hospital — died Wednesday morning, Oct. 8. Questions the local students are considering include: How are medical professionals to handle such an epidemic? What questions would they ask to make an accurate assessment in patients? How is the virus spread? What does the public need to know? Pacific students studying to become physician assistants — professionals who practice medicine under the supervi-
sion of a licensed physician — have been discussing those questions for the last several months. “We prepare them as providers. It’s a serious illness; we aren’t taking it lightly,” said Elizabeth Crawford, a professor of physician assistant studies, part of Pacific’s College of Health Professions in downtown Hillsboro. “But it’s a known entity. We expect there to be a few cases in the U.S., but are confident it won’t take hold. I’m more concerned about influenza.” Pacific faculty members are training students to recognize signs of the virus and to educate others about symptoms and proper safeguards. Students volunteer in Hillsboro and Portland and rotate through a variety of medical settings during their enrollment. “PA students are participating in the education of the public through their roles in clinical rotations and encounters,” Crawford said. In Africa — where the virus has spread through Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, kill-
ing more than 3,500 people — a lack of hygiene, healthy food and medical supplies are challenges. Also missing is an integrated health care system, Crawford pointed out. It’s common in African cultures for individuals to attribute the spread of disease to spiritual beliefs and fate, Crawford added. In addition, when people take ill, it’s generally accepted their family members will care for them in their homes, often without masks, gloves or protective equipment — and in close quarters. Contrasting American practices are why Crawford and her students are not panicking. To contract Ebola, bodily fluids such as blood and saliva from a contagious Ebola patient would need to come in contact with a healthy person’s mucus membranes or cut in the skin, Crawford said. “The virus doesn’t survive well outside the body,” she explained. Although Pacific’s health professions students and faculty organize several trips to foreign countries each year to provide
health care to under-served populations, Crawford said Pacific won’t be sending anyone to Africa, because it would interfere with the school year. Still, “I would go in a heartbeat,” Crawford said, as would many of her students. It’s going to take time to control the spread of Ebola in Africa, said Crawford, even with aid from other countries. The biggest contribution Americans can make to help curb the spread of Ebola is a financial one to a reputable organization, said Crawford, who suggested Medical Teams International, Partners in Health and International Medical Relief. Donating money allows aid teams to purchase supplies from local economies, which have been devastated by the disease as working-age people fall ill and tourism plummets, Crawford said. The more correct information about Ebola that’s out there the better, said Crawford, who encourages individuals to stay in contact with their primary care physician to get answers to questions or concerns.
Trips to cost Lane County taxpayers $60,000 By Christian Hill
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EUGENE — Nearly two dozen public employees and board directors for two Lane County agencies will fly to Houston and Charlotte, N.C., this weekend for their respective trade groups’ flagship annual conventions. As in prior years, officials with Lane Transit District and the Willamalane Park and Recreation District say they’ll use the trips for training. But this year’s travel has added significance in two ways. First, officials from both public agencies look to bring home some hardware. LTD will receive its award after the American Public Transportation Association named it the best midsize transit agency in North America. Willamalane is one of four finalists to be named best managed park system in the United States for its size. It will learn at the Charlotte convention whether it has won the top award from the National Park and ¬Recreation Association. Second, both agencies acknowledge their contingents to the conventions are larger and more costly than in prior years. The estimated combined cost to taxpayers: nearly $60,000 for airfare, lodging, registration fees and per-diem expenses for the employees, according to documents obtained by The Register-Guard through public records requests. Adding to the tab: The nearly two dozen employees will be receiving their normal pay for their time at the conventions. Officials for both agencies maintain the larger contingents are being driven by unique circumstances. “They would have gone to this conference whether we were getting the award or not,” said LTD General Manager Ron Kilcoyne, who is traveling to the event, along with 13 other LTD employees. LTD typically sends a few people to the American Public Transportation Association annual meeting each year, Kilcoyne said. Last year, for example, when APTA held its annual meeting in Chicago, the transit agency sent Kilcoyne, two board directors
and another employee, the general manager said. In 2011, the last time an exposition was held in connection to the annual meeting, the agency sent Kilcoyne, three board members and one or two employees to New Orleans. Kilcoyne, an industry veteran who’s been at LTD’s helm for three years, said he’s missed the event only twice since 1992. This time around, LTD is sending Kilcoyne and 13 of its managers to Houston for the annual meeting and exposition, which runs from today through Wednesday. The travel approval vouchers obtained by the newspaper show the total cost at $41,257, averaging nearly $3,000 for each employee. The registration fee for each employee is $800. The actual cost of the trip won’t be known until the managers return from their trip. LTD points to new hires for larger contingent Kilcoyne said the larger contingent is due mainly to a string of new management hires who need training. In the past year, LTD lost 10 managers to retirement, including its chief accountant, maintenance director, and managers for purchasing, security and service planning. LTD has about 300 total employees. Many of the new hires don’t come from a transit background, and the meeting offers them insight into the state of the industry, Kilcoyne said. It features training sessions on finance, innovation, planning and safety. No board directors will attend this year. “Over the course of this year, we will not be spending more on training for staff then we normally do,” Kilcoyne said. “This created an opportunity to give a number of people exposure that they couldn’t get at other venues.” LTD gradually has increased its travel and training spending in recent years. LTD estimated it spent $184,200 on travel and training for individual departments in the 2013-14 fiscal year, up from $159,934 two years earlier, according to its current-year budget. It has budgeted $249,400 for those expenses for the current fiscal year, but the actual expenses have typically come in lower than budgeted.
The exposition, which occurs every three years, is important because vendors show off their new wares to public transit managers, Kilcoyne said. The agency is looking to make significant capital investments in the future, Kilcoyne said. LTD is seeking to upgrade its fare system so riders can pay using a smartphone or smart card. The agency also looks to replace its EmX ticket vending machines as the existing ones reach the end of their useful life, Kilcoyne said, and they’ll install new ones for the new west Eugene line, which begins construction within the next month or so. LTD also seeks to spend more on security systems at its transit stations and on its buses. And long term, it would like its fleet of buses to be allelectric; it has a grant application pending to convert five of its hybrid gas-electric buses to all-electric, Kilcoyne said. Willamalane says more are traveling to build skills Willamalane, meanwhile, will send nine people to Charlotte: four managers, including Superintendent Bob Keefer, three board members and two employees. The total estimated cost is $18,611, averaging $2,067, according to documents obtained by the newspaper. The registration fee ranged between $369 and $534; it was waived for two employees. A fourth board member canceled in August. Keefer’s wife is accompanying him on the trip, but the couple are paying for her expenses. Willamalane sent a total of five employees and board members to the conventions in 2011 and 2013. It sent seven people to the event in 2012. Willamalane has about 300 employees, including seasonal workers. This year’s convention and exposition runs Tuesday through Thursday. Willamalane spokesman Bill Kunerth said the larger contingent allows employee who hadn’t attended before to improve their skills. The trip will aid Willamalane’s planning for Dorris Ranch and the Thurston Hills natural area, a nearly 700-acre tract the district recently finished acquiring, Kunerth said.
Calendar Monday, Oct. 13 Events Terra Magazine, 6-8pm, Old World Deli, 341 2nd St. Science Pub: The Dharma in DNA: Intersections of Buddhism and Science, by Dee Denver, OSU College of Science. Counseling & Psychological Services, 11am-1pm, MU Quad. Join us in a relaxing and rejuvenating guided meditation during a break between classes.
Tuesday, Oct. 14 Events Counseling & Psychological Services, 6-8pm, MU 208. Miss Representation Film Screening. A film that explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.
Wednesday, Oct. 15 Speakers Socratic Club, 7pm, Milam Auditorium. A debate entitled, “Did Jesus Claim to be God?” between scholars Dr. Craig Blomberg & Dr. Carl Stecher. All debates are free and open to the public.
Events Counseling & Psychological Services, 11am-1pm, MU Quad. Free Photo Booth. Reduce your stress and take time to be social by taking pictures with silly props. Counseling & Psychological Services, 7pm, meet at the Gazebo in Central Park. Finding the Light: A Suicide Awareness and Prevention Walk. An event to raise awareness, support our families and friends and connect with each other. Career Services, 11am-3pm, MU Quad. Cocoa in the Quad. Learn more about the upcoming Career Fair, what you can do to prepare, and enjoy some cocoa! Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority Inc., 11am-2pm, MU Quad. National Latinos Aids Awareness Day. Help raise AIDS awareness in the community. Free testing will also be provided 11-1.
Thursday, Oct. 16 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Religion without clergy. - A discussion.
Events Counseling & Psychological Services, Noon-1:30pm, MU 206. Listening Tables. Engage in conversation about mental health care in our community. Campus Ambassadors,7:30-9pm, First Baptist Church of Corvallis. Come enjoy teaching, worship and fellowship in the Chrisian college community.
Friday, Oct. 17 Events Counseling & Psychological Services, 3-5pm, MU Quad. Be Well 5K and Fair. Get some exercise in with the OSU community and check out a demonstration on biofeedback. Omani Students Association, 6-7:30pm, MU Lounge. Omani Womnan’s Day “Enjoy the Omani Woman’s gallery and the free sweets and drinks.” Free event.
Tuesday, Oct. 21 Events Career Services, 2-4pm, MU 206. Speed Mock Interviews. Practice interviewing with Employers & Career Specialists! Bring resume.
Wednesday, Oct. 22 Events Career Services, 11am-4pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. All Majors Career Fair. Don’t forget to get your photo taken at our Linkedin Photo Booth for a professional photo for use on business networking sites.
Correction In the ASOSU graphic, which ran Friday, Oct. 10, two members of the ASOSU House of Representatives were left out: Andrew Futerman and Taylor Barnes. In the “Mural realization of community effort” article, which ran Friday, Oct. 10, it was stated in the article and a photo caption that Esther Rodriguez wrote the piece she read at the mural unveiling. The story Rodriguez read was actually an excerpt of Sandra Cisneros’ book, “The House on Mango Street.” The Daily Barometer regrets these errors.
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CELEBRATION n Continued from page 1 “It’s a gathering, an opportunity for students to come together and get excited about the contributions OSU can make for them,” Clark said. The crowd cheered for the start of the fireworks, and after the finale many people flung their glow sticks onto the field in a huge wave. Bria Robertson and John Martinez, sophomores in mechanical engineering, attended the celebration together after hearing about it from friends. Both of them said it would have been nice to have around when they were freshman. “I think it would have been pretty cool,” Robertson said. “I’m always down for fireworks.” “And I’m always down for pizza,” Martinez added.
Fireworks erupt on the dark canvas of night during the Beaver Nation Celebration Friday.
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Until now, the Beaver Nation has been closely associated with the university’s sports programs. Melody Oldfield, assistant vice president of relations and marketing, said OSU wants to expand the term to include more of the student population. “We want people to understand that we view Beaver Nation as the greater community,” Oldfield said. The celebration was a diversion for students new to the college and still trying to adjust. “We thought it would be nice to have a fun event to welcome new students,” Oldfield said. This is the first time OSU has held the Beaver Nation Celebration, but with enough approval from students, they’re hoping to make it a yearly trend. Chris Correll, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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diction.net to understand climate patterns of the Western U.S. Climateprediction.net is a webwork,” Mote said. “The notion site that allows researchers to use of being (a) climate knowledge the computing power of more network means that we codevelop than 50,000 volunteers’ computknowledge with experts inside and ers to run climate models. Using outside of academia to address so many computers means that thousands of versions of climate climate questions.” models can be run and be used to The OCCRI works with funding come up with a range of plausible agencies, natural resource manag- answers. ers and various state agencies to Doctoral candidate Linnia inform policy makers and understand the region’s climate. The Hawkins is part of this project, OCCRI also hosts two federally- which involves “Understanding funded enterprises: the Climate what makes forests more vulnerImpacts Research Consortium and able to drought and bark beetles.” the Northwest Climate Science Hawkins, a first-year graduate Center. student in atmospheric sciences, “We spend a lot of time inter- is using the computing power to facing with people out in the real a create better understanding of world who are managing natural why forests die. resources and wondering what cliThe project will continue efforts mate is doing to natural resourcto save these forests altogether, es,” Mote said. “Our research is very much informed by real-world according to Hawkins. questions.” Mote said that he was optimistic Not only does the OCCRI work for the future of climate in Oregon. with organizations regionally, but “We are going to face profound some projects span the globe as changes already effecting water, well. One major project Mote shoreline ecosystems. But Oregon has worked on is in partnership is doing its part,” Mote said. with Oxford University. Mote and Katherine Kothen, news reporter other members of the OCCRI are using Oxford’s project climateprenews@dailybarometer.com
Father Stephen Soot gives a tour and informs the public about St. Anne Orthodox Church during the second day of the church’s 11th Annual Greek Food Fest.
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GREEK n Continued from page 1 The menu included dishes such as spanakopita, baklava, roasted lamb and stuffed grape leaves. “We also tried a new dish this year,” Philip said. “Caramelized cinnamon Moroccan chicken.”
This was the third year attending the festival for Michelle Schultz. “I absolutely love the food,” Schultz said. “Anything with lamb is great.” George Voss, associate director of administrative services at Oregon State University Student Health Services, has been to the past five festivals now. “I love the food and the music,”
Voss said, “and my wife loves the dancing.” Philip said people will come and spend hours in the tent eating, socializing and listening to the music. “There’s such a feeling of community here that I can’t get over,” Philip said. “It’s become like a family now.” Abigail Erickson, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com
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Beavers enter double overtime in match against Huskies, ends with draw between both By Brian Rathbone THE DAILY BAROMETER
Ninety minutes and two overtime periods were not enough to decide the matchup between the No. 23- and No. 1-ranked teams in the nation. The match ended in a 1-1 draw between Oregon State and Washington Sunday afternoon in Corvallis. Drama highlighted the game between conference rivals. Eight yellow cards were handed out, and three players — two from Washington and one from OSU — were ejected after receiving red cards. The Beavers (8-3-1, 1-1-1 Pac-12) came out of the gate hungry to knock off the top-ranked Huskies in front of the home crowd. The Beavers put tons of pressure on the Huskies’ (9-1-1, 2-0-1) backline. Sophomore Michael Steele barely missed on two goal opportunities early in the first half.
Senior Khiry Shelton also had a pair of scoring opportunities, including a shot from the top of the 18-yard box, which hit off the crossbar. Despite dominating much of the first half, the game went into half tied, 0-0. “Our attacking players are going to be kicking themselves a little bit,” said head coach Steve Simmons. “They are learning to deal with margins. They were small today; they were small last weekend, and they will be small next weekend.“ Early in the second half, it looked as though the game shifted into the Beavers’ favor when Washington midfielder Cristian Roldan received a red card, which forced the Huskies to play with only 10 men. But the Huskies showed why they are the top team in nation: They were able to score a goal off a deflected shot, which gave the Huskies the lead. Less than 10 minutes later, freshman Jordan Jones scored the equalizing goal off a great pass from senior defender Will Seymore. See MEN’S SOCCER | page 6
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Junior goalkeeper Matt Bersano makes a crucial save early in a double overtime tie versus University of Washington Sunday, Oct. 12 at Paul Lorenz field.
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Of those two sports, she did THE DAILY BAROMETER not really have a passion for It’s been a long road medically for basketball and redshirt sophomore Katelyn Driscoll played mostly on the Oregon State women’s volfor her dad, who leyball team on her journey to play was her coach. Katelyn Driscoll this season, but the real story begins “My dad was long before she even thought about my coach and he wanted me to be a playing in college. Prior to high school in her home- basketball player so bad, but I hated state of Colorado, Driscoll never running. So I was like, ‘nope not considered playing volleyball in any going to do it dad’ and that is why I
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Redshirt sophomore Katelyn Driscoll, outside hitter, makes her long awaited comeback to the court following a long spell on the sidelines injured.
did swimming,” Driscoll said. Driscoll started swimming early and loved it. She had passion for swimming and was considering pursuing it at the post-high school level. “I was a really big swimmer. I actually wanted to go to college for swimming and I could have.” Driscoll got involved with volleyball only at the start of high school when a firnd suggested she go out for the team. “My friend was like, ‘come try out for volleyball’ and I was like, ‘no.’ She was like, ‘just do it’ and I was like, ‘ok,’” Driscoll said. “I wore my basSee DRISCOLL | page 6
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Beavers handed losses against Colorado and Utah, total season losses now 10 total By Brian Rathbone THE DAILY BAROMETER
Over the weekend, the Oregon State women’s soccer team’s loss total reached double digits as it dropped a pair of home games to Colorado and Utah. The Beavers were handed their 10th defeat of the season to Colorado Friday afternoon when Colorado’s Brie Hooks capitalized on an early opportunity one minute into the second half. “I thought it was unfortunate that we allowed the goal,” head coach Linus Rhode said following the loss. “We started the second half flat, and we got punished for it. “ Colorado was able to control the ball most of the game, putting a lot of pressure on the backline of the Oregon State defense, which turned in another strong performance despite giving up the early second-half goal.
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Sophomore defender Kathryn Baker fights for position in a tough loss against Utah Sunday, Oct. 12.
“We just stayed together,” said junior midfielder Gwen Bieck. “Our communication is really good and we have played together for a year now and we are just clicking.” Following the loss to Colorado, the team had a day to regroup before Sunday’s match against the Utes, who, like the Beavers, were looking for their first conference victory. Unfortunately for the Beavers, it was the Utes who walked off victorious, with a 2-0 win. The Utes got on the board three minutes into the game after midfielder Katie Taylor was able to chip the ball into the net. Utah then doubled its score when defender Jill Robison snuck the ball past Oregon State’s keeper Bella Geist in the 61st minute. “(She) had the presence to chip it in and you don’t see that very often,” Rhode said. This season, the Beavers have relied on their backline to keep them close in games, while the offense has been stagnant. In the game against the Utes, OSU put together, arguably, its best offensive game of the season, taking 14 shots and forcing nine corner kicks. But in the end, the team was still unable to put the goal in the back of the net. “It’s definitely frustrating, but we are getting closer each game,” said forward Nikki Faris. “We need to work on getting more numbers into the box.” Despite the frustration of not scoring goals, the team is optimistic it can soon break through and start putting points on the scoreboard. “I think for us we did some really good stuff offensively,” Rhodes said. “We had some really good chances — best we have had in a while.” The loss drops the Beavers to 0-11-3 on the season. They will have a week off before traveling to Seattle to face Washington Oct. 20. Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathbone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
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Laura Schaudt. While unable to top No. 3Washington on Friday night, the Beavers (3-3 Pac12, 13-4 overall) took on Washington State in four sets Saturday night. “That is maybe not the biggest win in By Sarah Kerrigan our program history, but maybe the The Daily Barometer Oregon State women’s volleyball most important one,” said head coach once again comes away 1-1 on the Terry Liskevych. Although WSU is not the top team in weekend in conference play. “1-1 is better than 0-2, but next the conference, this was an emotional week we are going to be 2-0 over the game for the Beavers as WSU was their weekend,” said senior outside hitter See VOLLEYBALL | page 6 n
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“I was lucky to be in the right spot and to flick over the keeper and continue the play and find the netting,” Jones said. Junior goalkeeper Matt Bersano made a couple of diving saves late in the game, which kept Washington from breaking the tie and walking out with a victory. While the players and coaches are pleased to get a draw from the No. 1 team in the country, they feel like they let a victory slip though their fingers. “It’s hard to be pleased and it’s hard to be discouraged,” Bersano said. “We are the 23 seed and they are the 1 seed. Technically, on paper, they are supposed to win it. You have to be happy with the results in that sense, but watching and seeing the stats, we should have walked away with a win and that part is frustrating.” “Absolutely,” Simmons said of letting Washington off the
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The Oregon State football team just wrapped up a bye week, as did the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, allowing last year’s Biletnikoff Award winner, Brandin Cooks, to attend OSU’s football practice. Cooks had a monster performance in last year’s overtime win against the Utes, but senior quarterback Sean Mannion is ready to take on Utah without the budding NFL rookie. “No, Brandin’s moved on to the NFL,” Mannion said. “It’s good to see him and more than anything, catch up with him. He’s been a friend of mine for several years.” The Beavers have an extra week to prepare for a Cooks-less matchup with the Utes in Reser Stadium. Both Beaver bye weeks this season were scheduled to coincide with the off weeks of their next opponent. San Diego State had the same two-week preparation before playing OSU and Utah has 12 days, just like the Beavers. OSU did not have a bye before playing USC, which had two weeks in Los Angeles before the Beavers arrived. USC won that game, 35-10. With the extra time before Utah, the Beavers can focus on the necessary improvements, but also the positive aspects that need to remain constant. One of the most important storylines this year has been the development of a fragile — but dangerous — running game. Senior running back Terron Ward recorded his second 100-yard rushing game against Colorado and his third three-touchdown game. As a team, the Beavers averaged 5.2 yards per carry for 167 yards. Take out the negative 22 yards on sacks and kneel downs, and the Beavers tallied 7.0 yards per attempt. OSU had just 97 yards — at 2.7 yards per carry — against San Diego State, however, showing that the running game hasn’t been the main basis of attack consistently. Utah, meanwhile, hasn’t allowed a team to surpass 28 points in a game and held UCLA to 2.7 yards per carry in its most recent game. The Utes beat the then-No. 8 Bruins, 30-28. “They’re a great football team, they really are,” said OSU running backs coach Chris Brasfield. “They have one loss, but their front seven is as good as we’ll play all year long.” As for the other side of the ball, defensive coordinator Mark Banker praised his senior-laden squad for being flexible with ingame adjustments. “It’s been a good group from the standpoint of being able to go at half time or even on the sideline … they’ve been taking action on it,” Banker said. “It’s one thing to talk about it and another to talk action on it. We’ve done a pretty good job up until this point.” The halftime adjustments have shown: OSU still hasn’t allowed a team to score in the third quarter. Josh Worden, sports reporter On Twitter @BrightTies sports@dailybarometer.com
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first loss of conference play in their 0-18 season last year. “This was probably the most important win of the year,” said senior middle blocker Arica Nassar. “We all know that last year they were our first loss in Pac-12, we came out and did what we needed to do.” Washington State (0-4 Pac-12, 9-9 overall) came out strong in the first set and was able to secure a first set win 26-24 against the Beavers. “We didn’t come out to play,” said Nassar. “Some of us come out and just expected us to win.” The Beavers started the night out blocking well, combining for 3.5 blocks and 19 digs in the first set. “We had a couple things at the end that didn’t go our way with some miscommunications, but we came back to win,” said
ketball shorts and basketball shoes, and made a team and that is where it all started.” She ended up making varsity all four years as a result. But it wasn’t until her sophomore year that she started taking it more seriously. “Sophomore year was the first year that I took it seriously, committing my lifestyle to it,” Driscoll said. A friend encouraged her to go out for the club team and Driscoll gave it a shot again making the top team of the club. “I made the best team in my club and that kind of ended our friendship, because she didn’t make a team and I did,” Driscoll said. Even though Driscoll made the top team, the coach told her that he intended for her to sit on the bench the entire season. So she had a big decision to make: Would it be worth it to be on the team and not play? “The coach told me I was going to the bench the entire year of the club team. My mom was like, ‘so you want us to pay x-amount of money to have her sit on the bench’ and the coach was like, ‘yup just do it,’” Driscoll said. So she did it. As a result of her club participation she was unable to continue swimming. Although she missed it, she found a new and exciting passion in volleyball. “I couldn’t really do anymore swimming, it was just that my heart was towards volleyball and I was like, ‘I can always pick up swimming
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Schaudt. In the second set, there were six tied scores and four lead changes in the second set. Side outs and blocks kept the two teams separated. The Beavers stayed on top in both those areas, which allowed them to take the second set and go into the break 1-1. “We just come out trying to keep our momentum up, knowing that we are better than this team and we need to play better than this team,” said Nassar. The Beavers swept the Cougars 16-25 in the third set by starting the set 5-1 and never letting go of the lead. They took that momentum to the fourth set, winning 25-20 to end the match. “We hit really well as a team, distributed the sets well, (it was the) first time we hit 30 percent when setting the middle,” said Liskevych. It was the Beavers best overall match
later,’” said Driscoll. Through playing with her club, she started to receive attention from colleges and that was when she started thinking she could play in college. “I didn’t really know that I wanted to play in college until colleges started talking to me,” Driscoll said. “The coaches found me and that was when I really started getting excited about it and was like, ‘I could do this.’” It was no easy task to decide where she wanted to play in college and Oregon State was not her original choice. When she started getting recruited to different schools, Katelyn initially wanted to go out of state and see what opportunities there were elsewhere. “Once I started getting these letters from colleges out of state, I was like, ‘you know I don’t want to stay in state, I want to go explore,’” Driscoll said. Driscoll grew up a Buffs fan, but still thought she didn’t want to go to Colorado University. That all changed when her parents encouraged her to go on an official visit to Colorado University. On her visit, Katelyn was wowed by a coaches’ offer and the other players that were there to visit with her. She verbally committed to play at Colorado University. “Basically they gave us this huge amazing visit. They were like, ‘if one of you commits, you could change the program,’” said Driscoll. “I was just mind blown by it and was just really rushed into it and I decided to play at Colorado. I verbally committed there and
so far in conference play. They saw five players with double-digit kills and four back-row players with double-digit digs. “Our blocking tonight was stupendous,” said Nassar. “We had a lot of great touches slowing balls down, and that gave our diggers a great chance to get the balls.” “It was good to have multiple hitters in double-digit kills, and that can be attributed to our passing as well as good setting positions by Tayla,” said Schaudt. Nassar became 18th in all-time career kills in Oregon State history with her 13 kills on the night. Schaudt also put up 11 kills, hitting at .400 and combined for five blocks. Freshman outside hitter Mary-Kate Marshall continues to shine with her 13 kills on the night, moving her to 10th for total kills in a freshman year. Marshall also had a season high of 16 digs on the night.
was committed there for about a year.” Driscoll had warmed up to the idea of staying in state and being able to play in front of her family. But all that changed with one visit from Liz Kritza, the Colorado coach, her senior year. “The coach came to my house one night unexpectedly, came to my door and said that my grades weren’t good enough to get into Colorado because they were trying to become a private school,” Driscoll said. At this point, Driscoll had already been accepted into Colorado and so she and her family felt like something else was going on. While Driscoll was in the meeting with the Colorado coach, her club coach happened to text, telling her to be careful because Kritza was trying to recruit two Russian outside hitters. Kritza had already dropped an outside hitter and Katelyn was apparently next on the list of people to drop. “I get this text and I call the coach out on it. She started getting really iffy and I asked her about these two Russian girls and she looked at me like, ‘how did you know that?’” said Driscoll. “It was just one of the things that it is weird how it happened, that we caught her in the act and my dad was like, ‘don’t let the door (hit you) as you walk out,’ and that was the end of that.” Luckily, Driscoll’s club coach had great connections and was able to line up several schools the next day. Driscoll had started to doubt if playing in college was really the right thing to do after this odd interchange with Colorado.
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That all changed when she came to Oregon State. Driscoll had it narrowed down between Oklahoma State and Oregon State. What finally made her decide to play in college and at Oregon State was the community and overall feeling of being a part of a family with the Beavers. “It was the community and people that just really made me feel like I was home. Because I had gotten used to the idea of being in-state, losing that was hard, but coming here it kind of felt like I was in-state,” Driscoll said. “We jumped on her to come play and we were very fortunate to get her,” said head coach Terry Liskevych. And while her time here at Oregon State has included a knee injury late her freshman year, which required two surgeries and a fractured arm, Driscoll wouldn’t change her decision to be a Beaver. “With the series of events, I wouldn’t change anything to be at a different school if those events didn’t happen,” Driscoll said. “It was a tough recovery and a testament to the fact that she has worked to get back, but on the court she is a great teammate and has a very good demeanor and spirit on the floor,” Liskevych said. It’s been a rocky road to get to where she is today, but Driscoll is back on the court and ready to be a part of the team and the game she loves. “It’s amazing to be able to contribute and be able to make a difference on the court with the girls,” Driscoll said. Sarah Kerrigan, sports reporter On Twitter @skerrigan123 sports@dailybarometer.com
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n Friday, a very brave girl was honored for her work in education campaigning. Malala Yousafzai has become the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17. Back in 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai in the head for simply attending school and advocating for girls’ education in Pakistan. She survived thanks to the intervention of British doctors and has continued her quest for equality. This isn’t the first award Yousafzai has received — she achieved the Sakharov Prize, Simone de Beauvoir Prize, Ambassador of Conscience Award, The U.S. Glamour Award for Woman of the Year and the National Malala Peace Prize. Yousafzai’s advocation for equal education is immensely important not just in terms of standing up for what is right, but also in the fact that her home country of Pakistan has a literacy rate of only 54.9 percent of its population as of 2012. The U.S. had a 2013 rate of 14 percent of the total population that could not read. American women sometimes forget that they don’t have to worry about being shot just for going to school. American men sometimes forget that they don’t have to worry about their sisters and daughters being attacked for such radical reasons. In fact, many students at Oregon State are often overheard complaining about attending classes, doing homework or meeting with instructors for clarification. We live in a country in which we feel that going to school is an obligation, and we meet it with rolled eyes and more of a concentration on our social lives than our GPAs. Education is a privilege and we are spoiled. For her efforts, Yousafzai currently straddles a complicated fence between the criticisms of her homeland characterizing her as a toy of the Western world and theWestern world embodying her as the result of violent religious extremism. Instead of sliding into one role or another, Yousafzai has made her own image with her co-written and bestselling memoir, “I Am Malala.” She exists as a representation of equality and bravery — a voice for the voiceless giving strength to those who need it. It’s time that we take a page out of her book. If you have relatives paying for your education, thank them. If you’re working to pay your own way, be thankful you have the opportunity. And if you’re taking loans, appreciate the option. In some places, there are children who don’t get the option to learn how to read or write because their parents aren’t wealthy enough or they live in a society that represses women’s rights. At the end of the day, Yousafzai teaches us that everyone deserves to learn, because our world goes nowhere without access to education.
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ll successful technologies change something. Some technologies change everything. Ten thousand years ago it was agriculture. Four hundred years ago it was mechanization. Forty years ago it was the Internet. Today it is 3D printing. 3D printing will change how we live, how we think, what we do and what we believe is possible. What the Internet did to the reality of information, 3D printing will do to the reality of matter. In order to be current and competitive in the world you will graduate into you need to be able to think in 3D. Oregon State University’s Valley
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The Daily Barometer Library has the tools and training to give you that edge. 3D printing is an additive manufacturing process by which layers of liquid material are precisely laid by a robotic machine run by computer. Layer by layer the robot produces a material instance of a 3D computer model of a thing. Anything that you can model in 3D software can be printed as a physical object. Almost anything that you can imagine can be modeled in 3D software. Margaret Mellinger is an associate professor of Research & Innovative Services at the Valley Library. She runs the 3D printing resources
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which started in Spring 2014 and are available to the entire OSU community and has made over 700 things. Students, faculty and staff can select, customize or create a model, submit an order via the library 3D Printing Guide, watch their order being produced on the 3D Printer Webcam, pay for their thing with their ONID account, and pick up their thing at the library. The library has two Makerbot2 3D printers, which use biodegradable PLA plastic.
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laundry process. Therefore, you have no excuse to avoid the huge sock pile monster in the corner of your dorm — you Cassie can vanquish it in an hour and 30 minutes. You can also sort your darks and whites without the soul-crushing worry about juggling quarters on feel that you are now going to pay your way to the Laundromat since double just to make those brights your laundry is included in the deal. brighter. This means that you can do launAnother factor revolves around dry as many times as you want. keeping your dorm clean — trust If I miss anything about the See RUUD | page 8 dorms, it’s the no muss, no fuss
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f all the events I’ll be covering in this segment, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has arguably caused the most panic here at home. The war in Iraq alone has been responsible for more deaths than all the recent Ebola victims worldwide — more than 4000 — but the wars are far away, while this debilitating disease only seems to be getting closer. Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, or EMF, carries initial symptoms of fever, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea and rash, but eventually leads to organ failure in patients, causing them to bleed both internally and externally. The virus can mature within the body in as little as two days after transmission, and has a mortality rate that averages 50 percent, though early rehydration and symptomatic treatment can improve survival. The first known cases of Ebola were documented in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now South Sudan. Small rural villages were hit hard, suffering nearly 90 percent mortality rates from an illness no one had ever identified. From 1995 to 2013, sporadic episodes of Ebola deaths occurred in other African countries, including Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The World Health Organization (WHO) helped contain each incident by quarantining the infected and providing local populations with protective clothing. However, earlier this year we saw the beginnings of the worst outbreak of the virus in history. Researchers from the World Health Organization believe a two year-old in Guinea was the first carrier and that the infection spread throughout nearby villages and eventually reached neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Ebola has been a public safety concern in Sub-Saharan Africa for decades, but an outbreak had never occurred in West Africa. When cases emerged in rural areas, it was originally confused with a similar disease, which gave the virus time to reproduce uninhibited. More than 50 people died by March 2014, when Guinea’s government determined that the cases were, in fact, Ebola. By then it was already too late to keep the epidemic confined within Guinea’s borders. On June 17, Liberia announced that the virus had reached its capital, Monrovia, and by July 25, Nigeria had See CORRELL | page 8
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SALEM — The story of Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill 29-yearold woman who moved to Oregon to access its Death with Dignity law, has once again raised questions about patients’ rights to die on their own terms with the help of a physician. Maynard, who has stage 4 brain cancer, has shared her story as part of the launch of a campaign through Compassion and Choices to make physician-assisted suicide legally available in other states. It’s unclear how often a dying patient moves from a different state to access this law, because they must establish residency before they do so. But Maynard was in a unique situation, said Matt Whitaker, Compassion and Choices’ Oregon outreach coordinator. Considering eligible patients are very sick, it’s rare they would have the support, resources and mobility to uproot themselves to another state. The fact that Maynard had to do that to take control of her own death is tragic, Whitaker said. “What a great injustice it is that she had to do that,”Whitaker said. “It was miraculous that she was able to do that. We know that it occurs but it’s certainly not the norm.” Maynard’s last mission before she dies on Nov. 1, two days after
her husband’s birthday, is to help her choice become available to to everyone. Besides in Oregon, physicianassisted suicide is legal in Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico. Seventeen years ago, Oregon was the first in the country to legalize physician-assisted suicide, through a ballot measure. Since then, use of the law has been steadily increasing. In 1998, the first year the law was used, 24 patients received prescriptions for the lethal medication and 16 people ingested it. In 2013, 122 prescriptions were written and 71 people died using the drugs. But even in Oregon, the trailblazer of this law, access could be an issue. Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a retired oncologist in Salem, was a vocal proponent of the law when it was enacted. He said not only did he counsel his own patients on Death with Dignity, he also took patients of his partners in Hematology Oncology of Salem, because they did not want to write the prescriptions. Rasmussen also accepted patients who didn’t have cancer, because they were simply in need of a doctor willing to participate in the process. “I’ve worked with Compassion and Choices, and in Portland you can always find a doctor,” Rasmus-
sen said. “But it was really hard in rural areas. Because if it ever gets out that Dr. Jones is the death doctor in a small community, then that could be very difficult. Many of them were very reluctant to be actively involved.” Rasmussen joined the state in 2002 to defend the law against federal attorneys, who wanted to forbid doctors from prescribing federally controlled substances at lethal levels. Compassion and Choices on Wednesday launched the Oregon Access Campaign to increase understanding of the law. The goals of the campaign include making end-of-life decisions a normal part of medical care, providing education and support for Oregon health care providers through its medical director and integrating end-of-life choice education in medical and nursing school curricula. The Oregon branch also has volunteer outreach teams across the state helping patients and their families. They educate them on the process and help them locate a doctor willing to work with them. In the last year, 422 patients and their families received consultations through Compassion and Choices, about a hundred more from the year before.
DR. TECH n Continued from page 7 I installed Makerbot Desktop for free from a link on the Library site. Makerbot Desktop has a link to Thingverse where 3D modelers publish their STL models. I selected a pumpkin model with a removable top, which came as two STL files that I loaded into Makerbot Desktop. I then set about customizing by cutting out eyes, nose and mouth, then resizing. I saved the files, uploaded them to the Library 3D Printing Request form and in a few days I got back an email with a price quote. I selected orange as the color and now a small but spooky looking Jack-O-Lantern sits on my desk glowing from the flickering battery powered tea light inside it. Mellinger says that even with such a simple project the new modeler learns the foundations of the process, the components and the language of 3D printing. Experimenting with the software and the physical results is how you can become literate with this emerging technology. My Jack-O-Lantern project exemplifies three key aspects of 3D printing. First, it is an additive manufacturing versus a subtractive manufacturing process; in other words, instead of removing metal from a block of steel to make a car frame the additive process constructs the frame by adding successive layers of material. 3D printing will change our economies because far less resources will be used much more efficiently. Second, customization is the norm rather than the exception in 3D printing. Since the Industrial Revolution, effi-
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ciency in manufacturing is based in standardization. In the near future almost everything that we buy or make will be individualized to our personal needs and wants. Third, 3D printing transforms the concept of “property” for physical objects the way that the Internet is transforming the concept of intellectual property. These three points add up to massive change in all aspects of our global cultures. You can expect to soon encounter more custom options with almost everything that you buy, new medical techniques using 3D printed organs derived from your own cells, gun enthusiasts bypassing any possible gun control by printing AK47s at home, mass things such as whole cities being created by collaborative social networks; imagine a group created Google doc but instead of words the results are physical objects. The important point for you now is to learn the process and language of 3D printing. Mellinger says: “Libraries are places of knowledge creation and with this resource we seek to create knowledge of 3D printing.” In your future career and life you will need to be able to think and perform in 3D. The Valley Library 3D printing resources are your stepping stone to that transformation. t
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CORRELL n Continued from page 7 confirmed their first victim. Attempts to slow the virus’ spread have been only somewhat successful. Medical clinics in these West African countries designed to treat Ebola patients are often short in supplies and underfunded. Medical workers who spend time in close proximity with the infected are often exposed, and I’ve heard many people here in the states voice their concern about sick missionaries entering the United States after a tour in Liberia. There have been four cases of infected relief workers being brought home for treatment, three to Atlanta and one to Omaha, Nebraska. They were all declared Ebola-free and released without issue. However, another incident involving Thomas Duncan — a Liberian national who contracted the virus in Africa and was then sent home from an American hospital even after admitting he’d traveled to his home country — caused a lot of hysteria in the news. Duncan died because of the virus on Oct. 8, and the U.S. government ordered five major airports to begin screening passengers from West Africa for the virus as a safety measure. There have been no other confirmed cases. Ebola is transmitted by contact with infected blood or other bodily fluids, as well as objects contaminated with the virus. The death rate in Africa is still accelerating in large part due to the poor quality of facilities used to treat patients, but there’s far less need to worry about it becoming widespread in countries with modern medical systems. The WHO continues its fight against Ebola in West Africa, and will likely need several more months or even years to get the situation under control t
Chris Correll is a senior in psychology. The opinions expressed in Correll’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Correll can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
RUUD n Continued from page 7 me this will save you extra time when your RA checks your room out for winter break. Keep a tub of antibacterial wipes around for spills and dust. Investment in a vacuum cleaner isn’t a bad idea because people will track dirt into your room and it will be messy. Have you got a mini fridge? You’re going to want to check on its contents regularly because moldy chicken is an evil beyond this world. If you and your roommate have worked out who is going to take out the garbage and recyclables, hold them to it — rank wastebaskets don’t do great for a healthy study environment. Or for avoiding potential cockroach encounters. Mess attracts pests, and pests will add a whole other layer of stress to your life. Use your closet to the best of your ability — invest in coat hangers and perhaps a shoe rack.
Freeing up the space around your relaxing and study areas will also help to create a sense of purpose for said areas. As opposed to a massive tornado of life. Although you are most likely hooked up with a meal plan, perhaps you’ve brought along a few favorite mugs for cocoa, coffee and Top Ramen. For the love of all that is holy, keep them clean. This will spare you the nightmares of seeing something that used to be coffee, solidified and slimy plop out into the sink when you finally do get around to excavating your dishes. A nice sponge and some dish soap will take care of your troubles in this area. Point being, keeping your dorm clean and taking advantage of the amenities at your disposal will help to create a clean study environment as well as school you in the art of minor adulthood responsibilities. t
Cassie Ruud is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in Ruud’s columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Ruud can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.