The Daily Barometer, Friday, October 16, 2015

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“Run. Hide. Fight.” campaign, threat assessment seminar seek to boost student confidence, feelings of safety on campus

By Julie Cooper News Contributor

Officials and student leaders at Oregon State are taking preventative action against potential campus shootings in order to create a greater sense of safety and confidence among students and faculty.

On Sunday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m., Oregon State Police, the OSU Care Network and the Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU) will hold an educational seminar in Milam auditorium to address the topics of active shooter preparedness and working with distressed students.

OSU Vice President of Marketing and University Relations Steve Clark said the upcoming seminar and ASOSU’s ‘Run. Hide. Fight.’ campaign are an effort by the university to educate students, faculty and staff to be prepared in case a serious threat should occur on campus.

Cassie Huber, a senior in communications and the president of ASOSU, said the seminar will teach students what actions to take in the event of an active shooter on campus, as well as how to assess potential dangers or threatening behaviors in students.

“We’re doing a sort of threat assessment analysis training that allows you to understand when someone might pose a threat to harm others or to have the desire to instigate an active shooting,” Huber said.

Though the timeliness of the matter has many students on edge, Huber said the topic of active shooter preparedness and awareness is not meant to create a fearful atmosphere on campus, but rather to help

In order to save lives, people are going to have to take action. That’s the hard pill to swallow.

Eric Judah Oregon State Police Officer students, faculty and staff feel confident and prepared should the event of an active shooter on campus ever arise.

Sergeant Eric Judah of the Oregon State Police Department said these types of seminars began a year ago at OSU, targeting mainly faculty and staff as active shooter preparedness education became increasingly in demand.

While plans to include students in the seminar were underway to commence this year, the upcoming event was originally meant to be offered solely to members of OSU’s Greek life organizations.

However, in light of the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, the seminar will now be offered to the entire campus and community.

“In light of those recent events, we felt that it would be most inclusive and beneficial to open it up to anyone who wanted to learn,” Huber said.

Judah and Kris Winter, Associate Dean

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of the Office of Student Life, will speak at Sunday’s event.

According to Judah, the seminar will focus on creating a dialogue between participants, in order to address any questions or concerns students may have.

Huber said ASOSU hopes to hold this preparedness seminar once or twice per term at minimum, giving as many students as possible the opportunity to attend.

Judah agrees that the most effective way to approach these seminars is to make them frequent, and therefore smaller. He suggested that participants at the seminar will benefit most from engaging in smallgroup dialogue, which is only made possible by holding multiple events.

Judah stressed the importance of active shooter preparedness education, referencing a study by the FBI that examined 60 past active shooting incidents. According to Judah, the study found that the likelihood of an active shooter being stopped as a result of police interference is quite low, and that these situations are in fact more likely to be stopped by a person who is present at the place of the threat.

“In order to save lives, people are going to have to take action. That’s the hard pill to swallow,” said Sergeant Judah.

Huber’s next steps with ASOSU include enacting a plan to install a warning system at the university, specifically for threats of violence such as an active shooting situation.

According to Huber, these plans are already in the works, and she hopes to see them implemented in the near future. news@dailybarometer.com

OSU athlete pleads ‘not guilty’, NEWS, PAGE 3 Soccer heads to Seattle, SPORTS, PAGE 5 King disscusses social axiety, FORUM, PAGE 8

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TomboyX female briefs are ‘not your granny’s panties’

By Rachel Lerman The Seattle Times

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Seattle detective Carma Clark, left, helps with the design of the pants on the form. Naomi Gonzalez, center, and Fran Dunaway, right, co-founded TomboyX.

SEATTLE — It was spring of 2014, and Carma Clark was at a crossroads. But it wasn’t the type of turning point you might suspect from a 46-yearold detective in the Seattle Police Department.

Clark was having a boxerbrief crisis. Her favorite line of underwear from Calvin Klein had been discontinued, and her investigation of other limited offerings wasn’t panning out. She found few pairs made for women, and the ones made for men didn’t fit right.

“I’m in the androgynous zone, and most women’s underwear are not comfortable and are not me,” she said.

Lucky for Clark, she met a pair of women at a WNBA Seattle Storm basketball game later that month who felt the same way.

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“Naomi said, ‘Well, how hard is it to start a clothing line?’ and then off we went,” Dunaway recalled. “Oh, my god, it’s incredibly difficult.”

One part that wasn’t difficult was finding an audience. TomboyX put a couple of products up on a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $76,000. They found people really responded to the “tomboy” label for clothing.

“We recognized it had meaning to people,” Dunaway said. “People see the word ‘tomboy’ and think, ‘That’s me.’”

The company grew so quickly that Dunaway and Gonzalez entered a startup accelerator, Boulder’s MergeLane, and raised more than $330,000, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The pair are just about to wrap up a road trip across the U.S. called the “Not Your Granny’s Panties” tour, showcasing the briefs in a custom-wrapped RV. At its start, TomboyX experimented with shirts, hats, tank tops, you name it. But now the company has found its core product — boxer briefs for women.

Clark joined Gonzalez, a sports-massage therapist, and Dunaway, who produces political ads, in a warehouse with a pile of boxer briefs to experiment on the best way to make a pair for women. Clark’s wish list included a soft waistband and buttons.

TomboyX created samples and brought in women of all different body types to try on the pairs again and again.

After months of trial and error, the Good Carma line, which sells for about $27 per pair, was born. It was quickly joined by the Feeling Frisky and the Bobbie — all paying homage to women in uniform.

The first run of boxer briefs

in fall 2014 sold out in two weeks.

The company sees constant interest from police officers, firefighters and nurses, as well as many other women who wear a set uniform for work.

The line is also drawing in athletes, as well as women who want the comfort for everyday wear.

Holly Custis, a middle linebacker for the Seattle Majestics, a women’s football team, first heard about the clothing line when she saw an ad on her Facebook page. She prefers the style of underwear, and cuts made for men just weren’t working.

“If you like that kind of underwear style and you’re female, they are all designed for men,” she said. “This gets away from that.”

She’s not the only one who thinks so. Dunaway and Gonzalez, along with their four full-time employees, sift through dozens of pictures every week from women all over the world who want to model the underwear.

Other clothing lines for tomboys are slowly popping up as well. HauteButch has a wide array of shirts, Scouts Honor clothes the San Francisco tomboy, and CharlieBoy carries everything from T-shirts to accessories. But TomboyX is one of very few that specializes in underwear.

TomboyX still creates and brands other products, but the boxer briefs are the defining product. The undies bring in 75 Percent of TomboyX’s total revenue, Dunaway said, and more than 8,000 pairs have been sold. She declined to disclose revenue numbers but said they have quintupled year over year for two years.

The company sells mostly online, and its wares are sold in one boutique in Provincetown, Mass. TomboyX has no plans to change the retail model for now _ they can barely keep the website and boutique in stock as it is.

Boxer briefs for women may differ a bit from the Nordstrom suits and REI jackets that highlight Seattle

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9 Color guard accessory 14 Child on TV for decades 15 Virgo preceder

16 “I’m here” 17 Hummingbird feature?

19 Enjoyed Vegas

20 Valley 21 Place to live in Spain 23 Sore feeling 24 Purported ancestor of Ragnar Lothbrok on TV’s “Vikings” 26 Foothills?

29 Crazy scene 30 Call-day link 31 Value 32 Did a cobbler’s job 34 Stain 37 Hot Wheels Volkswagen?

41 Hoedown move 42 Taking place 44 Is in store for 47 Pine product 49 Maker of the GreenSaver Produce Keeper 50 Potty-training tool?

53 Absolut rival 54 Explosive letters 55 Collector’s __ 56 Reveals in an unwelcome way 58 Naming 60 Mouthpiece for a Lilliputian horse?

64 Nursery supply 65 Psyche component 66 Hiding __ 67 No longer an item 68 Oversaw 69 Teamed (with)

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1 Jams 2 Good remark?

3 Plants with sword-shaped leaves 4 Lombardy’s capital 5 Everyone in Mississippi?

6 Big ring name 7 AT&T, for short 8 Grinder 9 1969 hit with the line “You are my candy girl” 10 Botanist Gray 11 Candy heart words 12 Show one’s face 13 Make amends for 18 Outdo 22 Volume measure 24 Abbr. on some cans 25 Hardly a happy ending 27 Where the Santa Maria sank, nowadays 28 Dined on, biblically 30 Dash warning 33 “I suggest you move on” 35 Pie makeup?

36 Stock 38 Plus 39 Doesn’t exactly help one’s reputation 40 Stunning or cunning 43 One under a tree, maybe 44 Nissan sedan 45 Start of a pitch

46 Fifth-century Roman Empire enemy 48 In a little while 51 1996 A.L. Rookie of the Year 52 Psi follower 53 Needles 57 Org. whose logo features an eagle head 59 6-Across maker 61 Awfully long time 62 Rocks in a bucket 63 “Ideas worth spreading” acronym

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OSU soccer player David Brown charged with public indecency, pleads ‘not guilty’

By Grace Clark News Contributor

On Sept. 29, Mandy Barriatua, a sophomore studying kinesiology at OSU, was walking home from Dixon.

“I felt weird, like I was being followed.” She said.

She said she didn’t feel like she was in danger, but something felt off. As she went into her apartment, she could see a young man skate into the parking lot and out of view.

The man had been longboarding behind her as she walked home.

Her day was going fairly normally until she went back outside from her apartment to take out the trash.

Standing across the street from her was the longboarder, completely naked and masturbating.

After an initial response of locking herself indoors and calling the neighbors to warn them, Barriatua took action.

“I shouldn’t sit here,” Barriatua

recalled thinking. “I’m gonna go find him and get a picture.”

Barriatua felt the need to take action. She didn’t want to feel like a passive victim.

She managed to catch up to the culprit in her car and get a picture.

Soon after, the police arrived on the scene.

The man was identified as David James Brown. Brown was arrested on Sep. 30 and charged with public indecency and sexual assault in the third degree, confirmed

by Lieutenant Cord Wood of the Benton County Sheriff’s office.

This is not the first time Brown has been charged with public indecency. Court documents reveal that Brown was charged with two counts of public indecency in Texas in July of 2014.

According to Vice President of Marketing and University Relations Steve Clark, the university was not aware of Brown’s previous offenses.

Women in combat sparking fierce debate

By James Rosen McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON ­— The push for American women to join men on the front lines of combat will take another step forward Friday when the third female candidate graduates from Army Ranger School in ceremonies at Fort Benning, Ga. But the landmark success of the first three women to earn their Ranger tab, along with Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s initiative to increase combat roles for female troops, has set off a new round of gender wars across the country.

When Carter visited U.S. sailors last week at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy, one of the first questions he fielded came from a Marine who asked why the Pentagon wants to place more women in battlefield infantry ranks.

After assuring the Marine that “we’re going to make a data-based decision in all of the services,” Carter said simple math dictates that Pentagon leaders open more combat jobs and other previously closed roles to female troops.

“They’re going to have to recruit from the American population,” he said. “Half the American population is female. So I’d be crazy not to be, so to speak, fishing in that pond for qualified service members. Otherwise, it’s like having a population that’s half the size.

So that’s the reason, from a point of view of mission success.”

On Oct. 1, the heads of the five military services gave Carter recommendations on which frontline combat jobs and special forces roles should remain closed to women, if any, along with data justifying the exclusions. Carter has pledged to accept or reject the recommendations, which he has not made public, by the start of next year.

As it is in so many other cultural disputes, the Internet is now a main battleground in a fight over women’s proper roles that, both inside and outside the military, goes back to the nation’s founding and includes the 19th-century struggle for female suffrage, as well as the dispute two generations ago over whether women should be allowed to wear pants to work.

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that this is an error of judgment, it is not an acceptable practice of anyone at the university. It was immediately restored to its original I felt weird, like version.”

A misunderstanding or not, I was being Barriatua was frustrated with the followed. result, feeling as though the school should at least do background Mandy Barriatua checks on students with a higher sophmore prestige such as athletes. Her attitude towards Brown, however, is much kinder. ous incidents occurred.

“My biggest thing was, I didn’t feel After the recent arrest, Brown’s name was erased from the Oregon like I was a victim,” she explained.

State website. Some have specu- “People who do that seem to have lated that this was an effort to sever something mentally wrong with the school’s ties with the student. them. He needs to get the help he needs.”

Clark said that was not the case.

Barriatua said that jail time and a “The matter occurred when a member of the athletic depart- possible sentence is a step towards ment was instructed to remove the that ‘help.’ suspected athlete’s name from the Brown is now in custody in the roster. He mistakenly and inap- Corvallis jail, and has plead ‘not propriately altered a news release.” guilty.’

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“(Neither) Oregon State University, nor to my knowledge the soccer coaches on the soccer team, were aware of Mr. Browns reported arrest related to public indecency prior to the recent offense,” Clark said.“The first of our knowledge was the Corvallis police report.”

Before the incident, Brown was on the OSU soccer team. He has now been suspended from the team.

Clark said that there is not currently a system in place that requires university athletes to complete background checks.

“There is for employees and especially when working with minors,” Clark said.

He went on to explain that even if the college had conducted a background check, information regarding Brown’s previous offenses would likely not have been available to the university due to the fact that Brown was a minor when the previ-

Capt. Shaye Haver and Lt. Kristen Griest, alumni of the United States Military Academy at West Point, completed the Ranger School’s rigorous 62-day training program and graduated with 94 male counterparts in August. Maj. Lisa Jaster, an engineer with two children, finished the course earlier this month and will graduate Friday with her male peers.

News articles about the three women’s historic achievements have prompted dozens or even hundreds of online comments over whether standards were lowered for them and, more broadly, whether women should join infantry and special forces units in war.

Many comments quickly divide along gender lines, with women advocating more opportunities for female troops and men arguing against them.

Some of the exchanges turn nasty.

When the Huffington Post reported Aug. 17 that Haver and Griest had become the first women to finish the Ranger School course, Florida reader Jerry Byers opined: “They only passed two (female candidates) because the rest QUIT! Women scream, cry and piss in their bloomers when stressed. Sorry, it is just a fact that women are not men, although some would like to be.”

That comment brought a sharp rebuke from Patty Flaherty, who did not provide a home state.

“Sure, women scream, cry and piss in their bloomers when stressed,” she wrote. “Try pushing a human being out of your body and get back to us, you moron.”

The gender wars also have reached the halls of Congress and West Point.

Rep. Steven Russell, a Ranger School graduate who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones before his election last November to the House of Representatives from Oklahoma, sent a Sept. 15 letter to Army Secretary John McHugh, demanding the evaluations and related performance documents for Haver and Griest while they were testing to become qualified to join the Rangers.

Within a week, a group of female veterans

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Five facts you should know about the game 1. Since the 2009 season, the away team has won every time except the 2012 season. The Beavers have won four of the six games in that span.

OSU. He had 471 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions, the most yards and touchdowns thrown by a Cougar in his first start.

2. Wide receiver Rahmel Dockery played a season at Washington State, where he played corner, before transferring to Oregon State. He now plays wide receiver and is the primary return man.

4. Head coach Gary Andersen has known Luke Falk since he was 17 years old, as Falk went to high school with two of Andersen’s sons.

3. WSU quarterback Luke Falk’s first start came last year against

5. Saturday’s game marks the 100th meeting between the two programs, Washington State holds a 49-47-3 advantage.

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4 Seth Collins (QB) Comp. % Yards TD/INT 2015 50.4 637 5/2 56 passing yards in loss to Arizona

Luke Falk (QB) Comp. % Yards TD/INT 2015 71.3 1964 15/2 Six total touchdowns last week in win against Oregon

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9 Gabe Marks (WR) Catches Yards TD 2015 43 525 5 Leads Pac-12 in receptions

Ryan Nall (RB) Carries Yards TD 2015 15 63 1 Career high eight carries and 30 yards last week against Arizona.

4 Justin Strong (S) Tackles Solo 2015 33 20 Leads secondary in tackles

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Washington State: Keys to the game

Oregon State: Keys to the game • Score: Washington State has a high-powered passing attack that is capable of putting points up in a hurry. To keep pace, the Oregon State offense needs to will need find ways to score more than seven points.

• Be patient offensively: The Beavers have been largely trigger happy while on offense, they haven’t played

Destiny Vaeao (DT) Tackles Sacks TFL 2015 18 1 2.5 2014 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year

with poise in recent weeks. If they are going to win the game, they have to be patient offensively.

• Dial up the pressure against Falk: If given time, the redshirt sophomore quarterback is one of the best passers in the country. The OSU defense can get pressure on Falk, it will make him less effective.

• Run the ball: The Cougars’ 82 rush yards per game and 3.4 yards per carry are last in the conference, though their numbers are twice as good as last year (39.8 yards a game and 2.0 yards per attempt).

pleted 47.8 percent of its passes.

• Hold onto a lead: The Cougars don’t want to be on the opposite end of last week, when Oregon couldn’t hold off WSU in what became a

• Limit OSU in the air: Most teams comeback victory on the road for have done this well. OSU has com- the crimson and gray.

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“Couging it” is a real thing. I can’t think of a worse way to “Coug it” than beating Oregon on the road one week, then falling to Oregon State at home. I’m taking the Beavers 27-21 in the Palouse.

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The Beavers will have much better games than last week’s 37-point trouncing in Tucson. This week, however, WSU will still put up monster passing numbers in a 38-21 victory.

The Beavers have struggled to put together a complete game since San Jose State, and they won’t this week either. WSU will win 35-14.

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Men’s soccer travels north to face the Huskies Beavers look to bounce back against their rivals in Seattle

By Danny Rice Sports Contributor

The Oregon State men’s soccer prepares to head north this weekend to meet up with their bitter rival, the Washington Huskies on Sunday, 5 p.m. at Husky Soccer Field in Seattle.

This comes after a disappointing weekend in the Bay Area where they drew a 2-2 tie against Cal and lost to Stanford 3-0 and ultimately fell out of the NSCAA top-25. Head coach Steve Simmons said although they only took one point from last weekend, there are plenty of positive takeaways.

“It was a tough road trip. Our depth was tested. But to get a point out of that keeps us in the hunt. Which is exactly want we want to do, win your home games and take something away from the away games.”

Because the University of Oregon doesn’t have a men’s soccer team, Washington is the main rival for the Beavers, so look for Oregon State to come out with more energy and excitement.

“We want to play a little faster and have more energy,” Simmons said.

“And be excited to hopefully take points up there.”

The Beavers (7-4-1, 2-1-1 Pac-12) haven’t fared well in the past against Washington in Seattle, as they have an all-time road record of 6-15-0. With rivalry games, nothing is guaranteed and Simmons couldn’t be more excited about the matchup.

“It’s awesome,” Simmons said.

“There’s always something on the line and with the conference being so tight, the rivalry has a little more meaning.”

In order to prepare for the physicality that Washington presents, sophomore midfielder Graham Smith said they have been trying to match that physicality in practice.

“Every game that we play next is the biggest game of the season,” Graham said. “Intensity is higher in practice this week and anytime you play Washington, you know it’s going to be an intense game. It’s going to be about who wants it more and we definitely want it.”

The Huskies (5-2-5, 1-1-2 Pac-12) are coming off a strong weekend with two scoreless draws with both Cal and Stanford. Ties are a common theme with the Huskies this season as they have five of them already, all of them being 0-0.

Washington, as a team, has one of the best defenses in the country. They are currently eighth in the nation in goals allowed average with .53 goals per game. A lot of their defensive success can be attributed to the reigning

Pac-12 Player of the Week, redshirt senior goalkeeper Ryan Herman.

Herman is coming off a weekend where he totaled 16 saves, which helped preserve his team points in both games. He is currently second in the nation in shutouts with eight as he has only given up seven goals all year.

Although the Huskies boast a dominate defense, Washington ranks last in the Pac-12 in goals scored per game with 1. Sophomore goalkeeper Nolan Wirth, who has five shutouts this season, and redshirt sophomore defender Jalen Markey, will look to make sure that the average declines this weekend.

Jeremy melamed | THE DAILY BAROMETER Oregon State will try to find ways to penetrate the stifling and physical Redshirt sophomore defender Jalen Markey heads a defense the Huskies possess. For Mar- ball against UCLA on Oct. 2. key, it’s about getting the ball out wide and letting his teammates go to work. “(The key is to) try and keep giving our outside midfielders and forwards the ball,” Markey said. “Because we know if we can get them the ball quickly, then they can do things and score for us. “ Last year, the Beavers were unbeaten against the Huskies with the Beavers defeating the Huskies 2-0 in Seattle, so look for Markey and company to go out and continue that streak.

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Behind enemy lines

By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor

The Daily Barometer will do a Q&A with a writer of the upcoming opponent’s newspaper. This week, Kelsey Jones, sports editor for the Daily Evergreen answers our questions about Saturday’s football matchup in Pullman, Wash.

Brian Rathbone: What kind of transformation have the Cougars gone through since the opening loss to Portland State to now?

Kelsey Jones: This season, more so than others, the Cougars have struggled with playing down to the level of their opponent. During the Portland State game, nothing was working. All phases of the game looked lackluster, sloppy and slow.

Since that game, each game has been steadily more complete.

The defense has improved considerably under new Defensive Coordinator Alex Grinch, and that has showed ever since the Portland State game. The defense has forced eight turnovers already this season, more than all of last season combined.

The offense has also improved drastically, with far less dropped passes and miscommunications.

The special teams issues that were glaring in the Portland State and Rutgers games have also improved, although it is still the weakest unit. The Oregon game is the best example of the capacity that this team has, as well as the improvements that have been made since Portland State.

BR: What was the public perception of Mike Leach after the Portland State game? And has there been a change following the victory against Oregon?

KJ: After the Portland State game fans were rightfully angry. Leach is now in the midst of his fourth sea-

son with WSU, and it was expected that he would have taken this team to more than one bowl game and tallied a few more winning seasons.

The loss at home didn’t help.

That said, Cougar fans are resilient and the negativity didn’t last long among the fan base. A win like the one against Oregon was more than enough to quell the discontent. The fact remains that Leach’s job is safe regardless, but at this point in the season, he has done more good than harm in the eyes of the public.

BR: Luke Falk has continued to elevate his game, what about his game is most impressive?

KJ: Luke Falk’s biggest asset is his ability to keep a level head no matter what comes his way. The way the game in Eugene ended is a perfect example of that. Despite the pressure he was under on the road to lead a drive that would ultimately send the game into overtime, he was able to get the job done and rally the rest of the offense along with him. He is younger than many of his teammates, but his poise and leadership on and off the field negate the age differences.

It has also been beneficial to have a quarterback that can scramble and work outside of the pocket, something that Connor Halliday and many former Air Raid quarterbacks lacked. He is constantly finding ways to come up with big plays when it is most necessary.

BR: The defense came up with several key stops against Oregon, are they they starting to turn the corner as a unit?

KJ: They are definitely turning into one of the more formidable defensive units. With the vocal leadership of middle linebacker Peyton Pelluer and linebacker Jeremiah Allison, the unit is growing quickly.

Much of their success comes from Grinch. Grinch’s philosophy centers around getting to the ball and being aggressive, and both have been factors contributing to the vastly improved turnover numbers.

It was also the defense that Leach chose to begin overtime and that ended overtime with junior safety Shalom Luani’s interception.

Leach’s faith in the defense is testament to how far the unit has come under Grinch.

BR: Is there a chance of the let down game from the Cougars?

How do you see this game shaking out?

KJ: Although their home game play has not always been their best, the Homecoming crowd is sure to have an effect on the hype, especially coming off of such a thrilling win.

Assuming the offense continues to utilize their depth at running back as well as Falk’s legs, they should be able to handle OSU’s formidable passing defense. On the defensive side of the ball, there is somewhat of a question mark. OSU freshman quarterback Seth Collins is questionable for the game, but if he plays it will be important for the Cougars to contain Collins, who leads the Beavers in rushing yards with 362. Covering his two go-to receivers, Victor Boldin and Jordan Villamin will also be crucial to defensive success.

WSU is currently the eight-point favorite, but as the Cougars are all too familiar with, playing to the level they are capable of rather than the level they perceive their opponent to be at will be key to coming away with a win in front of the Homecoming crowd.

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One of the women, former Army Capt. Sue Fulton, grouped Russell, 52, with “too many older men (who) have biases about what women are capable of.”

Fulton told Stars and Stripes, the official news outlet of U.S. armed forces: “This is about the fact that these are the kinds of objections we (female service members) have heard for 40 years.

For some of us, enough is enough.”

While Carter and other Pentagon leaders stand

accused in many online forums of bowing to “political correctness,” the initiative to expand women’s combat roles is a congressional mandate, required by the 2011 Defense Authorization Act. These kinds of debates have left some of the nation’s most elite male soldiers and sailors in a bind, even many who applaud the three female trailblazers who completed the Ranger School course.

Former Army Ranger Capt.

Matt Griffin, who served three combat stints in Afghanistan and one in Iraq before leaving the military in 2006, rejected out of hand the claims that Ranger School standards were lowered in order for Haver and Griest to have graduated.

“It would be very tough to water down the standards for

those two women in the class with all the men that were there,” Griffin told McClatchy.

“If somebody wasn’t held to the same standard, it would quickly get out in the group.

There would be some disgruntled men who would stand up and speak out.”

While a few male classmates of Haver and Griest have said testing standards were lowered for the two women, they’ve done so anonymously, and their claims were rebutted by other male classmates speaking on the record.

As much as he admires Haver, Griest and Jaster for their accomplishment, however, Griffin is not certain that they should be allowed to enter the 75th Ranger Regiment.

“You’ve got America’s top

Lippe, who served 24 years as a Navy SEAL before leaving the service in 1998, said women should be allowed to become full-fledged Rangers, SEALs, Green Berets and other special forces, but they should have their own testing regimens and then serve in all-female units.

freedom fighters who are alpha males on extremely stressful missions out in the middle of nowhere,” Griffin said. “If there is a man and woman together, there’s inevitably going to be some sort of romantic or sexual tension between them. That will decrease focus and deter from the mission.”

Griffin said that women served admirably with him in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he said they were in separate units attached to his Rangers platoon. One of their main assignments was to interact with Muslim women during U.S. raids, in deference to Islamic prohibitions against direct contact between women and men, especially foreigners.

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“They should be given a chance, but it would be better for everybody if they created separate programs instead of Washington trying to make them like guys,” he said. “It’s like trying to put girls in the NFL. Yet you can’t deny them the right if we have an equal society.”

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Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday being honored with grand celebration

By Susan King Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES – Frank Sinatra is the eternal epitome of cool and ringa-ding charisma.

But for Amanda Erlinger and her older sister A.J. Lambert, Sinatra was not the Chairman of the Board, Ol’ Blue Eyes or the head of the Rat Pack.

He was simply Grandpa.

“He was just like probably a lot of people’s grandfather’s,” said Erlinger, 39, the daughter of Nancy Sinatra and the late choreographer Hugh Lambert. “I know it’s hard for a lot of people to believe. He did a lot of stuff with my sister and I – swimming, learning how to dive, how to paint in his art studio and traveling with him.

He was so warm, generous and kind with me. Even when he was traveling, he was just a phone call away.”

Tina Sinatra, the singer-actor’s youngest daughter, noted that her father “had a sense of responsibility.

Of course, you have heard how loyal

he was to people who were loyal to him.”

And every day no matter where he was or how busy, Sinatra called his children – Tina, Nancy and Frank Jr. – on the phone between 5 and 6 p.m. “I’m talking about when we were adults and living our own lives,” said Tina Sinatra, whose 2000 book “My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir” is being reissued. “It was something that intuitively he knew that we relied and depended on.”

This year marks the centennial of Frank Sinatra, who was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, N.J., and died on May 14, 1998. During his six-decade plus career, he performed on more than 1,400 records and won nine Grammy Awards.

He was one of Hollywood’s top movie stars and a surprisingly accomplished actor. He won the supporting actor Oscar for 1953’s “From Here to Eternity” and earned a lead actor Oscar nomination for

1955’s “The Man With the Golden Arm.” He starred in such acclaimed dramas as 1954’s “Suddenly” and 1962’s “The Manchurian Candidate” as well as the popular Rat Pack films, including 1960’s “Ocean’s 11 “ and 1964’s “Robin and the Seven Hoods.”

Sinatra’s centenary is being celebrated in a big way by the Sinatra family – and his millions of fans. Earlier this year, HBO aired Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary “Sinatra: All or Nothing at All.” An “Ultimate Sinatra” four-CD set has been released, as well as a five-film collection on Blu-ray.

Erlinger, who is the family’s photo archivist, co-edited a luxury collector’s edition book, “Sinatra,” that is limited to 1,000 copies. She is also involved in the Los Angeles Grammy Museum’s “Sinatra: An American Icon” exhibition, which opens Oct. 21.

Charles Pignone, who is senior vice president of Frank Sinatra Enter-

prises, wrote the recently published “Sinatra 100,” which features rare photographs, forewords by Tony Bennett and Steve Wynn and afterwords with the children.

“The whole concept was to be a celebration of the life and career of Frank Sinatra in photos and text told by him and those knew who him,” Pignone said. “I always tried to use his own words.”

Pignone had a lot of access to rare Sinatra material not only from the family’s archives but material uncovered during the production of the Gibney documentary, including “some interviews that Frank had done that had never been heard.”

The massive book – it weighs more than 6 pounds _ covers all aspects of Sinatra’s life and work: his childhood; his big band era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey; his years as the dreamboat of the bobby-sox crowd; his groundbreaking recording and film career; his relationships with his

family and friends; his charity work; and his dedication to his craft.

If you want a more sensationalized account of his life and career, including his alleged Mafia ties, affairs and brawls, you won’t find it here.

“If the Mafia made Frank Sinatra, they would have made 100 of him,” said Pignone. “The Mafia couldn’t make people go out and buy millions of albums. They couldn’t sell out the Universal Amphitheatre.”

Erlinger noted that the family is not trying to sugarcoat Sinatra’s life.

“Nobody’s perfect,” she said.

“Charlie, myself and everybody – we all worked together to make sure that there are these other sides to him (depicted). We wanted those things to come through especially this year, so people know just a more personal side. To be honest, he was a pretty private person. He had a public persona and a private persona that he wanted to keep to himself, his family and very close friends.”

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For Guillermo del Toro, home is where the horror is in “Crimson Peak”

By Meredith Woerner Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES – Monster movie-maker Guillermo del Toro has conjured up demonic superheroes, fantastical fawns, colossal robots and even larger Kaijus, but his latest Frankenstein creation is not only an unnervingly lovely beast but also the set of his film. Possibly the most elaborate monster Del Toro has ever constructed is the labyrinth-like Gothic mansion in “Crimson Peak.”

Perched atop a red clay mine in a remote English hillside, the derelict manor is an ideal representation of Del Toro’s ability to meld the grotesque and the beautiful, the alluring and the dangerous.

Allerdale Hall is a grand monster with an impressive foyer that opens wide, revealing archways lined with rows of jagged teeth carved from wooden beams.

“Visually, I wanted a house that you could enter and get a sense of the whole house in a single shot,” Del Toro said over the phone. “You immediately know the geography of the house.

You immediately know the library’s in the front, the kitchen is on the right, the bedroom is on the left.We needed to make it geographically very clear so that you are never lost in a movie set. You feel that you’re in a real place. That you know where things are.”

The practical three-story mansion set was erected in Pinewood Toronto Studios in Canada.

It wasn’t a fractured set, as much of the building was connected.

And functional.

The vintage-looking elevator that ran from the first floor to the top was fully operational, as were the fireplaces. In fact, the only part of the Allerdale Hall that was green-screened was “just the hole in the ceiling,” Del Toro joked. “We have no sky.”

And from that sky-less crack snow and leaves would fall.

“I needed to have something that was practically very difficult to repair,” the director explained. “It’s not easy to repair a hole like that. It really requires huge amounts of workers.

It was very symbolic for me to have these aristocrats with a 90-year-old servant, a single servant, to have a mansion that has a hole on the top.

It just tells you how down on their luck they are.

How they may appear to be civilized and poised, but they are really rotting away.”

The crumbling remains and the leaking ceiling became the physical representation of the time Del Toro set his Gothic horror story in.

“The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century defined who we are now,” he said. “It is the transition from the old world values to the modern world. That’s why I wanted to set ‘Crimson Peak’ on this edge.”

Stuck between the two worlds are the inhabit-

ants of Allerdale Hall, the Sharpe siblings: Jessica Chastain, who plays Lady Lucille Sharpe, and Tom Hiddleston as Sir Thomas Sharpe. Determined not to go destitute, the pair finds a bride for Sir Thomas, the golden Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), a character who radiates light in the darkness of their home. “(It’s) a very dark, fairy-tale world, this crumbling mansion with two people that were raised in an attic by themselves, that, in fact, they’re wearing their parents’ clothes. All they know is that world,” Del Toro said.

“They prey on people, and they come back to the house, almost like sand trap spiders.”

And while the Sharpe sibling end game is highly suspect, the beauty of their rotten world is what attracts both the audience and the heroine, Edith, into this gorgeous trap.

“A lot of people refer to Gothic romance as a pleasing terror, a pleasing terror that reminds you that, behind all the modernity, at the same time lies death,” Del Toro said. “Gothic romance is characterized by being basically graveyard poetry.

It’s a genre that is very cagey because it’s not entirely romantic and it’s not entirely a horror genre.

It’s a creature in between. It’s the clash between love and death.”

Even the props were created to be an enticing illusion.

The same pieces of furniture were built in two sizes.

An oversized piece of furniture would be swapped in to make a character sitting in it look weak, while the smaller version would make a character look strong.

The character Lucille (Chastain) “is actually part of the house.

Her wardrobe has pieces of architecture of the house embroidered in lace,” Del Toro said.

“We very deliberately made her the same color as the walls. The walls are the same color as her eyes. We wanted to make them have the color of the house. In blacks and cyans.”

And it doesn’t stop there. The wallpaper, a design of butterfly wings and moth, has the coded word “fear” hidden within the pattern.

Everything inside Allerdale Hall has been beautifully constructed to be terrifying. It is references stacked on references.

The director himself professes that he “tries to treat the movies like an artifact. I try to treat them like a cabinet of curiosities,” and each nook and corner of the house or dialog from the film is laced with a reference.

On entering the home in the film, Edith asks Sir Thomas how many rooms are inside this home.

He responds with a smile saying, “I have no idea, would you like to count them?”

The official Crimson peak website

That line is actually a reference to a classic Gothic romance called “Dragonwyck” with Vincent Price.

It’s as if Del Toro collected every Gothic horror or romance treasure that inspired him and delicately pinned it to his movie, like an insect under glass.

“The reality is,” the director said, that “my

secret hope is that people that do like what I do, that they end up watching the movie more than once. The beauty is even my family, my kids and my wife when they watch the movies for a second or third time, they say, ‘Oh, we didn’t notice this’ or, ‘We didn’t notice that.’ The movie is a minefield of details.”

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You don’t need much to be you Handling social anxiety, alienation, being different YEA to Major League Baseball playoffs.

By Kayla King Forum Contributor

NAY to spelling “rejected” wrong.

YEA to pink garden flamingo’s – they are a booming trend that can be found on several Corvallis lawns and make great backyard decor.

NAY to slipping on wet pavement.

YEA to Humans vs. Zombie’s kicking off this week.

NAY to the fear of having a Nerf gun foam bullet hit you. Anyone can potentially be a target.

YEA to carring a Nerf gun around campus and not looking “too weird” because of it.

NAY to a full month between home football games.

YEA to DAM JAM genre suggestions.

NAY to proofs by induction. WHAT ARE THOSE? YEA to Tiramisu existing in this world. Thank you, National Dessert Day. NAY to short days and long nights.

YEA to the amazing student leaders who work countless days and nights for the love of what they do.

NAY to week three midterms–guys, we are nowhere near the middle of the term.

YEA to expressive body language.

NAY to goodbyes, but heck YEA to future goals.

YEA to hope.

“Bye Felicia.” – Skye J. Lyon The opinions expressed in Yeas & Neas do not necessarily represent all opinions on The Daily Barometer staff.

What does it mean to feel different, to feel like you’re on the outside looking in?

We’ve all experienced it before – the sensation that you’re “other,” that you’re not quite the same as everyone else.

And like me and countless others, you have probably been told more times than you can remember that there is “nothing wrong with being different.”

And all those people were right – but when you feel like it’s almost a constant struggle to not have a panic attack in large crowds, it doesn’t feel so awesome to be different.

Social anxiety is defined by medicine. net as “excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating effects on personal and professional relationships.”

The story is always the same – you’re nervous about a social event, such as a party, then you actually get excited, then you go to try to fight off a panic attack.

It’s no party, if you’ll pardon the pun, but the situation is compounded when, like myself, you don’t drink.

Most people will say that they could “never go to a party without drinking,” which supports my theory that most people ward off varying degrees of anxiety when going to parties.

However, when you have negative associations with alcohol and so choose not to drink, you are, however unfortunately, further alienating yourself from the group.

It might be nice to get a little tipsy and “unwind,” but if you don’t/can’t/ won’t drink, you are left with your rising panic and a near constant curiosity of

“why isn’t she drinking?” which can feel more than a little isolating.

To reiterate: It’s okay to feel different and it’s certainly okay to not drink.

Never, ever do something that makes you feel uncomfortable in order to “fit in.”

Also, please know your limits. If you think a certain situation is going to make you uncomfortable, evaluate and ask questions beforehand so you’ll know what you’re getting yourself into.

The most recent party I attended was arguably one of the worst experiences of my life, and had I thought to set my limits beforehand, the negative aspects of it could have been avoided. I came, I saw, and I did not conquer.

After being around many people I did not know and listening to incredibly loud, fast-paced music–yes, the general definition of a party but also the things that “set me off” the most– I experienced another panic attack and went outside to calm down.

Outside, the night was cold and mostly mine, and I felt better.

I was enjoying the darkness and the stars – until someone, I believe unintentionally, dumped several gallons of water over the porch directly above me.

I quickly left and walked home soaked to the bone, and let me tell you, people pointed and they did not whisper.

I am not telling this story to garner sympathy or to decry “woe is me,” but to warn others that very bad things can happen if you assume without knowing beforehand what a certain situation or event might look like. I could have asked if it was going to be a small or large party.

I could have asked how many people will be there that I know, and if it was going to be more “hang out” oriented or “drink to get drunk.”

Furthermore, I could have left sooner with how uncomfortable I was feeling

To reiterate: It’s okay to feel different and it’s certainly okay to not drink. Never, ever do something that makes you feel uncomfortable in order to “fit in.”Also, please know your limits. If you think a certain situation is going to make you uncomfortable, evaluate and ask questions beforehand so you’ll know what you’re getting yourself into.

rather try to “tough it out” and “get used to it.”

Above all, know your limits, especially if you struggle with anxiety disorders or want to grab the nearest paper bag at the thought of a huge party full of strangers.

Never feel pressured to do something or go anywhere that makes you feel intensely uncomfortable – it will not benefit you in the slightest.

Surround yourself with those who understand you and your limits and you will reap the rewards.

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