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The buzz on Corvallis beekeeping By Chloe Stewart News Contributor
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in some of the most unassuming but vital contributors to our ecosystem — honeybees and other native pollinators. All around the world, these species have been plagued by seemingly never ending problems. Unfortunately, the state of Oregon is no exception. According to faculty research assistant Carolyn Breece of OSU’s Honey Bee Research and Extension program, honeybee populations in Oregon are suffering annual losses that have doubled in the last few years. “Right now, we’re hovering around 30
percent losses after winter, and that’s really too high to be sustainable for beekeepers in Oregon and throughout the country as well,” Breece said. The reasons for these losses are abundant and often difficult to pin down. Jen Larsen, beekeeping specialist at Shonnard’s Nursery, described a number of problems that are affecting hives in the Corvallis area, including infestations of invasive varroa mites, exposure to pesticides, and poor nutrition. “Lack of good forage for bees is another huge one,” Larsen said. “It reduces their immune capacity, it reduces nutrition overall.” The loss of bees can already be felt in
local business. Working to keep bee hives happy and healthy enough to make an income can be difficult and very expensive for local beekeepers like Ethan Bennett, owner of Honey Tree Apiaries. “Maintaining a large number of beehives without sustaining losses of over 30 percent, it’s difficult to make money on,” Bennett said. While there may be many difficulties to tackle and it may be slow going, work is being done to support local pollinator populations. According to Larsen and Breece, there has been a great increase in small-scale beekeeping in the last 5 years. More edu-
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Upper Room: prayer room neighboring campus provides peaceful location for student worship By Riley Youngman News Contributor
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The Upper Room provides students with a peaceful place to pray and worship.
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Located just off the Oregon State University campus, a local prayer room offers students and the general public a place to quietly worship and reflect. Found above The Beanery coffee shop on the corner of 26th St. and Monroe, the Upper Room has been available to the public since late 2009. Graham Seaders, the director of the Upper Room and one of the original founders of the room, opened the area with the intention of providing the community with a safe space that was available to anyone who may need it. “We’ve done a lot of things here, but our main vision is to provide a safe, peaceful place to pray,” Seaders said. Six years ago, Seaders and his friends, many of whom were Oregon State University students at the time, had visions to improve the neighborhood by opening a public prayer room that would provide a safe and peaceful place for worship and reflection to those that desire it. After establishing the idea, pieces began to
We want anyone to feel welcome, no matter where they are on their spiritual journey. Graham Seaders Upper Room Director fall into place and the Upper Room officially opened to the public on Oct. 31, 2009. Since opening, the Upper Room has seen steady use, but Seaders would like to see more. “I hope one day the room will be a place of prayer 24/7 with people always here,” Seaders said.
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GOP tax plans aim to goose economy, will likely boost debt By Chris Adams McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — One of the last times federal lawmakers faced a debt limit crisis, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida blasted the “Washington-manufactured drama” that he said threatened America’s future. On Fox News, he bemoaned the “$17 trillion national debt that continues to grow. I’ve now been here three years; nothing has been done to seriously address that.” Now it’s his turn to do something. Yet the tax plan Rubio offered in advance of his presidential campaign might not only add to the national debt — it could keep it higher than today’s levels for 25 years, according to an analysis Rubio’s office itself has highlighted. A disconnect between a leader in the party of debt reduction pushing a proposal that could do the opposite isn’t new. But in this year of a big Republican field and even bigger tax-cutting dreams, the difference between what voters say they want and what the candidates offer up is particularly stark. Rubio’s tax-cutting proposal isn’t even close to being the biggest one. And yet the chance that he or other candidates will get punished by the electorate seems remote. For his part, Rubio has said his tax plan needs to be paired with budget controls, and that it would not require raising the debt ceiling. Other presidential hopefuls say much the same about their tax plans. The nation is heading toward another showdown in November
over whether to raise the $18.1 trillion limit on how much debt the government can hold. At the same time, candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are coming out with their proposals to restructure the nation’s tax system. One thing they share in common is that they reduce tax revenue by trillions of dollars, possibly adding to the national debt. That would be something that voters — particularly ones from their party _ say they oppose. But it’s also one that — as history has shown — isn’t likely to hurt the candidates in the long run. “That’s a head-scratcher,” said Jared Bernstein, a former top aide to Vice President Joe Biden who is now a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think tank. “I’ve become convinced that the politicians you are describing have much less fiscal rectitude than their posture — and that their supporters in the electorate kind of feel the same way.” Bernstein, of course, represents the other side of the partisan divide — the one more willing to raise taxes as a way to patch up the nation’s long-term fiscal issues. But the dynamic he describes is borne out by polling data that show Americans profess to abhor the nation’s growing debt – with conservative Republicans most likely to hold those views. But like the reality that voters hate Congress but keep sending back their own representative, many voters say they dislike the debt – but really aren’t all that upset about it, polls show.
For any major deal or meaningful changes to actually take place we need presidential leadership. Orrin Hatch Finance Committee Chairman In 2013, during a debt limit crisis in Washington, a survey from the Pew Research Center asked people whether the country needed to raise the federal debt limit, allowing it to raise the funds necessary to meet its obligations. Overall, Pew found, 43 percent of conservative Republicans believed that raising the debt ceiling was not needed at all. And more than half of tea party Republicans and Republican-leaners said it was not necessary — then or ever — to raise the debt ceiling. A USA Today/Gallup poll found much the same in 2011, during a different debt ceiling standoff. Asked whether they approved or disapproved of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, 64 percent of Republicans disapproved, while 26 percent approved (overall, the split was 46-39 disapprove to approve). “Republican voters say they are worried about the expanding
national debt, but when you question them closely, their solution is to slash the size of government,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. But because cutting the government is so difficult, promised tax cuts come quickly but the government cutbacks don’t necessarily follow. “Dessert first, spinach later — and we fill up on dessert, leaving no room for spinach,” Sabato said. Rubio, he said, has plenty of company. “The GOP candidates can all do so with confidence since no one has ever paid a price for this,” he said. “In fact, you can argue that mainly, they are rewarded politically.” The Republican candidates began rolling out their proposals earlier this year, and Rubio got a lot of attention with a March proposal to cut both corporate and individual income taxes. Rubio unveiled his tax proposal even before he was a declared presidential candidate. In a news conference with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the two senators proposed their plan to cut taxes and — as a consequence — spur the economy. On the individual side, it would cut and simplify the number of tax brackets, create a new $2,500 child tax credit and eliminate certain deductions (although it would keep deductions for charitable giving as well as a modified one for mortgage interest). On the corporate side, it would drop rates and make several other business-friendly changes. The senators haven’t yet put pen to paper and introduced their ideas
as legislation. Said Alex Burgos, a Senate spokesman for Rubio: “It’s still in development with stakeholders, experts and other interested parties.” The Lee-Rubio plan has essentially become the Marco-Rubio-forpresident tax plan, joining similar efforts by candidates Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum. Even if Lee and Rubio did formally introduce their plan, it’s not likely anything would happen this Congress. More likely than not, the tax overhaul Rubio and Lee touted in March will have to wait until 2017 before any congressional eyes really look at it. In the Senate, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is chairman of the Finance Committee, and he’s interested in pursuing comprehensive tax reform. But he also knows that in order to accomplish that, the Congress and the president will need to be on the same page — and that certainly isn’t the case with Democrat Barack Obama in the White House. “For any major deal or meaningful changes to actually take place we need presidential leadership,” Hatch said in a statement to McClatchy. While Hatch credited Obama for his leadership on trade issues, he said he hasn’t seen the same on tax issues. “Imagine what could happen if the president applied that same effort to overhaul our nation’s broken tax code,” Hatch added. (As the plans have come in, the assessments of them have followed.
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US cancels plans for oil leases in the Arctic By Sean Cockerham McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is abandoning plans to open the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling in the face of dwindling industry interest and environmental objections. The Interior Department said Friday that it is canceling two scheduled Arctic Ocean lease sales. One was planned for next year to auction rights to drill for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. The other was for 2017 in the neighboring Beaufort Sea. At the same time, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell rejected the requests of Shell
and Statoil for more time to consider drilling under their current leases. Those leases begin expiring in 2017. Shell recently announced that its $7 billion Arctic Ocean oil exploration program was a failure. The company said it didn’t find enough oil to justify the cost and was abandoning the offshore Arctic drilling effort “for the foreseeable future.” “In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half,” Jewell said.
The Arctic Ocean is believed to hold huge oil and gas deposits. But low energy prices and high costs have dampened the enthusiasm of oil companies for exploring the Arctic Ocean and the lease sales were expected to draw little interest, especially after Shell’s costly failure. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, nevertheless criticized the president for blocking “any hope for future energy development in the Arctic.” He blamed environmental regulations for Shell’s failure. “Obama has once again played directly into Russia’s hands as he destroys our nation’s energy potential,” said Bishop,
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The art room in the Upper Room, a place for prayer run by the Heart of the Valley House of Prayer.
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Continued from page 1 Christopher Beach, who lives in the neighboring apartment, interacts with the room daily. Beach works on maintenance and upkeep of the property in order to keep the space open to the public. “This is a space designated for prayer and to hang out with God,” Beach said. Today, The Upper Room has many different amenities available to its users, including musical instruments, a private prayer area, kitchen, bathroom, art room and neighborhood book exchange.
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“People pray different ways, just like people learn different ways,” Seaders said. “That is why we have so many different things. We want to encourage people to pray in whatever way works for them.” While currently most of the visitors of the Upper Room are of the Christian faith, the space is not limited to those who identify with this demographic. An inviting atmosphere is Seader’s goal. “I really want this space to be a gift to the neighborhood. We want anyone to feel welcome, no matter where they are on their spiritual journey,” Seaders said. The Upper Room is used by both formal
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Beavers blown out in the Palouse
It will take a couple of years for the Beavers to be ready for ‘Big Boy Football’ Walking alongside the student section of Martin Stadium in the final minutes of Washington State’s 52-31 victory against Oregon State, the students started jingling their keys and chanting “Warm up the bus!” Warm up the bus!” A devastating sign for a visiting team. Then it hit me – The students did not get to do that when the Cougars fell to FCS Portland State in the home opener on Sept. 5. But here they were six weeks later, scoring 45 points before halftime against the Beavers. Washington State grew up from week one. With a victory over Oregon at Autzen Stadium and throttling Oregon State, the Cougars are a victory against Washington away from being the top team in the northwest – you know, beside the Vikings of Portland State. It has become clear that through three conference games that the Beavers aren’t ready, for what Andersen regularly calls “Big Boy Football.” So what happened to the Andersen who was viewed as a slam dunk hire, after leading Wisconsin to 19 wins in his two seasons at the helm? Why has Oregon State taken a step backwards when the Andersen hire seemed like the Beavers would take a step forward? First off, Beaver fans everywhere shouldn’t look to what Andersen did in his time at Wisconsin, he took over a program that was already established going to three straight Rose Bowls under Bret Bielema. Andersen did what he was supposed to, he kept the ship afloat winning 19 games in his two seasons in Madison. Instead they should look to what Andersen was able to accomplish while he was the head coach at Utah State from 2009-2012. He took over a program that was 12-46 in the five years prior to him taking over the reins. In Andersen’s first season the Aggies won only two games – which by the way the Beavers are playing now, they might be headed down the same path. Slowly, the level of play improved. Two wins turned into four, then four to seven, before finally winning 11 games in 2012 – his final year. The program transformation took place in the small town of Logan, Utah. Which, according to a friend of mine, is often called “Corvallis of northern Utah.” Okay, I made that part up, but the point remains that in that in his time, Andersen was able to up the level of talent with players such as Bobby Wagner and Robert Turbin who have had successful NFL careers and Chuckie Keeton, who when healthy is one of the better quarterbacks in the country. In the late 2000’s the Pac-12 had Chip Kelly, Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll turned their respected programs into national powers, while elevating the profile and competitiveness of the Pac-10/Pac-12 conference. This caused a ripple effect, hiring a top-notch football coach became a top priority. In 2012 four Pac-12 schools went through coaching changes, not the kind where a head coach takes a better job and assistant coach who is promoted, but the kind where there is a complete overhaul of a staff. And the coaches that were brought in were quality coaches with impressive resumes. Arizona brought in Rich Rodriguez, who had coached West Virginia to two BCS bowls. UCLA brought in Jim Mora who was a head coach for five years in the NFL, Washington State brought in Mike Leach innovator of the “Air-Raid” offense, one of the more lethal passing attacks in the country. And Arizona State lured Todd Graham after one season at Pitt after having three ten win seasons as the head coach at Tulsa. Oregon State beat all four of those team en route to their nine-win season in 2012. Now those teams have had time to implement their schemes, recruit “their guys” and have their program foundation set. Oregon State is still in their early stages, relearning an entirely new a forign playbook, while finding “their guys.” A task that can take years. Over the past decade, former head coach Mike Riley had a knack for finding players from across the country that were often overlooked by many programs. Walk-ons became national award winners and under recruited players from recruiting-hotbed states became
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Junior corner Treston Decoud (14) and junior wide receiver Victor Bolden (6) walk off the field at Martin Stadium following a 52-31 loss to Washington State on Oct. 17.
Beavers have no answer for Falk, Cougars drop third straight game By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor
Pullman, Wash – When Washington State redshirt sophomore quarterback Luke Falk went to the locker room with 323 yards passing and six touchdown passes as the Cougars pilled up 45 points. It was only halftime. Falk and the Cougar offense picked apart the Oregon State defense as they tried showing different looks and bringing different blitz packages. None of those phased Falk as he led the Cougars to a 52-31 victory over the Beavers.
In 2014, Falk made his first career start at Reser Stadium against the Beavers where he tossed five touchdowns and 471 yards for a 39-32 victory. On Saturday, Falk was even more impressive throwing for more touchdowns than incompletions in the first half. The Oregon State defense had no answer. “He was on fire,” Andersen said of Falk. “We helped him, at times, be on fire. But, hey, that’s football. You get an opportunity to take advantage of something, and he did. In this offense, if they have the ability to throw the football on time, if you can’t disrupt routes or you can’t have the ability to disrupt the quarterback, (it’s tough to stop).” While Washington State’s offense was humming, the Beaver offense once against could not find any sort of rhythm.
Early in the second quarter the Beavers found themselves in the hole, 24-3, before junior receiver Victor Bolden returned a kick 100 yards to bring some life back to the Oregon State sideline. But a failed onside attempt on the ensuing kickoff gave the Cougars a short field to work with, which resulted in a threeplay, 50 yard touchdown drive. With 4:21 left in the half, freshman quarterback Seth Collins scored on a 12-yard run to bring the lead back to 21 points. The Beavers then forced Falk and the Cougar offense into a 3rd and 19 deep in their own territory. If the Beavers could have forced a punt, they would have had enough time to score before the end of the half to bring the lead down to 14. Instead, Falk found receiver Dom Williams to move the chains. The Cougars would go on to score, taking a 45-17 into the break. “There are some days like that are out there,” Andersen said. “If you don’t expect that to happen at some point in this league, you’re crazy.” The Beavers did make the game interesting in the second half, the defense pitched a shutout in the third quarter and the Beavers were able to bring the score to within 20 following a touchdown reception by sophomore receiver Jordan Villamin. The Beaver then recovered the onside kick and began to drive down the field before Collins was picked off by Shalom Luani who returned the ball 84 yards for a touchdown to put the game on ice. Oregon State will return home for the first time since Sept. 26 where they fell to Stanford 42-24. They will host Colorado with both teams still looking for their first conference win of the 2015 season.
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Freshman quarterback Seth Collins takes the snap late in the fourth quarter against Washington State on Oct. 17
“The key thing is, just keep on fighting, keep on battling, and we did,” Andersen said. “I love coaching this team. (The players) are working their tails off. There’s absolutely no quit in them. They’re giving it their best shot week in and week out. I’m damn proud to be their coach.” On Twitter @brathbone3
Athlete of the Week Nikki Faris
For the first time since the 2010 season, the Oregon State women’s soccer team defeated the UCLA Bruins in a 2-1 victory at Paul Lorenz Field on Saturday. Nikki Faris was key for the Beavers’ offensive attack. The sophomore forward out of San Clemente, Calif. scored the game’s first goal in the 18th
minute to give the Beavers the early lead. Faris then assisted on the game clinching goal by sophomore forward Emma Jones to give the Beavers a two goal advantage. In the game Faris doubled her season total of goals and assists, bringing her total to two goals and two assists.
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Junior defender Greta Espinoza kicks a ball pass two Bruin defenders in the Beavers 2-1 victory over UCLA on Oct. 17 at Paul Lorenz Field
Late goal seals victory for women’s soccer against UCLA Beavers beat the Bruins for the first time since 2010 By Tiara Scott Sports Contributor
After the Oregon State women’s soccer team had two rough games on the road, the team returned home to Corvallis to face UCLA. The Beavers scored early in the first half to give them momentum to keep pushing and eventually beat the Bruins 2-1. “It’s been a long time since we’ve beaten them. I thought today we were definitely the better team,” said
head coach Linus Rhode. “We had a good game plan, the girls played really well. They executed. It was fun to watch.” Sophomore forward Nikki Faris scored a goal off the assist from McKenzie Redberg to give the Beavers (6-5-3, 2-4 Pac-12) an early 1-0 lead. The goal proved to be beneficial to how the rest of the game played out for the Beavers. “I think the first goal was really important for our team because it showed that we could come out there and play with the best teams,” Faris said. “It just gave us a little bit of extra confidence that we can keep
going and make it through the rest of the game.” Although the beavers were able to keep UCLA (6-7-1, 2-3-1) from scoring in the first half, in the second half the Bruins came out with an intent to score. Their ball pressure and constant possession had the beavers constantly back on defense. “We knew we had to keep concentrating and we knew they were gonna come out stronger than they were in the first half,” Faris Said. “But we just kept it strong and kept attacking like we did in the first half.” With the Beavers clinging to their one goal lead late in the game, soph-
omore forward Emma Jones gave Oregon State a two goal advantage in the 83rd minute, which proved to be the game winner. UCLA would finally get on the board in the 88th minute, but Beavers were able to hold on “UCLA is good at keeping the ball so we said okay they can keep the ball, but they can keep it where it’s not dangerous, keep it in front of us, and close all the spaces by the ball.” Rhode said. The Bruins outshot the Beavers 9-to-8 and possessed the ball majority of the game. But a strong defensive performance and two saves
from sophomore goalkeeper Bella Geist, who moved into sixth on the school’s all-time saves, kept UCLA off the board for majority of the game. “It proved really important to get that second goal because they obviously got us on a free kick later on with two minutes left, all of a sudden the game changes, but I thought we did a pretty good job trying to kill the clock off,” Rhode said. The Beavers will travel to the desert to take on Arizona and Arizona State next weekend. They will take on the Sun Devils on Friday at 7 p.m. and the Wildcats on Sunday at 1 p.m. sports@dailybarometer.com
Beavers suffer 1-0 loss in the Seattle rain
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The Oregon State men’s soccer team was unable to overcome No. 20 Washington Sunday, as they fell 1-0 in a rain-soaked field in Seattle. The Beavers (7-5-1, 2-2 Pac-12) were able to create many scoring chances throughout the contest, but couldn’t find the net in a hardfought defeat against the Huskies (6-2-5, 2-1-2). OSU played the match without the services of sophomore defender Sam Tweeton and senior midfielder Phillip van Berkom, both of whom were unavailable due to injury. The Beavers began the match aggressively, whipping a number of balls into the box within the opening eight minutes of play. It was the Huskies, however, that got the breakthrough goal to gain the 1-0 advantage in the ninth minute. Oregon State would bounce back with a chance in the 13th minute, as senior forward Mikhail Doholis curled the ball towards the
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head of sophomore forward Timmy Mueller, but the forward headed it just wide. Doholis followed that up with a shot of his own, firing high on an effort from 25 yards out. Freshman midfielder Hassani Dotson took aim from a similar distance just a minute later, with a shot that grazed the top of the crossbar. OSU sophomore goalkeeper Nolan Wirth came up with a big save in the 59th minute, stopping the shot of a Washington player who was in on goal. Doholis forced a save with a left-footed shot from the top of the box in the 70th minute. The Beavers were reduced to 10 men in the 75th when junior forward Matt Arbogast was assessed a second yellow card. Down a man, the Beavers would continue to press forward, and they came within inches of leveling the score in the 77th minute when Dotson pinged a shot off the post off a feed from Mueller. OSU threatened for the remaining minutes of play, but could not breakthrough the Husky back-line. The men’s team will not have a game this week, they will pick up again on Oct. 30 when they host Stanford. sports@dailybarometer
If you were to break down the 22 starting offense and defense into their star rankings that they received Continued from page 4 as high school recruits, based off major contributors in Corvallis. rivals.com, it looks like this – one But for every Jordan Poyer, Mike Hass and James Rodgers that doned four-star, 12 three-star, eight twothe orange and black and became star and one who did not receive a an all-conference performer, there star ranking. are more of those players that didn’t But if you are like me, stars don’t work out. always tell the whole story, you look That’s what we are finding out with at the player’s offer sheet to see the 2015 team. The level of talent on which school offered scholarships to the roster just is not on par with the each player has coming out of high rest of the conference. school. Outside of Isaac Seumalo,
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Junior forward Matt Arbogast kicks the ball in the Beavers 1-0 double overtime victory against UCLA on Oct. 2. Beavers fell to Washington in Seattle 1-0 on Sunday.
Sean Harlow and Kyle Peko – who all had more than three offers from Pac12 schools. Five starters had a Pac-12 offer other than Oregon State, while the remaining 14 players only held an Oregon State offer.
six games, for better or for worse, the offense goes as he goes. The weight of the team rests on the arms and legs, mostly legs, of a true freshman who didn’t complete 50 percent of his passes as a senior in high school and In terms of talent, Oregon State is finding out that he can’t solely rely is bringing knife to a gunfight. They on his athletic ability. don’t have that star player who can It has been a while since an Orecarry a team the way Jacquizz Rodg- gon State team has been so short of ers, Brandin Cooks or Yvenson Ber- all-conference caliber players. nard did in the past. Andersen has already made strides Right now the biggest weapon is in improving the talent level. Some quarterback Seth Collins. Through of the premier high school players
have already given their verbal commitment to play for Oregon State. Although those commitments are not official, very few recruits of that profile have made commitments in the past. I said last week that the coaching transition was going to be a process and not a quick fix. There are going to be games where the keys be dangled by opposing student sections, but before too long, it will be the BeaverDam chanting “Warm up the bus.” On Twitter @brathbone3
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Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.
Politicians such as Rubio prefer that their tax plans be assessed — scored — on what is known as a dynamic basis, attempting to factor in how the economy will change over time because of the tax cuts they put in place. The traditional approach is known as a static analysis, which doesn’t factor in such growth. And while Rubio prefers a dynamic analysis, the reality is that his plan as advertised will add to the national debt for years — whether under a dynamic or a static analysis, according to the Tax Foundation, a Washington think tank. Others would, too. Trump, the businessman now leading the Republican presidential field, announced his tax plan last month, and wrote in The Wall Street Journal that it “will not add to our deficits or to the national debt. With moderate growth, this plan will be revenue-neutral.” At the Tax Foundation, economist Alan Cole read Trump’s piece and came away puzzled. “I do not believe this to be true under any scenario remotely resembling Mr. Trump’s plan,” he wrote. While the candidates tout
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the tax-cutting parts of their plans, they generally don’t agree the revenue losses mean the national debt will grow. Santorum, for example, says his plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — would offset his plan’s tax cuts, and Paul plans to abolish several federal departments and shrink others, spokesmen for each candidate said. But as for those revenue losses: Among the six GOP candidates’ plans with enough specifics in their proposals to be analyzed, Trump’s costs the most, under the Tax Foundation’s analyses: $12 trillion over 10 years. Jindal’s would cost $11.3 trillion, Rubio’s $6 trillion, Bush’s $3.6 trillion, Santorum’s $3.2 trillion and Paul’s $3 trillion. Even under dynamic scoring — thus taking into account economic growth it spurs — Trump’s would cost $10.1 trillion, Jindal’s $9 trillion, Rubio’s $2.4 trillion, Bush’s $1.6 trillion, Santorum’s $1.1 trillion and Paul’s less than $1 trillion, according to Tax Foundation analyses. (The Tax Foundation also went forward 35 years to show the impact the Rubio plan would have on the national
debt. In the long run, the plan raises revenue, it said. But unless the tax cuts are offset elsewhere in the budget, the proposal would increase the debt in the first eight years — and the “cumulative effect ... would be significant,” it wrote in a March report. Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is more blunt: “The only way to absorb such large revenue losses without incurring significant new debt — debt that would take us way over the ceiling — is to cut spending by the same amount. And that’s simply implausible. I certainly haven’t heard any cuts of that magnitude — or any magnitude — specified by Rubio.” Because of the impact of initial deficits and the extra interest costs they produce, the proposal as offered by Rubio and Lee in March would only return the national debt to its current levels in the year 2040, according to the Tax Foundation analysis. Since introducing the tax plan in March, Rubio has said he plans to attack the broader debt issue by doing two things: Cutting taxes to boost the economy and holding the line on spending. He says that the country needs to change Social Security and Medicare,
the winner of next year’s presidential election. Democratic presidential front-runner Continued from page 2 Hillary Clinton has expressed opposition to who is chairman of the House Committee on drilling in the Arctic Ocean, while Republican candidates have either supported the drilling Natural Resources. Senate Energy Committee Chairwoman or not taken positions. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called it a “stunEnvironmental groups praised the govning, shortsighted move.” ernment’s decision to cancel the lease sales “Today’s decision is the latest in a destruc- scheduled over the next two years. tive pattern of hostility toward energy pro“For years, people around the world have duction in our state that began the first day been demanding President Obama protect this administration took office,” Murkowski the Alaskan Arctic from catastrophic oil drillsaid. There could still be Arctic Ocean drilling ing, and today he’s taken a major step,” said lease sales in 2020 and 2022, under Interior Greenpeace spokesman Travis Nichols. McClatchy Washington Bureau Department plans. Much will depend on
ensuring that they are protected for the current recipients but acknowledging that the programs will be different for younger generations. On Social Security, for example, he has a list of policy proposals. Some of those would reduce costs, such as one to gradually increase the Social Security retirement age. But the actual cost to the budget or to individual Americans hasn’t been specified. Asked whether his tax plan would result in the debt ceiling needing to be raised, campaign spokeswoman Brooke Sammon said Rubio doesn’t think it will need to be. McClatchy Washington Bureau
Calendar Tuesday, Oct. 20: Event: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Speed Mock Interviews Location: CH2M Hill Willamette Room Come for a one-of-a–kind opportunity to practice interviewing with Employers and Career Specialist and receive valuable feedback to prepare you for the real thing. Bring your resume. Event: 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Mocktail Hour Location: CH2M Hill Willamette Room Does the word “networking” make you nervous? Come to our “Mocktail Hour” and enjoy food and drink and tips from professionals on how to network.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21: Event: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fall All Industry Career Fain Location: CH2M Hill Alumni Center Attend the Career Fair to meet over 100 employers interested in hiring OSU students and alumni Event: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fall Engineering and Technology Career Fair Location: CH2M Hill Alumni Center Attend the Career Fair to meet over 100 employers interested in hiring OSU students and alumni Event: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. OSU Waste Watchers Repair Fair Location: SEC plaza. Receive free repairs for broken or damaged items; attend demos to learn DIY skills.
SATURDAY, Oct. 24: Event: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Philomath Open Studios Tour & Art Sale Location: Philomath Area A free, self-guided, tour of 17 unique studios with 37 artists’ work, open to the public from noon to 5pm during the last two weekends of October. TUESDAY, Oct. 27: Event: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Society of American Foresters Job Fair Location: Peavy Hall and Richardson Hall Knuckles Meet employers interested in hiring students.
TUESDAY, Nov. 10: Event: 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. University Events Location: LaSells Stewart Center Provost’s Lecture Series. Leadership Under Pressure: A Historian’s Close-up Look at Presidential Decision-Making
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At Jerusalem landmark, Palestinians, Jews and a kitchen full of knives By Daniella Cheslow
Jerusalem’s Old City. “They just closed a road in Hebron.” “Where are the grape leaves?” demanded JERUSALEM – In a hot kitchen in Jerusalem’s bustling vegetable market, Omar Abu Sbitan waitress Natalie Geva, 23, from the Rahavia took a break from washing knives and forks quarter in west Jerusalem. to check the constant stream of notifications Azura restaurant, founded in 1952, is a Jeruon his phone. salem landmark that reflects the city’s chaotic “We are under occupation. It’s not normal,” charm: colorful, aromatic Kurdish stews bubsaid Abu Sbitan, 17, a baby-faced Palestinian ble in battered wide aluminum pots, teetering from the Mount of Olives neighborhood near over undersized kerosene burners for hours. McClatchy Foreign Staff
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Israeli restaurant owner Moshe Shrefler, right, and Palestinian cook Mosab Almator take a break at Azura restaurant in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015.
But as the recent wave of violence has engulfed the city, the restaurant reveals Jerusalem’s deeply interwoven character that both defies and encapsulates the frustrations of both Israelis and Palestinians. On Wednesday, Moshe Shrefler, 39, the restaurant’s owner, smoked Camel cigarettes at a vinyl-topped table. With few customers, the loudest noise came from two dozen old men playing backgammon and dominoes. Clientele has shriveled, and Shrefler said he’s taken six dishes off the menu and cut back hours to adjust. “The situation is not good,” Shrefler said. “People are not coming to the market.” This month Palestinians have killed seven Israelis in a string of stabbings and shootings; Israelis killed at least 31 Palestinians, including suspected assailants. To quell the violence, Israeli forces on Wednesday dragged roadblocks across the entrances to several east Jerusalem neighborhoods that have been hotbeds of violence. The divisions belie a more complex reality. Two-thirds of Jerusalem’s residents are Jewish Israelis; the other third are Palestinians who claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, as the capital of a future state. Although Israelis and Palestinians live in segregated neighborhoods, half of all employed Palestinians work in the western section of the city or in Israel, according to Marik Shtern, a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. The 35,000 Palestinian workers in the capital dominate the hotel and construction industries and comprise more than half of transportation workers. Hagai Agmon-Snir, director of the Jerusalem Intercultural Center, which promotes civic engagement, said Israeli employers rely on Palestinians for inexpensive labor. Palestinians, separated from the West Bank by the
Iraq claims to have taken key oil facility, again By Mitchell Prothero McClatchy Washington Bureau
IRBIL, Iraq – Iraqi security forces claimed Thursday to have taken control of most of the nearly completely destroyed oil refinery in the strategic central Iraqi city of Baiji, as a mix of army and militias continued to battle Islamic State forces to end a long struggle for the town. The Iraqi government has claimed multiple times before to have secured the facility, so the substance or durability of the gains cannot be established. But military advisers and analysts say that even if the proclaimed victory lasts this time, it’s likely a Pyrrhic one. Heavy fighting that has spanned more than 17 months has destroyed the facility, once Iraq’s largest industrial plant, and conservative estimates predict it will take billions of dollars and years to make it operational again. Once responsible for more than 40 percent of Iraq’s production of gasoline and other refined products, the Baiji refinery has been “completely destroyed for nearly a year,” according to one American oil executive who has examined a number of Islamic State propaganda videos from the area. “It will probably be cheaper and easier to restart from scratch, as there’s really not much left to repair,” said the executive, who asked not to be identified because of ongoing business relationships with the Iraqi Oil Ministry. “But they can’t even
It will probably be cheaper and easier to restart from scratch, as there’s really not much left to repair. Anonymous American oil executive begin building a new one until they secure the country better, because no company will send the skilled technicians needed for such an endeavor into this security environment.” Iraqi officials made the announcement that the U.S.trained Counter Terrorism Force – one of the few combateffective units still available to the Iraqi government – had taken the lead in clearing the facility and much of the town. But the Iraqi government has claimed at least three times that the facility had been liberated, only to have it slip back under Islamic State control in an area char-
acterized by sympathy for the Islamic State and its predecessor, al-Qaida in Iraq. Bolstering Thursday’s claim was a video circulated on progovernment Shiite militia websites that showed Hadi al Ameri, the commander of the Iranian-trained and -backed Badr Brigade militia, visiting troops and planning operations in what appeared to be part of the oil refinery. Although the government touted the role of the Counter Terrorism Unit in the operation, Iraqi militia sources said that Ameri had taken control of the Baiji operation, a claim that Iraqi Defense Ministry officials declined to confirm or deny.
Regardless of the ultimate success of the operation, Aymenn al Tamimi, an analyst of Iraq and the Islamic State for the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, says that control of Baiji and its ruined oil refinery has little strategic value and that the Iraqi government’s obsession with recapturing it has sapped energy from more important goals, such as recapturing Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, which fell to the Islamic State over the summer. He said the Islamic State has used Baiji “to keep government forces bogged down and prevent any momentum gain against IS generally,” he wrote in an email. A Western military adviser who consults with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish Regional Government and its military said the long battle for Baiji shows that the Iraqi military is nowhere near prepared for a campaign to retake larger Islamic State cities such as Mosul or Tal Afar. McClatchy Washington Bureau
Israeli-built separation barrier, depend for work on Israelis. Agmon-Snir recalled an Arab bus driver strike in 2014 sparked by a mysterious hanging of a Palestinian driver. “Jerusalem collapsed in terms of transportation,” he said. At Azura, Palestinians do most of the cooking and cleaning. Waiters are young Israelis fresh from military service. Clientele ranges from local vegetable sellers to tourists to prime ministers. “No Israelis will do the work Palestinians will do,” Shrefler said. He said his cooks have worked with him for years. Mosab Almator, 31, said he started working at Azura 15 years ago and trained with Shrefler’s father, Ezra. Almator, from the Shuafat refugee camp, said he learned Hebrew while cooking. It took three years before he could roll the delicate semolina-encrusted meatball dumplings known as kubbeh, cooked in beet or zucchini stews. Almator said Moshe Shrefler attended his wedding; Ezra came to his father’s funeral. He said Palestinian employers had offered him work. “I said no. Here I feel respect,” Almator said. Others in the kitchen had more conflicted loyalties. Abu Sbitan, the teenage dishwasher, said he sympathized with Palestinians who attacked Israelis. “I am with them. Without them we will not liberate the homeland,” he said, and turned back to washing forks and knives. “I am satisfied with this job. The bosses are good.” Rami Frukh, 28, said he works in west Jerusalem because he could not find a job with equal pay at a Palestinian restaurant. He said Israeli security forces stopped him three times
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Bees
Continued from page 1 cational programs have sprung up to teach students of all ages about bees and their importance, in addition to an increase in the research that is being done. “The beautiful thing about it is it’s putting the spotlight on bees, so all of the headlines say that we’re losing all these hives, but it’s putting bees in the limelight,” Breece said. Additionally, OSU supports these endeavors with the Oregon State Master Beekeeper Program. Started just two years ago, this tremendously popular program — with more applicants than can be served — is designed to train master beekeepers through hands-on learning and community service. The program spans several years and has taken root in beekeepeing communities across the state of Oregon. Among the mentors for the program is Karessa Torgerson, master beekeeper. “Ours is the only program in the nation that pairs apprentices with mentors so they get hands-on experiences in the colonies,” Torgerson said. Completing the program and caring for bees may be a lot of work, but for beekeepers like Lynn Royce of the newly founded Corvallis non-profit organization Tree Hive Bees, Inc., it’s a beautiful hobby and a way to make the world a little better. “When you work a colony of bees, it’s like, some people describe it as a zen moment.” Royce said. “So you’re in the colony and you’re in that moment and you’re looking at the bees and they’re examining you. Everything else goes away. It’s almost a release of all the problems you have.” For those who aren’t as keen on keeping their own bees,but would still like to help support the cause, the beekeeping community recommends learning more about bees, planting pollinatorfriendly gardens and buying local honey. news@dailybarometer.com
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The group at the master beekeeping event ‘Friday in the Apiary’ on Oct. 16 check on the hives at the Oregon State University apiary to see if the bees are ready for winter.
Jerusalem
56, ate stewed cow lung and said he could not understand the Palestinians’ anger. Continued from page 7 “In Jerusalem, they are Israelis,” Ben-Aharon said. “They have the Israeli identity. They have Tuesday as he took the train from his home all the rights, and still they throw stones.” in east Jerusalem to Azura. Natalie Geva, the waitress, said that as a Jew “The third time the soldier was OK,” Frukh she felt uneasy walking to work recently. She said. “He didn’t keep me for 20 minutes.” said the restaurant atmosphere was mostly Outside, Israeli locksmith Eitan Ben-Aharon, jovial, but she admitted there was tension. She
said she interrogated the kitchen staff herself on Tuesday. “Yesterday I went one by one and asked, ‘Do you throw stones?’ “ Geva said. “Usually they say no, but I know who does it.” She said the kitchen workers told her about the searches they endured in Jerusalem. “On the one hand, you say it’s racist, and my fear is racist, too,” she said. “But on the other
hand, there isn’t really another way.” Shrefler said he often thought about the many knives in his kitchen as he worked. Many of the attacks have been stabbings. “Every morning it’s me and another Palestinian guy in the kitchen. Every day I turn my back to him and every day he turns his back to me,” Shrefler said. “And we are still alive.” McClatchy Washington Bureau