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The Memorial Union Ballroom was filled with dressed-up students and faculty navigating their way through casino games, all to benefit charity. Sigma Kappa hosted their second annual Ultra Violet Sigma Royale casino night Saturday, Oct. 18. This event is Sigma Kappa’s annual philanthropy and one the members believe is very successful. “Last year was our first year, and it was really good for our first year,” said Kylee Jensen, a senior in agricultural sciences. “A lot more people are excited, and a lot more people have shown up this year.” Jensen is vice president of philanthropic services of Sigma Kappa and was one of the main organizers. The money raised from ticket sales goes to the Sigma Kappa Foundation. The Sigma Kappa Foundation allocates the donated money between four different charities: Alzheimer’s Association, Gerontology research, Inherit the Earth and Maine Sea Coast Mission. Some money is also donated to the Sister to Sister Disaster Recovery Fund, which helps provide support after natural disasters. “We had a really good turnout,” said Carly Bergstrom, a junior in exercise and sports science and member of Sigma Kappa. “Last year was really amazing; even if it’s the same as last year, we are all totally good with that.” A ticket was required to get into the event, but that ticket could be redeemed for $300 worth of chips. There were plenty of opportunities to win more chips. Games included blackjack, poker, roulette and craps. There was even an all-Greek Texas hold ‘em tournament. See SIGMA KAPPA | page 2
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party. Like many faculty members who manage student resources here A block party featuring an open on campus, Austin wanted students barbecue and an inflatable bouncy to know that the BCC is here for their castle was held last Friday in honor of sake. “We decided to put on this event the new Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center currently under construction basically to give the OSU commuand set to open spring term. The event nity an update on the cultural center,” was part of the center’s theme for this Austin said. “We wanted to showcase to year of creating a welcoming environ- the school that we’re here, that this is a ment for all Oregon State University resource and to get everyone excited.” Alex Orawiec, a senior in mechanistudents. The BCC Assistant Director cal engineering, heard about Friday’s Dominique Austin was one of several block party from an announcement speakers, including OSU President Ed earlier in the week. “Yeah, I think it’s a great event — it Ray, to give a short speech during the THE DAILY BAROMETER
brings awareness,” Orawiec said. Encouraging students to use the resources available to them is part of the center’s three goals for this year laid out by BCC Leadership Liaison Ariah Suek. “(We’d like to) increase the black student involvement in the BCC and the student groups through greater visibility in the community,” Suek said. “We also want to strengthen our relationship with campus partners who share our interest in helping students succeed … and to strengthen the black community across all areas of study by highlighting the importance of educa-
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Friday, Oct. 17, Oregon State University students and community members had the chance to try their hand at graffiti, compose midi beats and learn how to disc jockey. Hip-hop music and workshops were held on two floors of OSU’s Reser Stadium. Music technology Instructors Mike Gamble and Shawn
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False Reports According to Oregon State Police logs, two people tried to initiate a false police report by “repeatedly attempting” to report a missing vehicle. Officers found that the supposedly stolen vehicle wasn’t owned by either of the reporters and had not actually been reported stolen. Officers took the pair into custody and brought them in to the Benton County Correctional Facility where they were reportedly cited for initiating a false report. They were then released.
Domestic Violence in Residence Hall Around 10:30 p.m., Cauthorn Hall staff called university dispatch regarding a possible domestic disturbance. According to police logs, officers were able to track down both parties of the reported fight. Following further investigation, the man involved was cited for domestic violence/harassment, and following a breath test (which found him to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.17 percent) he was given an additional citation for minor in possession. After checking for prior citations, officers found that the man had previously been cited for an MIP and had been forcibly removed from Reser Stadium. This led officers to also ban the man from all OSU property. Stolen Property at Dixon According to Oregon State Police logs, a man reported items stolen from a locker at Dixon Recreational Center. The man said the items were stolen between 1 and 2 p.m. and included a jacket, a wallet, a cell phone and a notebook. There are no known suspects at this time.
Friday, Oct. 17 Theft of Services In a case that involved both Oregon State Police and the Department of Public Safety, officers responded to the Hilton Gardens Inn to arrest a woman early Friday morning. The general manager of the hotel had called to report a woman for not paying for a meal she’d eaten and for sleeping on a couch in the hotel lobby. According to OSP and DPS logs, further investigation showed the woman had “several outstanding warrants” for her arrest. Officers reportedly banned her
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planning party,” Halvorsen said. “It’s a little bigger than last year’s by about 10 people.” event. Attendees were each given The chips could then be turned into raffle tickets: one ticket NaNoWriMo, as the non- a folder during the event. The for $5 worth of chips. Those raffle tickets could then be used profit organization is called, documents inside included to enter to win different themed prize baskets. Themed prize started in 1999 and challenges writing strategies, NaNoWriMo baskets were donated by various sponsors. One basket included participants to write a 50,000- FAQs and a calendar. After pies from Shari’s Cafe and Pies and Starbucks’ coffee and hot word novel during November. Gitschlag’s introduction, peochocolate; another one featured items from PINK. Participants can’t start writing ple participated in a game Besides games, there were also hors d’oeuvres, mocktails their novels until November called “Pimp My Plot.” During and a house-of-cards building competition. actually begins, but Halvorsen the game, participants were “Sigma Kappa has the raffle baskets, and there are really cool and Gitschlag encouraged encouraged to interact and ones,” said Catherine Huang, a junior in public health and who attendees to begin building help each other build on their was in attendance at the casino night. “They also have door their worlds and fleshing out plots. Afterwards, the rest of prizes every 30 minutes. I’m personally not good at gambling, characters in preparation for the time was devoted to indeso it’s nice to not have to.” the start of the month. pendent planning. Katherine Kothen, news reporter “This is our second plot“We hope that people who news@dailybarometer.com come here will take home a sense of community,” Gitschlag said. “Writing can be a very solitary activity.” Tim Haag, who has a backOSU is hosting two public open houses in October to share the progress of the District Plan ground in writing and education, is looking at his fifth year development with the community. Representatives from OSU will be present to provide doing NaNoWriMo. So far he progress updates and other relevant information, such as past planning assumptions and has completed four novels. outcomes, current statistics and trends, and goals for the next 10 years. “At this point, I’ve just got to The format of the Open Houses will provide opportunities for participants to express their keep putting the puzzle pieces concerns and provide comments on suggestions for achieving various goals. Participants are together,” Haag said. “My next free to come and go as they wish, and light refreshments will be provided. step is researching quirky facts about places in my novel.” Make a difference -consider walking, biking, carpooling or using regional transit to attend A Pre-Write-In event will these events. take place Wednesday, Oct. 29 Tuesday, October 21, 2014 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Francesco’s 4:00 –7:00 PM at 208 SW 2nd St. Attendees LaSells Stewart Center – Giustina Gallery are encouraged to bring their Thursday, October 23, 2014 writing utensils as well as 5:00-8:00 PM money for a drink or snack. Chintimini Senior and Community Center Weekly write-in events will (2601 NW Tyler Ave) also take place throughout November at Francesco’s and the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
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Hoping to come away with its first 2-0 weekend in conference play, the Oregon State women’s volleyball team instead goes 0-2 against UCLA and USC. Head coach Terry Liskevych said going into the weekend that winning their first match against UCLA (5-3 Pac-12, 14-5 overall) on Friday night would be crucial to their success on the weekend. While the Beavers (3-5 Pac-12, 13-6 overall) were able to fight back from an 0-2 start against the Bruins to take the match to five sets, they were unable to get the win. In the first set, Oregon State took the Bruins to extra points but still lost, and that carried into the next set where UCLA dominated OSU, closing the set 25-14. Coming out of the break, however, Oregon State was able to turn the game and decisively took the next two sets 25-19 and 25-15 respectively. In that final set, the Beavers just got out-hit. They were unable to stop the attack and create one of their own. The Beavers only hit .167 in the last set, while UCLA hit .318.
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The Oregon State football team is 4-2 after Thursday’s loss to Utah. Here is this week’s installment of the stats that explain more than just wins and losses. On third downs, Utah finished the game with a combined one-passing-yard. Freshman wide receiver Jordan Villamin’s 72-yard touchdown catch was the first touchdown reception for a Beaver wideout in 237 minutes of game time. After the first offensive play of the game for OSU, in which senior quarterback Sean Mannion threw an interception, Mannion’s quarterback rating was negative 200. He finished the game at 130.9, compared to the 87.8 and 42.8 ratings from Utah’s quarterbacks, juniors Travis Wilson and Kendal Thompson, respectively. All five of Mannion’s interceptions this season have come on first or second down with at least nine See STATS | page 6
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a team high of 21 kills and 12 digs on Oregon State came out swinging the night. at USC and were able to grab the first It was another story against USC set 25-19. However they were unable (4-4 Pac-12, 11-7 overall) on Sunday to carry that momentum through the morning, when the Beavers lost 3-1. See VOLLEYBALL | page 6
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After losing Thursday to San Diego State, Beaver’s lose a tough on the road By Brian Rathbone THE DAILY BAROMETER
Following Thursday’s defeat to San Diego State who has lost every game against Pac-12 opponents other than the Beavers, giving them their first win in conference play. The Beavers looked for a bounce back performance against the No. 14 UCLA Bruins, who earlier in the week had taken down top ranked Washington at home. Oregon State did not bounce back however; instead they ended up falling deep to the Bruins in Los Angeles 3-0. UCLA was able to get on the board in the 30th minute of the game when freshman forward Abu Danladi was able to put the ball in the back of the net giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead, which was a lead they would not surrender. The Bruins and Danladi were
not finished. Nine minutes after he netted his first goal, Danladi was able to get a second ball past redshirt junior goalkeeper Matt Bernsano, pushing the Bruins lead to 2-0 heading into halftime. The Bruins added their final goal courtesy of junior forward Larry Ndjock in the 69th minute. The Beavers struggled offensively, they put little pressure on UCLA’s redshirt senior goalkeeper Earl Edward Jr., who only had one save. The Bruins on the other hand put lots of pressure on Bersano, who recorded six saves in the losing effort. UCLA tripled the Beavers shot total, outshooting them 15-to-5. The Beavers will return home this week to for a rematch against their last two opponents, Sand Diego State and UCLA, in what will be the last two regular season home games for the squad. Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathbone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
After a week since playing their last game, the Beavers resume play Monday evening as the Washington Huskies host them at Husky Soccer Stadium 7 p.m. The winless Beavers (0-11-3, 0-5 Pac-12) look to earn their first victory of the season against Washington (11-4, 4-2) who is currently the third place team in the Pac-12 conference and No. 20 in the nation. The Huskies are currently on a three game winning streak while defeating Cal before sweeping both Arizona and Arizona State at home the previous weekend. Washington is led offensively by a pair of seniors in forward Jaclyn Softli and midfielder Kate Bennett. That combo has record 14 of the teams’ 24 goals on the season. And each has a total of 16 and 15 points, respectively.
That pair will put pressure on the Beavers backline consisting of junior midfielder Gwen Bieck, sophomore defender Kathryn Baker and freshman goalkeeper Bella Geist. For the Beavers to win they must find a way to get a ball in the back of the net. OSU has been shutout in 13 of their 14 matches this season. If the Beavers can get on the board, it can help relieve pressure from the backline. Washington is a team that will give up points. Redshirt junior goalkeeper Megan Kufeld has started at goalkeeper for all their games this season, including four shutout performances. But the Huskies have given up 18 goals in the ten games that Kufeld hasn’t shut out their opponent. The Beavers have had quite a bit of success against the Huskies recently, going undefeated in their last five matchups. They did this by tying them in the last two matchups and winning the three before that. Brian Rathbone, sports reporter On Twitter @brathbone3 sports@dailybarometer.com
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Redshirt freshman midfielder Samantha Moultrie slides for the ball before making contact against Loyola Marymount on Aug. 29.
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rest of the match, and lost the next three sets by an increasing margin each time. The Beavers were unable to step up the varied attack that USC presented them. In particular, outside hitters junior Samantha Bricio and sophomore Ebony Nwanebu gave the Beavers no respite, contributing 17 and 20 kills respectively. USC was able to terminate the ball well, hitting .383 on the match, while the Beavers struggled to find the floor hitting only .259. Defensively, the Beavers were not their usually goodblocking selves against the Trojans, only combining for 3.0 team blocks. When they are able to block well, they are able to transition well, but they lacked that extra touch that allows them to set up their system. Oregon State senior middle blocker Amanda Brown had a great hitting match with a team high of 17 kills, while hitting
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Senior middle blocker Amanda Brown goes up for the kill against Washington State at home on Oct. 11. at .560. Marshall continued her good hitting from the match against UCLA and contributed 16 kills and 9 digs versus USC. With the numbers she put up this
weekend, Marshall is now No. to bounce back from this 0-2 5 in Oregon State’s history for weekend, as they take on the Arizona schools at home next. most kills in a freshman year. The Beavers will need more Sarah Kerrigan, sports reporter performances like Brown’s On Twitter @skerrigan123 and Marshall’s if they hope sports@dailybarometer.com
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Under the new playoff structure, a group of people will weigh-in on who goes where, and who is a part of what. Though this past two seasons. Both of which were cases sounds like a much better system, one has when the Wildcats weren’t even ranked. And to wonder if old habits will persist. The SEC has spent many years as the I could go on about how the ranked teams within the Pac-12 have lost to unranked golden conference of college football, and unfortunately that might be in the back conference opponents. In the past under the coded ramblings of of the minds of those making the final the Bowl Championship Series computer, decisions. one loss could drastically decide what bowl Hopefully all the SEC teams will lose a teams wound up in. game in-between now and then, and the
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Oregon State has yet to The longest pass play surscore a touchdown on a drive rendered by OSU traveled that came after a punt return 15 yards. Utah managed 62 for positive yardage. passing yards in the game Counting sacks, Mannion and allowed four sacks. Utah finished the game with six completed one pass in the carries for negative 54 yards. fourth quarter. Mannion has two games in his None of the four Beavers’ career with positive rushing four kickoff returns reached yards; both were in 2011. the 20-yard line. All four of No Beaver defender totaled those drives ended in punts. more than seven tackles Five of Utah’s seven punts against Utah, while the Utes pinned the Beavers inside had five players with more their own 20-yard line. than seven stops. The Beavers allowed their The Beavers piled up 184 total yards of offense in the first score in a third quarter fourth quarter: the exact same this season when Utah kicked amount of yards picked up a field goal. Oregon State has in the first three quarters given up three third quarter points through six games. combined. Mannion became the secTwelve drives for opposond-leading passer in Pac- ing teams have traveled two 12 history in terms of career yards or fewer, including seven passing yardage in the third drives of negative gain. quarter by finding sophomore Josh Worden, sports reporter wide receiver Victor Bolden on On Twitter @BrightTies a 52-yard streak. He had 66 yards coming into that play. sports@dailybarometer.com
committee will have to go back to the drawing board. But if this doesn’t happen — and the SEC does dominate the playoffs — I would suggest cracking your knuckles and getting ready for some serious keyboard pounding. Otherwise, we could end up seeing the same situation year-after-year that we witnessed in the BCS area: the SEC ruling it all. TeJo Pack, sports editor On Twitter @pack6124 sports@dailybarometer.com
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he West Coast has been waiting for the scheduled arrival of “The Big One” — a megaquake with a magnitude of at least 8.5 to 9 on the Richter scale — for more than a decade. Oregon State University tested its Alert System Thursday, Oct. 16 by sending out a campus-wide “earthquake” alert imploring participation in a voluntary drill at 10:16 a.m. Stressing the term “voluntary,” it’s not really a wonder that the drill went ignored and had an extremely low participation rate. This is both understandable and upsetting. Understandable in the fact that we are all busy college students. We have things to do at 10:16 a.m. on a weekday, classes to attend and paper deadlines to meet. Tell students living in residence halls that there is going to be a fire drill at a specific time and lo and behold how empty the attendance is come event time. Give them the option of volunteering and the result will inevitably be what occurred on Thursday. It also puts students on the spot — if no one else is emulating the “volunteer” drill, why should a sleep-deprived 20-something participate, in all likelihood, alone? This is upsetting because in all seriousness, Oregon is long overdue for a big nasty earthquake. If we are not prepared for something like this, we could experience power outages and a lack of clean water, loss of refrigerated goods and a higher potential for cholera if the water becomes filthy enough. Earthquakes can cause damage to infrastructure, mess with agriculture and chasms — let’s not even get started on chasms. These things are the seeds for chaos. And the most that we got in preparation for this was a short alert asking oh so kindly for our voluntary participation. If the College of Engineering would like students to take this matter seriously — as it deserves such attention — perhaps relying on sleepy and ambivalent college students and their own individual honor systems is not the best choice. When it comes to drills, the trick is not to ask but to do. Even in the most inopportune situations, people will still file out the door for a surprise fire drill. Why? Because it’s loud, uncomfortable and we have been instructed since kindergarten where we go and what we do. It’s a shame that earthquake drills have not received the same precedence. If the earthquake drill on Thursday had been issued with more severity — teachers assisting or some kind of alarm — maybe there would have been a higher level of participation and we would all be more educated on the subject of earthquakes.
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Current events: Hong Kong protests continue, hold relevancy
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ince the former British colony of Hong Kong was returned to the People’s Republic of China in 1997, the city of more than 7 million has struggled against mainland China’s influence to preserve a way of life that is politically and culturally distinct from the rest of the vast nation. It’s both a global economic power with an average GDP four times higher than China proper — as of 2012 — and the only part of the country with recognized freedom of speech. When Hong Kong’s transfer, dubbed ‘The Handover’ by the international community, was being negotiated between China and Britain, the PRC agreed not to interfere with the city’s democratic government or capitalist market for the next 50 years after China
The latest string of protests has its roots in 2013, when activists demanded direct elections for Chief Executive, the top position in the SAR’s government. According to their proposal, anyone resumed sovereignty of the region. who could gain enough signatures One country, two independent would be eligible to run for office. systems. Most of Hong Kong’s population While for the most part these terms supported the notion of a ‘civil nominahave been upheld, there have been tion’ option in the region’s nomination incidents in the past that brought the process. PRC and the people of Hong Kong to In January 2014, more than 60,000 political conflict. people showed up for a trial version of China periodically tries to exert a voting referendum, asking citizens more control over Hong Kong’s own what they thought of the issue. Overall, government, dubbed the Special 94 percent of voters favored an open Administrative Region, prompting bit- nomination system. A similar vote this ter resentment from locals over what June brought in 800,000 people, with 90 they perceive as a foreign power med- percent still in favor. Mainland China agreed to 2017 elecdling in their lives.
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