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ASOSU considers holding emergency election for SIFC board members By Sean Bassinger Senior Beat Reporter
Student leaders on campus have began discussions in regards to an emergency election for student fee committee members. The consideration of such an election comes after a bill failure in the Associated Students of Oregon State University House of Representatives on Wednesday, Oct. 21. If passed, the legislation would have allowed currently appointed interim members on the Student and Incidental Fees Committee to serve as members year round. Before last spring, members of the SIFC were selected via student votes during the regular ASOSU elections. Working with a review committee that consists of representatives from major student fee-funded organizations on campus, last year’s ASOSU executive branch made the decision to change the process. The new system would instead allow the ASOSU president to appoint members of the board based on recommendations from the new review committee. Cassie Huber, current ASOSU president, said members of the House don’t believe the process of an all-student body vote should stay in place for selecting SIFC members. “They felt that taking away the right for students to vote in these
positions was not really constitutionally correct,” Huber said. In addition, Huber said she would like to see the interim SIFC members continue throughout the year until new legislation can be created to help remedy the situation. “The next step is to just try and find time to write this legislation,” Huber said. Mykael Moore, current speaker of the house at ASOSU, said one suggestion for new legislation was a hybrid model that would allow voting to remain for some members and have the ASOSU president appoint others based on student organization recommendations. “I think that’s a really good reason why (the bill) didn’t pass,” Moore said. “The individuals were concerned that students weren’t going to have a say in the SIFC process. They
They really wanted to keep the process of SIFC membership in the hands of the students. Mykael Moore ASOSU House Speaker
really wanted to keep the process of SIFC membership in the hands of the students.” Lyndi Petty, ASOSU vice president and chief elections officer, has already met with election committee members to discuss election operations and promotion , according to Moore. The only issue Moore sees with such an election is that budget discussions and proposals from each student fee-funded group begin as early as the eighth week of fall term. “We’re getting really close to the wire with what they should be doing,” Moore said of the SIFC. Maria Yerkes, chair of the SIFC, said the committee has traditionally consisted of seven members – one of which being the chair – selected via spring student elections. Taylor Sarman, last year’s ASOSU president, decided to hold off on elections in an effort to transition toward the new process of student organizations recommending their own members. “Basically, they provided a recommendation to SIFC on changes,” Yerkes said. “Some of those changes included changing the structure of SIFC.” As of now, Yerkes said the current committee will remain in place and look to the ASOSU House for further instructions. “We follow a pretty tight budget timeline, so we’re just working until we’re told otherwise,” Yerkes said.
According to the Student and Incidental Fee Committee (SIFC), each full-time student paid a total of $446.21 in student fees per term in the 2014-2015 school year. The SIFC is the student organization responsible for allocating these funds to various resources on campus, including Student Health Services, student ticket allocations, ASOSU and over a dozen others. The members of the SIFC have previously been determined by campus elections, but this year members were appointed by ASOSU.
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Rocket club aims for the stars, prepares for competition Diverse group of students build winning rockets By Riley Youngman News Contributor
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Senior electrical engineering major Elliott Fudim, assisted by senior mechanical engineering major Evan Bassford and first year mechanical engineering graduate student Kevin Quintero, inspects the rocket.
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Headquartered in a small room in Rodgers Hall, the Oregon State University American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) rocket building team may not have a lot of room to work with, but that has not stopped them from accomplishing big things. Started only three years ago, the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) team has already established themselves as national champions, taking home first place in multiple categories at their first two years of competition. In 2014, the team took home first place in both the payload competition and the desired altitude competition and followed the next year with taking third in desired height in the advanced category, and again taking top
prize in payload. The payload, which is carried by the rocket, can be a variety of items including satellites, space probes, people, animals or other cargo for larger rockets. This year the ESRA rocket’s payload focuses on active stability control. “We don’t only make sweet rockets, we make the best payloads,” Elliot Fudim, a senior in electrical engineering and lead electrical engineer for the Active Stability Control Team explained. Fudim and Kevin Quintero, a first year grad student in mechanical engineering and lead mechanical engineer for the Active Stability Control Team, have worked two years on instituting electrical and mechanical components that guide the rocket and send data back to Earth, all while carefully navigating federal laws prohibiting complex guidance systems. “The only thing we can legally control is the spin. The moment you try to con-
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New credit card fraud protection creates confusion — even for FBI By Iana Kozelsky McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The FBI took a step backward over the past week in the effort to combat credit card fraud. First, the agency told consumers a week ago that new microchip-installed credit and debit cards designed to better thwart fraud might still be vulnerable. Don’t just sign your receipt, was the message of its initial warning. Use your PIN with the new chip cards because “these cards can still be targeted by fraud.” But the FBI had to reverse field a bit this past week: It turns out that most of the new chip cards in the U.S. don’t use PINs. The newly designed chips cards are known as EMV, a partnership of Europay — a European credit card company — MasterCard and Visa to establish an international security system for detecting credit card fraud. The technology in the cards enables it to block information about a person’s credit card account, if hacked, from being used to replicate a counterfeit card for more purchases. U.S. banks were supposed to issue new chip-installed cards by Oct. 1 to avoid fraud liability. The microchip has already been in use in Europe and elsewhere around the world. The recent hacks of Target, Neiman Marcus and other big retailers have drawn attention to how widespread credit card fraud has become. In 2012, of 23.8 billion credit card transactions, less than 1 percent — 13.5 million, or about .057 percent — were fraudulent, according to a study by the Federal Reserve System.
Police Beat Oct. 12 through Oct. 18 Compiled from the Corvallis Police Department All those arrested for crimes are considered innocent until proven guilty.
Apple owes Wisconsin foundation $234 million By Kathleen Gallagher Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE — A federal court jury in Madison has awarded $234 million dollars in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc. “This is a case where the hard work of our university researchers and the integrity of patenting and licensing discoveries has prevailed,” said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the foundation, in a statement. Known as WARF, the foundation does patenting and licensing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The same jury on Tuesday found that Apple infringed on a patent held by WARF. The jury also said that the patent for the technology was valid, negating Apple’s argument
that it was invalid and no infringement had taken place. WARF had sued Apple in February 2014, accusing the company of using the technology behind the patent without permission in its 2013 and 2014 iPhone and iPad lineups. The patent, which expires in December 2016, covers a method for executing instructions in a microprocessor out of order so it can perform tasks faster. The patent was issued to WARF in 1998 on behalf of Guri Sohi, a UW-Madison computer science professor, and three graduate students. WARF in September filed another lawsuit in federal court in Madison against Apple that is seeking damages for Apple’s use of the technology behind the same patent in its newest products, including the iPhone 6S and iPad Pro. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Likewise, less than one percent — .027 percent — of debit, prepaid and ATM transactions, which require PINs, were fraudulent. The Federal Reserve found that fraud was more pronounced among signature and prepaid transactions than among those that used PIN numbers. “The percentage of signature transactions that were fraudulent was more than seven times that of PIN transactions in 2011,” it stated. The “chip-and-PIN” method is the best security technology available, according to Brian Dodge, executive vice president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group. He said banks that issue credit cards do not issue PINs with them, and card
networks do not require PINs because there is no incentive for them to do so. One of the two main card networks, MasterCard, allows, but does not require, consumers to choose between signing or entering a PIN when using the EMV chip, said Carolyn Balfany, a MasterCard senior vice president. “Ultimately, it’s up to the issuing bank to decide,” Balfany said in an email. “Chip transactions protect consumers from counterfeit which is, hands down, the prevalent form of fraud in the U.S. PIN also protects against lost and stolen card fraud.” While merchants realize PINs add extra security, the new method could
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Party on Two residents were issued a citation for unlawful amplified sound after receiving two noise complaints in a span of less than two hours.
Hard headed A man was arrested and charged with violent conduct after headbutting another patron at the bar.
That one friend A man was arrested after Friday, Oct. 16: being found in possession of three reportedly stolen Camp out jewelry items totaling a A man was taken into combined worth of five custody for violating a no- thousand dollars. contact order after setting The man stole them up an illegal campsite on from a woman while helpa property that is currently ing her move. for sale.
Theft A man was arrested and charged with theft in the 2nd degree after reportedly stealing $124
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Monday, Oct. 12: Cup thief Tw o men w e re approached by a police officer after arguing loudly in the parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings. Both men wanted to press charges against each other. One of the men had walked out of the restaurant with a drinking glass. He was cited with theft III.
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Rocket
Continued from page 1 trol the different axis, it is considered a ballistic missile,” Fudim explained with a laugh. “This is an intro to stability and control.” The OSU team is unique in that while most schools outsource parts of their rocket, the team in Corvallis builds the entire rocket from start to finish by themselves. This gives them an immense step up during competition judging. Evan Bassford, a senior in mechanical engineering has been with the ESRA team since its founding in 2013. This year, Bassford has taken on the role of project manager for the team. “You are scored on how much of the rocket you make yourself, so we make everything in house from scratch,” Bassford explained. The club had their first practice launch of the year Oct. 17 in Brothers, Or. The launch, done with the Oregon Rocketry Club, earned those associated a certification of High Powered Rocketry. Those involved with the club hope that this team will be a stepping stone for the university to establish an aeronautics and aerospace engineering degree. “We are on the forefront of the aerospace revolution here at Oregon State University. This club is opening those doors. There are more people applying every year, there are
more people coming to meetings,” Fudim said. The yearly competition, held in Green River, UT, draws in more than 45 universities from across the globe to compete, including MIT, UCLA, University of Washington and many other top institutions. While many seniors on the team are participating as part of their Capstone Design Project, The OSU AIAA ESRA team is open to anyone who is interested, regardless of school standing or major. “We are the biggest interdisciplinary club on campus,” Bassford explained. He continued to detail the importance of having a diverse group of people in order to accomplish the wide array of tasks that the club is presented with, from marketing to the construction of the rocket itself. Matt Hoeper, a sophomore in mechanical engineering joined the club this year because he sees an immense benefit in joining the team as an underclassman. “I’m getting involved with the AIAA team because OSU doesn’t have an aerospace major and it bridges the gap between mechanical engineering and aerospace, and anything that has to do with rockets is always a good time,” Hoeper said. General club meetings are held weekly on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Kelley 1003, and are open to all who may be interested in learning more or joining the club. news@dailybarometer.com
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First year mechanical engineering graduate student Kevin Quintero and senior electrical engineering major Elliott Fudim disassemble and reassemble their rocket.
Google aims at Microsoft with offer to business customers By Matt Day The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Google is offering new incentives in a bid to chip away at Microsoft’s hold on corporate America’s desktop. The Mountain View, Calif., company is offering businesses free use of Google’s suite of word processing, email and other productivity applications for the life of the business’ existing contract with another provider. Google is also offering to pay U.S. companies that switch to Google a portion of the cost of migrating their applications and data. It’s the latest salvo in a yearslong battle between Google and Microsoft in the highly profitable business of building software tools for office workers. Microsoft, with the Office suite it
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cobbled together over three decades, dominated the business of selling officeworker software when Google began making inroads in the late 2000s with its own Web-based email and document tools. When Google first started offering its then-consumer-focused programs to business software buyers, “a lot of times we were kind of laughed out of the room,” said Rich Rao, who leads the team that sells Google’s Apps for Work. “Fast-forward to the present day, we’re a serious contender in the market.” Rao said about 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies were paying for at least one of Google’s pieces of workplace software. Microsoft, based outside Seattle, of course, claims similar data, saying 75
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percent of Fortune 500 companies have purchased Office 365, its Web-based Office variant. Microsoft’s corporate customers typically buy Office through one- or multiyear “enterprise agreements.” Such agreements can make technology buyers reluctant to switch providers mid-contract. In the offer announced Monday, Google will give U.S. businesses with time left on licensing agreements with another provider free use of Google’s workplace applications as long as they agree to buy one year of Google services at the agreement’s conclusion. Google will also pay $25 per user to help defray the cost of switching software providers. Rao said that the $25-a-head payment
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Sophomore forward Timmy Mueller battles for the ball against San Sophomore forward Jordan Jones fights for a header against UCLA. Diego State.
Beavers led by super sophomores Jordan Jones, Timmy Mueller lead OSU soccer
man forwards in Timmy Mueller and Jordan Jones who were both major producers in 2014, and ready to take charge and lead the team in 2015. By Jonathan Parrish “They were able to learn a lot from Khiry,” Sports Contributor said head coach Steve Simmons. “They were in The 2014 Oregon State men’s soccer team line (replace Shelton). By all means Timmy and had their best season in program history. Jordan know it’s a great opportunity for them. Advancing in NCAA tournament was some- They are also under great amount pressure, but you have to be able to operate under that.” thing that no previous team had before. Jones and Mueller arrived on campus early A large part to their success was Pac-12 Player of the Year, Khiry Shelton. The All-American in 2014 after each had graduated high school was the only player in the country to have to enroll early at Oregon State – giving them an double-digit goals (10) and assists (12). And upper hand once the season started. to lead the Beavers to their first tournament “Coming in at the same time about a year appearance in over a decade. and a half ago gave us a lot of time to work with Shelton’s success in 2014 resulted in him Khiry and with each other before the first fall being selected No. 2 overall in the MLS Super- season,” Jones said. “We have only grown and Draft, meaning his production would have to our chemistry has gotten a lot better. It’s a lot of fun honestly.” be replaced. Fortunately for OSU, there were two fresh“It gave them a chance to get some spring
games under their belt,” Simmons said. “So when the fall of last year started, they were somewhat seasoned and already had an established relationship.” Mueller, the Pac-12 freshman of the year, scored 11 goals in 2014, which led the team. The Post Falls, Idaho native has had an excellent start to his career, but still feels there is a lot to improve on. “I think it’s (career) going well so far,” Mueller said. “It’s not where I want it to be in the end, but it’s a good start. I have a lot to learn, so I’m constantly trying to improve and get where I want to be.” Jones was third leading scorer a season ago, who found a knack for stepping up in the big games. With the season drawing to a close on the road against Cal, Jones scored twice to help lead the team earn a curtail road victory. Then scoring the winning goal against Denver in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
“(Jordan) is a really reliable forward,” Mueller said. “It’s good playing with him because I know someone’s going to be there so I don’t have to worry about anything.” Together, through the first 13 games of the season the one-two punch of Mueller and Jones have picked up right where they left off, scoring 11 of the team 13 total goes this season. Mueller with six and Jones chipping in with five scores to help OSU to a 7-5-1 record entering their bye week. As the Beavers try and make another push to reach the tournament and advance past the further than the previous years, they will continue to rely on Mueller and Jones to carry the offensive load. “We’re on the right track to do what we did last year and progress even more,” Jones said. “I can’t stress enough how every player on this team wants to win, and I think that can take you farther than what we did last year.” On Twitter @JonnyP_96
Notebook: Men’s hoops season right around the corner The latest news from men’s basketball By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter
The Oregon State men’s basketball team is two weeks away from its exhibition home opener against Western Oregon, but there have already been a host of injuries. The most significant of which being freshman guard Kendal Manuel’s broken right leg. Other banged up players include senior forward Jarmal Reid (foot), junior center Cheikh N’Diaye (arm) and freshman forward Tres Tinkle (foot). Tinkle, the son of coach Wayne Tinkle, had a stress fracture in his foot before the season but, had returned to practice before a recent minor setback. “Tres is having a little bit of pain in his foot again,” coach Tinkle said. “He’s getting that looked at but hopefully it’s nothing serious.” N’Diaye will continue to be evaluated but should return soon and Reid’s injury, Tinkle said, is not “anything too lingering.” Manuel has not yet had surgery on his leg, but after the surgery Tinkle expects him to return as soon as Christmas or January. Manuel will not play this season, though he was a likely candidate to redshirt the 2015-2016 season even
before his injury. Still, his absence will be noticeable. “We were really looking forward to him getting better out here on the practice floor and he was really making some strides,” Tinkle said. “He would have really helped us in practice.” Having this many injuries early in the preseason can be harrowing for a coaching staff, but Tinkle says he isn’t overly distressed. “I don’t know about concerning, but it’s annoying,” Tinkle said. “I was at Pac-12 Media Days and multiple coaches said the same thing: this time of year, for whatever reason, there are nicks and bruises. Hopefully it’s a matter of getting them out of the way now and being healthy the rest of the year.” Shot Clock Change This year, the college shot clock is at 30 seconds instead of 35, so getting into offensive sets quicker will beneficial. OSU was forced to slow down its offense a lot last year with a limited amount of depth available, but that could change this season. “It’s really the same offense as last year, we’re really just trying to push the ball way more and get more transition and flow into our offensive sets,” said junior guard Malcolm Duvivier. “Last year, we walked the ball up more just because we didn’t have as many players. This year, we
have tons of guys.” Outside of a little higher tempo, OSU’s offense should look relatively similar in principle to last season. Duvivier, one of the nine upperclassmen on the roster, said he expresses his leadership role especially in terms of acclimating the six freshmen to the offensive game plan. “That’s the main thing: once (the freshmen) get comfortable with the offense, they can pick and choose the spots where they can be effective,” Duvivier said. “I’m just trying to be a leader and get everyone on the same page… I felt like an upperclassman last year just with the situation where I played a lot of minutes at a young age.” Coach Tinkle added that Duvivier and the rest of the players with collegiate experience will be key in complementing the youth and talent of the freshmen. “They’ve got a year in our system, they know what to expect,” Tinkle said. “It’s a good core group, and when they’re healthy, they can lead these young guys and bring them along with them. It’s a good thing, but a lot of other programs in the Pac-12 have young talent.” A guide to pronouncing Gligorije Rakocevic Gligorije Rakocevic, the freshman forward from Bijelo Pole, Montenegro, is used to people botching the pronun-
ciation of his name. The real way to say it: ‘Glee-gore-e-ay Reh-korch-ah-vich.’ Rakocevic’s nickname is much manageable, though: ‘Big G.’ “Back in Montenegro, I had a lot of nicknames, like ten nicknames back home,” Rakocevic said. “Now, everyone here calls me ‘Big G.’ I like it, I don’t even care anymore. I’m kind’ve used to it. My favorite is now Big G.” Correlation between football and basketball The OSU football team is back in Reser Stadium this Saturday to face Colorado at 7:30 p.m., giving the basketball players and other students their first chance in nearly a month to watch a home football game. Coach Tinkle, who arrived one season prior to head football coach Gary Andersen, understands what Andersen is experiencing in his first year in Corvallis. “Those young guys are battling,” Tinkle said. “They’re going through what we went through, and I know it’s going to pay off for them at some point. They’re working their tails off. They have a great staff and players. They’re going to do great things but it takes time to turn things around.” Opening schedule The Beavers open the season Nov. 5 against Western Oregon at 7 p.m in an exhibition matchup, similar to
last year’s game in Gill Coliseum that OSU lost to the Wolves, 57-47. The official season opener is Nov. 14 versus Northwest Christian,
followed by another matchup in Gill Coliseum three days later with Iona. The Beavers start the Pac-12 season Jan. 3 against Oregon at home. On Twitter @BrightTies
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Freshman forward Tres Tinkle and the men’s basketball teams preps for the upcoming season at practice.
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Week 4
Fortune Favors the Bolden 0-4 Brian Rathbone Sports Editor
QB - Cody Kessler (USC) Points: 26 RB – Storm Barrs-Woods (OSU) Points: 5.1 RB – Royce Freeman (UO) Points: 16.8 WR – Victor Bolden (OSU) Points: 16.7 WR – Hunter Jarmon (OSU) Points: 2.5 TE – Austin Hooper (Stan) Points: 10.5 FLEX – Remound Wright (Stan) Points: 0.6 FLEX – Taj Griffin (UO) Points: -0.4 K – Conrad Ukropina (Stan) Points: 8 TOTAL: 82.8 Right now, I feel like Gary Andersen after the Washington State game, where he tried so hard to find a positive spin on the team’s 52-31 loss to the Cougars in Pullman. Just like Andersen and a couple of players have to do following a loss, I must take the podium and try to provide a glimmer of hope to the dozen of readers in what has been a disappointing and almost embarrassing fantasy football season so far. Opening Statement: Brian:“Welp, “The Duckless Dandies” played one heck of a game, you gotta give them credit. There are very few teams that can have a quarterback throw for six touchdowns and then have a running back run for 243 yards and four touchdowns. That’s tough to overcome for any team. As a team we were able to gain a lot of yards, but when it came down to getting into the endzone, we weren’t able to capitalize on that. We just need to go back to the drawing board.” Reporter: Is there any positives moving forward after the 0-4 start? “The things that we can control are actually going alright, as a team we are the second in the league in points per game, but despite that, we are still looking for our first win.” Reporter: If you are second in the league in scoring, what is the issue? “As a team, we can’t control what each week’s opponents does on the field. We can’t control that our opponents score an average of 111.5 points per game, 29 more points than the next closest team in the league.” Reporter: Will this be the week you get your win against the struggling Young and True Beavers? “I guarantee it.”
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QB – Luke Falk (WSU) Points: 36 RB – Demario Richard (ASU) Points: 0 RB – Christian McCaffrey (Stan) Points: 48.7 WR – JuJu Smith-Schuster (USC) Points: 19.9 WR – Jordan Villamin (OSU) Points: 9.5 TE – Kellen Clute (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – Jordan Payton (UCLA) Points: 15.6 FLEX – Gabe Marks (WSU) Points: 15.5 K – Garrett Owens (OSU) Points: 10 TOTAL: 155.2 What does it mean if no other team has scored 100 points in a week this season, but my team is averaging 108 per game? Is that good? But actually, should I be happy when Christian McCaffrey runs for 243 yards and four touchdowns? No, I’m fairly certain I should be disappointed. Luke Falk didn’t even throw a touchdown in the second half. Granted, he had six touchdowns before halftime, but he still could have at least gotten to double-digits. And only 407 passing yards? He had 505 last week, so I’m not sure what is wrong with him. Okay, I’m being facetious. My team is great and I’m completely aware of it. The best part of the whole week, outside of McCaffrey’s dominating performance and the 14 touchdowns my team scored this week, was when JuJu Smith caught his deep touchdown pass on a trick play against Notre Dame from a fellow Trojan wide receiver. It wasn’t even Cody Kessler getting the passing touchdown for Brian’s team. And it didn’t help him that Remound Wright, who had seven touchdowns in a three-game span earlier this year, combined his 0.6 points with Taj Griffin’s negative 0.4 points. For the second consecutive week, my top two scorers had more points than my opponent’s entire team. It’s a dandy day to be Duckless.
Standings
Fortune favors the bolden – 82.8 The Duckless Dandies – 155.2 Young and true beavers – 37.1 Fresh on the scene – 93.7
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QB – Jared Goff (Cal) Points: 0 RB – Paul Perkins (UCLA) Points: 18 RB – Nick Wilson (UA) Points: 0 WR – Kenny Lawler (Cal) Points: 0 WR – Datrin Guytin (OSU) Points: 1.4 TE – Noah Togiai (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – Paul Lucas (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – River CraCraft (WSU) Points: 8.7 K – Ka’imi Fairbairn (UCLA) Points: 9
TOTAL: 37.1 Well, that has been a forgettable two weeks for me. After a hot 2-0 start, I have been brutally brought back to earth in the last few weeks, most recently being destroyed by Jeff Lulay. The score claims that I lost by 60 points, and honestly it wasn’t even that close as Jeff beat me in every aspect of the game. Luckily for me, every week is a fresh start, and for the first time in multiple weeks, I have Jared Goff, Nick Wilson, Paul Perkins, Kenny Lawler, and River CraCraft all playing. My struggles the past few weeks have been due to those key players on bye weeks. But with my big guns back in the fold, I look forward to my next opponent and boss Brian Rathbone. I easily defeated Brian earlier in the season, and due to his fantasy points maker Royce Freeman on a bye week, and his quarterback Cody Kessler playing the No. 3 team in the country, this will be an easy victory for the Young and True Beavers as the Goff, Perkins, Wilson, Lawler and CraCraft core will lead me to a strong and convincing victory yet again. And most importantly, will leave Brian in tears as he struggles to find his team identity. I mean he hasn’t won a single game this year, why would he start now.
• The disparity between the first and second halves Saturday was clear: the Cougars scored on every first-half drive and were scoreless on every second-half possession. In the first half, WSU compiled 77 percent of its total yards in the game, 79 percent of its passing yards, 72 percent of its first downs and also had all four of its turnovers after the break. • The Beavers and Cougars did not turn the ball over in the first half but had six turnovers after halftime. • OSU is now one-for-eight this season on fourth down attempts. • For the second game this year, no OSU tight end made a catch. • None of sophomore wide receiver Jordan Villamin’s ten career touchdowns have come in a first quarter but five have By Josh Worden been in a fourth period, the most recent of which coming Senior Beat Reporter Saturday. The Oregon State football team returns to Corvallis for the • Villamin is averaging 84.3 receiving yards at home this year first home game in nearly a month after a 52-34 loss to Wash- and 20.6 yards on the road. He had two catches for 15 yards in ington State. The last Pac-12 team that Oregon State beat was Pullman on Saturday; last season he totaled 76 percent of his Colorado 11 conference games ago. The Beavers and Buffaloes receiving yards in Corvallis. will face off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Reser Stadium. • Senior running back Storm Barrs-Woods is averaging 3.1 •In the first five games this year, 15 of OSU’s 18 touchdowns yards per rush in first quarters this year and 6.0 yards per carry allowed on defense were rushing scores, but all six of WSU’s in every other period. offensive touchdowns came through the air. Cougar quarter• True Freshman quarterback Seth Collins’ final eight passes back Luke Falk tied a single-game school record with six passing Saturday were all caught, though two of those passes were touchdowns; all six came before halftime. nabbed by Cougar defenders. •Falk threw 74 passes against Oregon two weeks ago without • Collins has finished with a completion rate between 55 an interception, but OSU picked him off twice. and 57 percent in four of this year’s six games. His 56.7 percent
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QB – Seth Collins (OSU) Points: 26.4 RB – Chris Brown (OSU) Points: 6.5 RB – Devontae Booker Utah) Points: 25.2 WR – Nelson Spruce (Colo) Points: 6.3 WR – DJ Foster (ASU) Points: 0.6 TE – Ryan Nall (OSU) Points: 3.2 FLEX – Braylon Addison (UO) Points: 15.6 FLEX – Barry Sanders Jr. (Stan) Points: 3.9 K – Aiden Schneider (UO) Points: 6 TOTAL: 93.7 And finally, we’re cruising! This week showed the consistency of my team and the direction we’re heading! Back-to-back 90-plus point outings, back-to-back victories, has me singing Drake’s “Back 2 Back.” I’m very excited about the recent success and I’m looking forward to see the team reach its full potential. For the rest of the league, I think it’s fairly balanced, with only one team struggling to make any gains. I view every week as a challenge, regardless of record or standing. As majority of great coaches know, there are highs and lows in the season and right now my team is riding a high. But, it’s learning how to take these highs and motivate your team to sustain this feeling and emotion. We’re on a mission right now, and we must not become complacent. Going forward, I don’t see any reason to change the lineup, we’re currently executing and scoring at one of the highest level in the league. Right now is all about finding our consistency and making sure we take each game a day at a time.
completion total against the Cougars was his highest of the season. Collins has only exceeded 50 percent passing in one quarter cumulatively: the first period, in which he completes 61.5 percent of his passes. • Collins also has five rushing touchdowns this year, all coming in the last four contests. • For the third consecutive game, OSU’s opponent had 13 or more drives and suffered a three-and-out just once. Before that, OSU had forced three-and-outs on 32.5 percent of opposing drives. • After a 21-0 scoring advantage in the third quarter against San Jose State in week three, the Beavers have been outscored in third quarters 24-0. • The Beavers have been outscored in every quarter cumulatively except the fourth, in which they hold a 34-29 advantage. In the first three periods, OSU has a 172-96 deficit. • OSU had not allowed more than 180 pass yards in any of the first four games, but has given up 686 yards in the last two contests. • For the second straight game, sophomore safety Justin Strong led OSU in tackles. He has 16 stops in the last two match-ups. • Sophomore punter Nick Porebski had punted at least six times in every game before having just three punts Saturday. • Junior wide receiver Rahmel Dockery recorded his first reception of the season against WSU with an 11-yard catch against his former team. On Twitter @BrightTies
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packaged as Office 365. There are signs Microsoft’s push may be paying off. Data from Okta, a San Francisco company that manages office workers’ logins to Internet services, showed Google’s Apps leading among its corporate customers until a surge late last year made Office 365 the most popular productivity tool among its customers. However, it’s unclear what portion of that gain came as businesses switched from Google to Microsoft, rather than desktop Office customers signing up for the Web variant for the first time. The Seattle Times
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Sanders plans speech to explain his socialism By Lesley Clark McClatchy Washington Bureau
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Acknowledging the political liability of the word “socialist,” Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he plans a “major speech” to detail what it means when he calls himself a ‘democratic socialist.’ Responding to a woman at a house party who asked him how he’d counter Republican attacks about calling himself a socialist, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic presidential nomination said he plans a speech in “not too distant future” to define what he means. “I think we have some explaining and work to do, but I think at the end of the day you’re going to find more and more people agreeing,” he said. Sanders, whose summer surge in pop-
ularity has him leading Hillary Clinton in the early voting state, said later that “a lot of people ... when they hear the word ‘socialist’ get very, very nervous.” “They may not know that there are countries all over the world, whether its Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the U,K,, who on and off have had democratic socialist governments and they may not be familiar with some of the very positive policies those governments have developed for the middle class and working families,” he said. Sanders argued that the U.S. already has some socialist policies, including Social Security and Medicare. “To me, democratic socialism means democracy, it means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest,” he said.
“When you go to your public library or you call your police or fire department ... these are socialist institutions,” he said. Bill Maher, the comedian and host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, urged during a Sanders appearance on his show Friday night to “un-demonize” the word, jokingly cautioning him that when some people hear the word they think “herpes.” Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, has aligned his brand of what he calls “democratic socialism” with center-left countries such as Denmark, Finland and Norway. “What democratic socialism means to me is having a government which represents all people, rather than just the wealthiest people,” he said at a recent campaign event in New Hampshire. McClatchy Washington Bureau
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Stabbed mayoral candidate’s win shows backing for German refugee welcome By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Washington Bureau
Before independent mayoral candidate Henriette Reker was stabbed by a violently anti-immigrant constituent during a campaign event Saturday, she was seen as just one of several possible winners in the race to be mayor of Cologne. Now she’s being seen as an indicator that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s controversial open-arms welcome of refugees has broad support among German voters. The suspect – described only as an out of work contractor – told police he was motivated to stab the candidate in the neck by the pro-refugee position of both Reker and Merkel, who supported her candidacy. Reker, 58, was put into an induced coma on Saturday after surgery to save her life. On Sunday, she collected 52.7 percent of the vote to become the new Oberbuergermeister (mayor of a large city) of Cologne, Germany’s fourth largest city. In a nation known for a balance of support for a number of political parties, it was an impressive showing in a mayoral election – and a
in Germany, Alternative for culture” is fading. “The chanDeutschland, took just 4 per- cellor is at a point of no return. cent, and a more radical anti- For the first time, she is standimmigrant party didn’t poll ing for something that the A courageous majority of the nation feels even 1 percent. and How the result fits in with uneasy about. Germans used German opinion polls that to trust her blindly. Many no charismatic show fear of immigration longer trust her to do the right woman growing is uncertain. Recent thing,” Dresden Technical without party polls by the well-regarded University sociologist Werner Emnid polling group have Patzelt argued in the German affiliation found 39 percent of Germans newspaper Tagesspiegel. has won. That didn’t appear to be fear the refugee influx and 64 percent want a referendum case in Cologne, where voters on the conditions of accept- rallied to Merkel’s candidate. Sven Lehmann ing refugees. Only 24 percent Reker had been Cologne’s believe the current crisis will top social welfare official, and State Green increase societal cohesion. as part of that job she ran the Chairman Some have used the poll ancient city’s refugee housing results to argue that Germa- program. As such, even as an reflection of public opinion ny’s newfound “welcoming independent, she was tightas Germany moves forward with its ambitious program of accepting refugees from wars and deadly unrest in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Germany is expected to review the asylum applications of perhaps more than a million refugees this year, and may approve as many as half of those. Not only did Reker win an unlikely majority in a multicandidate election, but the second-place candidate was also pro-refugee and collectOliver Berg | DPA/Abaca Press ed 32 percent. The candidate of the most prominent Henriette Reker, a mayoral candidate who was anti-immigrant political party stabbed on Saturday, campaigns on Oct. 16, 2015.
ly tied to Merkel’s Christian Democrats in this vote. Peter Altmaier, head of the Merkel’s federal refugee plan, said it was important that Germans reject the motives behind the stabbing. “It was despicable and hideous,” he said in statement to reporters. “Even if we don’t know the exact background, we have to constantly distance ourselves clearly from any kind of xenophobia and violence.” The state Green Chairman Sven Lehmann said in a press statement that voters responded to the substance of Reker’s campaign, not the flashing of a knife. “A courageous and charismatic woman without party affiliation has won,” he said. “This will have an impact on the country. I think she was elected out of conviction, not out of sympathy.” The number of refugees in Germany has ballooned. At the beginning of August, the expected number of arrivals was 400,000. By the end of the month, that number had swollen to 800,000. By early September, some politicians were saying a million was a more likely number. In recent days, some gov-
ernment officials have suggested the number arriving to seek asylum could reach 1.5 million in 2015, though others have called that “highly unlikely.” Doctors in Cologne say that Reker is expected to make a full recovery, “at least physically.” McClatchy Washington Bureau
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People walk over Nature Bridge, the biggest pedestrian bridge in Tehran that connects Abb-O-Atash park to Taleghani park on July 24, 2015 in Iran.
In Tehran, a bridge becomes a gathering place By Roy Gutman McClatchy Washington Bureau
TEHRAN, Iran – In a city ruled by the automobile, where crossing the street entails risking your life and a real downtown doesn’t exist, there could hardly be a more unusual weekend destination than the newly built Tabiat Bridge – perched over a busy expressway. Not quite a year after opening to the public, this undulating, multilevel pedestrian bridge, with its curving walkways and sloping ramps, benches and cafes, has become the go-to place for young people on Friday or Saturday evenings. They stroll about with their friends, listening to music and showing the sort the intimacy between the sexes that the Islamic Republic frowns on in public places. With well-tended parks at either end, the city lights twinkling to the south and traffic moving slowly on the Modarres highway below, the 890-foot-long bridge has become a gathering point for people from all over the city of 8.3 million. It’s a new symbol for the Iranian capital, its popularity due in no small part to the fact that, in Tehran, there’s nowhere else to go. “If I had a choice, I’d rather be at a rock concert,” said Soheil, a 20-year-old basketball coach who is getting a bachelor’s degree in physical education and asked to be identified only by his first name. “But the government always bans them.” Soheil was among the crowd of people who packed the bridge on a Friday evening. In Aab-o-Atash Park, at the bridge’s eastern end, children frolicked in dancing water fountains as families played no-net badminton. In hilly, wooded Taleghani Park at the bridge’s western
end, strollers walked along well-landscaped paths. Gholamhassein Karbaschi, the former Tehran mayor renowned as the master builder of the city’s burgeoning park system, had Iran’s social constraints in mind when he launched the growth of the system, as did the young architect who designed the bridge at age 21. “We don’t have dance clubs and nightclubs,” said Karabaschi, a reformist who served as mayor from 1991 to 1999 and might have been a candidate for national president until he was jailed on corruption charges in what appeared to be a political frame-up. Parks are “the only place people can go.” Karabaschi received his visitor in north Tehran at the onetime residence of a top official in pre-revolutionary Iran, a villa that now houses an art museum, an elegant garden and a calligraphy institute. “We tried to make Tehran a livable city,” he said. “We expanded the green space a lot. We bought land and turned it into parks.” The expansion brought parks to central Tehran and to the hills, valleys and other unusual spaces all around the city’s periphery. To finance the expansion – the goal was 270 square feet per resident from the 53 square feet that had been originally planned – Karabaschi introduced a tax on new construction. With support from Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the centrist president who recruited him, and from his successor, reformist President Mohammad Khatami, Karabaschi built on a comprehensive urban plan designed before the Islamic revolution. He insisted on the best experts and architects available and rode herd during construction.
“I supervised all the details,” he told McClatchy. Tehran is surrounded by mountains and suffers some of the worst smog on the planet, but traffic now speeds along the city’s 120 miles of expressways, 10 times the number in 1991, and the city has a subway system with three lines, four to go. But the city didn’t build parking garages, intensifying the congestion. “The experts said it’s better not to have them because it will encourage people to use their cars,” Karabaschi explained. What the city has in abundance is cultural centers, which Karabaschi set up in each of the city’s 22 districts. It was thanks to a contest that Leila Araghian, then 26, was able to design the Tabiat Bridge. “They wanted something complex, to give an identity to those areas and become a symbol of Tehran,” she said. But Araghian wanted “something modest, but that has character and is interesting enough to have an identity.” The result is not a utilitarian passage from one point to another, but a path full of unexpected turns, features and vistas. The bridge curves, blurring the destination, “so you won’t know where it is taking you.” Having won the competition in 2008, Araghian then went to the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, where she wrote her thesis analyzing her own project. Her theme was “Modesty, Serendipity and Silence.” It’s a very Iranian approach to design, she said. In Kashan, a city in central Iran, houses all have mud walls and a simple door as the entrance, and the way into the house is through a corridor, which then opens onto a huge garden. But there may also be a hid-
den private garden, where strangers are not welcome. “It’s a labyrinthine style of building. You discover it through a continuous journey.” And she discovered that that is what drove her design. “I was not aware that that is how I think,” she said. “The bridge is a serendipitous space,” she said. “When you hide things, there is a chance of discovering. And the excitement you have when you discover it by yourself is a better feeling than when you are expecting it.” Visitors to the Tabiat Bridge are more direct. “I like the structure. I like the bridge,” Marjan, 31, a university teacher who was on the bridge early one morning and like most of the people interviewed asked not to have their surnames published. “I like the sound of the cars passing by. You can walk across the traffic.” But are the park and the bridge enough for them? “Our generation is one that has to master the art of adapting to our environment,” said her sister, Nasrin, 34. That same attitude came through in an interview with a teacher in another park, the Nahj-ul-Balagha, named for a collection of sermons and treatises attributed to Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law and revered by Shiite Muslims as the founder of their strain of Islam. “Iran is the safest country in the region,” said Mandana, 30. “But most of the young people want only to leave the country. What the government wants of us is very different from the way people really want to be. We have a lack of freedom.” McClatchy Washington Bureau