The Daily Barometer, Monday, November 2, 2015

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ASOSU impeachment: what happens next?

Legislative, judicial, executive branches prepare for next step in impeachment process

By Sean Bassinger Senior Beat Reporter

Oregon State University’s student government will not see drastic changes after the decision to hold an impeachment trial for Associated Students of Oregon State University President Cassie Huber, according to vice president and acting president Lyndi Petty.

The decision to review Huber’s case comes as a result of HCR-07.01, which Joshua Kaufman, ASOSU executive director of finance, and William Miller, Senate president pro-tempore, authored. The resolution was brought forward to the ASOSU House of Representatives on Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Effective immediately, Petty will continue to serve as acting president while Huber remains suspended without pay.

“I’m going to maintain my current duties and complete and fulfill the roles of the president and any projects that the president had been working on,” Petty said. “I think everyone is on the same page that we don’t want anything to hinder on our mission at ASOSU.” One such project includes the upcoming ASOSU textbook rally on Nov. 4, which will not be affected by the continuing impeachment processes, according to Petty.

“Again, we’re going to need to be doing a lot of delegation because this was a project headed

by Cassie,” Petty said. “Hopefully it’s still going to be a really successful event.”

James Knudsen, chair of the ASOSU judicial council, said he is working with those involved to find the best day and time for the senate trial.

“What we’re working on is trying to make sure we can accommodate everybody’s schedules,” Knudsen said. “We just want to make sure that as many people that need to be at the trial can be present.”

Huber will present as the defendant, and Speaker of the House Mykael Moore will serve

as the plaintiff. The ASOSU Senate will act as the jury and receive training before the trial. The defense and prosecution will take additional time to gather evidence for their arguments.

“What we’re really trying to get to is making sure that all the evidence is there,” Knudsen said.

Huber has a total of 15 counts of alleged violations in her office, one of which includes the transferring of $70,000 of the ASOSU budget reallocated toward the SafeRide program. The articles of impeachment claim Huber did not have “any legal basis to do so.”

The articles listed two additional parties as having been involved with the reallocation of the funds along with the president. One such party was Kaufman, who helped to author the articles of impeachment before announcing his resignation from his position last week.

The other position involved with the budget reallocation was listed as the “Student Advocate.”

According to the ASOSU website, the ASOSU Student Advocate is a professional staff member hired by the university who “provides direct mentoring, professional development, and strategic advice to the ASOSU Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches.”

The articles of impeachment do not detail the level of their involvement in the reallocation of the funds.

Huber’s trial will be the first impeachment hearing since the impeachment trial of former ASOSU President M. Tonga Hopoi in Nov. 2011.

Though Hopoi was found guilty in the Senate and received a formal censure, the House did not seek to remove her from office.

If Huber is permanently suspended from her position as president, it will be the first time in ASOSU history.

For more information on continuing meetings, records and event dates, visit asosu.oregonstate.edu. news@dailybarometer.com

Campus groups get students engaged in politics Democratic group fosters political action

Republican group discusses political issues

By Riley Youngman

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Recently returning to the Oregon State University campus, the College Democrats chapter at OSU seeks to foster political discussion and activism among students.

According to Erica Fuller, a senior in political science and the College Democrats President, the College Democrats group was reintroduced to the campus in fall of 2014.

The College Democrats put on a variety of events that promote the political involvement of those in the community, including but not limited to the students at Oregon State. The club aims to mentor those that may need guidance in their political lives, whether that

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Having existed at Oregon State University for decades, the College Republicans group is well established as being one of the top political clubs on campus.

Currently comprised of six active members, the College Republicans are involved in a variety of events and activities that promote political discussion and debate.

The main channel for this is accomplished through weekly meetings held on campus.

“Going to the meetings was a lot of fun for me, and two years later I’m now the president who is in charge of running the meetings and running the discussions,” said Riker Kasamoto, a senior in political science and the

Senior political science and women, gender and sexuality studies major Erica Fuller, program director for the OSU chapter of College Democrats, passes out ballots on Oct. 28 for officer elections.

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College Republicans fill out a straw poll, choosing their winner for the Republican presidential nominee debate at the meeting Wednesday.

president of the College Republicans.

The meetings are open to anyone who is interested, and are focused on structured discussion and even debate of politics, especially topics relating directly to the college aged demographic the club represents.

“We get together once a week and discuss political issues, current political issues. The big one right now is the presidential election and all that is going on with that,” said College Republican Vice President Travis Clark, a senior in accounting.

While currently in more of a rebuilding phase, the club has had larger numbers of enrollment the past several years. Those involved with the College Republicans hope that the increase of political discussion nationwide will bring more students to the club.

“It is very seasonal. When the election comes around we get really big,” Clark noted.

Jacob Vandever, a former President of the College Republicans who has since graduated still remains actively involved with the club.

“I was involved from day one of coming to college. Especially being a political science major, the club has gotten me connections

and opportunities that I don’t think I could have gotten otherwise,” Vandever said.

In addition to the weekly meetings, the College Republicans put several events. These include First and Second Amendment weeks, comprised mainly of tabling in the Memorial Union Quad with the intent to fire up discussion and bring those who are curious to the club.

“Second Amendment week is probably our biggest event. We got Lars Larson to come on campus last year,” Kasamoto said. “Our most fun event is going to Dorchester, which is a political conference in Seaside, Oregon every March.”

In addition to meeting with their own College Republic group, Kasamoto and those in the club have expressed a desire to work with other political clubs and parties on campus to further engage in political discussion.

“We want to show that we get along with other parties, but still show that we have our own distinct voice,” Kasamoto said.

For more information on the College Republicans, weekly meetings are open to the public and held every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Gilkey Hall. news@dailybarometer.com

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It’s the biggest split-up in Silicon Valley history, as a computer giant with more than $100 billion in revenue becomes two Fortune 100 companies. One will tackle the rapidly changing technology business and the other will sell personal computers and printers.

And it’s not a moment too soon, say analysts, describing HP as a colossus that was difficult to manage and at risk of falling behind the curve of the massive transition to mobile and cloud computing that has upended the traditional role of corporate IT. “It got too big to manage, with too many moving parts,” said Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights and Strategy.

According to HP CEO Meg Whitman, the company is becoming “smaller and more focused” to keep up with the rapidly changing data center business. “Our timing is absolutely perfect,” she told analysts in September. “Our customers are in a period of transformation and transition. They are grappling with huge changes in their industry with massive shifts in the technology landscape.”

The two companies may be independent, but they will be neighbors, each operating out of HP’s sprawling Palo Alto site, sharing a fitness center and access to

The split will give each branch the freedom to proceed more independently to do what they think they need to do to continue to succeed.

Carl Brooks 451 Research employee the famed HP Labs research and development center.

On Monday, HP divides into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which will sell data center technology and services to businesses, and HP Inc., which inherits a $6.8 billion debt load (and $4.5 billion in cash) and will manage a declining market for computers and printers.

HP Enterprise, the company that’s being spun off, gets a new stock ticker, HPE, a new board and Whitman as its chief executive. HP Enterprise will keep the headquarters building on Hanover Street, in Palo Alto, while HP Inc. moves up the hill to Page Mill Road, a 1960s-era building that contains the original offices of founders William Hewlett and David Packard, with furniture and decor from that time.

The separate PC and printer company will have a new 3-D printing business group, anticipating exploding demand.

HP’s 3-D printer is close to commercial availability, according to reports.

“We like to say we’re a $50 billion startup,” said Tracy Keogh, HP’s executive vice president for human resources, who will have the same job at HP Inc. Whitman, who will retain some control over HP Inc. as its non-executive board chairman, has been on a drive to turn around HP since becoming its CEO in 2011, replacing Leo Apotheker, who engineered what proved to be the disastrous $11 billion acquisition of the British firm Autonomy.

The split is a massive undertaking, breaking up a legendary company that was born more than 75 years ago when two young Stanford engineering grads named Bill and Dave founded the company in a garage in 1939, flipping a coin to see whose name would be first.

HP prospered by making test and measurement equipment for engineering tasks, but that business was spun out in 1999 as a new company, Agilent Technologies.

The controversial acquisition of personal computer maker Compaq in 2002 by then CEO Carly Fiorina, now a Republican candidate to be the next U.S. president, created an HP that was a major force in the consumer PC market. But it also resulted in a gigantic organization

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clubs on campus, most notably the College Republicans, in their events to further push for civil debate and Continued from page 1 conversation. be finding internships or finding “Last year we had a debate and appropriate platforms in which a series of events with the College to have discussions about current Republicans which was real excitevents. ing, and is something we will be “Our main goal of College continuing,” explained Claire Democrats is to share our knowl- McMorris, a junior in political sciedge, not only with the Democratic ence and the College Democrats Party, but also with the progressive Vice President. “We want to help activists, young activist leaders that our members know how to go into are wanting to get their foots in the a conversation or argument or door, wanting to learn more about debate, whatever it may be, with politics. Our whole thing is mentor- someone with opposing views as ing,” Fuller said. you and how to effectively and In addition to working with those academically do it well. We’re not with similar mindsets as them- about the negative reactions, we selves, the College Democrats have really want to collaborate.”

Alexa Bryant, a sophomore in worked in the past to include other

environmental science and food science and safety, is the secretary of the College Democrats. Bryant came to the club this year after looking for ways to become involved in her local community.

“We should be able to learn from another. You should be able to have an open conversation about something that makes you uncomfortable,” Bryant said.

Citing the current standstill in national politics between the Democratic and Republican parties, the College Democrats here on campus want to focus more on bridging the gap between the two parties and working towards a common goal.

This year the club is focusing on bringing in local leaders and

Death row inmate’s case reaches Supreme Court

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — A Georgia death row inmate convicted of murder when he was a teenager is about to get a potentially lifesaving chance to challenge how his jury was formed.

Timothy Tyrone Foster is AfricanAmerican. The 12 Floyd County jurors who convicted him in 1987 were all white. On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors unfairly used race to tilt the jury selection.

The court’s ultimate decision may reach well beyond Foster, one of 85 Georgia inmates on death row. It could also shape how attorneys choose jurors, while giving a sharply divided court another chance to debate capital punishment.

“It’s going to be decided on the backdrop of the whole new disagreement at the court on the death penalty ... and whether or not the death penalty has this inherent problem of racial discrimination, both in terms of who’s charged and how they’re tried,” noted attorney Paul Smith, a frequent Supreme Court advocate.

Underscoring the broader stakes, Foster will be represented at the hourlong oral argument Monday by noted attorney Stephen B. Bright, president of the Atlantabased Southern Center for Human Rights and a longtime instructor at Yale Law School.

Foster’s other high-profile allies range from former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, who filed a brief supporting the inmate, to novelist and former prosecutor Scott Turow.

“It’s very important for the criminal justice system, because it really exposes a lot of the cultural problems we’re facing today,” Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said Friday. “It could lead to an end to race-based strikes of jurors.”

Georgia’s deputy attorney general, Beth A. Burton, will be defending how the trial prosecutors weeded out unwanted jurors.

“The prosecution offered numerous raceneutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of the four black prospective jurors,” the Georgia brief asserted, adding that there was no “purposeful discrimination.”

The case called Foster v. Chatman centers on what Bright called, in one legal brief, certain “extraordinary circumstances.”

Foster was 18 years old in 1986, living in Rome, Ga. His IQ test scores, according to defense attorneys, put him “in the borderline range for intellectual disability.” One night that August, while intoxicated on a mix of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine, he broke into the home of a 79-year-old retired

The exclusion of these citizens was not a product of ‘happenstance,’ but the result of the prosecution’s identification of them as black and its determination to keep them off the jury.

Timothy Foster’s attorney elementary schoolteacher named Queen Madge White.

“He broke her jaw, coated her face with talcum powder, sexually molested her with a salad dressing bottle, and strangled her to death, all before taking items from her home,” the Georgia brief states, deploying the kind of graphic detail often used by states defending a death sentence.

Ninety-five potential jurors were initially called for Foster’s trial. Ten were AfricanAmerican. Defense attorneys and prosecutors each could eliminate potential jurors for “cause,” such as a known bias. Each also had a limited number of “peremptory” challenges, for which no reason had to be initially given.

The Supreme Court, in an earlier decision involving a Kentucky burglary case, has prohibited using peremptory challenges to eliminate jurors on the basis of race. Proving a racial motive, though, can be tricky, as attorneys conjure other explanations for a peremptory challenge.

Eventually, the jury pool in Foster’s case was narrowed to include four AfricanAmericans. Prosecutors used peremptory challenges to eliminate them all.

After Foster’s conviction, the district attorney asked for the death penalty, telling jurors it would “deter other people out there in the projects.” Nineteen years later, in 2006, Foster’s attorneys obtained the prosecutors’ notes about jury selection.

The names of the four African-American potential jurors were marked with the letter “B” and highlighted in green. An accompanying key explained that green highlighting “represents blacks.” Their race was also circled on the juror questionnaire.

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“Another main goal for us this year is to reach out to minority communities. Looking at the percentages not only within the state but also nationally, there are not many people of color, especially women of color, getting involved with politics. That is an issue that needs to change,” Fuller said.

The College Democrats are actively recruiting a broad variety of demographics, as they see the benefit to the club and to the individuals from having a diverse member base.

Fuller and other College Democrats were able to meet President Barack Obama this spring,

an opportunity that would not have been available to those involved had they not been a part of the College Democrats they say.

“It was a one of kind experience.

As a first generation college student, and as a person of color and a woman of color, I never in a million years would have seen myself standing right next to President Barack Obama,” Fuller said with a “That’s just the kind of opportunity College Democrats provides for you.”

For those interested in learning more, the College Democrats meet every Thursday at 6 p.m. at Strand Agricultural Hall and the meetings are open to the general public. news@dailybarometer.com

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Offense finds consistency, still needs the big play

By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor

Nigel Burton, Pac-12 Network analyst, former Portland State football coach and former Oregon State coach, made a bold prediction that the Oregon State would lose by 50 points to the Utes on Halloween.

The claim did not seem completely outrageous, but he was ultimately wrong as the Beavers fell to the 13th ranked Utah Utes 27-12. In a game that the Beavers turned in their most inspired performance of the season.

Utah is a really good team, arguably the best in the conference. They are experienced ­– starting a total of 20 juniors and seniors – and well coached in all three phases of the game. In the midst of a rebuild and starting 16 freshman and sophomores against the Utes, the Beavers had no business being competitive in this game. Especially when you throw in backup quarterback Nick Mitchell getting the first real start of his career.

One thing that became clear on Saturday was that Oregon State needed more offensive fire power.

And Mitchell had himself a pretty nice day on the field, despite playing one of the top rated defenses in the conference. Remember, Utah manhandled Oregon at Autzen and picked off California quarterback, and probable first round draft pick, Jared Goff five times in their earlier victories.

Mitchell finished 19-for-35, 204 yards and a touchdown, adding 40 yards on the ground.

Nothing spectacular, he took care of the football, kept the offense on the field having only one possession end with a three-and-out. A big improvement when through the first six games the team was averaging nearly 4 three-and-outs a game. Mitchell managed the game very well. Well enough to be given the starting nod for next week’s home game against UCLA. As well as Mitchell played against the Utes, something from the offense was missing.

The offense could not convert redzone opportunities into touchdowns – settling for two field goals in the redzone – continued to struggle with administrative penalties that negated big plays and putting the offense behind the sticks. For the second straight week, they were held below 20 points, only scored 12 against the Utes.

What was missing was the big play, and Oregon State’s big-play guy didn’t even make the trip to Salt Lake City, he was back in Corvallis nursing a knee injury. The Beavers needed Seth Collins against Utah.

They didn’t need Seth Collins the quarterback, they needed Seth Collins the playmaker.

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1 2 3 4 Total Oregon State 0 6 0 6 12 Utah 14 0 0 13 27 Scoring plays First Quarter UTAH: 8:08 Devontae Booker 1 yd run (Andy Phillips kick) UTAH: 3:47 Harrison Handley 39 yd pass from Travis Wilson (Phillips kick) Second Quarter OSU: 8:11 Garrett Owens 23 yd FG OSU: 1:23 Garrett Owens 31 yd FG Fourth Quarter UTAH: 14:20 Andy Phillips 49 yd FG UTAH: 9:21 Travis Wilson 2 yd run (Andy Phillips kick) OSU: 8:07 Victor Bolden 2 yd pass from Nick Mitchell (failed 2pt Rush) UTAH: 3:29 Andy Phillips 45 yd FG

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(Top) sophomore safety Justin Strong attempts to tackle Davontae Booker. ( Above) Freshman quarterback Nick Mitchell rolls out for a pass. (Right) Defensive coordinator Kalani Sitake huddle up the defense against Utah on Oct. 31.

By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter

The Oregon State football team remained winless in the Pac-12 this year with a 27-12 loss in Salt Lake City on Saturday to Utah, dropping to 2-6 overall and 0-5 in conference. Three of OSU’s last four games resulted in losses to teams who had lost their most recent game.

• The Beavers have yet to score a point in a third quarter in a Pac-12 game. The most recent OSU score in a third period came against San Jose State on Sept. 19, in which the Beavers outscored the Spartans 21-0 in the third quarter in week three. The

Beavers have also held opponents scoreless in the third period in the last three games • OSU’s offense had 23 three-andouts this season in its first six games (3.8 per game), but has just one in each of the last two games.

• The Beavers have not lost a fumble in four consecutive games.

• With 11 tackles Saturday, freshman linebacker Jonathan Willis skyrocketed his previous total of 21 tackles on the year (3.0 per game) and is now fifth on the team in total stops.

• With 55 yards this week and 56 the week prior, freshman wide receiver Datrin Guyton has recorded 62.3 per-

cent of his receiving yards this season in the last two games.

• Sophomore wideout Jordan Villamin’s 94 receiving yards Saturday were a career high in an away game.

In OSU’s previous three road games, Villamin had a combined 62 receiving yards.

• Freshman running back Ryan Nall had no rushing attempts Saturday, one week after he totaled a career high 122 yards on 20 carries with one touchdown against Colorado. He did record his first two career receptions against Utah, however. Nall averaged 1.3 rushing yards per game in the nonconference season and has 213 yards in five conference games.

• Utah running back Devontae Booker tallied 121 rushing yards and a touchdown Saturday, though 12 of his 25 rushing attempts traveled three yards or fewer. In other games with at least 25 carries this year, Booker had been averaging 166 yards per game.

He had 229 yards rushing and three touchdowns versus OSU last year.

• In OSU’s last nine road games, dating back to the beginning of the 2014 season, the Beavers have attempted eight field goals. Two of those attempts came Saturday against Utah.

• The OSU tight end group snapped

a three-game streak with no receptions, though the lone catch Saturday from Noah Togiai went for negative one yard. OSU’s tight ends have combined to average 3.3 yards per game this year.

• Through eight games, OSU’s trio of freshman quarterbacks have been intercepted five times. At this point last year, senior quarterback Sean Mannion had six interceptions, though he had attempted 294 passes to OSU’s total this year of 235. That’s an average of 2.0 percent of throws picked off last year to 2.1 percent this season.

• Senior running back Storm BarrsWoods is averaging 2.9 yards per rush in first quarters this year and 6.0 yards per carry in every other period.

• Junior wide receiver Victor Bolden led the Beavers with 45 rushing yards on Saturday, exceeding his own total of 34 receiving yards. Bolden has had three games this year with more rushing yards than receiving. His two receiving touchdowns, coming against Weber State and Utah, covered a combined six yards.

• OSU’s running backs have compiled 779 rushing yards this season of the team’s 1,433 rush yards (54.4 percent), with freshman quarterback Seth Collins’ 536 yards leading the team.

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Beavers continue losing skid at home Late goals, slow start plague Beavers at home, dropping four straight games

By Danny Rice Sports Contributor

The Oregon State men’s soccer team lost two hard fought matches this weekend in Corvallis at Paul Lorenz Field.

They first faced the No. 4 Stanford Cardinal (13-1-2, 6-0-2 Pac-12) on Friday, which resulted in a 2-0 loss. Oregon State (7-7-1, 2-4-1)played well and played competitive with the Cardinal for the first 80 minutes as the quality of shots went back and forth. Head Coach Steve Simmons was very pleased with the play of his team.

“The only thing I wasn’t pleased with was the result,” Simmons said. “The guys played with confidence, they played with a little swagger, and I think they enjoyed themselves out on the field. If we play like that, we are going to win the rest of our games.”

Stanford was the first side to attack as they were awarded a free kick just outside the box in the seventh minute, only to see their shot go high.

The Beavers’ best chance of the first half came in the 23rd minute when senior forward Jaime Velasco saw his header go just wide after a flurry of attacks from the Beavers.

The Beavers continued to press in the second half as in the 59th minute, senior midfielder Mikhail Doholis showed some fancy footwork to find sophomore forward Timmy Mueller who sent a curling laser on frame, requiring a diving save.

After more back and forth play, Stanford was finally able to find the back of the net. In the 81st minute, Stanford’s senior midfielder Slater Meehan broke the tie after countering an Oregon State attack to give his side the 1-0 lead.

Oregon State’s sophomore defender Sam Tweeton blames the goal on giving their opponent too much space.

“We got caught in between and gave him way too much space,” Tweeton said. “By the time he turned, he walked into our 18, found the open guy, and it was an easy finish for him.”

The Cardinal weren’t done. In the 86th minute, Stanford’s star forward, Jordan Morris, tapped home a goal to put his team up 2-0, with the assist coming from junior forward, Mark Verso.

Doholis credits Stanford’s stout defense for shutting out Oregon State.

“We moved the ball well and we penetrated so many times,” Doholis said. “We just couldn’t find a way through.”

Oregon State then played the California Golden Bears (9-52, 4-3-2), who were coming off a 1-0 win over Washington in Seattle on Friday. The game was a tale of two halves with the Beavers coming out flat the first half, and attack-minded the second.

“We were flat coming out, “ Simmons said. “I take responsibility for that because for a team to come prepared, it’s up to me to get them prepared. In the second half, our guys tried to make amends as we put them on their back foot.”

Freshman defender John Chambers agreed with his coach’s’ assessment of the first half.

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Sophomore forward Jordan Jones strikes the ball against Cal on Nov. 1. Jones scored the Beavers only goal as they fell to the Golden Bears 2-1.

“We came out with low energy,” Chambers said. “Not really a lot of talk and they jumped on us.”

Cal came out the gates firing as they got their first goal within the first ten minutes of play.

After a series of threatening attacks, Cal broke through in the seventh minute off a goal from junior forward Christian Thierjung – his ninth of the season.

The Beavers saw their first chance of the match come in the 21st minute when Doholis whipped a cross to Velasco who saw his attempt saved.

The Bears struck again in the 23rd minute when junior defender Nick Lima scored from just outside the box.

Oregon State answered before half when sophomore forward Jordan Jones scored in the 39th minute from six yards out, with the assists coming from Mueller and freshman midfielder Hassani Dotson.

Jones credits the goal to the chemistry between himself and Mueller.

“Timmy collected it on the right side, played a great ball through the 18, and I took a good touch and was able to finish it to the bottom left, “ Jones said. “We’ve been playing well

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Another rough weekend is in the books for the Oregon State women’s volleyball team. The team lost its sixth match in a row on Sunday afternoon after a 3-1 loss to Utah. The loss comes off the heels of a 3-2 loss to Colorado on Friday.

The Beavers (4-18, 2-10 Pac-12) opened the first set with a 25-19 win, but their play quickly faded. Utah (9-14, 3-9) surged back to win the next three sets and take the game. The Beavers defeated Utah earlier in a 3-1 win, but could not overcome a .189 hitting percentage this time around, allowing Utah to hit .268.

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Continued from page 4 Several times on Saturday the Beavers went into the wildcat formation, bring Mitchell to the sideline and putting either running back Storm Barrs-Woods or receiver Victor Bolden in the shotgun taking the direct snap.

The offense had little success running those plays due to the fact that neither BarrsWoods nor Bolden are real threats to throw the ball.

that feat. Sophomore outside hitter Mary-Kate Marshall tallied a team-high 14 kills and 14 digs.

The loss comes as another disappointment for the team, already losing to Colorado (149, 6-5) despite a fervent comeback attempt.

The Beavers won the second and fourth sets to force a fifth set, but were marred by a poor hitting percentage. The Buffaloes outhit the Beavers .262 to .183 and committed 22 errors to OSU’s 26 errors.

Marshall led the way for OSU, making 25 kills and hitting .264. Redshirt junior Dana Backlund registered a masterful performance, setting career highs with 50 assists and 13 digs.

Senior middle blocker Haley Clarke also set a career-high with 11 kills while chipping in four blocks.

together throughout the season and luckily we were able to combine there.”

The second half saw a more determined Beaver side as they had more shots and limited the number of Cal shots.

Their best chance in the second half came in the 58th minute when multiple crosses were awarded after Jones had his shot from ten yards out blocked. The ball then fell to Dotson who had his shot from six yards out blocked and deflected out for a corner.

While the Beavers put together more and more promising attacks, they couldn’t find another goal as they fell 2-1.

The Beavers are now currently on a four match-losing streak, with the offense only producing one goal during that stretch.

They will look to end their losing streak Friday as they travel to face the UCLA Bruins at 2 p.m. and Sunday against the San Diego State Aztecs at 12 p.m.

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Athlete of the Week Michael Conforto Former Oregon State outfielder Michael Conforto came up big on the largest stage in baseball. The former two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year hit a pair of home runs in game four of the World Series.

Conforto, now playing leftfield for the New York Mets, hit his first home run off Kansas City Royals pitcher Chris Young in the third

inning, then hitting his second off reliever Danny Duffy.

Conforto became only the third player in MLB history to play in the Little League World Series, College World Series and the World Series.

With his RBI in game one of the World Series, Conforto became the first player in MLB history to record an RBI in all three series.

The Beavers will be coming back home next weekend to take on Cal on Friday at 7 p.m. and Stanford at 11 a.m. on Sunday in Corvallis.

This is a role tailor-made for Collins. In his first six starts at quarterback he showed little improvement being able to read a defense, go through his progressions and keep the offense on the field.

Despite his shortcomings as a quarterback, he was always a threat to make a highlight reel play, they happen at least once a game. And you cannot take that completely off the field.

Give him five-ten wildcat plays a game, and this offense could take a big step forward.

Against Colorado they used

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That kind of offensive creativity needs to continue to be a part of the offense. He is just too gifted of a runner to not be on the field, but until he proves to be more consistent, he should not be the everydown quarterback.

For the Oregon State offense to improve on their league worst 19 point per game average, both quarterbacks need to see the field.

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“It grew very unwieldy,” said Carl Brooks of 451 Research.

“The split seems to be fairly logical,” he said, and “will give each branch the freedom to proceed more independently to do what they think they need to do to continue to succeed.”

(Although probably known by most people as a company that makes printers and PCs, by headcount the company’s largest operations are in selling technology and services to other enterprises.

The split will be invisible to many, although not to the 30,000 people who will be laid off, many whose jobs will be

moved to low cost countries.

“It’s a huge change and not a huge change for a lot of people at the same time,” said Jayson Noland Sr., an analyst with Robert W. Baird.

“I say that because a lot of their partners, customers and employees engage with the company in a very specific way. I don’t know that they’re going to notice a significant change one way or the other.”

Investors have a lot riding on the deal.

“It’s a good move,” said analyst David Bartoletti of Forrester Research. “It will focus HP. The challenge is that the data center infrastructure business, while it’s still profitable and going to grow, will not grow nearly as fast as the public cloud is growing.”

Rob Enderle, an analyst of Silicon Valley tech companies,

is convinced the split was engineered to attract a suitor for HP Enterprise, possibly the storage giant EMC. But EMC announced this month that it is being acquired by Dell.

“She’s the bride at the altar,” Enderle said. “The end result is that HP Enterprise is now packaged for sale except there’s nobody to buy them, except maybe Oracle.”

To some observers, HP is a giant laid low, a remnant of the behemoth that once bestrode Silicon Valley.

“People looked at what it was, and want some of that back,” said technology analyst Moorhead. “I think people in different parts of the world see it differently. They say, ‘Yeah, they had some hard times but they’re in a heck of lot better situation now than before.’ I look at it as a glass half full.”

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Prosecutors say otherwise; noting, for instance, that one potential juror had a son who had been prosecuted for theft, and another seemed to offer misleading answers to questions.

“An accurate assessment of this new evidence does not establish that the prosecutors were motivated by race to strike prospective jurors,” Georgia’s brief states.

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‘I am done’: Bieber storms off stage STOCKHOLM – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has generated controversy in Norway after storming off the stage after performing just one song, reports said Friday.

Bieber, 21, who has a strong following in the Scandinavian country, said on Instagram that he opted to abruptly end the performance Thursday as “people in the front row would

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He apologized saying he “did not want to come across mean” and that he had “a rough week.”

Bieber then went to Oslo Airport and left Norway.

Just prior to walking off, a video clip showed Bieber wiping up a pool of water from the stage with a shirt, while arguing with some fans to let go of the shirt.

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He then said: “Guys, I am done. I am not gonna do the show.”

About 1,000 fans were at the Chateau Neuf concert hall in Oslo.

Four teenage girls were later harassed on social media, blamed for triggering Bieber’s angry reaction.

Broadcaster TV2, which had planned to tape the show and air it in November, said they

were not to blame.

“We strongly reject the angry statements,” TV2 spokeman Jahn-Petter Dahl told Oslo daily VG.

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Handle financial matters today and tomorrow. Take care of family.

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China ends one-child policy, but effects on gender balance, workforce remain issues

By Stuart Leavenworth McClatchy Washington Bureau

BEIJING – China’s Communist Party on Thursday officially ended its policy that limited most families to a single child, an acknowledgment that the 1970s population-control measure was outdated, was holding back economic growth and had distorted China’s demographics in ways that could hurt the party’s long-term hold on power.

Some experts were surprised by the suddenness of the decision, even though the problems caused by the one-child policy have been apparent for many years. With so many families limited to a single child, China’s labor force is shrinking and working people without siblings are struggling to care for their aging parents.

Moreover, the policy has contributed to a surplus of men, partly because of a patriarchal tradition of favoring male children. That means an excess of young males with no marriage prospects – a formula for potential unrest and chaos of the kind party leaders fear most.

“Certainly the Communist Party for many years said that the sex-ratio imbalance is a severe societal problem,” said Leta Hong Fincher, a Hong Kong-based sociologist who specializes in Chinese policy toward women and families. “They have been talking about loosening the policy for years. Still, I am surprised they did this without a more gradual step. It suggests they felt they needed to move rapidly because of the demographic crisis.”

Even with the lifting of the one-child rule, the Communist Party hasn’t completely gotten out of the business of dictating reproductive decisions. Under the new policy, announced in a party communique late Thursday, couples nationwide will be allowed to have two children, but no more.

It also appears the party will not immediately loosen restrictions on single women having children, a sore point for the country’s feminists.

China introduced its one-child policy in 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, who throughout his rule had encouraged large families. By the late 1970s, the party was growing increasingly concerned about the population’s strain on resources. The program went into effect two years after it was announced.

Experts are divided on how effective the one-child rule has been stabilizing China’s population of nearly 1.4 billion. The policy was unevenly enforced, with exemptions and loose oversight for ethnic minorities and rural farmers.

Even so, implementation of the policy created hardships and

Increasing the child quota is unlikely to work in rebalancing China’s aging population.

Anna Smajdor Medical ethicist heartbreaks for many. Government regularly fined and ostracized families breaking the rules. In one of its most controversial aspects, local officials forced an uncounted number of women to undergo abortions, often late in pregnancy.

Because of cultural pressures to create male heirs, many families gave up their daughters for adoption – filling Chinese orphanages with female toddlers and fueling what became a generation of China-born adoptees in the United States and elsewhere.

Because of such policies and practices, China today has a gender imbalance that, in terms of scale, is approached only by that of India. According to a report by China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission, there will be 30 million more men than women nationwide within five years.

In her book, “Leftover Women,” Hong Fincher chronicles the Chinese government’s clumsy efforts to cope with this imbalance. One major focus, through state media, has been to put pressure on women to marry and rear children in their mid-20s.

“Restless young men are seen as a threat to the foundation of Chinese society,” she wrote. “And single women threaten the moral fabric as well, for being free agents, unnatural in failing to perform their duty to give birth and tame a restless man.”

Now that China is abandoning the one-child rule, Hong Fincher expects there will be another round of propaganda, pressing married couples to take advantage of the new policy and rear a pair of children.

With or without effective messaging, it is unclear if the policy will have its intended effect.

In 2013, China relaxed the one-child rule, allowing families to have a second child if one parent was an only child. The National Health and Family Planning Commission estimated

New allies in northern Syria don’t seem to share US goals

By Roy Gutman McClatchy Washington Bureau

TEL ALO, Syria – After the failure of its $500 million program to stand up a Syrian volunteer force to battle Islamic State extremists, the Obama administration has begun an effort to enable Arab militias to fight alongside a Kurdish force that has gotten U.S. air support for the past year.

The stated U.S. aim is to oust the Islamic State from its de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. But if the Shammar tribal militia, the biggest in Hasaka province, is any example, many Arab forces on the ground have a different agenda. For that matter, so does the Kurdish People’s Protection Force, or YPG, which dominates this area and has worked closely with the U.S. since the siege last year of the border town of Kobani.

The road to the palace of Sheikh Humaydi Daham al Hadi, the head of the Shammar tribe, winds through vast wheat fields in this isolated corner of eastern Syria, past checkpoints manned

by YPG fighters, and then by his own guards.

Hasaka, an oil, gas and grain producing area, is now part of what the YPG calls Jazera, one of three cantons that comprise Rojava, or west Kurdistan, a 200-mile-long corridor on Syria’s border with Turkey. The Syrian government, which still has troops in at least two cities, has acquiesced to YPG control.

Because Turkey views the YPG as a terrorist group and has closed its borders because of the YPG’s affiliation with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, the only way into Rojava is by a ferry across the Tigris River from Iraq and hours of driving on secondary roads.

Welcoming visitors in his vast reception room, Sheikh Humaydi says his goal is to lead a Shammar tribal uprising against the Islamic State “to liberate Syria, Iraq and beyond.” But he also

wants to carry on a 2-century-old struggle against conservative Wahabi Islam, which he said destroyed the last Shammar emirate, and he favors the breakup of Saudi Arabia, where the puritanical sect dominates. “We are already working on that,” he said.

According to his son, Bandar al Humaydi, who heads the al Sanadid militia, the immediate priority of is “to liberate al Hawl and Ash Shaddadi from the Islamic State,” a reference to two towns in the oil- and gas-producing parts of Hasaka province. Bandar says he has 600 to 700 front-line fighters and 2,000 reserves but is in need of ammunition and better weapons, including TOW antitank missiles.

But any moves by al Sanadid depend on the YPG, which named Sheikh Humaydi co-president of the canton and recommended the al Sanadid militia to the U.S. military to receive military aid airdrops, the only known one of which took place Oct. 11.

In fact, every major decision in Rojava is up to the YPG, including the actual distribution of U.S. aid. Bandar al Humaydi said YPG military commanders told him that they had received the first U.S. shipment of 50 tons of ammunition, but that so far the Kurdish militia hadn’t distributed it. It’s not clear if the Kurdish militia supports Bandar’s plan to liberate al Hawl and Ash Shaddadi.

If al Sanadid has no immediate plans to attack Raqqa, which lies about 150 miles southeast of here, it reflects the view of the YPG, which controls territory as little as 35 miles from the Islamic State stronghold.

“We in the YPG have a strategic goal, to link Afrin with Kobani,” said Polat Can, a senior militia official, referring to two Kurdish enclaves in Rojava that are separated by 60 miles of territory controlled by the Islamic State. “We will do everything we can to achieve it.”

Other areas, such as Raqqa, “are not so important,” he said in an interview in Suleimaniyah, Iraq. Humaydi supports the YPG plan.

American military officials say the U.S. won’t back any such operation, and officials in Ankara say Turkey would block it, by force if necessary. Turkey fears that if the YPG seizes the corridor, millions more Syrian Arabs and Turkmans will flee to Turkey.

The statements by Humaydi and Can are the latest sign that Obama administration decisions to fix one problem could have long-term and unintended implications.

The airdrop of ammunition took place just two days after the administration declared an end to its “train-and-equip” program, which had widely been declared a failure. But how the Arab groups were selected to be part of the new program is hardly clear.

The process appears to give the YPG veto power over the buildup of Arab forces. It was Can who announced the creation of the Syrian Democratic Forces on Oct. 11, just hours before the arms airdrop. The al Sanadid militia was among the groups he named.

One day later, Can told McClatchy that the YPG would retain overall command of the joint Kurdish-Arab force. “The international community has assigned this mission to the YPG,” he said.

U.S. officials visited YPG-dominated northern Syria in early October to meet with the Kurdish militia’s proposed partners. Bandar al Humaydi said the vetting session took place on a farm in the region after the Americans declined to call on him and his father at their compound, on the advice of the YPG, whose personnel sat in on the discussion, he said.

“The Americans said they will transfer our case to their leadership and that

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that the relaxed rule would prompt 11 million more couples to have a second child. But by the beginning of this year, fewer than 1.1 million had sought out the required permit.

Experts say China’s increasingly affluent population is having fewer children for the same reasons as their counterparts worldwide: Urban housing costs are expensive, women want to launch their careers before having children and some don’t want to have children, regardless of circumstances.

“Increasing the child quota is unlikely to work in rebalancing China’s aging population, because China, like everywhere else, is looking at a low birth rate especially among affluent, welleducated women,” said Dr. Anna Smajdor, a medical ethicist at the University of East Anglia in England.

“In many cases, it is not that women are not allowed to have

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Still unclear is how many volunteers the local forces, all with their own agendas, can actually muster. Can estimated there are 30,000 Arabs already fighting and 40,000 YPG fighters. But U.S. officials put the YPG numbers at closer to 20,000 and the Arabs at as few as 5,000.

But according to Bandar, “if the Americans support us, we will be able to reach Damascus.

We have men, tens of thousands, who might join us in Syria and in Iraq.”

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On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry repeatedly ducked questions on how China might respond if the United States were to repeat Monday’s actions and send other military ships within the 12-mile exclusionary zone that China claims around its artificial islands.

Thayer said he doubted that more assertive U.S. actions would lead to military conflict with China. Two years ago, he noted, Beijing declared an “air defense identification zone” over the East China Sea but then backed down when the United States dispatched a B-52 bomber to fly over the zone.

“China does not have the wherewithal – naval warships and aircraft – to directly respond to the U.S. if it became more assertive in supporting the Philippines,” said Thayer.

“China is not in a position to use the threat of force.”

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U.S. officials said they gave their Chinese counterparts no advance notice of the exercise.

“You don’t need to consult with any nation when you are exercising the right of freedom of navigation in international waters,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said at a news conference Monday. “The whole point of freedom of navigation in international waters is that it’s international waters, and you don’t need to consult with anybody to do that.”

Some independent analysts say the Obama administration waited inordinately long to challenge China and its attempts to expand territorial control in the region. Carl Thayer, an Australia-based security analyst, said the dispatch of a U.S. ship will grab headlines but was too little, too late.

“The United States should have acted in 2014 when it was clear China was embarking on a major effort to create artificial islands,” Thayer, a U.S.-born emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales, told McClatchy.

Freedom of navigation patrols, he added, “will not prevent China from consolidating its infrastructure on its artificial islands. In the fullness of time China will militarize these artificial islands when it suits its purposes.”

China’s intentions in the region are anything but clear. Subi Reef and other parts of the Spratly Islands (which China calls the Nansha Islands) are thought to sit above significant deposits of oil and natural gas, one reason they have been claimed by the Philippines and several other countries. Some experts say China may be asserting control over these waters to more easily avoid detection of its expanding submarine fleet in the region.

For its part, China contends it is engaged in island reclamation for peaceful purposes, such as improving search-and-rescue response in the sea lanes. On Tuesday, Chinese officials questioned why the United States deliberately sent one of its warships on what it called an illegal incursion into Chinese waters.

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BEIJING – China issued strong words but took no immediate military action after the United States sent a guided-missile destroyer through waters Beijing claims in the South China Sea. China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that Chinese ships followed and warned the USS Lassen as it maneuvered within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef, one area where China has been building an artificial island capable of serving as a military airstrip.

The Obama administration has accused China of threatening freedom of navigation by constructing artificial islands and restricting vessels from coming within 12 nautical miles of them. But China continues to insist it has “indisputable sovereignty” over more than 80 percent of the South China Sea, and it hinted Tuesday that any further U.S. incursions would trigger a more muscular response.

“If relevant parties insist on creating tensions in the region and making trouble out of nothing, it may force China to draw the

conclusion that we need to strengthen and hasten the buildup of our capabilities,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “I would advise the United States not to create such a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

While China says the United States is being provocative by sending a warship into disputed waters, several Asian countries, including U.S. allies, see China as the ultimate source of conflict. Over the last two years, China has embarked on an island construction spree in the South China Sea, home to shipping lanes where trillions of dollars in trade is transported annually.

Several countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and Japan, have condemned China’s “Great Wall of Sand” and encouraged Obama to challenge Beijing’s claims and construction activities.

Obama now has done so, sending the USS Lassen – a guided-missile destroyer – close to Subi Reef late Monday. The operation lasted a few hours, apparently without incident.

Although China says its ships followed the U.S. warship and warned it to stay away, it was not immediately clear how many Chinese ships

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“You add up all these societal challenges, and it is hard to predict what will happen,” said Hong Fincher. “Yes, finally the government has done it. It has gotten rid of the one-child policy. But it will take decades to reverse the negative trends.”

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powers like Turkey, which is loath to see Syria break apart; Iran, which wants Iraq to stay together; and Saudi Arabia, which can be expected to defend its own territorial integrity.

Meanwhile, a force that didn’t make it through the YPG’s first round of vetting turns out to be the only major militia in the region that supports the U.S. goal of attacking Raqqa.

That is the Liwa Thurwar al-Raqqa, or the Raqqa Revolutionaries, led by a Raqqa merchant who goes by the nom-de-guerre Abu Issa, or “Issa’s father.” The group captured large parts of northern Syria before the Syrian government handed the rest to the YPG and includes many fighters from Raqqa itself.

“We have been fighting ISIS for almost two years,” he said. “We were the first to fight them.

The most important thing is we need weapons, to encourage people to come for training. If I had weapons, ammunition and support, I could gather 10,000 fighters.”

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