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Wolves delisted?
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On Feb. 25, 2015 an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist collared wolf OR33, a two year old adult male from the Imnaha pack in Wallowa County. Larger wild animals are typically blindfolded while imobilized to protect eyes and to help calm them.
Oregon considers removing gray wolves from endangered species list By Sean Bassinger Senior Beat Reporter
Moving Oregon’s gray wolves from the endangered species list would not change their fate in terms of legal hunting, though it could still have a significant impact in terms of the state’s overall plan for managing their popuation. Early on Monday, the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (ODFW) commission met to decide if the Oregon grey wolf would be removed from the endangered species list. The meeting’s agenda references a suggestion to delist the wolves following a biological status review of the wolves, however, the results of the vote had not yet been
resleased as of Monday evening at 6 p.m.. The commission’s consideration has caught the attention of many across the state, including scientists at Oregon State University. Among them is professor Michael Nelson, who helped draft a letter to the ODFW commission in an effort to have them reconsider their suggestion. Nelson, who previously worked in Michigan and Idaho, said the processes in the past have commonly boiled down to political decisions. Currently, there are a little more than 80 wolves in Oregon. “As of right now, (grey wolves) only occupy about 12 percent of what ODFW themselves say is their suitable range,” Nelson said. “That’s not all or a significant
portion of their suitable range.” The letter, which also includes Jeremy T. Bruskotter from Ohio State University and John A. Vucetich from Michigan Technological University, outlines how the law requires delisting to be based on the “best-available science,” though makes mention of the fact that the analysis’ “Updated biological status review for the Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus)” was not peer reviewed. “I’ve lived in places where these wolves have come back and one of the things I’ve seen kind of repeatedly is we move really quick on these things sometimes,”
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OSU named first in sexual health Changing the
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OSU researchers discover how proteins fold
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Trojan has wrapped up the research for the company’s 2015 Sexual Health Report Card, and it turns out that the Oregon State Beavers are wrapping up too. For the second year in a row, OSU has claimed the number one spot across 140 major universities in every state in the U.S. in the annual report card’s ranking system. The study, conducted by independent research firm Sperling’s BestPlaces, surveyed student health center representatives at each participating university and conducted additional follow-up research to gauge the accessibility of sexual health resources available to students. According to Trojan’s rankings methodology, the data was drawn from 11 categories, including
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Imagine creatures as small as one millionth of an inch linking together to form aspects that are vital to all living organisms. Forming muscle, hair, and other body tissues, proteins are a basic structure of life. In a recent discovery, these structural building blocks of life were better understood in a significant way. Andrew Karplus, a valued professor of biochemistry and biophysics
in the Oregon State University College of Science, and Andrew Brereton, an OSU doctoral student, recently discovered how proteins change shape. All proteins begin by linking together to form a linear shape, but they must fold in order to function properly. If the folding goes incorrectly, diseases such as Alzheimer’s and numerous others can occur. “People have been trying to predict protein structures for a long time, and there is a lot more that we don’t know compared to what we do know,” said Karplus. Not only did Karplus and
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Police Beat Nov. 4through Nov. 5
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All those arrested for crimes are considered innocent until proven guilty.
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Theft A man reported that an E-Zip 750 electric scooter Fraud was stolen from his yard. A woman reported The scooter was locked recieveing a fradulent to a tree in the yard, and check for $2750 and the lock was cut. sent $2600 from her own account without waiting for Fugitive the check to clear. A man who had an outShe said the suspect con- standing warrant for his tacted her via her Oregon arrest was located on SW State University “Private 4th St./SW Jefferson Ave. Chemistry Tutor” site. The Benton County Jail The money in her staff authorized a citation account had not cleared. to appear in court, which
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The officer followed up the information provided by the man from Adult Protecctive Services. The woman told the offiThursday, Nov. 5: cer that her step son gets very mad and upset with Welfare Check A man from Adult her when she gets up to go Protective Services called to the bathroom at night, dispatch and reported pos- accusing her of interruptsible physical abuse of a ing his sleep. The officer asked her if woman from her step son. He stated that the woman her step son or anybody was so scared of her step in the household physison that she sleeps with a cally abuses her and she said “no, never” and that pistol under her pillow.
she felt safe as long as her husband is home with her when the step son is also home. Fugitive Arrest A man was arrested on a felony absconder warrant out of Benton County Parole and Probation after missing a meeting with his probation officer. He was located in his camp on the south east side of Highway 34.
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These tracks were made by a single adult wolf. The large pawprint is the front paw and the small is the back.
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H Wolves Continued from page 1 A Nelson said. “We make mistakes. We don’t delist on the basis of the best science that we’re obligated L available to or the right interpretation of law.” Ripple, professor and director L of Bill the Trophic Cascades Program at
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A 72 lb female wolf from the Mt. Emily pack was captured and GPS collared on June 7, 2014.
process,” Ripple said. “So there’s conversationists and there’s ranchers and there’s hunters, so I think it’s going to be up to the citizens of the state.” On an ecological level, Ripple OSU, helped conduct a study with said the reintroduction of wolves in former forestry graduate student Ted Yellowstone National Park allowed Larsen in 2006 that helped estimate for the reintroduction of vegetation the number of wolves the state could such as aspen, cottonwood and eventually house. willow. The ecological shift further “There’s enough habitat for 1,400 contributed to an increase in beaver and songbird popuations. wolves in Oregon,” Ripple said. “When the wolves were reintroIn comparison, Ripple said there are more than 2,000 wolves in duced to Yellowstone Park, their Northern Minnesota, around 636 numbers grew rapidly and were in Michigan and 660 in Wisconsin. allowed to grow rapidly,” Ripple The Rocky Mountain wolf popula- said. “The wolves are having a protion, which consists of those found found influence on resources in in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Yellowstone.” consists of at least 1,657 wolves in The shift in wolf and other carniaround 282 packs. vore populations could also impact “It comes down to the fact that disease levels in the state, according there are different stakeholders to Taal Levi, an assistant professor involved in the Oregon political from the College of Agricultural
Sciences. “As carnivore comminutes change, rodents may become more or less abundant and that may have implications for diseases,” Levi said. Unlike other areas, Levi mentioned how there are far more stakeholders involved with the discussions in Oregon, which makes the recent commission decisions and discussions that much more unique. “I think that’s what this conflict is really about,” he said. “Unlike Yellowstone, you have a lot of other competing users of public land that don’t really want the wolf population high enough to achieve those ecological consequences.” As recent as Nov. 6, reports in the Klamath Falls Herald and News highlighted the death of one rancher’s calf and the injury of two others when the gray wolf identified as OR-25 was tracked as being around the same location.
“The wolves just arrived in Western Oregon, so it’s not a common occurence yet by any means,” Levi said. Levi said the most common predators of livestock include a variety of animals such as coyotes, dogs, wolves and other carnivores depending on the region. “Most people want to know if we have enough wolves to justify delisting,” Levi said. “It doesn’t seem like a scientific question as much as it’s about value or what we want. I’m not sure we’re necessarily having that conversation.” In terms of continued discussion and state management plans, Ripple said it boils down to what he described as “ecological efficiency.” “It’s up to the people of Oregon and the policy makers as to how many wolves will be here,” Ripple said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Monday’s Puzzle solved
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Andrew Brereton, a PhD candidate in biochemistry and biophysics, showing Dr. Any Karplus the 3D printed models of the proteins in their research lab.
Protein
Continued from page 1 Brereton catch the proteins in the midst of changing shape, but they noticed an additional aspect that has falsified numerous assumptions. Prior to this research, it had been assumed that proteins created specific shapes, and if they were not structured in these specific shapes they would be classified as unstable - meaning that they are unable to function
successfully. The experiment found that proteins that are usually classified as unstable are actually able to function extremely well. “Thinking about proteins and their stability, people and scientists assumed that they have to be in a perfect shape in order to be stable, however we found out that proteins don’t have to perfect to be really stable,” said Karplus. “There were proteins that we saw that were a mess and all jumbled up, but they were still really stable.”
Because these changes occur at a trillionth of a second and at a size of one millionth of an inch, there was an enormous amount of analysis and data that was necessary in order to see and understand them. “I taught myself programming, and I took classes. I analyzed tons of data; it was close to big data, as I was analyzing tables that had six thousand rows and eight thousand columns,” said Brereton. Although the data being dealt with was large,Brereton
remembers it all falling into place easily. Each column, row, and number played as a clue on a treasure hunt to the results. “Everything seemed so logical and obvious. After every step, you saw what you needed to do next. This changed the direction of my research, and now I look for that feeling of logic in all of the research that I do,” said Brereton. According to Brereton, this experience was amazing, but aside from the many obstacles that the two researchers
Four things to watch for in Tuesday’s GOP debate David Lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau
MILWAUKEE — Ben Carson and Marco Rubio, trying mightily to survive and thrive in the unrelenting spotlight surging presidential candidates must endure, face a huge new test at Tuesday’s Republican debate. The latest McClatchy-Marist Poll finds Carson slightly ahead nationally, Trump close, Rubio climbing and Cruz not too far behind. The stakes are high for national newcomers Carson, Rubio and Cruz, because the more people heard about them the more they liked, giving each enormous upside — as well as potential to disappoint and plunge. This debate will have a different look. The main stage’s eight contenders in the year’s fourth GOP debate is the smallest yet, as Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, failed to qualify. They’ll join Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and Bobby
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Jindal, governor of Louisiana, in an earlier debate. The debate’s focus is supposed to be the economy. That was also billed as the topic of the last one, which at times became a free-for-all as candidates were asked about regulating fantasy football or their biggest weaknesses. The furor over the debate’s tone prompted campaign officials to seek changes in the format. They couldn’t agree and the format’s not changing. The two-hour debate at the Milwaukee Theatre will start at 9 p.m. EST. Moderators will include Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo and Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The undercard will run for an hour starting at 7 p.m. EST. Here are three questions for the main debate: Can Rubio take more hits? His surge to prominence last month began with his passionate, pointed debate defense of his Senate voting record. Jeb
Bush, the former Florida governor, kept tumbling after his wan challenge to Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida. Since then, Rubio’s faced questions about using a Republican Party credit card for personal expenses while in the Florida legislature. Saturday, his campaign released an accounting of the expenses, and chances are Rubio will be armed with pointed responses to any critic. Can he stay cool when defending himself? And will the public buy his explanations? Can Carson keep cool? The retired neurosurgeon has been tackling questions about his personal background and views. He could be grilled Tuesday on his history with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements firm, as well as dealings with the U.S. Military Academy, assertions that Egypt’s pyramids were built to store grain, and just how violent he may have been as a teenager. Will Trump be bombastic or reasonable?
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faced, writing may have been the biggest for Brereton. “I now have a phobia of handing in first drafts of writing; tearing the drafts apart is an understatement,” Brereton said.”They were completely mutilated. Karplus and I went through five major drafts before the end result.” This discovery is the first that shows protein folding in this great of detail, and the first to suggest that this aspect that is vital to all living organisms is able to fold into forms that were previously considered impossible.
Findings like these make some students proud to be a part of OSU. “It is really incredible that these life-changing discoveries are being made at the university I attend,” said Nicole Matthews, a junior in the College of Science at OSU. “It inspires me to think that I could be apart of a project such as this one. OSU is a school where students really have a chance to make history” baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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No moment too big for Hopkins Poistion changes and mono did not stop Will Hopkins from being ready By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter
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Sophomore offensive tackle Will Hopkins warms up prior to the game against UCLA on Nov. 7. Hopkins made his second career start against the Bruins
When the Oregon State football team traveled to Salt Lake City to play Utah two games ago, sophomore offensive lineman Will Hopkins traveled with the team for the first time this season. Also a first: Hopkins was going to be the starting left tackle. After losing nearly 30 pounds due to a bout with mono, being held out of practice until mid-October and getting his first start on the road in Rice-Eccles Stadium, Hopkins had a lot on his plate versus the Utes and this Saturday against UCLA. “I was kind’ve uncertain at the beginning (of the game) since I’ve only practiced against our guys,” Hopkins said. “I didn’t know what it would be like once we got in a hostile environment. But I felt calm about it and it helped that the coaches had confidence in me.” “He just didn’t back down,” added senior center Josh Mitchell. “The moment wasn’t too great for him. He was calm the whole time and we knew we could rely on him.” Utah entered the game averaging nearly three sacks per contest, but OSU allowed just one despite attempting 35 passes. Mitchell and Hopkins roomed together in the hotel in Salt Lake City, though Mitchell insisted he “didn’t need to talk” with Hopkins about being calm. “He was ready. He wasn’t nervous or anything,” Mitchell said. “It’s not an easy to place to go in and play, first off, especially your first start after being out for two months or so. Will handled himself really well out there.” Hopkins didn’t travel with the team for away games in Michigan, Arizona and Washington and was finally cleared to practice the Monday before the Colorado game. He was immediately thrust into the starting role versus the Buffaloes when junior left tackle Sean Harlow sustained a season-ending ankle injury. Hopkins estimated he lost 27 or 28 pounds while battling mono, including a 15-pound drop in a five-day span in early September. He’s gained back about 18 pounds but is still undersized for a tackle at just below 280 pounds. The unconventional, however, is normal for Hopkins. In 2013, he switched both his school choice and football position, finally ending as an OSU tackle. The Austin, Tex. native initially planned on
Week 7 Fortune favors the bolden – 146.6 The Duckless Dandies – 12.4 Fresh on the Scene – 70.8 Yound and True Beavers – 55
Fortune Favors the Bolden 2-5 Brian Rathbone Sports Editor
QB – Vernon Adams Jr. (UO) Points: 36.3 RB – Storm Barrs-Woods (OSU) Points: 8.7 RB – Royce Freeman (UO) Points: 18.8 WR – Victor Bolden (OSU) Points: 4.4 WR – Hunter Jarmon (OSU) Points: 5.7 TE – Austin Hooper (Stan) Points: 12.2 FLEX – Ronald Jones II (USC) Points: 30.2 FLEX – Dom Williams (WSU) Points: 24.3 K – Conrad Ukropina (Stan) Points: 6 TOTAL: 146.6
The Duckless Dandies 6-1 Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter Play-by-play KBVR FM
QB – Luke Falk (WSU) Points: 42 RB – Demario Richard (ASU) Points: 18.6 RB – Christian McCaffrey (Stan) Points: 17.2 WR – JuJu Smith-Schuster (USC) Points: 19.8 WR – Jordan Villamin (OSU) Points: 1.2 TE – Kellen Clute (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – Jordan Payton (UCLA) Points: 7.1 FLEX – Gabe Marks (WSU) Points: 6.5 K – Garrett Owens (OSU) Points: 0 TOTAL: 112.4
Fresh on the Scene 3-4 Jeff Lulay BeaverDam President
QB – Nick Mitchell (OSU) Points: -5 RB – Chris Brown (OSU) Points: 0 RB – Devontae Booker Utah) Points: 23.1 WR – Nelson Spruce (Colo) Points: 7.5 WR – DJ Foster (ASU) Points: 8 TE – Ryan Nall (OSU) Points: 3.5 FLEX – Braylon Addison (UO) Points: 19.9 FLEX – Barry Sanders Jr. (Stan) Points: 1.8 K – Aiden Schneider (UO) Points: 12 TOTAL: 70.8
heading to the Air Force Academy after spending 2012 with the Academy’s Prep School. Hopkins ended up deciding against Air Force after signing day, leaving him without any scholarship offers. The only two schools that recruited him at that point were Oregon and OSU. “I felt more comfortable with the atmosphere here than at Oregon,” Hopkins said. “The facilities and everything are cool, but I felt more comfortable with the people here. Coach (Mike) Riley promised he’d put me on scholarship as soon as he could, and he put me on at the end of fall camp. It was a leap of faith… It was a God thing.” Hopkins, who stands 6-foot-7, came to OSU as a tight end but moved to tackle while redshirting in 2013. Right as it seemed he had earned a spot in the rotation in 2015, Hopkins’ season came to a screeching halt with the diagnosis of mono two days before the season opener. “It gets rough when you see your buddies out there, especially because I was right in the mix of things at second string and probably would have gotten playing time,” Hopkins said. In the meantime, Hopkins tried to get back to full health as quickly as possible. Since classes didn’t start until Sept. 24 and he couldn’t practice, Hopkins was able to do what is best for recovering from mono — nothing. “That first four or five weeks, it was literally nothing,” he said. “I would watch practice from upstairs (in the Valley Football Center) and take a nap if I felt tired. I wasn’t even on the field. That was the first step in being cleared was just being able to watch.” Once he was capable of physical activity, he spent time working out with other injured players. He started with the stationary bike and after about a week he asked to start sprinting and jogging. Soon, he was back to weight lifting. “Will is a tough kid. There’s not much that’s going to phase him,” said offensive line coach TJ Woods. “That’s the way it should be. I think he handled the situation well, came back and got thrown into the mix.” It helped to have fellow offensive lineman Gavin Andrews to talk with, who had missed significant time earlier in his career due to mono. Hopkins has also relied on the advice of junior right tackle Dustin Stanton, who similarly was a tight end before moving to tackle. “You could see how much it was killing him to not be out there,” Mitchell said. “Once he was allowed back around the program, he was all in at practice… he obviously bought in, because he was ready to go.” On Twitter @BrightTies
Standings
1. x- The Duckless Dandies 2. Young and True Beavers 2. Fresh on the Scene 4. Fortune favors the bolden
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QB – Jared Goff (Cal) Points: 23 RB – Paul Perkins (UCLA) Points: 14.9 RB – Nick Wilson (UA) Points: 0 WR – Kenny Lawler (Cal) Points: 3.1 WR – Datrin Guytin (OSU) Points: 0 TE – Noah Togiai (OSU) Points: 1.8 FLEX – Paul Lucas (OSU) Points: 0.2 FLEX – River CraCraft (WSU) Points: 2 K – Ka’imi Fairbairn (UCLA) Points: 10
TOTAL: 55
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Guyton dismissed MIZZOU President president resigns from football team By Dave Matter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Beavers will be without third leading receiver
ing an integral part of the offense by setting career highs in catches and yards against Utah and Colorado.
“I wish it wasn’t this way, but it is that way,” said head It was announced on Mon- coach Gary Andersen at his day that redshirt freshman weekly press conference. wide receiver Datrin Guy- “I’m excited for his future ton was dismissed from the football team for violation when he decides where he of athletic department and wants to go, and I’m here to help him. I’m not excited team rules. Guyton, the team’s third that he’s not with us. He is a leading receiver with 14 good kid. catches and 178 yards, has “That’s really what I have started the past three games to say on it, other than the while regular starting receiver fact that I am going to help Hunter Jarmon was out due him get to his next spot, to injury. Although Guyton was held because I think he can be without a catch in Oregon successful. Kids make misState’s 41-0 loss against UCLA takes. That’s where we’re at.” last Saturday, he was becomOn Twitter @barosports The Daily Baromter
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Missouri football program will resume team activities on Tuesday now that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe has resigned. With mounting pressure from the Mizzou campus in light of several racial incidents and an ongoing hunger strike by a black Mizzou grad student, Wolfe announced his resignation Monday morning at the Old Alumni Center at the UM System Board of Curators meeting. Shortly after Wolfe announced his resignation, MU grad student Jonathan Butler ended his hunger strike. Butler tweeted earlier Monday: “The #MizzouHungerStrike is officially over!”? After multiple players confirmed that Mizzou’s game
against Brigham Young on Saturday will go on as planned, coach Gary Pinkel and athletics director Mack Rhoades released a joint statement announcing the same: “The primary concern of our student-athletes, coaches and staff has been centered on the health of Jonathan Butler and working with campus leaders to find a resolution that would save a life. We are hopeful we can begin a process of healing and understanding on our campus. Football activities will resume Tuesday in preparation for Saturday’s game with BYU.” The team is scheduled to practice Tuesday, players confirmed. The Tigers play BYU at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The game was in doubt since Saturday night when
a group of 32 MU players pledged to boycott all team activities until Wolfe was removed from office. On Sunday, the terms of the team’s stance changed in a joint statement by Pinkel and Rhoades, who said players “do not plan to return to practice until Jonathan resumes eating.” After Wolfe’s resignation, several Mizzou players chimed in on Twitter: Safety Anthony Sherrils: “The goal was lunchtime Mon-
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Continued from page 1 contraceptive and condom availability, HIV and STI testing, outreach programs, hours of operation, sexual assault resources and services and more. After a significant jump from twenty-fifth to first place in 2014, OSU has maintained its lead as a model for effective university sexual health promotion. Student Health Services employees and representatives are pleased to see praise for OSU’s many sexual health programs and practices. “I think it’s great to see when somebody gets some kind of recognition or acknowledgement for hard work done, because I think it also then sends out a message to the rest of the school that we’ve got something here that’s valuable,” said Judy Neighbours, assistant director for the Survivor Advocacy and Resource Center (SARC). With Trojan’s rankings being partially based on sexual assault services, OSU has a head start with the recent opening of SARC as a centralized location for survivors to seek out resources, and support. According to Neighbours, OSU’s recently hired assis-
tant director for violence prevention Michelle Bangen is introducing several new trainings for students to prevent and intervene in situations of sexual violence. Other distinguishing characteristics of OSU’s sexual assault resources include the three sexual assault nurse examiners available on campus—whereas some universities have none—and the university’s advanced Alcohol, Drug, and Violence Prevention and Advocacy Center, which looks at the intersections of drug and alcohol use with sexual violence and how it can contribute to victim-blaming when survivors come forward. Though OSU certainly appears to be on the right path, there may be some improvements not yet developed and others still in the works. Marwah Al-Jilani, a junior studying political science and international studies, hopes to see sexual health information and resources become more widely available on campus outside of Student Health Services — including in the residence halls and the workplace — to erase the stigma students sometimes feel about being sexually active and seeking out sexual health products and resources. “I think sexual health is
something that we’re trying to make more of a topic that is freer to talk about, but traditionally, it’s a taboo topic,” Al-Jilani said. “I think that there are resources on campus, but it’s not a traditional topic of comfort that we’d mention as leisurely as other topics.” While OSU has been named a leader in sexual health promotion, it seems there may still be need for a continuing dialogue in order to help students feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about accessing services. According to Al-Jilani, OSU hasn’t yet covered all its bases when it comes to providing sexual health products. Al-Jilani hopes to one day see OSU become more dedicated to the distribution of menstruation hygiene products at no cost to those who may otherwise have difficulty accessing them, similar to the way the university provides no-cost barrier method contraceptives at various hot spots across campus. There also appears to be some miscommunication about how to find certain sexual health resources in the first place. According to Marian Landis, coordinator of the Oregon Contraceptive Care office at Student Health Services, many students who come to the OCC
GOP Continued from page 3 The real estate mogul toned down his rhetoric at the last debate. But in recent media and campaign appearances he’s berated his rivals. Rubio, Trump said, is “a disaster with his credit cards.” After a new national poll last week showed Carson ahead, Trump told Fox News, “Ben can’t do the job.” Trump has to be more statesmanlike, but there’s a risk for Rubio and Carson, too. They need to show they have what it takes to stand up to world leaders, but first they have to show they can stand up to Trump.
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — News travels fast today. Long distance communications flow, with Mercury sextile Pluto. Group efforts bear fruit. Get your networks involved. Wheeling and dealing may be required. Put away provisions for the future. Others follow your lead. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Work with a partner over the next few days. Conversation leads to powerful possibilities. Accept a generous offer. Investigate new sources of income. Inviting works better than demanding. Spend money to make money. Invest in your dream. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Good news comes from far away. Profit from meticulous service. Consider an option that seems beyond reach. The workload could get intense. Form a creative partnership. A crazy idea works. More planning is a good idea.
SOLUTION TO MONDAY’S PUZZLE Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk © 2015 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
“I know student health as a whole is trying to do more outreach work around campus just so students know that we’re here and know the kinds of services that we’re able to provide for them,” said Landis. Landis apeciates SHS’s ability to provide resources and services in a centralized and approachable location, as it’s a major convenience for students whose busy schedules may otherwise prevent them from taking the time to utilize resources. She referenced this as a major advantage in OSU’s overall sexual health resource accessibility. Over the ten years that Trojan has been circulating its Sexual Health Report Cards, the data has shown that colleges nationwide are paying more mind to improving their overall sexual health resource availability — a positive sign for future students’ knowledge and preparedness in regards to safe and healthy sex. baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Love is the prize today. Stick with what worked before. A small investment now produces high returns. Invest in your business, in a labor-saving tool. Practice your skills and talents. Sports, arts and games with friends and family delight. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Get into a domestic phase. Upgrade practical infrastructure.
Plan well before spending. Make sure water systems are in good repair. Listen to someone you love. You may not agree on everything, but you can find common ground. Compromise. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Imaginative work pays well. Study the situation before taking action. Look from a different perspective for an enlightening view. Communicate with team members and allies. Once you see what’s underneath, you can build it stronger. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Bring in the money. Be persuasive, not aggressive. Learn quickly. Discuss developments, and plan details. Consider all possibilities. The more projects you finish, the more new projects arrive. Spend time on or near the water. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Dreams reveal your true feelings. Meditation and prayer are useful, especially when pessimism seeps in. The divinity of forgiveness lies in the freedom it provides. Let go of a position that’s been keeping you stuck. Open your heart.
TUESDAY, Nov. 10: Speaker: 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. University Events Location: LaSells Stewart Center Provost’s Lecture Series. Leadership Under Pressure: A Historian’s Close-up Look at Presidential Decision-Making. Event: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Healthy Aging Club Location: MU-SEC Plaza Come to MU/SEC Plaza @ our “Thank A Vet” table to sign thank you cards to veterans on historic occasion of OSU honoring Veteran’s Day! Event: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Waste Watchers Location: The OSUsed Store (644 SW 13th Street) Fall Repair Fair – Get free repairs and learn D.I.Y. skills! Learn more: tiny.cc/repair-fair
Event: 5:30 p.m. Horticulture Club Location: ALS 4009 Join us for a wellness discussion and nursery owner speaks on opportunities in the field.
MID-VALLEY HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES, a Corvallis organization working for universal publicly funded health care in Oregon, needs a freelance social media contractor. Work from home; attend occasional meetings; responsible to Board. Jan 1 through September 30. $550/35-40 hours per month. Details: www. mvhca.org/social.
Mental Health Skills Trainer, Join a dedicated, caring team of direct-care workers at the Children’s Farm Home to help provide trauma informed care and treatment services to at-risk youth. This is a perfect opportunity for qualified candidates who are looking for a flexible schedule to supplement their income while attending classes. Candidates with residential treatment experience working with at-risk youth, or BA/BS preferred but not required. T rillium is one of Oregon’s largest non-profit providers of mental health services to children, adolescents and their families. We bring innovative models of care in order to build brighter futures with children and families. Visit trilliumfamily.org for more information. T rillium Family Services is a drug free workplace. All final applicants will be subject to a criminal record identification check pursuant to ORS 181.536.727.537 and agency policy. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and Service Provider. E mail dgordon@trilliumfamily.org
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THURSDAY, Nov. 12: Discussion: 12:30p.m. - 1p.m. Baha’i Campus Association Location: Talisman Room, MU Informal discussion open to all on progressive spiritual revelation
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Horoscope Today’s Birthday (11/10/15). Unite for common good this year. Sharp money-management practices fatten accounts. Collaborate to amplify individual power. New passion leads to a change in plans after springtime eclipses. A group discovery next autumn leads to a shift in a romance. It’s all for love.
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office do not even know about its existence until referred by the reception desk, a clinician or a friend. Al-Jilani agrees that while condom availability is widely visible across campus, the contraceptive office at SHS is much harder for students to locate. “I think there needs to be more information on the contraceptives that are available, besides just condoms,” said Al-Jilani. “Because I know that Student Health Services provides birth control, but I know a lot of people on campus don’t know about that, so there needs to be a line of communication where it’s easily accessible to get that information.” According to Landis, the health promotions team at SHS is constantly looking for more effective ways to make information available to students so they can take full advantage of what is available to them.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Slow down and contemplate. Envision the future. Your interest is stimulated. Learning is tons of fun and cheap. Write or give a speech or presentation. You’re quickly becoming the expert. A group extends you an invitation.
Meeting: 10a.m. - 12p.m. Student Organization Resources for Community Engagement (SORCE) Location: Memorial Union 215 SORCE is a funding mechanism on campus for recognized student organizations. Our Allocation Meeting is opened to the public on every Friday Event: 6:30p.m. - 8:30p.m. kidsthletics club Location: 324 SW 2nd St Corvallis Join us for an informative class on kids’ health. Exercise and immune support are vital for kids’ well-being. Come learn how to take charge of our kids’ health using dōTERRA essential oils and exercise! Please RSVP to Caylan (dōTERRA) at caylanwagar@gmail.com or, Kidsthletics at info@kidsthletics.com. FREE admission and Therapeutic Playdough. Healthy snacks provided!
SATURDAY, Nov. 14:
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Be careful what you say publicly. Leave nothing to chance. Reveal your ideas in private, and get feedback from your inner circle. They can see your blind spots. Take important news into consideration. Work together on messaging.
Event: 10:30 a.m. Chi Omega Location: Benton County Fairgrounds County Fairgrounds Color Me Chi O is a 5k color fun run, walk and roll that benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation!
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Keep a dream alive by sharing it. Don’t let anyone take the wind out of your sails. Imagine your vision realized. Take one step and then another. Invite participation, and make good use of the talent that shows up.
Event: 7 p.m. — 9 p.m. Book Bin Bookstore Location: 215 SW 4th St. William Ritter, author of Jackaby will be at the book bin reading from his new book Beastly Bones.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Your experience leads to opportunities. Set long-range goals (including vacations). Finish an old job, and clean up afterwards. Consider a power play carefully before choosing your moves. Public recognition is possible. Seek answers in your dreams.
MONDAY, Nov. 16 Meeting: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Death Cafe Corvallis Location: 2nd Street Beanery, 500 2nd St. Got thoughts about mortality? Death Café Corvallis exists in order to listen and talk about death.
TUESDAY, Nov. 10:
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Event 6p.m. - 7:30p.m. OSU Healthy Aging Club Location: Waldo 400 OSUHAC presents Silver Screen “Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy & Alzheimer’s Disease” hosted by Holly Lenz, Ph.D. of IGERT in Aging Sciences & OSU Center for Healthy Aging Research
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Ukraine’s military has rebounded despite budget and battle woes By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Foreign Staff
KIEV, Ukraine – When five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded recently by proRussian separatist gun and grenade fire in southeastern Ukraine, the news created little in the way of official outcry. Part of the reason for that, despite the fact that Ukrainian officials insist that a cease-fire is holding in the embattled area known as Donbas, is that small-scale attacks are still commonplace in the region. A soldier was killed a week earlier. A soldier was wounded the day before that. But the bigger reason for the silence on an attack that six months or a year ago would have triggered outrage is that fears about the staying power of Ukraine’s military have faded. In fact, experts on the Ukrainian military believe it’s now far stronger than thought possible 18 months ago. Without international weapons assistance, burdened by a domestic economy that’s been teetering on the edge of collapse for the past year and despite being locked in the middle of a civil war where the opposition has active support from powerful Russia, Ukraine has managed to build one of Europe’s largest standing armies in the last year and half. The Ukrainians have nearly doubled their military spending and look likely to significantly increase spending next year. Corruption remains a significant problem, with some estimates that even now as much as 20 to 25 percent of the
budget is wasted. Still, that is a significant decrease. In past years, there were estimates that as much as 90 percent of the budget was stolen. Experts around Europe caution that while what’s been accomplished has been impressive, it’s unlikely to be sustainable. Ukraine’s new military budget accounts for 5 percent of the gross domestic product, more than double the percentage NATO recommends and four to five times what many of Ukraine’s neighbors spend. “There is no doubting the fact that we’ve come a long ways in a short time,” said Serhiy Zhurets, the director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital. “Maintaining this level of commitment _ or going any further _ means making a choice between education and defense, the economy and defense. But at this time, under a clear and persistent threat, this was a decision we had to make.” To understand how far they’ve come, it’s important to remember where Ukraine was when this began. Not long after Russia’s “little green men” (the Ukrainian euphemism for Russian troops from their Black Sea Fleet) took control of Crimea in March 2014, Ukrainian officials looked at the country’s defensive capabilities and realized they had no military options for opposing what they deemed an illegal move. So, despite pledging never
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Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies to give up on Crimea being a part of Ukraine, they did not respond. Instead, the newly formed government realized it had to scramble quickly to cobble together some sort of armed services or risk the entire nation quickly falling to Russian aggression. In the years leading up to the current crisis, when military officials openly augmented their incomes by selling off pieces of Ukraine’s old Soviet weapons stockpile, there was a pretty standard rule: The military would come up with an estimate of what it would take to modernize the Ukrainian military, and the Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, would approve a budget of about a tenth of that. So the budget requested 2013 for 2014 was about $11.3 billion (at today’s exchange rate about $5.7 billion). The budget awarded, however, was about $1.3 billion, or about $690 million at today’s exchange rate. That was the budget as Russian troops took control
of Crimea and pro-Russian separatists with Russian military assistance began a fight for control of two Ukrainian states, Donetsk and Luhansk, collectively called Donbas. As the fight in Donbas intensified, Ukraine could send only battalions of volunteers into battle. Those volunteers were asked to bring their own uniforms, plus one for someone else if they could afford it, as well as any weapons and ammunition they might have. Being in the middle of war with Russia, however, prompted the Rada last year to approve a defense budget of about $2.2 billion. The planned budget for next year appears to be about $3.8 billion. Craig Caffrey, a military budget analyst with IHS Jane’s, a defense consultancy, notes that there are often revisions to Ukrainian defense budgets, “so that’s not set in stone at this stage.” But he expects defense spending to increase, at least in the short term, despite pressure on Ukraine from the International Monetary Fund to reduce its budget deficit. “Defense is necessarily a prioritized area at present, though,” he wrote in an email, “so we’re certainly expecting to see a significant increase in spending next year.” Ukraine won’t be the only player in the conflict with budgetary problems. “On the Russian side of things, their defense budget is coming under a lot of pressure, too,” he wrote. “Military spending has more than
doubled there over the last five years, but that is starting to put strain upon government finances.” Russian defense spending has increased rapidly, as much as 26 percent last year alone. “But we’re expecting that to be the last major increase,” he wrote. “Spending in Russia reached 4.2 percent of GDP in 2015 and we’re expecting it to gradually fall back from that level over the remainder of the decade.” Dmytro Tymchuk, a member of the national security and defense committee of the Rada and one of the foremost military experts in Ukraine, is tasked with overseeing Ukrainian defense spending. Sitting at a table outside the chambers of the Rada recently, he excitedly discussed the country’s newly developed military strengths. “Much of our equipment is old Soviet-era stuff,” he said. “The plants that make replacement parts, or which can upgrade them, are in Russia, and that market is off limits
to us. So we’ve had to come up with ways to work around Russian suppliers. We’ve been quite creative.” He repeated the number of Ukrainian troops that others here do: 240,000. He noted that when the fighting began, Ukraine had a fleet of more than 2,500 tanks, but that almost none of them were operational. In fact, when the Ukrainians sought to dispatch tanks to Donbas, it could find only a couple ready for use in battle. Now, he said, Ukraine has 500 battle-ready tanks and crews to run them. Broken tanks are being repaired and new ones bought at a furious pace. The state-owned UkrOboronProm arms factory this year is expected to churn out 40 of its Oplot main battle tank, and next year will make 120. That’s a 2,300 percent increase over the five the factory produced last year. McClatchy Washington Bureau
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Islamic State may have been driven from Kobani, but wounds remain By Roy Gutman
While the town and its environs seems to be physically on the mend, reconstruction may not ease the KOBANI, Syria _ Dump trucks by anguish caused by the Islamic State’s the hundreds ply the streets of this second attack in June, when its fightmostly Kurdish town daily, hauling off ers infiltrated the city and slaughtered the rubble left from the Islamic State’s nearly 300 people, most of them attack a year ago and the U.S. air- civilians. strikes that forced the insurgents out. Kobani is a tale of two disasters. The Whole sections of the town still lie first played out on live television in in ruins, with multistory buildings autumn 2014, when Kurdish fighters flattened like pancakes, some 3,500 fought and died to save the town as houses destroyed and 4,000 seriously the U.S. airdropped ammunition and damaged, according the official over- conducted airstrikes. seeing rebuilding. The second drama took place off But the Kurdish authorities that camera, in the middle of the night control the enclave have decided to and on the back streets. This time, make this a showpiece for reconstruc- the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, tion. Water is now flowing to some the YPG militia that had fought so val40,000 of the 70,000 residents, and iantly to defeat the Islamic State, were the town is bustling. Cement trucks nowhere to be found. can be seen heading for construction Berivan Hasan, 25, lost six memsites, businesses are reopening, and bers of her family on June 25, the first there are even city services, like trucks of three days of terror. It was during washing down the streets. Ramadan, when many people sleep “We will build a new Kobani. It during the day when they are supwill be ecological _ no house more posed to be fasting but are up well into than three floors,” said Abdurrahman the night when eating and drinking Hamo, 41, the coordinator of recon- are allowed. “I got home at 3:30 a.m. I was so struction. “Every resident should be able to enjoy a bit of earth, see the sun, tired. I woke up because of the sound of bullets, heavy shooting in our and have a garden at home.” McClatchy Foreign Staff
house,” said Hasan, the deputy prime minister of the canton. Islamic State fighters had entered the house and shot her older brother and her sister-in-law on the ground floor. “He was in the corner of the room. They fired many bullets.” His wife, with a 2-month-old baby in her arms, rushed to him. “They killed her as well,” Hasan recalled. Then her mother, an aunt and two cousins went into the street seeking help. All were shot. Hasan barricaded herself in her room. When she came out the next afternoon, her first concern was for her brother’s six children, but all had survived. She had suddenly become their surrogate parent. About 80 Islamic State fighters were on a rampage. They went house to house, threw grenades into dwellings, shot family members in groups, and posted snipers on rooftops, shooting down at civilians, Human Rights Watch reported, based on interviews with survivors. It took three days before the YPG was able to restore order to the town. Altogether, the Islamic State fighters killed 286 people, all but 28 of them
civilians, according to Bozan Khalil, the minister of the interior in the canton. Hundreds more were wounded. What happened next was typical for any Islamic State assault against Kurdish-dominated northern Syria. Leaders of the YPG and its political wing, the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, immediately blamed Turkey for the slaughter, as did the main Kurdish party in Turkey. Figen Yuksekdag, co-leader of the People’s Democratic Party, the Kurdish party that had entered the Turkish Parliament for the first time weeks earlier, led the charge. “The whole world knows the Turkish government has supported ISIL for years,” she said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State. “Today’s massacre is a part of this support.” Salih Muslim, the PYD’s co-president, made the same claim. “Everything shows there was infiltration from Turkey,” he said. “Turkey is denying everything, but she is telling a lie. Some had escaped to Turkey and yielded to Turkish soldiers.” Turkish support for the Islamic State is an article of faith among Kurdish officials. “For sure, they came across the Turkish border,” said Khalid
Celebrations in Myanmar as early returns suggest Suu Kyi landslide By Stuart Leavenworth McClatchy Washington Bureau
YANGON, Myanmar – Political pundits urged the masses not to rush to conclusions about Sunday’s election in Myanmar. But at Aung San Suu Kyi’s headquarters on Monday, people were ready to get the party started. Leaders of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy said Monday they were winning precincts in convincing fashion in early counts. Most of those were in central Myanmar and especially in Yangon, the former Burmese capital known widely as Rangoon. As those results were announced, Suu Kyi’s supporters started dancing on the sidewalks and into the street, creating a scene more reminiscent of Rio de Janeiro than Yangon, where quiet, humble Buddhist monks walk the streets in their maroon robes. The celebration continued until a heavy rainstorm drove partiers to cover. “It is time to celebrate, but with a cautious celebration,” said Kwah Thu Aung, leader of a civil society group called Paung Ku who was amid the throng at NLD headquarters on Monday afternoon. “Everyone is aware there are many challenges ahead (for Suu Kyi) with the handover of power.” Sunday’s election was the first contested general election in 25 years in Myanmar, which the military ruled for decades and still remains very much a force. Suu Kyi’s supporters see this election as their chance to abandon that history, but it remains to be seen if they can succeed. Military leaders have long feared Suu Kyi taking the reins of power and diminishing their influence, including control of key businesses in Myanmar. As a result, they designed a 2008 constitution that would keep her from winning the presidency. The constitution bans parties from selecting a presidential candidate who has foreign kin, such as Suu Kyi’s two sons, who hold British passports. Despite that provision, Suu Kyi vowed during her campaign that, if the NLD triumphed, she would be the de facto leader of the country, serving “above the president,” as she stated in a news conference last week. Analysts say that pledge was at least partly designed to persuade voters that their vote would put her in power,
as opposed to a lesser-known presidential candidate the National League for Democracy would name later. The strategy may have worked. An estimated 80 percent of Myanmar’s 30 million registered voters turned out at the polls, and many made clear they were only voting because of “Mother Suu” _ Aung San Suu Kyi. On Monday evening, Suu Kyi’s party announced it had won 44 of Yangon’s 45 seats in the lower house of Parliament. It also claimed that it had won all 12 seats of Yangon’s seats in the upper house. While Suu Kyi’s party was expected to do better in Yangon that in outlying areas of Myanmar, there were signs it was doing unexpectedly well in remote ethnic areas. Kin Zaw Win, a political analyst and former political prisoner, said he was stunned to see the support the NLD was getting in Shan state, a part of north Myanmar thought to be hostile to Suu Kyi’s party. Myanmar received some kudos Monday from international observers, who praised the country for holding a contested election so peacefully. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also sent his congratulations but said there remained “important structural and systemic impediments to the realization of full democratic and civilian government” in Myanmar. One of these, said Kerry, was the disenfranchisement of certain groups that had voted in past elections. These, he said, included Rohingya Muslims, which the Myanmar government has treated as “Bengali” illegal immigrants. In a statement, Kerry said there were other candidates disqualified “based on arbitrary application of citizenship and residency requirements.” Early on Monday, Aung San Suu Kyi made a surprise appearance at the NLD headquarters and delivered a brief speech, in Burmese, urging supporters to be patient. “Victory or failure, that is not important. What is important is how we win or lose,” she told the crowd. “Those who lose should bravely concede, while those who win should humbly celebrate the victory. That is a true democracy.” McClatchy Washington Bureau
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Ali, the coordinator of the House of the Peoples, a group that helps run the city of Tal Abyad, interviewed in mid-October. “We don’t have any proof,” said Khalil, the canton’s interior minister, but “for sure Turkey gave them some intelligence.” Hasan sees it differently. “The fault was ours,” she said. The Kurdish police force and the YPG “should take responsibility. We couldn’t provide enough protection for the civilians.” The YPG fighters who had been posted to the town had left to fight at Tal Abyad, 35 miles to the east, and once they’d pushed the Islamic State from that city had moved to Sirrin, south of Kobani. The capture of Tal Abyad allowed the militia to link up two of three self-styled cantons and craft a contiguous entity Kurds call Rojava. It also cut a major transit link from Turkey to the Islamic State. But Kobani paid the price. Today, there’s a neighborhood watch group on every street, to alert everyone to any disturbance and become the first line of defense. “We have learned our lesson,” said Hasan. McClatchy Washington Bureau