The Daily Barometer, Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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tuesday, NOVEMBER 17, 2015 Oregon State University

Addressing campus equality

Aaron Newton | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Junior WGSS major Sierra Lantz speaks Monday evening in Gill Coliseum about her experiences with racial intimidation in the classroom at Oregon State University.

Students share their experiences of racial inequalities at OSU

By Marcus Trinidad Associate News Editor

Speaking out, students at Oregon State University shared their experiences of prejudice and racism on campus in front of hundreds at Gill Coliseum and an audience who watched from home on a live stream.

Experiences shared by student speakers ranged from being questioned about their identity, instructors teaching information that is insensitive to minorities, appropriation or shaming of their culture and even students that felt like their lives are endangered just by being on campus.

Multiple speakers spoke about the hate speech being posted on social media and the live chat as the topics being discussed proved to be con-

troversial. The live chat of the video stream was taken down during the event due to the inflammatory comments posted.

A white man addressed the room off mic saying ‘everyone is a person of color’ near the beginning of the event. His comments were considered problematic by some of the speakers as they believed it did not provide the open space people of color were wanting from this discussion.

OSU students Jesseanne Pope, Jasmine Armas and Haniya Ferrell organized the event in an attempt to generate awareness and to make a direct appeal to faculty and the administration of OSU. Students spoke at the event to request change that would make the campus more inclusive for

students of color.

According to Pope, most students of color feel like the university does not offer a place for them to express themselves.

“We want to change the climate on campus so students of color and their experiences can be included and validated,” Pope said.

Erica Fuller, a student leader at OSU, spoke on how she has tried to fight for more inclusivity for students of color.

According to Fuller, the lack of progress the school has made to reach out and institute change that students of color are asking for has been demoralizing.

“I stopped helping the administration; I stopped getting involved; I left all those things,” Fuller said. “I

stopped because I got tired fighting for nothing.”

According to Fuller, she feels like faculty here at OSU are not protecting or serving students of color and instead mainly serve white students, and she expressed disappointment for the lack of progress being made.

“I know a lot of administrators can step up, Fuller said.

According to senior Anseta LeonGuerrero, major in sociology, instructors and administration may not be fully aware of how the content they are teaching in the classrooms can be insensitive and disregard minorities’ viewpoints. She said her instructor diminished her culture and the culture

See Voices, Page 6

Cropping up: Industrial hemp at OSU

Potato rescue

Researchers take steps to begin researching Oregon’s crop potential

OSU researchers work to combat zebra chip disease

By Julie Cooper

By Lauren Sluss

News Contributor

News Contributor

Following the recent legalization of the recreational use of marijuana, faculty from Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences are working with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration to begin the process of researching industrial hemp.

Section 7606 of 2014’s Farm Bill grants institutions of higher education permission to grow and cultivate hemp for research purposes in states where hemp is legal.

Researchers at Oregon State University received a $2.7 million dollar grant which allows them, along with colleagues in Washington and Idaho, to begin battling potato disease currently impacting Pacific Northwest potato farmers.

In recent years, farmers have discovered a new insect-transmitted disease in potatoes called zebra chip. Zebra chip comes from the bacteria potato psyl-

See Hemp, Page 3

Alli Tompkins | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Institutions of higher education in states where hemp is legal can legally grow and cultivate hemp for research purposes.

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lid which infects the plants and causes black stripes to appear on the potato’s insides, rendering it unmarketable.

“We hadn’t seen this disease in the Pacific Northwest before 2011, when there was a widespread outbreak in Washington, Oregon and Idaho,” said department of crop and soil science professor Stuart Rietz.

Once the plant is infected there is no cure for it. According to Extension Entomologist Specialist Silvia Rondon, the unmarketability of zebra chip infected potatoes could potentially be very detrimental to not only Oregon, but also to the entire

See Potato, Page 3

Weight loss research, NEWS, PAGE 2 Basketball prepares for Iona, SPORTS, PAGE 4 A Mythed Opportunity, A&E, PAGE 8

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Police Beat Nov. 13 through Nov. 14 Compiled from the Corvallis Police Department

All those arrested for crimes are considered innocent until proven guilty.

Friday, Nov. 13:

Minor in Possession A woman was found intoxicated in a church late DUII A woman crashed her car at night. The last thing the into a pedestrian control woman remembered was being at a sorority party. device on SE 3rd.

The church decided not When she took field sobriety tests, she report- to press charges for second edly performed poorly on degree criminal trespassing. all three tests.

Trespassing A breathalyzer test was A man was reportedly conducted at the jail and trespassing in a coffee shop her BAC was 0.21%. and was removed.

The man later returned

to the coffee shop again and violation. was found intoxicated and The suspect admitted to asleep in the main lobby. having a gun in the car while he reportedly did not have a concealed weapons Saturday, Nov. 14: permit for the weapon.

The car was then Concealed Weapon A man was reportedly searched and marijuana verbally threatening people and marijuana extract was outside of a club late at found inside the car. night with his hand over a The suspect has been handgun on his waistband. charged with menacing, He eventually left the club fugitive arrest, illegal posby car and was stopped by session of a weapon, disoran officer due to a traffic derly conduct II and unlaw-

ful possession of marijuana.

Meth A man who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest was located and was found possessing what was reportedly a large crystal in a plastic container that tested positive for methamphetamine.

Two shoulder bags were seized for evidence in pursuit of a search warrant.

Gene therapy may facilitate weight loss, researchers find OSU scientists discover weight loss potential of leptin Makennah Hines News Contributor

Researchers at Oregon State University have found that directly delivering leptin to the brain through gene therapy may support healthy weight loss.

“A long, long time ago leptin was discovered. A scientist fed rats leptin and discovered that the rats that consumed high doses of leptin had less fat. We thought that this would be the cure for obesity, but when people consumed leptin, not much happened,” said Urszula Iwaniec, associate professor in the College of Pacific Health and Human Sciences at OSU. According to Iwaniec, there are multiple reasons as to why leptin did not work in humans when consumed orally.

“This could have been because of the blood brain barrier, or because it was saturated, or because it had a down regulated response,” said Iwaniec.

Researchers found that the blood brain barrier stopped the leptin from working. This leads to the hypothesis that if leptin is directly injected into the brain, it wouldn’t have to go through the blood brain barrier, and it would cause weight loss as intended. Though it did not work on everyone, it did work on those who were morbidly obese.

“Leptin works beautifully in people who are morbidly obese. A small

amount of people aren’t able to make leptin, and it works beautifully in them,” said Russell Turner, a professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU. Although leptin works successfully in people who are morbidly obese, it does not work on those whose bodies do make leptin, and who are somewhat obese.

“It does work on people who are morbidly obese, but it is not something that can solve obesity in the general public,” Iwaniec said.

Leptin has only been tested on animals up to this point as researchers continue to study the side effects, dangers and other unanswered questions. Leptin appears to be working incredibly well.

“If it works in people as good as it works in animals, then it will be great. The animals do not have any food restrictions; they are on a normal diet, and abdominal fat was reduced. Because the animals are on a normal, healthy diet, but are just overeating, we don’t know what will occur in people who have a bad diet,” Turner said.

As shown in animals, leptin is especially helpful in weight loss with age.

“The rats have a healthy weight gain as they get older, but leptin has proved to aid this weight loss and reduce abdominal fat,” Turner said.

According to the research, the use of leptin for weight loss is better than dieting and will eliminate the negative side effects of weight loss.

“When people lose weight, they lose more than fat. There are side effects and most times when people lose weight, they gain it back, and

Brian Nguyen | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Jessica Keune, a graduate student studing nutrition, examines the affect of leptin on a lab rat. then they will lose weight, and then they will gain it back, which can cause osteoporosis, and leptin can avoid this. And there is normally rapid bone loss with the weight loss, but we aren’t seeing that,” Turner said.

researchers, the side effects of weight loss, such as bone loss, are a main focus of the study. “We are interested from a bone perspective. If you yo-yo diet, you don’t gain the bone that you lost, back,” Iwaniec said.

Although the weight loss impressed

Though extensive, the surgery

and the injection is a one-time occurrence.

“The injection randomly goes into cells, so we can’t control where it goes, but one injection is good for most of the life of the animal,” Iwaniec said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu

Correction: The Monday Nov. 16 publication of The Daily Barometer stated ‘President Ed Ray to hold open discussion’. The “Students of Color Speak Out” discussion was organized and conducted by students. Ed Ray and other campus faculty were invited to the discussion by OSU students. The Daily Barometer apologizes for any inconvenience this error may have caused.

Tod ay ’s C r o s s w o r d P u z zl e Across

1 Adjust for daylight saving time, e.g.

6 Veggies in a sack 11 Sphere in the night skies 14 The first Mrs. Trump

15 Plains dwelling 16 “Watch it!”

17 Badminton court

boundary 19 Minn. summer hours 20 Bambi’s aunt 21 Heart 22 __ one’s nose into: meddle 23 Trilogy with the heroine Katniss Everdeen 28 Ballroom moves 29 Bit of buckshot 30 Captain Picard’s counselor 33 Eat 34 Imprecise ordinal 36 GameCube, for one 41 __ Friday’s: restaurant chain 42 Fuel from a bog 43 Pretty pitcher 44 Youngster 46 Mosque official 49 Vehicles for James Cagney 53 __ Major: Big Dipper 54 Double-reed woodwind 55 Here, in Juárez 57 Bloke’s bathroom 58 It may straddle neighboring countries ... and, in a different way, what each of four sets of puzzle circles graphically depicts 62 Target of fall shots 63 Snoring cause, often 64 Disbursed

65 Labor Day mo.

66 Foppish neckwear 67 Lightens up

Down

1 Word from the bailiff 2 Happening 3 Comedian Silverman 4 Ltr. holder 5 Meditative Chinese discipline 6 Outboard motor areas 7 “Moby Dick” ship coowner 8 Longtime newswire org.

9 Bear’s home 10 “Catch my drift?”

11 “You’ve got to be kidding!”

12 Salvation Army symbol 13 Memory units 18 Clever move 22 Friend 24 Prepare for publishing 25 Grand-scale tale 26 Gambling town near Carson City 27 Small valley 30 Explosive initials 31 Complicated procedure 32 Course served in a small crock 33 URL part 35 The Beatles’ “And I Love __”

37 Omar of “House” 38 Bygone depilatory 39 Set of numbers next to a contract signature 40 Round before the final 45 FedExCup org.

46 “That wore me out!”

47 “Wuthering Heights” setting 48 Not at all eager 49 Large bays 50 Bull rider’s venue 51 Roof edges 52 Public spectacle 56 Partner of sciences 58 Cry from a lamb 59 Black __: spy doings 60 GOP org.

61 Hoppy brew, for short

Monday’s Puzzle solved

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Hemp

Continued from page 1 According to Anndrea Hermann, instructor of WSE 266 Industrial Hemp, OSU is not requesting permission to cultivate, but rather is going through the process of getting registered and seeking permissions to legally import pedigree hemp seed into Oregon from overseas.

Hemp is commonly used in products including paper, textiles, building and insulation materials, medicine, fuel, food and cosmetics.

According to Jay Noller, department head and professor in crop and soil sciences, the central focus of OSU’s research will be determining whether any of the dozen hemp varieties to be imported will grow in Oregon’s climate. Researchers will attempt to determine what conditions bring about the ultimate yield in size and quantity.

The university’s initial research period of three to five years will gauge the crop’s responses through various weather cycles

and assess pressures from pests.

“We think this is very important research for OSU to conduct on behalf of the Oregon agriculture and the economy of Oregon agriculture,” said University Vice President Steve Clark.

Clark looks forward to this project providing wide-ranging research opportunities for faculty as well as students.

Noller said he expects the permissions process to be complete within a matter of months, and anticipates a spring plant date for the first crop.

Though the university will acquire permission relatively quickly, there are more steps to take before the research comes to fruition.

“We still need to acquire the funds to pay for all this, so that’s what stands between us now and really launching the research,” Noller said.

Noller is determined to get the necessary funding in order to compile accurate information.

Stakeholders have expressed their interest in the prospect of growing and cultivating

hemp in order to create a new range of products to bring to the agricultural marketplace.

“Our stakeholders would be the existing and the expected future hemp growers, who are typically the people who are already out there farming today,” Noller said. “And this provides them with a new crop, an alternative. Something they can rotate in with their crops that they are used to taking to market.”

Noller said that while the U.S. has access to hemp products that are made overseas, Oregon State and its various stakeholders want more, and are seeking out the many benefits that will come with introducing hemp to Oregon’s agricultural industry.

“We’re looking at basically Oregon businesses thriving, even new ones coming in, and being able to take something that’s Oregon grown, and turning it into something that’s Oregon used,” Noller said.

Faculty in the College of Agricultural Sciences believe the upcoming research will likely lead to collaborative opportunities between departments at OSU. Noller said, for example, that the Colleges

of Pharmacy or Public Health may eventually show interest in the medicinal uses of hemp, or the College of Forestry may be interested in hemp as a wood-like, fiberbased product that can offset the use of plastics.

Hermann, who has studied hemp for over 20 years, is enthusiastic about the role of Oregon State in the development of hemp as a feasible crop in the U.S. “Having the opportunity to see OSU and the crop science department step up in a role of positive leadership is really inspiring, to think about the wide gamut of research that could potentially result from this one effort,” Hermann said. “It’s really important, and I think it shows that Oregon State is invested in the success of agriculture within the state, and does want to play a role of leadership and mentorship to help develop a potential hemp industry there.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu

Potato

Continued from page 1 United States.

“The Pacific Northwest produces close to 55 percent of the potatoes in the United States, causing the zebra chip disease to have potentially devastating consequences,” Rondon said.

The grant provides the research team with funding to begin gathering information on the psyllid population.

“The early grant enables us to develop and implement an area-wide potato psyllid monitoring program in order to determine adult potato psyllid dynamics within northeastern Oregon commercial potato fields and integrate with the current areawide aphid pest monitoring program,” said Extension Agronomist Darrin Walenta.

The research team will spend the first three years of the five year project collecting background data on sampling fields and determining the relationship between the psyllid population and environmental conditions to help determine where the bacteria will be.

“We have been focusing on environmental factors that would influence where the psyllids would be the most prevalent.

They produce a large number of weeds and migrate into the potato fields,” Reitz said.

“This allows us to begin determining which fields would be most likely to be potentially affected by the disease.”

Groups within the research team are working on determining different aspects of the psyllids, allowing them to use this information to forecast the movements of zebra chip.

“My lab specifically has been working on determining what the insect does in the winter,” Rondon said. “Determining what different populations do in different

The Pacific Northwest produces close to 55 percent of the potatoes in the United States.

Silvia Rondon Extension Entomologist seasons can help us predict how the psyllid bacteria spreads.”

The research team is not only working from their labs, they are also teaming up with farmers all over the Pacific Northwest to help them become as well-equipped as possible to stop the spread of zebra chip.

“This grant is also directly targeted to providing tools for the growers to spot zebra chip infected fields,” Reitz said. “We have a close relationship with farmers and they decided this is one of their most prevalent pest problems, and are very interested in helping us to better target their management.”

One of the long-term goals of the research team is to eventually design a mobile app for smartphones and computers. This app will allow the user to enter in characteristics of their fields, such as location and environmental factors, and the app can tell you what risk for psyllid infection they will have for the upcoming season, as well as help decide what management plans the farmers should use.

“This app will not only be a quantitative way to look at risk, but also an easy tool that any farmer can use to make the bestinformed decisions about how to raise their crops zebra chip free,” Reitz said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu

Contributed by Silvia Rondon

Matthew Klein, a master student in the department of crop and soil science, cuts hundreds of tubers to determine the percentage of zebra chip infections in the potatos.

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Beavers look to improve for next game

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(Left) Senior guard Gary Payton II shoots a free throw. As a team the Beavers went 14-30 from the free throw line. (Top) Freshman guard Derrick Bruce drives to the hoop and Payton II (bottom) delivers a one-handed pass in the Beavers 74-52 victory against Northwest Christian on Nov. 14.

Beavers focus on free throws to prep for upcoming Iona game

OSU will look to improve from the charity stripe on Tuesday, when Iona is in Corvallis for a 7 p.m. matchup.

After beating Western Oregon and Northwest Christian by a combined 41 points, the Beavers will be tested by the Gaels. Iona

By Josh Worden received one vote in the preseason AP Top Senior Sports Reporter 25 poll but dropped an 83-53 decision in After the Oregon State men’s basketball the opener to Valparaiso, which OSU plays team went 14-for-30 from the free throw Nov. 24 in Corvallis. Last year, Iona went line in Saturday’s 74-52 win over Northwest 26-9 overall, bowing out in the first round Christian, head coach Wayne Tinkle issued a of the NIT. command to every one of his players – come “We try to prepare the same way for all in on your day off Sunday and shoot 100 free schools, but I do think we will end up preparing throws. a little better,” Bruce said of Tuesday’s game.

For a team that shot 47 percent from the line, “It does seem like it will be the first real test.” including a combined 1-for-8 from guards MalOffensive and defensive reports colm Duvivier and Langston Morris-Walker, the message was clear – you’ve got to make Coach Tinkle mentioned some positive and your free throws. negative aspects from OSU’s defensive perfor“We missed a lot of free throws,” said fresh- mance Saturday against Northwest Christian. man guard Derrick Bruce, who said he made The Beavers allowed just 31.4 percent shooting 84 of his 100 shots on Sunday. from the floor, forced 18 turnovers and took a

17-2 advantage in points off turnovers but also had some trouble in matchup defense.

“We’re seeing definite signs of improvement, especially in our zone,” Tinkle said at practice Monday. “Our man-to-man wasn’t very good the other night. I just think it’s the same couple of issues with our focus and intensity, we need to pick those up. The nice thing is when we went to our zone in the second half, our guys really responded.”

Tinkle spoke extensively about the offensive aspects in need of adjustment. The Beavers had four players in double figures and got a career high six assists from Duvivier, but the offense tended to get a bit too stagnant at times for Tinkle’s liking.

“Offensively, if you look at the scoring in the first half, we did a lot of standing around,” he said. “We didn’t cut hard, we didn’t screen hard, we didn’t set up our screens, our spacing was bad and it resulted into mediocre shots and turnovers.”

OSU didn’t run a lot of set plays against

Northwest Christian, mainly to allow the team to get more comfortable with the natural flow of the motion offense.

“When we did try to call for some plays and sets, our vets didn’t execute,” Tinkle said. “It was our young guys who actually executed the plays better.”

Better know the Beavers (and their nicknames) Bruce, a freshman from Moreno Valley, Calif., is known by teammates as “PJ.” It’s a name he attributes to his father, who’s nickname is “Poker.” Since his father’s real name is also Derrick Bruce, his son became “Poker, Jr.,” or “PJ.” The younger Bruce said he has “no idea” how his dad’s nickname originated, but PJ became his moniker at about age two.

“I’ve never really been called Derrick until I came to school (at OSU),” Bruce said. “And even then, teachers would adapt to call me ‘PJ’ because my friends around me called me ‘PJ’.”

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The diary of five guys hitting the road to Berkeley Something rare happened for the Orange Media Network this weekend. Three of the network’s five mediums, the Daily Barometer, KBVR FM and KBVR TV, made the trip to Berkeley, Calif. to provide coverage of the Oregon State vs.

California football game. Five guys crammed into Chrysler Town and Country to make the 10 hour drive from CorBy Brian Rathbone vallis to Berkeley, and here Sports Editor is a running diary of the trip.

12:30 And we are off! We are riding in style in our rental minivan, this bad boy is loaded with satellite radio and a DVD player – this road trip might not be too bad.

It might be a good idea to introduce the “Berkeley Bros” (working title) who are on this trip. First we have Logan

McGinnis, our video guy from KBVR TV, I don’t know a lot about Logan other than he is from Alaska and that he is a sports junkie like I am – we will see how much of a junkie he is on this road trip.

Now the radio crew. Jonathan Parrish is the spotter for the radio broadcast, he is also a writer for the Barometer. Brenden Slaughter organized the entire event, he is the sports director of KBVR FM and is also one of my writers. That brings us to The Josh Worden. Josh is a national award winning broadcaster and Barometer all-star, he is the one driving the van right now.

I have a hunch about Josh’s driving, I’ve worked with Josh for almost a year now and I have never seen him break a rule.

I can totally see him getting up to the speed limit, merging into the right hand lane and cruise controlling the whole way to Berkeley. My mother drives this way.

12:35 My hunch on Josh’s driving has already been debunked, he not scared to test out the gas pedal. We will either get to Berkeley in record time, or will rack up a ton of speeding tickets.

Regardless, I have been in this car no more than five minutes

and I have already learned something about this crew.

12:45 We are off highway 34 and now on the 470 mile stretch on I-5. Also Brenden is sitting shotgun making him in charge of the music, that’s a big responsibility for “DJ Slaughty-Slaught.”

1:15 Approaching Eugene and it is a little too quiet in the van, I think it’s time for a game. Last time I road tripped to the Bay Area, My friend Warner – former Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Barometer – and I came up with top-fives list for every sporting category you could imagine. I think it’s time to resurrect this game, you can learn a lot about a person based on how they view sports. The first topic – top-five favorite athletes.

To read the entire diary and see videos and photos from the trip and game, go to the Daily Barometer website www.dailybarometer.com

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Week 8

Standings

Fortune favors the bolden – 84.6 Young and True Beavers – 97.1

1. x- The Duckless Dandies 2. Young and True Beavers 2. Fresh on the Scene 4. Fortune favors the bolden

Fresh on the Scene – 84.8 The Duckless Dandies – 106.5

Fortune Favors the Bolden

Young and True Beavers

QB – Vernon Adams Jr. (UO) Points: 18 RB – Storm Barrs-Woods (OSU) Points: 6.1 RB – Royce Freeman (UO) Points: 16.5 WR – Victor Bolden (OSU) Points: 5.6 WR – Hunter Jarmon (OSU) Points: 2 TE – Austin Hooper (Stan) Points: 2.3 FLEX – Ronald Jones II (USC) Points: 6.1 FLEX – Dom Williams (WSU) Points: 16 K – Conrad Ukropina (Stan) Points: 12 TOTAL: 84.6 There are times to lose with grace, where you tip your cap to your opponent and offer your congratulations.

This is not one of those times.

Brenden Slaughter is the luckiest fantasy football owner I have ever encountered. Brenden’s lineup is laughable, yet every three weeks he weasels a victory away from me.

Let’s crunch some numbers. Through the first eight weeks of the season Brenden has averaged 73 points per games, I on the other hand, average ten more points than him with a modest 83 point per game average. It gets even more ridiculous in our head-to-head matchups. He averages 93 points – 20 more than his season average, while I drop from 83 points to 69 points per matchup against Brenden.

Now let’s look at the breaks he caught when we faced off in weeks two, five and eight. Week two I had three players on bye, week five Royce Freeman (aka the MVP of the league) was on a bye, and finally, he had Jared Goff who dropped 46 points against a injury riddled Oregon State secondary. I wouldn’t be surprised if the background photo on his phone was of Goff.

The luck continues. Through the first seven games, Brenden’s OSU players had a combined 15.1 points. In the Cal game alone, his Beavers scored 16.1 points. You can’t make this stuff up.

Go buy a lottery ticket now, Brenden.

Seriously.

QB – Jared Goff (Cal) Points: 46 RB – Paul Perkins (UCLA) Points: 14.9 RB – Remound Wright (Stan) Points: 0.7 WR – Kenny Lawler (Cal) Points: 6.4 WR – Rahmel Dockery (OSU) Points: 0 TE – Noah Togiai (OSU) Points: 8.1 FLEX – Paul Lucas (OSU) Points: 7 FLEX – Thomas Duarte (UCLA) Points: 3 K – Ka’imi Fairbairn (UCLA) Points: 11 TOTAL: 97.1 Oh how I love being the luckiest guy on the planet. This past week’s action was an eventful one for the Young and True Beavers as I kept my playoff hopes alive by beating Brian due to some very lucky circumstances.

I wrote last week that Jared Goff would be by savior this week and beyond, and boy oh boy was I right. Goff accounted for half of my total points and led me to victory in a game that had huge implications for my playoff hopes.

This upcoming week I play Josh, who has destroyed me in each of the times that he has played me this season. I am doing a few things to beef up my roster to head into the postseason. Such as adding one of the hottest running backs in the Pac-12 in Myles Gaskin.

However, our contest doesn’t matter to my playoff hopes as the real game to watch is Brian vs Jeff. The bottom line: If Brian wins, I clinch a playoff spot. If Jeff wins, he clinches a playoff spot.

So with that being said, I am rooting for every single one of Brian’s players to have a huge game and lead me into the playoffs.

By Tod Palmer COLUMBIA, Mo. – Gary Pinkel got a phone call shortly before 10 p.m. Friday at the team hotel in Kansas City.

It was associate head coach/quarterbacks coach Andy Hill, “Somebody wants to see you down here.”

Pinkel made his way to the lobby, where Chiefs wide receiver and former Missouri All-American Jeremy Maclin was waiting.

“He came up to me and he looked really sad,” Pinkel said. “He looked at me and said, ‘Coach, are you OK?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m OK’ and he came over, put his arms around me and told me he loved me.”

Similar relationships Pinkel shared with thousands of other players during a football coaching career that spans five decades, including the last 25 years as a head coach at Toledo and MU, became the focus Monday during a news conference at Mizzou Arena.

Pinkel, who announced Friday he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and would resign at year’s end or when a replacement is hired, planned to inform his staff Sunday of his decision.

Together, they would inform the team after that and then break the news that evening via news release.

Pinkel and MU had to audible Friday when word of his impending resignation leaked at the end of an already tumultuous week on campus, which included

protests against racism that led Monday to the resignation of University of Missouri System president Tim Wolfe and MU chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.

The Tigers’ football team joined the protest Nov. 7, boycotting all footballrelated activities until Wolfe resigned and graduate student Jonathan Butler ended his hunger strike.

“Although his on-field accomplishments are numerous, his legacy at Mizzou will not be defined by wins and accolades, but rather the profound impact he’s had on the lives of many studentathletes,” said Missouri athletic director Mack Rhoades, who was hired last March and took over for Mike Alden in late April.

Pinkel supported his players’ decision to take a stand, a decision that drew mixed reactions from MU’s fan base.

Missouri’s players made it clear Saturday after an emotional 20-16 victory against BYU at Arrowhead Stadium how they felt, surrounding Pinkel in a raucous dance circle at the conclusion of a live interview with the SEC Network.

“That is a perfect picture of Gary Pinkel and his legacy,” Rhoades said.

Pinkel, who apologized for not being able to reply to all the calls and messages he’s received from around the nation in the last few days, was greeted with a standing ovation by several hundred fans and MU staffers in attendance at the news conference as he took the stage to discuss his decision in detail.

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QB – Luke Falk (WSU) Points: 21 RB – Demario Richard (ASU) Points: 4.5 RB – Christian McCaffrey (Stan) Points: 24.9 WR – JuJu Smith-Schuster (USC) Points: 12.6 WR – Jordan Villamin (OSU) Points: 14.6 TE – Kellen Clute (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – Nick Wilson (UA) Points: 2.7 FLEX – Gabe Marks (WSU) Points: 21.2 K – Garrett Owens (OSU) Points: 5 TOTAL: 106.5 Let’s take a moment of silence for Brian’s playoff hopes. It was a good run, old friend, after a two game win streak.

All good things have to come to an end.

Except for the Duckless Dandies, of course.

This dynasty will never be felled.

Let’s get to the stats – The Dandies average 112.1 points per game and account for six 100-point games. The entire league has seven total. Yes, that includes my six.

It doesn’t matter if I win this week, of course, since I’m already a lock for the championship game two Saturdays from now. Still, I have a couple choices to make as the regular season ends this week.

I picked up Arizona’s Nick Wilson this week, who was one of the most productive tailbacks in the league before an injury. Do I have faith in him and Demario Richard, who had a poor game Saturday, or do I make some moves?

Heck, I love hearing from the fans. Tweet at me @brightties and I promise I’ll listen to your advice unless you tell me to drop Christian McCaffrey to add Darrell Catchings, or anything like that.

Brenden, I look forward to this week. Your championship hopes hang in the balance and I can’t promise McCaffrey won’t run roughshod over them.

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“Gary’s program has defined what it means to be Mizzou Made – to develop as an athlete, as a person, to receive an education, to become a champion and be a member of a family,” said Rhoades, who learned about Pinkel’s cancer diagnosis during his first month on the job at Missouri.

Pinkel’s 191 career wins rank second among active Football Bowl Subdivision coaches behind Virginia Tech’s Frank Beamer, who is also retiring after the season, and 19th on the all-time FBS wins list.

Pinkel is the only active coach who boasts the career record for wins at two FBS programs – Missouri (118-71) and Toledo (73-37-3) – and he’s one of three former SEC coaches with that distinction, joining Bear Bryant (Kentucky, Alabama) and Steve Spurrrier (Florida, South Carolina).

Rhoades also touted Pinkel’s track record with respect to academics, including a 97-percent graduation for the football team during the last five years.

Pinkel told his players to go to class rather than attend the news conference, which was open to the public. He also instructed his coaching staff to continue working on preparation for Saturday’s game against Tennessee.

Of course, Pinkel’s assistant coaches ignored that request.

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QB – Nick Mitchell (OSU) Points: 28.9 RB – Chris Brown (OSU) Points: 0 RB – Devontae Booker Utah) Points: 20.5 WR – Nelson Spruce (Colo) Points: 15.5 WR – DJ Foster (ASU) Points: 7.9 TE – Ryan Nall (OSU) Points: 0 FLEX – Braylon Addison (UO) Points: 4.4 FLEX – Barry Sanders Jr. (Stan) Points: 0 K – Aiden Schneider (UO) Points: 11 TOTAL: 84.8 As soon as I’m about to make a run, my team levels off. Oregon State is back to playing around with players and its taking a toll on my team.

Fortunately, I still find myself in the playoff hunt and have an opportunity at a championship appearance with a win this week.

Exciting to say the least, because I’m the new to the whole Pac-12 fantasy football scene.

My woes with my team stems from the fact that Oregon State keeps rotating their players, it’s too unpredictable. First at QB and now, with the running back position. I thought I found myself an established ball carrier in Ryan Nall, but I seem to be wrong. I’m hoping OSU sticks with Nick Mitchell and Nall this week, as an appearance in the championship would be extremely cool!

I’m not sure if I’m the most deserving player to make the championship, but if I were to make it, I sure would be the most thankful. My knowledge of Pac-12 football is limited but this fantasy run has pushed it to great lengths. I’m excited to see what the week holds for me, and I’m hoping it’s a chance at the big dance.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — Participate with your community. Friends offer comfort and advice. Working to benefit others provides deep satisfaction.

Extra paperwork leads to extra profits. Take care of business now.

Follow the rules exactly. Balance accounts. Provide well for family.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — An exchange could seem intense. Aim for stability, and play peacemaker if necessary. Begin a service phase. Creative design makes the work go faster. You can make things happen when you put yourself to it.

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of others by posing a question that seemed to defend Cortez conquering and colonizing an entire ethnic population.

She said during that class she was shaking and sweating, and she did not say anything during class — no one noticed, and not even the teacher until the end of class.

According to Leon-Guerrero, she felt powerless because she was scared to challenge the instructor-student power dynamic.

“These are the types of microaggressions that students of color face,” Leon-Guerrero said. “I would hope and I would assume (the other students) would have seen it or called it out — but they didn’t.”

Leon-Guerrero went on to make a direct appeal to faculty of OSU and how committed they are to supporting students of color.

“Are you just an ally, or are you just an administrator done after 5 o’clock?” Leon-Guerrero said.

Some students gave suggestions that they thought could foster real and long-lasting change. Those ideas included expanding social justice, race relations and ethnic studies and integrate them directly into engineering and STEM classes and by creating more spaces like this event so more people can speak out and share their experiences.

The formal suggestions of change from the student organizers said that OSU should implement mandatory training for staff to focus on identity development and social justice.

Organizers also asked OSU to expand readily available campus safety information and to include and highlight research and statistics about racial violence and resources for those affected. Additionally, OSU administrators should name and address the systemic issues preventing the application rate, acceptance rate and graduation rate of students of color.

During the discussion, there were people crying, people’s voices rising in anger or helplessness — It was students of color speaking in front of a mainly white crowd demanding change.

According to Pope, she appreciated the turnout of students of color and white students and she hopes that it can broaden the conversation and continue outside of this forum. Pope said it meant a lot that white students came out and were willing to listen to the stories of the students of color.

After listening to almost two hours of stories about racism, discrimination and prejudice on campus, OSU President Ed Ray gave his closing statements.

“I am sorry for what you have had to endure, the hurt and the pain. If I could take it away in a moment, I would,” Ray said.

According to Ray, some of the college’s attempts at inclusivity have fallen short.

“It’s clear that however good the intentions, however purposeful the programs, we are not getting the job done,” Ray said.

Ray said that the OSU administration has not yet done enough to address the concerns of minority students.

“I am dedicated to make sure that we summarize the things that were said tonight — to have a conversation on how to implement these changes,” Ray said.

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Odesza gives EDM a different kind of energy

By Greg Kot Chicago Tribune

Seattle electro-pop duo Odesza has only been together for three years, but already Harrison Mills and Clay Knight have demonstrated that they can command a big stage in front of tens of thousands of fans.

At Lollapalooza in Chicago this summer, Mills and Knight built a performance that blended programmed elements with on-thefly change-ups, multimedia and spontaneity, ebb-and-surge dance tracks and pop melodies. There was a guitarist, a horn section and the Chicago Bulls drum line, the Stampede.

The show suggested a play or a movie, with one scene leading to the next, each holding a surprise that ratcheted the momentum higher. It was a heck of way to spend a summer evening in Grant Park as the sun dropped behind the downtown skyline.

That performance underlined how Odesza has quickly separated itself from the DJdominated EDM scene. Business is booming for dance music, with star DJs and electronic composers filling large theaters, arenas and festivals in North America. Odesza is coming off a sold-out 2014 tour and a series of festival appearances this summer.

“We didn’t know how to perform this music live, we had no idea,” Knight says of Odesza’s initial shows in 2012. “There’s a gap in electronic music between the ability to make great music in the production world and the ability to go out and perform it. That’s an area that’s really lacking, and we’re trying to do something different. We found a way to trigger loops and build and remake songs by moving pieces in and out. We’ll mix the synthesizers and drums from different songs, and mix and match different elements. We started doing that two years ago, and added a guitarist and horn section, and once in a while we can add a drum line like we did at Lollapalooza and Coachella.”

“I wish we could do that all the time (with the drum line), it would be a dream,” Mills says. “I’d love to do a full orchestra some day.”

Such ambitions seemed ridiculously out of reach when Mills and Knight began collaborating in 2012 during their senior years at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. Most of their fellow students were into indie rock and folk, and Mills and Knight felt like they were both out on an island experimenting with electronic composition on their own when a mutual friend introduced them.

Both had studied traditional instruments while growing up outside Seattle, but in col-

lege gravitated toward the independence afforded by sampling. Mills bought a sampler off eBay when he was 19 and began experimenting with mixes that blended disparate sounds from the likes of CocoRosie, experimental folk music, Boards of Canada and Sigur Ros. Knight played in a couple of bands in high school, but a roommate introduced him to electronic music and he was hooked.

He and Mills forged a bond when they began working on remixes of ‘60s Beach Boys vocal tracks.

“We like classic music, and we were just looking for ways to make it sound modern,” Mills says. They began trading beats and pieces of music on their computers, developing compositions that mushroomed into an enchanting single, “How Did I Get Here,” and a chilled-out album, “Summer’s Gone” that folded together thumb pianos, loops of obscure indie vocalists and snippets of Gotye and Santigold. The free recordings got millions of streams online and built enough of a buzz that the duo was able to tour, eventually opening shows in 2013 for Pretty Lights.

“We thought that if we ever got to play a show with one of our idols and meet him, that would be the ultimate,” Knight says.

“We kept our heads down and worked hard.

We were writing a lot of music on the road. It ended up having a snowball effect, but there were plenty of moments where we thought that next month we’d have to get a real job.”

A 2014 follow-up album, “In Return,” put a greater premium on pop hooks and vocal melodies.

“We mix so many different kinds of music, and we spend a lot of time listening to undiscovered artists on Soundcloud,” Mills says. If a vocalist inspires some music, they’ll reach out to the artist with a demo and then let the singer respond. “A lot of times we scrap the demo after hearing their vocal and take the song in a new direction.”

The producers excel at taking those songs and turning their albums and concerts into journeys rather than as showcases for singles.

“We related more to album-based artists and the singer-songwriter stuff that was around us growing up,” Harrison says. “And that’s influenced how we approach the shows, by adding a lot of live elements with a guitarist and our own drumming and electronic drumming. EDM used to mean you’re a guy with a laptop on stage. When we play live against artists in that realm, we do like the energy that EDM creates, but we go about it in a different way.”

Tonje Thilesen | Chicago Tribune

Electronic music duo Odesza consists of Clayton Knight and Harrison Mills.

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