The Daily Barometer, Tuesday, December 1, 2015

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TUESday, DECEMBER 1, 2015 Oregon State University

Proposals for change Aaron Newton | THE DAILY BAROMETER

OSU President Ed Ray talks with event coordinators Haniya Ferrell, Jesseanne Pope and Jasmine Armas after the Speak Out on Monday, Nov. 16 in Gill Coliseum.

Organizers of OSU’s speak out meet with President Ed Ray, discuss possible solutions

By Julie Cooper News Contributor

In a meeting about racism on campus, student organizers of Speak Out and faculty followed up on the event to discuss the institutional changes Oregon State University needs to make to have a more inclusive campus.

The Speak Out drew a crowd of hundreds of students and community members to Gill Coliseum on Nov 16, inspiring several departments to write open letters of support for OSU’s students of color, pledging solidarity to combat racism within the university.

Many of these departments were represented at the follow-up meeting with Ray and the three students who organized the event: Jasmine Armas, Jesseanne Pope, and Haniya Ferrell.

Following the meeting, Pope said that the admin-

istration present at the meeting showed a great deal of support.

“They were very open to listening to us and to seeing what ideas we had,” Pope said. “I really felt like they genuinely wanted to listen to us and to make sure that from here on out there’s student voices and student representation in these kinds of things.”

The three organizers said Ray acknowledged at their meeting that his vision of equity and equal opportunity at Oregon State, created in 2011, has thus far failed OSU’s students of color.

Ferrell said Ray was understanding throughout the meeting and was not afraid to discuss his own position within systems of power.

“He touched on privilege definitely, and is aware that people of color go through a lot of stuff every single day that he doesn’t have to go through because he is a

white man,” Ferrell said.

Pope said she suggested to Ray and administration the possibility of working with the university’s admissions and new student orientations to be sure that all incoming students have a clear sense of the expectations for the OSU community.

“Ed Ray and other folks in the room talked a lot about making sure students know before they come here what it means to be a part of this community,” Pope said. “They don’t feel that it’s been made clear what kind of community we have here.”

The three organizers said the university’s next steps thus far include looking into making student seats available on equity committees to increase student involvement in social justice related issues and to

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OSU provides safe spaces for students on campus Cultural resource centers promote empowerment of marginalized groups

By Marcus Trinidad Associate News Editor

Heather March | THE DAILY BAROMETER

The Pride Center, located on SW 15th Avenue, offers LGBTQ+ students a safe space.

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Offering safe spaces to at-risk groups could create positive health outcomes according to associate professor in the school of biological and population health sciences Jonathan Garcia. In his study with other researchers, safe spaces could help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Safe spaces is defined in the study as places that promote empowerment and mobilization against stigma and discrimination, enable human development and skill building for those who are marginalized in professional or educational environments and to promote leisurely activities that are culturally relevant.

According to Garcia, most of the environmental factors that marginalize a population includes violent encounters, lack of social

support and a lack of educational opportunities. These factors could potentially lead to an overall decrease in health and wellbeing for the individual who is marginalized.

In the study, it found that a greater invention and access to resources such as safe spaces lead to greater PrEP adherence, a practice that looks to prevent HIV infection for those do not have the disease.

But according to Garcia, the application of safe spaces can have a far reaching impact for other core issues such as gender, sexuality and racial discrimination.

“Safe spaces should allow for people to gain knowledge and give them the opportunity to make educated choices to have safer decisions in their life” Garcia said.

According to Garcia, the study can also be used as a way to look at the impact cultural resource centers OSU has on the students.

Oregon State University has cultural resource centers around campus for minority groups of race and sexuality, but the

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Student activists under scrutiny, NEWS, PAGE 3 Civil War fallout, SPORTS, PAGE 4 A Mythed Opportunity, A&E, PAGE 8

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Police Beat Nov. 29 Compiled from the Corvallis Police Department All those arrested for crimes are considered innocent until proven guilty.

Sunday, Nov. 29:

woman grabbed the wheel and attempted to stop the car and exit.

Kidnapping The man restrained her A couple reportedly were fighting at a gas sta- and kept her in the car and tion and then they drove told her that he did not want to live without her. off at high speeds.

She continued to scream The husband continued to drive recklessly for help while he continwhile also driving into the ued to drive at high speeds and doing sharp turns. oncoming traffic lane.

He also reportedly said Eventually, the woman that he was going to drive was able to get her hands off the cliff. on the wheel again and When the he took his park the vehicle and hands off the wheel, the escape. She then alerted

The man was charged was never located. for disorderly conduct and was taken to jail as he Violation of Restraining appeared to be intoxicated. Order A police officer was conAttempted Theft Disorderly Conduct tacted by a woman that A man found someone her ex-husband has been A couple was reported fighting in their front yard. breaking into his car and repeatedly contacting her An outside oberserver said attempting to steal. The by text message without she saw the man slap the man confronted the sus- her consent. pect directly and asked woman in the face.

The messages that were The observer then pur- him to return his back- sent were allegedly nonsued the man and report- pack and to turn out his threatening despite the fact he was not supposed edly struck the man in the pockets.

The suspect then began to be contacting his exface once and in his neck to flee on foot. The suspect wife to begin with. two more times. a near by car.

The man has been charged of reckless driving and kidnapping.

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The university is also taking a look at transcripts of the racist comments and threats made in the online chat during the livestream of the speak out event, and attempting to determine who was behind them.

According to Ferrell, Ray said he intends to hold more frequent open-dialogue townhall meetings in the future to address inclusivity.

In the aftermath of the Speak Out, the three organizers said that the most important result is that students are talking about racism on campus, whether in solidarity with students of color, or in opposition.

In her position as a white student who helped to organize the speak out, Pope said she is continuing to work with other white students who have reached out to her since the event. She hopes to help white students at OSU to examine their identities and privileges and to also answer questions they have about the necessity of the speak out event.

“There are a lot of white students who have good intentions but don’t understand how oppression works enough to know that it’s not the responsibility of students of color to educate them about their issues and their own privilege,” Pope said.

This has led the three organizers to push for more frequent, and larger social justice retreats like the Racial Aikido and Examining White Identity retreats put on annually by the department of Diversity and Cultural

These words that you have on your paper don’t really mean anything if they’re not being reflected in your community.

Haniya Ferrell Speak Out Organizer Engagement at OSU. Armas, as a member of Greek life, has talked with leaders in Greek organizations to debrief their thoughts following the Speak Out, and to clarify what inclusivity in the community should look like.

Ferrell says that following last Monday’s meeting with Ray, she hopes to see progressive change in the future of OSU. “I know that this probably isn’t the first time this has happened, and when it’s happened before it’s the same old stuff. I am really hoping that it’s not like that this time,” Ferrell said.

Ferrell, Armas and Pope, along with many other students, are awaiting the administration’s next moves, hoping that action will be taken.

“These words that you have on your paper don’t really mean anything if they’re not being reflected in your community,” Armas said. baro.news@oregonstate.edu

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Oregon State University President Ed Ray addressed the crowd at the Students of Color Speak Out event in Gill Collesium on Monday Nov. 16, 2015.

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Sharp divisions emerge on campuses as some criticize activists’ tactics as intimidation

By Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Alton Luke II is an African-American sophomore at Occidental College who backs the broad goal of racial equity for students. But he has chosen not to support the minority student movement aimed at ousting college President Jonathan Veitch and improving campus diversity — and bluntly announced his views on Facebook.

For that, he has paid a price.

Luke said some of his friends, black and white, have started ignoring him. He’s been called ignorant. He said the hostility of some protesters toward those with different views is a major reason he is not supporting their uprising.

“They’re doing what they claim white people do to us, which is marginalize us and cast us as the bad guy,” said Luke, a graduate of Long Beach Polytechnic High and kinesiology major who aims to become an orthopedic surgeon. “You can’t have a different opinion here or you’re persecuted. But I’m standing against their tyrannical and unjustified actions.”

Protesters at Occidental, Claremont McKenna, Yale, Ithaca, Brown and other campuses appear to have wide support as they demand action to address the bias some minority students say they face.

But sharp dissent over the movement’s tactics is also emerging, as critics have begun to step forward.

At Claremont McKenna College, where protests led to the resignation of a top administrator, more than 300 students sent a letter to the campus community expressing support for the fight against racial discrimination. But they called the use of hunger strikes to force Dean of Students Mary Spellman to step down “extremely inappropriate,” and also castigated the cursing at administrators at a recent student protest, the “cyberbullying” of students over an offensive Halloween costume and the filing of a federal civil rights complaint against Claremont.

“Never have we been more divided as community. Never did we think the day would come where we were scared to speak our minds, where fear of our fellow students’ rage silenced us,” said the letter, signed on behalf of the students by Nathaniel Tsai, a junior majoring in government. “It is time for the demonstrations and the hostile rhetoric to stop.”

At Yale University, nearly 800 students, faculty, staff and others sent a letter to campus President Peter Salovey expressing concerns about several student demands — among them

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Safe

Continued from page 1 resource centers are still open to all students regardless of identity.

According to Garcia, having cultural centers at OSU can have positive impacts on many aspects of a student’s life, although the idea of safe spaces is often challenged.

“We found that safe spaces are often the first thing people cut because it is often seen as unnecessary, but it has the potential to be really powerful when given the chance,” Garcia said.

In the recent Speak Out event some speakers said that the resource centers are not enough on campus and that the administration could do more to make the campus an inclusive and safe space.

Cultural centers often provide books to explore the different cultures and lounges to provide open and safe conversation.

They also can provide leisure activities for students to get away from school. Cultural centers also give students a venue to hold their own meetings and events.

The Pride Center specifically offers art supplies and a drag closet for students to borrow clothes and explore their identities.

Garcia said he hopes to see even greater collaboration between the cultural centers and the entire university as it is an important connection for providing safe spaces throughout OSU. According to Keanu Chee, Asian and Pacific Cultural Center student leadership liaison, one reason the university has cultural centers is that some students may not always

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feel safe on campus, and sometimes their experiences are not validated.

Chee is of a multi-ethnic background of Hawaiian, Asian, and White descent.

Although he mainly identifies with his Hawaiian background, Chee said he still feels connected to all parts of his heritage.

Chee said he has not personally faced blatant discrimination on campus, but when he hears other student’s stories, he thinks there is a need for the resource centers.

Chee said the reason there is no white cultural center at OSU is that it is a white institution. He said the culture is evident in greek life, the professors and class topics and the demographics of the student population.

Chee said it is important to have cultural centers in order to broaden the dialogue and perspective at the university.

“We don’t share the same culture as white people,” Chee said. “We’re trying to raise awareness that we are all human, that we are the same, but we still can be different.

And that’s okay.”

According to Chee, the cultural centers allow students to be an individual and celebrate their culture and provide resources for students who struggle to balance school with their identity. He also said that he sees students who are able to use the space to help further their academic pursuits.

But according to Pride Center student liaison Malik Ensley, calling these centers safe spaces may not be entirely accurate.

He said the resource centers cannot guarantee that students will not face discrimination or insensitivity. The university cannot promise that people will not go into designated safe spaces and challenge people’s identities. Ensley said that the cultural and

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resource centers are moving away from the language of safe space and instead using the term brave space.

“There’s always going to be people who will challenge your beliefs. But we can have a space where people feel safe about why they feel uncomfortable and why they feel like they were challenged,” Ensley said. “These are spaces where you are going to feel brave, supported and validated.”

Brave spaces, according to Ensley, means providing a place where people can be confident in their own identities. This can include allowing students to feel free to explore their identities while handling insensitivity or discrimination in a proactive and positive way.

According to Pride Center student leadership liaison Tara Crockett, students are seeking a campus environment where students can feel safe in their identities at all times.

Crockett said that creating an inclusive campus can even come down to simple wording. Even a gender neutral bathroom can be seen as oppressive. Gender neutral bathrooms make students feel like their identities do not exist or are not accepted, according to Crockett, but gender inclusive bathrooms is a more accepting term.

“We don’t leave our gender at the door just because we go to the bathroom,” Crockett said. “When we use the language ‘gender inclusive’ it lets people feel like it is safe to use that space.”

According to Crockett, having multiple identities can put a lot of stress on people if they feel uncomfortable about their identity on campus, and it could impact a student’s ability to pass their class. The cultural resource centers, according to Crockett, serve as a counterculture to the university’s CLASSIFIEDS 541-737-6372 PRODUCTION baro.production@oregonstate.edu

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white heteronormative culture. The resource centers create an inclusive environment where minority students can reduce the stress of clashing identities.

“By creating a space for those students, we are able to alleviate their stress and create a community for the folks who feel overwhelmed. They can have a space where students can focus on their academics rather than focusing on fighting for the right to be who they are,” Crockett said.

According to Elizabeth Zimmermann, a psychologist at CAPS, safe spaces can be fragile spaces, and she said that CAPS can provide a space for students to have an important support group.

“At CAPS we level the power structure and allow people to freely talk about their values, their biases and their fears so that students can feel safe at OSU and pursue their educational goals,” Zimmermann said.

CAPS offers support groups for people of different backgrounds such as people of multi-ethnic backgrounds, women and women of color. They also offer individual and group counseling.

According to Garcia, the research focused on HIV prevention, but in a broader dialogue, having spaces for people to feel safe, educate themselves, and make safe decisions leads to better self care. He said it can be used in people’s social lives, spiritual lives, professional lives and any kind of social interaction.

“It can create positive health outlook for people, and it requires a social context that facilitates that,” Garcia said. “Creating social support isn’t just to address disease or prevent disease, but to promote a positive and good life.”

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Civil War, a building block for the future

By Brenden Slaughter Sports Reporter

The final score was Oregon 52 and Oregon State 42 Saturday at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. But often times final scores don’t tell the story of a game. In this instance, the final score told everything about how a Oregon State program is on the rise.

The Beavers were underdogs, massive underdogs in fact. They were supposed to lose the Civil War by 35 points. Not exactly a whole lot of reasons to be confident heading into the game if you were an Oregon State coach, player or fan.

Head coach Gary Andersen said in the week leading up to this game that he believed that to rebuild a program properly, you need to have “that game” that springboards you to success.

Well, the Beavers just had that game.

The focus this offseason has to be on rebuilding a defense that couldn’t win Pac-12 games over the last few years under the previous coaching regime. Both Andersen and defensive coordinator Kalani Sitake have to go out and sell recruits on immediate playing time to build the defense with young, strong athletes so OSU doesn’t have as many defensive collapses as 2015.

The Beavers have a number of things to fix in the offseason, including depth and talent on the defensive side of the ball, which was evidently lacking on Saturday as Oregon racked up over 700 yards of offense.

Positively, the offense, which seemed absent for most of the 2015 season, finished drives and finally found its footing en route to scoring 42 points and racking up 427 yards.

They held their own against the Ducks who had won five games in a row with marquee wins over both then-No. 5 Stanford and then-No. 24 USC. Oregon was improving on defense, and their offense was rolling along since senior quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. returned from injury.

The Beavers fought, scraped and clawed their way back into the football game after being down 31-7 at the half. They came all the way back and brought the game to within three points in the closing minutes.

Ultimately though, the Beavers lost to Oregon on the last drive of the game as Adams and junior receiver Bralon Addison proved too much to handle for the young OSU defense.

However, a football team is judged on their number of wins and losses.

And for this season the Beavers went 2-10 and a woeful 0-9 in conference, their first winless season in conference play since 1997.

But make no mistake, this is the type of game that gives OSU life going into the offseason. Unlike the previous week against Washington, where the Beavers hung their heads and gave up, they fought back and made the Civil War a game.

They made a strong statement against the Ducks on Saturday, they proved that even after the pitiful season that they had prior to that point, they weren’t going to lay down

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Freshman quarterback Seth Collins leaps into the endzone for a touchdown in the third quarter against the Oregon Ducks. The Beavers fell to the Ducks in the Civil War 52-42 on Friday. and roll over.

But most importantly for the Beavers, they found two players who are going to be building blocks for their program.

Both true freshman Seth Collins and redshirt freshman Ryan Nall played well beyond their years and made a UO defense look just plain awful.

Collins was particularly impressive, as he returned from injury to lead the Beavers with three touchdowns; all on quarterback runs.

“Seth is going to be a vital part to this offense as we move forward,”

Andersen said. “You just have a real hard time not putting a kid with that much athletic ability in different spots on the field and using him consistently in different ways.”

Nall, who was making just his second career start, was impressive from start to finish, accounting for over 200 all-purpose yards and cutting through the Duck defense like it was swiss cheese.

Bottom line, Collins has to be in the rotation next season because he is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.

From my perspective, Nall is look-

ing more and more like former Stanford and current Jacksonville Jaguars running back Toby Gerhart. Both Gerhart and Nall were recruited to play fullback and moved to running back. I see a lot of similarities, including a powerful running style and very decisive speed.

Quite frankly, with the majority of the players on offense and defense returning and only graduating three starters on offense and only four on defense, the future is bright for this young OSU squad, and it all started with finding their groove against their hated rival.

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A portrait of a successfull program is being painted

By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter

Storm Barrs-Woods is trying to become a painter.

Not with a canvas or brushes, though. The picture he’s painting is a metaphorical one, concerning the direction of Oregon State’s football program.

That direction? Oregon State is going to be — and very soon, he said — a “powerhouse program.”

“This thing can turn around at any time,” the senior running back said. “That’s the big picture I’ve been trying to paint. When this thing gets turned around, Oregon State is going to be a force.”

Barrs-Woods spent portions of this year injured and missed the Civil War on Saturday but is fifth all-time in OSU history with 2,674 rushing yards. He spent 20112015 with the program, bookending his career with three and two-win seasons, respectively.

But, Barrs-Woods is about as optimistic as you can get. He reused one word in particular to describe OSU’s future — scary.

“It’s going to be scary. I’m the first to say it will be scary. Just with the young guys,” he said shortly before the season ended. “(The coaches) push us, push us, push us for the better. Oregon State is going to be a powerhouse really soon. Really soon.”

A powerhouse program? A bit premature, but he has a point.

One of the bright spots that Barrs-Woods pointed out was freshmen running back Ryan Nall, who took over for Barrs-Woods in the Civil War and racked up 228 total yards and a touchdown. Nall will join a host of running backs next season, including Chris

Brown, Tim Cook, Deltron Sands and Damien Haskins.

“I still got confidence in us. I still got faith in us,” Nall said. “Just because we’re having a down season right now doesn’t mean I love my team any different. We’re going to continue to grind next year.”

OSU went 2-10 this year and 0-10 against Power-Five conference teams. Most of the losses were ugly. The Beavers did not deserve to go to a bowl game this year, but the roster is still in flux under new head coach Gary Andersen and chemistry suffered. All’s not lost; there are inevitably some bumps in the road.

OSU’s recruiting has been competitive this year, but the biggest need currently is complete dedication on behalf of all players to what Andersen and his staff are preaching.

Four players decided to leave the program Monday: Nick Mitchell, Malik Gilmore, Luke Hollingsworth and Chris Hayes. According to Andersen, there’s a partition being made.

There are the players who are getting “amped up” by the new facilities and program as a whole. Then, there are the players who are hesitant and haven’t bought in.

“I love when that happens,” Andersen said.

“I’m used to that taking place.”

Andersen has a mountain to summit, but he has his climbing gear with him.

Still, the Beavers’ only two wins this year were against Weber State and San Jose State, and OSU hasn’t beaten a team by more than 21 points in their last 30 games.

It did seem, however, that OSU was inches away from a breakout of sorts on multiple different occasions. That’s not to say OSU deserved to win eight games, but a handful of plays throughout the season compounded against the Beavers’ favor.

“It’s just that one play where it’s called back on penalty, something that shifts the momentum, it’s taken a toll on us throughout the season,” Nall said. “And then we try to come back and another thing happens. It just doesn’t go our way.”

There are a few such situations that come to mind: Paul Lucas’ 76-yard run against Washington that got OSU to the 8-yard line, but the drive ended without points. Victor Bolden’s catch against California that would have been a touchdown had his foot not

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Head coach Gary Andersen and the Beavers sing the OSU fight song, a tradition that Andersen started this season regardless of the outcome. touched the sideline. Lamone Williams wrapping his body around the legs of Oregon’s Vernon Adams on a third-and-ten, who still rifled a first-down pass on an eventual touchdown drive.

On third downs this season with two or three yards to go, OSU converted on 14-of-31 tries. The Beavers went 3-for-17 this year on fourth downs. Five of those missed conversions were with one or two yards to go for the first down.

Change a few of those aspects, and OSU has an easier season. Oh, and the injuries. To name a few: Sean Harlow, Caleb Smith, Gavin Andrews and Deltron Sands were out for the season. Both starting cornerbacks, Treston Decoud and Larry Scott, missed time. The players who started the season on the twodeep depth chart combined to miss more than 80 games this year.

It may take time, but the OSU football pro-

gram will have its moment. Before we close the book on this season and look expectantly to the promising year ahead for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, I’ll make a few predictions on the OSU football program.

OSU will win five games next year and seven the following. Seth Collins will stay in the program, maybe in a similar multifaceted role as in the Civil War. The Beavers will wear throwback jerseys in a home game next year, and the attendance rate will rise from 36,074 fans per home game this year to above 40,000. And, Ryan Nall will be a key cog at OSU, whether he stays at running back or changes positions for the umpteenth time.

“I feel like we can go undefeated,” Nall said.

“That’s the confidence in my team. I love these guys to death. Once we finally get to click, it’s going to be hard to get to stop us.”

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The 2015 Football Superlatives

Offensive MVP

Defensive MVP

Top Freshman

Biggest Surprise

Biggest Dissapointment

Top Moment

Brenden Slaughter

Brian Rathbone

Josh Worden

Sports Edior

Senior Beat Reporter

Sports Reporter

Treston Decoud: The pass defense picked up when Decoud was in the lineup, plus his play in the Civil War convinced me he is valuable.

Rommel Mageo: He was the only player with at least 70 tackles, and he had 87.

Also the only player with two interceptions.

Kyle Peko: Quietly had a nice season while being the “plug” nose tackle that takes up space more than collects stats.

Seth Collins: Collins was Jonathan “Old Man” Willis: the Beavers top playmaker in Quietly was third on the team 2015 regardless of year. We saw with 67 tackles. He grew up the offense take a major step quickly as the year went on. forward with him in his new role in the Civil War.

Ryan Nall: Broke out in a big way when he moved to running back after a bevy of injuries. Nall brought a tough running presence that no other OSU back could match.

Ryan Nall: Wasn’t expecting the Central Catholic product to have as big of an impact in the running game as he had this year.

A barnburner Civil War: OSU entering 2-9 and last among Pac-12 offenses. 42 points later, OSU’s offense had its best performance of 2015.

OSU’s resiliency in the Civil War: Down 31-7, the Beavers could have not gotten back into the game, but chose to do so.

Arizona loss: Coming off of a bye week and a solid performance against Stanford, the Beavers melted in the desert and foreshadowed the rest of the Pac-12 schedule.

The Colorado loss: Maybe the 2-10 season overall is really the biggest disappointment, but this game in particular was one OSU should have taken.

The UCLA loss: OSU held tough before falling apart and losing 41-0 in Reser Stadium.

Getting shutout at home is the major low point.

The second half of the Civil War: OSU scored 35 points in the second half — tied for the most the team scored for an entire game — OSU played their most inspired ball of the season.

Ryan Nall’s 66-yard touchdown against Oregon: Though Victor Bolden’s punt-return score is equally memorable.

Both sparked hope in the Civil War, and Nall is a native Oregonian.

Victor Bolden’s 78-yard punt return against Oregon: Since Josh didn’t take it, I had to. Easily my favorite moment as it kept OSU in the game against the Ducks.

Seth Collins: Even though Josh Mitchell: In the footIsaac Seumalo: He stayed Collins had a up and down ball team’s meeting room they healthy all year and anchored year passing the ball, he still have weekly superlatives and the offensive line. Will he stay led the team in passing (935) rushing (575) and touchdowns Mitchell’s name appeared the for his senior year?

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By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter

The Oregon State football team nearly took its first Civil War victory since 2007 on Saturday in a 52-42 loss to Oregon in Eugene. In the 119th Civil War, OSU nearly reached its highest point total ever against the Ducks of 50 points. Oregon has scored more than 35 points in every Civil War since the 2007 game.

• OSU scored touchdowns on five consecutive possessions in Saturday’s second half. Not once this year had OSU scored more than five times in an entire game. The Beavers’ 22 touchdowns coming into the contest was low enough for eight Pac-12 teams to have at least twice as many touchdowns as OSU. • OSU had 12 ‘chunk’ plays Saturday — rushing attempts of 10-plus yards or passes for 15-plus yards — while the Ducks had 25. Oregon running back Royce Freeman had seven rushes or receptions of double digit yardage; he entered the game with 67 such plays, 11 more than any other player in the nation.

• With starting punter Ian Wheeler injured, Oregon’s Matt Wogan attempted his first and only punt of the year Saturday.

OSU’s Victor Bolden returned it 77 yards for a touchdown.

• This season, OSU was a perfect 10-for-10 when trying to convert on a third-and-one, including one conversion against the Ducks. The Beavers were 8-for-17 on third-and-two situations, however.

• The Beavers had just two interceptions from cornerbacks in 2014 and 2015 combined, both coming last year from Steven Nelson. In 2012 and 2013 combined, OSU cornerbacks recorded 27 interceptions.

• Five different players led OSU in rushing yards in different games this year — Seth Collins, Chris Brown, Storm Woods, Ryan Nall and Paul Lucas. Only Brown and Woods have spent

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their entire careers at OSU as running backs.

• Collins ended the season with a team-high 580 rushing yards. OSU has not had a 600-yard rusher in two of the last three seasons and three of the last five. The last 1,000-yard ball carrier was Jacquizz Rodgers in 2010, who capped off six straight seasons for OSU with a player reaching 1,000 yards on the ground.

• OSU’s 1,910 passing yards this season is the lowest for the Beavers since 1996, when OSU last started a true freshman quarterback in Tim Alexander. Both the 1996 and 2015 squads did not have any player with 1,000 passing, rushing or receiving yards and both teams won two games.

• OSU had a 7-0 lead on Saturday for 2:33 of the first quarter, the first time the Beavers had a lead since the Colorado contest.

In Pac-12 play, OSU led cumulatively for 3.2 percent of the time, 17:23 total of 540 minutes of gameplay.

• For the first time this year, OSU outscored a Pac-12 opponent in the third quarter on Saturday. The Beavers took a 14-7 advantage in the third period and outscored the Ducks 35-21 in the second half.

• In OSU’s first 10 games, the Beavers never had more than six tackles for loss. In the final two contests against Washington and Oregon, OSU totaled seven tackles for loss in each game.

• Freshman linebacker Jonathan Willis had 18 tackles in the first half of this season and 49 tackles in the second half.

• During the first four games of the year OSU lost three fumbles; The Beavers only lost two fumbles in the remaining eight games.

• Of OSU’s 2014 and 2015 field goal attempts, 28-of-37 came in Reser Stadium.

• Oregon’s 308 rushing yards Saturday marked the fourth time this year OSU has allowed more than 300 yards on the ground.

The Ducks and Beavers both averaged 6.0 yards per carry in the Civil War but Oregon had 51 rushing attempts to 38 from OSU. • In the final game of the year Saturday, OSU’s non-seniors contributed all of the Beavers’ 199 passing yards, 199 receiving yards and 228 rushing yards as well as 80 of the team’s 88 tackles.

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Continued from page 3 mandatory diversity sensitivity training, an ethnic studies requirement and the firing of a faculty member who questioned staff warnings about culturally offensive Halloween costumes.

Zach Young, a junior majoring in ethics, politics and economics, had joined the Yale student “march of resilience” against discrimination. But he helped spearhead the letter after he saw the subsequent student demands – especially the call to fire Erika Christakis, a faculty member who had challenged the costume warning from the Yale Intercultural Affairs Council, asking whether there was no longer room for students to be “a little bit obnoxious ... a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive.”

The letter defended Christakis’ free-speech rights and called the training and curriculum demands “a menace to the cause of liberal education because they are clearly driven by a particular political agenda devoted to conversion instead of intellectual exploration.”

Salovey announced that he supported Christakis.

Young and Luke said they have never been threatened with physical violence for their views _ unlike some protesters, who have reported receiving anonymous threats on the Yik Yak social media site.

Some faculty members have also spoken out against the protests, including Glenn Loury, a Brown University professor who has researched racial inequality and wrote that he was “appalled” by student allegations of endemic campus racism. Loury, who is African-American, said he had been lavished with university resources for his work and

well treated by open-minded colleagues.

In a Facebook post, he rejected student calls for a “revolutionary reshaping” to fight campus bias through diversity training, special staff to recruit more minority faculty and other steps, saying they could lead to “intellectual mediocrity.”

At Claremont, a second critique was made last week by two students who called for letters of support for Spellman, saying she had been unfairly targeted. The former dean became the lightning rod for long-standing complaints by minority students alleging university inaction in addressing racial bias and providing resources, such as funding and a dedicated space, to help them.

In hundreds of fliers posted throughout the campus, students described broad experiences with discrimination, including vandalism at the Queer Resource Center, defacement of Black Lives Matter posters, racial slurs and perceived mockery of their cultures.

Spellman was particularly criticized for telling a Latina student she would work hard to support students who “don’t fit our CMC mold.” The former dean could not be reached for comment.

In marshaling support for Spellman, seniors Rachel Doehr and Katharine Eger said they supported the broader effort to give voice to marginalized students but expressed concern that the effort “quickly morphed into a torrent of seemingly uncontrollable anger that left casualties in its wake.”

The students said Spellman had counseled hundreds of students at Claremont and led efforts to establish a new campus center for sexual assault prevention and support, among other things.

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Alton Luke II, a student who has been criticized for not joining the movement, on Nov. 20 in Los Angeles. students who launched a hunger strike in support of calls for Spellman’s resignation, said she felt “deepest empathies” toward such students. But she said Spellman had ignored marginalized students and that her resignation – which, she noted, officials chose to accept – would help the campus move forward.

“It is not enough to help just some students,” Lemmons said, adding that she did not regret her hunger strike. “She was legally responsible for all students, and students were blatantly ignored.”

Campus President Hiram Chodosh has announced that steps would be taken to better address diversity on campus, including new administrative leadership positions.

The letter of dissent from Tsai and others asked the Latina student who filed a federal civil rights complaint against Claremont to reconsider her action and allow the campus to find other ways to resolve the issues.

It also criticized what it called the cyberbullying of a Claremont student and her

Horoscope Today’s Birthday (12/01/15). Your education and travels expand into next year, shifting toward group participation after August. Saturn in your sign favors self-discipline. What will you create? March eclipses bring new beginnings at home and with friends. September eclipses spark professional breakthroughs and another domestic shift. Nurture love.

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 a 7 — Secrets are revealed, with Mercury trine Uranus. Surprises bubble up in the conversation. Avoid gossip. Word travels fast and in unexpected directions. If in doubt, keep mum. Align your actions and message with your heart.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Stay in communication, despite wandering out of cell range. Keep folks apprised of unexpected circumstances as they arise. Balance schedule changes between work and social demands.

What you need is in your community network. Ask for it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Get your brilliant thoughts

onto paper. Your creative muse inspires you in new directions.

Accept a challenge, if it pays well.

Ancient wisdom works again. The answer may not look like what you’d imagined ... it could be better.

family discussion. Find out what’s so and fears dissipate. Listen and learn.

News travels fast. Follow through on what you said you’d do. Take notes and schedule actions. Charm them with love.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Study a secret system to discover an answer that has been eluding you. Keep your wits about you. Follow a hunch or inspiration from a dream. Conditions are in your favor. Play that ace you’ve been holding.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Make bold declarations, vows and promises. Go for what you want without knowing how to get there.

Cheerfully state your desires. Listen and make corrections based on feedback. Family and friends share advice and support. Thank them.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Open communication with your partner eases an unplanned situation. Talk over your ideas.

Learn another perspective. Share your thoughts and dreams. A promise made now is good. Cheer for another’s accomplishment, and keep taking action.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Good news comes from far away. Apply it to what you’re studying. You can solve a puzzle. Support family harmony by upgrading or repairing home technology or infrastructure. Shop for the best value. Support your crew.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Discovery illuminates your research. Come up with a new idea.

Write it down in detail. Share it with someone you trust for feedback.

Creative sparks ignite. Study new technology. Friends facilitate a connection. Express your gratitude.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Investigate all suggestions, even the bizarre or unusual ones, before making important decisions.

Don’t believe everything you hear ... check it out first. Talk things over with friends, one of whom has useful expertise. Doors open in unlikely places.

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friend who were posted on social media wearing Mexican sombreros and mustaches for Halloween. The students have repeatedly apologized, but requests to remove the photo have been rejected.

At Occidental, Luke’s Facebook post drew overtures from some movement supporters who affirmed his right to disagree and their willingness to listen.

Danielle Raskin, a junior in urban and environmental policy and a movement leader, said those with questions or doubts were encouraged to visit the protest site to discuss and learn more.

“As a community and movement, we’ve been welcoming and inclusive to those with different views,” she said.

But Luke is wary, saying the campus’ political climate is stifling. Last week, he said he was attacked on social media as “trash” who was endangering women by throwing a party and offering them free admission.

“Either you’re liberal or you’re wrong,” he said. “It’s not a healthy environment.”

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THURSDAY, Dec. 3: Event 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Baha’i Campus Association Location: MU Talisman Room Open discussion on ‘empowerment of children and youth” Event 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Centro Cultural César Chávez (CCCC) Location: Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez Come join us to learn about the tradition behind Las Posadas!

There will be food, games, music, and a piñata! Open to Everyone!

FRIDAY, Dec. 4: Event: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Student Organization Resources for Community Engagement (SORCE) Location: MU 215 A funding mechanism on campus for recognized student organizations. Our Allocation Meeting is opened to the public

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Invest in your own comfort and productivity. Track your earnings, and stash some. Add an artistic touch to your presentation.

Poetry inspires. Find beautiful expressions in unusual views.

Remember what’s really important.

Gather with loved ones.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Put your talents to work.

Develop some of these great ideas into plans. Look at predictable outcomes, and strategize to even the odds. Speak straight from your heart. Lightning fast talk goes over people’s heads. Keep it simple.

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Pittsburgh photographer captures city’s stylish residents

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Chancelor Humphrey is a Pittsburgh-based photographer whose site Keep Pittsburgh Dope has become synonymous with Pittsburgh street style.

By Sara Bauknecht Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Chancelor Humphrey knows Pittsburgh’s streets well. He scours them often in search of people whose personal style he can capture on camera.

In just over a year, Humphrey, his website KeepPittsburghDope. com and his social media feeds have become to Pittsburgh what New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham’s “On the Street” features are to the Big Apple’s fashion community. What Humphrey has curated in this short time is arguably the most comprehensive portrait of modern Pittsburgh style.

The idea of a street style photographer in Pittsburgh might make some snicker. This is, after all, the city that’s landed on its share of fashion-flop lists. But this 27-year-old North Sider knows better.

“There’s a difference between fashion and style. We got a unique style here,” he says. “In the pictures, I’ll guide a person, but when they

make that turn to look at the camera, that’s their expression and it’s always no nonsense... It’s like, this is Pittsburgh.”

On a recent afternoon downtown, Humphrey (a thin, towering guy whose own style is a mix of relaxed and refined) spotted a blonde in a pencil skirt and blouse at the corner of Fifth and Liberty avenues. He darted to the curb to snap a quick picture of her from behind as she crossed the street, unaware that she was his muse for the moment. On another street, a young man’s sleek sneakers got his attention. A couple of others Humphrey approached that day smiled but declined to be photographed.

A few blocks away from Point Park University, he stopped a young woman in active wear topped with a fringed eternity scarf and sunglasses.

She not only agreed to have her photo taken, she recognized him.

“I love it,” he says about the slice of local fame he’s gotten since launching Keep Pittsburgh Dope. On

Instagram and Twitter combined, his following exceeds 11,000. “Man, it’s like what I do affects people.”

For now, he shoots most of his street style photography downtown, but he also enjoys scouting other neighborhoods.

“I love to go to Oakland and see the high-fashion finds along with the thrift finds,” he says. “There’s always just awesome style.”

Since the summer, photography has become his full-time gig. He left his day job as a loan document specialist at PNC Firstside Center to build up Keep Pittsburgh Dope and pursue opportunities to shoot campaigns for other brands, such as BikePittsburgh and Chromos Eyewear.

Becoming a photographer, however, was never something he envisioned for himself.

“I thought I was going to be an NBA player,” he says.

A native of Aliquippa, Pa., he grew up playing basketball, including two years at Penn State Beaver before

transferring to the university’s State College campus. There he switched his major from business to communications and got interested in radio, even landing a job at a local station.

Back in Pittsburgh, he found himself at a crossroads. He started a website that covered local events and newsmakers, but it failed to get traction. Plus, sometimes his photographers wouldn’t show up.

That’s when Humphrey decided to get a camera and teach himself how to take photos. Soon after came Keep Pittsburgh Dope.

“I noticed a void as far as street photography and street style photography here in Pittsburgh,” he says.

“I’ve always been a fan of street style photography in New York, so it just seemed like kind of a no-brainer.”

And the name? He credits that to a shot in the opening credits of the comedy TV series “Portlandia” that reads “Keep Portland Weird” in graffiti.

“It kind of just hit me, Keep Pittsburgh Dope, because I always

use ‘dope’ in my everyday slang,” he says. “It just made sense.”

He’s been inspired along the way by the likes of Cunningham and Scott Schuman, the fashion photographer known for his street style blog and books called “The Sartorialist.” He also gets ideas from collaborating with other young local photographers, such as Cody Baker. But one of his biggest motivations is his mom.

Growing up, it was just the two of them, he says, so he sees photography not only as a way to build a life for himself but also to take care of her someday.

While he’s made a lot of progress so far, he’s just getting started, he says. He hopes to evolve Keep Pittsburgh Dope into a lifestyle brand that includes events, branded goods and more.

“I’m just learning as I go,” he says.

“The time is now to do anything creative in Pittsburgh.”

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Will ‘Star Wars’audiences break records?

By Daniel Miller and Ryan Faughnder fewer than 20 percent of schools are out for audience surveys. They show that “The Force “From what we’ve seen so far with the very Los Angeles Times

How far will “Star Wars” go?

The betting has begun on just how big Walt Disney Co.’s new space opera, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” will be when it hits theaters in mid-December.

The film is expected to gross $175 million to more than $200 million in the U.S. and Canada in its opening weekend, according to people who have seen prerelease audience surveys.

And many analysts say it could break the record for the biggest domestic opening ever, which was set in June by “Jurassic World.” That Universal Pictures sequel grossed nearly $209 million in its initial weekend.

“I would be very, very surprised if it came in below $175 million,” said Bruce Nash, president of film industry research firm Nash Information Services. “But it’s an interesting question because the really huge weekends have been during the summer. We are talking about something that is just such a huge outlier from a [typical] December release.”

The five largest North American debuts of all-time have occurred during the summer months. The record for the biggest December opening of all time is held by “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” which debuted at $84.6 million in 2012.

There are distractions competing for consumers’ attention in December, to be sure.

Many people are likely to be wrapping up their holiday shopping during the weekend the “Star Wars” film opens. Others could be contending with inclement weather or traveling. And,

holiday break on the day the film premieres, said Dave Hollis, Burbank-based Disney’s head of distribution.

“We will measure success by the total run, when we are months and months from December, looking back on what we expect to be a fantastic film experience ... and something that has hopefully delivered on and exceeded the expectations of not only ‘Star Wars’ fans but moviegoers everywhere,” he said.

Early ticket sales for the film, which will be shown in 3-D and on Imax screens, are buoying expectations for a record-breaking weekend.

The hoped-for blockbuster has already racked up more than $50 million in advance domestic ticket sales, a record for the industry, according to people familiar with the movie’s performance. (Not all the advance sales are for screenings during the first weekend.) That number is sure to increase as Disney ramps up its promotional campaign in the weeks before the debut.

“The Force Awakens” should be a capstone for what is widely anticipated to be a record year for the North American cinema industry, which is expected to end 2015 with more than $11 billion in box office receipts. The “Star Wars” sequel officially launches in the U.S. on Dec. 18, but it will begin its run the night before.

It is not yet clear how many movie theater screens will be showing “The Force Awakens,” but the film is expected to play in more than 4,000 theater locations.

One positive sign for the space saga are the details that have emerged from the prerelease

Awakens” is generating high levels of interest among males and females, under and above age 25. That makes for a prime example of what the movie industry calls a “four-quadrant” film. Interest is slightly higher among men than women.

The movie, which stars franchise newcomers John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Daisy Ridley alongside veterans including Harrison Ford, is the first in the series made by Disney.

The entertainment juggernaut bought “Star Wars” producer Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion in 2012. It is also the first movie in the franchise in more than a decade, following “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” which was released in May 2005. That movie premiered to a domestic box office haul of $108 million and eventually brought in about $849 million globally.

The new film, directed by J.J. Abrams, is key to Disney’s overall movie strategy because it is the first of multiple planned “Star Wars” pictures, including sequels and spinoffs. It also is expected to generate outsized returns in merchandising and other areas.

Hollis said he expects “The Force Awakens” to have a strong “multiple,” meaning it could deliver big box-office returns for many weeks after its opening. He highlighted other December releases – “Avatar” and “Titanic” among them – that became blockbusters and tallied huge weekends well into the following year.

“The onus falls on [us] making a great film and we know we have something that is extraordinary,” the Disney executive said.

limited audiences who have seen it, the suggestion is there that there is going be great repeatability.”

Analysts agree.

“I think it is going to have a lot of legs – I think you are going to see a very strong December and into January,” JPMorgan analyst Alexia Quadrani said. “I think people will see it several times.”

That sort of repeat viewing enabled “Titanic” and “Avatar” to become the two highestgrossing films of all-time. The latter picture from director James Cameron set the global box-office record – taking in $2.8 billion – but debuted to just $77 million domestically. That record could be in sight for the new “Star Wars” picture.

The international box office will be important to the film’s overall performance. It opens worldwide virtually everywhere in December, except for China. During the month of December the Chinese government tends to block non-Chinese movies from theaters. “The Force Awakens” does not yet have a release date in that country.

“To say it is going to break the all-time record is a very lofty thing to say,” Quadrani said. “But does it have a shot? Absolutely. This is a very, very passionate fan base.”

Two movies are daring to open alongside “Star Wars.” Universal’s R-rated Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters” could collect roughly $13 million over the weekend, while “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” from Fox is tracking at around $17 million.

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‘Youth’ is a celebration of movies, life

By Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald

“Youth,” writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s visually extravagant meditation on old age, is the simple, near-plotless tale of two old friends – a retired co-mposer and orchestra director (Michael Caine) and a filmmaker (Harvey Keitel) – vacationing at a luxurious Swiss spa and resort.

Fred, the musician, has come at the insistence of his daughter (Rachel Weisz), who has arranged daily medical checkups and massages for him. Mick, the director, has brought his stable of writers with him to help hammer out the script for his latest project, the unironically titled “Life’s Last Day.” The two pals stroll through the hotel grounds and engage in chitchat. Their friendship has endured because they only talk about trivial things. They don’t challenge each other the way other people challenge them.

The movie sounds insufferable – two old white rich dudes looking back on their lives and regretting their mistakes – but Sorrentino turns the script into a symphonic celebration of the grandeur of movies.

Although not quite as over-the-top visually as his Oscar-winning “The Great Beauty,” “Youth” is still spectacular, filled with tableaux (a group of people sweating silently inside a

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sauna, a naked man and his prostitute inside a hotel room) that juxtapose the desires and personalities of young and old without dialogue.

At times, the film verges on becoming a musical (it opens with the house band at the hotel performing an ebullient cover of Florence and the Machine’s “You’ve Got the Love” poolside while the camera circles around the singer). Other times, “Youth” flirts with otherwordly fantasy, especially when Sorrentino allows Fellini’s obvious influence to surge to the forefront.

The supporting characters are memorable: In addition to Weisz’ fiery turn as Caine’s resentful daughter, Paul Dano shows up as a Hollywood actor preparing for a difficult role.

As a hot-tempered veteran actress, Jane Fonda almost steals the film with just one scene in which she informs Keitel why she won’t be able to do his movie after all.

But the heart of Youth is the lifelong bond between two men, both of them artists, who have taken radically different approaches to living out their golden years. Age is more than just a number, “Youth” tells us. What really matters, though, is whether you’re going to let that number define you.

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Michael Caine (left) and Harvey Keitel (right) star in the movie “Youth.”