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0.4-second shot ends with victory Mikayla Pivec makes gamewinning shot with under a second left in game

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Oregon State University Theatre’s 20192020 Season: The Undeniable Truth continues with the world premiere of The Expedition of Whispers. This brand new play by OSU Theatre Arts student Nate Periera runs Feb. 13-15 at 7:30 pm and February 16 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $8 General Admission, $6 Senior, $5 Youth/Student, and $4 OSU Student and are available through the OSU Theatre Box Office by calling 541-737-2784.

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Climate alliance coordinates Earth Month

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Oregon State sweethearts’ road to engagement

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Forums aim to help students understand tuition increases

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B RI TTNEE BAR RY | OR ANG E ME DIA NE TWORK Jacque Bruns, right, and the senior associate athletic director and chief financial officer, and Kimya Massey, the senior associate athletic director for studentathlete development, attended the mediation meeting on Feb. 3 as Athletics representatives.

Athletics student fee increase passes during mediation

By TANVEER SANDHU News Contributor The Athletics student fee was increased from $40.71 to $41.93 per student in the fall, winter and spring terms of 2020-21, during a mediation session on Feb. 3, held by Associated Students of Oregon State University Senate, House and Student Fee Committee members.

When it failed to pass in ASOSU’s second joint congressional session on Jan. 15, the Athletics fee was voted to go into mediation. The SFC had recommended a decrease in the 2019-20 fee from $40.71 per student to $36.90, however, the proposal failed.

The Mediation Committee consisted of the ASOSU speaker and chair, Ian Walker; ASOSU vice president and vice-chair, Kylie Boenisch; the SFC chair, Safi Ahmad; five members from the SFC; and three representatives and senators. The committee passed next year’s Athletic fee level with a nine to one vote.

Athletics representatives Jacque Bruns, the senior associate athletic director and chief financial officer, and Kimya Massey, the senior associate athletic director for studentathlete development, provided a slideshow hand-out that consisted of their key arguments to the committee.

Bruns said that as university enrollment increases, Athletics asks for less funding through student fees. But as enrollment decreases, they have to ask for a higher student fee level. There was a 3% decrease in enrollment this year. According to Bruns, athletic student fees help support tickets, student employment, academic support services, diversity initiatives, life skills programs (that began with only student-athletes) and mental health and student wellness. Currently, there are about 500 student-athletes and 388 students employed by Athletics.

Diversity and life skills initiatives, as well as mental health programs supported by the Athletics student fee were further discussed in the mediation.

“Real Talk, International StudentAthlete Club, First Gen. Club and Women Lead are some programs that focus on all students and are diversity and inclusion programs,” Massey said.

Bruns added that while many of these groups began with only athletes, they are now split 50/50 between students and athletes. For mental health programs, she said Athletics collaborates with Student Health Services and is working toward having a director of wellness.

The topic of ticket sales and the value of free student tickets were also discussed in further depth.

Representative Jack Hill said free student tickets are a good way to build community and make everyone feel welcomed. He said that compared to other universities, OSU’s Athletics departments ask for very little in funding.

SFC member Haley Ramsey seconded this. She said in comparison to other PAC-12 universities, OSU’s Athletics department is very financially respectful of its students. “[The] majority of PAC-12 schools charge for student tickets on top of student fees,” Bruns said.

According to Bruns, Athletics is currently running a deficit, and she presented a sustainability plan to the committee. “Through the sustainability plan, we plan to receive constant funding,” she said.

One goal of the sustainability plan is to decrease the Athletics deficit, according to Massey. So far, they have done this by assessing what may be cut within Athletics. He said that Athletics always tries to find other revenue sources before asking for student fee increases.

BRITTNEE BARRY | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Pictured is a photo illustration of a practice ACT test that is ripped down the center. It has been recommended that Oregon State University eliminate the requirement that applicants submit standardized test scores—the ACT or SAT— allowing for a “test optional” approach.

Future OSU students may no longer be required to submit ACT or SAT scores

By TERESITA GUZMAN NADER News Reporter Future Oregon State University students may no longer be required to submit ACT or SAT scores as the university is exploring a test-optional approach for enrollment.

Should this policy be implemented, incoming students of the fall 2021 term can exclude standardized testing scores from their college applications.

Dylan Perfect, Associated Students of OSU coordinator of government relations, said via email he took the SAT and applied to OSU from high school, and he said he thinks that it’s difficult to boil down all the skills a student will bring to the university based solely on one test score.

“Making OSU test-optional is a great choice since it is the right and equitable thing to do.” Rachel Josephson, ASOSU president said in an email. “We want to measure students who hope to come here based on what they want to achieve, how driven they are and their creativity, rather than a background that they really cannot control.”

On Jan. 23, 2020, the recommendation was discussed with the Academic Strategies Committee of the OSU Board of Trustees, and on Feb. 13, it will be discussed with the Faculty Senate.

Edward Feser, provost and executive vice president, said the

goal for the conversation with the Academic Strategies Committee of the OSU Board of Trustees was to make sure the board understands the reasons for the recommended policy change, rather than to arrive at any kind of vote or decision.

“It was a good discussion, and generally the trustees that were present were receptive to the change,” Feser said in an email. “We recognize that this proposal requires careful consideration by our faculty, via the university’s Faculty Senate.

The discussion at the Faculty Senate meeting in mid-February will be very important in that regard.”

In an email, Jon Boeckenstedt, vice provost of Enrollment Management, said it has not been determined how test-optional might affect international students, but he knows that the National Collegiate Athletic Association requires a test score for all athletes to be considered eligible for competition.

Boeckenstedt wrote a report where the details of how this change in policy will affect the university, and he is working with Feser to highlight the benefits of the testoptional approach.

“We are seeking the Faculty Senate’s approval on the concept, and if we get the approval, we will work out the details of the policy and the fine points, such as whether it applies to home-schooled or international students,” Boeckenstedt said in an email.

According to Boeckenstedt, if this

policy is adopted, the challenges will be primarily focused on retooling application, admissions and scholarship processes. The university will be focused on communicating the benefits to students and high school counselors of the policy change.

“That’s why we have begun this evaluation and conversation fairly early in the process,” Boeckenstedt said in an email. “To give us ample time to seek broad-based input from faculty, students and other stakeholders, and to be able to develop the approach we will use and the processes to implement such a policy change, if it is approved.”

Other universities like the University of California have already implemented the test-optional approach.

“Typically at other universities across the nation that have made such a change, the first few years of a test-optional policy result in more applications,” Boeckenstedt said via email. “The increases range from very small to considerable. We don’t have any way to project what that number or percentage of change might be for OSU, should this policy be implemented.”

All students, faculty and staff are invited to join the February Faculty Senate meeting where the testoptional approach will be discussed on Feb. 13, 2020 at 3 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center, at the Construction and Engineering Hall.

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Hill, Fujimura: ‘CIA: Connect, Inspire, and Acknowledge’

By JADE MINZLAFF ASOSU Beat Reporter

Presidential Candidate Jack Hill and Vice Presidential Candidate Gretchen Fujimura are running with the slogan, ‘CIA: Connect, Inspire and Acknowledge’. Hill and Fujimura said they hope to use modern social media platforms and student outreach to make student government more approachable to the average student at Oregon State University.

Hill and Fujimura both attended Westview High School in Portland, Ore., and said they have been friends for five years.

While in high school, Hill founded a middle school speech and debate program, which he said has given him leadership experience that he hopes to use in office.

“I started a nonprofit when I was in high school, it’s actually the only middle school speech and debate league in all of Oregon, because I was like, ‘gotta have leadership and teach kids how to speak,’” Hill said. “I founded the organization which throws tournaments and workshops in the summer and in the school year, and we give scholarships to students as far reaching as Eugene and Coos Bay [Ore.] to come and compete.”

Fujimura currently works as a shift manager at Starbucks, which she says has given her realworld experience in conflict resolution in and working with people older than herself.

One of Hill and Fujimura’s main goals is to bring the Associated Students of OSU up to date with modern social media trends in platforms like Tiktok and Snapchat, in order to better relate to the current student body.

“You’ll hear the other candidates talk about accountability and transparency, and we think a lot of that is being done by the traditional means, but we think student government needs to be more open about employing new media formats. By that I mean Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok and maybe even Youtube. We already have these accounts, but at this point they seem like these big official accounts that seem very

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JACOB L E | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Associated Students of Oregon State University Presidential Candidate Jack Hill, left, and Vice Presidential Candidate Gretchen Fujimura pose in front of the Memorial Union.

bureaucratic and people can’t relate to them,” Hill said. “We want to foster a community of social media influencers and content producers that are picked out straight from the student body, and we want to nurture their relationship with the student body at large, so we can deliver content that people want to hear and is actually helpful.”

Hill also said he hopes to partner with Orange Media Network to plan a social media education event informally known as the “Tinder Workshop,” to teach students how to better market themselves online on websites like Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and online dating services.

Through their proposed social media initiatives, Fujimura said Hill hopes to “bring clout” to ASOSU. Hill said he is hoping to lobby the Oregon State University Foundation to provide better mental health resources on campus and to decrease waiting times, as well as provide more resources for students who struggle to meet needs like transportation, or who face food or housing insecurity.

Hill and Fujimura both said they feel being

the only freshmen running for office sets them apart from their third and fourth-year competitors, as they have more time to devote to student government before they begin internships and upper-division coursework.

“As freshmen, we have a greater stake in the benefit and wealth of the school community here, because we’re going to be here for the next three to four years. We have the time to go out and build the community that we want, whereas the other presidential candidates, dare I say, wouldn’t need to care as much,” Hill said.

Hill and Fujimura also both stressed their willingness to learn from those with more ASOSU experience if they are elected.

“For all that we might be inexperienced, we’ll rely on our network of existing ASOSU Senators and previous cabinet members, to help us fill the gap in experience. Like, Dylan Perfect could be a government relations person again,” Hill said.

Fujimura encourages students who are interested in contacting them to direct message them on Instagram at the handle: @fujimura_ hill.

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Nuñez Pérez, Rodriguez: ‘DAMunited’

By JADE MINZLAFF ASOSU Beat Reporter

Associated Students of Oregon State University, Presidential Candidate Isabel Nuñez Pérez and Vice Presidential Candidate Metzin Rodriguez are running their campaign under the name “DAMunited,” on the pillars of accountability, community advocacy and transparency, which they’ve shortened to the hashtag #ACTNow. “I’m running for president because I believe a lot in the power of ASOSU, but I also believe there’s a lot that needs to change about ASOSU regarding transparency, community advocacy and how we speak to students, especially how we function with regard to the administration,” Nuñez Pérez said.

Nuñez Pérez is from Healdsburg, Calif. and works for Community Engagement and Leadership, who helps organize days of service and community aid events on or near campus. She is also a member of 3-D, a dance group for women of color at OSU. Rodriguez went to Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Ore., where she participated in cross country, where she said she was inspired by her coach to “add legacy to everything you do.” Rodriguez worked as an intern in the Senate in Washington D.C. last summer, where she said she gained experience in the political process. She is also an ambassador for the College of Agricultural Science at OSU.

According to Nuñez Pérez and Rodriguez, their campaign hopes to make students of all cultures and backgrounds feel safe on campus, and they’ve visited student organizations including Here to Stay, an organization that seeks to protect immigrant youth, Alpha Epsilon Pi, a traditionally Jewish fraternity, the Black Student Union, Waste Watchers, and both democratic and republican student clubs, among others.

“One of the reasons I’m running for ASOSU vice president is because I would like to have more student voices at the table from different backgrounds and experiences, because I believe that each experience is unique. Some students for example can be from different cultures, different organizations and clubs, and they are all really valuable because we are in college for so long and we would like to create a platform for them to grow wherever they need to, and provide them the resources they need,” Rodriguez said.

One of Nuñez Pérez’s primary goals in this campaign is to increase communication and advocacy between student-athletes on campus and ASOSU, a cause she said she became interested in after her experience as a senator during the student fee-setting process earlier this year, when a fee-decrease towards Athletics was proposed.

“I’m most concerned at OSU about the culture of Athletics, how students view Athletics and how especially athletics students don’t

JACOB LE | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Associated Students of Oregon State University Presidential Candidate Isabel Nuñez Pérez, left, and Vice Presidential Candidate Metzin Rodriguez make up one of three presidential tickets in the 2020 election.

feel connected with ASOSU,” Nuñez Pérez said.

“Part of our community advocacy platform is building stronger connections and relationships with student-athletes and the department as a whole, because it’s so important, and because they’re such a disenfranchised group that’s so removed. Everyone wants to see student-athletes but not a lot of them get to talk to them, and in the conversations I’ve had with student-athletes they feel very removed from the general student body,” Nuñez Pérez said.

Both Nuñez Pérez and Rodriguez are senators with experience in working on legislative initiatives and organizing lobby days, and both said they hope to see more students involved in

the collegiate government process.

“It’s important to get different people and different groups of people involved in student government to try to change the culture,” Nuñez Pérez said. “Our platform is community based, it’s by students, for students, so we like to say that when we’re in office, you’re in office.

Communication doesn’t end at campaigning for the election, the communication’s going to keep going forward, we’re going to be visible for the students, and we’re going to try our best to maintain that communication and build strong relationships with the student groups that we’ve already come in contact with and the student groups that we will be in contact with.”

Perfect, Warren: ‘Your Voice Matters’

By JADE MINZLAFF ASOSU Beat Reporter

Presidential Candidate Dylan Perfect and Vice Presidential Candidate Emily Warren are campaigning under the slogan “Your Voice Matters,” on the pillars of accountability, transparency and representation.

“We’re running for student body president and vice president because we really want to fight for the issues that matter to students, and to make sure that every student is part of the conversation. That’s why our campaign slogan is ‘Your voice matters’: We want to put students first, and we have the experience to show that we’ve been doing just that,” Perfect said.

According to Warren, the ticket has “five years of collective experience in collegiate student government.”

As senators, Perfect and Warren have both been advocates for increased student accessibility to the Associated Students of Oregon State University through the organization of advocacy days for students, and their and involvement in the archiving committee, which makes information on ASOSU meetings accessible to the public online.

Perfect said that as senators, they sought to increase wellness for students. “As ASOSU senators, and also for me as the current coordinator of Government Relations for ASOSU, we’ve

fought not only on the level of the university, but also on the state and federal level for policies ranging from medical amnesty and reporting amnesty regarding drug and alcohol overdoses on campus, to our advocacy on climate policy,” Perfect said.

Additionally, one of their primary causes is lowering the cost of tuition to make college more affordable to students. “Our ticket in particular, wants to take this a step further by advocating for state investment in tuition-free public education past the K-12 level, because, when we’re looking at the cost of an in-state education going beyond six figures, quite frankly, that’s unacceptable, and it creates a real equity issue in terms of the affordability and accessibility of higher education. We want to remedy that and we think that ASOSU is in a unique position to do that,” Perfect said.

Dylan was born and raised in Albany, Ore., where he’s “always been a beaver.” If elected, he said he also hopes to improve outreach between Oregon State students on the Cascades and Portland, Ore. satellite campuses.

Warren is a first-generation college student who transferred from Umpqua Community College, which is where she said she first “fell in love with student government.”

“At that campus there’s a lot of non-traditional students and student parents, and I saw how critical those services [e.g. family resource programs] are for making sure that students

JACOB LE | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Dylan Perfect, left, and Emily Warren are running for Associated Students of Oregon State University president and vice president, respectively.

have what they need to be successful. That’s why I’m still an advocate for underrepresented communities here at OSU,” Warren said.

If elected, Perfect and Warren have said that they hope to create significant changes within the university.

“Our goal is to put forward the most progressive platform of any ticket in the race, focusing on the issues that really matter to students.

And we believe that by putting students in key leadership positions, whether it’s on the faculty senate or within our own organization, maximizing representation is really how we get that

done. That’s really the core of our campaign,” Perfect said.

Warren encouraged students to contact them with issues they’re passionate about.

“If there’s any issue they want to make sure that we’re an advocate for, or to make sure that we’re already one, then they should reach out to us,” Warren said.

Perfect and Warren can be reached through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under the name “your voice matters OSU,” or through their website, https://www.yourvoicemattersosu.com/.

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Climate alliance aims to push policy, coordinate Earth Month

By MAX HATALA News Contributor

Spearheading a city-wide effort to spread climate awareness, the Corvallis Climate Action Alliance has declared the month of April to be ‘Earth Month,’ commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Earth Day. The CCAA was formed in June 2019 in order to organize local environmental groups like the Corvallis chapter of the Sunrise Movement, the Corvallis High School Green Club and the Pacific Green Party for the September 2019 Global Climate Strike. While many of these groups planned and hosted events, there wasn’t a sense of cohesion between the units.

“Strike week, people were talking about bringing a resolution to City Council that we were in a climate emergency…as they were getting started, it came to their attention that the League of Women Voters has already done that,” says Jean Womack, a member of the CCAA Outreach Committee. “It became very apparent that we need to be talking to each other.”

Womack originally thought of the Earth Month concept last year, under the belief that devoting just a day to the planet isn’t enough, and having events in such close proximity to each other burns activists out. Over 10 events took place during the week of the Global Climate Strike, and many members could only attend one or two.

Over 15 organizations in Corvallis are currently working with the CCAA. These organizations still operate independently, with representatives often attending weekly

CYAN P E RRY | ORAN GE MED I A NETWORK This illustration shows Corvallis’ Climate Action Plan next to Earth. The month of April has been

declared ‘Earth Month’ by the Corvallis Climate Action Alliance.

CCAA meetings. The presence of the alliance aims to boost the publicity and support for individual interest groups, rather than acting as a governing body.

“We figured what we could do is collaborative publicity, and cooperate around what [events] other people are already doing and ask, ‘what can we do to enhance and augment the publicity around them?’ and in that way, make it feel like a bigger deal. It’s not these isolated, little separate activities, it’s more of a big, coordinated push,” Womack said.

The alliance has outlined four primary goals.

The first two are to get the City of Corvallis to implement its Climate Action Plan and to undertake an emergency-level response. The last two are to promote climate legislation at the state level and educate public audiences about the climate crisis.

Over 500 Corvallis residents were present at the Sept. Climate Strike. With around 15 events currently planned for April, CCAA members hope Earth Month will further galvanize the community’s interest towards climate action.

“[Earth Month is] what really got my attention in the beginning…I remember Earth Day, I was part of organizing it on my campus 50 years ago,” said Carl English-Young, a member of the CCAA Steering and Publicity Committee.

Primarily comprised of Corvallis community members, the organization is still looking for opportunities to connect with Oregon State University students. There are currently plans to get OSU students more involved with city climate policy but these plans haven’t been implemented as of yet. Jillian Gregg, an OSU climate change professor and OSU liaison for the CCAA, says that the best way for students to get involved is through the local Sunrise chapter.

“The Corvallis Hub of the Sunrise Movement and the Corvallis and Crescent Valley High School green clubs were instrumental partners that made the CCAA a success last summer. It is essential that the CCAA has young voices as part of this group, as they provide the motivation for action,” Gregg said.

Members said they feel that building a connection with OSU students is going to be essential in pushing climate policy for the city. There’s also a sense that serious progress is being made towards increasing student involvement. According to Womack, over 250 students participated in the Sept. 27 strike, while previous climate events had rarely eclipsed 60 student participants.

“It was a big relief. A big sense of making headway. Students want to do stuff, it’s just what do you do?” Womack said. “I’ve kept seeing this statistic over and over again. If you can get 3.5% of the population in the streets, you will get it.”

Award-winning research developed by OSU research associate uses technology to combat wildfires

By JADA KRENING News Correspondent

New digital tools, computer mapping and research from Oregon State University aims to mitigate and manage wildfires, as well as prepare for a future of intense climate-changeinduced fire seasons, according to Chris Dunn, a research associate in the College of Forestry.

Dunn’s recently published article, “Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality,” highlights the technology created by Dunn and his colleagues. On Feb. 6, Dunn received the “Dean’s Award for Special Service to the College of Forestry” for his research and its part in Governor Kate Brown’s Wildlife Council efforts to update and improve fire management policies and procedures in Oregon.

Dunn’s technology consists of three parts: a qualitative wildfire risk assessment, which uses a fire simulator and rating of the intensities of fires to assess burn probability; the suppression difficulty index, which refers to the ratio of potential fire behavior against the ability of a firefighter to access the landscape; and the potential control location atlas, which analyzes and incorporates data from the areas and samples where fire managers have successfully contained large fires.

“Large fires are here to stay, and we have a choice in what the outcome of those fires are.

This information fundamentally informs that choice, and then it’s up to us as a society to then

choose the path we want to go forward with,” Dunn said. “But, without these tools, there’s a lack of information and continuity to make good decisions.”

Jim Johnson, the senior associate dean of the OSU College of Forestry, program leader for the Forestry and Natural Resources and Extension Program and the head of the Department of Forest Engineering and Resources Management, said Dunn’s work is key in developing management strategies to analyze communities and what surrounds them— including natural fire breaks, like highways, railroads and rivers—in order to effectively reduce fire risks.

Historically, firefighting decisions have been based on the intuition and experiential knowledge of fire managers. Dunn said this is part of firefighting culture, but results in a lack of information to the public. In contrast, Dunn’s technology allows for a new decision support framework that is more analytically driven, and strives to make this information available to communities and organizations so the public can understand how firefighters are engaging with the fires that threaten their towns.

John Bailey, a professor of silviculture and fire management in the OSU College of Forestry, is Dunn’s supervisor. Bailey said Dunn’s work is “on the cutting edge” of fire management research in the United States and beyond.

Dunn himself said he hopes to eventually take the technology internationally.

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MONTANA MURPHY | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Postdoctoral Research Associate Christopher Dunn, right, shakes hands with Interim Dean for the College of Forestry, Anthony S. Davis as he receives the Dean’s Award for “Special Service to the College of Forestry.” Dunn received this award for his efforts with Governor Kate Brown’s Wildfire Council to update and improve fire management policies and procedures at OSU.

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ANA PEAR SE | ORAN GE ME DIA N E TWORK OSU senior Maela Lazaro competes a back layout on beam as the second part of her back handspring, back layout acro series during the third rotation of the OSU vs. ASU vs. LSU tri-meet at Gill Coliseum, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Lazaro matched her personal career-high on beam with a 9.925, and OSU left the rotation tying their season-high team beam score with a 49.375.

OSU Gymnastics falls short, focuses on support, communication

By ANDRES DE LOS SANTOS Sports Contributor

The No. 22 Oregon State Women’s Gymnastics team held a tri-meet in Corvallis against the No. 30 Arizona State Sun Devils and the No. 9 LSU Tigers on Feb. 8. More than 2,800 people filled Gill Coliseum to cheer for the Beavers.

The LSU Tigers won the meet in the end, scoring 196.775 points throughout the four events. The Beavers finished in second place, following closely behind with 196.700 points.

The Sun Devils finished in third place with a score of 195.600 points.

OSU interim head coach coach Michael Chaplin, who is filling in for wife and head gymnastics coach Tanya Chaplin while she is on medical leave, had a positive outlook on his team’s performance.

“I think we’re continuing to get better and better. I think there were some trouble spots today, but they didn’t let it hurt them,” Chaplin said. “They bounced back and recovered from that, and that’s a good sign. They’re fighting, and if they continue to fight, and continue to work on the little things we have to cleanup, then they’re going to really be able to finish this season strong.”

Chaplin also talked about how the team fed off of each other’s energy and how that makes the team successful.

“They’ve learned that where they get their energy is from their teammates, so even when we’re away, they feed off each other, and that’s one of the secrets to the success of this team,” Chaplin said. “They know they can really feed off each other for what they need to do.”

OSU junior Savannah Force, who scored a 9.900 on her floor routine, said her team’s training and practice has led them to the success that the team is having.

“I think we’ve really just set ourselves up pretty well, especially in the preseason. We did so much cardio and endurance training,” Force said. “And also the lineup is just super comfortable with each other and in ourselves because we’ve been going the extra mile in practices to make sure the extra passes we need, or setting up extra drills.”

Force also said the team’s dynamics help with their communication and support.

“We all just have an honest and open relationship with each other, and so we’re able to hold each other accountable when we need to do an extra one here or there. And I think that’s been translating well, because it’s just like practice and we’re able to just have fun,” Force said.

OSU sophomore Kristina Peterson, who scored a 9.750 on vault and a 9.850 on floor routine, also said about how the team’s bond is an essential aspect.

“We tell each other we’re family, we’re sisters.

This is the thing about our gym, we go out there to compete and have fun, and our coaches are our parents. We treat them the way we want to be treated, so we always treat each other with kindness and love and passion, and I think that shows throughout season,” Peterson said.

Peterson said head coach Tanya is “like a mom to us” and that the team is dedicating their successes to her, especially in her leave of absence.

“We told ourselves that it doesn’t matter what team we’re competing against, we’re competing against the nation,” Peterson said. “That’s our biggest thing. Everyday we compete, we’re not competing against two teams, we’re competing against the nation. Because that’s our goal. We want to be the best in the nation.”

The Beavers are back at Gill Coliseum on Feb. 29 where they will face the UCLA Bruins in their annual Dam Worth It meet.

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Beavers’ last-second shot douses Sun Devils

OSU Women’s Basketball defeats No. 19 ASU, tight battle goes in their favor

By ANDRES DE LOS SANTOS Sports Contributor Over 5,700 people in attendance erupted in roars and cheers when the shot was made.

The buzzer beater shot, made

by Oregon State senior guard Mikayla Pivec, came from an inbounds play with 0.4 seconds left in regulation play and took several bounces on the rim while the crowd held its breath, waiting for it to fill through the net.

On Jan. 12, the Arizona State Sun Devils Women’s Basketball team upset the Oregon State Beavers, ranked No. 3 in the nation at the time, in Tempe, Ariz. by a score of 55-47. With revenge on their minds, the No. 9 Beavers bested the No. 19 Sun Devils during the rematch in Corvallis, Ore. on Feb. 7 by a score of 64-62.

The Beavers are now 19-4 on the season and 7-4 in conference play. The Sun Devils are now 16-7 on the season and 6-5 in conference play.

The victory was Oregon State’s first against Arizona State in a little under two years. The last time the Beavers defeated the Sun Devils was on Feb. 25, 2018 with a score of 64-60.

“It’s a nice feeling, it’s been way too long,” Pivec said. “It’s a great way to end the game with a lot of people down the stretch making big plays, and that’s the way it should be for us.”

OSU Head Coach Scott

Rueck showed a tremendous amount of respect towards the Sun Devil team for the fight that they put up.

“They made us work for everything, so it took a big effort to beat them,” Rueck said. “That’s the thing about their team. They typically never beat themselves, you have to beat them. You got to give them a ton of credit for hitting huge shots, and also a ton of credit for executing, getting the stops that we needed, but most importantly scoring.”

During the first quarter of the game, OSU freshman forward Kennedy Brown suffered a knee injury and was unable to play for the rest of the game.

“It was hard to see Kennedy go down, we hope she’s okay, but this team rallied,” Rucek said. “It was something we’ve practiced.”

OSU junior guard Destiny Slocum gave praise to her teammate, junior guard Aleah Goodman, for keeping the Beavers in the game, even when they were down. Goodman made 14 points during the game, backed with four 3-pointers.

“I think we talked a lot about toughness. And that’s one thing. We weren’t gonna get out toughed this game, and we’re not gonna for the rest of the year. That’s our goal,” Slocum said. “Aleah was huge for us.

She was tougher, she was hitting great shots, stepped up and gave us confidence for the rest of the game, and I think everyone really rode that, so she was huge

when she went on that run.”

OSU senior guard Kat Tudor also gave praise to her teammate, senior forward Maddie Washington, for her pass that would help up to tie the game at 62 points a piece. The pass occured when the Beavers were down by two points with only two seconds left in the fourthquarter.

“Maddie’s pass was literally perfect, that made the whole play. From the inbound to Maddie, to Maddie to me, they set it up,” Tudor said.

“Everything that set that up just made the play.”

But ultimately in the end, Rueck said that this win wouldn’t be possible without the help of Beaver Nation.

“I can’t give enough credit for this team for the heart they showed, and for Beaver Nation for having our back like they always do,” Rueck said. “Tonight is a night that nobody will ever forget for lots of reasons.”

With players supporting each others’ successes in the game and Beaver Nation’s support for the team, the Beavers walked away from the win and beyond their post-game eight minute mingle with the feeling of family.

The Beavers faced the No. 12 Arizona Wildcats in Gill Coliseum on Jan. 9 in their annual Dam Cancer game. They will then travel south to face the Southern California Trojans and the UCLA Bruins.

ANA PEARSE | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK TOP: Gill Coliseum was unlike any other after Pivec’s ball toppled off the rim and went into the basket, bringing an end to the dramatic matchup between OSU and ASU with a score of 64-62 on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.

BOTTOM LEFT: With just under 10 seconds left in the game, OSU junior guard Destiny Slocum (#24) shoots two-pointer against defender ASU senior guard Reili Richardson (#1).

BOTTOM RIGHT: In a buzzer-beater at the end of the game, OSU senior guard Mikayla Pivec (#0) shoots two-pointer against ASU defendants, sophomore guard/forward Iris Mbulito (#23) and senior guard Robbi Ryan (#11).

Oregon State sweethearts’ road to engagement

Former student-athletes began relationship after Daily Barometer survey

By BRADY AKINS Sports Contributor Katelyn Ohlrich has not accomplished what she has by taking the easy route. Whether in the classroom, balance beam or now in her professional career, Olrich’s journey has been defined by her determination and persistent work ethic.

From an early age, the makings of Ohlrich’s persistence began to show itself through sports and through her studies. Alongside graduating high school with a 4.0 grade point average, the student-athlete made her mark in gymnastics by qualifying for the Junior Olympic Nationals three times as a prep athlete and winning a state title in bars, beam, floor, vault and all-around in the 2011 Oregon State Championships.

When it came time to take the next step

into college, Ohlrich picked up where she left off in high school as a student-athlete. Born in Bend, Ore., she decided to stay local and enroll at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

As a student, Ohlrich pursued a degree in mechanical engineering and earned three PAC12 All-Academic Second Team honors in her four years as a Beaver.

As an athlete, Ohlrich competed in 34 meets and earned the respect of the Beavers’ assistant gymnastics coach Brian Amato along the way, who commended the work ethic that had got her to Oregon State to begin with.

“She worked harder than anyone I think we have had in the last few years,” Amato said.

“She was determined. Worked hard, always had a good attitude, always had a smile on her face.”

See SWEETHEARTS, Page 10

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COURTESY OF KATELYN OHLRICH Brian Engdahl proposes to Katelyn Ohlrich. The couple has been together since Valentine’s Day in 2013 when the two were student-athletes together at OSU. The pair hiked to the summit of South Sister Mountain in Bend, Ore. with a group of friends before Engdahl surprised Ohlrich with the engagement.

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J AC OB LAG MAY | ORAN GE ME DIA N E TWORK OSU junior guard Sean Miller-Moore (#1) goes up for a shot against Oregon defender in freshman forward C.J. Walker (#14).

Beavers win three in a row over Ducks

By ZACHARY HARRIS Sports Contributor

The Oregon State Men’s Basketball team has won their last three games against Oregon.

After a close loss by the hands of the California Golden Bears on Feb. 1 in Berkeley, Calif,, the Beavers looked to bounce back against the No. 14 Ducks on Feb. 8 at Gill Coliseum. Oregon State secured a major upset at home by beating Oregon with a score of 6353.

The win is the Beavers’ second top 25 upset for the season. The Beavers also defeated the No. 24 Arizona Wildcats at home on Jan. 12 in Gill Coliseum. They also secured a road upset at the Stanford Cardinal on Jan. 30. OSU now has a season record of 14-9 with a conference record of 4-7.

From the opening tip in front of a full Gill Coliseum, the crowd was loud and on their feet in the first of two Civil War matchups on the season.

“There was a lot of energy going into this game,” OSU junior forward Ethan Thompson said “[The] crowd was there showing a lot of support… it was energy and it went our way.”

Thompson finished the game with a team high 15 points on 5-12 shooting.

Through the first ten minutes of play, Oregon State led the Ducks 16-15. The game was close throughout, with nine ties and 12 lead changes.

Oregon finished the first half on a 7-0 scoring run, giving the Ducks the lead by a score of 2832.

Oregon came out of halftime ahead of the Beavers, pushing their lead to ten points.

Oregon State had to slowly chip away at the double digit deficit.

“We just didn’t panic, stayed tough, played defense, locked in, and stayed disciplined,” OSU junior guard Zach Reichle said about Oregon State’s second half defense. Reichle scored 11 points, connecting on 3-5 three-point

shots.

After the Ducks shot 50% from the field in the first half, the Beavers limited Oregon to just 31% in the second half. Oregon senior guard Payton Pritchard was held to 16 points, shooting 7-21. “[I] was really impressed with our toughness, especially the last 10 minutes,” OSU head coach Wayne Tinkle said. “Defensively on the glass, our guys showed great character.”

On the other side of the court, Oregon State was able to break down the Ducks’ zone defense for shots close to the rim. OSU senior forward Kylor Kelley threw down an alley-oop dunk to tie the game at 42 with 11 minutes remaining.

Kelley finished the game with 14 points and two blocks.

OSU senior forward Tres Tinkle struggled offensively, ending the game with 13 points while shooting 4-13. Despite these offensive struggles, Tinkle contributed by securing six rebounds, five assists and three steals.

With just over a minute left of play and the Beavers up by two, Reichle hit a three-pointer to put the nail in the coffin. With Oregon State leading 55-50, the Ducks were forced to foul to get the ball back. In the last three minutes, the Beavers went 9-9 from the free throw line and were 92% for the game.

“I think tonight’s game is going to go a long way with our guys really buying in to having each other’s back, holding each other accountable and believing.” Wayne Tinkle said.

The Beavers look to continue this momentum at home versus Utah on Feb. 13, but the Civil War rivalry will continue later in the season. As the Beavers have carried over two wins from the 2018-19 season, the upset over the No. 14 Ducks sets the stage for a potential gain to a four-game win streak in the rivalry.

Oregon State will travel to Oregon on Feb. 27 for the final Men’s Basketball Civil War matchup for the season with a 8 p.m. tipoff.

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SWEETHEARTS, Continued from Page 8

Having graduated from Oregon State in 2015, Ohlrich has not let up on her work ethic. She now lives and works in Portland, Ore. as an engineer for Daimler Trucks North America, and is recently engaged with plans to get married in August 2021.

Brian Engdahl has known what he’s wanted to do with his life since he was 16, and much like Ohlrich, he never took the easy way out on his journey there.

That journey began years ago in Engdahl’s hometown of Livermore, Calif., where he attended Granada High School and found success as a wrestler in his early student-athlete career.

Engdahl started on the wrestling team in his final three years in high school, but had been a part of the team since his freshman year, and lettered as a wrestler in all four years.

In his junior and senior years though, his high school accolades began to show as his work ethic continued to impress. In his final two years in high school, he won team MVP twice, qualified for state twice, and was a North Coast Section Champion during his senior year in 2010.

Much like he did in high school, Engdahl found a home as a studentathlete when he came to Oregon State to continue his wrestling career and earn degrees in both fermentation science and business.

And much like he did in high school, Engdahl continued to impress people within the athletics program with his work ethic. Among those people was Amato, who used to wrestle himself and came to respect Engdahl over his years as a Beaver.

“Brian, like Kate [Ohlrich], is a very good person [and] really hardworking,” Amato said. “He worked hard and took advantage of his opportunities.”

Now having graduated and obtaining two degrees, Engdahl is looking to use that opportunity to achieve his years long dream of opening up his own brewery. While taking the time to chase his dream, Engdahl has also found the time to get engaged. He will be planning on getting married in August 2021, to Katelyn Ohlrich.

The two former student-athletes took similar paths to get to Oregon State, where those paths crossed and remained joined at the hip seven years later. The two hard-working, successful Beaver athletes will be taking the next step of their lives together.

Given their similar backgrounds and mindsets, the relationship between Ohlrich and Engdahl felt obvious. But despite their friends and teammates seeing their connection, the recently engaged couple remained friends and did not consider dating for a long time, until a push from The Daily Barometer

COURTE SY OF KATELYN OHLRICH TOP: Ohlrich and Brian Engdahl celebrate at the end of a hike with her over his shoulders. The pair hiked to the top of Mount Adams in Washington and enjoy summiting mountains.

BOTTOM LEFT: Couple Brian Engdahl and Katelyn Ohlrich enjoy a beer together after becoming engaged at the top of South Sister Mountain in Bend, Ore. BOTTOM RIGHT: Katelyn Ohlrich and Brian Engdahl pose during family photos at Mount Hood in Oregon. Their wedding is set for August 2021.

nudged them in the direction they find themselves now.

In 2013, Engdahl and Ohlrich were voted by their teammates in a Valentine’s Day issue of The Daily Barometer as two people that should “stop talking and start dating,” which both members acknowledge as the official beginning to their eventual relationship.

“It’s kind of a funny story we tell all the time,” Engdahl said. “Our anniversary of dating is on Valentine’s Day. Which is super cliche, and everybody makes fun of us for it. We both tell the story of how we saw it in the paper and we were just like ‘Why aren’t we dating? Why are we just talking?’ And that day we just said we were dating and we went to dinner.”

If not for their involvement in the newspaper, Ohlrich and Engdahl may never have taken the step in their relationship from friends to romance.

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For as much as she enjoyed her friendship with him, Ohlrich recalls not ever thinking about Engdahl and the time they spent together romantically until their names came up in the Barometer.

“It was a lot of group hang out sessions where we became friends first and then he slowly started asking me out to ice cream or sushi or different things,” Ohlrich said about her early friendship with Engdahl. “I was very naive to begin with, I thought he wanted to be closer friends… and so I didn’t hang out with him as much. I was like ‘Oh he wants to get to know me better that’s cool’... we were both kind of nervous about making it [our relationship] official until that article came out on Valentine’s Day.” Now, seven years later, Ohlrich and Engdahl are still together. The two have been in each other’s lives as

they have continued to see their hard work pay off as their dreams start to take shape. For the former wrestler, those dreams have taken the form of his own brewery, which he’s currently working on building from the ground up.

Engdahl’s degrees were earned with that goal in mind, and his previous work experience working at Widmer Brothers Brewery and helping start another brewery in Portland has helped him get to the point where he’s ready to take the step to start a brewery on his own.

The work of starting his business, which he describes as “fun, exciting and stressful” is done with a great deal of passion on Engdahl’s part. For as tough as it is, he’s excited to begin his new adventure and believes his status as a former athlete will help him with this new chapter.

“Something that I learned in a

leadership way from athletics is people really don’t follow you if you’re not willing to show that you will do the work with them,” Engdahl said. “Anybody that I hire will know that I got down and dirty and I built this thing from the ground up.”

Ohlrich is no stranger to leadership herself, being a team captain on the Oregon State gymnastics team in her junior and senior seasons. And like Engdahl, she is using her experience in athletics and leadership to propel her career, joining an accelerated leadership program through Daimler Trucks.

“Having that experience [athletics], as well as knowing how to work on a team, really helped set me up for this role,” Ohlrich said. “The idea is when I get out of this 18-month program I’ll go in as a technical manager, which at my age would be pretty young.”

Both Engdahl and Ohlrich credit athletics in part for their career success, while also giving credit to sports for the success of their relationship. Ohlrich talks about how sports, and gymnastics and wrestling in particular, helped the two athletes understand each other a little bit better.

“We’ve talked about this a lot, I don’t think our relationship would have worked very well in college if we weren’t both athletes,” Ohlrich said.

“Gymnastics and wrestling are very similar in the sense that as you’re growing up, before you get to college, they’re very individual sports… The spotlight’s kind of on you. If you mess up, people can tell that you messed up. So I think we bonded a lot over that when we either succeeded or failed, we could understand each other’s emotions.”

For as hard as they have worked at each stop in their lives, Ohlrich and Engdahl’s relationship has been made easier due to their status as student-athletes. And with their paths crossing back in their college days, all it took is a little push from the Barometer to link their lives forever.

Use Snapchat or a QR code scanner to access the past issue of the Daily Barometer that featured the couple in their student-athlete survey in February 2013.

CRIME

Corvallis Police log: Jan. 31-Feb. 3

By MICHAEL EUBANKS Crime Beat Reporter Jan. 31 Criminal Trespass 2 Officers responded to a call of a disorderly male customer at a downtown hotel. The male was in the hotel lobby when officers arrived and was visibly intoxicated and stumbling around.

An employee told an officer that the male became belligerent at the front desk when she wouldn’t order food for him, calling her derogatory names.

The employee said the male then walked over to a snack area and opened a bag of crackers, which he paid for, and began throwing them around. The employee asked the police to trespass the male from the property.

The male removed his items from the property and an officer completed a trespass notice. The officer then handed it to the male and explained it to him. The male was allowed to stay in his vehicle in the parking garage until he sobered up. The officer provided the employee with a copy of the trespass notice.

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An officer was dispatched to a report of a trespasser at a student housing building in Southwest Corvallis. Upon arrival, he witnessed a male climb out of a window with items from a construction site in his hands.

The male was arrested for Criminal Trespass 2 and taken to the Benton County Jail. He was also re-cited for a previous offense.

A male came into the police station to try to register as a sex offender, at which time he learned he was outside of his restrictions.

The male was arrested on a charge of Failure to Report as a Sex Offender and given a court date to appear in the Benton County Circuit Court.

An officer responded to a call at an apartment complex in Northwest Corvallis for a report of harassment. The officer contacted a resident, who said his neighbor has been leaving notes on his door for two years.

The resident said that he had been patient because he knows his neighbor has mental health issues, but he had told her multiple times not to come to his apartment. He stated that he called his landlord, who advised him to have her officially trespassed from the property.

The resident showed the officer a container of croissants his neighbor left with an envelope that said “thank you”. Inside the envelope was a letter documenting a number of grievances the neighbor had with the resident, and stated that she was going to call the police on him.

The officer contacted the neighbor and said that the resident did not want her to come to his apartment, and then told her that if she had an issue with her neighbor, she needs to contact their landlord. The officer then issued a trespass notice and explained it to her.

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City Council to vote again to direct funds toward pedestrian, cyclist safety after lack of consensus

By WILLIAM ROSS News Contributor

On Feb. 18, Corvallis city councilors will come to a final vote on an amendment directing at least 1% of the Transportation Maintenance Fee for pedestrian and bike safety, which would total between $24,000-26,000.

The amendment was put to an initial vote and supported by a majority of the City Council on Feb. 3, with seven councilors voting yes to pass the amendment, one voting no and one absence.

Because the vote was not unanimous, the amendment must be voted on again at the Feb. 18 City Council meeting. To pass the amendment and put it into effect, a majority of council members must vote yes on the second vote, according to City Public Information Officer Patrick Rollens.

Allowing amendment of the Transportation

Maintenance Fee to go towards safety became a topic for the council after the death of an 11-year-old at a crosswalk on Highway 99/Third Street last month.

Since the accident, speed radar signs have been installed to inform drivers when they are going above the speed limit and signs to slow down have been placed on the highway warning people of the crosswalk ahead.

Jan Napack—who has been the councilor for Ward 1 since Jan. 2019—voted against the amendment being added to the Transportation Maintenance Fee. According to Napack, the reason she voted no was because the city created the Transportation Maintenance Fee to act as maintenance for the upkeep of Corvallis sidewalks and roads.

“If you read the ordinance, it’s explicit. It’s (Transportation Maintenance Fee) only to be used for particular things, like resurfacing… street reconstruction,” Napack said.

Napack said amending the Transportation Maintenance Fee to direct funds for safety projects violates the public trust.

“If you were to pass a fee for x, then later on you want to add y… it’s not a clean way of doing it, it’s what I call a slippery slope,” Napack said.

Ward 4 Councilor Barbra Bull has been in support of the amendment to the Transportation Maintenance Fee, and believes it is likely to pass on the second vote.

“Some people think this is the wrong revenue stream. I was willing to have a conversation about using other revenues, but the suggestion was we couldn’t do that until June. Rather than wait until then, I thought we should go ahead and do this for now,” Bull said.

The council will have a larger discussion in June on how to spend the transportation money, according to Bull.

Napack said she is still in favor of providing Corvallis bikers and pedestrians with safer

streets. Lights, speed bumps and raising of the sidewalks are things she is in favor of.

“Maintenance is maintenance, improvements are improvements,” Napack said.

Even with the support shown for the amendment at the last meeting, there remains a chance the ordinance could swing no.

Rollens said if the amendment doesn’t go through next meeting the ordinance will go away, meaning city council would have to come up with a new way to pay for pedestrian and bicycle safety.

“It’s certainly possible that through their normal maintenance activities [provided by the Transportation Maintenance Fee] that the normal public works department will tackle projects that have an impact on bike and pedestrian safety,” Rollens said. “With or without the [amendment] in place it’s certainly possible that we will continue to do that work.”

Corvallis Empowerment Grant applications open

By TOSCA RUOTOLO News Contributor The Corvallis Empowerment Grant program is open for applications until March 1.

It offers a total of $10,000 of funds to allot to the projects that, according to the City of Corvallis website, “help individuals and organizations work together to accomplish common goals that support the overall health, vitality and inclusivity of the place they call ‘home’”.

The two projects funded each year are categorized as a Neighborhood Empowerment Grant and a Community Empowerment Grant. Neighborhood grants usually focus on a specific geographic area, while community grants focus on the Corvallis community as a whole. Each grant is usually given $200-$600, and there is a wide range of projects that the winners can complete, according to a City of Corvallis packet.

Past Neighborhood Empowerment Grants include the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center, which used the funds to host a neighborhood block party and connect the CMLC with the Oregon State University community, according to a grant program packet. Along with this, the grant has funded public clean-ups and landscaping in places like the Grand Oaks Neighborhood and the Woodland Meadows Neighborhood.

One past Community Empowerment Grant was the International Moms Group, which gave international presentations, children’s play spaces, community engagement programs and educational opportunities to the mothers in the group.

A group of possible applicants for this year’s grants attended a workshop on Feb. 5. They gathered to brainstorm their ideas and to gather tips for applying.

Mark Files, a retired citizen scientist, was an attendee at the workshop. Files wants to obtain funding for a rainwater study.

“This is very specific to the work we’re doing,” Files said. “By being here today we’re getting the kind of support the city wants us to have.”

Corvallis Public Information Officer Patrick Rollens noted that the board—which reviews grant applications—would love to see student applicants.

“They have access to this program, and if they have a great idea for their campus community, we’d like to hear from them,” Rollens said. “And if it’s a project worth funding, they can get some money for it.”

Rollens said that great ideas can come from anywhere, and if students are interested, the Empowerment Grants Program can be an amazing opportunity to see their projects come to fruition.

“The most exciting thing about this grant program for the last three years has been just how far a little bit of cash can go,” Rollens said.

“A lot of these projects only exist in someone’s notebook or in someone’s head, and it just takes a couple hundred bucks to get it moving.”

Tracy Oulman, the city housing and neighborhood coordinator who acts as a liaison between the applicants and the board, also said that it is very important for OSU students to apply for grant funding.

“I think if a student is walking around and they see an idea, or they have said, ‘oh, I wish this was here’ or ‘wouldn’t it be cool if’ or seen an opportunity to be a partner with someone off campus, but maybe don’t have a reason to do it and they need one, this money is exactly the kind of tool you could use to put those ideas into motion,” Oulman said. “We’d love to see ideas come from students. The more the merrier.”

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COOPER BASKI NS | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Corvallis Housing and Neighborhood Coordinator Tracy Oulman, center, explaining to community members like Mark Files, right, the benefits of applying for Empowerment Grants.

Use Snapchat or a QR code scanner to access the Corvallis Empowerment Grant program application page.

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Volunteers assist with clothing repair at a past Repair Fair. Repair Fairs are sponsored by the Oregon State University student group Waste Watchers.

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Daarstad: Reduce waste to save our throw-away society

By HALEY DAARSTAD Columnist

Reducing waste is a critical component in creating a more sustainable future.

Waste is a dilemma with regards to the environment and health. From impacting climate change and causing health problems, it’s an issue that needs to be tackled.

America has become a throw-away society.

A throw-away society is considered a society that has become influenced by consumerism and overconsumption.

While the U.S. is home to only 4% of the world’s population, it produces more than 30% of the planet’s total waste. In 2017 alone, over 267.8 million tons of municipal solid waste and trash, was generated by the U.S., and the majority of the waste produced was sent to a landfill.

The Environmental Protection Agency found that landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emission. Compared to carbon dioxide, methane is about 68 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and contributes to climate change.

Landfills have been proven to release harmful gases that have been linked to serious health problems and birth defects. All landfills that have been created are expected to leak at some point which will result in an emission of toxic chemicals from the waste into soil and water.

These leakages could impact drinking water and crops.

Americans need to take a second look at the amount of waste that they produce because it’s a major issue. Most people are oblivious to the issues because they can’t see it or are not affected by it. The trash is put in a container and is shipped off to a landfill never to be seen again.

It’s becoming a more prominent complication with talks about how to create a more sustainable future.

It’s time people realize that this overconsumption is causing harm to our environment, and should consider becoming better waste

BRITTNE E BARRY | ORAN GE MED IA NETWORK Recycling Program Supervisor John Deuel leads a training at the OSUsed sale on Feb. 7, 2020.

OSUsed carries many reusable products for sale including computer equipment, furniture, office supplies, sporting goods, household items, bicycles, scientific glassware and more.

managers.

The three Rs is a principle concept when focusing on better waste management. The three Rs stand for, reducing, reusing and recycling.

Reducing should be a person’s main goal, with reusing next, and recycling last.

Reducing waste can be accomplished in multiple ways such as using reusable water bottles, using stainless steel food containers, and buying less packaged products. Instead of buying something new, a person can reuse things, like upcycling clothing and thrift shopping. If none of these are options, recycling should be the next alternative before throwing it away.

These are just simple solutions for a single person to make an impact on reducing their waste. Oregon State University is also working on making a positive impact on reducing waste.

Brandon Trelstad, sustainability officer at OSU, spoke about some initiatives through the Sustainability Office that focuses on better waste management.

The Sustainability Office is working on promoting green office and green lab certifications, which looks at multiple factors, one being waste management, to offer a score on how sustain-

able the office or lab is.

It also strongly supports the Waste Watcher’s Club in their reusable cups proposal. The proposal would require anyone using dining dollars or Orange Rewards to use a reusable container.

“That would eliminate most of the over three million disposable cups thrown away at the Corvallis campus each year,” Trelstad said.

Andrea Lynn Norris, marketing and development coordinator for Campus Recycling and Surplus Property, said there are multiple organizations throughout campus that work to reduce campus waste, like University Housing and Dining Services who are working to reduce food waste by tracking food waste. So far, the data suggests that this has worked to reduce waste and cost, Norris said.

The OSUsed Store’s efforts contributed greatly to the reuse of materials generated at OSU as well. It’s estimated that at least 548 tons of goods were resold in the 2018-19 academic year, Norris said.

Norris is the advisor for Waste Watchers, which has promoted events like Repair Fairs to offer free repairs, and RecycleMania which is

BRI TTNEE BARRY | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Advisor of Waste Watchers, Andrea Norris holds her reusable water bottle up to the camera, while standing for a picture outside of the Student Experience Center on Feb. 6. Students can buy reusable water bottles of their own at OSUsed and other thrift stores around the Corvallis campus.

a recycling competition between OSU and the University of Oregon.

“Club members focus on educating other students on campus on waste reduction through marketing and activities, and thus, they are a key group on campus for waste reduction education,” Norris said.

Lowering our waste consumption should be a significant goal. This doesn’t mean that people should all of sudden become zero-waste experts.

Take one step at a time, try packing your lunch in a reusable container, and avoid using that colorful straw when getting Dutch Bros.

Small things make a big difference.

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FORUM The Southern Isle

By KEVIN MASSIE

YAYS & NAYS The Barometer lists OSU’s favorite and least favorite things this week.

YAYS • Yay to spending Valentine’s Day with someone special • Yay to Women’s Basketball winning on Friday, and Men’s Basketball winning on Saturday • Yay to being half-way done with winter term

NAYS • Nay to feeling so, so alone • Nay to a materialistic view of love • Nay to Women’s Basketball losing to Arizona on Sunday • Nay to midterms • Nay to building up a caffiene tolerance

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Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)

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Today is an 8 -- Edit and polish

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Today is an 8 -- Study and learn

step. Focus on practical

your creative work. Keep to

seem elusive. Peace and quiet

valuable skills. Avoid fantasies

practical priorities for satisfying

soothes your spirit. Meditate

and elusive or ephemeral

results. Long-term benefits

on the desired results. Go for

words. Action beats idle talk.

arise in communication. Build

substance over symbolism.

Advance your educational

physical priorities. Nurture your health, wellness and energy.

Your past performance speaks well for you. Practice

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for strength.

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LEVEL: 1 2 3 4

on strong foundations.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22)

Today is a 9 -- You’re a

Today is an 8 -- Listen to

powerful force together.

what others want. You’re

New possibilities stretch old

learning quickly. Work out

boundaries. Stay open-

the budget for best value.

minded to making a shift.

Avoid distractions and silly

Family comes first. Support

arguments. Provide leadership.

each other.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20)

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)

Imagine them accomplished.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Today is an 8 -- Teamwork can earn lasting results.

Don’t indulge in gossip or idle chatter. Take action on practical priorities for a shared vision or possibility.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Today is an 8 -- You can

priorities. Explore your subject.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Today is an 8 -- Stick closely to rules and guidelines.

Monitor the budget for power, sustainability and lasting value. Avoid someone else’s argument. Actions speak louder than words.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Today is an 8 -- Advance

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advance your career.

extra ground on a personal

collaborative goals one

Listen closely to avoid a

step at a time. Together

project. Don’t spin your

communication breakdown.

benefit from coordinated

you have. Get farther than

wheels on empty talk. Actions

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action. Avoid distraction and

expected. Follow rules closely

speak louder than words.

Make a practical move for

miscommunication. Keep your

for lasting results.

Take charge.

long-lasting benefits.

part of the bargain.

Today is an 8 -- Your attention is at home. Don’t make wild promises. Keep the ones

Does this describe you?

If any of these apply to you, come work with us! We are always hiring. Come check us out on the fourth floor of the Student Experience Center.

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NEWS WILDFIRES, Continued from Page 6 “It is directly applicable to the challenges that we’ll face as a state, and it brings recognition to the state, OSU and the College of Forestry, in addition to Chris, personally,” Bailey said via email.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in forest management at Colorado State University, Dunn worked as a firefighter in southwest Oregon. After seven years, he decided to apply his firefighting experience to graduate education and research. He received a M.S. in forest resources and a Ph.D in forest resources from OSU before becoming a research associate.

“Having that experience on the ground helps identify what needs to be incorporated into [the technology] to be relevant, and most importantly, it helps me communicate when I’m out at these workshops talking to firefighters,” Dunn said.

Dunn’s technology pinpoints where fires can have good benefits—such as regenerating the forest and the species that prefer open ecosystems and conditions—and where fires can have negative benefits—burning homes and critical habitats, for example. Using this information, fire managers can decide whether to aggressively hit a fire or leverage it to get risk reduction and other positive benefits.

“Fundamentally, fire is a natural process, so it’s been part of our ecosystems for a long time. There’s a natural role that fire plays,” Dunn said. “But, probably more importantly in this context, is that fire itself is a good stopper of other fires, so you can get a lot of reduction benefits.”

Now that the technology is developed, Dunn said much of his efforts will be focused on implementation, education and outreach to local communities. Dunn hosts workshops and works with various collaborative groups throughout the state to integrate local knowledge with his data analytics and build the capacity to deal with large fires prior to their occurrence.

The OSU College of Forestry is also launching a new Wildland Fire Extension program later this year, which will place regional fire specialists in six regions around the state. These specialists will do groundwork in communities, including community wildfire protection plans, fire education, adapting homes and implementing Dunn’s technology.

“Chris and I are working hard to get out the message that these modeling and planning approaches are doable and meaningful, and the easiest way to adapt to climate change and future wildfires,” Bailey said via email.

Johnson said Dunn’s award-winning technology is increasingly important, especially due to unprecedented fire seasons in recent years.

“We’re experiencing fire today that’s different than the fire that was used to develop models 20 years ago,” Johnson said. “We’ve never had to deal with winds of 90 miles an hour or fuel that’s as dry as it’s become with climate change in more recent years, and ember showers that are like a blizzard—it’s not snow, it’s little burning embers that are flying through the air at 50 miles an hour—and spot fires.”

While the digital tools will help mitigate and manage fire, Dunn said it is also imperative that we take larger steps to address climate change.

“This is really climate-driven, fuel-driven, and we’re two decades into that. It’s high time that we accept that this is the new norm today—that despite throwing more and more money at the problem as we do, and continuing the efforts that we’ve always done, we’re not gaining any ground,” Dunn said. “The reality is large fires are going to be here to stay, now and in the future.”

Forums aim to help students understand tuition increases

By ADRIANA GUTIERREZ News Contributor Starting at the beginning of January, the University Budget Committee began annual tuition forums to determine the amount at which tuition will be increased for the 2020-21 school year.

“We’re trying to find a way that this works and it’s easy for students to attend…what we do with that input is, if they are actionable things or questions, we will take them back to the committee as part of the tuition discussions,” said Sherman Bloomer, the associate vice president for the Budget and Resource Planning at Oregon State University.

At the first two forums on Jan. 15 and Jan. 27, the committee arranged the forums in a more casual manner, but are aiming for classroom settings in the forums to come. Bloomer and other members of the committee will be asking students about their concerns regarding tuition, and providing resources for students to become more literate on where their money is being spent.

With the current tuition cost, 57% of money paid is going to colleges, centers, departments and schools at OSU. The rest of the money is divided between facilities, operations, administration, athletics, student services and other separated categories, according to the winter 2020 budget breakdown by the UBC. “For some students they may not pay attention if they’re in a situation where their parents are able to take care of the tuition bill, they may never think about it,” Bloomer said.

“But for lots of students, they need to think about it and manage those costs and it’s a shock if the only time you hear about it, is when the board votes on tuition.”

The next forum will be Thursday, Feb. 12 in the Memorial Union room 215 from noon to 1 p.m. and is open to all students and faculty who are interested in the tuition increases.

According to Bloomer, the justification behind the annual increase of tuition is due to inflation. He said, “‘How do we make sure the university keeps offering the same quality of programs and the same opportunities, and makes those opportunities better over time?” is an important question the UBC asks themselves when increasing costs to continually increase the quality of academia and other services at OSU. The schedule for the following tuition forums, happening until the end of March can be found on the Budget and Resource Planning’s section of the OSU website.

Use Snapchat or a QR code scanner to view the tuition forum schedule and information

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