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NEWS: Boots Riley at OSU 5 • SPORTS: OSU Men’s Basketball falls to USC 8 • CITY: Community voices traffic safety concerns 11
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Date: 1/17/2020 Article: ASOSU, Athletics, Memorial Union recommended student fee levels fail Correction: This article previously misspelled Raven Waldron’s name. Additionally, Deb Mott’s quote was edited for more clarity. These issues have been resolved. The Barometer regrets the errors.
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COVER: Photo by Logan Howell, OMN Photographer. House Representative Peter DeFazio answers questions in an Oregon State University class.
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Congressman Peter DeFazio speaks at Oregon State University Discussion topics included climate change, public policy, activism, careers, more By TOSCA RUOTOLO News Contributor Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio visited the Oregon State University campus on Jan. 23. Serving for 33 years in the House of Representatives, DeFazio is Oregon’s longest serving state representative. DeFazio has worked closely with OSU in many of his climate change advocacy efforts. He worked with the Oregon State Material Science lab on his 21st century transportation bill. On Oct. 15, 2019, DeFazio allotted Oregon State nearly $1.6 million for grants surrounding research about coastal dunes and beaches, marshes and wetlands, trade wind clouds and climate impacts on water suppliers. DeFazio was invited to speak with Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D, a professor of the IB 518 Science and Policy course. Her class is comprised of graduate students working on their Masters and Ph.D degrees, who were given the opportunity to ask the Congressman questions pertaining specifically to their diverse career paths. Claire Couch, a fifth-year integrative biology Ph.D student, was attending the event. She is the president of the Student Science Policy club at OSU, and had urged her fellow club members to attend as well. Couch prepared a few questions prior to the DeFazio’s talk, and said she was excited to have the opportunity to speak with him. “I will be interested to hear Congressman DeFazio’s perspectives on why it’s important to integrate science into policy and what scientists can do better to make their voices heard,” Couch said. “I’m also interested to learn a little bit more about DeFazio’s specific positions on climate-related issues, especially the [liquified natural gas] pipeline that’s being proposed in Oregon.” DeFazio discussed a wide variety of topics and answered many of the students’ questions during his time in Lubchenko’s classroom. He spoke about his climate change
LO GA N HO W ELL | O R A NGE MEDIA NET W O R K Peter DeFazio (D) U.S. Representative for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District (Left) chats with Jane Lubchenco, distinguished professor of integrative biology. DeFazio visited her classroomThursday, Jan. 23 to speak about politics and climate change science, and field questions from the student audience.
committee activism, his future transportation and infrastructure bills and his qualms surrounding the bills being passed that threaten Oregon’s environment. Along with this, the Congressman discussed the integration of science and policy, and the importance of informed policy makers. Heather Fulton-Bennett, a fourth-year Ph.D student, research assistant in Lubchenco’s Menge Laboratory and teaching assistant for Lubchenco’s Science and Policy course, also attended the Congressman’s talk. She said she felt many of his points, especially those surrounding policy making, were extremely impactful. “It was refreshing to hear that when a bill dies on the floor of, say, the House of Representatives, it’s not necessarily dead and all that effort didn’t go to waste,” Fulton-Bennett said. “I had been kind of frustrated about all this work
and then things don’t happen, or all this work and knowing [the bill is] not going to pass, so that was a really nice thing to hear.” Fulton-Bennett also spoke about the Congressman’s points that she found most helpful for someone in her field of study. “I didn’t realize [Congress] had topical experts on their staff, and that was really interesting to know that they are really people to go to first, instead of trying to contact a policy maker directly,” Fulton-Bennett said. “And working on a topic like ocean acidification that is so closely related to climate change, I feel is really important to know how to get my science across, and also how best communicated. He mentioned stories and things that would relate to anyone in the country and that was a really good point.” DeFazio also spoke about day-to-day student activism that lies outside of the scope of
science and policy. “They need to register to vote, they need to be vocal, they need to be involved in social media, maybe join a group on campus that represents your views, that’s involved in politics, contact their representative, just push. Push. But be involved. Don’t despair,” DeFazio said. “Let me give you an example of the last election. We took back the House of Representatives. I targeted campaigns around the country, I worked with seven Democrats who were running…and I had volunteers from…the [University of Oregon] and a whole lot of high school students who had come to my office one day a week and we would specialize on one person, and they would phone call into that district…and it worked. Six of those seven got elected, 24 of the 27 I was supporting got elected and we changed the balance of the House.”
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Black Minds Matter course strives to combat inequities in education By JADA KRENING News Correspondent
This term, Oregon State University’s Educational Opportunities Program and Advancing Academic Equity for Student Success is hosting Black Minds Matter, a free course that focuses on issues impacting black students’ success. Black Minds Matter covers a variety of topics, such as the best practices of working with black students, how to be more inclusive in classroom settings, the disparities of outcomes in education, the history of inequities in the United States’ educational system and the higher levels of discipline for black students. The course is 10 weeks long, and includes videos, lectures, discussions and action-step planning. Participation is voluntary, and has included a wide range of individuals from all areas of the university, such as administrators, professors, faculty and graduate students. Black Minds Matter was created by J. Luke Wood, a social scientist and distinguished professor of education at San Diego State University. Wood said he began developing Black Minds Matter after the shooting death of Alfred Olango, a Ugandan refugee who was killed by El Cajon Police in San Diego. “Many of our students were deeply affected by this event, and we wanted to ensure that educators were aware that the same patterns that occur in policing often occur in the schooling of black males,” Wood said via email. “Black lives and black minds are intertwined. If one does not value the life, then they certainly will not value the mind.”
Black Minds Matter took Wood about four months to develop. Since its first class, there have been nearly 500 sites and over 20,000 people across the nation that have participated in the course. “Nearly all predominantly white campuses struggle with racial issues. Black students are often treated with distrust, are viewed as being academically inferior, and as being lesser than,” Wood said in an email. “These stereotypes create a markedly different experience for them in comparison to their peers. Black Minds Matter is an affirmation that black students indeed matter.” The course strives to combat inequities in education, and originally began with a focus on black males, but Dorian Smith, the coordinator of Black Student Access and Success in OSU’s EOP, said OSU has since expanded the program to include all gender identities. EOP, created in 1969, aims to provide a welcoming environment for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Smith, in collaboration with other EOP employees, including Kim McAloney, the academic engagement coordinator for EOP, and Jason Dorsette, a Ph.D student at OSU and EOP team member, brought Black Minds Matter to OSU for the first time last year. Since their initial cohort, the number of participants has continued to grow. Kate Shay, an instructor of biochemistry and biophysics at OSU and a participant in Black Minds Matter, said one reason she decided to take the course was to better understand how she could support black students, specifically after one of her undergraduate students, a black
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Jason Dorsette, a Ph.D student at OSU and an Educational Opportunities Program staff member, stressed the importance of community members participating in Black Minds Matter course, calling it, “our collective obligations.” woman, decided to leave the university. “Instead of just saying that we find these issues important, or that we wish things were better for black students, the course gives us an entry point for having conversations with one another,” Shay said via email. “These discussions shouldn’t just happen in forums like Black Minds Matter—they should happen all the time. Too frequently, I and other white
members of the OSU community wait for black faculty, staff and students to initiate these conversations, when really, all of us at OSU need to step up and engage.” Smith said he encourages members of the OSU community to participate, regardless of
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World War 1 propaganda posters in the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives do not reflect the “difficulty adjusting back into society” By TARYN HUGO News Contributor A sizable collection of World War I posters are currently available for observation at the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives, located on the fifth floor of The Valley Library. The collection is stored away in archives for safekeeping, but anyone interested in seeing the posters can request to do so at the front desk of Special Collections and Archives. Once acquainted with the artifacts, the vibrant colors and historical significance in which they represent is a reminder of the tragedies of WWI. Because of the posters’ significant nature, OSU archivists are determined to preserve the story they tell. According to Special Collections Archivist Rachel Lilley, the preservation process is distinguishable in accordance to each object within the archival collections. “The approaches that archivists take to preserve and conserve materials are different from collection to collection, and are predicated on a number of factors. At a minimum, we try to re-folder and re-box materials that are not currently stored in archivally-safe containers into acid-free containers,” Lilley said via email. According to Lilley, some of the posters are preserved with a mylar enclosure to protect them from any further damage brought on by
age or constant handling. Many posters reflect the propaganda of the time, when the war was raging and both American men and women were encouraged to join the effort. “Our collection of posters is rich in context and data,” Lilley said. During the war, the quantity of posters along with their exposure aimed to convince young men to join the Armed Services without painting a full picture of the realities of the battlefield. Over 100,000 Americans perished in WWI, according to the Governments’ National Archives. Many men who returned from the war, suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and found adjusting back to everyday life to be exceedingly difficult. PTSD was an unfamiliar illness at the time and there was little knowledge regarding the condition and few resources to control and reduce it. According to present-day veterans, there can be struggles for soldiers returning to normal life after experiencing the reality of the military. “A lot of veterans have difficulty adjusting back into society,” said Navy Veteran and Manager of the Office of Veteran Services at OSU, Anthony Minniti. “It’s pretty weird returning after years of being in the military,” Minniti said. Minniti, who has been out of the force for over three years, has worked at OSU since the
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summer of 2018 and often interacts with other veterans who, like himself, tend to express a feeling of disconnect with society once returning. “It’s been very isolating,” Minniti said. Like many soldiers who experienced the horrors of WWI, men and women often come back from today’s battlefields with PTSD and have to adjust to a society that has no understanding of what it means to go through such traumatizing events, Minniti said. Warren McClane, a member of the OSU Student Veterans Association, said soldiers tend to act and perceive the world in a very different way than those who have never experienced military life. McClane, who was deployed in Afghanistan during 2017 and 2018, said that many people often forget to individualize soldiers, and perceive them as being almost robotic, and attributes such mentalities to the isolation that many soldiers experience once returning home. “In society, people tend to take advantage of each other, but in the military, there is a level of comradery,” McClane said. Although there are many complications as well as adjustments for today’s returning soldiers, life post WWI offered very little comprehension regarding the difficulties of battle, as well as the trials and tribulations that come with returning to civilian life with very little resources for healing.
JON HOPPER | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK World War I propaganda posters can be found in Oregon State University’s Special Collections and Archives.
There are far more resources available in modern society for the men and women who have returned from combat to study at OSU. At this time, many resources are currently available to help guide and support these academically-driven veterans through the complications surrounding their adjustment back into a normal life since, according to Assistant Registrar–Athletic & Veteran Compliance, Autumn Landis, as of Fall 2019 the enrollment summary counted 1,253 veterans that are registered at OSU.
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MONTANA MUR PHY | ORAN GE ME DIA N E TWORK CAPS employee Samantha Giaimo, left, sits down for an interview and gives insight into the new meditation circle that is hosted at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Wellness Nook.
CAPS adds guided meditation, Wellness Nook to its many services By ZOË SANDVIGEN News Contributor
Counseling and Psychological Services at Oregon State University offers a variety of services that aim to help students and faculty improve their mental health, including the new Wellness Nook and the Beavers Here Now program. Beavers Here Now is a program that holds short 15-minute guided meditation practices throughout the week in the Memorial Union every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Wellness Nook, near Bites on the Mezzanine level. This program, along with the Wellness Nook, has only been open and operating since last term. Samantha Giaimo, a third-year psychology major, works at CAPS and also leads guided meditation sessions. “This space is actually occupied by [Student Health Services], CAPS and [Recreational] Sports, we are a team resource center,” Giaimo said. She has been working at the Wellness Nook since last term when it opened. Hunter Keller, a sixth-year art major, dropped into a leaded meditation session in the MU. “I just dropped in to see what this space is about and they said they were starting meditation in a minute and asked if I wanted to join,” Keller said. “So I said yes, and it was good.” Giaimo said the Wellness Nook will have a variety of resources besides meditation, such as therapy dogs every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and safe sex information. Located on the fifth floor of Snell Hall, CAPS is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students at OSU are automatically given 10 free individual counseling sessions a year. Group counseling is also available for anyone who would like to join. A service not many students are aware of though is the Mind Spa. The Mind Spa is open to anyone and does not require visitors to be pre-existing clients of CAPS. There is no charge to make an appointment. Upon arrival, visitors can relax in the single-space room and choose from a wide variety of resources. Some of these resources include a massage chair, guided relaxation software and even provide vitamin c during the winter months. The Mind Spa also offers biofeedback
techniques. The tools provided aim to improve health by having participants recognize their habits of anxiety, heart rate and tension. Available to check-out as well are portable biofeedback tools that can be used for up to two weeks. Appointments for the Mind Spa can be made anytime during the week between 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and half an hour or full hour sessions are available. Also available is a self-care packet curated by DAM Good Self-Care that can be picked up in the Academic Success Center. The packet has strategies, tools and exercises that can help regulate stress in everyday life as a student. Keller said her experiences in the CAPS office itself have been good and bad. She feels the Mind Spa seems like a great space, but it is often booked and leaves emergency walk-in individuals with nowhere to go. Keller said she has been trying to incorporate meditation into her life more by practicing other mindful exercises such as yoga, and finds routine that help fit her needs. Another service CAPS provides is their many public playlists. CAPS has a page on Spotify that has 14 different playlists, ranging from ‘Touch of Spring,’ ‘MindspaTranquil’ and ‘Mindspa-Instrumental Native American Flute.’ Julia Drizin, a third-year graduate student studying public health, said she also values wellness practices as being a part of her daily life. “I’ve informally done meditation on and off my whole life, but I’ve never made it a regular thing,” Drizin said. Drizin has also sought out other services from CAPS, and although everyone was very kind, she said they are understaffed. “I’ve sought services from them twice, both for oneon-one counseling and support group services, and both times they never followed up with me, which left me feeling disappointed and alone. I love the services they provide, but they need more follow through when students seek help.” OSU also has a permanent labyrinth located just south of the CH2MHill Alumni Center. A labyrinth is often confused as a maze, but it only has one beginning and one end, one path to take. According to Herbert Benson, M.D., founder of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, walking through a labyrinth can induce relaxation. The turns and twists can slow a participant down easing their stress.
CLAI RE NELSON | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Writer, director, rapper and speaker Boots Riley came to Corvallis on Friday night to talk about his film “Sorry to Bother You.” He spoke about capitalism, and how normal citizens can use their voice.
Artist Boots Riley speaks at 2020 MLK celebration, graduate union 20-year anniversary By JADE MINZLAFF News Contributor The Oregon State University King Legacy Advisory Board and the Coalition of Graduate Employees invited the writer, director and activist Boots Riley to speak at their joint 2020 MLK Celebration and CGE’s 20-year anniversary. The celebration was held at the LaSells Stewart Center on Friday, Jan. 24, and featured a moderated discussion with Riley, primarily on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a radical and his thoughts on contemporary labor, race and class struggles. Unions were a prominent part of Riley’s 2018 film “Sorry to Bother You,” a surrealist comedy featuring a telemarketers strike. Riley is also the frontman of The Coup, a leftist hip hop group founded in 1992. Winston Kennedy, vice president of social justice in CGE and third-year Ph.D candidate in kinesiology, was one of the CGE members who helped bring Riley to campus. “Because of his connection to organizing, he has a rich history of just speaking on unions and the power that has,” Kennedy said. “He talked a lot about that in his talk, and a lot about solidarity, and that connection with Martin Luther King’s social justice initiatives, he felt like the perfect choice for something like this.” During the discussion, the current CGE petition advocating for salary caps for OSU leadership was discussed, with the goal of redistributing the wealth that would otherwise go to salaries of leadership to instead benefit
students and graduate employees. CGE is currently in the process of negotiating with OSU management for their contract in the upcoming cycle, and will hold their next bargaining session on Feb. 12 in the Westminster House. Ida Phillips, a CGE member, Ph.D candidate in comparative health sciences, and chair of the membership committee in the Corvallis/Albany branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was tabling for the NAACP at the celebration. Phillips said that the event aligned with the goals of their organization. “For the NAACP, our national mission is to secure economic and social power for black people and people of color, and that aligns with the Martin Luther King advisory board and CGE. By collaboration, we are able to create a more intersectional approach to justice,” Phillips said. Riley connected CGE’s current work negotiating with OSU to the broader state of political awareness in America. “More and more people are discovering, they’re understanding that our power is to be found in the workplace. And right now, because we’re at a university, CGE is not only doing the good work of organizing at their workplace, but they’re teaching students a lesson that the university might not otherwise teach. Which is, not just to figure out what the problem is, but to do something about it, and to threaten to withhold their labor in order to achieve that change,” Riley said.
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Student on the Street: Impeachment
OSU students give their opinions on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, who is being charged with abuse of power, obstruction of Congress By TERESITA GUZMAN NADER News Contributor JACOB LE Photographer
TIFFANY TRAN Third-year graphic design student
S A JANNAH ALVAR ADO First-year exploratory studies student
“I have an Hispanic background, and I don’t agree with the things that he has done, especially with the new bombing in Iran. I don’t think that was a good decision, so I think this impeachment is a good path to take.”
Third-year graphic design student
HAI LEY THOMAS
“We are pretty close to getting a new president and it seems like kind of, potentially, a waste of time if he is already going to be out pretty soon.”
“I was surprised it took this long, honestly. I was wondering why they did it so close to when the presidential elections are coming up again.”
DR AK E SC R AFFOR D First-year marine biology student
“I have been waiting a long time for this, and it is finally happening, but it is a little bit of a bummer that it is at the end of his term, because next year is the presidential [election]. I think that the trial is probably not going to pass from all what I know about the Senate.”
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RYAN BERGEMANN First-year accounting student
“I am happy that it is finally taking place, but not so happy that it seems like the Republicans aren’t necessarily making it a fair trial by any means, by blocking a lot of evidence. I feel like a lot of officials are not really holding their responsibility as they should to the public. I do not think it is fair to the people to have elected officials that are trying to block evidence.“
“I really don’t have any opinion on it because I am not too much into politics, but I know this is a big thing in our country and a lot of people take this pretty seriously.”
Second-year kinesiology student
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BLACK MINDS MATTER, Continued from Page 4 their background. “I think it’s really important. We all think it’s important, that’s why we’re volunteering our time to do this, because we really think that the title is what we should strive to do at OSU. We should make black minds matter,” Smith said. “We should eliminate this graduation gap that we have for our black students and look at how we can make this a better campus for everybody, because usually when we’re focusing on a small group, you have a positive impact on everyone.” Dorsette stressed the importance of all OSU community members participating in Black Minds Matter, specifically considering what Dorsette called the horrific history of racist treatment and the exclusion of black folks in Oregon. “As future leaders and decision makers, I strongly encourage graduate students and postdoctoral students to take full advantage of this course,” Dorsette said via email. “To me, it’s our collective obligation.” McAloney, who highlighted the historical connection between racism and the educational system in the United States—such as preventing enslaved African-Americans to learn to read and write, funding early U.S. colleges with the sale of enslaved black individuals and building early universities with slave labor—said Black Minds Matter is an important asset in tackling the nation’s troubling past and ensuring black students are provided with equitable opportunities in today’s higher education. “OSU has said that closing the opportunity gap is important,” McAloney said via email. “If this is the case and OSU really wants to see black students succeed, we have work to do, and this course, conversation and intentional learning can be part of that work.” Smith noted the importance of creating inclusive workplaces and classrooms, and said the OSU community must acknowledge the history of the state and university and strive to change its ways, rather than leaning on 150 years of tradition. “That’s our mission as a land-grant university, to provide this education to the masses, and it really starts with us—the folks who are the professors, the deans, the administrators, the faculty, the classified faculty, everyone who works here—to see the value in these black minds, to not have a one-size-fits-all mindset when we’re in the classroom or working in meetings with these students, and to appreciate their experiences,” Smith said.
ASOSU passes climate emergency resolution aiming to foster student activism, hold OSU accountable By JADE MINZLAFF ASOSU Beat Reporter
BR ITTNE E BARRY | ORANGE ME DIA NE TWORK Associated Students of Oregon State University Senator Nikolay Galtsev explains the climate emergency resolution in the ASOSU office in the Student Experience Center on Jan. 23, 2020. The resolution is aimed at signaling the student position on climate change and provides a one page, fact-based document that students can use as a tool to talk about climate change and lobby for campus action.
BR ITTNEE BARRY | ORAN GE ME DIA N E TWORK The Associated Students of Oregon State University logo hangs on a sign.
The Associated Students of Oregon State University—OSU’s student government—passed a climate emergency resolution that aims to hold OSU accountable to its carbon neutrality commitment, and to promote student-led actions in opposition to climate change. The resolution was passed in the House and Senate in week 10 of fall term. Nikolay Galtsev, ASOSU senator and second-year environmental science student, was one of the primary authors of the resolution, and said that he originally came up with the idea for the bill last fall, after President Donald Trump started discussing formally leaving the Paris Climate Agreement. Galtsev said that at first he planned to create a climate fund for OSU, but felt that a consensus-establishing document was needed before larger structural changes could occur. He said that previously, members of ASOSU had been told by the OSU administration that the university wasn’t sure students would support changes to funding due to the climate crisis. “We want to make major actions, to do major things to change this campus, to change the state, and to solve climate change,” Galtsev said. “So, in order to start doing that, we needed something like this that says the reason we’re going to start doing all of these things, the reason we’re going to start doing all of this climate action, is because of this, because this is an emergency.” Additionally, the resolution was intended to give greater credibility to demands of climate activists on campus, and included language supporting the creation of student-led direct-action groups. “We, by passing this resolution, are not automatically changing your entire life right now. But if you’re a climate activist, if this is something that’s important to you, then this resolution is not just a position paper of the student government, it’s also a tool,” Galtsev said. Dylan Perfect, ASOSU coordinator of government relations and third-year student in political science, was another one of the authors of the resolution. Perfect described the resolution as an “open letter” of policy recommendations that was sent to both the OSU administration and the state legislature to show that students take climate seriously and expect follow through on commitments to emissions goals. “So part of this is just trying to hold the university accountable and to make clear, as students, that this is an issue that we think needs to be front and center in terms of how we’re conducting ourselves as not only an institution of higher education but also as probably one of the largest energy users in Corvallis,” Perfect said. “What we’re mainly concerned with saying is that nothing is not an option. We need to, both as a state and as
a university, take action on climate change, as soon as possible,” Perfect said. Galtsev described the current state of OSU’s commitment to carbon neutrality. “We made a promise as a university that we’re going to be carbon neutral by 2025, and the current sustainability officer is saying that’s not at all likely. It’s more like we’ve reduced 15% rather than carbon neutral, which is 100%. So, we need a new plan, we need a new way to commit to this,” Galtsev said. Perfect said that one of the goals of the resolution was to recommit OSU to a realistic plan for combating climate change. “I’d say the ideal response by the school is to come up with a realistic strategy for accomplishing the goals that they’ve heretofore set for themselves,” Perfect said. “And to be clear, I know that there have been strategic plans made and I know that climate change has not been ignored by the university, but I do think there’s an issue when we set goals and then we’re not able to follow through on them. And I think that’s not just Oregon State University, that’s across the board on climate.” Perfect also suggested that students support action on the state level to combat climate change. “This resolution, I think, is a great sort of statement of policy recommendations, but I think if I were to tell anyone to turn their attention toward something or to direct their efforts toward something it would be the Senate bill [1530] on the Oregon Legislature. Because I think students in particular need to make their voice heard on that.” Coral Avery, ASOSU coordinator of environmental affairs, was involved with the resolution primarily through editing. They said that they worked on ensuring that the final resolution would be equally accessible to all students on campus. ‘Every student should be able to utilize this resolution and feel included in it no matter their identity or social status,” Avery said. Avery also runs the Environmental Council, one of the student climate groups that the resolution sought to promote. “The resolution urges students to advance environmental initiatives by prioritizing climate action in many campus projects/ initiatives, supporting student-led campus initiatives, and providing students with the appropriate mental health resources for the impacts of climate change,” Avery said. Galtsev described what effect he thought the resolution would have on the future of OSU. “This is the beginning of action, this is the call to action, and a justification for doing that,” Galtsev said. “I’m hoping to embolden student leaders on campus to basically facilitate and kickstart the action that we need…I hope that all of the research that we do that is very abstract will get applied in concrete ways because of student voices that are going to be emboldened by this consensus-making resolution.”
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OSU Football’s Smith gets contract extension Smith proves his ability as coach, earns opportunity to help program to win more By BRADY AKINS Sports Contributor When Oregon State Beavers’ head football coach Jonathan Smith took over the program in 2018, the first head coaching job of his career, he was inheriting a team that had finished 1-11 the year before his arrival. While that 2018 season did not yield much better results in terms of wins and losses, improvement would come around quicker than expected in the following year. After Smith’s second season as the Beavers’ head coach yielded a five win season for the first time since 2014, he had a message for Scott Barnes, the university’s director of athletics. A message displayed front and center on his official page for the Oregon State Athletics website. “We’re ahead of schedule.” The improvement from year one to year two of Smith’s head coaching tenure showed itself in ways beyond overall record. The team averaged more yards and points per game on offense, allowed fewer yards and points per game on defense, and even in defeat were able to stay competitive and force most of their losses to lower than a two score margin. With the team showing improvement across the board two years removed from their one win 2017 season, Barnes trusted in Smith’s
declaration, and showed his faith in Smith’s future with the program by extending the coach’s contract through the 2025 season. Barnes’ move to keep Smith under contract for the long haul was a sign of faith, both in what the secondyear coach had done last season, as well as his potential for the future. The athletic department, alongside players old and new, have bought into the kind of coach Smith has been and can continue to be. But before he began finding success as a head coach, Smith has shown the ability to win at every stop he made along the way. As offensive coordinator for head coach Chris Petersen at the University of Washington, Smith and the Huskies had put together four winning seasons in Smith’s four years with the program, finishing 37-17 with Washington before he took the Oregon State job. Smith’s winning ways date back even further, however, all the way to his time as a college athlete. In his four years as a player and three as a starter, Smith was overseeing the offense as the Oregon State quarterback long before his time in charge of the entire program. In his tenure as a player, Smith was a part of one of the most successful seasons in team history in 2000. That year, the Beavers’ quarterback turned coach started for a team that
AL E X L UTHE R | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK OSU Football head coach Jonathan Smith speaks prior to 2019 season on July 31 at Reser Stadium. The team finished the season with a record of 5-7.
finished 11-1 and won the Fiesta Bowl, the team’s first major bowl win since the 1941 Rose Bowl and their best winning percentage since the football program began. During the hiring process, Barnes knew how important Smith’s history of winning was, and spoke of the value of winning games as a coordinator and an alum. “A highly successful coordinator from an elite program who had
been mentored by the best,” Barnes said via email. “It is rare to be able to check all of these boxes and have someone who is a beloved former player as well.” Smith has earned his position with Oregon State through years of finding a way to win, no matter where he was or how he was contributing. Now he will be under contract with the Beavers for six more years with a chance to prove he can do it again.
He’s earned the trust of the athletic director, and according to Barnes, he’s earned the trust of the players as well. “They have a tremendous belief and commitment to what they are doing,” Barnes said. “From player to assistant coach, to trainer to equipment manager… Johnathan’s authentic leadership has inspired this belief and it is backed by methodically executing their plan for success.” Barnes’ words about players’ belief in Smith are not empty, and that has shown itself through recruiting. The Beavers’ 2020 recruiting class currently ranks 47th on ESPN’s college football class rankings, putting an Oregon State class in their top 50 for the first time since 2016. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Tristan Gebbia, one of the athletes from a Smith recruiting class, was not originally committed to play for the Beavers. Rather, the former four-star recruit had enrolled to play for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in 2017 before transferring from the program when Smith got the head coaching job. Now with the program, Gebbia has a Civil War start under his belt and will look to find his way under center once again when the 2020 season kicks off. With Smith, Gebbia believes he and the rest of the Beavers’ roster have a coach that will
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OSU Men’s Basketball falls at home to USC Trojans
Beavers take fourth loss in a row, fall to 2-6 in season PAC-12 conference play By ANDRES DE LOS SANTOS News Contributor In a battle of unranked teams, the Southern California Trojans visited Gill Coliseum to face off against the Oregon State Beavers on Jan. 25. Both teams were desperate for a win. Both men’s basketball teams were coming off a loss, with Oregon State losing to UCLA on Jan. 23 by a score of 58-62 and Southern California losing to Oregon on Jan. 23 by a score of 70-79. The Trojans started off strong, leading 21-8 in the first ten minutes of the first half. At halftime, the Trojans would lead 36-28. The Beavers started to rally back, closing the gap to 46-40 at the 12 minute mark in the second half. The Trojans ultimately walked away with the victory at a score of 75-55, giving the Oregon State Men’s Basketball team their fourth loss in a row. Oregon State dropped to 12-7 overall and 2-6 in conference play with the loss. Southern California continued their strong conference record with the win at 16-4 overall and 5-2 in conference play. “We dug ourselves too big a hole,” OSU head coach Wayne Tinkle said about the overall team
performance. “We showed some grit to get back in it, cut it to six. We missed opportunities to cut it even more.” Tinkle did, however, also show respect towards the Trojans. “That team is very talented, they took it to us,” Tinkle said. “I liked the way our guys responded there for a while, but unfortunately, it took too much out of us.” Tinkle recognized the team could improve on both sides of the ball. “You always have to have the next wave of defense, and we didn’t have that. So, we’ve got to get better on the ball. We turned the ball over when we were making runs, and we came up empty on too many possessions,” Tinkle said. “Where I thought we were right there, if we would have cut that to one possession and put a little more pressure on them, but we weren’t able to do it.” OSU senior forward Tres Tinkle had 17 total points throughout the game, with six field goals, two three-pointers, and three free throws. “Cutting with a purpose,” Tinkle said about what the team needs to work on. “It’s not what we’re running, but it’s how we run it. So we just have to do it with a purpose. We stand and
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watch it at times, so it’s hard to open up and make plays, so just continue to move with the ball would open a lot of things.” Tinkle also passed former OSU forward Steve Johnson in all-time points during the game, putting him behind former guard Gary Payton. “It means nothing to me,” Tinkle said of the record. “At the end of the day, a win is a lot better.” OSU senior forward Kylor Kelley had 10 points throughout the game, scoring three field goals and four free throws. Kelley recognized that the team needed to improve together. “As a team, I think we just got to get better on the offensive and on the defensive end, like coach said. I don’t really look at individual performances, just the team as a whole,” said Kelley. “So when our guys need help, we’re not getting there.” The OSU Men’s Basketball team will now travel south as they will face Stanford on Jan. ERICK BRANNER | ORANGE MED I A 30 and California on Feb. 1. The Beavers will NETWORK then return back home to Gill Coliseum to face USC Freshman Onyeka Okongwu dunks the ball Oregon on Feb. 8. during matchup versus OSU in Gill Coliseum on Jan. 25, 2020.
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SMITH, Continued from Page 8 put them in a shot to win, which is one of the reasons he transferred to Oregon State in the first place. “I believed in coach Smith,” Gebbia said. “I really believed in what he wanted to accomplish here and I believed in the program he wanted to establish. As time went on it’s just made me more and more of a believer in him and what they’ve got going on.” Gebbia is one of a few of Smith’s recruits that have already made an impact. Along with the quarterback, redshirt sophomores Avery Roberts and Tyjon Lindsey transferred into the program from Nebraska and have been big parts of a team continuing to grow on both sides of the ball. Before Smith was winning over players in recruiting, he first had to earn the trust of the players already on the roster prior to his arrival. Among those players is junior defensive back Isaiah Dunn who came to the program in 2017. Dunn was recruited by former Oregon State head coach Gary Andersen, who also coached the defensive back alongside through the first six games of 2017 alongside interim head coach Cory Hall. Despite being brought in by a different staff, Dunn didn’t doubt that he or is recruiting class wanted to play for Smith after their former head coach was gone. “Never any doubt,” Dunn said. “It was a little different. We had just lost a coach… but there was never really any doubt, it was just time to put the past behind us and move forward.” Dunn and the rest of the Beavers roster will now be moving forward with Smith, who is now under contract to be around for a long while. He’s gained the commitment of the athletics department, and according to Dunn and Gebbia, that will only make the team better. “It’s definitely nice knowing that your coach will be there until you’re gone,” Gebbia said. “We both [Dunn] have gone through coaching staff changes at two different schools and that’s a scary thing sometimes. Honestly, if they gave coach Smith a one year extension I’d be totally confident in what he’s able to do and what we’re able to do as a team.” “I think the confidence that the athletic director shows in our head coach, I think it just speaks volumes,” Dunn said. “I think players on the team, they see that confidence boost that it gives coach Smith and it goes through us as well.” Barnes will tell stories of Smith “proudly wearing his Fiesta Bowl ring” in his job interview that would paint a picture of a man with no shortage of confidence. But now having received his contract extension, Dunn, Gebbia and the rest of the players are feeling that confidence a little extra. Heading into next season, the Beavers will hope to channel that confidence into even more success. Smith and the 2019 Beavers won more than any Oregon State team over the last five years. Now, they’ll look to do what Smith has done his whole career, and just keep winning.
Women’s Basketball Home Civil War
The No. 7 Oregon State Beavers fell to the No. 4 Oregon Ducks in the home matchup of the second Civil War game of the weekend. The game ended with a final score of 66-57 in favor of the Ducks at Gill Coliseum on Jan. 26.
ANA PEARSE | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK TOP LEFT: OSU senior guard Mikayla Pivec (#0) maneuvers around UO senior guard Sabrina Ionescu (#20) at Gill Coliseum. Dribbling the behind her back, Pivec advances forward to shoot two-pointer late in the third quarter, bringing OSU into the lead 39-38. TOP RIGHT: UO junior forward Satou Sabally (#0) shoots the first two-pointer of the game at Gill Coliseum, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. This score by Sabally set the scene for the competitive matchup that would be OSU versus UO in their second Civil War game of the weekend. BOTTOM LEFT: OSU freshman forward Taylor Jones (#44) jumps alongside UO senior forward Ruthy Hebard during the tip-off of the OSU versus UO Civil War game at Gill Coliseum, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Jones won the tip-off, giving OSU the ball in the beginning of the first quarter. BOTTOM RIGHT: Two OSU fans root for their team late in the fourth quarter during the second Civil War matchup between OSU and UO. Gill Coliseum was overflowing with energy as Beavers fans sang the OSU fight song.
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WINTER SPORTS HOME GAMES Football CSUN NOV 5 - W, 87-67
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UC IRVINE (WNIT) NOV 9 - W, 86-57
ORANGE & BLACK DUEL OCT 30 - 7 P.M.
IOWA STATE NOV 9 - W, 80-74
PACIFIC (WNIT) NOV 11 - W, 69-57
UC SANTA BARBARA NOV 20 - W, 78-67
DEPAUL (WNIT) NOV 14 - W, 98-77
MIKE CLOCK OPEN NOV 17 - ALL DAY [FOREST GROVE]
ORANGE AND BLACK EXHIBITION NOV 22 - 7 P.M.
GRAMBLING STATE NOV 23 - W, 80-58
MISSOURI STATE (WNIT) NOV 17 - W, 80-69
PORTLAND STATE DEC 1- W, 81-76
SOUTHERN UTAH NOV 21 - W, 95-45
ARKANSAS - PINE BLUFF DEC 14 - W, 80-46
HAWAI’I DEC 6 - W, 64-32
NORTH DAKOTA DEC 29 - W, 83-66
UTAH STATE DEC 14 - W, 75-46
ARIZONA STATE JAN 9 - L, 76-82
CSU BAKERSFIELD DEC 29 - W, 69-50
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NYJAH GOBERT | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Flowers and signs near a crosswalk on Highway 99/Third Street mark the site where an 11-year-old girl was fatally hit earlier this month. This death, as well as others in the Corvallis area in the past 18 months, have prompted community members to call on the city government and the state of Oregon to improve crosswalk safety among other improvements.
Corvallis community members voice concerns for pedestrian safety after fatal accident City of Corvallis, ODOT work to improve safety conditions on Highway 99 By WILLIAM ROSS News Contributor Rebecka Weinsteiger, a Corvallis resident and community activist, says she will not drive to work until the speed limit is lowered on the stretch of Highway 99/Third Street in south Corvallis where an 11-year-old girl was fatally hit earlier this month. Weinsteiger was one of the first motorists to witness the aftermath of the accident. “How do we make these crosswalks safer for everybody? It’s more than putting in a traffic light or even improving the crosswalk—we have to do broad change on the built environment,” Weinsteiger said. Weinsteiger is not the only community member to express a desire for change. A protest was held on Jan. 10 to bring visibility to the issue. The City of Corvallis and ODOT the are currently working on solutions to improve safety at the crossings. Electronic reader board signs were placed on the south ramp of the highway by ODOT to alert drivers to slow down for the upcoming crossings, according to city Public Information Officer Patrick Rollens. “Ultimately, they are temporary but I expect them to stay until we get some of these initial
improvements done,” Rollens said. Cloudy Rockwell, who took part in the protest and is a resident of Corvallis, said she has noticed drivers slowing down after the signs. City Parks and Recreation staff also removed vegetation from the pedestrian center islands, according to Rollens. “That was one of the quick projects we identified as a way to improve visibility,” Rollens said. Flashing radar speed signs have been implemented on the highway, and the city is looking for ways to make them permanent, Rollens added. According to Angela Beers Seydel, the public information officer for ODOT, new beacons are being installed at the crossing where the Jan. 8 accident took place. Three new beacons will also be implemented further down south of Hwy. 99. ODOT and the state of Oregon will be handling the cost of putting in the new lighting signals. “We want to get everyone’s input on what they think,” Beers Seydel said. “We are going to start the south corridor study spring/summer this year, that’s going to look at a variety of ways to improve pedestrian and bicycle experience in the corridor.” According to Beers Seydel, concerned residents can give feedback on Hwy. 99
crosswalks by contacting James Feldmann, who is organizing ODOT’s corridor study. Mayor Biff Traber and the Corvallis City Council discussed setting aside one percent of the annual Transportation Maintenance Fee revenue to go towards more safety projects at last week’s City Council meeting. According to Rollens, if passed, around 30,000 dollars would be authorized. A vote is likely to be held at the next council meeting on Monday, Feb. 3. At the meeting where redirecting funds was discussed, more than 20 red-shirted community members expressed their concerns and ideas for what the city should do regarding the crosswalk where the accident took place. The red color was a representation of the blood of Corvallis youth killed in traffic accidents. Ideas offered included replacing the current flashing lights with a HAWK red light system as well as a full-scale Vision Zero policy. According to Weinsteiger, talks at the meeting suggest using a HAWK red light crossing system could be viable. This would allow a pedestrian to activate a light at a crosswalk that would turn red for drivers, allowing pedestrians to cross safely. Weinsteiger believes the highway should be designated as an urban safety corridor. “Make speed signs consistent in the corridor and make them slower, let’s say 20 miles per hour,” Weinsteiger said.
Use Snapchat or a QR code reader to access the City of Corvallis Public Input Form, which allows community members to share their thoughts on crosswalk safety or any other topic appearing on a City Council meeting agenda.
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Corvallis police log: Jan. 18-23 By MICHAEL EUBANKS Crime Beat Reporter
Jan. 18 Possession of a Controlled Substance Methamphetamine (Paraphernalia) An officer was conducting a foot patrol of a natural area when he encountered a male sitting under a roadway bridge smoking from a glass pipe. The officer recognized the pipe as one that would be used to smoke methamphetamine and noticed it had a white crystalline substance in it. The male admitted to smoking methamphetamine to “mellow out”, and that he had been using it for 17 years. The officer seized the pipe and issued the male a citation for PCS - Methamphetamine (Paraphernalia). Jan. 19 Overdose Two officers were dispatched to a local restaurant for a report of an unconscious female in the bathroom. Upon their arrival, the officers were guided by the restaurant manager to the women’s
bathroom where they found the female, conscious and breathing. The female admitted to using heroin in a bathroom stall and then passing out. One officer located a used syringe on a toilet paper dispenser. The female declined medical transport to the hospital. No action was taken on the drug possession due to Oregon’s amnesty law. The syringe was then collected and disposed of and the female left.
Warrant Arrest/Carry Concealed Weapon While conducting a regular patrol through a skatepark, an officer was flagged down by a group of children who said there was a group of people fighting across the park. The officer then made contact with a male, who admitted punching a second male after he grabbed his (the second male’s) bike tire and threw a beer bottle at him. The officer took the male into custody and conducted a search of the male’s person and found a makeshift slingshot. The officer then had probable cause to arrest the male for carrying a concealed weapon. He issued the male a citation in lieu of arrest for the change. Littering/Trespass 2
An officer was walking to the south end of a skatepark while making a follow-up on an assault investigation when he made contact with a male and asked him for his identification. While the male was searching through his backpack for his ID, the officer noticed that several beer bottles were in the backpack. The officer then asked for the male’s name and date of birth and asked dispatch via radio to look him up. Upon hearing the male had a warrant issued in his name, the officer went back to his patrol vehicle to look up warrant information on him. While in the car, the officer heard the sound of glass smashing and saw the male inside the skate park bowl breaking the bottles and attempting to drink from them. The officer returned to find shreds of glass inside the ramp. He then had probable cause to arrest the male for littering in addition to the warrant. The officer led the male back to the car and placed him in handcuffs. He then completed a citation in lieu of arrest and explained the citation and trespassing notice to the male. The officer then left the park. Jan. 20
An officer responded to a call of a male suspect urinating in front of a downtown business. When the officer arrived at the scene, the suspect was sitting on a curb. The suspect was smoking a pipe containing marijuana. The officer issued and explained a citation for public use of marijuana. The officer also issued a warning to the suspect for urinating in public and having an open container. Jan. 23 Criminal Trespass 2/Assault 4/Disorderly Conduct 2 An officer was dispatched to a skate park to respond to a call of a male suspect running around and punching people in the face with his fist. When the officer arrived, he observed the suspect in the southeast corner of the park throwing things around and trying to pick up a large rock. Later, the officer learned the suspect punched two other males. The suspect was arrested for two counts of Assault 4, Disorderly Conduct 2 and Criminal Trespass 2. He was lodged at the Benton County Jail.
Marijuana Use in Public
Know Your City events connect public safety staff, public First part of series held Jan. 23 featured representatives from the Corvallis Fire Department By MILLICENT DURAND News Contributor Know Your City, a two-part public event series with panels featuring the Corvallis fire and police departments, is being put on by the League of Women Voters of Corvallis, in partnership with the city, the CorvallisBenton Public Library and the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition. The first event, held on Jan. 23, featured three senior members of the Corvallis Fire Department: the fire chief, Kenneth McCarthy, the fire marshal, Jeff Prechel and Dave Busby, the emergency planning manager. The event was attended by roughly 20 members of the Corvallis community. The fire panel was opened by McCarthy, who was recently hired as Corvallis’ fire chief. He outlined his many concerns for the department, which includes measures to bring the department up to standards set in the city’s “Vision 2040” plan. “What would it take to go from diesel to electric?” McCarthy said. “We have a nice staff with the ability to support long term planning.” Other issues McCarthy addressed during the panel were mental health and diversity, stating that the department had created many working groups to deal with both. “When you talk about diversity, we need facilities to support that,” McCarthy said.
After serving in the Navy and working for Emergency Management at Navy Facilities in both San Diego and Fresno, Calif, Busby was hired as Corvallis’ first full-time Emergency Planning Manager. During his time in Corvallis, he has helped spearhead cooperation between the city and the county to tackle emergencies. “[We] came to the conclusion that… [very few] disasters don’t require the city and the county to work together,” Busby said. Busby said that his goal was to help run workshops with various organizations in the area, as well as run through evacuation training with various neighborhoods in Corvallis. He also is working to get culturally appropriate Spanish language resources for emergencies and to link Oregon State University and the Corvallis-Benton emergency operations centers together. One of the questions of the night came from a community member regarding the homeless population of Corvallis in the event of a disaster. Busby said that the department has been working on outreach in order to incorporate them into any emergency management planning that occurs. This change was sparked after the flooding of the Willamette River in 2019, which acted as a wake up call for the department. The city fire marshal, Prechel, comes from the San Jose, Calif. Fire department, and has
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JACOB LAGMAY | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Corvallis Fire Department staff address the public at last week’s Know Your City series event.
been taking his time adjusting from the nation’s 10th largest city to Corvallis. This position has meant many new challenges, including the large number of historic buildings downtown, which were not designed with modern fire codes in mind. Another issue Prechel discussed was the infrastructure of the city, as well as the width of the streets downtown, which in some occasions, they may not be able to fit engines through due to the angled parking. “Fire access is more restrictive than any time
in the last 100 years,” Prechel said. The three answered many other questions from the public regarding community concerns, ranging from questions about suicide and mental health in the department and the possibilty of comandeering ships to ferry people across the river in the event the bridges were out. The second event of the Know Your City series will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30 in the public library, with representatives from the Corvallis Police Department.
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ORANGE MED I A NETWORK ARCHI VES Editor-in-Chief Delaney Shea discusses how The Daily Barometer’s implementation of a new city editor position aims to bolster the availability of reliable local news for the Corvallis community.
Letter from the Editor: City editor to provide steadfast local news By DELANEY SHEA Editor-in-Chief
IL L USTRATION BY CYAN P E RRY | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Columnist Haley Daarstad argues that Oregon State University must focus more on fighting climate change by adopting more sustainable practices like carbon sequestration, or the school’s forests will slowly die.
Daarstad: OSU must shift forests’ focus from revenue, toward climate change research By HALEY DAARSTAD Columnist Oregon State University should refocus the management and research of OSU’s several research forests to address the existential threat that climate change presents. Last summer, about 16 acres of old-growth trees were cut down in the McDonald research forest for revenue. This included cutting down a 420-year-old tree that caught some media attention. A forest memorial service was held for the tree in October 2019 and was said not to be political, but rather, a community coming together to show their sadness for losing such a tree. After the cutting down of these 16 acres, Steve Cook, a professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at OSU decided to draft a letter to send to the president of OSU to show the need to shift the focus of these forests to carbon sequestration and storage, as well as ecological research. Carbon sequestration is the long-term process of removing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide through trees. Trees naturally capture and store carbon dioxide through their respiration process. Carbon sequestration uses this process to reduce atmospheric carbon, which is important with the current problems
surrounding climate change. “I thought, okay, this is a research forest, what can we do to suggest to move forward positively and OSU looking like a leader,” Cook said. In the letter, Cook outlined the importance of focusing on different ways to utilize the forests, rather than using them for revenue. The research forest belongs to Oregon State University, not just the College of Forestry, and needs to be managed by a multi-college coordinating body. With climate change on the horizon, conducting research about carbon sequestration is important because it will help provide knowledge for fighting climate change. If the university focused on carbon sequestration and storage research in these forests, there would be a lot of opportunities for OSU to become a leader in sustainable forest management practices. There is a significant amount of research that needs to be done, regarding climate change and forests. Understanding forests and their reactions to climate change is a critical issue for Oregon. There are some that say that by the year 2100, Douglas Firs will no longer be able to grow in Oregon due to warm or dry weather conditions in the summer months. Andy Kurr, the head of The Larch Compa-
ny, co-author of the letter with Cook, explained that it is important that OSU’s College of Forestry begins to develop more sustainable management practices in their research forests. “The Industrial Paradigm doesn’t make sense in 2020,” Kurr said. The industrial paradigm is the older forest management practices that focused on revenue. People need to see these forests as ecosystems rather than just revenue. Kurr said the College of Forestry, has top-notch academics that are doing research on things such as carbon sequestration. These forests could potentially aid these researchers’ studies. OSU’s College of Forestry could also potentially become the manager of the Elliot state forest. The proposed plan deals with older practices that Kurr said is wrapped up as research. If the College of Forestry does acquire the Elliot state forest and conducts sustainable practices and research such as carbon registration, the college of forestry would be a force to be reckoned with. “It’s a philosophical issue,” Cook said. These forests are important, and by changing how OSU manages these forests, this university could be at the forefront of forest management and fighting climate change in the new decade.
News seeks the truth and reports it, serves the public as both a watchdog and a record of history and tells stories of community conflicts and triumphs. With these values in mind, we recently created and filled a city editor position on our editorial board. Our goal is to increase the Corvallis area’s access to local information, and to expand the amount of stories told, in a climate where independent local news outlets are disappearing. Our new city editor is charged with establishing consistent coverage of official city meetings, legislative changes, events, movements and more. We will grow this position while staying on top of campus news. As independent local news shifts and scales back, we are focused on scaling up, expanding and deepening our coverage to cover more ground. Last year, physical newspaper circulation hit its lowest level since 1940, according to the Pew Research Center. Digital news has seen significant growth in recent years, but in 2017 and 2018, unique visitors to news sites seemed to level off. As many are aware, Mid-Valley Newspapers announced back in November that they would be eliminating the position of editor for the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Additionally, more and more news outlets are being acquired by national corporations, and employment in the newspaper sector is down. I have always seen news as a framework for reality. By this, I mean that news coverage is the largest source of information about what’s occurring in our communities, what we should be mad about, and well-written stories give us foundations to ask the questions that guide our society. Without news outlets, local, national and international, our society would be weaker and less connected. So, with this city editor position, we hope to strengthen the foundation of information available to you all, to provide an additional source of context and help ensure Corvallis residents and interested parties have access to what’s going on around town. As always, I hope anyone with coverage concerns or questions will feel comfortable contacting me for answers, and I invite everyone to take advantage of our letters to the editor system to express your opinions, positive or negative or anywhere in between.
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YAYS & NAYS The Barometer lists OSU’s favorite and least favorite things this week.
YAYS • YAY for a city section! • YAY for a day with some beautiful sunlight providing us with meager bits of vitamin D • YAY for living through history...... • YAY to excellent foreign films • YAY to Super Bowl weekend coming up
NAYS • NAY to no more days off until spring break • NAY to not being able to discuss politics because of knee-jerk reactions • NAY
to
midterms
in
week 4 • NAY to our men’s basketball team being on the struggle bus
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Today is an 8 -- Slow for
Today is a 7 -- You and your
Today is a 8 -- Home could
your heart. Wait for better
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get chaotic. Make repairs
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or improvements to handle
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connections. Weigh the
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a blockage. Planning pays
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decision. Don’t overextend.
changes together. Abandon
off. Your greatest strength
repairs and upgrades. Passion inspires action.
Build bridges for rising
a worn-out perspective.
influence.
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7 -- Consider the emotional undercurrent.
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Rest and wait for developments before making your move. Consider
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effects of a disruption.
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breaking news.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
potential barriers and plan alternative routes.
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you off your stride. Keep
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is love. Find solutions to support family. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 8 -- Don’t make assumptions. Do the homework and reassess the situation. Take time to clarify misunderstandings or crossed wires. Connect and network for greater impact. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 9 -- Stay in
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51 Longest river in France 52 As found 54 Cartoon frame 56 Prefix with gender 57 Christmas saint 60 Quarterfinalists’ count 62 Suffix with alp 63 *Televised panelist shown from the shoulders up 66 Opposite of oui 67 Under-the-roof room 68 Prefix for sun 69 Clock-setting std. 70 Sierra __, Africa 71 Prom attendees Down 1 Tee size: Abbr. 2 “... et cetera” 3 Fridge stickers 4 On the briny 5 *Infielder typically between second and third 6 Campaigned 7 Nobelist Wiesel 8 Pleads 9 Urged strongly 10 Barista’s creation 11 Browser update button 12 New employee 13 Passed, as a bill 18 Miami’s st. 22 Yale student 23 Med. care plan 25 Campaign face-off
28 Use an axe on 30 High-IQ group 31 Simpatico (like Justin Timberlake’s band?) 35 Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue 38 Soften, as one’s voice level 39 Ex-NBA star Ming 40 Opposite of losing, weightwise 41 Weather-changing currents 42 Climber’s downward journey 45 “Glee” star Lea __ 46 Great __: London’s island 47 French possessive 49 Medical research org. 53 Bottom line 55 Dusk, in poetry 58 Choral part 59 Organ that may itch 61 Indian butter 64 __ cream soda 65 Spanish two57 Remains unsettled, as a payment 58 Dec. holiday 59 Two-time NBA MVP Malone known as “The Mailman” 61 Whirlpool 62 Dominoes piece 63 Smallest bills 65 Part of an ellipsis
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BEAVER’S DIGEST
World-traveling festival comes to Corvallis Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival brings stories about travel, environment, travel By ZOË SANDVIGEN Beaver’s Digest Contributor
The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival is currently on its 44th year of touring the world, and it’s coming to Corvallis, Ore. this Feb. 9 and 10 at the Whiteside Theatre. Originating in Banff, Alberta, the film festival is based on short films, adventure, culture, environment and travel. Though the festival is worldwide, it has humble beginnings. Decades ago, a small group of friends walked into a bar to share their own home videos over a few beers. Starting with themselves and then expanding their work to others, it quickly turned from a friendly tradition into one of the biggest traveling adventure festivals in the world. Phil Bridgers, who’s one of many hosts traveling with the company promoting the event, has only great things to say about the experience. “Anyone with a sense of adventure will feel the impact of this festival. The stories are inspirational, not only in adventure, but in an environmental capacity too,” Bridgers said. The films shown over the two night event feature stories and adventures from all around the world. From hiking the entire length of the G rand Canyon, over 277 miles, to kite-skiing across the Arctic tundra and kayaking down waterfalls, the Banff Festival is truly a once a year experience. “Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world!” Bridgers exclaimed, “Hot on the heels of the Festival held every fall in Banff, Canada, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road.” Bridgers excitedly tells how the festival has added three new cities for this year’s tour, Corvallis included. Their mission is to not only show their own stories, but to make new ones here. Banff plans to return to Corvallis every year and not only
build a community but be part of one. “Each year we look for communities that have a fair population and are like minded people— people who value and love the outdoors,” Bridgers claimed. Films range from around an hour to as short as 5 minutes. The three hour event will begin each night with a variety of films, including the feature film which is 30-45 minutes. Then comes an intermission for guests. After the break, another set of shorter films will be streamed for the remainder of the time. Both evenings will be playing different films for the two night program with film titles. Bridgers says the festival plans to stop in about 550 communities in over 40 countries. “This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival.” Bridgers said.
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COURTESY OF PHIL BRID GERS (TOP) Image from Into the Canyon , premiering night one of two. (LEFT) Image from
The Ladakh Project premiering night one of two.
Of the hundreds of films submit-
give it a try. Come see what’s it all
ted, only around 30 are chosen to be
about, I promise you won’t be disap-
featured around the world.
pointed,” Bridgers said. “Around 75%
“We want people to come out and
of the films shown are shot by the
people in them. It’s the best of the best.” Tickets are on sale for only $18 for one night and $35 for both online.