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6 - 7 p.m. Austin Hall, Room 100 An Oregon State University grad, Erik Olson, is returning to his alum to give advice on creating startups and innovative brand and marketing techniques. Olson is the founder and CEO of Fort West, a creative brand ad agency, focusing on marketing northwest outdoor companies.
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Andrew Oswalt fails to win seat on Student Fee Committee Record turnout special election approves new ASOSU constitution By JOE WOLF Engagement Editor White nationalist Andrew Oswalt will not serve on next year’s Oregon State University Student Fee Committee, which recommends fee levels for 10 units and over $30 million of student fees. With 3,412 eligible students opening the ballot in the Associated Students of Oregon State University special election, Oswalt received the least support at 236 votes. The four candidates elected to serve on the SFC are Radhika Shah, Jordan Fee, Alex York and Andrew Damitio. ASOSU Chief Elections Officer Josh Kaufman credited the unprecedentedly high turnout for a special election to Oswalt’s candidacy, as well as sending multiple allstudent emails. These messages, with links to the ballot, ensured all students had the means to vote if they wanted to. “It is really important that people in these communities know that folks are with them, and not with Mr. Oswalt,” Kaufman said. “If you look at the numbers, the students of this university are overwhelmingly with marginalized communities and against Mr. Oswalt and the views he represents.” The four elected at-large members will join 10 liaisons representing each of the units funded by student fees. These include Diversity and Cultural Engagement, student tickets to Beaver athletic events and the Human Services
Resource Center, among others. Liaisons were nominated this spring by each unit and approved by sitting ASOSU President Simon Brundage, Kaufman said. All SFC members are subject to confirmation by the student government’s Senate, which will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Memorial Union room 109.
In previous years, special elections have been used to fill SFC seats in the middle of the term. This year the election was held before the term began to make it a democratic process, Kaufman said.
“Any vacancies that occur next year will be up for incoming President Justin Bennett to appoint, but we did not feel it would be ideal to leave those up to presidential appointment going into the term,” Kaufman said. The other measure on the ballot, a proposed rewrite of the student government’s constitution, passed with 2,319 voting in favor, 254 voting against and 839 abstaining (481 actively voted to abstain and 358 passively abstained by not responding to the question). The rewrite includes language specifying that ASOSU represents all OSU students not already represented by another student government, such as the Associated Students of Cascades Campus in Bend. “The real impact and purpose of doing this is to reflect the administrative reality in this university, which is that we have branch campuses, which was not the case 10 years ago when the constitution was written,” Kaufman said. Under the new constitution, the ASOSU House of Representatives will return to its original size of 25 members from 35, which Kaufman hopes will make future races more competitive and lead to fewer vacancies during the term. “That will be an important thing for students next year, because their vote in these elections will be meaningful as opposed to symbolic,” Kaufman said. Orange Media Network, of which The Baro is a part, receives some of its funding from student fees.
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ASOSU Senate Confirmation All incoming Student Fee Committee members must be approved by a vote of the ASOSU Senate. Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Memorial Union Room 109
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Radhika Shah received 1,809 votes to serve on the Student Fee Committee. Shah previously served as the ASOSU Vice President before stepping down.
Jordan Fee received 1,014 votes to serve on the Student Fee Committee. Fee currently serves as an ASOSU senator.
Alex York received 966 votes to serve on the Studet Fee Committee. This will be York’s first office within ASOSU.
Andrew Damitio received 856 votes to serve on the Student Fee Committee. Damitio currently serves as an ASOSU senator.
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I’ve lost people in Iraq, I’ve lost people in Afghanistan. Memorial Day is the day to honor those who made the sacrifice. It is purely in remembrance. It is purely to say thanks. Everything that everyone takes for granted we have because of them. KRYSTLE WOLFE Marine Corps Veteran OSU student
COVER STORY Memorial Day, continued from page 4 Oregon. Elfering comes from a family with a large military background, including his father, brother and nephews. “I knew Memorial Day wasn’t just another neat three-day weekend we got off, but I didn’t have any real connection to it,” Elfering said. “Through a couple combat theatre deployments and having faces and names and laughs and voices that are connected to those names now, it means a lot more.” Many service members say it’s rare for someone to be the first in their family to serve, Elfering noted. This is true with Jacob Mogler, an OSU senior studying Digital Communication Arts. Mogler was 22 with one and a half years of college under his belt when he began service, following in the footsteps of both his father and brother. “There’s a legacy there,” Mogler said. “I joined the Marine Corps and I was in for 3 1/2 years and then immediately went back to school when I got out. There was something bigger than just getting college paid for that got me to sign up.” Fellow Marine Corps veteran and OSU student studying nuclear engineering, Krystle Wolfe, said the particular culture of respect, unique to military families, can be difficult for others to understand. “We’re finding more and more that there’s a disconnect between the civilians, the veterans and the dependent section,” Wolfe said. “We have started marrying into the service because there is the disconnect. We want someone with the same views.” Finding this connection herself, Wolfe’s husband serves as a drill instructor in San Diego. Wolfe, who is also a mother of five, chose OSU not only for its program, but for its proximity to her husband. “The military service gave me discipline so I can study more,” Wolfe said. “I have one year left, I already have an associate (degree) in science and I’m almost done with my bachelor’s (degree).” On campus, Wolfe connects with other veterans through their shared experiences and attitudes. “I’ve lost people in Iraq. I’ve lost people in Afghanistan. Memorial Day is the day to honor those who made the sacrifice. It is purely in remembrance. It is purely to say thanks,” Wolfe said. “Everything that everyone takes for granted we have because of them.” To accomodate students and other members of the OSU community who have served, the Military and Veteran resource center operates in Snell Hall. Additionally, the Memorial Union has a small lounge with a capacity of 47. Beyond what is currently available, Wolfe hopes to see a veteran’s center built on campus. “We have our own way of holding ourselves, our own languages, our views, opinions, beliefs. It gives us an actual location that is ours,” Wolfe said. For those disconnected from the military community, Elfering asked that they remember the sacrifices of those who served in the military. “Take a minute to just think about the freedoms that they do enjoy: whether it be freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to bear arms,” Elfering said. “There are folks that have gone before us that have paid with their lives.”
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JACOB MOGLER Members of the OSU Reserve Officer Training Corps and others honor fallen service members in front on the Memorial Union Monday.
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Keeping a clean slate
College conservatives seek understanding in times of increased political polarization By JOE WOLF Engagement Editor In today’s political climate, it is common that people with different ideologies do not try to understand one another. On a predominantly liberal college campus like Oregon State University, this means conservatism and conservative students can be misunderstood. As a whole, conservatives share the belief that the current social and political order is the result of a historical process built on deeplyingrained wisdom, said Andrew Valls, an associate professor in political science. Despite many differences across various conservative groups, this cautious approach to efforts to reshape society hold the coalition together. “A conservative tends to be, not opposed to all attempts to change, but only in favor of smaller-scale incremental changes,” Valls said. At OSU, conservative-leaning students come together through groups like College Republicans, an offshoot of the political party built on conservative principles. For club president Peter Halajian, being a conservative means supporting limited government involvement in the economy and strong personal freedoms. In his view, increased extremism exists on the left, which Halajian feels he and others on the right must push back against. “It is an actual check on the progress we should be making as a society,” Halajian said.
“The whole goal of human civilization has been to progress, from living in a cave to building these intricate buildings. At any given time, I think there is a point where that progress goes too far or too fast.” Historically, conservatism served as a check on the Enlightenment era, Valls said. These original liberal thinkers expressed a profound faith in human reason and humankind’s ability to remake the world in their own image. “One of the decisive moments in the conservative movement is the French Revolution—Edmund Burke and others arguing against the revolution because it was casting aside all traditions and established norms,” Valls said. Even with this love for tradition, the party itself has changed a great deal in the 21st century. On issues of same-sex marriage or marijuana legalization, younger conservatives are very different from their elders, Halajian said. He feels the party has become far more welcoming to people of all racial backgrounds and sexual orientations than in previous decades. “I think the future of the party in Oregon is really good,” Halajian said. “We have a lot of people our age who are hopefully going to take over the party some day and make some really good inroads in the state.” Another shift in the norms of the modern Republican Party came from the election of President Donald Trump, including a decreased
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focus on reducing government spending and an anti-establishment message. With Trump in office, Halajian has seen political polarization between parties continue to increase. Halajian believes he and other conservatives are painted as completely in step with what the president does, with some even going so far as to call them bigoted for their party affiliation. “Gone are the days when you can go bowling with your neighbors and talk about politics,” Halajian said. “There are important things to discuss and if you cannot have a cordial conversation, you are really screaming at each other for no reason.” While he did not vote for the president, Halajian believes Trump is not solely responsible for these issues in American politics. He has seen more interest on all sides in spectacle and flash, rather than substantive solutions. “Forget for a second winning an election, if you want to make some change you have to work with the other side,” Halajian said. “I think people have lost sight of what politics is all about, I thought we were supposed to be focused on making our communities better and not just sniping at the other side.” In the classroom environment, some have argued polarization can lead to unfair grading practices. Even with clear conservative majorities in both houses of Congress and the White House, there is some evidence that faculty members in the social sciences tend to be more liberal, Valls said. “The important thing for me as a professor is to not make the class about me and what I think, and just teach the ideas and the arguments,” Valls said. “I am well-aware that in all likelihood I have students in my classroom who voted for President Trump, and I think that a college campus should be a place where people can explore their beliefs. That requires a certain amount of tolerance and civility and hopefully we can be successful with that.” Wearing a Make America Great Again hat in classes, College Republicans Vice President Mitchell York believes he was not treated differently for identifying his support
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for Trump. While opposed to the president’s brash approach to politics, York felt Trump was a better choice than 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. “You had two pretty rough choices, but I am going to vote for the Republican over the Democrat,” York said.
Gone are the days when you can go bowling with your neighbors and talk about politics. PETER HALAJIAN College Republicans President Raymond Seal, a first-year OSU student and registered Republican, has never encountered anyone who treated him differently for being a conservative on campus. However, he tends to keep his personal beliefs out of the classroom whenever possible. “There are some people that will just yell at you no matter what you say,” Seal said. “But I think it would be interesting and fun to have a conversation with any intelligent person.” Meeting many like-minded individuals in his major, crop and soil science, Seal does not see any difficulties being a conservative on campus. “As long as I feel like I have an intelligent platform to stand on, I feel comfortable talking about my positions,” Seal said. When he tells people he is a conservative, York believes they expect him to follow the party exactly, just as some Republicans write off anyone aligned with the Democratic Party as believing the same things. “Anytime someone comes up to me and tells me they are a registered Democrat, I ask follow up questions to see what they believe,” York said. “It is important to be open to hearing what someone has to say and keeping a clean slate.”
NEWS
Changes are coming to DAM JAM
Program Council implements new security measures, activities By BROCK HULSE News Contributor This year, Oregon State University Program Council will put on an even larger DAM JAM than last year. This includes a move to Reser Stadium, the booking of larger artists from multiple genres and an increase in lighting, as well as a video board. The move from the Memorial Union Quad to Reser Stadium is one that has been in the process for the past couple of years, said Zack Simmons, the OSUPC director. “Venue change is something OSUPC has been wanting to do for the past couple of years,” Simmons said. “It just takes time to have this event change, the university process moves slow. Those conversations have to happen over years for those changes to happen.” One of the large changes to last year’s DAM JAM was in infrastructure, with the goal of increasing safety and security, Simmons said. “Last year we implemented double fencing around the perimeter, because there’s been incidences of students jumping the fence,” said Simmons. “Last year it also turned into a substance-free event, which meant the elimination of a beer garden.” This focus on the safety and security was due to the goal of making the event sustainable and a long-lasting event for the years to come, said Delaney Stock, an OSUPC event coordinator. “We really tried to bring in more activities for people to do,” Stock said. “Rather than just sitting and watching a concert, there were different things where they were able to engage with each other and create that sense of community that we are celebrating that we didn’t have in years’ past.” This year’s DAM JAM feature a daytime festival from 2-6 p.m. leading up to the concert at 7p.m., said Simmons. “While the concert is still the highlight of the event, there’s all these other activities building up to the concert,” Simmons said. “This is to highlight the event as something larger than just the concert, and making it more about community building.” The pre-concert festival will also feature a passport program for students, said Curtis Orona, an OSUPC co-music and concerts coordinator. Students will be able to obtain their passport from the OSUPC table in Parker Plaza in front of gate B, Orona said. They will then receive a passport stamp for every featured activity they complete. Once they have completed at least 75 percent of their passport, attendees are able
to return to the OSUPC table in order to get one of the limited 2,500 field access wristbands, Orona said. The field access wristbands are being implemented this year to help mitigate the safety concerns relating to fights and a hostile environment around the stage that had been seen in previous years, Orona said According to Orona, the middle agent OSUPC used to contact artists had recommended KYLE due to his positive message and lyrics, and they were already scheduled to play a show in close proximity to Corvallis. As for Alison Wonderland, when Orona had spoken to their friends and fellow students who were interested in EDM, Alison Wonderland was an artist who was known to put on an amazing show.
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Hearing students and their excitement for both of these artists at Reser has really been great and I cannot wait for it to begin. CURTIS ORONOA OSUPC Co-Music and Concernts Coordinator “In previous years, all of our polling show the most popular genres to be, first being pop-rap and second being EDM,” Orona said. “We used the previous polls, as well as our goal of getting a female artist, to help us choose Alison Wonderland and KYLE.” Orona said that because of the change to Reser Stadium, the show can now feature more lighting and sound. This allows for the artists to put on more of a show than has been seen at previous DAM JAMs. The budget that the OSUPC music and concerts coordinators work with was about $200,000, with approximately one-fourth used from student fees. The remaining money comes from ticket revenue and OSUPC events held earlier in the year. All in all, Orona said he cannot wait for the event. “My favorite part so far has been the anticipation,” Orona said. “Hearing students and their excitement for both of these artists at Reser has really been great and I cannot wait for it to begin.”
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Athletics announces top scholars in each sport Q&A: Jack Anderson, baseball, kinesiology, 3.69 GPA
OR ANGE ME DIA N E TWORK ARCHIVE S Jack Anderson getting praise from his teammates after running off of the field.
By JARRED BIERBRAUER Sports Reporter What are some of the study methods you use to stay on top of your grades? Anderson: I like studying alone a little bit, but being able to find people that were other athletes that were kind of on the same schedule as me helped find some group studying. I think group studying is great, you’re kind of able to toss around ideas. On the road, when we were traveling, I wasn’t able to go to the pool everyday
AJ A R AY BUR N | O RA NGE MEDIA NETWOR K Jack Anderson swinging for a fastball in Saturday’s game against UCLA.
after the game because I had to go focus on studying. For me, it’s just always kind of been my head in the books, really conceptualizing the ideas and just putting the time in. I couldn’t just walk into the test feeling uncomfortable, I had to put the time in everyday. Before or after practice I would either be at the Beth Ray Center or be back at home studying. Is there a difference academically between your first year and this year? Anderson: I wasn’t on the team my first year, so my first year was kind of just working out. I’d be hitting for baseball, then I’d also be doing school, so that first year was kind of nice to just set up my academic career. Once I made the team my sophomore year as a redshirt freshman, that was one of the more rougher years for me with school. Junior year, I started playing a little bit more, so I think that was one of the busiest years for me. I was playing just about everyday, but also having to focus on 15 to 16 credits a term. Sophomore and Junior year were definitely some of the tougher few years for me. How are you able to juggle sports and school so effectively? Anderson: “What helped me was that I played three sports in high school, so I had to figure out how to kind of balance school and sports. It wasn’t as intense as it has been here, but I think those four years in high school just balancing all three of those really gave me the groundwork a for figure out how to really do it at a collegiate level. It’s now coming to an end, and I feel like I’ve done a good job and I feel happy with how I’ve done both athletically and academically.
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Q&A: Mikayla Pivec, women’s basketball, bio-health sciences, 3.98 GPA
ORANGE MED I A NETWORK ARCHI VES Mikayla Pivec (right) keeps the ball away from a defender against Calorado University.
By JARRED BIERBRAUER Sports Reporter What’s your major? Pivec: Bio-health sciences, and then you can pick whatever special you want, and I’d like to do pre-med. How many math classes are required for that major and special option? Pivec: Thankfully, I had some credits from high school, so I got the calculus and calculustwo credits from there, so I didn’t have to take that here. But I took stats class, I know genetics had like some math component. I don’t think I have to take too many specifically math, but physics, I’m in that right now and I’m almost done with my last term, so I’m excited. What are some of the study methods you use to stay on top of your grades? Pivec: “It all started back in high school, I got into the habit of after practices or in between something, always try to work on something consistently. If you have a 30 minute pocket of time, you try to use that time to study. Usually, I’ll study during lunch and then I’ll study a lot after practice.” Is there a difference academically between your first year and this year? Pivec: “Definitely yeah, I think after I got all of the baccalaureate core out of the way, and started getting more into more major-specific classes, so I’m taking a lot more science and math. I like math and science, but it definitely adds up the credit hours and is a lot more time dedicated to those major-specific classes.” How are you able to juggle sports and school so effectively? Pivec: I think it’s just trying to dedicate the time, I know we have a lot of great resources here at Beth Ray. We have tutors for missing class due to travel, I know it’s hard to make up
ZBI GNIEW SI KORA | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Sophomore point guard Mikayla Pivec ramains focused on her academics.
some of the information. It’s great to be able to have those resources, and then just trying to make connections with somebody else in the class, like make a friend, and they’re able to give you notes of you were gone for that day, so thankfully a lot of help in school and in classes.”
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Beaver Overdrive creates learning, internship opportunities Students compete in overclocking, improving computer systems
I SABEL SCHOLZ | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK A Beaver Overdrive club computer with liquid coolant system that is currently being worked on by students. The club currently meets Wednesdays at 6pm in Rodgers Hall 332.
By RYLEY MARTIN Practicum Contributor Dedicated to helping students gain experience in thermal management principles early on in their undergraduate careers, Beaver Overdrive, a club in its first year, focuses on overclocking computers. According to Matthew Harrison, the cofounder and adviser of Beaver Overdrive, overclocking is a process in which one purposefully pushes their computer to its limit. “Your processor is allowed to run x amount of calculations per second and when we overclock it, we take it and make it go 2x, 3x or 4x faster,” Harrison said. “One way I like to explain it is if you’ve seen ‘Fast and Furious,’ you have a fast car and when you put NOS in it, you go faster. So basically our goal is to put NOS in the system.” Overclocking refers to pushing a computer’s components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go, according to PCworld.com. This process is often used for gaming purposes, said Genevieve Gaudin, a fourth-year in mechanical engineering and active member of Beaver Overdrive. “If you’re gaming and you want to have really high resolution or frames per second, you can go into a software that changes the parameters that go to the CPU to increase the frequency and the voltage,” Gaudin said. Over the past couple of months, Beaver Overdrive has competed monthly on HWBot, a website where people can post benchmarks and scores to compare their overclocking
skills against others across the world. HWBot is the world’s recognized leader for holding overclocking competitions. Within the time that Beaver Overdrive has been a club, it has placed fourth twice and 10th against other competitors around the world in Rookie Rumble, a competition held by HWbot. The competition includes a number of tests measuring how fast and efficiently the team’s system can perform calculations such as pi to one billion digits. Beaver Overdrive is the first collegiate competitive computer overclocking team, Joshua Gess, the assistant professor of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and faculty mentor for Beaver Overdrive. The club is competing against other experienced overclockers, and is bringing a fresh perspective to the field. Gess said the Beaver Overdrive team works well together, which leads to having a strong team. “We want to show folks how strong we are as a team, not just in the overclocking community, but from a thermal management design perspective,” Gess said. Alongside competing, Beaver Overdrive has began providing students with opportunities that will help further their careers outside of college, Gess said. “We have formed very strong partnerships with Intel and Facebook,” Gess said. “Two of our students have already gotten internships at Intel and we aren’t even a year old.” Gaudin is one of the students who received a year-long internship that assisted her in
securing her spot in graduate school. Members of the club visited Intel where they were able overclock a system they were given. Facebook also provided Beaver Overdrive with VR headsets to help with outreach. “Intel especially sees what we are doing here, introducing students to extreme thermal management problems at a stage years before they would see any of these concepts in the classroom,” Gess said. “They are learning about things that make them impactful on day one.”
We expect to see Beaver Overdrive becoming a stable at OSU and being one of the major clubs that everyone knows about. MATTHEW HARRISON Co-founding and Advisor of Beaver Overdrive Harrison said Beaver Overdrive and its students have great hopes for the future and plan to take the club to the top. “We expect to see Beaver Overdrive becoming a staple at Oregon State University and being one of the major clubs that everyone knows about,” Harrison said. Gess hopes that one day Beaver Overdrive becomes as big or even bigger than the OSU car
and rocket clubs, both of whom the club looks up to. “What I hope is for it to put us on the map as far as electrical packaging goes and to prepare us for when the big schools like Georgia Tech reach us, that we will be one step ahead,” Gess said. Beaver Overdrive’s next endeavor is an additively-manufactured heat sync design challenge run by General Electric. Ten chosen design teams from across the nation will have their designs tested and printed at OSU for a chance to compete at Interpac, a conference in San Francisco, Calif. “I’m very confident that our team will be one of the four finalists,” Gess said. “We are going to work hard.” Beaver Overdrive has had great success with recruiting and is hoping for more students to join, Harrison said. “When we were recruiting, Dr. Gess and I said we only needed three good students for this club to lift, and lucky we’ve gotten 12 great, active students,” Harrison said. The students meet every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in 332 Rogers Hall. The club is eager to have any student join and is not looking for just engineers. “Our president is a history and education major, and we have an interior designer who is designing our lab,” Harrison said. “I think it doesn’t have to be just engineering students, and it shouldn’t be just be engineers.” Questions about the club may be directed to to Andrew Murga, the president of Beaver Overdrive, at Murga@oregonstate.edu.
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Spring One-Act Festival showcases student theatre work Festival serves as escape for students from school By TRISTAN BAILEY Practicum Contributor For more than a decade, the Lab Theatre at Withycombe Hall has hosted the Spring OneAct Festival, an annual event that consists of six student-directed, -designed and -acted one-act shows. Elizabeth Helman, the theatre arts area coordinator and instructor, acts ostensibly as the festival’s producer, offering assistance and advice to students when needed. “I’ve been the faculty advisor for this event for about nine years now,” Helman said. “I sit in on rehearsals, mentor the students through the process and basically just make sure that the festival itself goes smoothly.” The students in Helman’s Theatre Arts (TA) 454, Advanced Play Direction, are directing the shows in this year’s Spring One-Act Festival. “This is honestly my favorite event that we do all year,” Helman said. “It has a lot of energy, a lot of interesting perspectives and it’s just a really fun event.” During the course of the rehearsal process, Amy Stein, a fourth-year theatre arts minor and “The Spotted Man” director, has worked closely with the actors she cast to ensure a collaborative experience. “I take ideas from the actors and the designers to create the vision,” Stein said. “Everybody can weigh in and we all work together to create the show.” Choosing a play that had creative flexibility
was very important to Stein. “I read around twenty plays, and then I got it down to my top five and then I chose one,” Stein said. “I picked something that I felt I could do a lot with—something that had ideas within the script, but that I could add more to.”
People can forget about the outside world for two hours while they see the show. It takes people’s minds off of finals for a while and it can make them feel better. Amy Stein Fourth-year theatre arts minor “The Spotted Man” Director The Spring One-Act Festival is a favorite event amongst university students, Stein said. “(The festival) gives everybody a break from life. People can forget the outside world for two hours while they see the show,” Stein said. “It takes people’s minds off of finals for a while and it can make them feel better.”
The Spring One-Act Festival is a common way for students to get involved with participating in the OSU Theatre Department, said Mike Stephens, a fifth-year theatre arts major and director of “Playwriting 101.” “The One-Act Festival my freshman year was my first role here,” Stephen said. “This is a really great way to get people involved in theatre who normally wouldn’t be.” Brian Stewart, a freshman studying prechemical engineering, will be playing the part of The Gambler in the comedy “Clara and the Gambler.” “I auditioned for the Spring One-Act Festival mostly because my Intro to Theater instructor, Elizabeth Helman, suggested it as a great way to start getting involved,” Stewart said in an email. “As a relative beginner in theatre, I feel like I’ve been learning a lot from both my director and my other cast member who’ve been involved in theatre far longer than me.” The One-Act Festival is an important event for OSU and the larger Corvallis community, Stewart said. “I feel like events like this can really bring color to a campus,” Stewart said in an email. “Having something the students and the rest of the community can do outside of school is really what makes this community feel alive.” The Spring One-Act Festival is an annual student organized theatre event that will take place in the Lab Theatre of Withycombe Hall from May 31 to June 3.
Plays featured in the Spring One-Act Festival “The Spotted Man” by Walter Wykes Directed by: Amy Stein Synopsis: A man walks into a doctors office with mysterious spots and it seems like the professionals are playing tricks on him. Things are not always the way they seem.
“The Role of Della” by: John Wooten Directed by: Mack Powers Synopsis: A comedy taking place in an audition room, which follows two rival actresses as they both try to get the role of Della.
“The Courier” by: Carol Mack Directed by: Lindsey Esch Synopsis: Post 9/11, a man is unjustly interrogated after learning information he wasn’t supposed to know.
“Clara and the Gambler” by: Jason Milligan Directed by: Sarah Wagner Synopsis: On the night of her honeymoon, Clara is interrupted by a man who claims to have won her in a gambling match earlier that night.
“The Rooftop Lesson” by: Rick Orloff Directed by: Mike Stephens Synopsis: A comedy that shows what happens if one tries and controls their characters a little too much.
“In the Drink” by: Timothy Starnes Directed by: Heaven Carreon
AJA RAYBURN | ORAN GE MED I A NETWORK Withycombe Hall is the home of OSU’s Lab Theatre, where the Spring One-Act Festival is held every year.
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Letter to the Editor: Public desensitization, inaction over gun control
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OR ANGE ME DIA NE TWORK ARCHIVE S On March 14, 2018, the Associated Students of Oregon State University used balloons representing the lost lives of shooting victims to draw attention to the issue of school shootings. Members of the student government provided gun locks, information on mental health resources and legislative efforts to prevent gun violence.
I recently found myself reflecting on another school shooting that has just occurred in Santa Fe, Texas. Although my initial thought and outward gasp is still one of “oh please, not another one, not again.” I, soon after, find it difficult to muster emotion. At almost 23 years of age and having seen many of these events I feel an odd mixture of violent rage and complete emotionlessness. I, at this point in my life, am saying something I never thought would utter forth from my lips, I am now desensitized to school shootings. Never should anyone ever feel this lack of emotions. So ashamed am I to realize that in attending school through such acts of violence that I can no longer muster the gut-wrenching melancholy I once felt at the hearing of such
news. I now can only seem to muster coldhearted indifference. I can’t help but think that I have been prepared by my society to feel this way. By idly sitting by during such events and choosing never to take action we are all as equally guilty, for through this inaction we are condoning as a nation the actions of not only the shooter today but also all those who have come before. Sure, there will be much talk by our politicians in the ensuing weeks about this event but nothing will be done, just as nothing is ever done. I regret to say that I am ashamed to be living in this day and age. Matthew Oldifeld Corvallis, Ore.
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Opinion: Trump changes the nation with Twitter President effects change bigly with small vocabulary By IAN ABBENE Columnist
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Donald J. Trump’s tweets are infamously limited in vocabulary, but cover a wide range of subjects and have the ability to influence the real-time behavior of the nation. The President’s unique lexicon has revitalized “bigly,” a word that has been used infrequently since the 1800s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. His habit of speaking in short, punchy sentences, often punctuated by the declaration of a person, place or thing as “great” or “wrong,” is especially noticeable in his tweets. According to Trump Twitter Track Web, a web app created by Oregon State University computer science seniors Brandon Dring and Katherine Jeffrey, in the last year Trump tweeted “great” 659 times, “people” 307 times, “news” 265 times and “America” 225 times. Other words of note include “fake” with 231 occurrences, “Trump” with 228 and “Russia” with 111. “Trump has lived his life as a billionaire, pretty much doing and saying anything he wants. He might be the leader of the free world, the most powerful man on earth, and have 52 million Twitter followers. But, it doesn’t stop Trump from announcing his unfiltered thoughts to the world,” Dring said via email when asked why he studied Trump’s tweets. “Trump posts a lot of Tweets, so there was plenty of data to work with and it’s so culturally relevant right now,” Jeffrey said via email. Trump’s limited vocabulary has caused his intelligence and mental fitness for his position to be publicly called into question. In response, Trump tweeted that he was a “very stable genius” and “like, pretty smart.” The President, tweeting at almost all times of the day and night, often changes the face of the nation with his words. Notably, he has often affected the legal success of his own policies with his commentary, and his anti-Muslim tweets were found to be correlated with offline hate crimes against Muslims. Both the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as the ban on openly transgender members of the military, have been contested in U.S. courts. Both legal battles have also cited Trump’s tweets as evidence. While appeals against the travel ban are still being reviewed by the Supreme Court, the ban was previously overturned on grounds that
Trump’s tweets indicated that it was aimed at Muslim countries. Opponents continue to cite Trump’s anti-Muslim tweets and statements as evidence that the ban discriminates against predominantly Muslim countries in ongoing legal arguments, according to the New York Times and Fox News. When the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military members was overturned on October 31, 2017 by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, she used images of the tweets in her ruling. The Trump administration contended that the ban would increase unit cohesion, morale, preparedness and cut costs, according to the Military Times and the Washington Post. A recent study found that after Trump tweets anti-Muslim sentiments, hate crimes against Muslims spike in countries with high concentrations of Twitter users. In December 2015, after Trump suggested an anti-Muslim ban and accused the U.K. of “trying hard to disguise their massive Muslim problem” over
Trump has lived his life as a billionaire, pretty much doing and saying anything he wants. He might be the leader of the free world, the most powerful man on earth, and have 52 million Twitter followers. But, it doesn’t stop Trump from announcing his unfiltered thoughts to the world. BRANDON DRING Fourth-year student majoring in computer science
Twitter, the FBI reported that the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the following week increased from 5 to 25. Trump wields enormous power with only 280 characters, and exercises it frequently. It is remarkable what one man, who tweets most often at 7 a.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. Wednesday, can do when he presses “Tweet.”
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AJA RAYBURN | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK OSU junior pitcher Bryce Fehmel held UCLA to only three hits as the Beavers went on to win the game 4-1 on Friday, May 25.
Beavers finish second in Pac-12 By JARRED BIERBRAUER Sports Reporter
The Oregon State University Beavers were able to end their 2018 regular season with a series win over the UCLA Bruins before they head into the Corvallis Regionals this week to take on Northwestern State. In the series against UCLA, the Beavers were not only looking to end the season on a positive note, but were also in a race against Stanford for the collegiate baseball Pac-12 Championship. For game one, OSU was able to shut out UCLA as senior pitcher Luke Heimlich had 10 strikeouts, which was enough to hold the Bruins down for a 2-0 OSU win. The Beavers only runs of the game were from the second inning, when sophomore infielder Tyler Malone hit an RBI single to right field. Later in the inning, junior outfielder Trevor Larnach was able to run home from third after senior outfielder Jack Anderson drove the ball through center field. Heimlich’s 10 strikeouts on the day were enough for him to pass Jonah Nickerson for the most strikeouts in a single season in OSU history. Nickerson’s record 131 strikeouts in 2006 was eclipsed when Heimlich reached 139 by the end of the ninth inning on Friday. On the following day, the Beavers prepared to take on UCLA for game two of the series. Prior to the match, Michael Gretler, Luke Heimlich, Kyle Nobach and Jack Anderson were all joined by their families as they celebrated senior night at Goss Stadium on Coleman Field. Junior pitcher Bryce Fehmel was able to contain the Bruins to just three hits and one run
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in the 6 ⅓ innings that he pitched. Fehmel had a 2.71 ERA going into Friday’s game, as well as five strikeouts on 107 pitches. The Beavers’ first run came in the sixth inning when Malone grounded to UCLA pitcher Garrett Barker with one down and the bases loaded, allowing the Beavers to score an early run. Later in the inning, senior outfielder Nobach stepped up to the plate, only to drive a threerun home run over the left wall in front of his entire family. Nobach’s three-run RBI had set the Beavers up 4-1, which became the final score of the game. “It was an incredible feeling, my whole family was here,” Nobach said. “Them being able to watch us play and on senior day it was everything, it was awesome man.” Having won the series, OSU head coach Pat Casey reflected on the games importance on the way to the College World Series. “We think that if we win the series, we should be a national seed,” Casey said. “That’s how important it is for us to win the first two games.” Things took a turn on Saturday for game three of the series, as the Beavers were looking to sweep the Bruins and hoping for a Stanford loss against Washington to earn themselves a Pac-12 Championship. UCLA started things off quickly when sophomore Ryan Kreidler of the Bruins sent a two-run single to left field for a two-run RBI. The Beavers answered back in the sixth inning, when junior infielder Zak Taylor was able to score on a wild pitch, getting OSU on the board at 3-1. The Bruins wouldn’t budge however,
as UCLA sophomore Jeremy Ydens sent one over the left field wall in the bottom of the eighth. No other Beaver would touch home-plate for the rest of the game as the Bruins defense tightened. Senior infielder Michael Gretler was short of words about the team’s performance. “I think the offense just never got going,” Gretler said. “We swung it well you know, hit some balls hard, but we got to do a better job.” At the end of the regular season, the Beavers finished second in the Pac-12 Conference and have been placed as the No. 1 seed in the Corvallis Regionals for the College World Series. The regionals will start June 1, and will have two games played per day until June 4. The Beavers will be taking on Northwestern State in the second game on June 1, at 7:30 p.m.
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