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Anomaly
Despite forced medical retirement from football, David Henry never lost sight of himself or his athletic aspirations
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COVER: David Henry medically retired from the OSU football team in 2015 after receiving his fourth concussion. Photo by Aaron Trask, graphic by Natalie Lutz
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Anomaly
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Wrestler and former football linebacker David Henry works out in the Student Performance Center. After his fourth concussion in 2015, Henry medically retired from football.
After forced medical retirement, former linebacker David Henry was left without the one thing he loves most in life—sports
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hen David Henry joined the Oregon State wrestling team in July 2016, he had to answer multiple questions. For one: how was he going to handle Division-I wrestling despite his four-year absence from competing on the mat? Or, would he be able to stay healthy after medically retiring from the OSU football team only eight months prior? Not all the questions were that difficult. For example, coming from the questionnaire he filled out for his bio page on the OSU wrestling roster, “What’s been your biggest athletic thrill?” He had plenty of options to choose from. A three-sport star at Oakland High School in Oakland, Ore., Henry led OHS to its first football State Championship since 1964 his senior
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year. He racked up 264 rushing yards and four touchdowns in the title game, the capstone to his senior year in which he also earned First Team All-State honors at running back and linebacker. Not to mention the 2A Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year awards—he won both. Wrestling state championships? He earned three of those. All-American wrestling honors? Twice. But he didn’t pick any of those as his athletic pinnacle. He picked the OSU-Michigan football game. Sept. 12, 2015. That’s the day Henry’s football career ended. The day he got his fourth and final concussion in a football game. The day he lay on the turf in Michigan Stadium, his mind clouded, unsure of what just happened, several months of headaches ahead of him. He still doesn’t recall the play, meaning his only memories of the day
are centered more on the atmosphere of the largest stadium in America. “The first time I walked out, I looked around the stadium and it just went up forever— 109,000 people watching,” Henry said, now more than a year removed from that day. “It was cool to play in that atmosphere. It was a fun game, from what I can remember.” Henry had begun to make a name for himself as a linebacker for OSU before the injury. The 6-foot, 235-pounder was a walk-on fullback in 2013, moving back to his original position of linebacker in 2015 after earning a scholarship. Before the season began, he was one of 12 players to participate in a special forces leadership development program at Camp Williams in Utah. He made a career-high four tackles in the Michigan game before the injury. It was his fourth diagnosed concussion, but
he estimates he’d already gotten between 10 and 20 undiagnosed concussions throughout his football career. The day after the Michigan game, Henry called Hayden Craig. A former tight end, Craig overlapped with Henry for about 18 months with the Beavers before retiring in 2014. Craig, who got three concussions in six months, says he still suffers from occasional stuttering problems and eye sensitivity. He still remembers watching the Michigan game on TV. “I saw him get hit pretty hard and I knew he had a concussion,” Craig said. “That next day, he called me and started talking to me. He didn’t sound right.” “Was it worth it?” Henry asked Craig. “Was what worth it?” Craig said.
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(LEFT) The Alpha Omicron Pi house from the outside, (RIGHT) the damage done to the inside of the house after a pipe burst during below-freezing weather over break.
Sorority members displaced Alpha Omicron Pi forced to move to smaller home, property damaged By Anna Weeks, Greek Peek Blog Manager
Week one of winter term is when students normally catch up with friends and start classes, but for the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, it was filled with water. Gregory Anderson, AOII’s contractor, was greeted with roughly three to four inches of standing water covering the floor of the house when he visited over the break. The women living in the chapter house had to be moved to temporary housing until the home can be repaired. Alpha Omicron Pi knows all too well what it is like to not have a chapter house. According to Laci Mae James, chapter president, they never imagined that after a short two and a half years of having a house, they would be without one yet again. A few months after coming to OSU in March of 2014, AOII purchased their first home. The Dutch Colonial style suite was previously the Harrison House Bed and Breakfast. During winter break, a pipe in the house was capped when a sink was removed. After the residents left for the break, the heat in the house was turned off in order to save money. This in turn led the pipes to freeze when the temperature in Corvallis dropped into the teens, resulting in the pipe bursting. There were no injuries, as no one was in the house over break, according to James. “We didn’t really anticipate it to get that cold,” James said. The 10 women who lived in the house were notified a week 4 • DAILYBAROMETER.COM • WEEK OF MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2017
before winter term began that they would have to move. It is estimated that the flooding had occurred seven to 10 days prior, according to James. “If there wasn’t that drain there, they said that they would have needed scuba gear to go downstairs and get all the stuff,” said James. Moving from their house, nicknamed “Homicron,” on 23rd Street into a temporary living situation was a drastic change for the women of AOII. Their new residence has been named “The Barn” due to graffiti spray-painted on the walls in the basement. While “The Barn” is a bit smaller than “Homicron,” the women are making the best of the situation, according to Kristin Spielman, current AOII property manager. The women now have to share five bedrooms and two bathrooms between the 10 of them. “We had to spend the next two days making multiple trips to the other house to collect the necessary items,” said Sabrina Gust, AOII member. “The girls who had their stuff flooded had to sort through everything and make multiple loads of laundry to dry and wash everything. They also had to buy all new furniture.” The monetary damage done to the house itself is unknown at this point. And between damage to craft necessities, shirts and ritual supplies, the inside of the house does not look much
better. The flooring had to be ripped out, the walls have been cut out from roughly two feet up, and the furniture was ruined. Many of the women’s personal items may never be restored. Currently there are heaters throughout the house to dry it out. With the exception of the top floor, the whole inside of the house will be undergoing reconstruction, according to James. “In fact, you could say that it has brought the live-ins even closer together,” said Spielman. “Our headquarters has been working closely with us to make sure that we have everything we need. We are very grateful for them.” The members have high hopes of moving back into the chapter house at the end of the term, but there is a possibility that AOII will have to wait until the end of the year for their house to be fully restored. In the meantime, chapter meetings have been moved to classrooms on campus. While there is a cost to rent these spaces out, it’s coming together to celebrate their sisterhood that means the most, according to James. “We have had a lot of good support from the community, so we are really thankful for that,” James said. “We just hope that we can have our house back, but we are definitely thankful that we have somewhere to stay for right now. We know how hard it is to not have a house ‘cause we didn’t have one for a long time in the beginning.”
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SafeRide Interim Faculty Coordinator Drew Desilet (LEFT), and ASOSU President Rachel Grisham (RIGHT) discuss the SafeRide closure beginning Jan. 29.
SafeRide closed for five days for trainings, cleaning By Erin Dose, News Contributor
The Associated Students of Oregon State University’s SafeRide program will be halting service from Sunday, Jan. 29 through Friday, Feb. 3 for staff trainings, as well as vehicle service. During the five day period, the studentstaff members will be listening to lectures by non-SafeRide transportation experts. These lecturers have been provided with copies of SafeRide’s protocols, as well as the four core values of the organization: safety, professionalism, comfort and student centeredness, according to SafeRide Interim Faculty Coordinator Drew Desilet. “Our staff hears from us all the time,” Desilet said. “So having outside presenters can really bring the message home.” ASOSU President Rachel Grisham believes the trainings will help SafeRide staff maintain their values, as well as learn more about their work. “It’s a great learning opportunity for everyone. SafeRide students will engage in educational opportunities,” Grisham said. Trainings will not be the only focus of the five-day pause. The vans will also be cleaned to reflect the SafeRide values of comfort and professionalism. The mechanical care of the vans falls to OSU’s vehicle maintenance department, but it’s up to SafeRide to keep them clean, according to Desilet. “The vans have seen years of service and wear and tear,” Desilet said. “When they are in our hands, we have thousands of students through them every week.” During winter term, SafeRide services an average of 2,000 students a week, according to Desilet, all between the daily hours 7 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. SafeRide as an organization is entirely student run and designed to educate and empower everyone who takes part. The drivers are expected to be respectful and create a
comfortable space for students, said Desilet. “We are here to provide that safer alternative ride home,” Desilet said. “We are not passing judgement on our students.” OSU student Allison Stevens uses SafeRide often, especially when it is cold out, and believes the trainings will be beneficial despite the disruption. “I’m glad it’s here, and it’s free,” Stevens said. While SafeRide is out of service, students have additional transportation options. The Beaver Bus, Corvallis Transit Service and Corvallis area taxi cabs will be running while SafeRide is closed. The Corvallis Night Owl bus service will also be running, but only on its usual schedule of Thursday through Saturday nights. Student Jennah Curfman is not comfortable using off-campus transportation, and says she’ll have to keep the closure in mind with midterms coming up. “I’d rather stick to campus-sponsored stuff. It’s what I know,” Curfman said. ASOSU chose this five day period to lessen the impact of the closure, according to Grisham. By scheduling it on weeknights, SafeRide will still be open for their busiest days, Friday and Saturday. “We plan to always be critical and evaluate everything we do,” Grisham said. “And sometimes that means we need to stop and pause and gather things.” Holding the trainings is also in preparation for the National SafeRide Programs United conference next Friday and Saturday at OSU, according to Desilet. “ The organization thought we were one of the best SafeRide programs in the country,” Desilet said. SafeRide’s closure is likely a one time occurrence, according to Grisham. “I’d be very surprised if this happened again,” Grisham said.
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Dodi Reesman sitting with her dogs Capone (LEFT) and Dillinger (RIGHT). The house Reesman lives in has sold and she is being evicted. Her students are trying to help.
Students helping longtime adviser Emily Mangan had just left class when she received the text messages. The first one was not meant for her. It was a frantic message from Mangan’s mother, describing blood everywhere and preparation for surgery. The next one was apologetic, and said the previous message was meant for her father. Mangan’s brother had accidentally severed an artery in his arm while woodworking. His mother had rushed him to the hospital, and in the chaos had accidentally sent Mangan the upsetting text. The Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine student went home, confused and terrified. Once in the silence of her house, Mangan felt the desperation surround her. Her family was 54 miles away in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and there was nothing she could do to help. Without thinking, Mangan dialed the one person she had depended on most as an undergraduate, the one person she knew would not only understand, but be able to help. She called Dodi Reesman. The head adviser of the OSU Animal and Rangeland Science Department remained collected as she talked Mangan through her
Dodi Reesman has served students at OSU since the 1970s, now they are returning the favor by raising funds to get her a new home By Erin Dose, News Contributor options. She offered to come over and support the student, and even proposed driving Mangan back to Pleasant Hill that night. Reesman has personal experience with desperate situations. Her son was murdered in 2005, and her personal tragedy allowed her to calmly help Mangan when she was terrified. After her son’s death, Reesman found herself working longer and harder as an escape. Working with students in all areas of their lives allowed her to focus on something other than her grief, according to Reesman. She became
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more invested in her students’ lives and needs, offering advice and help whenever possible. “I can talk to kids about anything: alcohol, drugs, death,” Reesman said. “I don’t think of it as being nice, I think of it as the right thing to do. If I have the ability to help someone, I will. My door is open 99 percent of the time.” Reesman began her time at OSU as a secretary in 1974, and eventually started to pick up work as an advising assistant. After a few years she was promoted to the position of adviser, and in 2016 Reesman was promoted
to head adviser of her department. These years of experience have made her a well-informed and highly successful adviser, according to her colleague and fellow adviser Janell Johnson. “She’s the hub of all knowledge,” said Johnson. Sometimes, advising can be difficult. According to Reesman, she will often have to explain to students that their goals, such as going to graduate school after OSU, are no longer achievable, usually due to low grades. However, she tries to set students up for success by figuring out a plan early on. “Kids aren’t numbers to me,” Reesman said. “I care about them and their success.” Zack VanHoesen, an animal science major, enjoys Reesman’s realistic advising. “She’s incredibly candid and straightforward about what you need to do. She’s not going to sugarcoat things, I appreciate that,” VanHoesen said. Reesman is favorable to students because of her connection with them. Students can comfortably confide in her about any and all issues they may be experiencing, according to Mangan. Students both in and outside of Reesman’s department visit her frequently. They come to her office with academic and personal issues, said Reesman.
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Dodi Reesman working in her office in Withycombe Hall. She is the head adviser for the Animal and Rangeland Science Department and has worked at OSU since 1974. “She’s always there for you in all facets of your life. She’s awesome about helping you out, but never crosses boundaries of professionalism,” Mangan said. “I come to her for so many things, outside of educational purposes,” added VanHoesen. “Going to her is like going to my mom.” Recently, Oregon State students have had the opportunity to help Reesman in return for her devotion to them. The house Reesman has rented for the past nine years was recently sold, and the new owners are evicting her at the end of March. With two dogs and five Persian cats, it is unlikely Reesman will find a new place to rent. She wants to purchase a home. “I have been approved for a loan, but I need the down payment of $6,000,” Reesman said. “I just don’t have $6,000 laying around.” With a desire to avoid disrupting her work with a rushed move, Reesman reached out for help from Mangan, who had the idea to create a GoFundMe page.
“Hearing her be unsure of what steps she was going to take with housing shook me, as she’s never been unsure of anything,” Mangan said. “But a lot of people in the community have helped.” As of Sunday, Jan. 29, the GoFundMe has raised $1,290 of its $6,000 goal. Seventeen people have donated in the past 21 days, in amounts from $20 to $500. Students are willing to help Reesman because of her work as an academic adviser, as well as her compassion and personal influence, according to VanHoesen. “She’s always doing stuff for other people and never asking for anything back,” VanHoesen said. “She deserves something in return.” A Facebook page tracking donations and the developments of Reesman’s situation can be found under the title “A Down Payment for Dodi.” The GoFundMe can be found under the title “I have to move” by Dodi Reesman. WEEK OF MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2017 • DAILYBAROMETER.COM • 7
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Henry
Continued from page 3 “Was it worth it to retire and save your head?” Henry said. “Yeah, it’s the best decision I ever made, Dave,” Craig said. Henry didn’t need much more advice than that. “I wouldn’t say I persuaded him to retire, but I gave him advice on every aspect beyond football,” Craig said. “Are you willing to take the risk of the next time you get a concussion, it could be a serious one? You could lose a body function or motor skill. And he’s smart, he knows. I just gave him the advice, because him and I love the game of football. It’s a tough decision when you’re that age to hang it up. Him and I, coming from small schools, worked so hard to get where we got to and we invested our lives in it. To have to turn away from the game because of an injury we don’t even fully understand, it’s hard.” As it would turn out, Henry didn’t have much of a choice either way. Doug Aukerman, the head of OSU’s Sports Medicine staff, dealt the bad news. Henry had to medically retire, no two ways about it. Suddenly, football was taken away from Henry as a redshirt sophomore. It had been so much of his identity ever since he first strapped on a helmet in fourth grade. It was his biggest passion at OSU, where he worked hard in school but cared far more about his team. “People say it’s just a game,” Henry said. “And it is just a game. But it was pretty much every day of my life for three years.”
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Henry grew up in Oakland, a town 100 miles south of Corvallis that’s been close to reaching 1,000 people for at least two decades. The son of a logger, Henry spent much of his adolescent years working for his father. His free time was spent hunting, either for bull elk in the bush or for running backs on the football field. Around adults, he always was a “yes sir, yes ma’am” type of guy, as Craig puts it. “The kid is kind of an anomaly,” Craig said. “He was raised right. I always joke around and say, ‘Dave, you were born in the wrong generation. You should’ve been born about 30 or 40 years ago.’” Henry is quick to deflect any compliments on his character by relating it back to his parents, Joe and Shawn Henry. Some would call them strict or demanding. Regardless, they gave their son plenty of responsibility and had high expectations for him. By fourth grade, the same year he started playing football, he also started taking care of steers from the family’s cowherd, just one of his many tasks on the ranch. “His old man definitely pushed him,” said George Swartzlender, a close friend of David’s whose father wrestled with Joe Henry at Umpqua Community College. “Dave was pushed to a different level than a lot of kids are. He respects his old man a lot because of what he did for him… He taught him how to work. He’d come in the morning, feed cattle, go to school, work all day after school. He gave [Dave] a work ethic second to none.” David learned early not to grumble when cutting firewood or baling hay, and he took the same attitude to the football field and wrestling mat. “He’s a hard person to come by as far as character and his ability to get the job done and not complain,” Craig said. “Kids our age, you see it all the time, a lot of kids complain. You never really heard that from Dave, and I think that’s what helped him in his success in football and wrestling.” And Henry’s athletic successes were abundant. He helped Oakland High transform from a 1-8 football team to State Champions in a four-year
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Although Henry sustained his fourth diagnosed concussion in the Michigan game in 2015, he estimates he had already suffered between 10 and 20 undiagnosed concussions. span. He averaged 20.3 tackles per game as a junior, second among all players in the nation. On the wrestling mat, his efforts were unparalleled. “He was on a different level than other people,” Swartzlender said, who wrestled for Burns High School and saw Henry compete multiple times. “He was a man in a boy’s world. Domination. Nobody could compete with him.” Josh Parazoo, now on the OSU wrestling team with Henry, remembers playing football for Scio High School and facing Henry’s Oakland team. The entire offensive game plan, Parazoo recalls, was focused on Oakland’s star linebacker. “I just tried to get in his way because I wasn’t going to completely stop him,” Parazoo said, who played left tackle and often would try to block Henry. “I just grabbed ahold of him and hoped I wouldn’t get called for holding.” Henry ran track, too. It’s not often a linebacker would run the 100-meter dash, but he placed fifth in state. Gabe Ovgard, who would go on to play football at OSU before retiring in 2016 due to concussion problems just like Henry, remembers marveling at Henry in the 2012 state track meet. Ovgard’s football coach at 1A Triad School in Klamath Falls walked over to his sophomore standout that day and pointed at Henry. “I didn’t even know who he was at the time, and [coach] said, “That’s what I want you to look like by your senior year,’” Ovgard said. “Because he was 6-foot, 200-plus pounds and was running around 11 seconds in the 100-meters. He was just so solid. Obviously I didn’t get to that size or caliber my senior year.” As a senior, Henry earned the Johnny Carpenter Prep Athlete of the Year Award, given every year to the four most outstanding Oregonian high school athletes. Previous winners included Steve Prefontaine, Damon Stoudamire, Kevin Love, Galen Rupp and some future OSU stars like AC Green, Charlie Sitton, Jordan Poyer and Joey Wong. Not to mention AJ Hedgecock, a close friend of Henry’s
He’s the type of guy that will do anything. He’ll take the shirt off his back for you. He’ll never tell you no if you ask him to help you out. Hayden Craig Former OSU tight end
who also played football for OSU before medically retiring and eventually switching sports to the OSU basketball team. “Dave was one of the freakiest athletes I ever saw,” Hedgecock said of his 235-pound former teammate. “I’m telling you, the guy could do front handsprings and do backflips off the wall and a whole bunch of crazy stuff for a guy as big as he is.” Once he came to OSU, Henry’s athleticism didn’t change. It took him a couple years to get playing time but he continually exceeded expectations, winning the Special Teams Scout Team Award while redshirting in 2013. Once, Ovgard was rewatching an OSU game with some teammates when Henry wasn’t present. “One of our fast guys, maybe a receiver, was running and all of a sudden we see this mass,” Ovgard said. “And it’s catching up to this receiver. Sure enough, it’s David Henry. All of my teammates were shocked, but I had seen him in high school and I knew how fast he was. That’s David Henry. He’s 240 pounds, running down those receivers.” But even while on the football team, Henry was a wrestler. He may have chosen football over wrestling once he came to college, but he didn’t back down from a challenge to grapple with anybody. “Him and I would get in some wresting matches every now and then,” Craig said. “When I was playing, I was 6-foot-4, 250 pounds and I thought I was stronger than an ox. We wrestled and he just beat
the (expletive) out of me. That was pretty funny. You didn’t mess with Dave Henry. With that being said, I will say he’s probably the nicest person you will ever meet. He’s a gentleman. On top of all that strength—he knows he could kick everyone’s (expletive) in the room, but he’s a gentleman.” Craig’s praise of Henry’s character wasn’t simply lip service, either. Henry showed it. A handful of times, he drove to Dayton to help on Craig’s farm, just to help out a friend. Countless times, Henry’s uncle Rick would call him up when he needed help on his cattle farm in Prineville. Henry was willing to drive more than three hours on a Friday night, even if he’d just gotten out of a football workout, without hesitation. It wasn’t for money. Just family. Swartzlender benefitted from Henry’s eagerness to serve, also. When hunting in southwest Oregon near Bandon, Swartzlender says he’s needed to call Henry to help get his truck unstuck “more times than I can count.” The drive from Corvallis to Bandon is three hours. No problem for Henry, though. “He’s the first person I call when I get in a tight spot,” Swartzlender said. “He’s the type of guy that will do anything. He’ll take the shirt off his back for you,” Craig added. “He’ll never tell you no if you ask him to help you out. It’s hard to find a friend like that.” Ironically, it was Henry’s refusal to back down, whether from an appeal for help or a challenge on
the football field, that perhaps ended his career. Never one to shy away from contact, Henry was in the middle of too many collisions. “The relentlessness and the no-fear side of him—the guy would do anything,” Hedgecock said. “At times it could’ve gotten him in trouble, just because he’s pretty much willing to do whatever: in football, he had all those head injuries because he was willing to put his body on the line and do what he needed to do, and he ended up having to stop playing for it. I kinda can relate to that, but at the same time he’s a level above a lot of people I’ve ever been around. He has a side to him that’s ruthless, that he wants to win no matter what. It’s a competitiveness you don’t see around anymore.” The very same thing that made Henry a valuable football player, his hyper-competitiveness and tenacity in pursuing the ballcarrier, likely played a factor in his concussions. And once it all ended, Henry was left in the cold. What would he do without one of the things he cared about most?
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Freshman guard Mikayla Pivec playing against the University of Colorado Boulder on Jan. 22, 2017. Pivec came into the women’s team as the ESPN No. 26 ranked recruit in the 2016 class. She has become a regular starter for the team and is averaging 7.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.
Freshman Mikayla Pivec brings veteran attitude Eighth-ranked Beavers get big contribution from new talent By Kalib LaChappele, Sports Contributor Scott Rueck says that he has a player who is a natural leader, whom he trusts in the game’s biggest situations. The 7-year head coach is not talking about seniors Sydney Weise or Gabby Hansen, who were part of last year’s team that made a run to the Final Four. He’s talking about one of his youngest players, freshman guard Mikayla Pivec. It’s not hard to see what Rueck is talking about. Mikayla Pivec, as a freshman, is starting for the No. 8 ranked team in the country and is averaging 7.7 points and 4.8 rebounds from the guard position, as well as providing defensive intensity. She has earned two “Freshman of the Week” honors this season, the first of which came during the week of Dec. 26th, when she got her first start against Quinnipiac University in the Las Vegas MGM Shootout. “(Pivec) is learning very fast and she’s very aggressive,” Wiese said. “I love what she brings to the table every day for us.” Coming in as ESPN’s No. 26 ranked recruit in the 2016 class, Pivec has consistently increased her contribution. In the Beavers’ 10th game, Pivic earned her first
start and she scored in the double digits for the first time in her career. In the 11 games since, she has been in double digits four more times and has averaged 10.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. “She’s inspiring,” Rueck said. “She is someone that gets better every moment and has stepped into some huge situations and played like a veteran.” In comparison, over the first 11 starts, Wiese averaged 11.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. “She rebounds hard and plays hard every second and she’s so selfless,” Weise said. “I think that’s her best attribute as a player and as a person.” Pivec has been putting up these numbers in the midst of a conference schedule in a very tough Pac-12 conference. Five teams in the Pac-12 are ranked in the top 16 nationally by the NCAA, and if the tournament was held today they would all receive top four seeds. Starting for a top-10 team has high pressure already, but being in the conference with the most top-16 schools in the country adds something extra to it.
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“ There’s a higher expec tation of being more aggressive and doing whatever it takes to help my team be successful,” Pivec said. But the basketball court isn’t the only place that Pivec is working hard. With a 4.0 high school GPA at Lynnwood High School in Washington, she was accepted into the University Honors College here at Oregon State. “(School) has been good so far, teachers really help make it engaging, but we got a month off so I didn’t really have to worry about school as much in December,” Pivec said, cracking a smile. Pivec has been making an impact on and off the court for her team throughout this 2016-17 season, and has filled a major role for the Beavers heading toward the second half of the season and the Pac-12 tournament. “She is someone that has a natural leadership ability through the way she conducts herself and the standard that she lives, plays and competes with,” Rueck said.
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By Sydney McHale, Keep S.A.F.E Blog Manager It’s understandable to respect religious belief and the guidelines that come with each faith, but it is hard to understand a church that excludes people from what is supposed to be a place of God. How can a faith that is meant to accept everyone and rejoice in the sanctity of people and unity reject those who have different sexual preferences? These are a few of the thoughts that came to mind while reading through a BuzzFeed article entitled “Anglican Leaders ‘Feel Silenced’ By Church On Same-Sex Marriage,” by Lane Sainty. This article discusses the dispute of samesex marriage in the Anglican Church in Australia, between the church itself and its leaders. Many progressive Anglican leaders believe all should be welcome in the church, regardless of sexual preference. They also state that they think most Anglicans are very open-minded about same-sex marriage, and have no problem sharing a pew with gays and lesbians. “I think most ordinary Anglicans in the pews in church, most of them, in most places, have no problem with same-sex marriage. People who worship in the church, they’ve got gay sons and daughters, gay grandsons and granddaughters, they’ve got gay friends, gay neighbors,” said Dr. Muriel Porter. Dr. Porter has served on the Anglican Church’s national General Synod for 30 years now, and is a firm believer that the church should not be allowed to turn away someone based on his or her sexual preference, and that same-sex marriage should be allowed. “I feel very strongly about inclusivity in the
church,” Porter said. While many progressive leaders feel this way, other more conservative leaders believe it is best to stick to what the church has said for years, and believe they have the religious freedom to deny people access or service. As written by the Rev. Dr. Michael Stead, the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, and stated by Sainty, “Stead’s submission suggests that anyone who does not support same-sex marriage because of their religious beliefs – whether they work for a religious or secular business – should be allowed to refuse service to a same-sex wedding or related event.” While this is the law, people seem to be more tolerant and accepting than not. Times have changed—it’s time we change with it. No one should be denied access to anywhere, and especially not a church. A church is a place where people should feel free to pray and come together in peace, and not have to worry about being judged for their body, heart or soul. This is not only happening in Australia, obviously. Of the 31 different Christian denominations in the United States, 10 of them do not allow same-sex marriage. Another 8 denominations, depending on location, will also deny same-sex couples. This was an eye-opening article to read. It was crazy to see that the topic of same-sex marriage is everywhere. It’s surprising that in 2017 we are still restricting who others can love and marry. Isn’t that their decision?
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Dining centers offer education, healthy choices Students can take cooking classes, choose from variety of food options By Sarah Berge, Benny’s Beginnings Blog Manager Walking into a typical university dining center, one might expect to be greeted by a barrage of the sights and smells of unhealthy foods. The dining centers of Oregon State University, however, have taken a direct initiative to encourage a healthy lifestyle for students through education and nutritious dining center meals. “We want to teach individuals that live with us some of those lifelong skills that they’ll need to be healthy,” said Tara Sanders, a registered dietitian and the assistant director of nutrition and sustainability at University Housing and Dining Services. “We try to teach skills and recipes that they can duplicate in the residence halls using products either from the dining center or from our stores.” UHDS offers a number of cooking classes, while the university as a whole ensures students have basic nutritional education. As part of the Baccalaureate Core requirements, all OSU students are required to take a lifetime fitness for health course, HHS 231, or an equivalent. One of the focuses in HHS 231
is on nutrition and the proper way to construct a healthy diet. “We do about 40 percent physical activity promotion and then 40 percent of nutrition education,” said Dr. Erica Woekel, the director of the Lifetime Fitness for Health Program. “The other 20 is stress management, behavior change, that kind of mental health stuff.” A large number of students taking HHS 231 and receiving this education are freshmen living in the dorms, as required by OSU’s First Year Experience Program. As a professor of HHS 231, Woekel believes healthy eating in the dining centers is a possibility. However, she also said it can be difficult. “I also think there are a lot of competing temptations within a dining hall with how food is positioned and the cost of certain foods,” Woekel said. “I think it becomes really difficult, especially for people living in dorms as freshmen—primarily who I work with—because they are kind of navigating that all for the very first time and they’re trying to figure out what actually is healthy.”
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514 restaurant in McNary Dining Center allows students to create their own pizzas. 514 uses ingredients grown in the garden located outside of Wilson Hall. Woekel also said that while UHDS does offer some nutritious and healthy options, nutrition is not always the most motivating factor for students when they decide what to eat. “There are a lot of great things in the dining center. But, sometimes it does take a little bit of effort and time and planning,” Woekel said. “I think sometimes when you’re hungry or have a very busy schedule, you kind of go into the dining center like, ‘what looks good? What smells good?’ So, even though we would hope that they have a bit more planning that goes into food choice, that’s not always the case.” Sanders also mentioned that student food choice is often motivated by things other than their nutritional value. “Taste is the top motivator for consumption,” Sanders said. “If it doesn’t taste good, they’re not going to eat it.”
According to Woekel, this preference for specific, less-nutritious foods is something that develops as a result of eating a less-nutritious diet. “Unfortunately we tend to have a high sugar diet in our society, so we tend to get foods that are high in sugar, high in fat, and then our taste buds become accustomed to those things,” Woekel said. “Then the idea of moderation is hard because they’re accustomed to sugary things and maybe they don’t want to eat things like vegetables—broccoli, dark leafy greens, those kinds of things—because they don’t like them as much.” Because of this, Sanders said UHDS tries to make food that looks appealing to students, while also containing some healthier aspects. “That’s the angle we’re taking with nutrition,” Sanders said. “We want it to be appealing.
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Marketplace West Dining Center offers made-to-order sandwiches. The dining centers maintain a nutritional standard for the food they serve. That’s what’s going to incentivise.” minimized as well. UHDS does this by changing some of the “We’ve shrunk things down a bit,” Sanders ingredients in traditionally less-healthy foods, said. “We’ve done a lot for portion size control.” so that they will still look and taste good while UHDS even incorporates small, healthier being slightly healthier, according to Sanders. changes in the kinds of drinks students “We start with healthy ingredients,” Sanders choose. Although though the typical soda and said. “Even if you’re getting a burger, you’re juice options are still available in the dining still getting health benefits there. We have a centers, large jugs of drinking water are also whole-grain bun that everyone gets.” on prominent display for student use. According to Jay Perry, a chef de cuisine “We just try to make water really accessible at Marketplace West Dining Center, the chefs because we just want it to be the number one try to keep a balance when it comes to the choice,” Sanders said. freshness, taste and nutrition of their meals Furthermore, and ingredients. UHDS has imple“Fresh, flavor and mented some selfnutrition are all right there at the serve stations, like top,” Perry said. “We a salad bar and don’t compromise a smoothie bar, one for the other. which allow stuAll three aspects dents to control come into play as and shape healthbest as we can.” ier options into In order to do something that this, Sanders and better fits their the chefs work preferences. together to cre“Largely what ate new ideas for Tara Sanders we try to do is upping the nutriUHDS Assistant Director of make things to tional aspects of the order,” Sanders Nutrition and Sustainability dining centers while said. “Things that still keeping the students happy. are made in the “Tara introduces moment the custhe thought,” Perry said. “And then we dis- tomer can design. They get to design their cuss it and as chefs it’s our job to turn it into food based on their preferences. That choice something students will like. We don’t get it factor is huge.” right all the time.” Woekel explains placing a focus on how According to Sanders, UHDS even gave planning meals before going into the dining pizza, which is often considered one of the center can improve nutrition. unhealthier food options, a healthy nudge by “Just thinking about it, it’s almost like the adjusting the crust. “All of our pizza crust and calzone dough visualization or dreaming of what you’re going is made in-house and with a whole-grain to eat,” Woekel said. “That kind of gets you more excited about what you’re eating. Then blend,” Sanders said. In addition to changing the ingredients in you make better choices because you’re not a lot of the meals offered in the dining halls, as swayed by things like smell. So it becomes Sanders said the portion sizes have been more empowering for an individual.”
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In response to President Trump’s immigration ban
By Riley Youngman Editor-in-Chief This last Friday, the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, signed an executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. According to 2015 data published by the World Bank, this equates to roughly 218 million people that are now banned from coming to the United States, based purely on their country of citizenship. 218 million. President Trump’s actions have far-reaching national and global consequences, as evidenced by growing tensions both within the United States and around the world. Almost immediately after the order was signed, foreign nationals began to be detained at airports in the United States, despite having cleared all legal checkpoints prior to boarding their flights. Protesters then began to file into terminals across the country, demanding that the executive order be taken back. Coming just a week after over 3 million people took to the
streets for the Women’s March, these protests continue to add to the voice of solidarity, unity and resistance echoing around the country in the wake of Trump’s inauguration. Locally, though, this executive order on immigration have a direct impact on the OSU community. According to the OSU Enrollment Summary for Fall 2016, OSU had students from six of the seven countries named in the ban. The summary, put together by the Office of Institutional Research, based this data on a student’s country of citizenship—the same criteria President Trump has established to determine whether or not a person may enter the U.S. For the fall of 2016, there were 95 students from Iran, 31 from Iraq, 14 from Libya, 2 from Sudan, 0 from Somalia, 1 from Syria and 3 from Yemen attending OSU. That’s 146 students total. One hundred forty six students who have sat beside you in chemistry lecture, who have played soccer with you on the IM fields, who have lived across the hall from you in the dorms. These are 146 students that are here at OSU for the same reasons you are—to pursue a higher education and better themselves and the lives of their loved ones. But now, these students are unsure if they will be able to continue with their schooling in the United States because of our president’s actions. In a time where objective, in-depth journalism is becoming increasingly important for the education of society, and fact and truth are being disregarded by the highest officials in the country, we have a immense responsibility at The Baro and Orange Media Network to continue to cover the entire community. There is power in the press, and we understand this. Regardless of any “alternative facts” that are
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Maya Casillas, 7, joins in a Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights protest against President Trump’s executive orders on Jan. 25, at City Hall in Los Angeles. being thrown around right now, the actual fact of the matter is that just because you are a citizen of a country outside of the United States, that does not mean you are a threat to this country. No matter what country you are a citizen of, we will continue to tell your stories. Everyone in the OSU community deserves that. Yet, now more than ever, there is an especially important need to highlight those burdened with the growing adversity of being an international student and the struggles that come with. Simply, what determines your worth is not the
OSU Fall 2016 Enrollment Demographics courtesy of OSU Office of Institutional Research
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Iran: 95 Iraq: 31 Libya: 14 Yemen: 3 Sudan: 2 Syria: 1 Somalia: 0
color of your skin, the country you were born in, what religion you practice or if you are fleeing your homeland to escape civil war, political unrest and unsafe living conditions; it is your actions and character. To the 146 students that are now facing uncertainty as to whether or not they can return to the United States to continue their education here at OSU, know that we are here for you. Each one of you are a member of the OSU community, just as I am myself, as well as the 30,000 other students that are a part of this university. You belong here just as much as any of us. We will not forget you. We will not cast you aside or label you as dangerous or outsiders. We are on your side. The opinions expressed in Youngman’s column do not necessarily reflect those of the Baro’s or OMN’s staff.
Letters to the Editor
Finding solidarity
To the Editorial Staff of the Baro. Thank you for you well-written and thoughtful articles on student and community life in this week’s edition of the Baro. The word solidarity appears on the cover of this week’s newspaper (in a sign that a student is holding). President Trump also used the word in his inaugural address on January 20. Solidarity definition: unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group. Each of us, in the OSU community, can look for new ways to create and build solidarity.
For example, the group Sweatshop Free OSU, which was highlighted this week in the paper, could probably find common ground with someone who supported President Trump’s “buy American, hire American” policy. Coming at it from very different angles, the shared goal is to build solidarity with workers who do not make enough money to survive. The SEC is a great place for individuals or groups to meet one another and find common ground.
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You’ll start having more energy now since Mars is in a friendly planet. You’ll finally feel motivated to get things done. You’ll also handle relationships better because you’ll have a lot more confidence. Expect to make some real progress.
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Mars is in a friendly sign, and this will cheer you up enormously. You’ll be able to look at those minor day to day problems with a sense of humor. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Share some laughs with your partner even if things are little crazy.
You and your honey will have fun together this week. A flirty and fun moon is helping you to lighten up and enjoy things. It’s OK to indulge in creating a happy little world with you and your sweetheart. You’ll have fun in your own joyful bubble. The sun continues to inspire you, helping you to look at your life from a fresh perspective. It’s a great time to dream big. Consider all the things you really want to experience, and find ways to achieve your most cherished goals.
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The importance of public broadcasting By Gareth Baldrica-Franklin, Screengaze Blog Manager
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In Portland, it’s Channel 10. In Corvallis, it’s 7. In eastern Oregon, it’s 13. Any way you look at it, it’s PBS. Wherever you’re from, if you had television growing up, then you had access to public broadcasting. From wholesome children’s shows, to nature and science documentaries, to commercial-free programming, PBS had found the secret to balancing learning and
entertainment. It was the kindly, old man of television—not unlike Mr. Rogers, whose show aired on PBS. While PBS hasn’t been directly threatened by the 2016 election—certainly not as much as it was in 2012—a Federal Communications Commission signal spectrum auction could potentially effect the scope of PBS coverage, particularly in rural areas. As the auction draws to a close, there is still hope
that PBS stations throughout the country will emerge without significant damages. PBS is unlike any other major broadcast TV station–it is managed from the bottom up. It is almost like PBS is a community garden, where everyone pitches in and everyone benefits. Although national programming initiatives do exist, local stations operate with relative autonomy. This also means that they are largely self-funded. In fact, public broadcasting stations in populous areas only rely on federal funds for a small percentage of their budget. Thus, when federal funding for public broadcasting is threatened, it is rural stations that are most vulnerable. Over 40 percent of PBS viewers are children. For households that can’t afford cable packages, educational programming on PBS is one of the only forms of media that children are exposed to. Considering that longrunning programs like “Sesame Street” have measured positive impacts on cognitive development, and that children in households below the poverty line are less likely to have access to books, PBS, in some cases, can fill crucial educational gaps.
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The FCC is allowing broadcasting stations to auction off parts of their broadcasting spectrum to wireless companies. For rural PBS stations, this would bring in revenue at the sacrifice of broadcasting service. While stations could still offer their shows over the internet, they would lose viewers who directly view programs on-air, which, in rural areas, comprises a large chunk of viewership. In Oregon, public broadcasting actually began at Oregon State University. OSU housed the state’s first public radio station in 1923, and later the first public television station in 1957. Everything would later conglomerate into Oregon Public Broadcasting, which is currently headquartered in Portland. PBS is a wonderful entity. In today’s world of over-commercialized entertainment media, it feels like a dream to watch an un-interrupted show, on-air. It has the benefits of streaming coupled with the anticipation of seeing something live. Its array of colorful cartoons provide helpful educational benefits for children, and its long-time partnership with BBC means that some classic British TV finds its way onto American airwaves. There’s a lot to love.
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