The Baro, November 7, 2016

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Election Issue 2016 With the focus on the national election, several groups at OSU are working to provide a local platform for students to discuss issues, get involved Page 8

NEWS: Veteran resources on campus—2

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SPORTS: The Great White Buffalo—10

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OPINION: The importance of voting—14

Community Calendar

NEWS

MONDAY, NOV. 7 Biology Seminar

Dr. Brad Buckley will lead a seminar titled: “Life in the Freezer: Cellular Responses to Temperature Stress in Antarctic Fishes.”

This event takes place in Agricultural and Life Sciences building in room 4001 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Veteran Resources

Support services on campus for military personel, family

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TUESDAY, NOV. 8 International Student Community Time

This event is open to anyone. Come to the SEC room 112 and meet new people and build community through activities and free food from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Javacoustics

Come listen to OSU students showcase their musical talent. This event takes place in JavaStop near the MU from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 10 Veterans Day Ceremony

Sponsored by OSU’s ROTC units former Air Force Captain Jonathan A. Hayes will be the keynote speaker. Other performances include OSU’s Outspoken Choir, a 12-hour POW/MIA flag walk, a 24-hour POW/MIA vigil and a 21-gun salute. This event takes place in the MU quad from 10 to 11 a.m.

OSU celebrates Star Treks fiftieth anniversary

Artist Ryan Singer, hip hop musician Joel South and Portland State University Indigenous Nations Studies Professor Grace Dillon will talk about their work as Native artists and fans of science fiction. This event takes place in the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws and starts at noon.

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The door to the Memorail Union Veterans Lounge displays the five branches of the military represented inside the U.S. Pentagon.

FRIDAY, NOV. 11 No school in observance of Veterans Day.

Saturday NOV. 12 Corvallis Farmers Market

Come enjoy locally grown produce and goods. Held in beautiful downtown Corvallis, the market takes place between 1st street, Jackson avenue, and Riverfront Commemorative Park on Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information you can visit locallygrown.org.

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ost students arrive at Oregon State University in September, to start classes in the fall after a long summer break. The first few weeks before classes begin, the population of Corvallis booms with people returning from studying abroad, internships, or Instagram worthy adventures. Others are coming straight out of combat zones, and within months are opening textbooks.

Between the e-campus student body and Corvallis and Bend locations, there are approximately 1,200 student veterans and their family members attending OSU. A veteran can choose to delegate their GI bill benefits to a spouse or child, therefore providing them with a higher education through their benefits.

Samantha Fergus is a student veteran who is dual-enrolled at OSU and LBCC and has immersed herself in campus organizations to help her transition into student life. She is the event coordinator for OSU’s Veteran and Family Student Association and the vice president for LBCC’s Veterans Association. Getting people involved with events and promoting an inclusive community is important for veteran transition into higher education.

“Many of us have seen and done things that most students haven’t,” Fergus said. “But you can’t look at someone and be like, ‘Oh, that’s a veteran.’”

The Military and Veterans Resource office in Snell Hall provides aid not only to the 800 veterans and eligible family members studying at the main campus, but also for all OSU locations. Though there is a department in Kerr Administration that works directly with the Veterans Association, the resource office serves as a way to connect students with a variety of services from food benefits to mental health counseling.

Most veterans and eligible delegates are older, non-traditional students. For example, OSU senior Chris Way moved to Corvallis this fall after transferring from Cascades to the main campus. His wife Naomi and their two toddler boys are along for the ride.

“As soon as we got to Corvallis we were in need,” Way said.

He immediately contacted Military and Veteran Resources Advisor, Willie Elfering, who was able to help get the Way family connected with community resources. Way has also been able to take advantage of VA workstudy by holding a student position at the Military and

Veterans Resources office.

“It’s a revolving door,” Way said. “It’s been nice to receive and also give back.”

Elfering has been working with the university to expand the resources available to veterans on campus. Recent renovations of the office in Snell will provide space for wall lockers, which will be especially helpful in assisting students with disabilities. Elfering also advocates for different rehabilitation and mental health practitioners from Eugene and Portland to come to campus. Unfortunately, there isn’t a set location available for use, so there isn’t dependable continuity of these services.

“I would love to have a cultural center, much like there are for other groups on campus,” Elfering said. “It’s important to build community.”

In grander visions, Fergus dreams of housing options similar to greek housing that would support veteran transition more comprehensively.

“A lot of veterans come out of active duty and aren’t prepared for normal life- no place to live, no job lined up,” Fergus said.

Elfering explained that being a service member of the military is not just a job, it’s a lifestyle. Returning to civilian life can prove to be very difficult. Having access to comfortable spaces and special programs on campus is paramount to acclimating to life as a student. Academically, Fergus has identified a need that deserves to be addressed. Out of the students on the main campus, approximately 300 student veterans are on academic suspension. Fergus thinks that getting institutionalized support that connects veterans with disability services in regards to academic support could make a big difference.

There is a designated study space with a few computers adjacent to the resource office, and a comfortable Veterans Lounge in the MU. To improve visibility and community connection, various veteran events happen throughout the year to celebrate and honor the service of veterans. However, this isn’t the only way to connect with veteran inclusion efforts.

“If you’re looking for a way to say thank you, find a way to volunteer,” Elfering said.

Veteran Resources on Campus Memorial Union Veterans Lounge located on the second floor of the MU. Military and Veterans Resource office located in Snell Hall 137, 140 and 141.

Contact them at Veterans@oregonstate.edu.

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NEWS

Still Fighting Army Veteran Donald Phillips advocates for fellow Vets

By Sierra Koefoed, News Contributor

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(LEFT) Willie Elfering, OSU Military and Veteran Resources Advisor, and Iraq War Veteran Donald Phillips (RIGHT) helped implement Veteran Priority Registarion at OSU. 4 • DAILYBAROMETER.COM • WEEK OF MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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or Donald Phillips, the army provided a mixture of experiences. While there were inevitably frustrating and difficult situations, he appreciated certain aspects of his service, such as the camaraderie he found among his fellow soldiers.

“Friendships you build in the military are a lot faster to form and a lot deeper than often formed in the civilian world because when you start talking to or meet another service member, you already have a spectrum of things in common, like you already know how much life can suck,” Phillips said.

Phillips, a senior at Oregon State University, joined the military when he was 18 and served from 2007 to 2011. He was trained as a medic and spent one year in Iraq. When he was not in Iraq, Phillips was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas.

“The most inappropriately named place in the military,” Phillips said.

Phillip’s experience in the army made him realize that he wanted to go into a field where he could help others. When he was a medic, he worked directly with people who needed mental and physical help.

His decision to go into a field where he could help others was was further solidified through an experience that he had shortly after returning from Iraq. Phillips spoke with an old roommate who was going through a divorce and his friend confided that he had been having suicidal ideations.

“I accompanied him to the local hospital and got him checked into emergency care, and that was when I kind of decided that counseling, psychology and veterans advocacy were a thing that I was going to be working toward,” Phillips said.

Phillips began his educational journey a year after getting out of the service, carrying with him a passion for helping others. He attended Linn Benton Community College before transferring to OSU to pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Phillips has appreciated finding members of the OSU community who have also served in the military. He has found a sense of community by going to the Veterans Lounge in the Memorial Union.

He feels that veterans can relate to each other and are bonded through the similar experiences that they have shared.

“Going through stuff like that, it’s hard to adapt from a mentality you’ve set in a war zone to coming back to a place where things aren’t quite as high energy, so you sometimes have inappropriate responses,” Phillips said.

The Veteran’s Lounge is where Phillips and a few other veterans restarted the Veterans and Family Student Association, which is an organization that supports veterans by providing community and advocates for veteran interests.

“While I was [VFSA] president, we got OSU to implement priority registration for veterans using benefits,” Phillips said.

Thanks to Phillips and other veteran advocates, veterans receiving benefits and their dependents now have priority registration each term. Before this, veteran’s only had priority registration during their first term at OSU. Rebecca Mathern, the OSU Registrar, was also involved in making this change.

“And this [first term priority registration] was helpful for our new veterans, but it didn’t have much of an impact for our current veteran students who are already on campus,” Mathern said. “And so through some discussions that we had over the past, I’d say 18 months, we worked really closely with Donald and other veteran students on campus to make a determination that the institution was going to give priority registration to veterans who receive benefits and dependents of veterans who receive benefits.”

Veteran’s benefits only last for four years, and so students are often working overtime to get the classes that they need in order to graduate on time and still receive benefits. This is why priority registration is so important for those receiving veterans benefits.

“And so there’s a lot of stress involved in it because if you end up at 18 credits in your junior, senior year, you have to take 300, 400 level classes plus other things to fill it in,” Phillips said.

“You are just going to run yourself into the ground. I’ve had friends who are like, I’m just trying to figure out which class I’m going to fail this term.”

James Kemp, a veteran attending OSU, served in the army as a Combat Engineer from 1998 to 2001, reiterated the difficulty that veterans and their dependents have finishing their education within time period their benefits last.

“This can be especially difficult for non-traditional students, who often have to balance families, work, service related health problems, and even continuing military obligations, along with their education,” Kemp said. “Priority registration will certainly help those using VA benefits get the benefits they are entitled to.”

Kemp also pointed out that this change in veterans benefits will not only help veterans, but also their dependents.

“Some of those receiving these benefits are the children of service members that served for 20 years, are disabled due to their service, or gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country,” Kemp said.

“Even a seemingly minor change like this can really help.”

With the time he has left at OSU, Phillips, along with other people passionate about veteran advocacy, are pushing for a central location that will house all of the veteran’s resources in one location.

“We’d like to have a place where all of the veteran’s resources on campus can be under one roof, and students don’t have to go hunting to find stuff,” Phillips said.

Phillips hopes to attend George Fox University after graduation this winter to pursue a degree in mental health counseling.

Kemp applauded the work that Phillips and Willie Elfring, the Military and Veteran Resource Advisor at OSU, have been doing “Props to OSU and the veteran community here at OSU,” Kent said. “This [veteran’s priority registration] would not have happened without the hard work of Donald Phillips, last year’s president of the VFSA, and Willie Elfering.”

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NEWS

Politicaly Unaffiliated Allied Students of Another Politics strives to make a difference on campus without association to a specific party

By Thomas Hellman, News Contributor

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Allied Students of Another Politics group members David DeHart and Alexander Riccio hope to create discussion surrounding society and democracy on campus.

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politically alternative group on Oregon State University campus is a rarity.

At OSU, the more popular political mainstays of the U.S. can be found, such as the College Democrats and College Republicans.

There’s even a Libertarian group, though they are still working on getting officially recognized.

Currently, however, those are the only political parties represented; there are no Green, Independent, Constitution or Socialist student groups to be found.

Despite the lack of third parties on campus, there is an alternative, politically unaffiliated, student group trying to make a difference: Allied Students of Another Politics. ASAP began as an assembly of students to brainstorm and develop a radical left political group, and were officially recognized by OSU in Jan. 2015. They describe themselves as being a “horizontal” group; they have no president, no secretary and no treasurer.

Everything the group does is consensus based.

ASAP members Alexander Riccio, Isamar Chavez and David DeHart discussed ASAP’s ideals.

“The way I see our values is that we’re against capitalism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, settler colonialism and imperialism and all their forms, and that we see a bottomup transformation of society that reflects a more cooperative, egalitarian, democratic society,” DeHart said.

ASAP’s symbol is a red badge, taken from the 2012 student protests in Quebec. Across that country, students protested and went on strike against rising tuition costs.

“We made it as a nod to that student movement, but we’ve kind of added some of our own meaning,” DeHart said.

Regarding this year’s elections, Chavez said that ASAP tries to decode political party rhetoric to understand what they are truly saying, and who they are representing. She believes that our voting system disenfranchises minorities and the working class, because no one is representing them.

“Right now, I think that there is an importance in how political structures are put in place, who is representing, and what values politicians and officials are being allowed to be in political discussion, around the public,” Chavez said.

Riccio added that our current form of democracy is voting every two to four years for someone so far removed from us and our

lives to represent our beliefs. It does not feel like a democracy at all. An important aspect of ASAP to him, is that it is a direct democracy, and all its members get a say.

“We’re not a group that advocates for incremental changes or reforms within the political system. Basically, the idea is that if democracy actually means anything, it’s not just this passive action every four years to vote for your next elected official,” Riccio said.

DeHart believed that individual members would be voting for various candidates and measures, but the group itself had no statement or point to make about the election.

“ASAP sees movement-based action as the main mechanism of change, at least how I see it. We’re not gonna tell people not to vote, but we don’t have a statement on voting, because we see that as a very minor, incremental and probably for the most par t fruitless tactic,” DeHart said.

As for the lack of third party groups, Riccio believes it is due to the hassle of getting permission from different repre sentatives.

“All these disconnected representatives of these parties exist somewhere in the ether that you don’t know,” Riccio said.

“The ones with the authority to give you the permission to do what you want to do. That’s something that I would try to avoid.”

However, Candalynn Johnson, ASOSU’s executive director of government relations, stressed that there is nothing stopping students from forming third party groups.

“The only reason there isn’t a presence is because students haven’t done so,” Johnson said. “There’s nothing stopping them from organizing. If there’s a need, there’s a will, there’s a way.”

ASAP’s goals are to build community, educate, inspire transformative change, and to combat oppression. They have an ongoing document, or manifesto, on what they believe a university should look like. It focuses on the student, not on profit and decreasing tuition and class sizes. They also have no higher authority to answer to—aside from OSU; they need permission from the school to host their activities.

It’s up to the ordinary people to come together and to demand change, identify, and have these conversations, and do something. Come out of our comfort zones a bit,” Chavez said.

We see a bottom-up transformation of society that reflects a more cooperative, egalitarian, democratic society.

David DeHart ASAP member

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College Democrats

Club looking past election, planning further engagement

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By Madeline Bright, Practicum Contributor

he Oregon State University College Democrat Club is President, Sierra Alvernaz has been building the club from the ground up this year. Last years vice president, she took over as president at the beginning of the year and was left with only three members. With her leadership there is now seven board members as well as eight regular members.

“Within the past year our other President was going to be leaving, and I thought this is a good opportunity for me this year to step up,” Alvernaz said. “I think I can help the group grow by using what I’ve learned from my experiences as College Democrats vice president last year.”

The College Democrats are a club for students who support the ideals of the Democratic Party. The club aims to engage students and bring people together with similar views who have a desire to learn about politics.

“It’s a good learning experience, I definitely would say,” Alvernaz said. “It’s good to be around like-minded people and also let students know about different opportunities that are coming up in the fall, it doesn’t have to be boring, you can make it fun.”

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learning oppor tunities as well as activities for members.

“We do membership outreach in a variety of ways. In the past, we have tabled in the quad and handed out flyers on campus.

We also do a lot of social media promotion, particularly for our meetings and events,” Johnson said. “Hosting events like our debate viewing parties have been a great way to attract potential members.”

“As much is this is a club, we do want it to be a bit of networking for students who are a part of the club,” added Andrew Damitio, political director of the College Democrats.

Club Communications Director, Breanne Johnson said they are busy with the approaching election.

“Leading up to the election, our club has been canvassing on campus and around the state for Democratic candidates and issues, as well as helping with the campus-wide voter registration drive. We have also been hosting presidential debate viewing parties and discussions to make sure that our members are informed on the issues and the candidates,” Johnson said.

College Democrats are supporting Hillary Clinton however, they have not taken any stance on statewide measures.

“We have not taken a stance on Corvallis City Council races, or the local measures asking voters if they support marijuana taxes or urge the state to act on healthcare. We support Corvallis State Rep. Dan Rayfield, who has helped the club extensively,” Damitio said.

The club will not be hosting their own watch party on Nov. 8. However, they will be attending the watch party event the Benton County Democrats are having in downtown Corvallis. The watch party is election night Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. at the Old World Deli.

When the dust begins to settle on Nov. 9, the club looks forward to the opportunities change brings.

“After the election is over, we will continue to engage students in the political process by holding discussion-based meetings, partnering with local progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood and elected officials like Dan Rayfield, and helping to move forward progressive legislation in the state legislature,” Johnson said.

For anyone interested in the, College Democrats at OSU they meet each Monday at 7 p.m. in Strand Agriculture Hall, room 113.

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The OSU College Democrats club goes over the daily newspaper and discusses politics. The club currenlty has seven board members and eight regular members.

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College Republicans

Organization shifts focus from partisan views to social discussion

By Ercoli Crugnale, News Contributor

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The College Republicans meet in Stag 113, Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Many members in the club feel that the meetings are a social place to discuss politics in a friendly manner.

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regon State University’s Republican club doesn’t believe in traditional partisan politics. Instead, members are adamant that the club is about coming together to discuss politics in a friendly manner rather than declaring a personal dogma superior to others.

“We have a Hillary supporter,” said club member Kevin Fisher. “We’re a diverse group.”

Club president Tanner Lloyd said that, for him, the club is more of a way to connect with friends and socialize than anything else. Others were quick to echo his sentiments.

“I joined because I wanted something to do,” Lloyd said.

“It’s more about being social, getting involved,” added Fisher. “Even if my views don’t necessarily align with everyone’s. That’s what college is all about. Meeting new people.”

On a more political note, Lloyd discussed the club’s mission statement. He expressed optimism regarding the campus’ ideological makeup.

“We try to provide a different narrative on campus.” Lloyd said. “I feel like our campus is pretty fair, for the most part.”

The abundance of opinions within the club is clear when the group discusses national or federal issues.

The group lacks a consensus to the extent that they have not endorsed an actual presidential candidate. Members support Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton and a variety of other, lesser known candidates.

However, when it comes to local issues, the group is near unanimous in their opinions. In

particular, the group is dead set against measure 97, which would raise Oregon’s corporate tax, which is currently the lowest in the nation.

“LRO, from the Oregon state government, did their investigation on measure 97 and determined that it would cost an extra $600 a year for every Oregonian.” said Club Secretary Chase Whitten. “The tax on the corporations would just get passed on to the consumers. We really don’t think that that’s acceptable.”

In addition, the club backs Dennis Richardson’s bid for Secretary of State, and had a mixer with Governor hopeful Bud Pierce, and prospective Treasurer Jeff Gudman.

In the end, Lloyd stresses that it’s about the people, not just the politics with the club.

“We like to get together, even if we’re not talking about towing the Republican line all the time.” said Lloyd.

“We definitely get along really well,” added Whitten. “I think half the reason we come is just because we like talking about politics, even if we don’t agree 100 percent of the time.”

College Republicans at OSU will be hosting a watch party for the election. If you are interested in joining them, you can find them in Stag 113 on Tuesday Nov. 8, at 6 p.m.

SPORTS

The Great White Buffalo Sumner Houston doesn’t let any obstacle get in his way—and he has the nickname to prove it

By Josh Worden, Senior Beat Reporter

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Sophomore defensive lineman Sumner Houston plays during the Univeristy of Washington game. After redshirting in 2014, he made 21 tackles last season and has five starts this year.

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Sumner Houston took the ball, looked to the rim and rose up for the dunk.

Houston, who is better known as a sophomore defensive lineman on the Oregon State football team than for his pickup basketball skills, had nobody between him and the net.

His ferocious slam dunk — on an indoor Nerf hoop in his Philomath apartment, admittedly — was a bit overzealous; the 6-foot-2, 273-pounder couldn’t stop his momentum and his leg gashed a three-foot hole in the wall.

While others may have laughed the incident off before calling somebody to fix it, Houston got frustrated with himself. He even tried to fix the hole himself, determined to rectify the problem he created.

That’s the reputation Houston has built in his three years at OSU: he’s never one to forget a mistake he’s made, nor will he stop short of remedying the situation whenever possible.

That includes the hoop.

“He was really upset about that,” said fellow offensive lineman Trent Moore, who was Houston’s roommate during the dunking debacle. “He tried to fix it at first and that didn’t quite work out.”

Houston’s carpentry skills may not have sufficed, but his penchant for self-criticism and his unshakable work ethic has led to increased playing time. After redshirting in 2014, he made 21 tackles last season and has five starts this year.

“Football is very important to him,” said head coach and defensive line coach Gary Andersen. “He’s done a very good job of working daily to take what he deems not good — and he’s very hard on himself to the point where sometimes that’s a negative — but really focus on those things. He’s a tremendous teammate.”

As Andersen alluded to, Houston is his own harshest critic. Sometimes, it almost goes too far. He has a problem letting go of mistakes, which can be his biggest weakness and greatest asset. His freshman year, Houston admits that if he lost a one-on-one drill in practice, he’d “freak out” and struggle to get his mind right for the next drill. Still, memories of past failures are what fuels his drive on the field today.

Take the final play of the spring game for example. The intrasquad contest took place more than six months ago but Houston still remembers the final play, when his defensive unit couldn’t stop a game-winning touchdown

pass. Houston was supposed rush around the right tackle, which he did — but angled too sharply and allowed quarterback Darell Garretson to get outside the pocket.

“It did lose us the spring game,” Houston said. “I hate to lose, all my teammates know that.”

The fact that Houston still recalls the play vividly is a testament to what sticks with enough to provide motivation. His on-field growth as a result has been apparent the last two seasons. Just ask his best friend and offensive lineman Gavin Andrews, who has spent plenty of time blocking Houston in practice the last few years at OSU as well as beforehand. Houston’s De La Salle High School is rivals with Andrews’ Granite Bay High School.

Houston is a couple years younger than Andrews, so their initial face-offs in practice two years ago pitted Andrews as a starting offensive lineman and Houston as a redshirting rookie.

“We’d always go at it during practice,” Houston said. “I was a scout team guy in there 90 plays and he’d come in and beat down on me. It helped me learn to take failure in a good light instead of taking it as a downer every team. I don’t like to lose, but when I do lose, I like to learn from it.”

“Him being a freshman, coming in here and trying to jump the snap every time, it really pisses you off,” Andrews said with a smile. “We got into a fight — a tussle — a couple of times.

But after that, it kind’ve just built into a friendship. Until he broke my foot during spring ball.

Then we just became friends after that. That would be my relationship with Sumner.”

Andrews doesn’t actually blame Houston for breaking his foot, though it was Houston that he was blocking when he broke it. Even that didn’t prevent Andrews from developing a respect for Houston and his work ethic.

“Guys from De La Salle, they’ve always got big motors,” Andrews said. “They can constantly keep going, like (former OSU offensive lineman) Dylan Wynn. It’s something you don’t like to practice against but you’ve got to respect it when he’s on your team at the end of the day.”

Houston is honored to be likened to Dylan Wynn, a former teammate and fellow defensive lineman both at De La Salle and at OSU. In fact, Houston says Wynn is the biggest role model he’s looked to during his time in Corvallis.

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“The motor that he had, the strength he had, the intensity he played at: that’s what I want to put into my game,” Houston said.

There’s one other similarity between Houston and Wynn that may not get talked about explicitly very often, but still gets acknowledged. Houston and Wynn are both white, making them somewhat of a minority in college football.

His skin color and forceful playing style led to the nickname “The Great White Buffalo,” given by strength and conditioning coach Micah Cloward.

“He is kinda like a big, white buffalo,” Moore said. “He’s big and hard to move.”

Though he’s received plenty of smack talk from opposing offensive linemen in games for being white, Houston isn’t bothered. In fact, he tries to capitalize on the lowered expectations.

“They think lower of me, which I could take as an advantage because they don’t expect what I’m going to bring,” Houston said. “But once I smack them in the mouth once or twice, that all goes away. Then they play me just like anyone else.”

It helps that Houston has bulked up at OSU — he’s listed at 6-foot-2, 273 pounds but says he’s closer to 290. Keeping weight on was a struggle in high school because he would play offense, defense and special teams. He entered his senior year at 270 pounds and finished it at 240. He went the opposite direction in his first year at OSU, rising to 280 pounds during his redshirt year. “(Gaining) 40 pounds in a year — it wasn’t all muscle,” Houston said. “It was a lot of fat.

I felt bloated. I was pretty slow and sluggish and had no endurance whatsoever.

But now I’ve worked on it, gained an extra 10 pounds and I feel a lot better moving around with the weight.”

Houston’s new body type took some getting used to. In high school he would play almost every snap without needing a breather; last year, it was “three or four plays, max,” before he was winded. But this season, Houston has felt much better about his conditioning.

“My redshirt freshman year, I obviously was not prepared to play,” Houston said. “I was young and undersized. I’m getting up there and able to hold my own a lot better.”

Of the 80 to 90 plays each game, Houston has been on the field for an average of about 45 this season. Though he hasn’t made a ton of highlight plays, going without a tackle for loss or sack thus far, coaches have lauded his technique. After each game, the coaching staff watches the film and grades each player’s

technique and performance on a 0-100 scale.

Houston has held his own among other defensive lineman by grading out in the mid-80s and occasionally touching 90.

Houston has aspirations to be a bigger playmaker in his remaining two and a half years at OSU, but he also has big goals off the field.

He’s a Construc tion Engineering Management major with a minor in Business and he’s currently in his first term in Pro-School.

By his own estimate, Houston spends 14 hours in class each week, 15 to 20 hours doing homework and about 40 hours in football related activities like practices, games, team meetings and film sessions. It’s no surprise that Houston faces a difficult dilemma each week in how to budget time to get everything done. He can’t let his grades slip since he wants to maintain at 3.5 GPA, but football is also a huge priority.

“It’s a full time job plus another full time job,” Houston said.

He handles it by mimicking his no-nonsense football playing style in his time management and school work.

“In the dorms, every night he was up super late with his light on doing homework,” Moore said. “When he told me he was minoring in Business too, I was like, ‘I don’t know how you do it.’ But he gets it done, which is pretty crazy.”

“He’s a smart, smart young man,” Andersen added. “He’s worked hard to get to the spot where he’s at this year.”

After the Colorado game earlier this season, Houston had to do almost seven hours of homework the day after the game and still didn’t finish all his work for the weekend.

“A lot of my work has to be done on the weekends,” Houston said. “There’s a lot of work but I’m balancing it. It keeps me more focused because I have football. I don’t have time to screw around.”

Houston’s passion for engineering started as a child, when he developed a tendency to take objects apart and analyze their mechanical nature.

His dream job once football ends: “Get hooked up with a big company, start working on jobs and making some infrastructure to better the world.”

And if anything goes awry in the meantime like his hole in the wall on his dunk attempt last year, better believe he’ll start patching it up without a moment’s hesitation.

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By Gareth Baldrica-Franklin, Player Orange Blog Manager

Among 21st Century hot button issues, climate change is as present as it is controversial.

Greenhouse gases, warming seas, desertification. Climate change is more of a promise than a speculation. Still, there are many who are convinced that climate change is no more than an elaborate environmentalist hoax, perpetrated

by Al Gore. But what’s especially interesting about climate change is its relationship to pop culture. While it has an unarguable presence in news media, prominently featured in editorials, documentary films and TV specials, it lacks nuanced narrative portrayals. This stands in stark contrast to other important issues of today. There are many portrayals (both fictional and based on reality) of discrimination based on race or gender, of chronic poverty/income inequality and of authoritarianism. While the presence of these issues in narrative media by no means solves or attempts to solve them,

their representation alone is powerful. Climate change will likely affect us all, albeit in different ways and magnitudes. Why does it lack narrative portrayal?

When climate change is used in fiction, it is typically used as a world-building technique to justify an apocalypse. The Mad Max series is set in a world where wars have been waged over water, suggesting that mismanagement and over-appropriation directly resulted in the end of the world. Thus, that the environmental catastrophe was human-caused. In Snowpiercer, an attempt to reverse climate change ultimately ends up causing the world to freeze. And in Interstellar, the force that drives Matthew McConaughey’s character to search for habitable planets is the fact that Earth is drying up, making crops nearly impossible to grow.

There are two key problems when climate change or anthropogenic ecological destruc-

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tion are used in this way. In the case of Mad Max and Snowpiercer, characters are forced to cope with a world that was created by past generations. It is clear that the characters face misery, but there is no culpability, no remote connection to the many bad choices that humanity made throughout its history. I’m not saying that these movies necessarily need a connection to the modern world, they are both excellent movies, rather that they don’t work as movies about climate change. Interstellar makes a similar mistake by offering humanity a choice to leave Earth. It’s a solution that doesn’t suggest collective growth or acknowledgement of responsibility. Instead, it gives its characters a fantastical option–create a new Earth instead of healing this Earth.

One of the biggest problems with climate change as a narrative device is that it is typically viewed as a vague, impersonal force.

Something impossible to fight alone. This is markedly different from other issues as they are portrayed in fiction. One person’s actions can make a huge difference in fighting an authoritarian regime, be it an action hero or a charismatic inspirer. Obviously, most of the great characters and leaders have been able to recruit support to better their causes. But climate change doesn’t really have any modern analogues to Martin Luther King or Ghandi, and it likely never will. Sure, Al Gore has largely been the face of American climate change awareness, but I would never equate his relationship to climate change with Martin Luther King’s relationship to racism. Awareness and action are two very different things, and climate change is going to take collective action from all over the world in order to remedy.

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In discussions of climate change, there is such a focus on what would happen if we continue in our apathetic ways. But there are people around the world who are being affected by environmental destruction today. These individuals need to be highlighted and connected to the actions of those halfway across the world.

Portrayals of this nature can be fictional or based on true events. Additionally, speculation about the future of humanity in relationship to climate change needs to stop being so exclusively bleak. Imagination is important to creating change. Being able to imagine a better future may be key in creating one.

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OPINION

The importance of voting

By Candalynn Johnson, ASOSU Executive Director of Government Relations

Why Vote?

The Oregon Student Association (OSA) is a statewide organization that works to have student issues heard and addressed by lawmakers across the state. Currently ASOSU is working with OSA on campus to reach out to all of the students who we registered to make sure they utilize their power and get out to vote. We also acknowledge the problematic history in our nation of barriers to voting for underrepresented communities like women, young people, people of color, and/or LGBTQ identified folks. People have fought to overcome these barriers and we are still working to ensure access to voting for all and to help these disenfranchised communities have their voices uplifted.

It is hard sometimes as a student to think about how your single vote can have an impact nation-wide, but consider this, if our demographic continues to not show up at the polls then we will continue to see issues like the rising costs of tuition, the student debt crisis, and sexual assault on our campuses not being addressed or prioritized both nationally

and statewide. There are many options on your ballot that could have a huge impact on you as a student such as the candidates running in Oregon for state representative, U.S Senator, Governor, and several ballot measures. Between the University and CC systems there are about 200,000 students in post-secondary education in Oregon. So it is possible that if students mobilized and got out to vote we could be a very important and powerful voting block. In 2014 the median age for people that we registered to vote was 24 years old. Though students of course include a large number of people older than that, it is also one of the youngest voting constituencies in Oregon, and we have to realize that fact is impacting our legislative agenda. When legislators think about students, they are often thinking about a demographic of people that they assume don’t participate.

This can be harmful when OSA is fighting for our issues in the state capitol or when ASOSU brings student issues to our U.S senators and representatives, because our legislators do not believe that we are a constituency worth prioritizing due to our lack of participation in

the political process.

If we highlight the impact that students can have on elections, we can see that every vote does truly matter.

Here is an example: In 2010 the Student Vote Coalition had registered 1.53 percent of the active registered voters in the state of Oregon.

Governor Kitzhaber won his race in 2010 by a 1.53 percent margin and/or 22,238 votes.

We know that students had a big impact on that race, as we essentially registered and turned out to vote around the state the same amount of people that was the difference in the race.

We do this work as a way of building power for all students by showing our local and statewide elected officials that students are voting and paying attention to the decisions they make – many of which directly impact our ability to go and be successful in school.

In 2014, the Oregon Student Association registered more than 55,000 students to vote in the largest non-partisan voter registration drive in the state. Then, during the following legislative sessions, students won the largest investments

in community colleges and universities to block tuition hikes. We also received funding for Open Educational Resources program. To win that kind of victory again during the Oregon long legislative session next year we need to vote in numbers too large for decision makers to ignore. So get out and vote, because it truly does make a difference to have your voice be heard.

Where to go: An official drop off box is located in the Valley library on campus and will be open until Tuesday November 8th at 8pm.

You can also drop your ballot off at the Benton County Elections office.

If you have any other questions about your ballot or you still have not received one please stop by the ASOSU office in SEC 250 or email asosu.gov@oregonstate.edu. You can also contact the Benton County elections office directly for more questions at 541-766-6756.

Thank you, Candalynn Johnson ASOSU Executive Director of Government Relations OSA Board of Directors

solution is reached.

Contemporary computers (your laptop and smartphone) work in essentially the same way, just a whole lot faster, smaller and more diverse in applications.

The Giant Brain became known as a “computer” because it did the work of the human computers.

When ENIAC was assigned to do ballistics tables by the military it required skilled operators who could give the machine instructions; which were analogous to the workflow of a problem through the computer room.

Sensibly the military assigned six women from WAC to be the ENIAC operators ; Kathleen McNulty, Francis Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, Elizabeth Synder and Marilyn Wescoff.

Their job was to understand how ENIAC operated and to give it instructions on how to solve the problems given to it.

These women were the first electronic computer programmers and were basically

The soul of the machine

By Dr. Jon Dorbolo, Ask Dr. Tech

Dr. Tech can be reached at Jon.Dorbolo@oregonstate.edu Do you know when the first computer was made and who the first computer programmers were?

This sounds like a trivia quiz, but the story behind the answers is not trivial because it is the history of careers for women in modern science and technology.

The earliest electronic computer was ENIAC, a secret World War II project developed at the University of Pennsylvania and made public in 1946 as the “Giant Brain.”

Two men, Mauchly and Eckert, designed and built ENIAC as anyone who studies the history of technology knows.

What is not often recognized is that the operators of ENIAC were women and before the electronic Giant Brain existed they worked as human computers.

The women were members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) founded in 1942 with their official emblem an image of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage and strategy.

The military needed advanced ballistics formulas to keep up with the rapidly developing weapons technology.

Ballistics is the mechanical science of the behavior of moving projectiles such as rockets and bullets.

The physics and math of projectiles in actual use is so complex that an individual would take a long time to work out the ballistics tables used on the battlefield.

To speed up ballistics calculations the military organized “computer rooms” which consisted of mathematicians seated in rows of desks, each given a specific calculation task to perform.

These mathematicians doing their part in the calculation process were called “computers,” because they computed solutions to problems.

Each computer would solve the calculation task for the part of the problem given to them, then pass the problem with their result onto the next computer who would solve their part and pass it on.

By controlling the work flow of a problem among the computers and their specific calculation roles, many types of mathematical and mechanical problems were solvable at a level of complexity and efficiency beyond the capabilities of even brilliant individuals.

A primary mission for the WACs was to work as computers; the military computer rooms were almost exclusively operated by women.

ENIAC, the Giant Brain, worked in a way similar to how computer rooms did, passing a problem from one electronic calculator to the next until a

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Today’s Birthday (11/07/16).

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Think of all the possibilities. Persuade others to go along with your home renovation plans. Write down your dreams. Invest in family comfort. You’re surrounded by love. Get the whole gang to help. Soak it up.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Your intuition about what needs to be expressed is especially tuned. You sense where things are going. It’s a good time to craft mission and vision statements, to articulate dreams. You may get what you ask for.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — You are at your most convincing. It’s an excellent time to ask for money. Send invoices. Spend to upgrade infrastructure.

Fulfill a dream through communications. Find the facts to fill in the blanks.

Generosity gets rewarded.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Savor a creative job. A philosophical shift shows you a new perspective. Realign your personal priorities. You’ve got the energy to make things happen, and words to express your vision. Focus your aim and hit the mark.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Peaceful introspection reveals hidden creativity. Spin a wild yarn.

Take photographs or write.

Commit to a romantic dream. Consider imaginative alternatives to the status quo.

Draw beautiful fantasies, and implement their practical details. Joy inspires you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Get into communication with social networks to find what you need. Gentle persuasion is best. Obtain the desired results easily. Advancement could seem sudden. Discover more options than you knew you had. A new opportunity brings luck.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Exciting professional opportunities require your attention. Take definitive action. There’s more than expected. Keep your feet on the ground. Celebrate after work. Get advice from experienced friends. Outdoor recreation is possible.

Gourmet dining is on.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Share your dreams publicly and goodness comes your way.

An unexpected development draws you out. Opportunities abound. Investigate and explore. Talk to people nearby to uncover a buried truth. Discover wisdom and compassion. Far horizons beckon.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Talk with your partner about what you would do if money were no object. What creative work would you take on? Raise the passion factor. Speculate with numbers. Go for the big prize, and take notes.

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writing software for the solution of different problem types.

One of those problem types came from the Manhattan project, another military secret that produced the atomic bomb.

Human computers were not dedicated solely to bombs and bullets because when the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was created in 1936 the launch solutions for the rockets that put the first US satellites into space were solved by teams of women in computer rooms.

ENIAC may be the earliest operational electronic computer, but mechanical computers date back to 1842 when British mathematician Charles Babbage proposed his Analytical Engine - a computer that worked with gears and punch cards.

A computer needs a programmer and if you guessed that the programmer of the Analytical Engine was a woman, then you are aptly following the theme being developed here.

Ada Lovelace was an Italian mathematician who developed the operating system for the Analytical Engine and an algorithm by which it could compute Bernoulli numbers (i.e., really hard math problems).

Lovelace’s brilliance is demonstrated in her recognition that computers could perform applications beyond number crunching, such as when she wrote that the Analytic Engine; “might act upon other things besides number...Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might

compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

In the middle of the 19th century, when horses were the primary mode of transportation, Lovelace anticipated the technology of 21st century music, among many other applications that we now take for granted.

Another reality that we take for granted in our time is the participation of women in science, engineering and technology.

Not long ago those careers were not available to women and it is thanks to the courageous and brilliant women such as the WACs and Lovelace that contemporary women can use their talents fully as scientists, engineers and technicians to change our world.

I encourage you to follow this story of human progress further by reading “When Computers Were Human” at http://go.nasa.gov/2faXTad lent read is “When Computers Were Women” by Jennifer S. Light at http://bit.ly/2e9fJg3 Google Ada Lovelace to discover that she was a fashionable as she was brilliant.

It is fascinating to recognize that when men began to construct computers in order to extend the boundaries of human intelligence it was women who fashioned the soul of the machine. out your individual freedom as a thinker.

The future of the American political system is all about data and the more that you know about those processes, the better equipped you will be as a citizen and voter.

The opinions expressed in Dr. Dorbolo’s column do not necessarily reflect those of the Baro’s staff.

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