'No need to panic' | March 9, 2020

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Public Safety Input and Listening Session

Memorial Union, Room 49 6-8 p.m.

As licensed law enforcement services on OSU’s Corvallis campus change on July 1, the university seeks community input regarding public safety services for the Corvallis campus. Students, faculty and staff, along with the public, are encouraged to participate.

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TUESDAY, MARCH. 10

Public Safety Input and Listening Session

Memorial Union, Room 49 10 a.m.-Noon As licensed law enforcement services on OSU’s Corvallis campus change on July 1, the university seeks community input regarding public safety services for the Corvallis campus.

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COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Global Impacts

Milam Hall, Room 119 2-4 p.m.

The Center for Global Health will present “COVID-19 pandemic and its global impacts.” Presenters are Associate Professor Jeff Bethel and Professor Chunhuei Chi. Each speaker will present for 15 minutes, followed by an open discussion.

Public Safety Input and Listening Session

Memorial Union, Room 49 6-8 p.m.

As licensed law enforcement services on OSU’s Corvallis campus change on July 1, the university seeks community input regarding public safety services for the Corvallis campus.

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Animal Action Day supports animal rights

Hurley prepares for 11 Nick Corvallis Police Chief role

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The ResiSTORE: OSU’s electronics nonprofit

Al-Mulla: Perils 13 Forum: of internet connectivity

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OSU currently low risk for coronavirus, developing outbreak plan University on first level of four-level plan, increasing awareness, promoting hygiene

By JADA KRENING News Correspondent Oregon State University is currently considered low-risk at the time of print following the fourteen cases of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus in Oregon that prompted Governor Kate Brown to declare a state of emergency, but has a four-level plan in place should an outbreak reach Corvallis.

Steve Clark, vice president of University Relations and Marketing, said the four levels of response will depend on the nature of a localized outbreak within the OSU community.

The university is currently at Level 1, which includes increasing awareness, promoting wellness measures and additional cleaning across campus as a means of prevention. Level 2 would result in social distancing and self-isolation, Level 3 would result in OSU-directed cancellations and travel restrictions, and Level 4 would result in closing campus and utilizing remote delivery of education.

No one has yet tested positive for COVID-19 in Corvallis, although as more cases appear nationally and internationally, hygiene products such as hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes are in high demand across the state. Clark said there are no current plans to close the university or cancel activities, such as sporting events, conferences or music performances “At its height, we may fully close the university, dependent upon the level of incidents and its location. That could include our campus in Corvallis, in Bend, and operations in Newport, because there’s connectivity between each of those,” Clark said.

Dan Larson, OSU vice provost for student affairs, said the

JARRED BIERBRAUER | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK At WinCo in Corvallis, Ore., hygiene supplies such as hand sanitizer and face masks are out of stock. However, Chunhuei Chi, OSU professor of global health and health management and policy director for the OSU Center of Global Health, says there is no need to panic at this time, and community members should just remain vigilant for possible community outbreaks and use good hygiene practices like frequent hand washing.

decision to close OSU would ultimately be dictated by Benton County Health or other health officials, rather than the university.

“The best thing we can do is just play out those scenarios to their eventuality and make sure we have a plan, and that’s what we’re doing,” Larson said.

Larson said the university is also working to dispel myths, coordinate communication and support the communities and families that are impacted, particularly international students.

In the past week, the university moved toward a comprehensive planning strategy to determine how to effectively provide continuity of education, research, outreach and business if COVID-19 appears in Corvallis or at OSU. Continuity in education could involve using technology, such as video conferencing and distance education platforms, to deliver courses to students. Larson said it is not currently necessary to utilize remote learning and education, but it is a measure that could be employed if needed.

CO U RT ESY OF THE C ENTER FOR DISE ASE CON TROL The COVID-19 strain of coronavirus has not previously been identified, and is currently causing outbreaks in multiple countries.

There are multiple administrative teams planning and preparing for a potential outbreak, including a steering committee, an outbreak planning team and an incident management team, which consists of OSU staff, faculty and administration from various parts of the university.

“When it’s time to activate an emergency operations center, an incident commander steps in and leads the incident management team in the roles they’ve been assigned and trained for,” Larson said.

Chunhuei Chi, OSU professor of global health and health management and policy and director for the OSU Center of Global Health, said if OSU has a confirmed case of COVID-19, the campus may be considered to be shut down for at least two weeks.

According to Chi, COVID-19 is a new coronavirus, and very little is known about its nature. It is pneumonia—not influenza—and is more contagious and has a higher mortality rate than the seasonal flu, with the latest estimation of 3.4%. Symptoms of COVID-19 include runny nose, headache, cough, sore throat, fever, shortness of breath and chest pain or tightness when breathing and coughing.

Approximately 12% to 20% of people who are infected are asymptomatic but contagious, according to Chi. Chi said individuals with weakened immune systems are more vulnerable to infection from COVID-19 given the same exposure as a non-immuno-

compromised individual. If infected, they also tend to develop more serious symptoms and face a higher risk of mortality.

Should one feel sick, they should call for medical attention, whether it be Student Health Services, an offcampus primary care provider or an urgent medical center, according to Clark. Clark said test kits for COVID19 are currently provided by the CDC and are administered to states, and does not believe any have yet been provided to hospitals or care providers in the area.

Larson said that should a student in a residence hall become ill, there are 15 separate designated spaces on campus that have been identified in order to isolate and prevent the spread of the virus.

Clark advises students, staff, faculty and community members to take personal measures in order to prevent the potential spread of the virus, including cleaning touch-point locations in their residence halls, homes and vehicles.

Chi also stressed the importance of maintaining personal hygiene, notifying medical providers of symptoms and maintaining proper home quarantine if suspicious of being infected.

“No need to panic, but keep vigilant about possible community outbreak,” Chi said via email. “Be prepared to stay home and work from home for an extended period of time if a serious community outbreak happens.”

Clark said until further notice,

the university is prohibiting OSUsponsored travel by undergraduate and graduate students to designated high-risk countries, including China, South Korea, Iran and northern Italy.

Clark emphasized the importance of the OSU community joining together to provide support to each other and members of the Corvallis community.

“It’s time that we rally around each other and provide support, wellness information, and prevention within our own lives, and not seek to point out who appears to be from one culture or another, or one country or another,” Clark said. “We’re well past that.”

Larson said the two measures members of the campus community can actively take include engaging in good health and wellness practices and being informed.

Clark called the situation in Corvallis an “information crisis,” and said COVID-19 is not yet a health crisis or emergency.

“We’re dealing with, today at least in Oregon, a low health risk that we’re managing with both prudent practices for health care and with exhaustive information, and we are relying on each of us in the OSU community to monitor and best manage our personal wellness and utilize health care professionals to aid us in that while we plan for a possible elevation of the risk in Oregon and within Oregon State University,” Clark said.

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NEWS

OSU Sustainability Report highlights positive trends, room for improvement

By JADA KRENING News Correspondent The Oregon State University Sustainability Office’s recentlyreleased yearly Sustainability Report details how the university achieved a gold rating and the actions that would be required to achieve a platinum score, including making the university’s buildings greener.

The Sustainability Report, written

by Sustainability Assessment Manager Lety Cavazos, lists and explains OSU’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System’s scores, which are assigned by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, a third-party organization. According to OSU Sustainability Officer Brandon Trelstad, STARS is broken into a fourtier grading system: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. OSU has received the same rating, gold, the last nine years it has undergone a STARS assessment.

There are only four platinum schools in the nation.

The Sustainability Report differs from the yearly Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report, which focuses specifically on the university’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cavazos said the Sustainability Report is closely tied to the yearly Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report since the data collected for the Inventory Report is used to determine the university’s STARS rating.

The Sustainability Report breaks down the university’s STARS rating.

Cavazos said it provides a more comprehensive view of sustainability at the university than the Greenhouse

IN FOGRAPHIC BY JAD A KRENING | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Shown are Oregon’s State University’s scores in all Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System subcategories, scaled to be percentages out of the maximum score, for both fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019. STARS scores are assigned by a third party, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Gas Inventory Report, since STARS is divided into four categories: academics, engagement, operations and planning, and administration, which are further broken down into individually-scored subcategories.

The report lists and discusses OSU’s high-performing STARS subcategories, including research, campus engagement, coordination and

planning, diversity and affordability.

Positive trending STARS subcategories—areas in which the university has seen improvement—include research, waste, water, wellbeing and work.

Low-performing STARS subcategories include air and climate, buildings, food and dining, energy, purchasing, investment and finance, and negative trending STARS subcategories include

building and purchasing.

“STARS is so nice, because it helps us focus on things that maybe would get forgotten, quite frankly. We’re very focused on carbon emissions reduction, and I think there’s obviously a pretty solid case for that,” Trelstad said. “But, that aside, there are other things that maybe don’t have a direct carbon tie, but if you think about

“There will be planned power system updates beginning Thursday, March 26 starting at 5 a.m. and lasting until Saturday, March 28 at 7 a.m.,” Clark said via email. “During that time, Pacific Power will replace electrical switches and cables that feed OSU buildings along SW Jefferson Way. This is the last update along Jefferson Way, while upgrades will occur to switches and cables along Campus Way in June.”

Fourth-year biochemistry and molecular biology major Nicholas Kostelecky has been in two power outages on campus this term. Kostelecky said the first power outage he experienced was in the Agricultural and Life

Sciences building and didn’t seem to have a large impact on anything going on at that time. The second power outage Kostelecky experienced, however, occured in Milam Hall while a group was giving a presentation. Although the power outage only lasted a few seconds, it disabled the Wifi access and the group presenting was unable to finish their presentation after the power outage.

“For the rest of class the professor continued his lecture by drawing what he was teaching because he did not have access to his lecture slides due to the lack of WiFi,” Kostelecky said via email. “This made class difficult because he isn’t the best at draw-

ing so it was a little distracting and confusing.”

According to Clark, the buildings listed below will experience twohour power outages on March 26 and March 28.

• Cauthorn Hall • Hawley Hall • Poling Hall • Weatherford Hall • Snell Hall • McAlexander Fieldhouse • Kerr Administration Building • Callahan Hall • McNary Dining Hall • McNary Hall • Wilson Hall • Pharmacy Building

food and materials management, and purchasing, and all these other things, so many of them do roll up to that carbon goal.”

To collect data for each category, the Sustainability Office coordinates with other groups and third parties

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Scheduled campus power outages planned for grid updates

By VADA SHELBY News Contributor

Students and staff at Oregon State University have been affected by sporadic power outages over the past month, which interrupted some classes.

Steve Clark, vice president of University Relations and Marketing, confirmed the university is working alongside Pacific Power, OSU’s electricity provider, to find the root of the problem and solve it. According to Clark, part of the plan to fix the power outages includes planned power outages across campus.

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Hattie Redmond Women and Gender Center • Joyce Collin Furman Hall • Gladys Valley Gymnastics Center • Buxton Hall • West Dining Hall • Heckart Lodge • Reed Lodge • Langton Hall • Waldo Hall According to the OSU Power Grid Updates webpage, Fairbanks Hall and Moreland Hall will be closed during this time.

Tom Gauntt, spokesperson for Pacific Power, did not respond to comment by the time of publication.

NEWS

Extra credits can affect undergraduate mental health

By ADRIANA GUTIERREZ News Contributor As Phase One of registration for spring term comes to a close, undergraduate students will soon have the option to add extra credits that exceed the university’s requirements.

In order to be a full-time student at Oregon State University, undergraduate students must take at least 12 credits. During phase one, students have the option to register up to 16 credits, which can range between four or five classes depending on the weight. Phase two of registration—from March 12 to April 5—is set up for students who want to add on any extra credits, up to a maximum of 24.

Reasons for adding on extra classes can range from a student wanting to graduate early, ease financial burden, or to make room for a semester studying abroad or interning.

If a student has below a 3.5 GPA, a petition for over 19 credits must be signed by advisors in order to allow students to bypass the registration maximum, yet the mental health effects of such increases are not always reviewed thoroughly by the advisors before signing.

“There can be the stress of academics and loss of ability to perform in the way [students] typically see when they’re under induced stressors, that are often unanticipated for that term,” said Beth Zimmerman, a licensed psychologist at CAPS. “There are so many life variables that can show up, that can create that situation where what you had planned becomes less manageable or even unmanageable.”

Zimmerman noted that putting an exact number on students who come into CAPS seeking resources due to stress over a heavy course load. Besides counseling, students can visit CAPS for support groups and workshops about self-care strategies.

Oregon State University’s Community Engagement and Leadership organized Animal Action Day to coordinate a large volunteer effort for local organizations that support animal welfare.

According to Leah Rietema, the organizer of Animal Action Day, the event was a large effort by many put on by individuals on campus.

“I think it would be to start the conversation and awareness of animals’ rights and how they are as much of inhabitants of this Earth as we are,” Rietema said. “At Community Engagement and Leadership we have different sectors of student staff that work on different programming. I am on the events team that works specifically on Days of Service.”

Animal Action Day was held on Saturday, March 7 and

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MONTAN A MURP HY | OMN ARCHI VES CAPS employee Samantha Giaimo, left, discusses CAPS’ relatively new meditation circle as well as other resources that CAPS offers to OSU community members who are looking to de-stress. The meditation circle is at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Wellness Nook.

“I use a day planner to manage my day and that very much keeps me in line,” said Jax Richards, a first-year speech communications and public policy student. “I am doing a lot that’s big tasks, but when you break it up into items, it’s not nearly as threatening. I’ve definitely had my struggles, but I’ve been able to get it done.”

Along with double majoring, Richards also has double minors in economics and human development and family sciences, adding up to an average of 20 credits per term in order to make the major requirements.

“College is just as much about the hands you shake than the grades you make,” Richards said.

“At the end of the day, it’s really just about doing your part to learn and better yourself.”

Richards spends his free time developing his non-profit, Safeguard Youth, engaging in the Residence Hall Association,and free-lancing graphic design when he gets the opportunity to.

“If you can do your own self-checks, you can decide ‘Can I handle this right now?’”

said Zimmerman. “If school is taking up 90% [of your time,] is that sustainable? For some it might be temporarily, because it’s helping them graduate and it’s getting them on the path for less economic stress.”

According to Zimmerman, balancing a social life and academics are not the only things to consider when upping a course load. Other categories include figuring in time to work, have leisure time, familial ties and determining if it is financially feasible to take more classes.

The financial aspect of adding more credits can become a set-back for students who can 12mi Bike find time for the extra classes and homework, but can’t pay the fees included. At OSU, classes are paid for by credit, with each credit costing approximately $260 for in-state students and $694 for out-of-state students.

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saw about 100 participants who went to work on various projects with local organizations, including Safe Haven Humane Society in Tangent, Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in Scio and Corvallis Parks and Recreation.

Different programs were organized at different times of the day.

Six projects left in the morning, and one left in the afternoon, sending students to volunteer with seven different organizations in total.

Lineth Trujillo and Sydney Gowen both attended an event at the Craft Center, making cat toys and decorating bags for Meals on Wheels.

“I like how organized [the event] was,” Trujillo said, with Gowen agreeing.

Nikolo Vo went to Safe Haven, where he assisted in maintaining the facility.

“We were given a tour of the facility,” Vo said.

According to Vo, they then proceeded to clean up the areas

around the facility, specifically, shoveling gravel in highly eroded areas of the facility.

Maddy Thorne went to Heartland Humane Society. She attended the recommendation of her suitemate.

“I thought it was really fun and beneficial,” Thorne said.

The furthest out event organized by CEL was the Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in Scio, which is a rescue sanctuary for various farm animals.

According to Barry Beadles, the event lead for that trip, the star of the show was a blind and deaf bison named Helen, after Helen Keller.

“The farm is awesome,” Beadles said.

Rietema considers Animal Action Day a success, with them hitting 85% of their maximum capacity for the events of the day.

Rietema hopes that more students get involved in the future for more events put on by Commu-

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LOGAN HOWELL | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK LEFT: Hunter Land, left, a third-year computer science major, buys components from the ResiSTORE to build an antenna from Tristan Luther, a third-year in electrical and computer engineering and ResiSTORE volunteer manager.

RIGHT: Tristan Luther, a third-year in electrical and computer engineering, shows off the original ResiSTORE sign, previously known as the IEEE Store. Luther has been the volunteer manager since winter term 2019.

The ResiSTORE: The power behind OSU’s underground electronics nonprofit Despite basement location, volunteer-run tech store has been in business since around 1960

By JADE MINZLAFF News Contributor The ResiSTORE, a non-profit electronics shop located in the Dearborn Hall basement, recently celebrated a record-breaking week in sales, with over $400 made in a single week from items averaging about 30 cents apiece.

The ResiSTORE is a passion project run by a volunteer staff that specializes in a wide variety of electronics equipment for students and hobbyists alike, setting it apart from other, better-known electronics stores on campus, like Tekbots, which is run through the Electrical Engineering department and primarily provides lab kits for classes.

Tristan Luther, a third-year student in electrical and computer engineering, has been the manager of the ResiSTORE since winter term of 2019.

“This is the Dearborn basement, which is not too good for getting our name out, but that’s sort of the culture of this place. We’re very underground, it’s sort of like, ‘if you know, you know’ kind of thing. The fact that a 20-year-old college student owns a room in Dearborn, essentially, that’s weird, but it works.”

When he first started volunteering at the store, Luther said that it looked “like a hurricane” had gone through

it, and devoted himself to improving the space. “It was like a bunch of rotting cardboard boxes with electronic parts loosely strewed about them, not too great. We wanted it to be nice because we saw a lot of value in the service this could provide to students if it could fulfill its potential.”

Some of Luther’s work in the ResiSTORE includes the creation of a new website and a sophisticated barcode system for shelving that lets store volunteers keep track of their exact inventory. Additionally, he made wooden signs engraved with art from April James, a third-year student in computer science, who he said he met through volunteering at the store.

Comparing the ResiSTORE to Tekbots, Luther said, “We both serve different purposes. The ResiSTORE is more prototyping, more specialized, we have about 1,700 items in our inventory, Tekbots has about 400.”

Luther said their inventory contains a wide variety of electronics components including resistors, transistors, connectors, microcontrollers, inductors, capacitors, prototyping supplies and tools. Jumper wire is currently their best selling item.

Luther said that he became interested in researching the history of the ResiSTORE in the OSU Ar-

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chives after he took over the shop, and has had correspondence with the now-retired professor Donald Amort, who founded the store around 1960, which was originally known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Store.

According to Luther’s correspondence with Amort, the IEEE Store was founded when the transistor started to become part of the curriculum for electronics classes in the early 1960s, and lab kits became necessary for classes. These electronics kits were originally sold in the Memorial Union bookstore, which was then located on Monroe Avenue, but the bookstore employees at the time “couldn’t tell a transistor from a resistor,” so Amort started his own electronics store staffed by his teaching assistants in what is now a janitor’s closet on the second floor of Dearborn Hall.

In 1971 the store was taken over by the IEEE Club as a way for their members to gain experience with hardware. During this time, the store outgrew the janitor’s closet and moved into its current home in the Dearborn basement.

Luther said Tom Plant, a former advisor for the IEEE Club, referred to the 1980s and 1990s as being a “dark period” for the store,

which was mostly dormant at this time. The IEEE store was officially run by the IEEE Club until they disbanded in 2015.

According to Luther, in 2016 the Robotics Club took over the store and renamed it the OSU Robotics Club Store, before rebranding as the ResiSTORE in 2017.

Luther started volunteering in the winter of 2018 and has been continually making improvements, like upgrading their register to accept both cash and card.

Grant Haines, a third-year student in computer science, has volunteered at the ResiSTORE for two terms. “It’s a really great opportunity, I don’t get to do a lot with hardware, so I just like the opportunity to learn more about it.”

Haines said that he enjoys the community created by the store volunteers.

“It’s very down to earth, everyone who works here likes doing it and is here because they want to be here. It’s why Tristan set it up,” Haines said.

The recent improvements to the store have made it more accessible to students, and an increasing number of students are taking advantage of their variety of inventory.

David Wood, a second-year student in electrical and computer

engineering, and one of the ResiSTORE volunteers who will be taking over Luther’s position next term said, “There is definitely an upward trend that we’ve noticed throughout this year specifically, we actually had a record-setting week two weeks ago.” Wood estimated that around 15 to 20 students purchase from the ResiSTORE per day.

Luther said that he hopes their rising profits won’t get in the way of their mission. “We need to maintain our nonprofit status because we’re a service to the community, not a method of making money, but we’re having a problem of, people are buying so much that profits are kind of happening, so we need to optimize our prices to that, but it allows us to give more back to the community by stocking more, weirder, parts and stuff that’s more specialized,” Luther said.

In the future, the ResiSTORE team says they hope to expand the store.

“We just plan on getting a bigger inventory, I don’t know if one day we’ll outgrow this room. I hope so, I hope it could be a full-fledged electronics store in Corvallis because those don’t exist anymore,” Luther said.

The ResiSTORE has a flexible schedule of hours posted on their website and encourages any interested students to volunteer.

SPORTS

Beavers fall to Stanford, look forward to NCAA tournament

By ZACHARY HARRIS Sports Contributor

After a convincing victory over Washington State 24 hours earlier, Oregon State took on a rested No. 3 Stanford team who had beaten them in both matchups during the regular season in the second round of the PAC-12 tournament. Down by as much as 20 points, the Beavers could not find their groove until the fourth quarter and lost by a score of 57-68.

Oregon State could not handle the height and post presence of Stanford. The Beavers allowed numerous offensive rebounds which created easy second chance opportunities. While OSU freshman forward Taylor Jones has become a better player every week, the defense and rebounding has not been the same since freshman forward Kennedy Brown tore her ACL almost a month ago.

The loss raises the question of how far can the Beavers advance without much needed post defense and height. The loss to Stanford displayed how vulnerable Oregon State is down low if Jones gets into foul trouble, and other teams will try to take advantage of this.

Despite these shortcomings, the Beavers believe they have the tools to make a deep NCAA run. When Oregon State is playing at their best, they are a dominating team that is able to play lock-down defense and score from anywhere on the court.

“I feel like we’re in the best coach/player learning situation we have been in all year, the receptiveness in practice, the way that they’re evolving, the way that they’re communicating,” OSU head coach Scott Rueck said. “I think we’re as mobile as we have [ever] been.”

Not everything is easy going, as Oregon State has now lost two straight quarterfinals games

in the PAC-12 tournament. OSU senior guard Mikayla Pivec was visibly upset after this heartbreaking loss. While she was put in the spotlight, she echoed the same emotions the rest of the team felt.

“Just sad that we lost. The individual stuff doesn’t really mean as much to me, just sad that our team doesn’t get to play more in this tournament,” Pivec said.

The ‘individual stuff’ she mentioned, was the fact that she has become Oregon State’s all-time leading rebounder. But this is not on Pivec’s mind as she is only focused on the team and how she can help lead them to a deep tournament run.

Stanford’s stringent defense gave the Beavers a glimpse of what will come in The Big Dance.

Even though Oregon State did not look prepared at the beginning, junior guard Destiny Slocum believes the Beavers have what it takes to handle the ball pressure down the stretch.

“I don’t think they really did a ton to disrupt us, we have to come off a little bit more confident,” said Slocum.

Confidence will be crucial for the NCAA tournament but this loss will not help their tournament seeding. The Beavers are still on the table to host the first two rounds but the odds have dropped.

A grueling PAC-12 conference featuring six of the top 25 teams has prepared Oregon State for war. The regular season has battle-tested the Beavers and they are prepared to go toe-to-toe with anyone that draws their card. Rueck knows what this team is capable of, and is ready for the next game.

“We’re playing our best,” Rueck said. “We’re more prepared than ever. And the conference has done that for us.”

JAD E WEBSTER | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK OSU senior guard Mikayla Pivec (#0) looks to find a teammate while running a play against Stanford sophomore guard Lexie Hull (#12) at Gill Coliseum on Jan. 19. The Beavers fell against Stanford during both regular season matchups and during their face off in the PAC-12 Tournament quarterfinals.

Two OSU wrestlers qualify for national tournament Beavers finish fourth place overall in this year’s PAC-12 championships

By ANDRES DE LOS SANTOS Sports Contributor The Oregon State Wrestling team had three finalists in the 2020 PAC-12 wrestling championships in redshirt junior Devan Turner at 133 lbs., redshirt sophomore Grant Willits at 141 lbs. and redshirt junior Colt Doyle at 184 lbs. All three wrestlers knew that a win in the finals would qualify them for the national tournament.

Turner had one thing on his mind entering the tournament: winning it. Last year, Turner finished third in the 133 lb. weight class, and despite still qualifying for the national tournament, he still left the Wells Fargo Arena with a sour taste in his mouth.

In the finals match, Turner faced off against junior Paul Bianchi of University of Little Rock, Arkansas, who Turner defeated in their last meeting

JADE WE BSTE R | ORANGE ME DIA NE TWORK Devan Turner, in the 133 lb. weight class, competes against UALR on Saturday at Gill Coliseum on Feb. 15.

by a score of 8-6. Turner was now able to defeat Bianchi by a score of 5-3, and walked away with the PAC-12 title.

Turner was the sole champion for Oregon State who qualified for the national tournament for the second

year in a row.

Willits won the PAC-12 championship last year at the 141 lb weight class, pinning Brandon Kier of Stanford in the second period. Like Turner, Willits qualified for the national tournament as well. Looking to defend his title at this year’s Pac-12 championships, Willits had to face off against Stanford redshirt freshman Real Woods, who Willits lost to in their last meeting by a score of 9-1.

Despite a hard-fought effort from Willits, he was defeated by Woods by a score of 11-2, finishing second in conference. Willits still qualified for the national tournament as he is ranked in the top 25 in the country.

Doyle placed third at last year’s PAC-12 wrestling championships at 174 lbs. This year, moving up to 184 lb. weight class, Doyle faced off against CSU Bakersfield redshirt

sophomore Josh Loomer, who defeated Doyle by a score of 12-4 during their last meeting.

Loomer defeated Doyle once again in the finals by a score of 7-4.

Doyle did not qualify for the national tournament, ending his junior season with a record of 20 wins and nine losses.

Oregon State finished fourth overall in the PAC-12, scoring 92.5 points as a team, with one champion and two national qualifiers. Last year, Oregon State finished third in the conference, scoring 77.5 points as a team, with four champions and six national qualifiers.

Turner and Willits now put their attention towards the NCAA wrestling championships in Minneapolis, Minn. from March 19-21 with the end goal of becoming All-Americans for Oregon State.

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Oregon State handles California for senior night Tinkle and Kelley shine, reflect on careers as OSU record holders

By CADE DOAN Sports Contributor Gill Coliseum had a different energy on Saturday afternoon as Oregon State celebrated their two departing senior forwards Tres Tinkle and Kylor Kelley.

The two were facing off against the California Bears on March 7 for their senior night.

Tinkle’s sisters, Joslyn and Elle, were in attendance and, as always, cheered on their brother who broke the school’s scoring record on Thursday against Stanford. The oldest, Joslyn, was emotional looking back on Tinkle’s career.

“To kind of go through something like this, the good and the bad, and to have each other’s backs through it all has been really, really awesome. It’s something we’ll cherish forever,” Joslyn Tinkle said.

The Tinkle sisters almost never miss a game and are widely regarded as two of the most passionate supporters within Beaver Nation. They sit court side and never fail to bring the energy.

“There’s so much attention on us on the sidelines but people fail to realize

she gets into it just as much as we do,” Joslyn Tinkle said of her mother, Lisa.

The Beavers never looked back following the conclusion of the ceremony as the seniors knew it was their night. The pair was the top two leading scorers for the Beavers as Tinkle went for 24 points and six rebounds while Kelley added 19 points and eight rebounds, leading OSU to a 74-56 win over the California Golden Bears. Kelley realized the importance of blocking out the emotions in order to play an effective game.

“You have to lock in right after the ceremony. We did that, and it showed,” Kelley said.

Tres Tinkle also knew it would be tough to say goodbye to Gill Coliseum but understood that the most important thing was that the Beavers got the win.

“I felt like we held it together pretty well at the beginning. I thought I was going to be worse than I was,” Tres Tinkle said.

Oregon State opened up a 20-10 lead with 7:44 remaining in the first half, following consecutive threes. The lowscoring battle ended up being just 2621 Beavers at the half. OSU’s defensive

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scheme led to 16 turnovers for California while the Beavers only had eight. OSU went with a 1-3-1 zone for most of the game which caused trouble for the Bears. However, this defensive structure was not the game plan going into the matchup according to OSU head coach Wayne Tinkle.

“I had no clue that we were going to play our 1-3-1 today,” Wayne Tinkle said.

“We were going to play some man, some 2-3, and I just kind of had some quiet time and I said with the emotion of senior day, my worry was that we’d come out in man and be over-hyped.”

The Beavers never trailed and the game was only tied once throughout.

The Beavers’ lead had swelled to 18 with 5:45 remaining at 60-42, but California went on their largest run of the game of 9-0 to pull within single digits at 60-51 with 3:30 to play.

OSU freshman guard Gianni Hunt hit a three on the following possession, sealing the win for the Beavs.

Oregon State finishes 7-11 in conference and 17-13 during the regular season. Both the Beavers and the Bears will be in Las Vegas next week for the PAC-12 tournament from March 11-14.

ERI CK BRANNER | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK TOP: OSU senior forward Tres Tinkle smiles along with his family for senior night celebrations on March 7.

BOTTOM: OSU senior forward Kylor Kelley enjoys the moment of senior night celebrations with family on March 7.

SPORTS

OSU Gymnastics falls short to Washington Seniors Lacy Dagen and Sabrina Gill bounce back from injuries

By ANDRES DE LOS SANTOS Sports Contributor Oregon State senior gymnasts Lacy Dagen and Sabrina Gill knew they only have a few weeks left in their OSU gymnastics career.

Knowing this, both Dagen and Gill left their hearts out on the floor during the gymnastics meet versus the #12 Washington Huskies.

Dagen was not able to compete in the last gymnastics meet against UCLA on Feb. 29 as an injury sustained during practice had sidelined her from competing. But Dagen bounced back and was able to score a 9.875 on both her vault and beam events.

Although Dagen was proud of her scores since coming back from injury, and the overall team performance, she said she feels that her team has not reached their full potential yet.

“It’s just those little things that we need to really hone on. Those sticks, those pointed feet, those bigger splits,” Dagen said. “We have so much potential, and we just haven’t quite put all it together yet, but I can feel that we’re almost there and we’re on our way. I feel like next week is the one.”

The Oregon State team had improved their vault event score from 48.725 against UCLA to 49.000 against Washington.

“I know for vault, we’ve not only been saying we need to do more stick drills, but actually putting it into action, and adding in new ones that we haven’t been doing the rest of the season, like stick drills onto harder landing, and show vaults,” Dagen said.

Gill competed in all four events on the night, earning a 9.725 on vault, 9.900 on bars, 9.850 on beam, and 9.775 on floor, giving her an All-Around score of 39.250.

During the gymnastics meet versus UCLA, Gill only competed in the vault event, earning a score of 9.775. She said she had

fun competing in all four events.

“I mean, last time I did All-Around was sophomore year,” Gill said. “I’ve only been training floor and vault for three weeks. It’s still fairly new but I’m just happy I get to have fun and do all four.”

Gill, who was also battling some injuries, said her performance on the night improved her confidence.

“I definitely had some struggles, dealing with a lot of head injuries and random flukes, but I think I got a good rhythm now and I’m back in the groove,” Gill said. “Even in practice, that’s been getting alot better and my confidence has been building each week.”

Interim Head Coach Michael Chaplin said Gill was a fill in for Oregon State freshman gymnast Kayla Bird, who scored a 9.875 against UCLA. “Kayla Bird was not feeling well,” Chaplin said.

“We weren’t sure how much she was going to be able to do today. And I knew floor would be the hardest event for her. She said ‘Hey look Michael, I just don’t feel strong enough to do floor.’

We said ‘okay,’ and we knew Sabrina had been working really hard, and we thought this would be a good night for her. She got a good floor routine in for us.”

Chaplin said it would depend on who has the better week for if Gill would keep Bird’s place in the floor routine.

“It’s great to have both of them available, the more depth the better,” Chaplin said. “The more people we have available, the better, because you never know what will happen. So we want as many people available as possible. We’ll just see, we’ll watch them this week and see who’s ready to go next week.”

The Beavers return back to Gill for their final home meet against University of Illinois on March 14. This senior night meet for the Beavers is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

ANA PEARSE | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK TOP: OSU senior Isis Lowery finishes her dance-filled, one-of-a-kind floor routine, while her teammates and coach celebrate at the edge of the floor on Friday, March 6.

BOTTOM LEFT: OSU junior Kaitlyn Yanish performs a dance portion of her floor routine at Gill Coliseum as her teammates cheer “O-S-U.” BOTTOM RIGHT; OSU senior Sabrina Gill performs a front aerial as part of her front aerial, back handspring step-out acro series during the third rotation of the UW vs OSU meet at Gill Coliseum, Friday, March 6, 2020. Gill received a season-high beam score of 9.850, and OSU left this rotation with a 49.300 team score.

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SPORTS

COOPER BASKI NS | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Oregon State’s sophomore pitcher Jake Pfennigs mid pitch as the rest of Oregon State’s defense prepares to make a play.

Mitch Canham happy to be back at Goss Stadium

Despite slow start for Beavers, OSU Baseball alumnus head coach hopes team is moving ‘in the right direction’

By MICHAEL EUBANKS Sports Contributor New Oregon State baseball coach Mitch Canham returned to familiar territory this weekend. The Beavers made their home debut at Goss stadium before a sell-out crowd, and Canham managed his first game in the stadium he previously played in from 2004-07.

“It’s home. This is the most amazing place,” Canham said of Goss Stadium. “From a personal standpoint, I get to see my wife and kids and people that helped transform me into the person that I am today. It also means an incredible amount to be out there and compete in front of Beaver Nation.”

While the Beavers received a warm reception in their first home series, the on-field action did not match the initial off-field excitement.

The team made their home debut in an unfamiliar position with a losing record.

After posting a 5-6 record in the 11 road games of the season, the Beavers began their first home series with two consecutive losses to UC Santa Barbara.

Despite a great start Friday night by junior right-handed pitcher Christian Chamberlain, the team suffered their first home-opening loss since 2003 and fell 6-0 to the Gauchos.

Though UC Santa Barbra scored only one hit, a series of nine walks and four errors by Oregon State allowed them to clinch 11th victory of the season.

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extended his hit streak to six consecutive games, and freshman Micah McDowell went 2-4 with singles in the fifth and seventh innings.

Sophomore Jake Pfennings also pitched a career high 6 innings, allowing three hits and one run.

“Tonight was a good adjustment, we didn’t allow a ton of free bases from the pitching perspective. We only had three walks and a hit batter,” Canham said. “It was good to see Pfennings go out there and fill up the zone for six innings. I anticipate us getting better each and every day.”

While Canham remained optimistic regarding the team’s success moving forward, he acknowledged that losing at home is never an easy feeling.

“It makes it extremely tough on these kinds of nights when we don’t perform like we know we can. You don’t want to let everyone down,” Canham said. “You want to go out there and do the job that you know you can do and our fans deserve to see.”

Canham also said that the players also hate losing streaks because they feel that they’re not performing at the level the program stands for, and compared losing to “getting punched in the gut.” Still, he believes his players have what it takes to return to the winning ways normally associated with the program.

“I love how these guys work together and I love how they hold each other accountable,” Canham said. “More of that is going to be coming, and hopefully in the right direction.”

The Beavers will play a three-game series at Arizona from March 13-15. The team’s next home series takes place from March 20-22 versus Arizona State.

CRIME

Nick Hurley prepares to begin Corvallis Police Chief role

By MICHAEL EUBANKS Crime Beat Reporter For Corvallis Police Captain Nick Hurley, who becomes Chief on June 30, even making a career out of law enforcement was not in his initial plan.

Hurley’s first exposure to law enforcement came in 1995, when he started as a seasonal Cadet Officer for the Oregon State Police while pursuing a degree in American Sign Language at Western Oregon University.

While he enjoyed his time as a Cadet, Hurley still was uncertain if he wanted to work in law enforcement for the rest of his life and continued to pursue a career as an interpreter.

However, Hurley soon learned that being an interpreter wasn’t in the cards for him.

“I did one job and realized that it wasn’t what I wanted to do as a career,” Hurley said. “I still sign and I still have a lot of deaf friends, but the interpreting piece was a whole different role that I didn’t mesh well with.”

After changing his mind on interpreting, Hurley went back to school, and received his Master’s in Education from OSU in 1999.

He then worked a year in Student Housing as an Assistant Director of Residential Life before making the decision to return to law enforcement.

“At the time I had a lot of contact with Corvallis P.D. in my position,” Hurley said. “I did a couple of ride-alongs and I ended up applying.

I started here in 2000.”

For the next fourteen years, Hurley continued to work his way up the ranks at CPD. But in 2014, yet another opportunity presented itself.

Hurley went to work for the Department of Public Safety Standards Training in Salem.

As a class coordinator, Hurley educated future police officers and supervised academy training for all five disciplines taught at the institution.

Hurley returned to CPD in 2016, where he began his current role as Captain. Since then, he’s worked closely with current Chief Jon Sassaman.

In his current role, Hurley oversees a division responsible for training, evidence, police records, as well as the Corvallis Regional Communications Center, which provides 9-1-1 ser-

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Nick Hurley, who was appointed the next Chief of the Corvallis Police Department. vices to Benton County. The role also provided Hurley with the chance to attend and graduate from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, which he did in 2019.

The leadership skills learned at the academy helped Hurley become an even better Captain, and when Chief Sassaman announced his plans to retire at the end of June, City Manager Mark Sheppard offered the job to Hurley.

But before he made the appointment, Sheppard reached out to members of the police department and in the community for suggestions. It then became apparent that Hurley was the right person for the job.

“Nick’s name continued to come up,”

Sheppard said. “He has a strong reputation in the community already. I think Nick has the background and the skills to lead the department. He understands the culture of our department, and I think it’s important to me to continue to build on what I think is a healthy police department.”

Chief Sassaman was one of those who Sheppard reached out to for input.

“I do believe he’s the right person for the job,” Sassaman said. “He brings many years of policing, training and leadership to the position. He is a highly relational person. He has a good presence about him and he’s a critical thinker—all things that are necessary in

a Police Chief.”

Hurley was honored to accept the opportunity, but it still came as a pleasant surprise.

“I didn’t come into this job and say ‘one day, I want to sit over there in that corner office,’” Hurley said. “Sometimes I laugh and pinch myself about where I’m sitting currently as a Captain. It’s just funny how our careers change and how they intersect.”

Since being appointed as the new Police Chief, Hurley has been meeting with Sassaman on a daily basis, with the current Chief teaching his replacement the day-to-day duties of his job.

“What I’ve learned from him is invaluable,” Hurley said. “You’re always trying to keep the pulse on things while at the same time getting pulled about nine different ways.”

Hurley said that he doesn’t have any plans to immediately shake up the department organization and operations. For Hurley, the current goal is just to be prepared for the job when he takes over.

With Oregon State Police discontinuing their contract with OSU effective June 30, no announcement has been made regarding who will provide law enforcement services for the campus. While Hurley said he could not comment on the matter, Sheppard said that the city has been in discussions with OSU about possibly policing the campus.

“No decision has been made on the university side or the city side,” Sheppard said. “Those discussions are ongoing.”

Although CPD’s involvement with OSU still has yet to be determined, Hurley said that he is very proud of the current status of the department and hopes to continue the relationships the department has made with the community when he takes the helm.

“I think we’re very well-supported in this community. I think the community respects us,” Hurley said. “They understand our challenges.

The partnerships we have with our neighborhood associations and the university and our religious communities right now is very strong.”

Following his appointment as the next Police Chief of Corvallis, a public reception and meet and greet with Hurley is scheduled for Tuesday, July 14 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Corvallis Police Log: Feb. 28-March 4

By MICHAEL EUBANKS Crime Beat Reporter Feb. 28 Warrant Arrest - Failure to Appear An officer responded to a call to the area of SW Fifth Street and SW Jefferson Avenue. for the report of a female who was pepper sprayed.

The officer arrived on the scene and identified the victim, whom she had known from previous interactions. The officer ran the victim through dispatch and discovered that she had a warrant for her arrest out of Lincoln County for Failure to Appear on a charge of Trespassing in the second degree. The officer then arrested the female and transported her to the Benton County Jail. She was released later in the day.

Warrant Arrest - Failure to Appear An officer responded to a call at an apartment complex off of SW Western Boulevard after a female had reported that a male was blocking the roadway while reaching into his pants. The officer made contact with a male in the parking lot. The male matched the suspect description and was attempting to hide behind a nearby building.

Dispatch advised the officer that the male had a warrant in Linn County for a Failure to Appear. The officer then placed the male into handcuffs and began transporting him to the Linn County Jail, however jail staff requested a hospital clearance, so the officer then transported the male to Samaritan Hospital in Albany.

The hospital staff cleared the male for the jail, however the jail would not would not accept him as the hospital had determined he had a 0.40% BAC via blood draw. The jail provided the male with his appearance paperwork and the officer then transported him back to Corvallis and released him at a men’s shelter.

Feb. 29 Disorderly Conduct 2 An officer was dispatched to Riva’s Taco Shop on NW Fifth Street on a report that a male suspect had broken a window and defecated by the door.

The description of the subject matched an individual who the department had two prior calls regarding over the course of the night.

The officer asked the male why he was hitting a window of the establishment and why he defecated on the sidewalk. The male stated he was angry because he was cold and wanted shoes and a warm place to stay.

The officer asked him if he was meaning to break the window and he said “no,” but also “well yeah,” and stated he felt if he tried harder he could have broken the window.

Another officer spoke with the original caller, who was an employee of the restaurant. The employee stated that while the window didn’t break, the male hit the window a couple of times, which left scratches. The employee also stated he witnessed the male defecate on the sidewalk.

The officer who first made contact with the male issued him a citation for Disorderly Conduct in the second degree and then provided him an escort to a men’s shelter.

March 2 Warrant Arrest/Resisting Arrest An officer observed a male walking down near SW Third Street. Dispatch advised the officer that the male had multiple warrants out for his arrest.

When confronted, the male attempted to pull away from the officer multiple times and was ordered to the ground at taser point. The male was taken into the Benton County Jail on the warrant and for resisting arrest. He was released later in the day.

March 4 Disorderly Conduct 2/Phone Harassment An officer responded to a call at a residence on NW Ninth Street for a report of criminal mischief.

A female reported that her ex-boyfriend came over to get his belongings.

When he was leaving, he told her “good luck getting to work” while holding a pocket knife. The female came out to her vehicle and found her back driver’s side tire flat with a puncture on the outside. The female told the officer that her ex was repeatedly calling her and she had told him to stop.

The officer contacted the male who told him that he’d be willing to speak with him the next week. The male was later arrested and taken to the Benton County Jail, where he was booked and then released.

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Letter to the Editor: Oregon State University pays students starvation wages Attending a university is a job in itself. It requires going to classes, hours of homework, hours of study, and puts a good amount of stress on students. For students who don’t come from a privileged background, many find themselves taking up a second job to try and make ends meet while still managing their primary job of trying to pass their classes. Students who find work at OSU are making minimum wage, which currently stands at $11.25 an hour. To understand just how low this wage is, a living wage in Benton county is $12.77 an hour, according to the most recent figures from the MIT Living Wage Calculator. This means that OSU isn’t even paying its students living wages (29% of students don’t have enough money to make ends meet at the end of each month).​ The university ought to at least pay its students a living wage and ensure that student fees don’t increase as a result of pay increases which the administration can prevent by financing student pay through tuition. Since student employment currently takes up 14% of the $4.6 million student investment, this would leave an additional ~$644,000 that could be used to subsidize meal plans for low income students, subsidize on-campus housing expenses for homeless students, and eliminate the student dependency on the HSRC. One could make the argument that tuition would increase as a result of financing student pay through tuition; however, that doesn’t have to happen. The OSU administration has plenty of privilege and therefore can influence state policy. If they wanted to, they could lobby the state legislature to increase funding to the university in order to pay their students living wages--a much more effective approach than sending students who won’t be taken seriously.

Diego Leon Patino Public Health Major

Letter to the Editor: Undergraduate students must evaluate university statements Editor’s Note: Since the submission of this letter, Provost Ed Feser sent out an email clarifying current graduate student monthly salaries.

Undergraduates, My name is Tali Ilkovitch, I am an undergraduate speaking in solidarity the Coalition of Graduate Employees. I wish to respond to the email addressed to all students on Feb. 24 from Provost Feser and the university’s intentions to deceive and divide the student body.

After our interaction with the Provost last Wednesday in which he dismissed our concerns regarding the livelihoods of students and employees, who struggle with food, housing, and childcare insecurity as a result of shamefully minimal wages and benefits, we admit that we are satisfied with the university’s timely response— CGE is used to OSU ignoring students’ needs and not doing the jobs undergraduates handsomely pay them for.

That being said, we find Provost Feser’s email to be purposefully deceiving and fear-mongering in an effort to convince undergraduates that paying graduate workers a living wage requires tuition hikes. We find further exploitation of financially struggling undergraduates a preposterous solution coming from a man who makes $400,000 a year. Our petition, which he refused to sign, proposes that university salaries are capped at $186,000 and tuition and fees are frozen, which will combat wealth inequality at OSU. As the university attempts to isolate us from graduates, I urge undergraduates to critically evaluate this propaganda, support graduate employees, and demand that wealth be redistributed from immorally wealthy admin fairly to those who grade our papers and instruct our coursework. I invite undergrads to unionize with us and show OSU administration that this exploitation will end.

Solidarity, Tali Tali Ilkovitch Natural Resources Major

Letter to the Editor: ‘Chop from the top’ to help students Editor’s Note: Since the submission of this letter, Provost Ed Feser sent out an email clarifying current graduate student monthly salaries.

On Feb. 19, I entered Ed’s class with a coalition of diverse community members with a few simple questions. “Do you care about homelessness on campus? Do you want to lift employees out of poverty? Will you help struggling mothers? Will you read and sign our petition for a cut to the highest salaries to free up millions of dollars?” To each of these questions he fidgeted, avoided eye contact, and refused answering. His

craven inability to say “yes” to wanting to help employees and students in crisis represents a core rot degrading our entire campus community.

These amoral monsters are siphoning wealth from this institution.

Where does it go? Under their beds instead of towards the most vulnerable. A generous maximum salary of $186,000 would free up at least $8.6 million a year. The math is easy.

Chop from the top to build from the bottom. There is plenty of money to go around.

If Ed Feser’s near half-milliondollar pay is justified by “skill and qualifications” we aren’t getting our

money’s worth! Do your job. His February 24th email to students was rife with disingenuous math and failed to state a desire to shift funding priorities away from the high salaries of crony admin. It would be comical if it wasn’t insulting to us all. His annual pay could be put to better use helping struggling mothers, lifting employees and students out of homelessness, fighting food insecurity. We need a campus that works for all of us.

Not wealthy admin.

Andrea Haverkamp Oregon State University Graduate Employee

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Letters are subject to editing for space, style, clarity and civility. Letters which are timely, relevant and accurate will receive priority for publication. Each reader will be allowed one published letter per month. Letters may be published either in print and/or online.

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Daarstad: Make your voice heard in the primaries

By HALEY DAARSTAD Columnist Primary elections are significant and provide the opportunity for people to vote for who they want to represent them in the general election.

Voting in the primaries started on Feb. 3 in Iowa, and March 3 was Super Tuesday where one-third of the delegates were up for grabs. Super Tuesday is a primary election date where the greatest number of states hold their elections and caucuses for the primary.

When a person votes in a primary election or participates in a caucus, they are telling their delegates how they would like them to vote.

This is how a caucus works according to the Democratic National Committee of Iowa: a group of people in a public space and stand in a section of the room dedicated to a certain candidate. If a candidate does not have 15% of the people at the caucus they are able to move to another section.

Every state has a certain number of delegates and, based upon the results of direct voting or caucuses, the state will disperse the delegates between candidates proportionally.

Oregon’s primary is not until May 19, but students at Oregon State University are not all from Oregon.

They come from multiple states, that not only have already voted, but will be voting.

Cammi Love is one of these students. She is a political science major

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The ballot drop box in front of the Corvallis Courthouse, Located at 501 SW Madison Ave. from California, but is going to school at OSU. Since California allows for mail-in ballots, Love was able to vote in the California primary.

It’s important for the American public to voice their opinion for who they want to take office in November and the process in California is effective because it provides different options to vote, Love said.

“I feel like many American inter-

ests are being ignored and shoved down by the current administration, so I want a candidate who is going to focus on issues affecting us such as climate change, education and healthcare,” Love said.

Olivia Jackson, a public health major and an Oregon resident, will be voting in May. She said primaries allow the opportunity for an individual to cast their ballot for who they

actually want, rather than the lesser of two evils.

When getting ready to vote it’s important to look into the candidates running for national, state and local elections. There are many different ways to get to know the candidates.

“I have been telling people about the Politico website that offers a short summary on every take on every issue that each candidate

has. The webpage is fairly bipartisan and super easy to read and understand,” Jackson said.

News sites, podcasts, late-night TV shows and social media are also great ways to provide information on candidates, with interviews, non-partisan information and information directly from candidates.

Not only is gaining more knowledge about the candidate key, but it’s essential to make sure you are registered to vote. A person can not vote if they are not registered before the deadlines set by each state.

An Oregon resident can register to vote in three different ways: in-person, mail or online, with the deadline being 21 days before the election. If you are not from Oregon, each state has different voter registration rules and deadlines, so please check your state.

If you are an out-of-state student, check to see if you can mail in your ballot. Twenty states allow for voting by absentee ballots with an excuse, six states allow for the request of an absentee ballot, and three states conduct their elections completely by mail. Oregon is one of these three.

“I will cast my ballot for the person I best believe represents my needs and wants, rather than just voting for the only Democrat up on the board,” Jackson said.

Voting is important and primaries are the way people can vote for what they want to see in November, so learn more about the candidates, check your registration status and see how you can vote in the primaries.

Al-Mulla: Internet connectivity perilous

By RAMZY AL-MULLA Columnist It has become resoundingly clear that our accelerating rate of innovation has not been given the respect it deserves, and such negligence will prove to be a defining issue of our time.

Of all the technological advancements seen in the past century, the Internet is perhaps most revolutionary in terms of how it has influenced our day-to-day lives. As a means of consolidating, generating and accessing knowledge, it dwarfs all previous methods in comparison, with a massive potential for both good and bad hitherto undreamt of (did he really just say ‘hitherto’?).

Let’s start with the good: as a species, we are more connected than ever (low hanging fruit, I know). If I want to check on my uncle in Kuwait, I don’t even have to call him. I can just check his Instagram. Further, if I’m bored, I will often reflexively open the app to be greeted with an up-to-date feed of everyone I follow. The barrier

to interaction is much lower when it comes to indirect versus direct communication, and that is where the Internet blows telephones out of the water. We don’t even have to try to be connected. It just happens.

Unfortunately, this progress is a double edged sword. In addition to well-documented ramifications for our mental health, the ability to access such a huge slew of information has other worrying consequences for our civil discourse that are only beginning to come into view.

According to the BBC, data held by the largest online storage companies—Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook—exceeds 1,200 petabytes, equivalent to 1,200,000,000 gigabytes, or roughly 10 million iPhones. Such a massive amount of data is so extensive, the human brain isn’t even equipped to fully comprehend the magnitude of those numbers.

So, how do we go about evaluating the thousands of claims and ideas we come across on

a daily basis? Well, according to Oregon State Professor of Philosophy Sharyn Clough, it may be getting too late to ask this question.

“I think they’re already out of control, and things are only going to get worse with extended reality,” Clough said. “Zuckerberg and folks at Microsoft and Apple have made clear they want us off our phones in the next five to ten years, and instead interacting in virtual spaces and augmented reality. That has huge potential, but it also increases the odds of deception—active deception—and we’re really going to have to train up our truth-detection skills, including some skills we don’t often think about, such as empathy and imagination.”

This issue of deception is particularly concerning because there is more money to be made in deceiving people than educating them. The reason so many headlines are filled with borderline falsehoods is that they make their money off of getting clicks, which is more reliably done with flashy ingratiations

than the truth.

Expanding on the issue of deception, OSU philosophy professor Jonathan Kaplan added via email, “What’s interesting is that the places where there is some public distrust of science are not places where the science is either counterintuitive or uncertain, at least in my view. So the reason that people doubt anthropogenic climate change,” for example, “is that very wellfunded organizations worked very hard to sow doubt where there basically is none, and the issue became politicized.”

Indeed, things are just getting started in terms of what can deceive the masses.

With so-called “deep fakes” on the horizon, traditional shortcuts to establishing credibility are all but useless. Figures of authority may no longer be trustworthy in coming decades. Is that really the president speaking, or is it just a fabrication? Augmented reality may prove to take this question beyond our screens. Soon, we may not even be able to trust our own eyes.

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FORUM Comes to Mind: Medieval Times

By SEAN LANE

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

YAYS • Yay to washing your hands and maintaining basic hygiene practices.

• Yay to voting in the primaries.

• Yay to women and International Women’s Day. • Yay to spring break.

Left-Handed Vision: Too Much Good Stuff

By ARTHUR LINDHJEM

• Yay to vitamin D. • Yay to new beginnings.

NAYS • Nay to more cases of coronovirus.

• Nay to finals...let the studying begin.

• Nay to ties, and dress codes in general.

• Nay to the patriarchy.

• Nay to baseball losing their first home series.

• Nay to springing forward and losing an hour.

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NEWS

Coalition of Graduate Employees confront OSU President during rally

By WILLIAM ROSS News Contributor

They formed a circle outside the Kerr Administration Building.

Oregon State University employees, undergraduates and faculty, as well as members of the Corvallis community, standing shoulder to shoulder to support graduate employees as they rallied to highlight their demands during what has become a contentious negotiation process.

The rally was held outside the Kerr Administration Building on March 3, beginning at 2:30 p.m. with chants and speakers. Some passersby joined in as OSU administrators came down to witness, with approximately 170 to 200 people participating in total.

Among the administrators who came down from Kerr Administration Building included President Ed Ray, who entered the middle of the circle to discuss the petition. CGE’s request includes no OSU employee making more than 186,000 dollars a year, cutting administrator’s salaries who go above that number. The petition also calls for all existing trustees who won’t meet CGE’s request to resign immediately, allowing for new candidates to take over who will satisfy the groups new standards.

Graduate employee Andrea Haverkamp questioned Ray if he knew what graduates were requesting from bargaining meetings the university has going on with the Coalition of Graduate Employees.

Ray said he had read the petition that CGE has been requesting administration to sign.

Ray commented that he would not be signing the petition CGE brought, Ray stated he doesn’t agree with certain elements of the petition.

After more chanting by the people at the rally, Ray left the circle going back into Kerr.

With Ray gone, the event’s energy remained high with, an open forum taking place to allow people at the rally be given a chance to discuss their concerns with the university.

Chants calling for change continued such as, “President Ray cut your pay” and “Chop from the top.”

At 3:30 p.m., the rally concluded, ending the circle community members formed to show their support.

“Bargaining is about a contract.

This petition and this rally is about much, much more than that,” said Samuel Burns, a teaching assistant at OSU. “What we are really pushing for is to fundamentally remake the priorities of the institution.

When 125 people are making more money than 1800 graduate employ-

MONTANA MURP HY | ORANGE ME DIA NE TWORK A crowd stands outside the Kerr Administration building in the afternoon of March 5 to sign a Coalition of Graduate Employees petition. CGE requests caps on salaries of OSU employees at $186,000, investment into affordable housing, a freeze on tuition and fees, as well as guaranteed funding over the summer.

ees who are all at or below the poverty level, that’s a systemic priorities issue that’s not going to be solved by contract negotiation.”

One specific incident that informed the rally was an email Vice Provost and Executive Vice President Edward Feser sent out on Feb. 28. Some members of the community felt the email did not accurately portray what is going on with bargaining meetings between OSU and CGE. The email came after CGE held a protest in Fesers classroom, interrupting his class.

“After seeing the email that was sent out by Ed Feser... I was so blown away by his retaliation to the classroom visit that was made,” said Graduate Employee Chelsea Newbold.

According to Steve Clark, vice president for University Relations and Marketing, the email Feser sent out was accurate but did not provide enough context for those reading the email, leading to the negative reactions.

That next day, on March 4, Feser sent out another all-student email clarifying the comments he made in the Feb. 28 email. Feser explained that since most of the language used in the original email was not familiar to students, he should have done a better job to clarify terms. In the email Feser stated he regrets the confusion.

Back after the event took place, Ray was a major talking point for rally members who witnessed him walk away.

“I knew he (Ray) wasn’t going to sign the petition, but I did think

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him just blatantly walking away and ignoring the questions we were asking him was incredibly disrespectful,” Newbold said.

Clark was with Ray when they went back into Kerr to exit the rally before it finished.

“I think I left because I believe the president represented the university and himself completely and the opportunity that students, graduate students, employees, or graduate assistants wanted further comment had been completed by the president,” Clark said.

Rally participants filled the street with chants, boos and dialogue while Ed Ray spent his time in the circle.

“I say as community members it should be among our mindfulness and our commitment to provide for civil and respectful discourse and I don’t believe that’s what we entirely saw yesterday,” Clark said.

According to Clark, he would like to see people to allow individuals on any side to express themselves without being interrupted or being challenged, giving them the respect they deserve.

“We value our graduate assistants, we value their contribution to the university,” Clark said. “We also value the process that CGE and the university have agreed to engage in with bargaining, that’s ongoing.

That’s by the bargaining team of CGE and the bargaining team of the university and I think we should all respect that bargaining process.”

The next bargaining meeting between CGE and OSU administrators is scheduled for March 11.

SUSTAINABILITY, Continued from Page 4 at the university, including Community Engagement and Leadership, Campus Recycling and University Housing and Dining Services, to name a few.

Many of these organizations input their own information directly to STARS each year.

OSU Materials Management Marketing and Development Coordinator Andrea Norris said OSU Materials Management reports information to the STARS “Waste Minimization and Diversion” section, which focuses on how OSU’s waste has improved over time and how much waste OSU is diverting.

“The bottom line is that OSU improved in the category of waste over our previous year because we reduced the total amount of waste we generated (including trash, recycling, compost and reuse) per person while keeping our recycling rate similar and even just a bit higher,” Norris said via email. “Having said that, OSU only scored 4.33 out of the 8 available points in this category and has much room for improvement.”

Norris said while there is a tendency to look for improvements in recycling and composting, it is only a small aspect of improving overall sustainability. Reducing waste and preventing waste production is a focus of OSU Material Management going forward, according to Norris.

Trelstad said the university has a consistently high performance in research, campus engagement, coordination and planning, and diversity and affordability.

“I know that specifically for our STARS score this year compared to last, the biggest contributor to our highest score yet was research,” Cavazos said. “The reason why it bumped up was because there were a lot more departments that had research with a sustainability component.”

According to Cavazos, in order to achieve a higher STARS score or receive a “platinum” grade, the university would have to improve its buildings.

Cavazos said improving buildings could also consequently increase credits in other subcategories.

“Investment and finance is really more about the OSU Foundation’s practices, which we don’t really control.

We influence, but we don’t control, because they are a separate organization,” Trelstad said. “Everything else (the other low-performing subcategories) is operational—if we were buying more renewable energy, certifying our buildings green from an operational standpoint, or we build green buildings to start with. But then when they’re 50 years old, or really even 5 years old, you need to re-certify them under a different protocol. We really don’t have the capacity to do that, so we haven’t.”

In order to get more building certifications, more staff people would be

“If leaders want us to improve, we can do anything given the resources—then, that becomes a leadership decision for them to make.”

Brandon Trelstad

Oregon State University Sustainability Officer

needed from an operational standpoint, according to Trelstad.

Trelstad said the STARS assessment holds the university accountable, provides an honest and transparent account that highlights low-performing areas and identifies where to focus future sustainability efforts.

“Most of lower scoring credits are not easy things, or else we would be doing them already. If leaders want us to improve, we can do anything given the resources—then, that becomes a leadership decision for them to make,” Trelstad said.

Both Trelstad and Cavazos agreed that the university’s long-term sustainability goal is carbon neutrality.

“We’ve picked a very ambitious goal already around carbon neutrality, and because it touches so many aspects of sustainability, I feel like that’s good enough—it’s too much, quite frankly, to think about how we’re going to get there in 5 years,” Trelstad said. “Or, if we’re not carbon neutral, how can we make really substantial reductions.

That’s what we’ve been asked to do now, is to say what would it cost to get us to carbon neutrality, or some level of alternatives where carbon offsets play some role.”

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