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By LARA RIVERA & HALEY STARK News Contributors Following an unusually wet and cold spring, signs throughout the Corvallis Farmers’ Market warn of possible delays and shortages in produce.

Many vendors described difficulties adjusting to the unpredictable weather experienced throughout the Willamette Valley. For Chad Shinn, owner of Camron Ridge Farmstead, the constant rain and cold temperatures of earlier this year made it extremely difficult to plant certain crops on time.

“Really the rain affects our succession planning,” Shinn said. “Succession planning for us, like you know we’re gonna plant beets every three weeks. We might miss one. We might miss two. So there’s going to be a gap.”

Fluctuations in spring temperature led to crop waste for some farmers. According to Corvallis Farmers’ Market Manager Aurora Ashkar, the heat in early spring led to flowering, which was then disrupted when temperatures plummeted back down into the 30 degree Fahrenheit range.

Beth Hoinacki, owner of Goodfoot Farm, experienced similar losses in her own fields due to the weather.

“It’s definitely reduced our early season crops,” Hoinacki said. “We weren’t able to get into the fields when we typically do, and so a lot of the work that we do early in the season like starting plants in our propagation house, those had to be tossed out because we didn’t have ground to plant them in, for example.”

Though the wet spring took a toll on many of the vendors at Corvallis Farmers’ Market, they were still able to adapt to or even benefit from the unique situation.

Tal Singh, co-owner of Riverland Family Farms, is one such farmer. According to Singh, this year has been

positive compared to the previous one, as his tomato plants suffered in 2021’s heat wave.

Singh greatly benefited from having 12 out of 20 acres of his farm covered by hoop houses, also known as high tunnels. These structures protected his crops from the harsh rain and cold weather outside.

Using high tunnels to combat weather conditions was a common trend among farmers at the market. Shinn attributed the use of high tunnels to saving his farm’s early season.

“We’re probably a month and a half behind with the growing season for us because we’re just really a small family farm,” Shinn said.

“We have a couple of high tunnels; you know, without the high tunnels we would basically not have any kind of revenue at the beginning of the year. We’re actually just now starting our year where usually we would have been FARMERS’ MARKET Continued on page 2

By RYAN HARLAN Sports Contributor With Oregon State Football coming off their first bowl game appearance since 2013 and going undefeated at home, the Beavers have used that success to build the 6th ranked 2022 recruiting class in the PAC-12.

So far, this is the highest ranked recruiting class in the tenure of Head Coach Jonathan Smith.

The 2022 recruiting class brings 25 new players into the fold of the returners from last year’s football team. The class looks to replace the talent that departed from last year along with continuing the success that last year brought to the Beavers.

Offensive position recruits include freshman running back Damien Martinez, and freshman offensive lineman Dylan Lopez.

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JIRATANA TUNGKAWACHARA | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK A crowd of people on July 16 walking around near the entrance of the Farmers’ Market in Corvallis, Ore. The Corvallis Farmers’ Market operates every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Nov. 23.

FARMERS’ MARKET Continued from page 1 here in May as far as the volume that we would normally have.”

For Hoinacki at Goodfoot Farm, growing a variety of crops that can survive in different conditions helped mitigate weather-related losses.

“We try to balance that [the losses] by being diversified so it’s not just one piece,” Hoinacki said. “For example, with our tree fruit orchard, we won’t have any plums or Asian pears this year due to late spring freezes, but we will have apples. Because we don’t depend on any

one thing for our season’s overall revenue, it all works.”

Outside help was also a factor in getting farms where they needed to be this season.

Ashkar and berry harvesting intern Elliot Scheuer both gave a shout out to the Oregon State University students who assisted them.

“We had a lot of really great volunteer help at the end of spring term and beginning of summer,”Ashkar said. “Once things started to dry out to get that push of getting everything in the ground and getting us back on track for the rest of the season thanks to students.”

Though 2022’s growing season has brought

up various difficulties so far, farmers like Hoinacki are cautiously optimistic moving into the heat of summer.

“It seems like we’ve slipped into our predictable Oregon summer, but that could change,” Hoinacki said. “I think the feeling is that it’s just been all over the place, and who knows? Right at this moment it feels like it’s where it’s supposed to be, but we also kind of feel like we could have a terrible fire season like we did a couple years ago.”

The Corvallis Farmers’ Market on First Street is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays through Nov. 23.

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COVER: Farmer Beth Hoinacki of GoodFoot Farm takes stock and inventory of organic produce on July 16 at the Farmers’ Market in Corvallis, Ore. GoodFoot Farm is certified in biodynamic and organic farming practices and is self-labeled as a diversified market farm. Photo by Jiratana Tungkawachara, OMN Photographer.

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Corvallis Action Network creates nonprofit, takes action for reproductive rights awareness

By LARA RIVERA News Contributor Corvallis Action Network volunteers hosted a reproductive rights awareness event on the one month anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

CAN was first started by a group of people who had just met each other outside of the Benton County Courthouse and over social media the weekend after Roe v.

Wade was overturned.

“We found each other because we were all passionate and upset,” said Melanie Green, CAN’s event coordinator.

Originally, the creators of CAN were just planning on getting together to have a space to start planning small events. Today, the Facebook group has over 300 members, and they have a leadership board.

CAN volunteers met at Central Park — in between Monroe and Madison Avenues — to host the first of many monthly events to remember June 24, when the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade.

This event had booths for groups such as “Northwest Abortion Access Fund,” “Women Rise Up,” and multiple vendors supporting the cause.

Bonnie Jean, CAN’s community outreach coordinator and CAN co-founder, hopes that by hosting these events will motivate people to get more educated and know the importance of abortion being legal.

“Some people don’t think about it, they’ve never been through it or don’t know someone that has done it,” Jean said.

Through donations, CAN is supporting multiple different organizations. On Sunday, CAN raised money for the Northwest Abortion Action Fund, and one of CAN’s volunteers is recycling cans to raise money for the “Cascade Ace Project.”

“I understand that abortion can be a very scary and very aggressive topic for many, but it is the reality for over 50% of our population,” said Nicole Roka, CAN’s media outreach coordinator.

Roka says CAN is a “safe organization” that is “extremely inclusive,” and would like to expand the diversity in the group.

Jeanie Schauermein, Northwest Abortion Access fund’s volunteer and administrative & accounting coordinator from Eugene, works with people who are having to travel from afar

and are farther along in their pregnancy.

Schauermein was looking forward to meeting all the people, spreading the word and getting more funding specifically for the NWAAF clinic in Idaho. The clinic lost the ability to perform abortions and other healthcare procedures on the 30th day by the state when the bill was overturned. which was on their 30th and final day since the SCOTUS vote.

A new change for NWAAF is that Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland is starting to accept NWAAF’s vouchers.

“It’s nice to know that we are a pro-choice state, but it could change in a heartbeat,” Schauermein said. “If the state turns red, who knows what will happen.”

Oregon is one of the first states to have no restrictions on abortion.

Darcie, the organizer for the Facebook group “Women, Rise Up!,” started the Facebook group for local residents. It blew up and now “Women, Rise Up!” has members from all over the world including Canada.

“Women, Rise Up!”organized a silent protest on July 28 where people can dress from anytime before 1974 and protest.

“The goal is to keep growing so that we eventually have simultaneous enrolling demonstrations, all saying the same thing; ‘Hell hath no fury,’” Darcie said. “It’s our rally cry, and it’s a warning.”

The next step for “Women, Rise Up!” is to have a “massive-scale” mailing campaign, with everyone writing the same message.

The mailing campaign will consist of multiple short letters to congress in order to “overturn the overturn.” Their goal with the letters is “we are taking our power back, and we are coming back,” Darcie said. “We are not going to let this stand.”

Jeff Obermann, an attendee, came to support the cause after hearing about it on Facebook. “[I came] to show some support,” Obermann said. “We’ve regressed so far, it’s ridiculous.”

To get involved, CAN created a Facebook group and welcomes Corvallis residents to join.

CAN’s mission statement reads: “As a nonprofit we are to ensure and defend equitable access to reproductive care in Oregon, and help those without access to proper reproductive care. We will not go back.”

MADI STINES | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Corvallis Action Network event organizers speak to a crowd in Central Park in downtown Corvallis Ore. CAN organized this event on July 24 at to raise awareness for women’s reproductive rights.

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Dixon Recreation Center’s spa to be replaced pending Board of Trustees approval

By HALEY STARK News Contributor Tucked away within Steven’s Natatorium, Dixon Recreation Center’s hot tub has sat idle since the winter term of 2020.

“The hot tub had maintenance issues for many years,” Associate Director for Facilities & Risk Management Bill Callender said via email. “Unfortunately, the hot tub’s chronic maintenance issues and continuous water loss made it no longer sustainable or financially responsible for continuing its operation.”

However, the fate of the hot tub will not remain in limbo for much longer, as there are plans to replace it in the near future.

“The hot tub replacement is part of a major Dixon Recreation Center renovation,” Callender said. “The replacement of the hot tub would cost an estimated $500,000 and is planned to be included in proposals to renovate the lap pool and dive pool.

Preliminary work to demolish and remove the existing hot tub is underway. The overall Dixon Recreation Center renovation project

plan is anticipated to be presented to the [Oregon State University] Board of Trustees and, if approved, work would be planned to take place in 2022-23.”

This $500,000 renovation of the aquatics center will be funded through Dixon Recreation Center student fees. Associate Director of Recreational Sports Troy Snow said this fee amounts to $112.92 per student per term, which includes standard access to Dixon’s programs and facilities.

Despite the high cost, Aquatics Supervisor Mikayla Baird said she believes the investment will be worthwhile. While the hot tub and spa areas have been closed for the entirety of the two years she’s worked at Dixon, interest in these areas still remains throughout the student body.

According to Baird, Dixon staff members get questions regarding the spa often. If the project plan were to be accepted by the OSU Board of Trustees, she has a hopeful outlook.

“I think that students and everyone who uses the facilities here at the OSU pool will really like it a lot,” Baird said.

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JESS HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Signage at Dixon Recreation Center tells OSU community members that the spa is currently closed. The Dixon Spa has been closed to students since early 2020.

Eco2go to resume ‘as soon as staffing allows’

By TARSA WEIKERT News Contributor Eco2Go is a University and Housing Dining Program which provides customers with reusable takeout containers. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the program has been under temporary suspension.

Kerry Patterson, the director of campus dining and catering for the past nine years was a part of the team that first designed and implemented the Eco2Go containers.

“In 2012, UHDS began offering customers reusable Eco2Go containers as an opt-in program for a fee,” Patterson said. “Then in 2015, we changed to the more recent format where all to-go entrée options are served in an Eco2Go container at no additional charge.”

Oregon State University estimated that within the first year of implementing Eco2Go they successfully kept 400,000 disposable containers from the landfill. Patterson admits that contributing to sustainability is a campus and student priority.

“We’re committed to re-implementing the Eco2Go program as soon as staffing allows,” Patterson said. “At this time, we’re actively engaged in recruiting for our dining team and are hopeful that will mean restarting the program over the coming months.”

Since the pandemic began in 2020, OSU has been using disposable containers.

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single-use molded fiber clamshell containers, according to Jaime Herrera, assistant director of dining and executive chef for UHDS. The disposable containers were mostly available in dining halls and residence halls.

“Pre-pandemic most of the cafes and food service areas operated by Memorial Union Retail Food Service did not utilize Eco2Go containers,” Patterson said.

In July 2021 MURFS and UHDS merged, creating a university-wide food operating service.

“When we restart Eco2Go, we plan to include the cafes and other outlets that were formerly operated by MURFS,” Patterson said.

Chris Anderson, general manager of dining for the last three years, led the implementation of the Eco2Go program and manages day to day operations. Anderson has been working with residential dining for 15 years in addition to being a manager the last three years.

According to Anderson there are different recycling groups on campus that students can utilize while the program is suspended. There is Campus Recycling, student Eco-Reps, the Waste Watchers Club and the Sustainability Office.

“OSU’s Eco2Go program is one of the most progressive in the country. It provides an opportunity to save many tons of waste from the landfill,” Anderson said. “Our individual choices to reuse can have a large-scale impact.”

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Nine Fulbright Awards earned by OSU faculty

By SAM MISA News Contributor In the past five years Oregon State University has seen 27 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards go to its staff, with nine of those awards being from 2022 alone.

In 2022, OSU exceeded the number of awards to be considered a “top producing” university by three. This makes OSU one of the top institutions to go as a researcher.

For most of the 2022 awardees of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award, OSU either directly or indirectly helped them with earning their awards.

The Fulbright US Scholar Program is well known amongst researchers as being ‘the award’ for scholars in the United States, according to one 2022 OSU recipient of the award, Bogdan Strimbu.

For Strimbu, who will be working in his home country Romania on forest modeling, he knew about the program since before he came to the United States.

However, it wasn’t until Strimbu came to Oregon State University that he applied for the Fulbright award. This was in spite of Strimbu having worked at another university, Louisiana Tech.

The reason for Strimbu applying and receiving his award now instead of before at LSU was because OSU was simply better for researchers trying to get a Fulbright award.

“At Louisiana Tech, I was teaching five courses a year,” Strimbu said. “Here, I am teaching three.”

According to Strimbu, this meant that there was less time spent teaching and more time available to conduct research during school years.

That difference allowed him to conduct

more high-end research that put him ahead of his competition.

“I would have had less opportunities in conducting high-end research at Louisiana Tech, than Oregon State, which means [Louisiana Tech] would have made me less competitive,” Strimbu said.

Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering professor Greg Rorrer also found OSU helpful in applying for the Fulbright award he earned this year as well.

“There’s a mechanism where you can, as a faculty member, take a leave of absence and work in the federal government,” Rorrer said.

“The federal government pays your salary, but you maintain your position here, you just don’t get paid by OSU, per se.”

For two of the other 2022 OSU Fulbright Scholars, OSU staff went as far as directly helping them with their application processes.

“When I started looking into the appli-

cation process for a Fulbright, Julie Walkin, an International Program Manager in the Office of Global Opportunities, gave me a lot of helpful advice on the initial stages,” said OSU Associate Professor of Materials Science, Melissa Santala.

According to Santala, OSU has a great community of Fulbright awardees that helped her get her own Fulbright award to work in Israel in Materials Science.

Professor Jerri Bartholomew found similar help when she was completing her application to work in fish parasitology work in Spain.

“The international office was helpful in supplying me with information about what these scholarships were about,” Bartholomew said. “I had to be interviewed by a professor in the language department so that my Spanish speaking skills could be evaluated. So I think there was some internal support.”

OSU students can now work out for free this summer at Dixon Recreation Center

By HALEY STARK News Contributor For the first time in Dixon Recreation Center’s history, all students are able to access the facilities free of charge during the summer term.

Since its opening in 1976, Dixon Recreation Center has been a place for students to socialize and exercise through intramural sports and workout classes. However, students not actively enrolled in summer classes previously couldn’t utilize the space during that term without paying for it.

According to Troy Snow, associate director of Recreational Sports, students enrolled in on-campus summer classes in past years would be given membership to Dixon through a $71.25 student fee. Students who weren’t enrolled in on-campus classes, including students in summer Ecampus classes, would have to pay $115 to gain access to the Rec Center for the term.

Snow attributed the change in rules to the advocacy of the Associated Students of Oregon State University. “Their leadership was essential to moving the change forward and Rec Sports staff worked to ensure it was operationally feasible for this summer’s implementation,” he said.

ASOSU President Matteo Paola said via email this change was something that the Student Fee Committee had been looking at since June 2021 but was pushed more heavily in this year’s SFC meetings due to its newfound economic feasibility.

“One of the things that made the change far easier to advocate for was the minimal cost to students if the summer fee was eliminated.

Overall it would lead to a $17.53 increase per student per term for fall, winter and spring term — a 3.85% increase over the previous year — but because the enrollment numbers we were initially working with were an underestimation of actual numbers, students did

not have to bear any of the cost of eliminating the summer fee at all,” Paola said.

Despite the new student-friendly elimination of summer fees, the message has not reached many of those who it aids. There are no indications at Dixon that summer membership is now free, though their website has recently been updated to reflect this.

Biology major Hannah Vogt visits Dixon regularly to use the mats and smaller weights, but was not initially aware of the change and believed she would be charged for the summer. Upon learning of it, she had a positive response.

“I love that,” Vogt said. “I have a lot more time in the summer so that’s great.”

Snow said he expects a similar response from other Dixon attendees moving forward, despite attendance remaining consistent with past years. However, he anticipates that this may change as summer term progresses and word gets around about the change.

JESS HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Kettlebell weights at Dixon Recreation Center. In previous summer terms, only enrolled students could utilize the Dixon facilities, but this year any student can work out for free.

JESS HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Students waiting in line for Equipment Issue at Dixon Recreation Center on Oregon State University’s Corvallis, Ore. campus on July 5. In previous years, only students who were registered for summer term were allowed use of Dixon as the fees are included in each term’s tuition.

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Former Barometer adviser Frank Ragulsky dies at 75, leaving behind enduring legacy in college media

By SUKHJOT SAL News Reporter Those who knew Frank Ragulsky likely heard him say, “I have been to the bank,” when he reached work at seven in the morning.

Generally, that meant he had already caught a couple of steelhead trout on an early morning fishing trip before heading to Oregon State University, where he worked as a dedicated adviser for The Daily Barometer and director of Student Media from 1982 to 2009.

A loving husband, father of two and grandfather of five, Ragulsky died from cancer peacefully in Corvallis, Ore. on June 30 with his wife, Jane Ragulsky, by his side.

Jane first met Ragulsky in the fall of 1966.

“I was a freshman in college and he was a junior,” Jane Ragulsky said. “He was in my biology class and he noticed me. I had noticed him, he was in student government, wore a school blazer on the days of student government, so Frank stood out from the other guys. He called me on my 18th birthday.”

Ann Robinson, former assistant director of Student Media from 1982 to 2012, worked for Ragulsky during her time at OSU. Later, when they both retired, she became close friends with him and his wife.

“He seemed sort of old-fashioned,” Robinson said.

“He always wore a tie and jacket—never jeans. He took his job seriously. He always arrived early for everything. He was a good listener and great storyteller. When I first met him he was in his 30s with two small children.

Those kids are in their 40s now with kids of their own.”

Just before Ragulsky retired, Robinson said he and his wife built a house in Homer, Alaska and bought a boat.

“They both took navigation and instrument training so that they were highly qualified to go out in the ocean trolling for salmon or catching halibut,” Robinson said. “I had the privilege of learning to catch halibut and salmon on his boat and on the nearby Soldotna River. I might never have visited Alaska if it wasn’t for Frank and Jane.”

Ragulsky was inspired to be a journalist by a high school experience, according to his wife.

“He had a journalism class and he was on the newspaper staff and went to a Catholic high school, and there was a nun there that

CONTRIBUTED BY JANE RAGULSKY Frank Ragulsky, former adviser to The Daily Barometer and director of Student Media at Oregon State University from 1982 to 2009. Ragulsky died on June 30 in Corvallis, Ore. at 75 years old.

just inspired him,” Jane Ragulsky said. “She came into a room and said, ‘I want you, you and you, come with me,’ and that was how it started, and he just liked it from that age.”

Frank Ragulsky’s love for students and teaching drove his success, according to Kami Hammerschmith, who first met him as a 17-year-old attending yearbook camp at OSU. Years later, she went on to work with Ragulsky as assistant director of Student Media from 1995 to 2016.

“I ended up attending OSU and he was my advisor as I worked for the Beaver Yearbook,” Hammerschmith said. “If a student made a mistake, Frank would support them and make it a learning experience. He helped many students find an internship or job. He was the president of the Western Association

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of University Publication Managers—a national organization of student media directors—twice, and had media contacts across the country. In 2007, a colleague at The Oregonian asked him about bringing the High School Journalism Institute to OSU, a week-long summer camp for students underrepresented in media. The camp came to OSU in 2008 and still exists today.”

The HSJI will be held this year from July 30 to Aug. 6 on OSU’s Corvallis campus, after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

From 1997 to 2001, Scott Johnson worked at The Barometer as a student reporter under Ragulsky’s guidance and later worked with him again at Hewlett-Packard—commonly known as HP. “The first thing that’s easy to remember

about Frank is his huge smile,” Johnson said.

“He was an optimist and always could put a positive spin on a situation.”

Ragulsky understood that college is a place for students to learn, according to Johnson, and he knew sometimes that meant you had to fail to get better.

“I appreciate that he truly let students run the newsroom without being heavy-handed, but he was always there if you needed advice,” Johnson said. “He was a great guide and mentor because he never told you exactly what to do, but instead laid out scenarios and let you make a decision.”

Steve Clark, vice president of OSU University Relations and Marketing, said he engaged with Ragulsky frequently when Clark was an Oregon newspaper publisher from 1983 to 2011.

“He was a wonderful person, warm, happy and caring.” Clark said. “He loved teaching and supporting student journalists. I am very sad that he has passed. Frank will be longremembered by many journalists working across the country and even the world.”

Ragulsky had a 27-year impact on student media and OSU, according to Hammerschmith.

“For some of his years, there was no journalism or media degree program but Frank worked with students to continue a daily newspaper, a yearbook, a literary magazine, and a radio and TV station,” Hammerschmith said. “They all continued with a high quality due to Frank’s trainings since students couldn’t learn it elsewhere on campus.”

In an interview in March 2021 for the 125thanniversary issue of The Barometer, Ragulsky said he and other advisers offered help anytime students asked for help, but let them go on their own—their only requirement was that students were accurate and responsible.

“We let them go because they were the best at their reporting,” Ragulsky said in the interview last year.

Matthew LaPlante, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Utah, was part of The Barometer team as a student reporter in 2001, when the newspaper won national awards with Ragulsky as journalism adviser.

“Frank let us be us,” LaPlante remembered.

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CAMPUS FRANK RAGULSKY Continued from page 8 “When we failed as reporters and students—and, alas, sometimes as decent human beings—he allowed us to own our mistakes, to learn from public criticism, and to apply those experiences to tomorrow, next week and next year. We failed often, and he was there to listen to us when we felt overwhelmed by those experiences, to remind us that failure is part of being a student, and to tell us to buck up, get back to work and strive to make better decisions. But he didn’t shield us from the consequences of our actions, and he didn’t tell people that they were wrong to criticize us when we screwed up, which happened a lot.”

In their “far less common” successes, LaPlante remembered that Ragulsky allowed the student reporters to bask in the moment.

“When I called him from the Society of Professional Journalists’ conference in Fort Worth, Texas to tell him that I had won the national award for feature writing and that our newspaper had been named the top college paper in the nation, I said ‘Congratulations, boss,’ and he replied, ‘I’m not the one who should be congratulated,’” LaPlante said.

“In the days and weeks that followed, when we were being lauded by school officials and reported on by journalists who cover

CONTRIBUTED BY KAMI HAMMERSCHMITH The cover of The Daily Barometer on June 2, 2009 when Frank Ragulsky retired from working as The Baro’s adviser and director of Student Media at Oregon State University.

CONTRIBUTED BY ANN ROBINSON Jane Ragulsky (left), Ann Robinson, Lubomir Pospisil and Frank Ragulsky in Homer, Alaska in July 2015. Frank Ragulsky was an avid fisherman, and spent much of his time fishing after his retirement from The Daily Barometer in 2009.

journalism, Frank never sought or accepted credit for what had happened. Today, I am a college professor whose students sometimes win national awards, and so I have had many occasions to think about how remarkable this was: Frank was the adviser of a newspaper from a school with no journalism program and very few journalism classes, and which somehow managed to produce amazing journalism and win national awards, but he didn’t take credit.”

Ragulsky’s innate humility and generosity were traits that other colleagues mentioned frequently when sharing stories about him.

“He wanted to impact students, but never for personal recognition,” Hammerschmith said.

The most Ragulsky did was to have a bunch of mugs made, LaPlante recalled—white with an orange Barometer logo and, under that, the words “Best Student Newspaper in the Nation.”

“I do know he kept one on his desk,” LaPlante said. “I’ve got one on my desk, still, too, and I’ve often thought about putting it away somewhere where it won’t be accidentally broken, but I haven’t done that because I like what it reminds me of.”

“When students are allowed to truly feel their failures, and really revel in their successes, amazing things can happen. I learned that from Frank, and I’ll always be grateful for that lesson.”

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SPORTS

JASON MAY | OMN ARCHIVES OSU Beaver Football players scrimmage during a spring game on April 16. The Beavers gained 25 new recruits and transfers this year, and hope this will bolster their ranks for the upcoming season.

UPWARD MOMENTUM Continued from page 1 Both enrolled at Oregon State early to join the team for spring football practices.

Lopez, Velling, and Martinez look to replace the production of long-time members of the program Nathan Eldridge, Teagan Quitoriano, and B.J. Baylor.

Martinez was a 3-star running back out of Texas and was the No. 37 ranked running back in the class of 2022.

“Martinez is physical, good size to [him], likes to carry the ball and loves football; made him feel like he was a good addition for us,” said head football coach Jonathan Smith.

At the front of the line, Lopez was a 3-star center out of Fla. and was ranked No. 35 offensive lineman in the class of 2022. Lopez’s skill set fits the Oregon State offensive system and looks to compete immediately with veterans in the offensive line.

“We feel like he’ll be a quick replacement with his skill set; got him figured to play center”, Smith said. “With his skill set and maturity, he’ll be given an opportunity to compete right away and physically he’s ready to do it, maturity he’s ready to do it.”

Velling looks to replace the production that Quitoriano provided to the offense for the Beavers. Velling was a 3-star recruit out of Seattle and is the 28th ranked tight end in the

class of 2022. Velling looks to handle much of the blocking responsibilities in the running game that Quitoriano had.

“I think he’s a blend of the two guys we’ve had playing tight end in Quitoriano and Luke Musgrave, he’s physical, can run routes, and catch it,” Smith said. “What we’re doing offensively, [with] use of the tight end, fits him perfectly and he’s going to come in here and get a chance to contribute from the get go.”

Throckmorton joins a quarterback room that doesn’t yet have a backup option behind presumed starter redshirt junior quarterback Chance Nolan. Throckmorton is a 3-star quarterback out of Simi Valley, Calif. and is rank No. 56 in the class of 2022 quarterbacks.

“This guy is accurate throwing the ball and that’s a non-negotiable, when you think about quarterback play and when we get guys open we need them catching the ball,” Smith said.

The Beavers also added a transfer on offense with running back Jamious Griffin from Georgia Tech University to the mix of a deep running back room and offensive lineman Campbell McHarg from Cal Poly.

On the defensive side of the ball, the notable recruits are freshman linebacker Melvin Jordan, freshman defensive tackle Quincy Wright, and freshman cornerback Noble Thomas. These recruits look to help replace the production of linebacker Andrzej HughesMurray, cornerback Elijah Jones, and defensive

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tackle Keonte Schad.

Jordan was a four-star recruit coming out of Florida and the 9th ranked linebacker nationally in the class of 2022. At Calvary Christian High School, Jordan posted 51 tackles and 3.5 sacks in his junior season and helped lead his high school to a 7-2 record. Jordan looks to play at outside linebacker despite having experience as an inside linebacker.

Wright was a three-star recruit out of Texas and was 92nd overall in the class of 2022 with recorded 6 sacks alongside 60 tackles in his senior season.

“Physical at the line of scrimmage, talk about a leader and captain on that team, played for a long time, they won a bunch of games as well,” Smith said of Wright. “Coming from a place that expects to win and that’s what he’s going to bring to our place, physicality and leadership role with us taking another step in the program.”

Thomas was a three-star cornerback out of Florida and was ranked No. 81 in the 2022 cornerback class. There are plenty of opportunities for Thomas to see the field early even with the entrenched starters at the position and could start out the season on special teams.

The Beavers added transfers on the defensive side of the ball in defensive back Ryan Cooper Jr. from the College of San Mateo and defensive lineman Joe Golden from Northern Colorado.

On special teams the Beavers added freshman

punter Max Walker, who’ll look to compete for the starting job once redshirt-senior punter Luke Loecher departs the team and freshman long snapper Connor Meholovitch.

With the new recruits on campus, the team has set their sights on fall training camp where the incoming freshman will get to experience their first college training camp and the opportunity to compete with the returners from last year.

After camp concludes in late August, the team will set their sights on the season opener at Reser Stadium, where they’ll take on the Boise State Broncos September 3 and look to build on the success from last year.

September Football Games Sept. 3: vs. Boise State Sept. 10: at Fresno State Sept. 17: vs. Montana State* Sept. 24: vs. USC *Set to be played at Providence Park in Portland, Ore.

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‘New and Fresh’: OSU Men’s Basketball team made up of transfers and recruits

By SAM MISA Sports Chief From making the Elite Eight in 2020 to having a 3-28 record in 2021 the Oregon State men’s basketball team is looking for a fresh start this upcoming season.

Despite OSU’s losing record last year, senior forward Dzmitry Ryuny decided to transfer from the University of San Francisco to play for the Beavers. For Ryuny, Oregon State University presented a chance to have a bigger role on a Division One team.

It is through transfers like Ryuny and incoming freshmen that the team hopes to move on from last season according to Oregon State junior guard Dexter Akanno, who is one

of four returning players from last season.

New players include transfers Ryuny alongside two other players: freshman guard Justin Rochelin, who transferred from Arizona State University, and sophomore guard Christian Wright, who transferred from the University of Georgia. The three transfers are also joined by six freshmen.

Both veterans, including Akanno, and newcomers of the team attribute the lack of team chemistry as being the cause of last season’s shortcomings.

“You saw some games where it’ll get down to the wire, and we just break apart and we just splinter,” Akanno said.” That’s pretty much what really went wrong.”

As a returning player, Akanno averaged 4.9

points per game last season and 2.1 rebounds.

Akanno started for 17 of the 29 games he played last year.

In their very first game against their rival, the University of Oregon Ducks, the Beavers ended up losing the game by just two points.

OSU lost the lead with just 13 seconds left in the 4th quarter.

Of the 28 games lost last season, the Beavers were only down by more than ten points in half of them.

“Last season was really rough but there were a lot of learning points,” said returning Oregon State sophomore forward Glenn Taylor Jr. According to Taylor Jr., going through such a tough season will have made veterans of the program better because they had to live through it.

“This is a new year,” Taylor Jr., said. “I feel like all the guys know we’re gonna have a way better year. We got a lot of new guys… New assistant coaches, we got some new transfers, and a new trainer. Everything’s new. We’re starting fresh.”

Taylor Jr. was a freshman last season averaging 6.9 points per game and 2.8 rebounds. Out of the 30 games he played, Taylor Jr. averaged just over 20 minutes per game and started in 12 of them.

While the new coaching personnel may not be specifically better, according to Taylor Jr., the move to change personnel was the right one.

“I feel like with everything going on last year, it was just time to get something new and fresh,” Taylor Jr. said. “Just start over.”

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MADI STINES | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Oregon State University Junior Dexter Akanno (center) playing offense during Beaver men’s basketball summer training, preparing for the upcoming season.

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CITY

New zoning structure downtown aims to help commercial development

By ADRIANA GUTIERREZ News Contributor Downtown Corvallis might look much different in coming years, as city planners are working to implement mixed-use development zoning, allowing for buildings to serve commercial, retail, entertainment and other purposes all at once.

A city project since early 2016, the plans have been divided into three phases. The first: to reform the policy and regulatory approach to mixed use development, the second: to apply new mixed use zones to the zoning map and the third: to “clean up.”

The first phase — completed in March of 2022 — created new residential mixed-use and commercial mixed-use zoning, which allowed for a certain district of Corvallis to contain buildings that serve residential and non-residential uses. Visually, these can look like stacked buildings with businesses on the ground floor and housing above, or businesses and residential housing shared

horizontally on the same development site.

“The RMU and CMU zones are sort of different sides of the same coin, where the RMU zones are fundamentally different and the CMU zones are fundamentally commercial,” said Rian Amiton, senior planner for the Corvallis Planning Commission.

The areas of Corvallis that do not have mixed-use zones include Central Business, Central Business Fringe and the Riverfront zones. The buildings in these zones are responsible for most of the development of Downtown Corvallis.

The current project only plans to implement CMU zones, which means buildings in these zones will primarily be used commercially.

The CPC is currently in the second phase of the project, which means consolidating existing zoning into commercial and residential mixed-use zoning. They were given approval for the plan on July 6.

Following the approval, the project will be moved over to the city in August. City officials

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JESS HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Corvallis Planning Commission Senior Planner Rian Amiton examining and discussing possible zoning for downtown at Corvallis City Hall on July 25.

will conduct public hearings until a decision is made whether or not to go through with the new zoning.

If approved, 6% of the 8% of pre-existing

commercial zoning would be transformed into a commercial mixed zone, allowing for development in Corvallis to continue to expand and grow.

FORUM

Harlan:The slow demise of the PAC-12 Conference There are several possibilities that have

Ryan Harlan Here’s my two

“T

been floated, which include a merger with the BIG-12 Conference, a

he slow

partnership with the Atlantic Coast

demise…” a bit

Conference, remaining in the status

overdramatic,

quo and a merger with the Mountain

yes? However,

West Conference. I’m not going to

it

definitely

break down all the pros and cons

looks like that and I know this isn’t

of each situation, but I will give an

necessarily related to Oregon State

opinion on what would make the

University but this news is too big not

most sense for Oregon State and the

to say something about it because it

conference going forward.

I think that personally, the moves

affects the NCAA for the foreseeable

that make the most sense are a merger

future.

We’ve all seen the news that broke

with the BIG-12 based on geographics

on June 30 about the University of

and TV markets along with staying in

California, Los Angeles and the University

the PAC-12, but the latter option, the way I see it, would be dependent on revenue

of Southern California leaving the PAC-12 Conference in 2024. My initial reaction when

from new TV deals and what teams could

it broke was — to put it bluntly — that the

be brought into the PAC-12.

Recently,

PAC-12 is in a tenuous position beyond 2024.

deals up in the air with the departure of two flagship schools in the conference leaving for the BIG-10 Conference. The move to the conference by both schools now puts the membership total of the BIG-10 at 16 schools, which span across the east and west coasts of the country.

The move also came nearly a year after Texas and Oklahoma announced they were leaving the BIG-12 Conference to join the

depart

BIG-10

the

Conference, which primarily has its games broadcasted on the FOX sports networks has their TV rights deals set to expire in 2023 and the new TV deals will garner almost double the revenue than what the PAC-12’s will be in

underlying reason for the move boils down

2024 according to The Athletic.

exposure outside of the west coast as well,

This falls on former PAC-12 Commissioner Larry Scott and current Commissioner

but with uncertainty lurking in every corner

The Board of

the Board of Commissioners may want to

Commissioners for

settle that before other schools could poten-

the PAC-12 Conference

Here’s the thing: we will have to wait and

the news broke in late June that

see how things go in the next few weeks

they would be working together

and expect that a decision won’t be made

with the remaining 10 schools to look at

probably until around August or July when

possible expansion opportunities. Now, as

it comes to the new media rights deals being

to what that looks like, remains to be seen,

completed. I do understand though, with all

but speculation mainly includes bringing potential merger with another conference,

TV deals and revenue that the PAC-12 had

Conference, but would it have been enough

ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported.

enough for both schools?” Sadly, no, there

to keep USC and UCLA to stay? Probably

To be honest with you, there isn’t a good

were not as many PAC-12 games outside of

not, but let’s focus on what the conference

option that will benefit all sides on this and

the west coast. The late starts in the evenings

will do going forward after USC and UCLA

that includes OSU.

lier in the day.

tially leave.

announced the day after

enough in securing more revenue for the

money for games that they could show ear-

wise, this doesn’t look good since it comes

Conference.

George Kliavkoff as they were not proactive

major networks would rather pay more

deal was set to expire in 2024. Now, optics right after the departures of USC and UCLA,

Now you might ask, “well, weren’t the

when people are asleep meant that many

of

PAC-12

in Mountain West Conference schools or a

but money.

Board

media rights negotiations process as their

The

Southeastern Conference in 2025. The to money, nothing else really. Also more TV

PAC-12

Commissioners approved a fast-tracked

This includes many decisions, including expansion opportunities and media rights

the

the news every day, it feels like we’re closer and closer to the PAC-12 as a conference not existing anymore.

I for one expect the remaining ten schools to come up with a plan that either preserves the history of the conference or creates a partnership that benefits the PAC-12 moving

COURTESY OF PAC 12 CONFERENCE Pictured above is the PAC12 Conference logo. Two PAC12 schools, the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California are leaving the conference in 2024.

forward. Otherwise, we might be witnessing the slow and painful demise of a college athletic conference right before our eyes.

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FORUM

Misa: Two sides in America, and neither is winning Sam Misa Miscellaneous Issues Studied Accordingly

I

think it’s fair to say that regardless of your political views, the state of the United States government at this moment in time is deeply flawed. Now why is that?

The many issues plaguing this country are in part caused by the two party system that the U.S. has maintained for almost as long as the U.S. has existed. As it stands, there are two major political parties in the U.S., and it has been those two for almost two centuries too long.

There has been an ever deepening divide between the two ideologies of the parties, which has led to the ever increasing polarization of the nation. Somewhere along the lines, we stopped thinking about the different parties as being people with different opinions or maybe different perspectives.

Somewhere along those lines, shades of gray

became black and white; right and wrong; us and them.

I don’t know about you all, but I sincerely hated the two options we had for the 2020 election. Rather than having an election that came down to the candidates with the two best visions for the future of our own country, we were given two candidates that only got to where they were because they were the safe options for their respective parties.

“The larger polarization of politics is being reflected in the court right now,” said Oregon State University Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Henderson. “But explaining the courts’ decisions is multicausal.”

While the two party system is only a small part of the problem faced by the U.S., it is still an important one. Which is something that Henderson agrees with.

“The two party element plays into the current situation in that currently our two party system, instead of encouraging party leaders to capture the median voter (encouraging centrism) has become more polarized, and are supported by more polarized bases,” Henderson said.

As a side effect of the polarized bases, American politics is virtually going to always be limited in its expression of what the American people want. We see this most prevalently with the limitation of political figures from being able to disagree with their own party’s ideologies.

In the case of President Biden, who supported the Hyde Amendment that restricted government funding of abortions, it meant he had to choose between maintaining his stance or changing it to keep his voter base.

“If you don’t change your stance, then you lose your base. You lose the activists who will vote on that issue,” said OSU Professor of Political Science Rorie Solberg.

“If you do change your stance, then you’re a flip-flopper.”

Whether or not it was because Biden had a change of heart or not, Biden still changed his stance on the Hyde Amendment, only days after his campaign had reaffirmed his stance on the amendment.

The problem of party loyalty is not something that can be fixed by moving past the two party system to one such as the proportional representation found in countries such

as Germany, Sweden and Ukraine according to Henderson. However, it is still a large step in the right direction.

However the change would definitely help dampen some of the worst consequences of the two party system, including that of gridlock and an inability to compromise on the most mundane legislation in congress.

The vast majority of both Democrats and Republicans are much more centrist than they are left or rightist.

Unfortunately for them, in order to get even just a fraction of their voice to be heard, they have to spew out the other sentiments in their party that they may not necessarily agree with.

All it takes in the US is a third moderate party to start bridging the gap between the left and the right. Sure that may sound a bit optimistic, but why is it that we have decided to see each other as enemies?

Why do we allow two parties that do not care about our well being dictate whether or not we get to call each other friends? It’s past time that we start finding the stuff we agree on and start trying to compromise on the things we don’t.

H. BECK | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK United States political parties, depicted with a donkey and elephant for the Democratic and Republican parties respectively, fight over the nation. “The larger polarization of politics is being reflected in the court right now,” said Oregon State University Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Henderson.

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CARTOONS

Coco’s Adventures: Letters

BY PORTIA WOODS

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

YAYS • Yay to river floating.

• Yay for used book stores.

• Yay to the new Steve Lacy album.

• Yay to picking out the

Cat’s Chronicles: New Member to the Family

BY CASSIDY SMITH

perfect produce at the farmers’ market.

• Yay to finding ten bucks on the floor.

NAYS • Nay to bad luck.

• Nay to losing your place in a long line.

• Nay

to

lukewarm

coffee.

• Nay

to

mispelling

someone’s name.

• Nay to heat waves.

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