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JESSICA HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Bo&Vine Burger Bar, located in downtown Corvallis, Ore. is just one of the many businesses who are affected by the reduced student population during summer term. As students leave to go home or study abroad, college towns like Corvallis notice a dip in revenue due to the change in population. Continue reading about the effects of loss student population on the City of Corvallis on page 10.

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Tim Caroll is named Sara Hart Kimbell Dean of the College of Business

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COVER: Photo collage with two pairs of photos. The first two, by OMN Photographer Haydon Holgerson, show people getting out onto the Deschutes River in Bend, Ore., near the OSU-Cascades campus. Second pair of photos, by OMN Photographer Jess HumePantuso, show people playing a game of basketball on the main OSU Corvallis campus in the early evening.

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LETTER

JESSI CA HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Oregonians everywhere are waiting to see what the summertime looks like for COVID-19 prevention. Recent updates to the plans for battling the COVID-19 pandemic appear to be on the horizon.

Letter From the Editor: How to safely transition into a ‘new normal’ this summer

By ADRIANA GUTIERREZ Editor-in-Chief Across the nation, Americans are outdoors, participating in all of the summer festivities that were shut down when the COVID-19 pandemic first began. Here in Corvallis, Ore., Oregon State University students are lining up by the Willamette River to go tubing and flooding Monroe Avenue on Friday nights with the same phrase in mind: “We are finally getting back to normal!”

While the Baro editors are also looking forward to a “new normal,” we want to first encourage our readers to play their part in responsibly moving into this next chapter of our lives—one without the fear of COVID-19.

Our new editorial team consisting of Patience Womack, a fifth-year psychology major and education minor; Angela Tam, a fourth-year history major; Jessica Li, a fourth-year pre-dental chemistry major and writing minor; and myself, will be working this summer to continue The Baro’s goal of reporting accurate news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. While our reporting is consistently unbiased, I wanted to take this time to speak on behalf of our team about our own personal hopes for the summer, specifically regarding community vaccinations.

First and foremost, we should recognize it is

our responsibility as community members to get vaccinated and to help the state of Oregon reach herd immunity. Once Oregon reaches its 70% goal of residents fully vaccinated, the virus’s transmission threshold won’t be able to be reached as easily.

It is in this way that we can uphold our responsibility to protect ourselves and those around us, including certain individuals who aren’t able to receive the vaccine due to medical reasons.

The Mayo Clinic describes this process regarding COVID-19 vaccinations as one of our only ways to bring down the spread of COVID-19 related deaths. The alternative is 70% of the population contracting the virus in order to build personal immunity, which is a far more dangerous choice when provided with an option of a one or two-dose vaccine shot.

Signing up for a vaccine is relatively simple, and can be done through your healthcare provider, local pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens as well as through different forms of vaccination clinics provided on local county levels.

Over the past academic year, OSU has partnered with community health organizations like Samaritan Health Services to make opportunities available for Benton County residents to get vaccinated, including mass vaccination clinics at Reser Stadium. These have shown to be extremely effective, reaching thousands of OSU students and

faculty members who are now fully vaccinated.

Over the summer, Corvallis will be seeing a new set of vaccination efforts, targeting the rest of the Oregon population yet to be vaccinated.

Baro News Contributor Kelsy Valentine writes about these express clinics in this issue, and how the Oregon Health Authority will be working to serve underrepresented groups that have not yet had opportunities to get the vaccine.

In Valentine’s coverage on the new clinics, Lead Communications Officer at the Oregon Health Authority Johnathan Modie said “Members of the BIPOC community—Black, Indigenous, people of color, our travel communities... They’re community-based organizations that serve all of those, and we want to make sure they have vaccines so they can provide those when someone comes in.”

We echo the sentiment provided in Modie’s quote, and as a person of color myself, I personally recognize our BIPOC communities in Oregon with less access to these vaccines and will make it a priority for “The Barometer this summer to continue to promote vaccination efforts geared towards underserved communities.

As of June 25, Benton County has already reached 70% herd immunity, with 71.4% of residents above 16 fully or partially vaccinated. Due to this, the county has officially been reopened in what appears to be the best time of year.

Restaurants, bars and recreational businesses no longer require masks inside, and large groups of people can gather yet again. But even in the midst of this excitement, we must remember that this privilege of being unmasked in public settings should only come to those who are vaccinated, in accordance with the CDC’s new guidelines.

As of June 30, Oregon has officially reopened, and so has OSU. Vaccinated students now have the option to enter school buildings and facilities unmasked, as well as reopening major hubs on campus like the Memorial Union and Dixon Recreation Center.

With all of this good news in mind, use this summer to do the things we couldn’t last summer—travel, explore Corvallis, reunite with friends. But do it safely and responsibly. There are still children and underrepresented groups in our community not vaccinated. The virus is not gone just because a vaccine has become available.

Transitioning back to normal requires a collective effort from every one of us to ensure long-term safety from COVID-19. Let mask-wearing, social distancing and entirely remote work and school be memories of the past.

For The Baro, we hope to be in person following this summer, with a fully-vaccinated editorial staff and a team of writers ready to enter this “new normal” era in the fall.

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Tim Carroll is named Sara Hart Kimball Dean of College of Business

By CARA NIXON News Contributor

Oregon State University has named Tim Carroll as the Sara Hart Kimball Dean for the College of Business, with the position going into effect July 30.

Carroll will be replacing Jim Coakley, who has been serving as interim dean since summer 2019. Coakley will be continuing as senior associate dean for analytics and operations in the College of Business.

Carroll has a background as a faculty member and administrator at big state schools as well as at smaller private schools.

He began his career at Georgia Tech as part of the faculty, and then moved to the University of South Carolina, where he worked as a faculty member, program director of the Master’s in Business Administration program and associate dean of executive education and multiple other academic centers for 12 years.

Most recently, Carroll served as dean at the University of the Pacific in northern California, where he had a wider scope of responsibilities due to the school’s small size.

“I feel well-prepared for the College of Business dean role at OSU,” Carroll said in an email.

Scott Ashford, dean of the College of Engineering, served as chair of the Search Advisory Committee for the new College of Business dean. He said in an email he feels Carroll is “well-equipped to step into the dean role” based on his previous experience.

The search process for Carroll, according to Ashford, included listening sessions with College of Business faculty, staff, students, stakeholders and OSU leaders; development of the position profile to use as a recruitment tool; advertising and recruiting; vetting candidates; semifinalist and finalist interviews; evaluations; calls to candidates’ references; and a Criminal History Check.

The Search Advisory Committee served to advise Provost and Executive Vice President Ed Feser to make the final decision.

“I’m very pleased to have Dr. Carroll joining Oregon State,” Feser said in an email.

“He brings experience as a dean, a focus on student success and a record of achievement in engaging corporate partners and building professional development programs. He’s also committed to advancing the college’s research goals. He’s a good collaborator and respects shared governance [and] core values at OSU.” Feser is also excited by Carroll’s experience with both public and private colleges.

“He’s learned a lot in different contexts that inform his leadership approach,” Feser said.

Carroll said the OSU College of Business is

already working very well, but he has goals to help improve it as dean.

“One thing I’d like to look at is working with industry partners and alumni to enhance experiential learning opportunities for students,” Carroll said. “And given the strengths of the other colleges at OSU, I’d like to explore partnering with them to expand our interdisciplinary programs. Most of the biggest challenges and opportunities we face in society will be solved with an interdisciplinary approach.

“I’ve also consistently heard from business leaders that COVID-19 has accelerated changes that were already under way in many industries and jobs. Since we prepare students for lifelong success, there may also be opportunities to continue to adapt and evolve our academic programs.”

Though he has some goals in mind, Carroll said he is ready to hear from students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors about their own thoughts on improving OSU’s College of Business.

Carroll said he is very excited to be the incoming dean for the College of Business. In particular, he is enthusiastic about the land grant mission at OSU, the opportunities to make a difference and being closer to family he has in Portland.

“But more than anything else, I’m excited to be a part of the Oregon State community and the opportunity to work with students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors to have a greater impact,” Carroll said. “The people I’ve met so far have been fantastic, and I can’t wait to get to work.”

ANG EL A TAM | ORANGE ME DIA NE TWORK A keystone outside of Austin Hall on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Ore. representing Beta Gamma Sigma, an international business honor society.

Tim Carroll, incoming Sara Hart Kimball dean of the College of Business, intends on leading the College of Business to success in the age of post-COVID-19 higher education.

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SOLOMON L. MYERS | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Tim Carroll, the incoming Oregon State University Sara Hart Kimball dean of the College of Business, can be seen in this photo illustration as he prepares for his work leading with OSU. Carroll will begin his position at OSU on July 30.

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P HOTO COURTE SY OF BRYSON ROBERTSON | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Researchers push out a measurement buoy onto the ocean currents. These buoys measure weather variables such as wave height that are considered in wave energy research facilities.

PacWave, OSU’s Wave Energy Testing Facility, has been federally approved

By TREVOR HORN News Contributor

After an almost 10-year approval process, the estimated $82 million wave energy research facility, PacWave, has been licensed and approved to operate seven miles southwest off the coast of Newport, Ore. PacWave is the first facility of its kind on the continental Americas. Although the United States Navy has a wave energy facility in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Burke Hales, the chief scientist at PacWave, said the new facility will be “more capable, more flexible, and [has] more capacity for power production” compared to their partners at the U.S Navy Wave Energy Test Site.

Although the field of wave energy is growing, Oregon State University has a tenured history with the concept.

Now at Baylor University, Annette Von Jouanne “did some of the most important, early work in wave energy [in the early 2000s] that I’m aware of,” Hales said.

PacWave itself will not generate electricity; it will only provide the means for technology developers to implement their devices.

The facility itself consists of two main pieces: the shore-side facility that will monitor the devices in the sea, seven miles of cables planted under the seafloor that connect the wave energy devices to the shore facility and eventually the rest of the power grid. Each one of the cables can transport five megawatts of electrical power from the devices to the shore.

Because PacWave went through a 10-year long approval process that included all likely types of wave energy converters, the designers of new wave energy devices “don’t have to

go through their own 10-year process,” Hales said. “PacWave itself does not build wave energy converters—we just provide the proving ground for those that do. We’re building the arena (test facility), but we are not competitors (WEC Energy Group developers) ourselves.”

The director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center, Bryson Robertson, has been working closely with the PacWave team.

“Dr. Hales is responsible [for making] sure the PacWave infrastructure gets built, I’m responsible for making sure we’re engaged with industry and we’re leading [research and development] and we’re moving the sector forward,” Robertson said.

“It’s hard to keep momentum when it’s taking 10 years to get permitting done [that is only a part of the full facility]–but definitely across the U.S., companies are interested, companies are looking at [PacWave], [and] companies are getting organized for future deployments,” Robertson said.

Companies like the Corvallis-based C-Power, Portland-based Aquaharmonics, Seattle-based Oscilla Power and California-based CalWave have been in contact with PacWave, and “they’re tracking [PacWave] very closely,” according to Robertson.

“There is no doubt that, in the academic setting, there is no better place to come and work on marine energy than Oregon State and the Pacific Marine Energy Center,” Robertson said.

Gathering interest from the private sector is undoubtedly a cornerstone of PacWave’s future, but Hales believes that since wave energy as a technological field is about 20 years behind wind energy, the sector will initially be dependent on subsidies from the Federal Department of Energy.

“We have this project that we estimated [would] cost $80 million to build and then operate for a couple of years, and we have about $70 [million] of that allocated. What we’re finding out in the age of COVID-19, the challenges of getting ships in place and increases in the cost of raw materials… it may take even more than the $70 million to construct,” Hales said. “We’re working hard on trying to very precisely define [the budget] so we know how much additional funds we need to go after.”

Hales has estimated that PacWave will cost roughly $4.5 million a year to operate.

“We have $73 [million] in-hand, and we think the overall project is about $82 [million],” Hales said.

“Time and money are interchangeable pieces here. If we had a huge amount of money at our disposal, … we could make the operations and construction go faster, so it’s kind of hard when you’ve got funding uncertainty, [and] it’s kind of hard to have schedule certainty,” Hales said. “Our hope is that we have cables installed by the summer of 2023, and then we essentially do the conditioning and testing over the winter of 2023 to 2024. Then the first devices [will] likely come in the spring of 2024.”

Hales noted that the facility could theoretically be able to house developer devices by the winter of 2023 to 2024, but developers wouldn’t want to get their devices in place while having to battle the winter storms in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast.

Ali Trueworthy, a student working on her masters of arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, said she believes in PacWave.

“Wave energy is really exciting in that I see it as a technology that probably won’t ever be huge and sweeping and just off of every coastline, but something that can have different, unique wave energy devices that embed themselves into communities as needed,” Trueworthy said.

As we barrel towards a renewable energy future, Hales believes that we must have a “diversified portfolio” of green energies.

“Wave Energy, in the overall green energy portfolio, might be able to supply 10% of global electricity demand,” Hales cited from a study conducted several years ago.

Although 10% seems like a small number, it’s a consistent number. Wind turbines can’t generate electricity if there is no wind, and solar panels won’t produce any juice if the sun is covered. Waves, even on windless days, are ever-present, especially off the Oregon coast which is home to some of the choppiest waters in the world –precisely why PacWave is located where it is.

One of the challenges of wave energy is that since it is a new field, it doesn’t have a form in the zeitgeist. Everyone knows what a wind turbine, a hydroelectric dam or a solar panel looks like; at this point in time, each wave energy device looks different and will fundamentally work differently than other devices.

Trueworthy sees this as one of the field’s strengths.

“Different places and different objectives may need different technologies. That’s one of the reasons why I think PacWave is super cool,” Trueworthy said.

Robertson echoed the same sentiment, saying “There’s a wide array of technologies, and I think they’re all going to have different niches.”

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SPORTS

Taking a look at what summer is like for OSU student-athletes

By THOMAS SALGADO DE ALMEIDA LEME Sports Contributor

For many Oregon State students, summer is a time to relax. They go home to see friends and family, maybe go on a couple of vacation trips and rest their minds in preparation for the upcoming school year.

Students might also take a few summer classes here and there or pick up a summer job or internship. Most don’t have to worry about keeping their body in top physical condition, nor about practicing sports in order to stay at the top of their craft as well as all the other stuff, though. But for student-athletes, that is their reality over the summer.

“I definitely think that my summers are impacted by being an athlete,” said fifth-year senior gymnast Kaitlyn Yanish over email. “I like to take the time to see my family and spend a lot of time with them, because I don’t get a lot of time during the year but also I make sure to get in the gym, do training and try to stay on track. It’s important to have fun and relax but having a good balance is just as important!”

Yanish, who does vault, balance beam and floor exercises for the Beavers Gymnastics team, is going into her fifth season with the team, so she has had a lot of experience practicing over the summer already. She sees this as something that helps her in comparison to younger players, leading to her taking up a bit of a veteran leadership role even over the summer when all the team members are away.

“I definitely think that my training style can be a little bit different compared to a lot of the incoming athletes,” Yanish said. “I know exactly what I need to work on and how I need to work on it just because I have a lot more experience compared to the other girls. I also feel like I can help out the team by giving advice and sharing what I do to prepare over the summer. So personally I have a routine for the summer which is nice, and I feel like a lot of the incoming gymnasts don’t have that yet.”

These individual routines over the summer is something that is more applicable to gymnastics, however, with it being a solo sport.

For team sports, such as softball and soccer, student-athletes tend to have to find a way to get together with other players at home to practice and stay in game shape.

“Over the summer I play soccer on a Women’s Premier Soccer League team with my old club so that I don’t lose the conditioning and my touches on the ball,” said junior forward Brianna McReynolds over email. “It’s

SYDNEY WISNER | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK ARCHIVES Kaitlyn Yanish competing in the all-around at Gill Coliseum in 2018, when Oregon State University defeated Michigan State University 196.800 to 191.350. Yanish likes to see her family and spend time with them over the summer, but strives to also make time for training.

a great way to keep your feel for the game, and playing against new opponents is always a fun challenge.”

In addition to these sport-specific practices, athletes also have to stay in shape, often by following training regimens built for them by their athletic trainers. This was consistent through players of every sport.

Yanish and McReynolds both mentioned their team’s athletic trainers sending the team workout schedules to follow to stay in shape.

Additionally, Frankie Hammoude, a junior infielder on the softball team, had workouts sent to her through an app while also taking individual batting practices and practicing other softball specific plays with her younger sister Nicole, who also plays the sport as a member of the conference rival, California Golden Bears.

Hammoude’s busy athletic schedule to stay in top shape both physically and technically doesn’t stop her from trying to enjoy her summer with friends and family back home in Oakland as well, as most college students try to do over break.

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“I love the summertime because I love being able to go outside all the time (since it rains in Oregon all the time) and hang out with my friends and family back home,” said Hammoude over email. “Being an athlete, I do always miss Oregon and being back with the team, so I feel like I itch to go back sometimes.”

The ability for Hammoude to enjoy her summer may be aided by the fact that softball is a spring sport, and thus summer comes right after her season concludes and over half a year before her next begins. This isn’t to say that Hammoude doesn’t put in a lot of work over the summer as well.

“I think summer is a rest period to an extent,” said Hammoude. “Yes, we wouldn’t train as hard as we would in the fall, winter and spring, but we do not just take the summer off.

Our competition is so hard, we don’t have time to just rest all summer because we need to be getting better like everyone else is. It is also a nice period to work on your personal abilities and flaws during the offseason.

Soccer, meanwhile, is a fall sport, and thus starts just after summer ends, making summer

training even more important for soccer players and members of other fall sports such as football and volleyball.

“Summer is really crucial for us and especially as a fall sport, because we really have to jump right into the season,” said McReynolds.

“We usually only have a few weeks to prepare, and if you don’t come back after summer in good shape, it is going to be especially difficult for you to keep up.

Gymnastics, meanwhile, is a winter sport, meaning its season is right in the middle of the academic year which Yanish thinks is the sweet spot.

“I definitely think that winter sports get an advantage [over] all the other sports, because we get the summer and the fall to prepare individually and as a team,” Yanish said. “It’s fun coming back from summer and seeing where everybody’s at and then in the fall we get to prepare as a whole. It’s definitely different but, you know, I’ve gotten used to it, and I think that it works well for our team and it helps us prepare well!”

The summer is also a good time for athletes to recover from any injuries sustained during their seasons. Hammoude is one of those athletes, as she injured her arm over her freshman season and had to recover over that summer.

“I would say my [last] summer was definitely filled with more recovery in addition to my training,” Hammoude said. “I was still doing a lot of batting practice with the uninjured arm and then I was also working back into a full two-armed swing. I’d say I was very adamant about getting my arm rehab done, because I wanted to come back an even better player than I was. I definitely owe our team athletic trainer some credit for getting me back where I need to be.”

It’s safe to say that the recovery worked well, as Hammoude gained All-PAC-12 first team honors this past season after recovering from her injury.

All of this is about the athlete part of the student-athlete title though. The student part is still well in play for many student-athletes who use the break to get a leg ahead academically and help lighten their busy schedules on campus where games and practices take up so much of their time in addition to classes.

“Taking summer classes has most definitely proven beneficial to me, because I like to take some more challenging courses over the summer to lighten the load during soccer season,” McReynolds said.

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ERICK BRANNER | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK ARCHIVES An Oregon State teammate consoling forward Brianna McReynolds following their loss to No. 25 University of Washington in 2019. McReynolds, currently a junior, plays soccer over the summer on a Women’s Premier Soccer League team to retain conditioning.

SUMMER ATHLETES Continued from page 8 Yanish echoed those same sentiments, although as a fifth-year senior, her current summer is much more relaxed academically, as she did the academic heavy lifting in the past already.

“My first two years of school I decided to do a few summer classes just to make it a little bit easier on myself during the season,” Yanish said. “Right now, I’m not taking summer classes, because I’ve completed most of my degree, and for the most part, my classes will just be spread out throughout the season, but I typically like to do a lighter load during the season and then take a heavier amount of classes before and after just to make it a little bit easier on myself.”

In addition to often taking summer classes to lighten their load for the rest of the year, another way in which student-athletes and non-athlete students can relate to each other is in how they dealt with the summer of 2020.

As in, they also didn’t have a clue as to what was going on or what to do while the global COVID-19 pandemic raged on.

“Last summer was a lot different, because we weren’t sure if we were preparing for another season or not, so getting back into shape was a little bit delayed, but I think we all did a great job jumping back to it when we all got back on campus for the first time again,” McReynolds said.

In addition to not knowing if they even were going to have a season or not, student-athletes also had to struggle to find a way to complete their ever-important summer conditioning.

“We were pretty much forced to find ways

to work out with gyms or equipment unless we owned some ourselves, and we just had to be more adamant about staying healthy,” Hammoude said. “Unfortunately, that meant not hanging out with a lot of my friends and family, but it was worth being healthy all summer.”

Just like everyone else, student-athletes and coaches found a way to adapt to the circumstances of the pandemic using Zoom to help their summer preparations.

“Last summer was significantly different than any summer I had experienced,” Yanish said. “It was definitely a lot longer and more challenging. Just finding a place to lift weights or use equipment was nearly impossible for a little bit. Tanya [Chaplin, head coach] and Michael [Johnson, assistant sports performance coordinator] shifted our focus to team building over Zoom, and we were able to take a mindfulness course as a team too. We had to prepare differently than we usually would, but I think considering the circumstances, we bonded well as a team, and I’m super proud of everything we accomplished.”

But now that the pandemic has abated a bit, teams are sure of their participation in their next season, gyms and summer leagues are open and a lot of team-building can be done in person. The hope is that this will leave student-athletes much more prepared for what’s to come.

“Taking advantage of your off time in the summer is crucial, and this year for me, I think it is going to be the most effective, because I am working on all aspects of my game right now, and I know I am going to come back stronger and ready for my best year yet,” McReynolds said.

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City of Corvallis to be impacted this summer by lost OSU student population

JESSICA HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Bo & Vine Burger Bar, located in downtown Corvallis, Ore. is just one of the many businesses that are affected by the reduced student population during summer term. As students leave to go home or study abroad, college towns like Corvallis notice a dip in revenue due to the change in population.

By KELSY VALENTINE News Contributor

After a year with low numbers for the collegestudent population in Corvallis, Ore. due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city will face impacts from the further loss of students over the summer.

Oregon State University has not had official in-person classes on the Corvallis campus since winter of 2020, leading to many students choosing not to live in Corvallis and instead taking remote classes from their hometown. Now, despite the light at the end of the tunnel with most classes returning to in-person instruction in fall of 2021, there are even fewer students in Corvallis as they leave for the summer.

This issue of the lost college-student population in the summer months has been around for a long time but may be even worse now because of COVID-19.

“In normal, non-COVID-19 years, the summer months when students leave is what many businesses consider the ‘slow season,’” said Kate Porsche, the economic development manager for the City of Corvallis, via email. “This has been exponentially amplified during COVID-19, where

the student population has been greatly reduced for more than a year now.”

According to Hyatt Lytle, the Corvallis City Council president, downtown Corvallis is showing a more damaging response to the lost student population. She said that college students are what bring downtown life and that, without them, it’s struggling.

“Obviously the 25,000 people that live here without the students aren’t enough to sustain it,” Lytle said.

When students are present in the city, Porsche said the OSU college-student population can have a huge positive effect on the city’s economy, which includes the university itself being a top employer and contributor to the economy.

“Students contribute to the local economy through their spending habits, patronizing local restaurants, bars, salons and grocery stores, as well as their contributions through residential rent and utilities,” Porsche said. “Local businesses have come to rely on the student population for not just their spending habits, but for employment as well.”

However, the lack of students in the summer months does give the city a chance to accomplish some of the tasks they otherwise could not with a higher population present.

“On our side, it’s playing catch up,” Lytle said.

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“All those capital improvement projects that we can’t do during the year cause there’s so much extra traffic, there’s so many people. So now it’s time to get out there, and the weather is better, do those projects, get ready for the school year.”

Lytle emphasized, though, that this doesn’t mean it’s better not to have the students in the city during the summer.

“I think there’s a balance of ‘it’s that time of preparing for fall,’ because students are part of the city,

“Local businesses have come to rely on the student population for not just their spending habits, but for employment as well.”

- Kate Porsche, economic development manager for the City of Corvallis

they’re part of the community, so it’s like ‘let’s get ready for that time,’” Lytle said. “Because there’s so many benefits that come from having students as we’ve seen this past year without them.”

While much of Corvallis’s economy and most businesses are affected by the lack of students, both Porsche and Lytle said that restaurants in particular have been hit the worst.

“The businesses that are affected the most [by students leaving] also happen to be the businesses affected most by COVID-19,” Porsche said. “With the exception of grocery stores, this would include restaurants, bars, salons, etc.”

One popular restaurant in Corvallis, Bo & Vine Burger Bar, has seen and been impacted by this loss in student population, despite that the Bo & Vine Burger Bar opened relatively recently in Corvallis in late 2018. “[Business] does slow down quite a bit,” said Peter Schomus, the manager of Bo & Vine’s Corvallis location. “But I notice more of the community that’s not students come out more often. But our busy times aren’t as busy without SUMMER IMPACT Continued on page 11

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While Bo & Vine doesn’t get as much business without students, Schomus said the population that’s not college students has been reliable to them, so they try to be reliable in return.

During the pandemic, Schomus said the restaurant had to adapt to the rules and transfer to online and takeout orders, but that they otherwise weren’t affected much by it.

“Business-wise, COVID-19 didn’t necessarily hurt how busy we were, because I think we were one of the few places that stayed open,” Schomus

“Business does slow down quite a bit... I notice more of the community that’s not students come out more often.

But our busy times aren’t as busy without the students.”

- Peter Schomus, manager of Bo & Vine Corvallis

said. “Because we wanted to be here for people and serve the community. So, in a way, it was a successful year.”

However, Bo & Vine does tend to have staff that’s made up of a lot of students, whom they usually lose during the summer when those students leave.

“So, some leave, some stay depending on their

living situation, and this year… a lot of students have left,” Schomus said. “Just because of COVID19 and then it was another wave of just, you know, they’re moving onto the next thing, part of their careers, whatever it was, internships.

Whenever students leave, Schomus said he needs to replace that person, but filling vacant positions has been a struggle for many businesses around Corvallis recently. As the city begins to reopen again due to the vaccines that are lowering COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, many businesses are increasing capacity and thus are seeking to hire more workers back.

“The biggest impact we are hearing about are the hiring challenges businesses are facing,” Porsche said. “With many businesses reopening, and with Oregon being on the cusp of reopening, businesses are looking to fill positions. I think this has been extra challenging in Corvallis due to the lack of students during the pandemic, and now summer break as things reopen.”

According to Porsche, if these businesses are able to fully reopen sometime in the near future, this will lessen the impact they are facing, but that without the students who make up a large portion of Corvallis’s population, they will still face hardships.

“It is not just the students individually, but the friends and family members that come visit them, and patronize the local businesses,” Porsche said.

Fortunately for the City of Corvallis, OSU is still planning to resume its in-person classes in the fall, and this will bring the population numbers that the city is used to back to its normal levels.

Until then, citizens who will remain in Corvallis over the summer are encouraged to support their local businesses.

“When we talk about impacts to businesses, I would remind folks, the best thing you can do is go out and shop at your favorite locally-owned stores, eat out at your favorite local restaurants,” Porsche said. “Continue to support our small businesses however you can!”

An indoor view of Bo & Vine Burger Bar, located at 110 NW Third St. in downtown Corvallis, Ore.

JESSICA HUME-PANTUSO | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK An outside view of Bo & Vine Burger Bar, located at 110 NW Third St. in downtown Corvallis, Ore.

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SOLOMON L. MYERS | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK ARCHIVES Debra, a health corps volunteer, can be seen preparing to give vaccines at the Albany Fairground Emergency facility. Due to decrease in demand for vaccines, Benton County has transitioned to express vaccination clinics.

New express COVID-19 vaccination clinics to provide more opportunities

By KELSY VALENTINE News Contributor

As the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations per day continues to decrease, Oregon is now distributing COVID-19 vaccines through express vaccination clinics in order to reach a wider variety of Oregon locations.

Mass vaccination clinics distributing the COVID-19 vaccines, such as the one at Reser Stadium, were set up months ago to help get vaccines into as many arms as possible in a short amount of time. The clinics helped many people to get vaccinated quickly and efficiently but, with almost 70% of Oregon’s population vaccinated, there has been less demand for vaccines recently.

Thus, the focus has now shifted away from quickly vaccinating large numbers of people to getting the vaccines to a wider variety of places for the people who have yet to be vaccinated. This is being done through the new express vaccination clinics. “[As] appointments at these mass vaccination sites have slowed down, there was a need to transition to the next phase of the vaccination strategy, which is designed to better address the needs of people who have not yet chosen to get vaccination,” said Jonathan Modie, the lead communications officer at the Oregon Health Authority public health division.

These people, Modie said, are the ones who may have limited resources or no access to a mass vaccination clinic due to work or other obligations.

So the strategy now is to bring the vaccines to those residents and to get vaccines to clinics and work sites where receiving a vaccine can be easy and convenient.

“We’re talking about moving doses to those familiar places where people might typically get a flu shot or other vaccination,” Modie said.

With the express vaccination clinics, Oregon is also putting more focus on serving minority and generally underrepresented communities.

“A lot of the community-based organizations we work with serve and support people who have been disproportionately affected by this pandemic,” Modie said. “Members of the BIPOC community—Black, Indigenous, people of color, our travel communities. They’re community-based organizations that serve all of those and we want to make sure they have vaccines so they can provide those when someone comes in.”

Samaritan Health, which operated the mass vaccination clinics in Reser Stadium, has also decided to shift away from this mass vaccination clinic strategy.

“Due to decreasing demands for vaccines... we offer vaccines both on a drop-in basis and by appointment throughout our services area in Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties,” said Larissa Balzer, the associate vice president of strategic planning for Samaritan Health Services.

At Samaritan Health, Balzar said patients can stop by any SamCare Express location between 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Monday through Saturday or between 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays.

“Vaccines are available at our SamCare Express locations in Corvallis and Albany, seven days a week, as opposed to the mass clinics at Reser which were only available up to three days a week,” Balzar said. “Anyone 12 and older can drop in to get a vaccine at one of these locations.”

According to Modie, these vaccines are also free to everyone and will not be affected by income, identification, where someone lives, or immigration status, so anyone who wants a vaccine can get one.

“We just really encourage people to get out there, to get vaccinated, and we appreciate everyone who has been vaccinated [and] who really are helping protect our communities,” Modie said.

“They are protecting their neighbors, their friends, their families, loved ones, they are protecting themselves, and it is making a huge difference.”

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SOLOMON L. MYERS | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Teri O’Malley, event coordinator for the Chintimini Parks and Recreation, can be seen at the future site of the outdoor concert series in the summer of 2021. With the COVID-19 pandemic winding down, O’Malley is excited to lead a community movement of fun and being alone together, including the 3C Summer Concert Series.

Corvallis park hosts summer concerts in July and August, post-pandemic

By JOSIE CARSTENSEN News Contributor

Through a series of free outdoor concerts, the 3C Summer Concert Series is bringing up-andcoming local artists and bands to Corvallis.

On the nights of July 15 and Aug. 12, at Chintimini Park, the stage will be set for live concerts both starting at 6 p.m. that are expected to go into the evening. Open to both Corvallis and surrounding communities, families are invited to enjoy a night of music and to set up with picnic blankets and lawn chairs to watch the performances.

Sponsored by The Friends of the CorvallisBenton County Public Library and The Friends of Corvallis Parks & Recreation, the two unanimously agreed to fund the project.

“We’re excited to contribute to activities that allow us to gather in-person in groups after a difficult year and a half,” said Mary Buckman, the treasurer of Friends of Corvallis Parks & Recreation.

“This is our first request to fund concerts, and we hope it’s not the last.”

As the C3-Corvallis Community Center works to make these community events a reality, Teri O’Malley, the recreation coordinator and program planner for the center, said that keeping people

safe is top priority.

“This was a challenging process, and we had to get creative to make it happen,” O’Malley said.

“My team and I planned the event to be able to be held based on extreme risk level Oregon Health Authority guidance. I wanted to be sure that if we offered this to folks, we could follow through.”

Last week, the City of Corvallis released the names of two artists who will be performing for these summer concerts in the coming summer months.

The first group, the Joanne Broh Band, will be performing on July 15, and they describe their music as a “dynamic blend of smokin’ blues and R&B with a splash of funk.”

“It felt great getting back on stage,” said Joanne Broh, lead singer of the Joanne Broh Band. “We had a couple of very successful virtual shows [and] tried online rehearsals... [Now we’re] very happy to get back to it [getting back on stage]. [We’re] getting busy, and the audiences have been, as mentioned [before], so appreciative of live music again.”

Joanne Broh, who was recently recognized as the winning female blues vocalist by the Rainy Day Blues Society for the second year in a row, is known for her powerful, soulful voice which can be heard in her biggest hit “Wicked Cool” which charted No. 18 in 2016 on the National Living Blues Radio.

For their performance on July 15, the group will

be playing several of their originals as well as a sneak peek of the songs which will be released in their upcoming recording.

Use a QR scanner or Snapchat to view the City of Corvallis website and sign up for either of the concerts this summer at Chintimini Park.

Any prospective attendees have been asked to register with their family bubble online at the City of Corvallis website.

Use a QR scanner or Snapchat to view the Joanne Broh Band’s website and view upcoming shows and performances.

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COURTESY OF JASON PETTIGREW | OMN ARCHIVES Stephen Fitzgerald, OSU Extension fire specialist, meets with partners to discuss strategies for wildfire management.

Castles: Preparedness is key to an early wildfire season

By CHRISTINE CASTLES Columnist

Around Labor Day of 2020, Oregonians began to wake up in an apocalypse. The sky was the color of a dystopian novel, and people were forced to stay inside or risk choking on noxious gases.

This yellow filter experience was coming from the smoke of wildfires that were stampeding through Oregon. Many people were forced to evacuate their homes, and many more were ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

Now at only the beginning of the 2021 fire season, new record-high temperatures keep being broken. The Willamette Valley has been seeing three-digit days including in Corvallis, Ore. So Oregonians are wondering, will the fires this year be just as devastating?

The short answer: possibly.

Larry O’Neill, state climatologist and associate professor for the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, said “We can’t say for sure that this will be a terrible fire season, but what we can say is that the risk of it being a bad fire season is high.”

Ignition is notoriously unpredictable and can be inconspicuous until it is a bigger problem. “[An ember] can lay kind of dormant for weeks at a time and then out of nowhere it can spark up into a major wildfire,” O’Neill said.

However, there are factors that lead to the severity of fires that we can examine.

The hot temperatures are pretty obvious to look at. Plants lose their moisture making it easier for fires to ignite and spread. What you might think about less is the lack of precipitation we have had leading up to summer.

The ground holds a surprising amount of water which then can be used by plants. So less rainfall means less moisture even when the rain has long since passed.

Additionally, as winter sports athletes have noticed as well, there has hardly been any snow or ice accumulation during what are supposed to be very wet months. The absence of snowmelt is then also a contributor to the current statewide drought.

Last year’s drought even helped us start off even dryer this year than the year before.

One issue that we did not face last year to the extent we are facing this year is thunderstorms.

“Part of it is due to the warmer weather—we’re

having a lot more thunderstorms… and those are starting a lot of fires,” O’Neill said.

Lightning strikes are great at starting fires.

Even if we know where a storm is occurring, the specific location of fire-sparking strikes is an unknown, and it can be weeks before a leftover ember sparks a fire. However, there are certain factors that are within our control.

Forest management is a big part of prevention. Practices such as prescribed burns that help remove hazardous debris and selective timber harvesting can make forests more resilient.

We can also improve our technology in relation to forecasting weather and understanding fire behavior better.

To younger folks such as myself, these fires have seemed quite normal since their occurrence has been this frequent as of growing up.

But to older adults who have lived longer in Oregon, this is not normal.

Of course, this is because of climate change.

More extreme weather creates more extreme disasters, and it is still only getting warmer and dryer.

All of these factors may point to calamity, but the truth is, we cannot know what will happen until it happens. Just like the weather forecast, we can only predict so far out with so much accuracy.

In the case, however, that we see wildfires engulf Oregon again, should Corvallis residents be worried?

Corvallis Fire Chief Kenneth McCarthy reminds us “There is nothing here [in Corvallis rural areas] that makes us fireproof and [immune from the type of fires that burned last year in other areas.”

All places and times are unique in their level of fire danger, but until a fire is present, there is not much that can tell us how worried we should be.

The good news is that there are ways to protect yourself and your home with preparedness being key.

Small things such as keeping tree needles and other debris out of gutters and keeping any woodpiles away from your home can go a long way.

While we cannot know what fire season will look like in advance, we do know that wildfires are becoming more and more disastrous. We are going to have to improve our prevention and readiness to inhibit the same loss of life and livelihood we saw in 2020.

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LeCocq: Pandemic summer promotes change for college students

By RILEY LECOCQ Columnist

Adjusting to on-campus life is always a concern for first-year college students, but the transition into summer, especially after this unusual school year, can be a big adjustment for many.

Oregon State University students such as myself, and rising sophomore Regan Singer, a biohealth science major, returned home for the summer. After the past year of living oncampus in Corvallis, Ore., the readjustment to living at home causes us to reflect on our experiences from the past year.

“I had a great roommate, and I met a lot of cool people and got involved in a couple different clubs so that made it a lot busier,” Singer said. “[This past year] wasn’t the typical experience because it was online, but since it’s my first year, it pretty much became normal. I was really excited to go home and to see friends and family again, especially after everything with the pandemic.”

For Singer, the feeling of familiarity that comes with returning home can be comforting after the year we had experienced. We get to enjoy the things that were missed while living in the dorms such as cooking.

Returning home after being gone for months does have its own set of readjustments to make just as arriving on campus had last fall.

Despite returning to what seems like an average degree of change and community growth, students such as myself feel as if we have grown and changed well beyond the time we have been gone. This can make the first few weeks of summer feel strange and surreal.

Rising sophomore and music major Kjerstyn Jordheim is one of many who have seen the past year of growth impact her future plans, even as she transitions into the summer.

“The amount that I have changed and grown in the last year is insane, the me this time last year is unrecognizable to me now,” Jordhiem said. “I also changed my major and whole life plan so much which I think is pretty typical but still crazy.”

One of the biggest contributors to these changes for both Singer and Jordheim have come from traditional first-year housing of living in dorms on campus.

“There is something about being on campus that’s just an unmatched energy,” Jordhiem said. “Living in the dorms, just having people around all the time—I’m a little bit more introverted, but I think I got used that… now I [know I] have to have other people.”

“I became a lot more independent this year [and] I took on a lot more responsibility,” Singer said.

This gained sense of responsibility and

HAYDON HOLGERSON | ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK College freshman Noah Wolf doing his summer job for a wallpapering company at a Lake Oswego, Ore. work site. Working over the summer is a common occurrence for many college students.

self-reliance seems to have been the most transferable change into students’ summer plans. The drive to work towards bigger goals in any capacity has been one of the biggest takeaways for many.

As Singer goes back to work for the summer in her old gymnastics facility, she notices that while the physical gym has not changed, she herself has in some ways. From her oncampus experiences, Singer now has a broader perspective on life, which follows her even returning to a familiar setting.

Even without returning home, Jordhiem, who is remaining in Corvallis for the summer, plans to use her growth from the past year to move forward in her goals.

“I am a music major and I write my own music so this is definitely a summer of grinding so i can support myself with music, line between my songwriting and my academics is pretty blurred, [but] its nice to not have to worry about assignments,” Jordhiem said.

No matter what students do, we are leaving this past year behind and looking to move forward. This year of rapid and unforeseen adjustments has caused more change than any normal first year of college would have.

“I wonder if there wasn’t this chaotic world would I be the same person I was this time last year. There’s some hard parts of trying to be a whole adult at age 19 but definitely all good things, [I] wouldn’t have it any other way,” Jordhiem said.

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Ham Creek: Sum m er Ter m

By HELEN WHITE

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

YAYS • Yay to summer vacation.

• Yay to beach days.

• Yay to Oregon reopening.

• Yay to fresh summer fruits and vegetables.

• Yay to Benton County reaching 70% COVID-19

Coco’s A dventures: Wel com e To Sum m er Ter m

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vaccination rates.

• Yay to sunsets.

NAYS • Nay to June heat waves.

• Nay to broken AC units.

• Nay to wildfires.

• Nay to summer midterms.

• Nay to losing the last puzzle piece.

• Nay to melted ice coffee.

• Nay to mosquitoes.

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