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Basketball legend Bill Walton begins his Pac-12 campus tour today with a speech, Q & A in the International Forum at Snell Hall

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Bill Walton begins his Pac-12 campus tour today at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. He will be speaking at the International Forum in Snell Hall from 2-3 p.m. with a question and answer session.

Bill Walton said he can’t remember the last time he visited the state of Oregon.

Today, he returns.

Walton begins a two-month long Pac-12 campus tour today with visits to the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. He will visit seven more Pac-12 schools from now until March 6.

“I’m thrilled to be coming back,” Walton said.

The name Bill Walton may not have the same celebrity buzz with the generation currently attending Oregon State, but Walton is considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

If there is a state in the union that still views the 60-year-old, who stands at 6-foot-11, as an icon, it’s Oregon.

Walton was a part of the 1976-77 Portland Trailblazers, the only Portland team to win the NBA title in franchise history.

Walton forever cherishes the fond memories of living in this state.

“Oregon means everything to me,” Walton said.

“Oregon is where I got my first chance as a professional, although I was not professional enough. I just really wish it could have lasted forever. It was such a wonderful time. The people there are so intriguing, so interesting, so kind, so inspirational.”

He was only in Portland for five years before signing with the San Diego Clippers.

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In its second year, the event has attracted attention of west coast breakdancing groups

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last year’s more localized dance groups. The winning crew will have a chance to dance in Play Your Cards Right 2013, a competition in Vancouver, B.C. Events will break up into one-vs.-one all-style battles and two-vs.-two showcases and battles.

“We don’t have many dancing events here in Corvallis, it’s good that [Sisson is helping] out,” said Khang Nguyen, pre-pharmacy student and dance competition coordinator. “Last year mostly local people came, and this year hopefully we can put the event on the map to

attract dancers from [Medford] and California.”

Nguyen, who has connections to a dance crew in Portland, worked to sign up the list of groups expected to attend. An effort, according to Sisson, that began last summer. Last year about 200 people attended the event, and this year Nguyen wants 500 people to attend. Based on promotional efforts so far, including posters and fliers in the MU quad, Nguyen aims for about 350 to 400 people. The maximum standing capacity of the MU ballroom is 550.

“Getting these groups to come

down will hopefully make the scene a little bigger,” Nguyen said. “Many of these groups will be heading to [Beaverton] for a competition and have also chosen to compete here.”

Tickets for Breaking Down the MU can be purchased at Snell Hall or at the door. The event costs $8 for students with ID and $10 for non-students. Attendees who visit health fair booths will be eligible for a series of raffles held throughout the evening.

Fast motion freezes, headspins, kicks and drops will enliven the MU Ballroom as dance crews compete in today’s “Breaking Down the MU,” sponsored by the College of Pharmacy.

Jack Lammers, news editor In its second year, Breaking Down On Twitter @jacklammers the MU combines two very different news@dailybarometer.com events, a health fair and a breakdancing competition. This year, organizers have reached out for a greater variety of dance crews and promotions.

“This year we have groups from everywhere,” said Mike Sisson, OSU National Community Pharmacists Association president and event coordinator.

The health fair will begin at 5 p.m. with College of Pharmacy screening events including flu shots, free blood glucose and blood pressure checks, and information about the college. Students involved in the National Community Pharmacists Association and the Entrepreneurial Academy, focused on the business of pharmacy, will be able to answer questions. Dr. Gary DeLander, pharmacy professor, will serve as a guest speaker for the event.

“The health fair will express what pharmacy is, showing how pharmacists can perpetuate ideas of personal health,” Sisson said. “Pharmacists don’t just provide pills, but do a lot more.”

The breakdance competition will follow the fair at 6:30 p.m. john zhang | THE DAILY BAROMETER Crews from Washington, Oregon, California and Canada will com- Benjamin Lam breakdances for a crowd in the Memorial Union Ballroom during last year’s Breaking Down pete — a much greater spread than the MU event.

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Kristy Wilkinson presents her firsthand account of the events in the Dec. 10 Clackamas Town Center shooting scene

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I was sitting outside of Nordstrom in the Clackamas Town Center, chewing my cheese bagel, gossiping about coworkers and griping about a customer who wanted us to gift wrap eyeliner. Just then, a loud clapclap echoed through the building.

No one moved. No one reacted. I gleefully thought that someone had knocked over the onerous train on the lower level of the mall — the one I had to dodge while beelining to the bathroom when I took a break from my job at the makeup counter in Nordstrom.

Then six distinct claps echoed and were coming closer — someone was shooting a gun. Shoppers began running, chairs hit the ground. I stood up slowly. Looking around, I remember not really reacting the way I should. It was as if someone had told me there was a water balloon fight going on in the downstairs lobby. A voice came over the intercom announcing the obvious.

“There’s a gunman in the building,” the voice announced. “We’re on lockdown.”

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Biden vows recommendations by Tuesday on curbing gun violence (CNN) — A federal task force looking for ways to curb gun violence will have a set of recommendations by Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday.

Speaking during a week of meetings with disparate groups on various sides of the issue — including some for and others against stricter gun controls — Biden, who oversees the task force, said the recommendations to be given to President Barack Obama will serve as a beginning.

“This doesn’t mean it is the end of the discussion, but the public wants us to act,” he told reporters.

Biden said he’s been surprised by how many groups have encouraged universal background checks for all gun owners, including those who purchase through private sales.

Some states have backlogs of thousands of felons who are never registered on lists aimed at helping prevent dangerous weapons from getting into their hands, he noted.

The National Rifle Association said it was “disappointed” with a White House task force meeting Thursday, arguing it expected mental health, the “marketing of violence to our kids” and school safety to be top topics.

“We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment,” the group said in a statement.

“While claiming that no policy proposals would be prejudged, this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners — honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans.”

The group indicated it will now concentrate its efforts through members of Congress.

NRA President David Keene told CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” little common ground was found.

An exception was possible agreement to place “potentially violent” mentally ill people on a national database of

WALTON n Continued from page 1 been in Oregon, the state has never left him.

“One of the great things about the long, strange trip that is my life is that wherever I go, when I run into the great people from the state of Oregon, they always look at me with that special sense of pride,” Walton said. “They always say, ‘I was there. I saw that. I saw something really, really special.’”

The Pac-12 campus tour is a reflection on Walton’s love of college, and of the Pac-12 conference. It was the Pac-8 when he was the Naismith College Player of the Year and a three-time All-American as part of John Wooden’s UCLA dynasty in the 1970s.

“I loved going to college,” he said. “I couldn’t believe when I had to leave.”

Walton will be giving his speech at the International Forum in Snell Hall from 2-3 p.m., and will hold a question and answer session as well.

“Bill is very, very passionate about education,” said Kirk Reynolds, vice president of communications for the Pac-12. “He just appreciates everything that college gave to him and where it led him in his life.”

His excitement to speak at Oregon State and the other Pac-12 campuses is obvious when he talked about the upcoming event.

“To be able to come and speak at the school, spend time with the best and the brightest, and the future, I love it,” Walton said.

And the former college and NBA great isn’t the only basketball player eager for Walton’s appearance in Corvallis.

“I would love to go talk to him and see what he has to say,” said Roberto Nelson, junior guard on the OSU men’s basketball team. “I am excited, really excited. If I get the chance to meet him, I will be more than happy.”

Nelson’s coach, Craig Robinson, said he became a Bill Walton fan when he watched him play for the Blazers against his favorite team growing up, the Chicago Bulls.

“It’s nice, as a sort of transplanted Oregonian, to have him back,” Robinson said.

The team is hoping to arrange a time to briefly meet and talk with Walton.

“Most of these guys are too young to really appreciate it,” Robinson said. “But the fact that he played on so many good championship teams throughout his career, it’s always good to have your players exposed to that kind of winning, that kind of leadership.”

That leadership, and Walton’s charisma are what will make this event engaging for all.

“He’s very entertaining — as folks can plainly see — based on his personality in his telecasts,” Reynolds said. “He wants to make it a fun event.”

Whether someone is a diehard basketball fan, or has never watched a game in his or her life, Walton wants everyone to come. For him, this tour is about education and building a life for the youth in the world.

“We’re going to talk about every subject there is,” Walton said. “There are no limits. And we’re going to drift and dream all afternoon. The only thing that we ask is that you’re on time and that you come with an open mind and a caring soul.”

It’s only fitting for Walton’s Pac-12 tour to begin in the state that immortalized him.

“I’m coming on the magic bus all the way to Corvallis Friday afternoon,” Walton said.

And he still never shies away from using the colorful language he has always been known for.

“It was driver Bill on a bus to never-ever land.

Here we go, enjoy the ride.”

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those not allowed to buy firearms, Keene said.

Obama called for the task force after last month’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 27 people were killed — 20 of them elementary school children.

“This is a complicated issue,” Biden said, emphasizing that there is “no singular solution to how we deal with” mass shootings.

Many stakeholders in the issue have met with members of the task force, Biden said, including medical and religious groups, educators and parents.

Concerns about mental health may be “one of the most important things that we’ve been focusing on,” he said.

Biden also noted that many firearm deaths in the United States are suicides.

Referring to one of the most contentious issues — whether to reinstate an assault weapons ban — Biden said he has never heard so much support for “the need to do something about high-capacity magazines.”

The task force also was meeting with members of the entertainment industry to discuss violence in movies and TV shows.

Obama has spoken out about a culture that often “glorifies guns and violence.”

Dan Glickman, a former congressman and onetime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, rejects suggestions of links between films and reallife violence.

“I don’t think the abundance of movies that are put out by the entertainment industry are that violent or cause violence,” he told CNN on Thursday.

Also, Glickman said, “Hollywood does a pretty good job of letting parents know through its ratings system what kind of movie is coming out — whether there’s violence or sexual conduct or other kinds of things.”

Glickman served as a U.S. representative from Kansas for nine terms but lost a reelection bid in 1994. He blames that loss partly on supporting an assault-weapons ban.

SHOOTING n Continued from page 1 People streamed into nearby stores as security gates were drawn down. Several customers and employees, including myself, headed into the back storage area of Nordstrom, waiting for the intercom to say something other than “There’s a shooter.”

Nordstrom’s security then led us into the café in the back of the store, where we would wait for the next three hours until police had swept the mall and assured the gunman was in custody — or dead. It’s funny the things a person remembers about a time like that. I wondered why, in all the chaos, I was still holding my empty coffee cup, not realizing it was in my hand until I felt the hot liquid on my skin.

It’s an obvious statement that we all come from different backgrounds. That day, in that room, none of that mattered — not politics or age or finances. We were all scared and angry. We all desperately wanted to go home.

Those shots didn’t sound like the ones from the movies when John Wayne chases the bad guy.

Educational Activities, 1 p.m., MU 206. Budget training/orientation.

Tuesday, Jan. 15 Meetings Student Health Advisory Board, 10 a.m., MU 212. Open Hearing for Student Health Services 2013-14 budget.

Wednesday, Jan. 16 Meetings SIFC, 6:30-7:30 p.m., MU 212. Weekly meeting. Discussion of incidental fee issues and budgets. All students are welcome.

Thursday, Jan. 17 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301p.m., MU Talisman Room. Peace More Than an End to War - Devotions and discussion on the challenges of a secure and lasting peace.

Sunday, Jan. 20 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 2-4 p.m., MU 206. Addressing Religious Intolerance - In observance of World Religion Day, a film will be shown describing current day religious intolerance against members of the Baha’i Faith. Refreshments served.

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bers, bringing its total membership to 4.2 million, NRA officials told CNN. Because of the increased attention on the issue, the officials think they will soon hit 5 million.

The NRA was one of the groups representing gun owners that met with Biden and his group Thursday afternoon.

After the session, the group issued a statement, saying “this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners ... it is unfortunate this Administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems.”

A White House official did not comment on the meeting other than to say it lasted just over an hour and a half.

Biden earlier in the day told a separate meeting of his working group, this one with victims’ groups and gun safety organizations, that “there’s got to be some common ground here, not to solve every problem, but diminish the probability that ... these mass shootings will occur and diminish the probability that our children are at risk in our schools.”

Keene told CNN’s “The Situation Room” that one area where he thought the group and the Obama administration could possibly find some common ground was on the need for background checks.

It sounded like shattering glass.

Other things are so loud, like the screaming voices and scrambling footsteps of people running.

Confused children wondered why they had to go anywhere.

The shots grew closer.

When Jacob Tyler Roberts walked into the Mall on Monday, Dec. 10, he carried a stolen semiautomatic AR–15 across his chest and wore a white hockey mask to hide his face. He walked into the JCPenny, past a family with young children and a Salvation Army Santa.

“I am the shooter,” he shouted when he reached the food court, according to the people who were there. Then he unloaded more than 40 rounds.

Steven Mathew Forsyth was 45; he worked at a kiosk and was from my hometown of West Linn.

Cindy Yullie was 54; she was finishing her Christmas shopping.

Both of them were killed.

Kristina Shevchenko was 15.

The bullet that tore through her chest missed vital organs and her ribs, according to a post on her sister’s Facebook page.

Jacob Tyler Roberts was 22. And after he killed two grown-ups and

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National Rifle Association gearing up for a fight against gun control WASHINGTON (CNN) — The National Rifle Association is gearing up to face one of the strongest challenges to its cause in many years: recommendations from an Obama administration working group on gun violence that are expected to address assault weapons and highcapacity magazine clips.

CNN has learned the NRA is also preparing an ad campaign, expected to include both print and television advertisements, that would begin soon to help mount its opposition to new gun restrictions. NRA officials refused to discuss specifics.

The administration’s working group on violence, led by Vice President Joe Biden, will deliver its recommendations to President Barack Obama by Tuesday.

“We are mobilizing for a fight,” NRA President David Keene told CNN. “We will engage our members.”

The association is planning to send mailings to its members urging them to contact members of Congress with their opposition to new gun laws.

“Let them know you feel strongly,” is how Keene summarized the group’s message to member.

The NRA is also sending personnel to gun shows to help to mobilize gun owners to voice their opposition.

Since the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, last month, the organization has added 100,000 new mem-

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Thursday, Jan. 31 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1 p.m., MU Talisman Room. The Equality of Women - Devotions and discussion on the role women are playing in the progress of the global society.

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Thursday, Mar. 7 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. The Nobility of Humankind - Devotions and discussion on how we are noble with occasional slips rather than sinful with occasional flashes of good.

shot one teenage girl, he turned the gun on himself.

I think about those people who tried to hide under chairs or tables. While inside the shuttered café, a little girl next to me asked her mom, “What’s going to happen to Santa?”

In the days following the shooting I sat curled on the couch with my little dog, Geffin, listening to press conferences and media analysis. Reporters described Roberts’ strained relationship with his aunt and lack of relationship with his mother. Friends talked about how his personality changed in early December.

Everyone tried to make sense of something that made no sense.

Just five days later it was Friday and another young man 3,000 miles away in Connecticut shot his gun too, killing 20 children and 7 adults.

I never saw Roberts that day, but when I saw his picture on TV, it made my chest get tight and my stomach fill with an irrational fear that rose clear to my throat.

Kristy Wilkinson, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

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Higher education losing its value?

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ea to a new term. Last term was a little rough; we barely passed some classes so we’re glad to turn a new page. Thank goodness for being able to S/U. Nay to having to be back at school.

We’re not quite ready.

Nay to the streets of Corvallis once again being filled with the debauched, staggering masses. We enjoyed the quiet nights, the vomit not appearing on our lawns and the empty streets.

Yea to getting a shotgun and a baseball bat from your dad for Christmas.

We think he wants us to rob a liquor store.

Nay to violence perpetrated by guns.

Nay to robbery. We don’t encourage it.

Yea to dropping 8 a.m. classes before they even begin. What were we thinking? We know we can’t wake up that early.

Nay to missing the first day of class because you got a flat tire on your bike.

Yea to the City of San Antonio.

Nay to bigot Texan taxi drivers hating Oregon because AM radio told him so.

Nay to Texas.

Yea to helpful sisters giving you a hand with jumping your car.

Nay to Barack Obama trying to take our guns away.

Yea to Barack Obama trying to take our guns away.

Nay to crazy psychopaths with weapons, be they AR-15s, K-Bars or a ball point pen.

Nay to pointless lectures. OK aging hippy professor dude with a pony tail, we understand we need to respect other people’s opinions and differences — we went to third grade. No need to waste 30 minutes of your class telling us that.

Yea to “Django Unchained”. We are considering naming our first born Django now.

Nay to the slogan on your banner getting confused with the one on your coworker’s banner. This was the first step in building our cult of personality. How are we supposed to become a dear leader now? We think a visit to reeducation camps are in order for those responsible.

Yea to purges.

Nay to budgets and budget time.

Don’t you know we would much rather be profligate with public money and not be accountable.

Yea to having art in your office.

Nay to someone muttering stuff while you’re typing.

Yea to getting drinks with him later.

Nay to getting drinks. Once again, we discourage you from drinking. It is bad for your health, and illegal if you’re a child. Go drink some chocolate milk and watch “Downton Abbey.”

Yea to singing karaoke to the Daft Punk song “One More Time.” Almost as entertaining as just dancing to it.

Yea to it being the Friday of week one. No assignments are due yet, a feeling of irresponsibility is in the chilly air and we expect to see the worst this weekend — even though you should all stay safe, be respectful to your neighbors and keep your noses clean.

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f I had a nickel for every time I was told college is key to my success, I wouldn’t need to take out any student loans. Gone are the golden ’50s when a high school diploma could secure you a comfortable middle-class job, a house in the suburbs and 2.5 kids.

Nowadays, it seems like a fouryear degree has replaced the high school diploma in terms of career opportunities and potential income. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2011 bachelor’s degree median weekly earnings were $1,053, whereas the median weekly earnings of a high school diploma were only $638. Combining these facts, which paint a bleak picture of financial doom to all those without a degree, with the statistical improbability of winning the lottery, it appears I have no choice but to compromise my current financial security by taking out student loans to pay for a degree that is now worth far less than it did 20 years ago.

Not only is a bachelor’s degree worth less, it now costs more.

College attendance has skyrocketed, and with it so has tuition.

Accounting for inflation, the total tuition and student fees for an instate student taking 15 credit hours at OSU was $2,150 in 2005, compared to $2.580 in 2011. This is an 18 percent increase in tuition in six short years.

I realize Oregon State offers many fantastic resources such as health care services and student success centers, which is paid for by student fees. The cost of education, however, is quickly becoming unreaRyan Mason is a sophomore in graphic design.

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Ways to achieve the ultimate resolution: Being happy New Year’s resolution: Be happy.

In all the hustle and bustle of college, work and life we forget to take care of ourselves. Sometimes what we may be achieving in school may not be keeping us mentally and emotionally balanced. As college students the prospect of our education and future can be daunting, so much that sometimes we forget to be happy.

Many New Year’s resolutions consist of saving money, losing weight or getting better grades, but this year I encourage you all to aim at just being happier. So, I’ve come up with 10 things we should give up doing in order to reach that goal.

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3. Give up pointing fingers:

5. Give up the need to impress others:

enced it. Change makes the world grow, and without it, we would never be where we are today. I can’t OK, we’ve dealt with this issue say change always seems like it’s for how many years since kinder- for the better but good things will garten? The peer pressure, the way come out of it. Change typically we look, the way we act, the way we happens to fulfill a need, and findtalk. It is over. We are all adults now ing a way to accept it will be easier and do not need to impress anyone. than trying to run from it.

If doing things similar to someone else makes you feel good then great — as long as you are doing it for This one relates directly to givyourself and not because of other people’s opinions. You have to get ing up negativity. Stop complaining about everything bad going on over that. with your life, but don’t brag either.

Just humbly accept what you have, be proud of it and move on. Don’t We all have different beliefs. dwindle on things for too long and These beliefs can stem from reliwish you could change it because gion, culture, family, friends and you can’t. even the media. But what you can’t do is hate everyone else’s beliefs.

Imagine yourself at the opposite end of that belief and maybe you This is the big one. Give up the will find yourself less negative. past. Some people can do it but many people can’t. This plays a huge role in the previous nine Everyone is afraid of something, things I’ve listed. Your past makes but do not let fear hinder you from who you are — good or bad — but doing the things you strive or love you have learned from it whether to do. I’m not talking about being you know it or not. Obviously you afraid of spiders. I’m talking about can’t just forget everything. What the fear to take chances and the you can do is not let your past stop fear to go outside of your comfort you from growing in the present zone. If you have a dream and your and future. Not just the bad things, fear is holding you back, forget but the good things too. New and about it and pursue your dream. good things will come from it.

9. Give up complaining:

6. Give up shallow beliefs:

Stop blaming other people, things and situations. Take responsibility for your own life and decisions. I’m not saying to blame yourself for everything but think of the possible consequences or rewards before you act. Ultimately, most things will be your own fault, but You are not always going to be oftentimes things happen that we right, so stop trying. There are don’t expect and you can’t blame some things you will never be right yourself for everything either. Try about so accept it and move on. to be accepting and move forward.

The more you try to be right in every situation, the more you may hurt the people around you. A very large ego is to blame for this and if Try to look on the bright side. I you keep trying, you will never win know sometimes it can be extremein the end. ly hard to look at the positive side of a situation but there always is one. I’m not saying try to pretend it never happened but accept that something bad happened and try Now, I’m not saying you can’t to have an open mind about movtake control when it’s needed, but ing forward. Don’t be so hard on don’t always drive to be the one in yourself. The more positive you charge of every situation. There are are the more positive the people Change is inevitable. We have all two reasons for this: One, if some- around you will be as well. heard it, and we have all experi-

1. Give up being right all the time:

10. Give up the past:

7. Give up on your fears:

4. Give up negativity:

2. Give up the need for power and control:

8. Give up on resisting change:

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wo home games, two losses, and a ticked off Arizona team on deck.

I’m not sure there’s a worse way to start conference play than dropping three at home, but it looks like that’s where things are headed for the Oregon State men’s basketball team after last night’s 10-point loss to Arizona State.

My thoughts…

• After OSU’s loss to Oregon on Sunday, Robinson said the Beavers need their scorers to score in order to win games.

Insightful, huh?

But it’s relevant because OSU relies heavily on just five players offensively.

Of those five, the only one who had a good game against the Sun Devils was junior forward Devon Collier, who led the way for OSU with 18 points and eight rebounds.

Junior guard Ahmad Starks was 3-of-11 from the field, and junior guard Roberto Nelson (eight points, one rebound, two assists) and senior forward Joe Burton (0 points, five rebounds, three assists) played poorly, too.

The fifth player, sophomore forward Eric Moreland, didn’t play due to a suspension.

OSU needs three or four of those five to play well in order to beat most Pac-12 teams, so the fact that only one played well last night pretty much explains why the Beavers lost.

• The good news: Thursday, I ran a column questioning OSU’s depth.

I don’t know if the Beavers’ bench players read it, but they played like they did.

Freshmen Jarmal Reid, Olaf Schaftenaar, Langston Morris-Walker and sophomore Challe Barton scored 23 of OSU’s 62 points — not a substantial number, but sure better than the zero points (on 0-of-10 shooting) those four combined for in Sunday’s Civil War loss.

More than that, they brought OSU back to life when it appeared the Sun Devils were dangerously close to blowing the game open midway through the second half.

Trailing 52-37 with 13:29 remaining, Robinson went with a lineup Barton, Morris-Walker, Reid, Schaftenaar and Collier, and a 14-3 OSU run ensued.

“They were tremendously outmatched at that time from a talent standpoint and an experience standpoint, and they just hung in there and I couldn’t have been more proud of them,” Robinson said.

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Oregon State sophomore guard Challe Barton scored six points and played a career-high 28 minutes against ASU.

This one was about to get ugly.

After leading for most of the first half, Oregon State fell behind by 15 points with 14:18 left in the game and most of Gill Coliseum called it a night early, giving up on the Beavers (10-5 overall, 0-2 Pac-12).

OSU head coach Craig Robinson and his squad didn’t give up though.

The head coach inserted a neverbefore-used lineup of Challe Barton, Langston Morris-Walker, Jarmal Reid, Olaf Schaftenaar and Devon Collier and the Beavers promptly went on a 14-3 run to make a game of it, before finally succumbing to the Sun Devils (14-2, 3-0) 72-62 on Thursday night.

“They were the ones who were playing the way we needed to play in order to come back at that time,” Robinson said. “I didn’t predetermine I was going to put that lineup in. I went by the feel of the game, and those were the guys who were getting the work done and they did a fantastic job.”

Reid — who is averaging 2.2 points, 1.8 rebounds and 14.9 minutes per game this season — had a career night with six points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes. His play, especially on defense, was a huge factor in keeping this game from getting too out of hand for Oregon State.

Despite his efforts, the Beavers could never regain the lead they had in the first half, which got to be as high as eight points with 5:41 to play in the first half. He might only be a freshman, but Reid offered some insight as to what needs to happen if the Beavers want to go from a competitive team to a winning team.

“It’s just about picking everybody up,” Reid said. “When teams face adversity they tend to crumble and it just takes one voice to pick a team up.”

With senior center Angus Brandt out for the season, the Beavers got a bigger dose of adversity on Thursday night when it was announced that sophomore forward Eric Moreland and freshman guard Victor Robbins would not play for OSU. Both are suspended indefinitely for “a violation of team rules,” according to Robinson.

Moreland — who has started every Vinay Bikkina | THE DAILY BAROMETER game this season and is averaging Arizona State center Jordan Bachynski 11.2 rebounds per game — would blocks Oregon State forward Devon have been a big help for the Beavers on the boards. ASU outrebounded Collier, one of four blocks for Bachynski Oregon State 49-35, including 16 in ASU’s 72-62 win over the Beavers offensive boards for the Sun Devils.

Thursday night at Gill Coliseum.

“It was the offensive rebounds that killed us. They kept on getting second shots,” Collier said. “We’ve just got to come out tougher and be hungry. We’ve got to want it and just not let it come to us, and once we get that through our head we’ll start being the tougher team.”

Collier extended his streak of scoring in double figures to 10 consecutive games, with 18 points against the Sun Devils. It wasn’t enough though as he and Ahmad Starks (10 points) were the only players in double figures on a Beavers team that shot just 37.3% from the field in the game.

Although there were some silver linings in Thursday’s loss — Barton played a career high in minutes and had a career high for field goals made — there are a multitude of areas Oregon State needs to improve in if they want to make the postseason or even finish in the upper half of the conference.

The Beavers only shot 5-for-22 on 3-pointers and once again were outscored in the paint. How can the Beavers right the ship? Collier says communication is key.

“We’re playing good defense but its just the communication that is not there yet,” Collier said. “We see the underclassmen, when they came in, we see how they communicated and played hard and brought us back. But when we stopped communicating, that’s when Arizona State got on their run. So that tells us that we’ve just got to keep on communicating every time through the 40 minutes, and if we don’t that’s when teams are going to take us apart.”

Things aren’t going to get any easier for Oregon State any time soon. It is unknown right now when Moreland and Robbins will be back and No. 4 Arizona comes to town on Saturday fresh off their first loss of the season to Oregon Thursday night. Coach Robinson said the team just needs to get into practice tomorrow and make sure they stay confident and don’t dwell on this loss.

“You might be able to avoid [another stumble],” Robinson said. “You just go back to work ... there’s not much else you can do. If I had a magic potion for this I would have used it like four years ago.”

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1. No. 5 Stanford (14-1, 3-0): It’s hard

not to put Stanford in the top spot. The only loss of the season for the Cardinal was to No. 3 Connecticut. Since then they’ve rattled off wins against Colorado, Utah and an impressive victory over No. 7 California.

2. No. 14 UCLA (11-2, 2-0): Although

they didn’t play particularly well in the first half of their game in Corvallis, the Bruins have won four in a row, and that includes a sweep of both Oregon colleges.

3. No. 7 California (12-2, 2-1):

The Golden Bears went 2-1 in their opening conference games, and the loss came to Stanford. This is still an incredibly talented team, and one that will look for revenge in a rematch against the Cardinal on Jan. 13.

4. Washington (10-3, 2-0): In the midst

of a three-game winning streak, the Huskies notched two gritty wins against Arizona State (77-74) and Arizona (7665), both of which are potential heavyweights in the conference.

5. No. 23 Colorado (12-2, 1-2): They may have only come away with one victory out of their three games last week, but the Buffaloes were undefeated through their first 11 games, and the games they lost were to powerhouses Stanford and California. Colorado rebounded by defeating Utah on Sunday.

6. USC (5-8, 2-0): Okay, I have no idea where USC came from. One minute the Trojans are losing six games in a row, and the next they’re sweeping the Oregon colleges just like UCLA did. I don’t know which part of that was a fluke, but they played efficiently on offense and eked out a couple wins, so here we are.

7. Arizona (9-4, 1-1): The Wildcats split

their first conference games, first defeating Washington State, and then falling to Washington. Their next game is on Friday Jan. 11, when they host the Beavers.

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OSU women’s basketball has opportunity to end five-game losing streak tonight in Tucson, Ariz.

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After opening conference play at home with two losses, the Beavers are in Arizona today for the first of two road games.

Tonight’s game against the University of Arizona, at 6 p.m. in Tucson, will be the first conference road game for the Beavers (6-8, 0-2 Pac-12).

The Wildcats (9-4, 1-1 Pac12) are on a five-game winning streak against the Beavers, with Oregon State’s last win occuring back in 2009 at Arizona.

Oregon State is working on points in the paint and better ball handling to get a win on the road. It is an important time for the Beavers to turn things around, as they have dropped their last five games — OSU’s last win came on Dec. 13.

The Beavers struggled last weekend with giving up points on turnovers. Against UCLA, they committed 24 turnovers, and the Bruins converted 23 points from those turnovers. “[Turnovers are] something that has been a work in progress for us,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “That’s going to be a heavy emphasis as we prepare for the games, and that’s a hurdle this team has to get over.

While Arizona’s high-pressure defense is averaging 11 steals per game, the Beavers need to remain composed in face of a double-team and the Wildcats’ quick speed.

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points a game. In practice this week, the Beavers worked on post defense.

“They have athletic posts and great passers,” said freshman guard Jamie Weisner. “So we just have to know the personnel on the team and know where they are at.”

Defensively, the Beavers are second in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage defense (.338) and 20th in the nation. They play an effective combination of both man and zone defense, which holds their opponents to low shooting percentages.

“I am encouraged by both,” Rueck said. “I think they are getting a lot better. We are pretty

good in both. We held [USC and UCLA] to a really low shooting percentage” The team has also been working to slow down opponents on the transition. This is important against the Wildcats considering their high number of opportunities to score as a result of steals.

“We have been working a lot on our transition defense,” said sophomore guard Ali Gibson.

“So making sure teams don’t get easy baskets, then just keeping doing what we are doing. We are holding teams to good shooting percentages.”

The Beavers will also need to be aware of Arizona’s out-

Washington State has won two of its last three games, and notched a notable nonconference win against No. 20 Ohio State earlier in the season.

9. Arizona State (8-6, 0-2): There are

several good teams that have gotten off to rocky starts in conference play.

Arizona State is one of those teams.

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team that has hit a bit of a rough patch.

They’ve lost the last four games, but all of them were to talented teams (Notre Dame, California, Stanford, and Colorado), and all but the game against Stanford were winnable in the final minutes.

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11. Oregon State (6-8, 0-2):

Not a whole lot has gone well for the Beavers.

Injuries have taken their toll, and they’ve lost their last five games. USC downed the Beavers on a buzzer-beater, and UCLA came from behind in the closing minutes of the second half to give the Beavers a record of 0-2 in Pac-12 play.

12. Oregon (2-12, 0-2): Maybe it’s just

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Senior all-arounder Makayla Stambaugh said the team had a “lack of confidence” in their first meet of the season last Friday.

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side shooters. Arizona’s Kama Griffitts and Davellyn Whyte are shooters that can knock down 3-pointers.

“They have elite shooters from that outside [who] will shoot NBA threes,” Weisner said.

The Beavers surprised many in the 2011-12 season, but they have failed to continue riding the momentum from their 20-win season a year ago.

The weekend slate against Arizona and Arizona State could be a prime opportunity for the team to turn around their season.

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8. Washington State (5-8, 1-1):

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Sophomore guard Ali Gibson and the Oregon State women’s basketball team have made a point in practice to work on transition defense and eliminating easy baskets for their opponents.

It was a year ago when the Oregon State gymnastics team opened the season with an upset over then-No. 4 Oklahoma at Gill Coliseum.

The No. 9 Beavers have another chance to knock off a highly-ranked opponent in their home opener.

No. 14 Ohio State comes to Corvallis tonight at 7 p.m., for a meet that has suddenly taken on a higher level of urgency for the Beavers.

The Beavers started 0-2 for the first time since 2004, and scored only a 193.600 in the Cancun Classic last Friday, an uncharacteristic score for a program that has become a mainstay at the NCAA Championships (seven straight

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“Now with it being a couple days behind us, I look back and I realize it was a pretty early meet for us,” said associate head coach Michael Chaplin on Tuesday. “This particular team needed another week of training.”

Training doesn’t necessarily mean physical; there was a lack of mental preparation for the Beavers too. Falls, wobbles and out-ofbounds penalties spoiled the night for Oregon State.

“I think that we just had a lack of confidence in ourselves and we were kind of psyched out by the other teams,” said senior Makayla Stambaugh.

The Beavers finished third in the Cancun Classic behind Michigan (196.575) and Brigham Young University (194.475).

There were some positives gained from OSU’s slip-ups.

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Last year, No. 15 Wyoming edged No. 13 Oregon State by the narrowest of margins, winning by criteria in Gill Coliseum after tying with 22 points apiece.

Not surprisingly, the Beavers (2-3, 1-1 Pac-12) are looking for a little revenge against the Cowboys (6-2, 1-0 Western Wrestling Conference) in what promises to be another nail-biter this Sunday in Laramie, Wyo. “We tied Wyoming last year but lost because of criteria, so bonus points will probably be the difference this year,” said No. 10 Scott Sakaguchi, a 149-pound junior. “We need those bonus points to put us over the edge and get the win we need.” But before Oregon State can redeem last year’s loss to the Cowboys, they will need to get past No. 25 Air Force Academy, also on the road, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Friday.

The Falcons (3-0) will provide yet another tough test for an Oregon State team that seems to be faced with a ranked

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stakes.

His numbers don’t jump off the page — six points on 3-of-4 shooting, two assists, one steal — but he played a career-high 28 minutes and didn’t turn the ball over. Two of his three buckets came on impressive drives to the basket, and the other was a silky smooth jumper from the top of the key, just inside the 3-point arc.

I can’t remember the last time we saw Barton do either of those things prior to last night.

“Challe has been under a dark cloud this season, he’s just had a tough season and it was great to see him break out of that a little bit in a game where it really mattered,” Robinson said.

Finally, as if Robinson had read my column in yesterday’s paper, he closed his comments about the bench with this: “What you can take away from that is we have a bench,” Robinson said. “Those guys are going to be good, they just need a little bit more experience.”

• I was surprised to see Collier briefly come out of the game with 4:25 left and the Beavers down four.

Collier was easily OSU’s most effective player offensively, and had just scored on consecutive possessions. The Beavers failed to score on their next three possessions, and by the time Collier reentered the game at the 2:14 mark, ASU had extended its lead to eight.

opponent every match.

Getting wins against both schools would provide a major wave of confidence for an Oregon State team that has been losing close matches as of late.

“This weekend is huge,” Sakaguchi said. “Building momentum towards the Pac-12 right now with two big nonconference wins is exactly what we need to get back on track and get our momentum headed in the right direction.”

Though the Beavers are still ranked No. 13 in the nation, their mediocre 2-3 record in duals suggests they aren’t wrestling up to their potential so far this season.

But while OSU already has as many losses as last season, that record might not be an accurate measuring stick of how the Beavers have performed this year.

“Yeah, good records are nice to have,” said head coach Jim Zalesky. “They’re good for rankings, they’re good for publications, but when it comes down to it they don’t really mean a lot.”

Oregon State knows there’s still room for improvement, however.

“You can never be happy with where you’re at unless you’re number one,” said No. 10 Taylor Meeks, a 197-pound sophomore. “We won’t be satisfied until we win a national championship.”

I asked Robinson about this, and he said Collier was cramping up “bad” and they needed to get some fluids in him, so that settles that.

• Moreland and freshman guard Victor Robbins were “suspended indefinitely” for a “violation of team rules” just prior to Thursday’s game, but little is known about the situation beyond that.

Both players are expected to practice today, but their status for Saturday’s tilt with Arizona remains unclear.

Robbins was dressed in uniform on the bench, but I did not see Moreland at the game. “[Moreland] will be back, I’ve been told, but I don’t know when,” Robinson said.

I’m not entirely sure what to make of that quote, but it sounds like this all unfolded rather quickly on Thursday and Robinson was still sorting out the details.

I don’t see OSU putting up much of a fight against Arizona on Saturday if Moreland’s services aren’t available.

• Beaver Nation, where were you?

The announced attendance was 4,796, roughly half of Gill Coliseum’s capacity.

I understand that this team can be frustrating to watch at times, and I understand that an 8:30 p.m. start isn’t ideal for those who have early class or work the next morning, but a crowd of less than 5,000 is pathetic for a Pac-12 game.

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With the bulk of their Pac-12 schedule right around the corner, the Beavers hope to use these two tough nonconference duals to get closer to that goal and ready for Pac-12 play.

“All we’ve got left before the Pac-12 tournament are these dual meets, so these are important,” Zalesky said. “It’s important to keep getting better and keep making the right steps of progress forward.”

But to get two wins the Beavers will need to do a better job of finishing close matches.

Oregon State’s three losses this season have come by a combined 10 points, meaning the Beavers have been great in every match until the end. Wrestling for the full seven minutes is something OSU has stressed all week in practice to get back on track.

“You can’t worry about how you feel when you get on the mat,” Zalesky said.

“You have to be ready to compete, wrestle for seven minutes, and then you can worry about how you feel afterwards.”

“We can’t give up any points [easyily],” Meeks said. “We can’t worry about how we feel out there, we just need to push through and wrestle hard.”

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GYMNASTICS n Continued from page 5 they would be in that mid-196 range,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin.

If the team finished with a score of 193.600 and hit all of their routines, then there would have been some real problems.

The team had added motivation this week in practice because of the lackluster performance.

“We are just training so much harder,” said junior Kelsi Blalock. “There’s no slacking, there’s a lot more discipline in the gym.”

“We can make some remarkable changes by hitting our routines this week,” added Tanya Chaplin. “It’s just going back in and creating that energy, creating that focus, and making sure that they’ve learned a lot.”

The determination to improve upon last week’s meet is essential for this meet.

The Buckeyes come in as a team trending upward in recent years. Ohio State bested Oregon State by one-fifth of a point in nationals a year ago.

“Ohio State’s a very good team,” Michael Chaplin said. “They made it to nationals last year. They’re continuing to improve. It’s a good challenge for us for our first home meet.”

The gymnasts know the task at hand will be difficult, and that the significance of having a solid showing in this early-season meet will be crucial to catch up to the rest of the nation.

“Ohio State — they’re going to come ready,” Blalock said.

“They’re a top-10 team. We definitely have our work cut out for us.”

The Beavers are currently in a state of flux with their lineups because of the insertion of several new faces.

Having open competition at a lot of spots can be a good problem to have.

“We will have some changes before we find out for sure who are going to be our solid six on each event,” Tanya Chaplin said.

“But I think it’s also good because they push each other that way. There’s competition for those spots.”

All indications from the Beavers is they will be ready for the Buckeyes.

“I think Friday night we’ll find out what this team is about and what it’s going to do,” Michael Chaplin said. “My feeling is, this team will respond really well from what I’ve seen and watched at practices.”

Tonight’s meet marks the first gymnastics meet ever aired on the Pac-12 Networks.

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Major League Baseball expands testing for HGH Major League Baseball and players have agreed to ramp up the battle against illicit performance-enhancing drugs by instituting in-season testing for human growth hormone.

The league and the Major League Players Association, in a statement Thursday, said unannounced, random blood tests for human growth hormone — known as HGH — will begin this year.

The timing of the announcement comes the day after the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that no former players were selected for induc-

tion from a ballot that included some stars who have been linked to performance-enhancing drugs.

One, pitcher Roger Clemens, was said to have taken HGH by a former teammate, pitcher Andy Pettitte. Clemens denied the allegation, saying he was misheard. Pettitte admitted to using the hormone once a dozen years ago.

Seven-time MVP Barry Bonds also was implicated in HGH use but has said he never knowingly used banned substances.

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VAN ORDER n Continued from page 3 sonable. According to the Project on Student Debt, 2011 college graduates in Oregon owed an average of $25,497, with 92 percent of graduates having taken out loans.

Much of the rhetoric in the 2012 presidential election centered around regrowing the stagnant middle class. A bachelor’s degree, however, is quickly becoming the basic requirement for people who hope to gain entrance to the suburban utopia that is the American dream.

I believe universal education is the only way to grow the middle class in today’s competitive workforce.

Employers are now able to choose from a huge pool of highly educated workers, who are all desperate for a job to pay off the thousands of dollars in loans taken out to pay for the degree qualifying them for the job. It is a vicious and confusing cycle, but hold on, it gets worse.

With the huge number of college graduates companies now get to choose from, students need to find other ways to make their resume stand out. It can

as a treatment for sport injuries and is banned by most professional sports leagues.

HGH is naturally occurring, according to the World AntiDoping Agency. “The major role of HGH in body growth is to stimulate the liver and other tissues to secrete insulin like growth factor (IGF1). IGF-1 stimulates production of cartilage cells, resulting in bone growth and also plays a key role in muscle and organ growth,� WADA says on its website.

A WADA-accredited lab in Montreal, Canada will conduct

the random blood tests.

The MLB agreement also calls for enhanced efforts to detect testosterone.

A previous agreement allowed testing for HGH during spring training, in the off-season and for reasonable cause.

The testing now will include the regular season.

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bachelor’s degree, yet many people miss out on the opportunity because of the ludicrous cost of tuition.

I know this opinion may be unpopular, but I believe the federal government needs to rework the education system.

We have some of the finest universities in the world and yet we make an industry out of what should be a basic human right. Imagine a world where your tax dollars subsidized education so individuals from any socioeconomic background could earn a four-year degree.

Think of the potential talent we miss out on by having a large percentage of our population go without the opportunity to obtain higher education.

Some may call complete federal subsidization of tuition expenses socialism, and to those individuals I would like to point out that, up until 12th grade, education is socialized. It is a simple fact that a high school diploma is no longer enough and it is high time our education system is updated to suit the demands of this age.

be expensive to train new workers fresh out of college, so companies look for workers with previous work experience as well as a degree.

The question remains, how do you get relevant work experience if you can’t get a job without a degree? That is the genius behind the unpaid internship. A company gets the benefit of a highly educated worker without having to waste money on a salary. The intern is paid in valuable job experience that will apply later in life, and the unspoken promise is if the intern does well, he or she will be hired by the company as a full-time employee.

This, however, is rarely the case. I know this comes off as overly critical, and I do not want to undersell the value of an internship, but I am simply pointing out the hidden requirements for finding a job as a college grad.

I’ve digressed from my original point: Universal education is necessary for regrowing the middle class because of the increasingly competitive global workforce and the ever-growing number of people with college degrees.

Not everyone is willing or able to take out loans to pay for higher education.

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