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President concerned with provision requiring candidates to prove membership with group they seek to represent

By McKinley Smith THE DAILY BAROMETER

When Associated Students of Oregon State University President Taylor Sarman vetoed JB-06.21, it was

11:57 p.m., three minutes before the deadline and nearly a week after he’d received it from ASOSU Speaker of the House Saul Boulanger.

“I wanted to make sure I spent a lot of time talking to people who hadn’t heard about this bill,” said Sarman, who said he’d spoken with the task force directors for women’s affairs and multicultural affairs as well as some other members of ASOSU who hadn’t heard about the bill.

JB-06.21 would have created 11 constituency seats in the ASOSU House of Representatives, one each for the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Ettihad Cultural Center, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, Native American Longhouse, Pride Center, Women’s Center, Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, Residence Hall Association, International Students of Oregon State University, Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council.

To accommodate the constituencies, the bill would have added 10 seats to the House, leaving the remaining 19 undergraduate seats for unaffiliated representatives.

The part of the bill that concerns Sarman the most is the provision that requires applicants for the constituency seats to “prove membership in the respected group, as approved by the Elections Committee” according to the wording of the bill.

“I identify in the LGTBQ community, so I applied, kind of you know my own personal lens to ‘if I wanted to seek one of these seats, if I wanted to seek the Pride Center seat, what does my proving membership – what does that look like? What would that look like for students that may not be comfortable doing that?’” Sarman said.

Boulanger said the provision requirSee ASOSU | page 2

Students bring new life to Avery legacy Renewable materials course teaches students how to produce, market product

By Courtnee’ Morin THE DAILY BAROMETER

Previously standing tall in the parking lot next to Kelley Engineering Center, a 125-year-old Oregon Black Walnut tree was recently cut down to make room for Oregon State University’s expanding campus, specifically to make way for Johnson Hall.

According to averyopeners.com, the walnut tree was originally planted by Corvallis founder Joseph Avery’s daughter, Florence Avery.

A lot of the wood from the Avery Black Walnut tree will be incorporated into Johnson Hall, the soon-to-be new home for the School of Chemical, Biological and Ecological Engineering, by being made into panels and benches.

The branches, which would have previously been unusable and discarded, are now being used to make bottle openers.

Crafting these bottle openers are the students of the Wood Machining III course.

“We’re trying to simulate operating a

“We’re looking more at the manufactursmall business,” said Kent Davis, an instructor in the department of Wood Science ing side of wood working, which applies and Engineering and the professor of the our knowledge and is more hands instead course. “The students come up with a prod- of just reading it from the book,” said Luis uct that we can construct in the 10-week Meza, a senior in the renewable materials course, and we make it. Students decide program.

According to renewable materials junior what we make, so next time the course Caleb Gee, the course is offered we’ll be doing began as a two-credit something different. They “pilot” course, evolving come up with the idea That’s what’s quickly into the wood and marketing plan and machining sequence it is the price — it’s a very awesome about today. student driven course.” this: It is a lot of The class is small, with The course focuses on hands-on work only eight students, but the giving its students handssmall size gives everyone and provides on experience, teaching an opportunity to have an them how to use the business experience active role in the project. woodworking machines “My favorite part of the that relates to and make the products, course is the success we’ve as well as teaching them the real world. had as a team and that marketing and business everyone is contributed skills.

Tommy Bain and excited about it,” Gee Senior in renewable materials The students are able said. “It’s different than to work in each process of the assembly normal group projects in that you don’t feel line of production; each day the role of a that you have to do all of the work to make student changes, switching between tasks sure it gets done — people do their part.” like sanding the openers, coating the wood Tommy Bain, a senior in renewable in wax or putting the final touches on the See AVERY | page 4 product.

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s spring philanthropy donates money to rare disorder treatment

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Week two of spring term, Sigma Alpha Epsilon will host their philanthropy, Miss Minerva, in order to raise funds for Adrenoleukodystrophy through The Ethan Zakes Foundation.

Adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, is a rare genetic disease that presents itself in early childhood.

SAE, a member of the Interfraternity Council, has a direct relationship with the Ethan Zakes Foundation, as it was founded by an SAE and Oregon State University alumnus, Brad Zakes, who lost his son Ethan at just 10 years old to ALD. “All proceeds go towards supporting national newborn ALD screening,” said Eric Spaller, former philanthropy chair for SAE and a senior in business management. “ALD occurs at birth and is fatal if not detected in infancy.”

Last year, the fraternity raised $5,000 for the foundation. The pageant winner was Lindsey Reed, a junior studying psycholSee PHILANTHROPY | page 2

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Luis Meza, a senior in renewable materials, works to prepare pieces of walnut tree wood to create a bottle opener.

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Ethan Zakes at a 2011 Make-A-Wish Foundation event. Zakes died from a rare genetic disease, adrenoleukodystrophy, at age 10.

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If you have a smartphone or tablet and are looking for ways to take better photographs with it, the Arts Center is hosting an introduction to Mobile Photography workshop this Saturday, March 7. The workshop, hosted by local photographer Kat Sloma, will last from 1 to 4 p.m., and will be the first in a series of workshops focused on photography with mobile devices. The class will be taught for both iOS and Android devices.

The cost of the workshop is $40, and will be held in the downstairs dance studio of the Arts Center on Madison Ave. Sloma will send a list of the apps needed for the workshop after registration.

The second workshop in the series will focus on sequencing and blending apps to make mobile photos more artistic and will take place April 11.

For more information, visit theartscenter.net/ event/intro-mobile-photography-kat-sloma.

The Arts Center is located at 700 SW Madison Ave. in Corvallis.

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A counterfeit $20 bill reportedly popped up at the Goodwill on Northwest Ninth Street. The officer recorded the serial number on the bill.

Lost and waiting to be found A vehicle that had been reported stolen from Lebanon, Ore. was found in a parking lot along Northwest Monroe Avenue, according to the log. The vehicle had reportedly been missing for more than a week.

Threatening with a knife Officers responded to a reported domestic disturbance in which a woman allegedly threatened her mother with a knife. According to the log, the daughter told police she “may have threatened her mother,” but didn’t threaten her with a knife. Her mother told police her daughter had “held the knife by her side while threatening her and that she was afraid of the knife as well as her daughter because of her facial expression and the threats,” according to the log. A reported witness told police that he’d overheard the daughter threaten her mother. An officer arrested the daughter for menacing and unlawful use of a weapon.

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Theft of multiple items A man reported his Hydro Flask water bottle and Columbia jacket stolen from Owen Hall Friday night; the items were valued at about $85 total, according to the log. The man reportedly told police the items had been stolen while he left the room between 2 and 4 p.m.

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PHILANTHROPY n Continued from page 1 ogy and member of the sorority Alpha Phi, and the overall winning Greek house was Delta Gamma. Spaller expects their fraternity to succeed in raising awareness on campus this year.

Weston Fassiotto, a junior studying civil engineering, is determined to make that happen. He has been planning this year’s philanthropy event with his philanthropy co-chair Cameron Platner, a junior studying exercise and sport science.

“We’d like to make five figures to donate,” Fassiotto said.

He commented that this would take extra effort because of other popular philanthropies happening around the same time, but there are plenty of events within SAE’s philanthropy for students to get excited about.

The philanthropy had a laser tag teaser event last week, but the event officially kicks off April 6.

During week two of spring term, Monday and Tuesday’s events will consist of a bake sale open to all in the Memorial

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Union quad. Participating sorority members will bake the cookies and pastries in order to earn points. There will also be opportunities to earn points at a trivia night Wednesday, and the pageant dinner Thursday. In addition, sororities will decorate coolers throughout the week to be sold during Mom’s and Family Weekend. The week’s events lead up to the actual pageant, which will occur Saturday, April 11.

One volunteer from each participating sorority will compete in the following categories: sportswear, formal wear, funny costume, questions and talent.

During the pageant there will be a “dash-for-cash” at the event. Brad Zakes will speak at the pageant about his foundation and the urgency of ALD screening.

“No child should die from (ALD),” Fassiotto said. “It’s super easy to treat early, so if every child is screened at birth or in first 3 years, no child has to die from it.”

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bill and that he would be for it as long as partnership.” it met the standard of giving extra seats,” Rachel Grisham, president pro temBoulanger said. “And I did not know that pore of the Senate, said “it’s definitely him vetoing was a possibility until, hon- possible” a new bill could be passed ing proof of membership was vital.

“We want to make sure that these estly, yesterday (Wednesday). I knew he next week. groups have control over who is their had some concerns.”

Grisham learned about the veto Sarman and Boulanger stressed the Wednesday morning, and said the delay candidate,” Boulanger said. “We do not want the Black Cultural Center, or importance of the conin the bill’s passage the Pride Center or the Ettihad Cultural stituency seats. was disappointing, “This bill was written Center to have someone as their repexpressed that the This bill was written but resentative who does not understand with 100 percent best president must have intentions,” Sarman with 100 percent best had a good reason to those centers.”

Boulanger said the constituency said. “However, there’s veto it. intentions. ... seats were meant to represent the cen- some of the pieces of JB-06.21 contained the language that I’m However, there’s ters, not populations of people. no provision for the “It would be impossible to represent not comfortable with.” some of the pieces of bill’s immediate effect, Boulanger acknowlevery student of any population perthe language that I’m so even had Sarman edged Sarman’s confectly,” Boulanger said. passed it, it wouldn’t not comfortable with. have gone into effect The ASOSU Congress has made cerns about the bill and increasing inclusivity within Congress said he respected the until June 1, which a priority, but has struggled to make leg- president’s right to veto would delay the Taylor Sarman islative realities out of their aspirations. and the fundamental impact until the 2016 ASOSU president Although Boulanger reached out to importance of governelection. cultural resource and support centers mental process.

“That was an oversight,” Boulanger “I think this veto was made out of a early on in the academic year, bills for said. constituency seats were introduced week genuine concern for the Constitution Meanwhile, the elections committee five of winter term. After that, Congress from President Sarman’s part,” Boulanger prematurely incorporated the constitusaid.

“And he’s doing what he believes is went through several renditions of the best for the students. I personally believe ency seats in its 2015 election packet. concept, culminating in JB-06.21.

Now, the election committee will send “I think Congress just rushed through that what we need most right now is to this process,” Sarman said. “I don’t want get these seats. Our major concern has an amended election packet no later to spend a lot of time looking back and always been making the House more than Thursday of week 10, according to saying like ‘oh, if we’d would’ve done diverse, and as long as it is within our Grisham, who serves as one of the vice this or we could’ve done this we might constitutional legal framework, I want chairs of the committee.

Grisham said she’d made the mistake be in a different place,’ but I think it is to make that happen.”

Moving forward, Sarman said he’d pass of assuming the bill had passed and that extremely unfortunate, the timeline that … was given for such a very important a similar bill if it didn’t have the member- it’s possible someone may have applied ship provision — Sarman said he didn’t for one of the constituency seats that piece of legislation and think the provision doesn’t currently exist. structural change for was constitutional.

“I wish we could work beyond the our body.”

We do not want the The next step, if boundaries that are set by our constiBoulanger delivered the bill to Sarman Black Cultural Center, Congress decides to tution, which are pretty impossible,” pursue it, is to draft Grisham said. several days late, and or the Pride Center or and pass a new bill Sarman said other Grisham expressed hope that ASOSU next week, which will have at least a “small victory” for pieces of legislation also the Ettihad Cultural would include forgo- students sometime this year, even if it haven’t been presented Center to have ing first readings to doesn’t go into effect until the next. She to him. Sarman also someone as their accelerate the process. expressed frustrations with government, said that he couldn’t Boulanger said he but said it was educational about how work with the judicial representative who didn’t consider overcouncil because it won’t does not understand turning the veto an things are done in the real world. meet for the rest of the “When we finally have a victory for option. term. those centers. students, it will be worth all of this, and “We want an action I’m confident that we will,” Grisham Boulanger said he that involves President said. didn’t consider that Saul Boulanger Sarman as a partner, Sarman would veto ASOSU speaker of the House For more information on the develwhich he is, and not the bill after it had an adversary, which oping story, visit The Daily Barometer’s passed Congress until he isn’t,” Boulanger said. “We want website at dailybarometer.com.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Oregon lawmakers: Reject vaccine bill

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SALEM — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made it clear from the beginning.

He’s pro-vaccine. All of his six children have been vaccinated, and so has he, he says.

Yet the longtime environmental activist Thursday stood before a small crowd of Oregon lawmakers, staffers and opponents of a bill that would eliminate personal-belief exemptions from school immunizations, speaking about vaccine toxicity, the trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, and a federal public health agency he calls corrupt and troubled.

He showed the documentary “Trace Amounts,” which centers on mercury in vaccines and its relationship to autism, at Cinebarre in downtown Salem. The documentary also accuses government researchers and public health agencies of corruption and fraud.

Kennedy made the trip to Salem with one goal. To influence lawmakers to

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If it passes, parents will be able to opt out of their child’s vaccines only if they have a medical reason, backed by a medical provider.

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Kennedy’s main complaint about vaccines is that they contain thimerosal.

The mercury in these shots are making children sick, and in some cases causing their autism, he said.

The mercury-containing preservative has been phased out of most vaccines, except for flu shots, which are recommended for pregnant women.

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By Diane Dietz THE REGISTER-GUARD

EUGENE — Freshman Mickey Swartz is a top-of-the-line student, just the kind the University of Oregon covets and courts.

The UO academic recruit from West Virginia had a top high school GPA and sky-high test scores, and he burned to be a volcanologist — one of the UO’s top specialities.

Swartz got scholarship offers from the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii, but the UO won him over with a four-year, $36,000 Summit Scholarship, Swartz told the UO Board of Trustees today at the board’s most animated meeting to date. “Then I realized — once I was here — that we were going to have a $1,000 outof-state increase in tuition,� Swartz said. “I realized I might not be able to (stay) here.�

But after hearing Swartz and other plaintive stories from students, the UO board adopted a tuition increase for the next school year on an 11-2 vote.

Tuition for in-state students will go up by $315 (3.8 percent) and $1,090 (3.7 percent) for out-of-state students. That will bump annual tuition next year to around $8,500 for in-state students and $30,240 for outof-state students.

Jim Brooks, the university’s director of financial aid and scholarship, told trustees earlier that the steep tuition has become “an issue� for low-income, out-of-state

students. A federal Pell Grant will cover $5,700 a year for each, “but with a $45,000 cost of attendance, you’ve got a long way to go to make up the rest of it,� he said Student trustee Helena Schlegel and UO staff trustee Kurt Willcox made a last-ditch effort to trim back the increases to 3.3 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively — which would have saved $45 for in-state students and $90 for out-of-state students annually.

That would mean the university would have about $1 million less out of a $1 billion budget to spend next year.

Schlegel and Willcox swayed four other trustees in favor of their motion for the smaller tuition hike, but that wasn’t enough. The motion to limit the tuition increase failed on a 7-6 vote.

When the board approved the bigger tuition increase, the Ford Alumni Center meeting room erupted. About 120 students, who had lined the gallery with signs saying “We are ducks not bucks� and “tuition freeze,� rallied to the front of the room, eventually circling the board’s tables.

They launched into a 15-minute, top-ofthe-lungs protest that drove the trustees from the room and shut down the day-long meeting for about a half-hour.

Students shouted in a call-and-response style, with a leader saying a sentence and the crowd repeating it. “We are being priced out,� the leader said, echoed by the crowd. “Education is a right.� “But priced like a luxury.�

The UO is dependent on tuition for

about 80 percent of its operating budget, according to UO Chief Financial Officer Jamie Moffitt. Currently, the residential tuition generates $74 million annually, while out-of-state tuition produces $227 million.

The university has subsisted for years — as the state withdrew its support — on outof-state tuition, and the university would be in deep financial distress without its out-of-state and out-of-country students, officials have said repeatedly.

The majority of students protesting the tuition increase appeared to be international students from China. Some held signs that said “international students are not an ATM.�

Interim UO President Scott Coltrane said university leaders “don’t want to be in a position to have to increase tuition, but we are.�

UO Board Chairman Chuck Lillis said the board is “very sensitive� to the plight of students. “We’re continuing to consider a variety of remedies for that. We understand your pain.�

Swartz said he doesn’t have time to wait.

His $40,000 in annual tuition, plus another $18,000 in dorm costs, has already placed his family in financial distress, he said.

He said he loathes asking his parents for more support, especially since they already helped his siblings through college. “It really hurt me that I was putting them through that,� Swartz told the trustees.

Top Oregon agency director departs position

By Saul Hubbard THE REGISTER-GUARD

SALEM — After several weeks of tangential involvement in the Kitzhaber/Hayes scandal, Michael Jordan, head of Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services, announced today that he will resign.

Jordan, one of state government’s top bureaucrats, didn’t give a reason for his abrupt resignation in an email he sent to other state agency heads.

His resignation as director is effective immediately, but his last day on the state’s payroll is April 1. Jordan will take some unused vacation time in the next few weeks, a DAS spokesman said.

Jordan was not available for comment today.

Gov. Kate Brown has named George Naughton, the chief financial officer at DAS, as act-

ing director until a permanent successor is found.

In a prepared statement, Brown said she planned to continue several of Jordan’s initiatives as DAS. “We are grateful for his years of service to the people of Oregon and the community of state government,� she said.

Jordan has drawn criticism in recent weeks for asking Oregon State Police to investigate the leak of thousands of emails from former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s personal email account to the Portland newspaper Willamette Week.

The emails were stored on the state’s servers at the Department of Administrative Services. They were leaked by an unidentified individual or individuals after it emerged that a Kitzhaber staffer had requested, during Kitzhaber’s final days in office, that some

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Kitzhaber’s office claimed that it was simply trying to remove from the state servers emails that discussed personal matters, not state business.

Personal matters would not be subject to Oregon’s public records law.

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Jordan later gave interviews in which he clarified that he had personally called for the investigation without consulting with Brown.

Two DAS managers were also placed on paid administrative leave by Jordan, as he launched a separate internal investigation. However, Jordan said that action wasn’t related to the leak investigation.

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Br ow n’s spokeswoman Kristen Grainger said Thursday that trying to link Jordan’s resignation to the leak investigation is “speculation.� “This is more about the governor structuring her own team,� she said. “We want to assemble a team of Kate Brown people. ... Bring in new eyes and new blood.�

Grainger said she didn’t know of any other agency heads who may be replaced as part of the transition.

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Lucas Howard, a senior renewable materials major, and Brent Lawrence, a senior marketing major, work on sanding the wood pieces, while Jack Kasal, a senior renewable materials major speaks with their instructor, Kent Davis.

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awesome about this: It is a lot of hands on work and provides business experience that relates to the real world.”

Brent Lawrence, a senior in marketing, was the only nonrenewable resource student in the course and was able to bring a new perspective to the class.

Lawrence helped with the promotion and marketing of the bottle openers, utilizing newsletters and helping with copyright phrasing, as well as

building the website averyopeners.com.

“This course has helped me out a lot, it’s been great,” Gee said. “It’s actually real, and for me, I care more about making a successful business than getting a good grade, and I think that’s how it is with the rest of the guys. It’s great publicity for OSU and provides learning that you can’t get in the classroom.”

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By Mitch Mahoney THE DAILY BAROMETER

As the conference undoubtedly remembers from last year, anything can happen in the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament — a four day, four round, single-elimination event that pits each team in the conference against each other.

The tournament began Thursday, although by virtue of the Beavers’ stellar regular season, they earned a first-round bye as well as the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament.

But the No. 1 seed doesn’t guarantee a Tournament Championship, or even a berth in the championship game. Take last year, when the championship game pitted third-seeded Oregon State against

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fifth-seeded-USC. The Trojans took the title from Oregon State last year, winning 71-62 after trailing by seven at halftime.

However, losing in the championship game a year ago has motivated the Beavers since it happened.

“It’s definitely in the back of our minds that we have unfinished business,” said sophomore guard Sydney Wiese. “That’s been pushing us in the offseason and this season — learning a lot of things from the mistakes that we made last year, but it’s definitely a new year for us.”

This is the second year in a row that OSU has been one of the top four seeds that earn byes in the first round of the tournament. Thus, their route to the championship would be three games in three days, rather than four games in four days that stands before seeds 5-12.

“Four games in four days — you wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “That makes what USC did a year ago so impressive, and tells you what kind of athletes they were and that they are.

But you don’t want that; three games in three days is more manageable.”

Still, despite winning the regular season title, earning a bye in the first round, having the Pac-12 Player of the Year in junior center Ruth Hamblin and having the Coach of the Year in Rueck, and despite leading the conference in nearly every statistical category, the Beavers (263, 16-2 Pac-12) still have to play in the tournament. There are still a maximum of three games that stand between them and their first Pac-12 Tournament title in school history.

“There’s still definitely a sense of urgency,” Wiese said. “Seeing that (championship) banner up there is motivation enough, it just makes you want more. Coach Rueck has said

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Senior guard Ali Gibson goes in for the layup during the last game of the regular season against the Cal Golden Bears in Gill Coliseum Feb. 28. that since day one, like once you get to a point where you’re having success and winning games, it makes you crave more success.”

The Beavers have known since Sunday night that their first game of the tournament will be against either Colorado (13-16, 6-12) or USC (15-14, 7-11), but it wasn’t officially decided until around 8 p.m. yesterday that they’d play Colorado. With that uncertainty about their first opponent, the focus in practice this

week had just been on improving themselves.

“These past practices this week have been working on ourselves, which is obviously good to do,” said sophomore guard Gabriella Hanson.

“Then the day before, we kind of work on both teams a little bit.”

The Beavers and Buffaloes have only played once this year, with the Beavers taking the victory, 66-44 on Feb. 20.

After winning the regular season

title a week ago, the Beavers haven’t lost sight of what they’re trying to accomplish this year. With the Pac-12 Tournament this week and with the NCAA Tournament looming later this month, the Beavers are preparing themselves for the single-elimination nature of both tournaments.

“One-and-done, it’s survival mode now,” Wiese said.

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Junior thrower Rachel Picknell gets set to throw disc during the Oregon Relays in Eugene April Junior jumper Bethany Imperial hits the sand during competition in the Oregon Relays in 19, 2014.

Eugene April 19, 2014.

Beavers break more records in Seattle during MPSF MPSF championship provides Oregon State women’s track and field opportunity to continue improvement

On Friday, the first day of the event, junior Kara Hallock had an impressive day, as she finished seventh in the pentathlon.

Hallock set a personal record in the event, scoring 3,691 points, whnich was 300 points more than her next best of 3,391, and was THE DAILY BAROMETER good enough to be the second highest score On Friday and Saturday, the women’s track in school history. and field team headed to Seattle for the fourth In addition, Hallock managed to set a school time this season to take part in the Mountain record in the long jump, where she jumped Pacific Sports Federation indoor track and field an 18-3. championship.

In the 4,000-meter distance medley, freshThe Beavers, who took 27 athletes up to men runners Sam McKinnon and Venessa Washington, set five school records and had D’Arpino, along with redshirt junior Kelsi Schaer and sophomore Morgan Anderson, set 11 top-10 career finishes.

OSU baseball pitching, offense find some answers Despite list of questions at beginning of season, Beavers begin to find their place

By Brian Rathbone THE DAILY BAROMETER

The 2015 Oregon State baseball team faced the task of replacing the Pac-12 player of the year, Michael Conforto, pitcher of the year Jace Fry and All-American pitcher and undisputed team leader Ben Wetzler from last year’s conference championship team.

Prior to the season, head coach Pat Casey talked about how in all of his years coaching, he has never had so many questions in the lineup as he did before this season, as he also had to replace Pac-12 RBI leader Dylan Davis and reliever Scott Schultz, along with infielders Kavin Keyes and Andy Peterson.

With so many uncertainties in the lineup, the Beavers have used a different starting group every game, giving all the young and inexperienced players an opportunity to earn a starting spot in the lineup.

The OSU pitching at this point in the season has had a difficult time replacing

Fry, Wetzler, and Schultz on the mound.

Junior right-hander Andrew Moore, who is coming off a down sophomore year after going 14-2 as a freshman, leads a rotation that has yet to take shape. Fortunately, freshman Drew Rasmussen and junior transfer Travis Eckert have pitched well when they have been given the opportunity to start.

While the pitching is still a work in progress, the offense is off to a great start this season, led by returner first team Pac-12 outfielder Jeff Hendrix and freshman first baseman KJ Harrison, who have started the season swinging the bat very well. Harrison has already been named Pac-12 Player of the Week and was named the Hitter of the Week by the Nation College Baseball Writers Association.

Winning the Pac-12 title for a third consecutive year will be a test for OSU, with the Pac-12 being as deep as it is this year. But if the pitching rotation settles, and the young players can get up to speed by Pac-12 play, there is enough talent on the roster for the Beavers to make a run at a three-peat.

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OSU softball downs East Carolina in extra innings, consecutive wins continue

matched their win total from the entire 2014 campaign, and the Pac-12 season has yet to begin. Last year’s squad finished with an 18-31, 5-17 Pac-12 record.

By Mitch Mahoney Already much improved from a year ago, the THE DAILY BAROMETER For the second time this season, the Beavers Beavers’ hot start can be attributed in part to an played an eight-inning game. For the first time this improved offense. Oregon State’s batting average was season, the Beavers (18-5) came away with the win .287 last year, while this year’s group is hitting .339.

Similarly, Oregon State’s pitching and fielding in the extra inning. has improved as well. A year ago, When the Beavers hit into their Oregon State’s opponents hit .326 third out in the bottom of the sevwhile this year’s opponents are Now with 18 enth, the game was tied 1-1, and by hitting just .268. virtue of the International Runner wins this season, Rule, a baserunner was placed at The Beavers will look to continthe Beavers have second base in the eighth inning. ue their strong play during tomorIn the top of the eighth, the matched their win row’s game, which features a team Beavers were able to survive East the Beavers have met already total from the entire Carolina (6-12) and its baserunin the tournament. Tomorrow’s ner who was left stranded at third.

2014 campaign, and game is against Hawaii (12-8), Heading into the bottom of the which the Beavers sort of played the Pac-12 season eighth, OSU just had to advance on Thursday. After the Beavers led has yet to begin. their baserunner home to win the 3-0, the game was cancelled in the game. third inning because of rain and For the Beavers, that runner was will not be resumed. sophomore outfielder Amee Aarhus. With no outs, The Beavers play the Rainbow Warriors Friday junior catcher Sammi Noland led things off. With three outs to play with, Noland laid down the sacri- at 8 p.m. fice bunt that advanced Aarhus to third.

Oregon State will finish the Hawaii Spring Fling With one out, senior third baseman CJ Chirichigno on Saturday with a rematch against East Carolina. stepped into the batter’s box. Chirichigno singled to That game will begin at 4 p.m. and is the final game left center, Aarhus made it home and the Beavers before Oregon State begins Pac-12 play. won in walk-off fashion, 2-1. This is the third time Mitch Mahoney, sports reporter this season — and third week in a row — that the On Twitter @MitchIsHere Beavers have won a game with a walk-off. sports@dailybarometer.com Now with 18 wins this season, the Beavers have n

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old school record by nearly two seconds and managed to get the four athletes an 11th place on the day with a time of 3:49.98.

At the end of the two-day event, the Oregon State team managed to place 14th in a threeway tie with five points.

The Beavers will now take a couple-week break before they host Utah — at Whyte Track & Field — in the first dual meet the program has taken part in since 1988. The event will run all day.

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a school record when they ran a commutative time of 11:32.53 and managed to place sixth on the day.

When the championship resumed on Saturday, the Beavers wasted little time, coming out and having another impressive day.

D’Arpino, who raced in the 400 meters, was able to break her own personal record and the school record when she posted a time of 55.61.

The time was good enough to set a new mark by .01 seconds and allowed for the freshman to finish 16th on the day.

In the 4x400 relay, the team of freshman runners Kerissa D’Arpino, Ahsha Mootz, Schaer and Venessa D’Arpino broke the two-week

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ASOSU branches: Replace nothing with something

Yeas & Nays I ea to Oregon State men’s basketball putting up such a good fight in the Civil War — coach Tinkle and the rest of the team gave their all, heart and soul.

Nay to the University of Oregon winning the Civil War. Yea to Oregon State women’s basketball and their continuing progress — you continue to make us proud.

Yea to “Light a Candle for Hope” — events like these create awareness and solidarity.

Nay to the innumerable deaths these past years due to hate crimes.

Yea to vaccinations. They’re good for you and help you fight disease — there is no downside.

Nay to U of O having an outbreak.

Yea to U of O having a vaccination drive. Problem solvers.

Yea to student awareness and engagement in the protest against student debt.

Nay to student debt.

Nay to Harrison Ford being in a plane crash.

Yea to Harrison Ford hopefully pulling through.

Yea to “Indiana Jones.”

Nay to the fourth “Indiana Jones” film. That was just horrible.

Nay to being stuck in the past when it comes to bad movies.

Nay to the Associated Students of Oregon State University axing a bill that would create more House of Representative seats. Not cool.

Yea to student involvement, and people signing up to run for office.

This is your government, Oregon State University — own it.

Yea to wearing warm weather clothing without freezing repercussions.

Yea to hot dogs — we’re looking at you, Roxy Dawgs.

Nay to weird weather affecting the world in weird ways. It’s wigging us out.

Yea to the Barometer distribution boxes and their silly puns — those crazy boxes.

Nay to a world without boxes.

Yea to more voices in the opinion section. We dig the discussions — keep it going.

Yea to Zumba classes.

Nay to excessive jumping in Zumba classes. We are never jumping again.

Ever.

Yea to St. Patrick’s Day drawing closer and closer, like a big, cheerful, green Shamrock Shake.

Yea to Shamrock Shakes.

Nay to twitchy sugar rushes.

Yea to nearing the end of the term — we can just barely see spring break on the horizon.

Yea to partying during spring break, and by partying we mean taking naps while re-watching all of the Netflix.

Nay to having two more weeks to wade through before freedom.

Nay to big, hairy final projects, papers, tests and dingbats who think that this little stretch of time is perfect for midterms.

Yea to having done this process before and having confidence in your ability to end the term in style.

Nay to Friday morning finals.

Seriously, why is this a thing?

Keep on singing, Corvallis.

Sean Bassinger Editor-in-Chief McKinley Smith Managing and News Editor TeJo Pack Sports Editor

n the eyes of select community members, higher education leaders and our own board of trustees, the Associated Students of Oregon State University represent us as the recognized student government on campus and across the state.

At least, they’re supposed to. Given their repeated history and little concrete action in terms of policy, I’m not so confident in the program.

And I haven’t been alone in thinking this over time.

Wednesday night, ASOSU President Taylor Sarman made the decision

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Bassinger One Step at a Time to veto JB-06.21, a decision he said was hard to make and required more thought due to the bill’s ambiguity.

The bill would have been the first step in finalizing constituency seats in the House for campus groups and organizations.

You know, so specific individuals could represent specific campus interests — something we should probably see in a well-functioning government.

One key issue Sarman had was that members would have to prove their affiliation with campus groups in order to get a seat.

First of all, wasn’t this the point of the bill? It makes no sense for someone to apply for a seat that represents a cultural center or department they’re not directly affiliated with.

Also, this nullifies any idea of

checks and balances, taking time and delicate discussion. You’ll take all the time in the world to approve these seats and make sure everything is absolutely correct to your standards, but the extra effort it could take to verify a representative’s group affiliation bothers you?

I don’t buy it. And it’s the same story year after year. In terms of progress, things either seem too rushed or too slow on the inside.

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Letter to the Editor OSU basketball

A season to remember I would like to thank the 201415 Oregon State Men’s Basketball team and coaches for an incredible season. Getting to storm the court after beating Arizona and seeing Gill packed with over 9,000 fans are memories I will never forget.

This season had many surprises.

One was the emergence of Jarmal Reid.

Who would’ve thought that he’d be one of OSU’s top scorers and defensive players at the start of the year?

It was also great to watch the development of Malcolm Duvivier and Daniel Gomis. These players in particular improved so much from last season.

A lot of credit should also go to Wayne Tinkle and the coaching staff.

Tinkle has managed to turn an Oregon State team who ranked as one of the worst defenses under Craig Robinson to one of the best in the conference.

Even with the tough losses at Gill, holding Utah to just 47 points had to be the most incredible defensive performance I’ve seen.

With the end of the season near, I just can’t help but to feel even more excited for next season. While I admit that I didn’t pay close attention to this team until the Arizona upset, my big regret is that I didn’t #CommitToWayne from the start.

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Breaking down self-plagiarization D

ear Dr. Ethics, I read your piece on selfplagiarism from Feb. 19, and have a few questions.

I understand that Oregon State, as an institution, has taken a stand against resubmitting previously submitted work, but I can’t think of any real-world application where that’s not okay. If I’m a photographer, I’m going to sell as many copies of my photo as I can.

If I’m an architect or engineer, you can bet all of my buildings or bridges will share drawings if I can manage it. The fact is, if something fits, I’m going to use it again.

So, if repeating work I’ve done before is OK later on, why is it not OK now?

As an instructor, if you want new work, isn’t it your job to create unique

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Otherwise, aren’t you, as an instructor, plagiarizing someone else’s work to begin with?

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in academic communities.

I’ll explain the importance of reframing plagiarism as deceit — as opposed to theft — with a different real world example.

Dear Forever Inquiring, Yes, despite frequent demands for In the Feb. 19 column, I argued that the popular characterization “real world” examples, philosophy of plagiarism as stealing obscures only happens in the world. Unless the moral significance of academic you’re living in a dream, in which integrity and confuses students case, you should enroll in PHL 251: about the (im) permissibility of Knowers, Knowing and the Known for a metaphysical intervention. multiple submissions.

I provide cookies — vegan and Instead, I suggested we think of gluten free, write to forum@dailyplagiarism as a violation of the moral obligations of honesty and integrity See Jenkins | page 8

Bad coffee conscience: K-Cups pollute the world

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e all buy into the newest trend and like to be up-to-date on electronics, appliances, clothing and social media postings.

When the Keurig coffee maker and its new pod design came out, everyone went bananas for it. Every office and college dorm room was equipped with one to quickly make a personalized cup of Joe. I always thought that bad juju would come out of this coffee pot; it is a little unnatural to make coffee that quickly and for coffee to taste that bad.

Personally I think drip coffee is the best and does not take that long from ground to cup.

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This includes hiring more qualified professors across the spectrum.

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We have some truly great professors here at Oregon State University in every extent.

While OSU does have a wide discipline. But it goes withvariety of opportunities for out saying that along with students, especially amongst these exceptional professors, the College of Engineering, we have some truly poor and the quality of academics apathetic professors as well. at OSU could definitely be By replacimproved. ing these Ranking in professors Instead we must at a resoundwith more ing 138 out focus a signifcant apt and of 202 of the enthusiastic portion of our universities instructors, in a nationattention on other not only will wide survey aspects that make a the qualof the best ity of our university successful. universiacademics ties — conimprove, ducted by the but also in U.S. News turn students will begin to and World Report — Oregon State University certainly has appreciate and take interest a long road ahead of itself in their studies. before becoming one of the And for the naysayers, who nation’s leading universities, claim we do not have the especially considering the funding to hire more qualiUniversity of Oregon ranked fied teachers, take a look at in at a surprising 106. our athletic program’s budBut despite this deficit, it get. Then tell me we have no is not altogether unfeasible way of coming up with more that OSU could drastically funds, which could be betimprove the quality of its ter spent on the pursuit of academics. academic excellence.

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environment?

And all just for coffee?

I love coffee as much as the next Oregonian, liked the idea of using a single pod of coffee but the K-Cup needs to die out. and throwing it away. It is incredibly wasteCoffee is a wonderful beverage that — on ful, continuing the consumerist nature of the its own and using a traditional coffee pot — is United States. not very harmful to the environment.

And this past week the creator of the Grounds are compostable, and so are most K-Cup, John Sylvan, came out and said that filters because they are made from paper; he regrets ever making the pods. some filters are especially made to be fully So I’m not the only one who isn’t a fan. compostable.

Sylvan said that he regrets his creation So in both scenarios, a person takes an because it is so harmful to the environment. object filled with used coffee beans and The coffee pods are made of four layers of throws it away, but with using normal plastic that are non-recyclable. grounds and filters you can do more for the Most recycling plants environment than the K-Cup aren’t equipped to process will. Yes, Green Mountain No. 7 plastic, which is what came out with the reusable I love coffee as the pods are made of, and K-Cup that you can use in much as the next also the containers have a your Keurig to put in your foil lid that is attached to own grounds.

Oregonian, but the pods and when they are And that is the same thing the K-Cup needs thrown away that foil isn’t as making a normal cup of to die out. removed. coffee with a filter but with Recent studies have one fewer dish to wash. shown that K-Cups now When it comes to our enviaccount for more than a quarter of the U.S. ronmental impact, we should really take our market for ground coffee and coffee pod actions into more consideration. It may just machine sales and have multiplied six-fold be a coffee filter or K-Cup for you today, but in the past six years. Besides finding Keurigs what will that one piece of plastic look like in homes across the globe, they are found in in a ten years with everyone else’s one piece more than 700 Michelin-starred restaurants of plastic? around the world.

Becoming more aware of your actions can That is a lot of little white cups filling up start out small, like switching back to regular landfills all over. coffee pots and filters.

Green Mountain, the owner of Keurig, You’ll have better tasting coffee and less finally recognized this problem and vowed environmental impact. to make all of its pods recyclable by 2020.

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I try to bake them myself, but sometimes I purchase them when I’m short on time.

Consider this possible scenario: instead of baking my own cookies, I purchase a batch of chewy, authentic-looking chocolate chip cookies from a local bakery, hide the packaging and arrange the cookies outside my office with a note that says “Fresh baked cookies by Dr. Ethics, especially for you.”

What, in this example, have I done wrong?

I didn’t steal the cookies, so this isn’t a problem of ownership.

My moral failure, in this example, is misrepresenting the work I put into preparing the cookies in an attempt to earn the goodwill of my students.

And, while in contrast to all the other evils in this world, an ethics professor lying about baking some cookies isn’t that significant, I suspect my students would feel cheated if it turns out they’ve been eating store-bought cookies all term.

Similarly, plagiarism of your own or another’s work is wrong it because uses deception for academic gain.

The responsible research practices necessary to avoid plagiarism — distinguishing between your thoughts and those of others, crediting your sources and distinguishing between paraphrases and quotations — are important because they provide an honest and transparent record of the steps you took to complete your work.

This is why purchasing an

A musician cannot submit original paper that someone else wrote and submitting it as a recording of a successful your own is still cheating, even practice session in place of a live recital performance. if you didn’t steal it.

And, even though Usain It’s also why submitting a paper for more than one class Bolt has run the fastest 100m isn’t self-plagiarism if you’ve dash in track history, he can’t received permission from your submit his world record as an entry to another race. professor to do so.

Earning your OSU degree An upper-level student, for is more like passing a marexample, might work with a professor to revise a previous tial arts belt test than being contracted as a professional paper for a different class.

— who as already acquired I would caution against the necessary credentials — to making generalizations about perform a service; the evaluthe permissibility of recycling ation of your unique performaterial in other professions. mance is necessary to assess As a photographer, as you your progression through the mention, you might try to sell levels of your discipline. as many copies of an image As a student, you’re in the as possible, but only if you process of acquiring the skills, weren’t passing it off as an experience, and knowledge original. The approprirequirements ate to your of an assigned degree I would caution job, the stanprogram. dards of An OSU against making uniqueness in diploma generalizations about represents a professional community the permissibility of the successcompleand the evalurecycling material in ful tion of a speative criteria other professions. cific quantity by which your and quality efforts will be of work, as judged all prodetermined vide morally relevant context to the ethics by professional educators.

Self-plagiarism, or the decepof resubmission.

Even if you’re correct that tive reuse of previously subit’s acceptable for architects mitted work, undermines the to reuse drawings — I’ll grant academic standards of our this part of your argument community.

Peace & Virtue, now so that experts in these Dr. Ethics fields can address their profesAre you curious about ethsional norms — the expectations of college students for ics and philosophy? Do you their course work are differ- have a moral dilemma or want respond to this week’s colent than those of architects, umn? Send your questions to photographers, engineers and forum@dailybarometer.com even professors, because the or use the hashtag #askdrethrequirements for originality ics on Twitter. are role specific. t To understand why student Dr. Stephanie Jenkins is an assistant profesassignments expected to be sor in the School of History, Philosophy, and unique submissions, it might Religion and co-director of the Phronesis Lab Engaged Ethics. The opinions expressed in help to compare your academ- for Jenkins’s columns do not necessarily represent ic training to how expertise is those of The Daily Barometer staff. Jenkins can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com. evaluated in art or sports.

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hroughout American history, the increased building of infrastructure has been known to bring about economic prosperity, and in some instances can be the determining factor in the wellbeing of the economy.

Similarly, an upsurge in the building of infrastructure on our campus is often viewed as irrefutably beneficial.

And more often than not, this statement is correct.

Improvements in infrastructure not only heighten the value and beauty of our campus, but they boost the local economy by providing jobs to construction companies and material suppliers.

Some may even be bold enough to say that improvements in infrastructure naturally correlate to the betterment of an institution’s academics — but unfortunately that is not altogether true.

While infrastructure is undoubtedly a necessary part of the equation that sums to a better educational institution, we cannot rely solely on the building of infrastructure to complete this formula.

Instead we must focus a significant portion of our attention on other aspects that make a university successful, such as academics and extracurricular opportunity — something Oregon State University fails to acknowledge to its full

“two bills regulating attendance and dress code within ASOSU.” The article goes on to mention that their main past editors and reporters have made about job is to “represent the student voice through ASOSU. Unfortunately I can’t cover every last passing of legislation that affect the student detail, because there’s — somehow — a lot to body.”

I don’t know about you, but I sure felt quite touch on in terms of meetings, elections and — affected by their attendance rules and dress code. well, that’s the majority of it.

On a brighter note, Boulanger expressed his The editorial “ASOSUseless,” which ran in The Daily Barometer Feb. 17, 2014, addressed interest to increase diversity in the House and concerns that ASOSU continued to do little as a ASOSU. An excellent goal, until the bills got student government. They seemed disconnected tabled, altered and reintroduced.

And now, we have the lastfrom the rest of the student body. minute veto of the aforemenUsing examples of continuing tioned diversity improveproblems, the editorial further And now, we have ment effort, one of the boldmentioned a lack of campus the last-minute veto est actions we’ve seen from group representation, an issue as a leader this year. that continues to this day. of the aforementioned Sarman Apparently it’s fine to put Saul Boulanger, who serves diversity improvement this thing on the edge of ruinas speaker of the House this ation, but unacceptable that effort, one of the year, wrote a response while we should take time or considhe was still speaker-pro temboldest actions we’ve eration into what constitutes pore. The letter Boulanger wrote seen from Sarman as someone’s eligibility to repreto us this year in response to sent a campus group if the bill our first editorial on the matter, a leader this year. did actually pass. which ran Jan. 27, almost mirrors Sarman’s letter concluded the one sent in response to the on the note that he will work “ASOSUseless” editorial. with the House and ASOSU to assure that legislaClearly, we’ve been here before.

Another column from former Editor-in-Chief tion for these seats gets reevaluated and passed Don Iler, published April 11, 2013, addressed through before their time in office ends.

Won’t lie, this sounds awesome as always — similar occurrences that continue to this day.

No continuing action, no real discussions but that’s the problem.

It doesn’t do anything for us. It merely makes a about true student issues and a bunch of indiselect demographic of believers feel cozy. viduals “playing” government like their offices Unfortunately, beliefs won’t get us far. and accessories are part of some Fisher Price toy Actions, on the other hand, are a start. kit their parents picked up for them at the store.

I would usually end with a recommenda“ASOSU should be, for the most part, done tion, but not this time. What more can be said? away with,” Iler wrote. “Its lobbying efforts to Looking at this year, last year and the year before, the statehouse are ineffectual, and with so much it doesn’t seem like anyone at ASOSU will really worthless drama going on in Snell Hall, members’ listen. And that’s the greatest problem we have attentions get distracted from concentrating on right now: A student government that does not bringing concerns to President Ray or the faculty appear to be listening. senate — the real power players here.”

We need more community builders, not Note the wording, “the real power players politicians. And that’s reflective of government here.” As pointed out in the 2014 editorial, this as a whole. could very well be an issue that lies closer with Otherwise, I hope future reporters, writers the administration. Maybe they’re simply not or editors years from now don’t have to write given the amount of power they need to enact something similar. true change.

I’m not holding my breath, but I’ll be interBut if so, these student leaders need to speak ested to read the very first “ASOSUseful” editorial up and voice their concerns to these administra- sometime in the future — assuming it’s not just tive bodies. more PR garbage. t But let’s examine a bit of coverage from this Sean Bassinger is a senior in digital communication arts. The opinions academic year. expressed in Bassinger’s columns do not necessarily represent those of When the legislative session resumed in The Daily Barometer staff. Bassinger can be reached at editor@dailyOctober 2014, the House started by passing barometer.com.

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