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n A peek at one of Corvallis’ busiest streets, which offers a cup of joe for every drinker
By Gwen ShawPhotos By Neil Abrew
The Daily BaromeTer
College and coffee is a common combination. The concept of college students drinking coffee due to a late night or to stay awake for the next 24 hours, cliche as it may be, is extreme-ly prevalent in Corvallis culture.
And what better location to ana-
lyze this cliche than the street that is home to some of the city’s most pop-ular college eateries: Monroe Street.
Monroe seems to be Oregon State University’s main place to go on break; whether between classes or on the way to campus, many students stop here to get their desired meal and cup of joe.
The Daily Barometer took a stroll down Monroe, from west to east, to discover just what makes it the col-lege coffee experience. Not includ-ing restaurants or convenience stores that may serve coffee as part of a
larger variety of food and drink, there are four coffee shops located along the street near the heart of campus: The Beanery, Brew Station, Dutch Brothers and Interzone.
We found that although coffee may be the common denominator for these shops, it is one of the only things they have in common.
Each menu offers something dif-ferent. Each location has its own vibe. Each one brings something special to their customers, which in the end begs the question: Where should you go for your next coffee break?
On the far west end, The Beanery is located on the corner of 25th Street and Monroe Street. This is one of three Corvallis locations, with six more around Oregon. Manager Hillary Williams estimates that in one day there are 400-500 customers that come through, and that they sell around 20 pounds of coffee. “I feel like I’m lowballing all these (num-bers),” Williams said.
Like many places on campus, the coffee served at The Beanery is Allann Bros., a company based in Albany.
“We pride ourselves on our coffee beans,” Williams said. “Our president actually cups every single roast that comes out of it. Every bag of coffee, he’s already tasted before we even get it.”
The Beanery serves a variety of pastries and has various food choices which are all delivered fresh each day. But both Williams and employee John Serra, a fifth-year political sci-ence major, said that drip coffee is by far the best seller.
“Besides that (drip coffee), I would say our sweet mocha, which is a mocha with Mexican chocolate (is the next best seller),” Serra said.
Since The Beanery is located very close to many science buildings on campus, both Williams and Serra said they see many graduate stu-dents and science professors, along with many other students.
“It’s good for people trying to get caffeine as quickly as they can. Sometimes it’s their only opportunity to get out,” Serra said
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Able Student Alliance files 10 complaints regarding campus structuresn Several new buildings
non-compliant to ADA regulations, according to ASA
By Kristin PugmireThe Daily BaromeTer
On Jan. 17, the Able Student Alliance of Oregon State University filed 10 official complaints with the Office of Equity and Inclusion.
The complaints address several locations on campus that are not compliant with the regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Locations include, but are not limit-ed to, the Milam Hall ramp, the Linus Pauling Science Center entrance, the Furman Hall entrance, the Gilfillan Auditorium ramp and various paths of travel on campus.
Many buildings on campus are several decades old and have yet to be renovated to become com-pliant with ADA regulations. Some
of the complaints, however, address locations that have been recently constructed or renovated, and yet according to ASA President Jeffery Evans, are still not ADA-compliant.
These problems could have been avoided, said Evans, if the university had consulted ASA before complet-ing the projects. For example, though ASA requested to see the floor plans for Linus Pauling Science Center prior to its construction, the request was never granted. Now, according to the filed complaint, the building contains a segregationist entrance as well as an enclosed ramp that places individuals with disabilities at risk of assault in a low-traffic area. Many buildings on campus have similar problems, according to Evans.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion was not permitted to comment on the filed complaints due to issues of confidentiality. However, Angelo Gomez, interim executive director of equity and inclusion, was able
to comment on the office’s typi-cal procedure once a complaint is filed.
“Our office investigates (the com-plaint), determines what the facts are and decides whether there are any violations of university non-dis-crimination policies,” Gomez wrote in an e-mail. “If the complaint is formal, we issue a written determi-nation and also work to correct any problems.”
In addition, according to the Office of Equity and Inclusion web-site, once the office has received and acknowledged a complaint, copies will be sent to the appropri-ate administrator, a university legal advisor and the chancellor of the Oregon University System. Within 30 days, the university must notify the complainant of the final status and resolution.
According to Evans, this is not the first time the ASA has filed accessi-bility-related complaints with the
university. “We filed complaints in 2009, and I
appealed three of them to the chan-cellor and asked that a hearing be held,” Evans said. He did not receive a response.
In 2010, the ASA filed additional complaints. At this time, the uni-versity appealed to the chancel-lor’s office for an extension on the required 30-day response time. The extension request was granted, and according to Evans, he has not since heard from the university regarding the complaints.
Vincent Martorello, director of facilities services, said he is not in a position to comment on ASA’s com-plaints. He added, “If there are any aspects that are found to be non-compliant, then we will certainly take the necessary measures to cor-rect them.”
According to Evans, however, the university has been aware of the problems for some time and has not
yet taken the appropriate corrective actions.
“We told them there weren’t enough disabled parking spaces serving the intramural fields in November 2010 — before they finished the project. Nothing has changed. We told them the ramp into Gill Coliseum was a violation in October 2010. Nothing has changed. We told them the ramp serving Gilfillan was danger-ous in September 2011. Nothing has changed,” Evans wrote in an e-mail.
As of press date, Evans had not yet heard back from the university con-firming the receipt of the ASA’s com-plaints. Ideally, accoding to Evans, the administration will respond by either hiring a consultant to assess every building on campus, or by consulting the ASA regarding future campus improvements.
Kristin Pugmire, senior reporter
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CalendarTuesday, Jan. 31MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Con-
venes to discuss student issues. Stu-dents and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Educational Activities Committee, 4-7pm, JPLC Talisman Room, MU. Bud-get review.
EventsCampus Recycling, All day, Surplus
Warehouse, all UHDS service centers, MU 103, Women’s Center, APCC, ALS loading dock. Free clean styrofoam recy-cling.
Wednesday, Feb. 1MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives,
7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Recharge your-self – Bring your favorite inspirational reading, prayer or devotion to share in an interfaith surrounding.
Educational Activities Committee, Noon-2pm, MU 110. Budget meeting.
EventsWomen’s Center, 2-3pm, Women’s Cen-
ter. Coffee and Tea from Around the World. International women from all over the world will come and discuss their cultural traditions, social customs and women’s roles. Cupcakes, coffee and tea will be served.
Campus Recycling, All day, Surplus Warehouse, all UHDS service centers, MU 103, Women’s Center, APCC, ALS loading dock. Free clean styrofoam recy-cling.
Thursday, Feb. 2MeetingsEducational Activities Committee,
4-6pm, MU 110. Budget meeting.OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111.
Regular meeting.
EventsDept. of Design & Human Environ-
ment, 8:30am-12:30pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Career Symposium. Industry professionals network and share professional experiences in apparel design, housing, graphic design, interior design and merchandising management.
Campus Recycling, All day, Surplus Warehouse, all UHDS service centers, MU 103, Women’s Center, APCC, ALS loading dock. Free clean styrofoam recy-cling.
Friday, Feb. 3SpeakersCollege of Public Health & Human
Sciences, Noon-1pm, Hallie Ford Cen-ter 115. Seminar: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Vulnerable Youth: Toward an Understanding of Sexual Develop-ment Among Urban African American Adolescents.
EventsCampus Recycling, All day, Surplus
Warehouse, all UHDS service centers, MU 103, Women’s Center, APCC, ALS loading dock. Free clean styrofoam recy-cling.
Monday, Feb. 6MeetingsCollege Democrats, 5pm, MU Board
Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!
EventsWomen’s Center Sister Scholars,
2-4pm, Women’s Center. Game Break! Come to play games and hang out with rad ladies!
Tuesday, Feb. 7MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Con-
venes to discuss student issues. Stu-dents and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
EventsGraduate Women’s Network, 2-4pm,
Women’s Center. GWN is a great place to connect with other grads and take a break. This month we welcome Dr. Brenda McComb, Dean of the Graduate School.
Wednesday, Feb. 8MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives,
7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Interfaith meditation or devotions – bring your favorite inspirational reading to share.
Thursday, Feb. 9MeetingsOSU Women’s Network and Assn.
of Office Professionals, Noon-1pm, MU 208. Baby Boomers Unite: Working Through Issues Together. Gather with peers and share knowledge and experi-ences relevant to issues faced by those in the Baby Boomer generation.
OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111. Regular meeting.
State Department looks to drones to protect diplomatic corps
Despite ban, protesters vow to stand their ground at Occupy DC camp
U.S. Park Police began enforcing a ban Monday on camping in two Washington parks, with Occupy protesters at one site defiantly huddling under a large blue tarp that they dubbed the “tent of dreams.”
No one had been arrested as of early Monday afternoon at McPherson Park or Freedom Plaza, Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said at an impromptu news confer-ence frequently interrupted by protesters. But some protest-ers had voluntarily agreed to remove sleeping bags, pillows and housekeeping supplies, he said.
On Friday, the National Park Service set a noon Monday deadline for protesters who have occupied the parks for months to remove their camp-ing gear. Park officials said protesters would be allowed to remain around the clock and keep up tents, so long as one side of each tent remains open at all times, officials said.
Georgia resident Dane Charles Primerano filed a com-plaint and motion for a tem-porary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday claiming that “the term ‘camping’ is defined over-broadly.”
Acting as his own attorney, he argued that sleeping in the park “is unavoidable for desti-
tute participants in a long-term political assembly,” adding that calling it camping “implicitly and wrongly (suggests) that the behavior is somehow trivial, frivolous or optional.”
“This is not about ‘camping,’” Primerano wrote. “It is about preserving political discourse, a good more sacred than any warrior’s statue, and infinitely more fragile than the park’s Bermuda grass.”
The threat of arrest didn’t deter many in the Occupy DC movement.
On its official Twitter feed, the group claimed Monday evening that 50 to 75 protest-ers were on site — including a “bunch of new occupiers.”
“I’m going to do the best I can to stay here,” said Emily Margaret, who has been staying at the McPherson Park camp. “If they want to arrest me, they can.”
John Zangas said many fellow protesters have removed pro-hibited gear from McPherson Park, but others have moved in and deliberately set up camp to challenge police.
As Monday’s noon dead-line passed, protesters pulled the tarp over a statue of the park’s namesake, Civil War Gen. James B. McPherson, to cre-ate what they called a “tent of dreams.”
“Let us sleep so we can
dream,” they chanted.Protesters have been camp-
ing in McPherson Park since October to rally against what they consider to be corporate greed and financial abuses.
Occupy DC said in a state-ment posted on its website Sunday that members “will defend the public space we have used as our center for activism,” calling possible arrests of protesters a “politi-cally motivated attempt to sup-press the free speech of the dis-enfranchised 99 percent .”
Pastor Brian Merritt of Washington’s Palisades Community Church said area churches have discussed help-ing house some of the pro-testers overnight so that they could continue a 24-hour vigil if park police began enforc-ing the rules against overnight encampments.
Whatever happens with the camps and police, Caty McClure said it would not alter her and fellow demonstrators’ commitment to their cause or their activism.
“The park and the occupa-tion of the park is a tactic. It’s not the movement,” she said, call-ing the camps “a really impor-tant symbolic statement.”
“If we can’t sleep here, that does not end the movement,” McClure said.
One man was arrested
Sunday after he allegedly went from tent to tent, removing notices from the Park Service. A video posted online showed the man walking away from police as officers tried to grab him. One officer used a Taser on the man, who fell to the ground and was handcuffed.
Schlosser said Monday that the incident was under review.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s web-site indicated that more than 15,000 people had signed an online petition criticizing the incident and calling on the Park Service to “stop buckling to political pressure and to respect free speech on federal land.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney mentioned the general situation unfolding at the two parks, both blocks from the White House, in his daily press briefing Monday.
“Our position has been and continues to be that we need to balance First Amendment concerns of the right to demon-strate, the right to speak freely, with public safety concerns and public health concerns,” he said. “And we understand that local law enforcement as well as, in this case, the National Park Service and U.S. Park Police are weighing those considerations when they make these deci-sions. And that’s appropriate.”
— CNN
Iraq and other “high-threat” areas such as Afghanistan are the focus of a U.S. State Department plan to use unarmed surveil-lance drones for the protection of American diplomatic facilities and personnel.
“The State Department has always used a wide variety of security tools and tech-niques and procedures to ensure the safety of our personnel and our facilities,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. “We do have an unmanned aerial vehicle program.”
The program is emerging about a month after U.S. troops departed Iraq and it’s an example of the diplomatic corps mov-ing into territory that was once the exclu-sive domain of American military and intelligence.
Recent political insecurity and an uptick in sectarian violence in Iraq are among the dangers facing personnel from the State Department, which has a huge presence in the country.
The State Department, which has a huge presence in Iraq, is concerned about politi-cal insecurity and the uptick in sectarian violence there. The same concerns hold true for Afghanistan, where the United States and its allies continue to fight the Taliban and other militants.
Nuland emphasized that the drones can-not fire weapons but provide images of facilities and traveling diplomatic person-nel. The drones are about the size of model airplanes.
“These are tiny, little things. They are not armed. They are not capable of being armed. And what they are designed to do is help give us pictures over our facilities to help in their protection,” Nuland said.
She said the operation “is extremely lim-ited in scope. It is only going to even be considered in critical threat environments. I’m not going to get into the where, for obvious reasons. We don’t get into our pre-cise security posture anywhere around the world.”
The latest State Department Diplomatic Security Service annual report said a “suc-cessful test” had been conducted in Iraq in December 2010.
State “coordinated with the U.S. Department of Defense and other govern-ment agencies for researching “low alti-tude” and “long endurance” drones “in high-threat locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan,” the report said.
“The program will watch over State Department facilities and personnel and assist Regional Security Officers with high-threat mission planning and execution,” the report said.
Nuland wouldn’t say where the program is being used. A pilot program is being bid out for broader use, she said.
The effort, first reported on Monday in The New York Times, comes as the State Department focuses on security for its over-seas resources.
State is “operating a small fleet of surveil-
lance drones” in Iraq “to help protect” the U.S. Embassy, consulates and American personnel, the Times said.
The report quoted criticism of the pro-gram from some Iraqi officials who believe the activity violates the country’s sovereignty.
Nuland said State always works close-ly with a host government to protect its personnel.
Last year, a State Department pre-solic-itation notice issued “a requirement for a qualified contractor to provide worldwide Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) support services.”
“The mission of the UAV program is to provide real-time air surveillance of fixed installations, proposed movement routes and movement operations, and special events thereby improving security in high threat or potentially high threat environ-ments,” the notice said.
The program is designed to “automati-cally generate and disseminate high qual-ity video imaging,” the notice said. It will “disseminate threat information for use in route planning” and “respond to a security incident at locations remote from the core of operations.”
The United States initially used armed drones to conduct strikes in the tradition-al al Qaeda strongholds of Pakistan and Afghanistan, along with areas of Iraq, but has expanded it in recent years to include locations in Yemen and Somalia.
— CNN
Florida troopers reopened I-75 shortly before deadly crashesFlorida authorities had
reopened a section of Interstate 75 barely half an hour before a pileup on the smoke-shrouded highway that killed 10 people over the week-end, a state Highway Patrol spokesman said Monday.
The interstate was closed for about three hours early Sunday, after a pair of late-Saturday crashes on I-75 and nearby U.S. 441, just south of Gainesville, Lt. Patrick Riordan told reporters Monday afternoon. Troopers, state Department of Transportation officials and local sheriff’s dep-uties reopened the road after determining that conditions
were improving, he said.Riordan said the interstate
reopened at 3:26 a.m. Thirty-three minutes later, callers began to report chain-reaction crashes in both the north and southbound lanes of I-75.
“I can’t see anything. It’s so dense — the fog is so dense — and we just hit a guardrail, and I think there was another accident behind us,” the first caller told an Alachua County sheriff’s dispatcher.
The bangs of several subse-quent crashes could be heard in the background of nearly 13 minutes of 911 recordings released Monday. The voices on the calls reflected the fear
and confusion of the predawn scene.
“Here comes another one. He’s coming too fast. Here comes another one. Oh, yep — see, there he goes ... that one was a bad one,” one woman told dispatchers.
In the end, at least 12 pas-senger cars and seven semis were involved in the crash-es. Subsequent fires burned three of the 10 dead “to a point where positive ID has been a hurdle for us,” Riordan said. He said state troopers “did their due diligence” before reopening the road, but, “Sometime after the roadway was reopened, the conditions
changed quickly.”In the wake of the crashes,
he said the Highway Patrol would “review this situation and determine if our process needs to be changed.”
“Certainly, we’re open to that,” he said. But he added, “All drivers need to be prepared to change their driving based on the roadway conditions.”
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he has asked the state Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the circumstances behind the crash, promising to make “any and all resources” available for the investigation.
— CNN
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Serra has been working at The Beanery for two years now and said that he loves to see the variety and assortment of all the people who come in. He enjoys interacting with customers and meeting new people.
“Our company culture is quite a bit differ-ent. It’s a little bit more individual. Our motto is ‘fiercely independent,’ so I think we stay true to that.”
Down the way a couple blocks to 23rd Street is Brew Station. Manager Alex Wylie said that they serve probably about 100-300 cups of coffee a day, depending on the time of year. Though this is the only location, Wylie said they wish to eventually expand.
When Brew Station was established three years ago, they had only five employees. Now they have 25 employees, 23 of which are OSU students.
Wylie said the best seller is their house cof-fee. “We have the best-priced house coffee on Monroe,” he said. “And not only is it the best-priced, but the most premium coffee; it’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters’.”
If customers bring in their own mugs, a house coffee is only $1.10, which goes up to $1.60 if a mug is not brought.
Like The Beanery, Brew Station sees a lot of graduate students and professors, and a smaller number of undergrads. “We have our random customers, and we’re building our client base every day. But we have a very, very large regular crowd that comes in,” Wylie said.
Derek Rau, a senior in chemistry, and Lynsey Barton, a senior in nutrition sciences, both come in pretty regularly. Barton, who normally orders tea, said she loves the heater in one side
of the shop, and that there is usually room. “They have better prices on coffee and better
coffee,” said Rau, who gets the special of the day whenever he comes in. Last week he ordered a caramel macchiato and said it was one of his favorites so far.
“Everything we do is all about our customers,” Wylie said. “We have a three-second greeting rule, and likewise (customers) have to be said ‘thank you’ and ‘goodbye’ to before they leave. All of our staff is very friendly and outgoing. We try to learn all of our customers’ names.”
Brew Station also has a large food menu as well as many different types of beer, both on tap and bottled.
Continuing east on Monroe another few blocks is Dutch Brothers, on the corner of Kings Boulevard. Known for its numerous drive-thru locations, the walk-in Corvallis Dutch Bros. is rare. There is only one other walk-in store, and that’s in Grants Pass, where the company origi-nated, according to manager Brendon Gilbert. The owner of the Corvallis shop is originally from Grants Pass and remembered how much he enjoyed being able to hang out at the store, so he pitched the idea for a walk-in near campus.
Gilbert said the Monroe store serves some-where between 500-1000 customers a day. “We have so many popular drinks, depending on what people like,” he said. “I wouldn’t say any one drink stands out from anything else.”
The customer base at Dutch Bros. ranges wildly. Gilbert said he sees everyone: high schoolers, college students and older professors. “We’ve got an 85-year-old couple that comes in here every day and have their morning coffee together,” he said. “It really depends on the time of day.”
Gilbert said that he thinks Dutch’s service and welcoming environment are what make them
stand out. “We really try to make sure that every-one in here has a great experience,” Gilbert said.
Morgan Rooney, an undeclared sophomore, stops by Dutch because it’s convenient. “It’s just a really friendly environment,” she said.
“It’s a real central place to campus. Lots of people just come in to hang out and meet up,” Gilbert said.
“I like the atmosphere and location,” said Mackie Marinello, a senior in public health. “And it’s cheaper than anywhere else.”
Gilbert finds the best thing about this shop is its relationship with OSU. “We give a lot back to Oregon State because Oregon State gives a lot to us.”
Last on Monroe is Interzone, located on the corner of 15th Street. Owned by William McCanless and his wife Iris, Interzone boasts a large selection of drip coffee. Kelly Tilmanis, a transfer student in nutrition, explained that the house roast is available at all times or that customers can choose a roast that will then be grinded and filtered on the spot in a single serving.
Serving 12-15 pounds of coffee per day, McCanless said his best sellers tend to be either the Rivermud, which is the only blend they carry, or the Ethiopian roast, which he pushes a lot.
The grinds come from Pacifica Coffee, a local-
ly owned and run coffee company, and is com-pletely organic and fair trade.
“It’s definitely the best coffee I’ve had — and I’ve tried other places,” Tilmanis said. She orders the avocado bagel sandwich at least once a week with the Ethiopian roast. “(At) other places you need cream and sugar, but here you can have (the coffee) on its own.”
McCanless said he sees all sorts of people: engineers, professors, college students and a large number of scientists and oceanographers. “We have a really steady and loyal clientele. I feel like our day is built on seeing the same faces day and day again,” he said.
McCanless’s confidence is in their coffee-brewing skills. “I think we know how to brew coffee correctly. I think a lot of places don’t use the right proportions, or the right temperatures of water. But we get complimented on our qual-ity of coffee,” he said. “I have people tell us rou-tinely that our coffee is better than Stumptown.”
Interzone has many food choices, including an extended breakfast menu for the weekends. During the week, they’re open until midnight while school is in session.
“I like how it’s pretty laid back,” said Ryan Schalk, a junior in environmental science. “I come here because of the atmosphere.”
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Aside from it’s variety of coffee and food, Brew Station also has beers— on tap and bottled.
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Siuslaw moves headquarters to campusn Corvallis offers reasonable location
for forest office, university allows employees to interact with students
By Katja KozberThe Daily BaromeTer
The Siuslaw National Forest Headquarters has officially relocated to Oregon State University’s campus.
At 63,000 acres, the Siuslaw National Forest stretches from Tillamook to Coos Bay along the Oregon Coast. It passes through several ecosys-tems, from coastal forests to sand dunes, and has been recognized nationally for more than 100 years.
The headquarters moved to Corvallis several decades ago, originally located downtown before moving to their last location on Research Way in 1985. Corvallis was chosen for the headquarters’ location for several reasons.
On the practical side, Corvallis is central to the Siuslaw district offices, while also being within driving distance of their regional office in Portland. Beyond this, employees enjoy the atmo-sphere of Corvallis and having a connection with the university, which will be made all the stronger by the move.
Siuslaw National Forest publicized their deci-sion to move onto OSU’s campus about a week ago. With the lease expiring on their old location and discovering an opportunity on campus, the headquarters scooped it up and started the mov-
ing process. “We are incredibly excited to move in with
the Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab,” said Forest Supervisor Jerry Ingersoll in a press release announcing the move. “It is a wonderful oppor-tunity to collaborate with researchers and the university.”
Employees were indeed very excited about the move, not only because they get to work near forestry researchers, but also because of OSU’s connection with forestry.
“We have been looking forward to this for quite a while, and we’re happy the day is finally here,” said Joni Quarnstrom, a public affairs officer for the Siuslaw National Forest, right before the big move.
The new headquarters are now located among the forestry labs on Jefferson Way. Since they are next to Peavy Hall, which houses OSU’s depart-ment of forestry, it will be easy for employees of the headquarters to interact with students as well as host lectures or programs. As it is, Quarnstrom mentioned, there is already talk about a speaker session.
The headquarters isn’t just for the forestry stu-dents though, and anyone who is interested can visit the office Monday-Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The front desk has forest permits and recreational passes, as well as maps, books and other things meant to “help everyone understand the natural world a little better,” Quarnstrom said.
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The other cause behind global warming
Townhouses. These Earth-toned structures are popping up everywhere
around Corvallis, since vacancy issues have forced builders to construct narrowly upwards, as opposed to more conventional, wider dwellings. With more on the way, it is not hard to imagine a future when all housing around campus consists of $2,500 per month townhomes. While these may offer more housing options for students, the downsides of this current fad are everywhere.
Seemingly every block of avail-able space in the areas around campus has fallen under the spell of the townhouse. Older residences are being torn down, and once vacant lots are ripped up to make way for the cheaply built sardine cans of student housing. On the outside, they may look like fancy, expensive and desirable dwell-ings. But their odd, narrow and tall layout, close proximity to other townhouses, and the fast manner in which they were constructed mark them as a classic example of quantity over quality. Their design provokes an image of the distinct cookie-cutter homes that dot sub-urbs, not the small-town college feel that Corvallis likes to pride itself on.
The townhouses also maintain certain negative connotations about their residents. Usually, the people who live there are fairly well off, meaning they can afford the rent. And the homes have also become popular options as live-outs for fraternities and sororities. This is nothing against the Greek population, or the more financially well-off, but in general these groups like to party a little more than the average student, which makes many townhouses in Corvallis a hive of bass-bumping, wild Thursday, Friday, Saturday and the occasional Sunday nights. The loud music, yelling, and subsequent trash and broken glass the next day can be a strain on the neighbors, be they students or non-students.
Of course college students would party anyway, regardless of where they lived. But the high density liv-ing offered by the townhouses, as well as amenities such as porches, garages and ease of access from the street makes partying more accessi-ble. From the number of cars parked in the streets and alleys around the
townhouses, it can be deduced that the garages are not always put to their intended use, unless their intended use has always been to house beer pong tables.
These townhouses do serve a distinct purpose though. As Oregon State continues to grow at an unhealthy rate, the surround-ing area has faced a severe short-age of housing opportunities and the Corvallis community has been strained for space with the influx of students. This issue has been beat-en to death as of late, but one of the ways that property owners have tried to combat the problem is to build higher density housing, such as the townhouses.
But if property owners want to help the issue of overcrowding in Corvallis, while still providing qual-ity living options, breeding town-houses around the city like rabbits may not be the best way to do it. Instead of thinking rows of skinny homes, stacking them on top of each other may prove to be the better option. The number of two or three bedroom apartments that could be placed in the space occu-pied by townhouses could provide more housing than the townhomes currently do, and still leave room for ample parking spaces. While they may not have the same curb appeal, or money making capability, apart-ments may be a better alternative to townhomes.
The university’s current unre-stricted growth is a large, conten-tious issue and the impact it is having on the community is some-thing that needs to be addressed. But if the housing problem is to be fixed, it needs to be well thought out through planning and building well-constructed residences. When it comes to where people are liv-ing, quality should not always take a backseat to quantity. Unless you want to party, then just build more townhouses.
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Charles Leineweber is a junior in psychology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Leineweber can be reached at [email protected].
There is still nothing more romantic than to be whirled around
a dance floor, no matter what style of dance. There is also nothing quite so attractive in a prospective partner than a dancing ability, or at least a desire and willingness to dance.
You might be wondering what makes a great dancer. Knowing the steps is impor-tant of course, but the most important thing in a dancer is confidence. Even if you have to fake it a little bit. Nobody cares whether you’re good or bad. If you look like you know what you’re doing and you have fun, you’ll always be asked to dance again.
Part of a dancer’s confi-dence stems from under-standing his or her role in the dance. Traditionally this means that men are the lead-ers and women are the fol-lowers, but before you bite my head off for not being feminist enough, it’s vital to remember that these roles are not set in stone and both of them are equally important.
The leader can also be called the innovator or initiator. His job (yes, these are the typical gender pronouns) is to make something up. Not only does he need to make things up, but he also has to know the steps involved in order to execute things correctly. This requires a good degree of planning because you have to have time to draw the follower into the next step. It also requires some creativity. No one wants to do the same step without any variation.
The follower’s role is equally necessary. As my ballroom dance teacher said, “Ginger Rogers could do everything that Fred Astaire could do, but she had to do it backwards while wearing heels.”
Her job is to make sure everything looks natural and seamless. If she doesn’t imple-ment the leader’s suggestion, then nothing gets done. The follower has to be completely tuned in to her partner so that she can read his body lan-guage and follow it.
Of course, nothing in a
dance can be done at all if the two parts aren’t connecting. It doesn’t matter how great of a dancer you are, if you don’t pay attention to your partner, you’ll both look foolish.
Ballroom dance, or really any partner dance, may seem obsolete in today’s world, but the roles of followers and lead-ers are constantly being pre-sented to us.
In classroom situations, especially the dreaded group project, these roles are overt-ly put into practice and may even be assigned to certain people. After college, job teams are also set into similar hierarchies.
Most people place particu-lar importance on the role of the leader. Scholarships are doled out to people who have demonstrated their abilities as leaders and companies look for this in workers. However, nothing can be done without a follower to put the leader’s ideas into practice.
The follower has a burden to do a great deal of work to make someone’s vision come to life. They often fulfill the motiva-tional needs of a team, under-stand the practical aspects of a goal and are good listeners.
Not everyone can be a lead-er, and not everyone should be a leader. If the world were made up of nothing but lead-ers, then nothing would get done. It takes both parts of a team to make a system work, and no one part is less impor-tant than any other.
Don’t get worked up if you aren’t a natural leader or if you aren’t good at implementing someone else’s ideas. Strive to become the best you can be at your natural role, whatever your gender. If you concen-trate on your strengths, then your team will enjoy a truly spectacular dance.
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Allison Mermelstein is a junior in English. The opinions expressed in her columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Mermelstein can be reached at [email protected].
There is no more denying that global warming is real. Melting ice caps, rising ocean levels, growth of deserts
and increases in global temperatures are all proof that the planet is getting warmer.
However, the debate over the cause of the warming remains. Many scientists argue that artificial expulsion of carbon dioxide and methane from fossil fuel burning and defor-estation are creating an enhanced green-house effect in Earth’s atmosphere, and con-sequently causing warming.
However, I believe that the recent public outbreak to stop global warming is no more than a publicity stunt put on by giant corpo-rations to popularize “anti-warming” tech-nologies. Industry figureheads such Al Gore are preying on the conscience of innocent civilians by using hysteria to manipulate the masses and drive up profit margins.
It soon becomes clear, Gore, that this is a “Convenient Truth.” One so convenient, that according to the The Telegraph, you are poised to become the first “carbon-billionaire.”
This atrocious idea, that Gore and others
are supporting global issues with hidden financial agendas, led me to search for my own answers. After much research, I have come to the conclusion that global warming is caused by Milankovitch climatic oscil-lations — or MCO — and solar cycles, not human greenhouse gas emissions.
First, let’s analyze what Gore and “green-energy” supporters stand to gain. The New York Times report that Gore’s venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, invest-ed $75 million in Silver Springs Networks, an electric grid hardware and software com-pany in 2008. Later in 2009, the Department of Energy passed $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, $560 million of which went to Silver Springs contracts. Conflict of interest? I think so.
Additionally, Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” ranks third in all-time earnings for
documentaries, raking in $49 million world-wide. Gore and others, are direct beneficia-ries of the greatest hoax the world has ever seen.
So if humans aren’t the problem, then what’s cooking our planet?
Matt Dynesius and Roland Jansson, researchers for the National Academy of Science, published a paper titled “Evolutionary consequences of changes in species’ geographical distributions driven by Milankovitch climatic oscillations” in 2000. It states that MCOs are variations that occur every 10,000-100,000 years. Dynesius and Jansson divide MCOs more specifically into the change in the obliquity of the earth’s axis, eccentricity of the earth’s orbit and annual timing of the Earth-sun minimum distance, which consequently affect earth’s climate.
The obliquity of the Earth’s axis refers to the direction the earth’s magnetic poles are oriented. The Earth’s axis can be changed gradually overtime or in massive expositions of nature such as the 2011 Japan earthquake
Corvallis sustainability feesIn October 2010, the Corvallis City Council
approved the Sustainability Initiative Fees, which would go into effect the following
year in February. The “green fees” would go to transit operations, and sidewalk and tree maintenance.
The transit operations fees — which essen-tially provide for free bus transportation ser-vices — cost the homeowner $2.75 and the apartment owner $1.90 a month. As the fee has been scaled according to the price of a gallon of gasoline, the fee will increase this February to $3.73 for homeowners, and by about a 36 per-cent increase for apartment owners and other commercial businesses. Over the past year, the city has collected nearly $880,000, above the amount the city expected at initial passage, $850,000.
Generally, free bus service has been accepted. According to the Corvallis Transit System, rider-ship has increased roughly 40 to 50 percent over the past year, with stark rises over the school months. But for those who use their bike, walk or drive, how does a small additional cost per month benefit them?
For one, a free bus ride — and the proof of increased ridership — means less cars on the road, or at least fewer people taking up lanes if they bike. A small nuisance, but it’s also a small fee. Moreover, as years go by and fees continue to rise incrementally, the bus routes should eventually expand — both in routes and hours of service. It opens up a lot of opportunity even for those who have never used the bus system.
On the other hand, the sidewalk and tree maintenance fees have seen less of an impact. The two fees were to repair damaged sidewalks, and plant, care for, prune and remove trees in parks and along sidewalks. The fees are expect-ed to remain the same as the past year, 80 and 50 cents, respectively.
The sidewalk fees have amounted to roughly $148,000 and the tree fees around $89,000. Neither of which would amount to a visible and physical impact on much of the city. There are plenty of sidewalks needing to be repaved, and there are always trees falling down, crack-ing the sidewalks and generally in need of care. Corvallis Parks and Rec claim to have seen a boost in maintenance calls, but this annual collection alone won’t amount to much change.
Overall, the fees have done — or at least begun to — what they were intended to do: promote sustainability within the city. Tree and sidewalk maintenance may seem trivial, but in reality, so is 80 cents a month.
Nevertheless, some continue to make the point: Sustainability fees are simply a tax. Fees would theoretically bring some benefit or pay-ment for some past grievance to each indi-vidual, while a tax ideally benefits society as a whole, not necessarily individual citizens.
Practically, the sustainability fees are ben-efiting the city as a whole, not every person. But theoretically, we are all individually get-ting something out of it — whether directly or indirectly.
Unfortunately, like most policy, there’s always a good part and bad part, it would seem the best part is the public transit. Sidewalks and trees are hard to notice, or at least hold serious weight on our minds. But the transit benefit alone outweighs the small costs and incremen-tal impact of the other two fees. As of now, only transit operations fees are expected to rise, but the two smaller programs will be evalu-ated within the next three to five years. Maybe by that point, ridership will be doubled from today, and isn’t that the ultimate point of these fees?
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down. I went to grab a cup of coffee at 7 a.m. and nothing. It
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This got me thinking: why had my cof-fee maker of three years stopped working? Were three coffee-maker years consid-ered like 80 in human years? I doubt that. I remember that my parents still had their stereo system that they had bought in the 1970s, and it still worked. We had lugged that stereo system from country to coun-try, spanning three continents. I remem-ber that it weighed a ton, with massive wood and metal components. The speak-ers themselves contained enough wood to start a small housing project. They had been dropped, tilted and sat on, but they still worked and showed no signs of wearing out. I think my parents plan to be buried in them.
So the question that I had was this: why are things wearing out at a much faster rate now than they used to? Is obsoles-cence planned? If a product lasts forever, or an inordinately long time, how would that affect sales?
If you acquired something that ran forever, you wouldn’t need another one, right? But if your product was engineered to break down after so many hours, then you would be forced to replace it and this is where business economics and ethics clash.
Companies plan their products with a specific wear cycle. Many components are now made of plastic that are engi-neered to wear out after a specific amount of time. It would not cost the compa-nies more to produce a product with a
longer life span, but by producing said product, this would — in essence — cost the company more in sales reduction.
In the 1930s, it was proposed to General Electric that flashlight sales would increase if they built a flashlight with a lamp that only lasted through one battery change instead of three. It was the start of a new era in the consumer market — deliberately engineering products to fail. In 1934, the Society of Automotive Engineers proposed that more prof-its could be made if auto-mobiles were designed to have a limited lifespan.
Even today, Gillette has manufactured a shav-ing cartridge with a blue stripe that fades, indicat-ing when the user should replace the blade, regard-less of whether it needs replacing or not.
With this new com-puter age, planned obso-lescence has taken a new turn in the consumer market. Why give consumers a full range of options and software when they can be doled out little by little, forcing consumers to replace cell phones, gaming stations and computers with new ones in order to have access to these products? I can attest to this form of obsolescence — I recently acquired an iPad 2. In order to sync my iPad with my Mac computer, I needed to install iCloud.
In order to install iCloud, I needed to have the OSX 10.7, the latest operating system. Because I had the OSX 10.5, an older version, I had to purchase this new system. The catch? I had to first purchase and install OSX 10.6, then purchase and install 10.7.
Then I had to install Windows 7 because my XP operating system wouldn’t work anymore with the new OSX operating system. The end result? A whopping $250 spent to be able to efficiently run my iPad. Was this contrived by Apple? Absolutely. This form of planned obsolescence cre-ates repeat buyers as we are forced to purchase new systems in order to run new software.
But what about the ethics of delib-erately creating a prod-uct that is designed to fail? With the creation of “disposable products” are we not transforming accountability into an obsolescent concept in itself? Disposable prod-ucts have become a bur-den to the environment; to stimulate consump-tion we are consuming resources at a faster rate and filling our landfills with these “disposable products.”
We have become this “upgraded society” where we discard products for newer, better and faster ones — the byproduct of which is the creation of more pollutants. This is the dark side of obsolescence, if we are not careful, man will be the next obsolescent product, whether planned or not.
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Angela Cail is a sophomore in new media communications. The opinions expressed in her columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Cail can be reached at [email protected].
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They go on to explain that “orbital oscillations cause variation in insulation that, combined with earthbound feedbacks, produce large and rapid changes in tempera-ture and precipitation… The 41,000 and 100,000 oscil-lations cause larger tem-perature changes toward the poles.” According to National Geographic, current tem-perature increases have been recorded closest towards the poles of the earth. Therefore, according to their findings, the current increase in global temperature coincide with MCO theory.
The primary objective of Dynesius and Jansson’s paper is to present a concept called “orbitally forced spe-cies dynamics.” This term explains how the obliquity of
the Earth and the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit affect both the evolution of life on Earth and the survivability of such life. This concept should solve discrepancies in the different geological eras humans have discovered through archeo-logical research.
For instance, according to archeological fossil records, “The mean duration of a species in the fossil record varies among taxa from about one to 30 million years, imply-ing that they possess prop-erties that allow them to survive many Milankovitch oscillations.” According to the United States Geological survey, the Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old. When these two figures are combined, they show that even the most supreme evolutionary beings to ever live on Earth only lived for approximately .02-.66 per-cent of Earth’s total existence.
Based on calculations of species duration (maximum of 30 million years) and MCO
frequency (minimum of every 10,000 years and a maximum of every 100,000 years), the most evolutionary sophisti-cated species to walk the Earth experienced 300-3000 MCO fluctuations before abdicating extinction. According to an article published by Universe Today, humans have been on Earth for about 200,000 years,
but recorded history only dates back 6,000 years. By this same calculation, h u m a n s have expe-r i e n c e d b e t w e e n two and four MCOs.
According to Science Daily, the most mod-ern account of dramatic
climatic fluctuation was the last ice age, which occurred approx-imately 13,000 years ago. This makes sense, because accord-ing to Dynesius and Jansson, MCO fluctuations occur at a minimum of 10,000 years, which strongly suggests that we are entering another phase of heavy MCO fluctuation. By this account, relatively rapid changes in global temperature
and climatic conditions can be attributed not to human causes, but to natural MCO cycles that have been archeo-logically proven to exist.
The Earth has its natu-ral cycles, but so does the sun. According to National Geographic, “Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climatic changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause.” Data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey Missions in 2005, demonstrated that Mars’s southern carbon dioxide ice caps had been melting for three consecutive summers. The warming cannot be explained by the greenhouse effect, simply because Mars has no atmosphere.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, believes simul-taneous warming of Mars and Earth is evidence that our current climate change is caused by the sun. Abdussamatov goes on to state, “The solar irradi-ance began to drop in the 1990s, and a minimum will be reached by approximately 2040…It will cause a steep cooling of the climate on
Earth in 15 to 20 years.” The current symptoms of
global warming we are expe-riencing today are only the lingering effects of a century of high solar irradiance. With solar activity in decline, a cooling phase will set in and give Abdussamatov’s claims empirical support.
According to E.N Parker, author for the scientific jour-nal Nature, the magnetic field of the sun has doubled in the past century and the number of sunspots has dou-bled over the same period of time. By this accord, the ris-ing global temperatures dur-ing the last century are due to this solar variance. The fact that carbon dioxide lev-els are correlated with rising temperatures must therefore be coincidence.
Fossil-fuel emissions and deforestation are prevalent
issues because of their eco-logical impacts with respect to heavy pollution and habi-tat destruction. However, their correlation with global warming is simply a skewed misrepresentation of scien-tific evidence. Natural theo-ries of climatic variance such as Milankovich climate oscil-lations and solar cycles pro-vide explanations for recent warming trends.
Before we condemn our-selves as the most ecologi-cally-destructive species in our planet’s history, let’s edu-cate ourselves on the natural explanations for our planet’s warming, and hence avoid falling into the economical snare set by anti-warming industry leaders.
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U.N. to consider call for Syrian president to step downThe U.N. Security Council this
week will take up a draft resolu-tion proposed by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and trans-fer power.
“It is primarily a straightfor-ward condemnation of what has transpired, a call upon the government of Syria to adhere to the commitments it made,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters about the draft. She noted that it contains no sanctions nor does it threaten the use of force.
State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland said the draft demands the govern-ment end the violence, pull back its heavy weaponry from resi-dential areas, allow monitors to operate freely, release political prisoners and allow the news media to operate.
“This is a regime com-posed of a small minority that is now attacking the major-ity of Syrians,” she said. “It is the regime that bears responsibility for the violence.”
Nuland said U.S. officials have also seen reports “of Iran play-ing a nefarious role inside Syria.” But, she added, “we are not in a position to confirm the accu-racy” of those reports.
The proposal comes after the Arab League suspended a mis-
sion to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agreement to end the crackdown, which has left thousands of civilians dead.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby is sched-uled Tuesday to deliver the monitoring mission’s findings to the Security Council. He and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani will also address reporters.
“A swift reaction by the U.N. Security Council is urgently needed,” said Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council. “I urge all members of the U.N. Security Council to assume their respon-sibilities in relation to the situ-ation in Syria, and adopt steps long overdue in order to bring an end to the repression in Syria.”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called for the council to “send a clear mes-sage of support to the Syrian people: We stand with you.”
“The United States con-demns in the strongest pos-sible terms the escalation of the Syrian regime’s violent and bru-tal attacks on its own people,” Clinton said in a statement. “The longer the Assad regime con-tinues its attacks on the Syrian people and stands in the way of a peaceful transition, the greater the concern that instability will
escalate and spill over through-out the region.”
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe will travel to U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday “in order to persuade the Security Council to fully assume its responsibilities in the face of the increased level of crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the Syrian regime,” according to a state-ment on France’s U.N. delega-tion’s website.
The U.N. Security Council this week will take up a draft resolu-tion proposed by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and trans-fer power.
“It is primarily a straightfor-ward condemnation of what has transpired, a call upon the government of Syria to adhere to the commitments it made,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters about the draft. She noted that it contains no sanctions nor does it threaten the use of force.
State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland said the draft demands the govern-ment end the violence, pull back its heavy weaponry from resi-dential areas, allow monitors to operate freely, release political prisoners and allow the news media to operate.
“This is a regime com-posed of a small minority that is now attacking the major-ity of Syrians,” she said. “It is the regime that bears responsibility for the violence.”
Nuland said U.S. officials have also seen reports “of Iran play-ing a nefarious role inside Syria.” But, she added, “we are not in a position to confirm the accu-racy” of those reports.
The proposal comes after the Arab League suspended a mission to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agree-ment to end the crackdown, which has left thousands of civil-ians dead.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby is sched-uled Tuesday to deliver the monitoring mission’s findings to the Security Council. He and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani will also address reporters.
“A swift reaction by the U.N. Security Council is urgently needed,” said Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council. “I urge all members of the U.N. Security Council to assume their respon-sibilities in relation to the situ-ation in Syria, and adopt steps long overdue in order to bring an end to the repression in Syria.”
— CNN
Iraqi vice president predicts return to sectarian violence
Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has lashed out at Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, predicting that Iraq could soon return to widespread sectarian violence that could require the return of U.S. forces.
“Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimen-sion,” the Sunni vice president told CNN on Sunday during an interview in the semiau-tonomous Kurdish region in the north, where he has fled so that government forces loyal to the Shiite prime minister can-not execute an arrest warrant for him on charges of running a death squad.
He expressed concern that Americans “will face the same problem as they faced in 2003,” when a U.S.-led coalition invad-ed Iraq, toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein and unleash-ing a wave of sectarian violence.
And he said he did not under-stand how U.S. President Barack Obama is able to characterize Iraq as a free, stable and demo-
cratic country.“What sort of Iraq we are talk-
ing about?” he asked. “How the Americans will feel proud? How the American administration is going to justify to the taxpayer the billions of dollars that have been spent and at the end of the day the American saying, ‘Sorry, we have no leverage even to put things in order in Iraq’?”
Though Iraq’s instability may not affect this year’s elec-tion campaign in the United States, “it is going to affect the American interest in the region, and they should be very much concern about that,” al-Hashimi said. “The future of Iraq is grim.”
The arrest warrant for al-Hashimi was issued last year, days after the Sunni majority bloc Iraqiya suspended its par-ticipation in Parliament amid that claims it was being cut out of the political process. The bloc ended that boycott on Sunday as a “gesture of goodwill.” But a separate boycott of the Cabinet remains in place.
— CNN
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This past weekend, the team sent Ryan Sparks and Zach MacDonald, two members of the team, to a FLW tournament at Shasta Lake in California, where they took first place and won $5,000.
The team is hoping to continue with this momentum at their next tournament.
“It gives you a stepping stone for peo-ple who might want to pursue angling or for those who just want to go out and have a good time,” said Zach MacDonald.
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ultimate goal though, of winning a national championship.
“I’m hoping to pin everyone I can, but I think I’ll get at least in the 20’s,” Pena said. “I really just want to help my team, though, and be standing on that podium as a national champion at the end of the year.”
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OSU individual stats Record: Clayton Jack (30-1), Mike Mangrum (30-2), Scott Sakaguchi (29-5), RJ Pena (24-9), Pat Rollins (22-12)Pins: RJ Pena (18), Clayton Jack (13), Mike Mangrum (10), Pat Rollins (8)
Results11/18 Simon Frasier W, 44-611/20 Boise State W, 32-1011/25 Missouri L, 21-1812/10 CSU Bakersfield W, 45-412/11 Cal Poly W, 36-601/08 Arizona State W, 32-1801/15 Wyoming L, 23-2201/20 N. Colorado W, 35-901/22 NDSU W, 20-1301/27 Boise State W, 18-1601/29 Stanford W, 22-14
Pac-12 standings1. Cal 7-2 17-52. Washington 7-2 14-73. Oregon 6-3 15-64. Colorado 6-3 14-75. Stanford 5-4 15-66. Arizona 5-4 14-87. UCLA 5-4 12-98. OSU 4-5 14-79. WSU 3-6 11-1010. ASU 3-6 7-1411. Utah 2-7 5-1612. USC 1-8 6-16
OSU individual stats PPG RPG APGCunningham, J 18.2 3.9 3.0Starks, A 13.6 2.2 2.7Collier, D 13.1 4.7 2.0Nelson, R 9.9 3.1 2.7Burton, J 9.3 6.1 3.0
Last four, next fourLast four:01/14 @ ASU L, 76-6601/19 UCLA W, 87-8401/21 USC W, 78-5901/29 @ Oregon W, 76-71
Next four:02/02 @ Colorado02/04 @ Utah02/09 WSU02/11 Washington
National rankings (top 10)1. Utah2. Arkansas3. Florida4. Georgia5. Oklahoma6. Alabama7. UCLA8. Oregon St.9. Nebraska10. Penn State
OSU ranking by event• Bars (3rd)• Floor (3rd)• Beam (10th)• Vault (18th)
OSU individuals in top 20 Leslie Mak• 1st (beam)• 8th (all-around)• T-8th (bars)• T-12th (floor)
Makayla Stambaugh• T-12th (floor)• T-16th (bars)• 17th (all-around)
Melanie Jones• T-12th (floor)
Olivia Vivian• 13th (bars)
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Pac-12 standings1. Stanford 9-0 18-12. ASU 6-3 15-53. California 6-3 15-64. USC 5-4 10-95. UCLA 5-3 10-106. Colorado 4-5 15-57. OSU 4-5 13-78. WSU 4-5 10-119. UW 3-6 11-810. Oregon 3-6 11-1011. Utah 3-6 10-1012. Arizona 2-7 13-8
OSU individual stats PPG RPG APG
Gibson, A 12.9 4.1 2.9Marchbanks, E 11.7 6.8 3.6Bright, P 9.7 5.5 0.2Martin, A 8.8 3.2 2.1Indendi, S 7.9 4.2 2.9
Last four, next fourLast four:01/14 Arizona L, 58-5601/19 @ UCLA L, 69-6001/21 @ USC W, 65-61 (OT)01/28 Oregon W, 67-60
Next four:02/02 Colorado02/04 Utah02/09 @ WSU02/11 @ UW
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n Sophomore R.J. Pena leads the nation in the pins with 18 a year after redshirting
By Andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer
There aren’t many moments in sports as exciting as a referee counting down as a wrestler forces the shoul-der blades of an opponent against the mat. This much was on display Jan. 20 when Northern Colorado visited Gill Coliseum.
“One!”The energy level raises a couple
notches as each wrestler fights to out-muscle the other.
“Two!”Fans suddenly rise to their feet in
anticipation, and the opponent from Northern Colorado squirms wildly in an effort to break free.
“Three!”The whistle blows and the Oregon
State bench erupts. The Beaver faith-fuls cheer wildly as redshirt sophomore 157-pounder R.J. Pena shakes his beat-en foe’s hand and gives an exuberant fist pump to the crowd before running over to celebrate his record-tying pin for OSU sophomores in a season with his teammates.
In every sport, there’s a type of play that can completely change the momentum of a game. In recent years, Beaver Nation has enjoyed many of these exciting acts of athleticism, whether it’s a spectacular run from Jacquizz Rodgers, a gravity-defying slam-dunk from Jared Cunningham or a monster home run from Andrew Susac.
In wrestling, that play is the pin, and it’s something that Pena has been doing a whole lot of this season.
In fact, Pena not only leads the Beavers in pins, but he leads the entire nation with 18. Considering Pena has an invitational, the Pac-12 Tournament and the NCAA Championships remain-
ing, he has plenty of time to add to his total with the possibility to finish in the mid-20s. He could realistically climb to third all-time at OSU for single-season pins.
“There’s a really amazing legacy in terms of past wrestlers here at OSU, and it would be pretty amazing to be on that list for any record at all,” Pena said. “Pins are such an important part of wrestling, it just makes it that much sweeter.”
The record is coming after a year where Pena redshirted to add the nec-essary weight and strength to move up a weight class from 149 to 157. It’s amazing to think that of the 29 wins Pena was able to accumulate as a true freshman, only 13 were pins.
This year he’s already amassed 23 wins, and all but five of them have been pins.
“I figured he was going to have a good year, but I had no idea he’d get this many pins,” redshirt junior 174-pound-er Cody Weishoff said. “He’s gotten a lot
stronger and he works really hard. He’s only going to get better.”
The scariest part about Pena’s recent wrestling is there is still room for improvement. While he has earned 24 wins on the season, he’s also lost nine matches, most of which have been incredibly close.
If Pena can find a way to rectify his close match struggles, and win with the consistency the coaching staff thinks he’s capable of, there’s no telling how far the Beavers and Pena could go in the NCAA Tournament.
“When he gets on top, he tries to pin people,” head coach Jim Zalesky said. “Sometimes he gets out of position by almost being too aggressive, but he’s looking for the fall and that’s the best thing about him. He’s always look-ing for the pin and maximum team points, which can be the difference in duals.”
Because the No. 17 ranked OSU wrestling team is loaded with talent and top performers in the Pac-12,
Pena is often overshadowed by other wrestlers and storylines.
Three wrestlers for OSU currently have more wins and four have a high-er current ranking than Pena on the season, but Pena has rapidly been adding to his win total in the past few weeks. His continued improvement has given him and the coaching staff high expectations for what’s to come.
“He can be a guy that can win the nationals,” Zalesky said. “That’s his goal and he’s shown he’s capable of it. There are some things he needs to work on here and there, but he’s improving every day, and his goal is to win the national tournament.”
While Pena is out of contention for the overall school record for pins in a season, 40 by heavyweight Howard Harris in 1980, he plans to improve his total and increase his record for a sophomore.
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Club sports at Oregon State: The bass fishing team
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n Team competes against 40 other Division I schools, can win up to $5,000 at tournaments
By Caitie KarcherThe Daily BaromeTer
The state of Oregon is well known for its salm-on, steelhead and trout fishing. Unbeknownst to most, though, is the fact that bass fishing is giving the other fish a battle for popularity.
The Oregon State Univeristy bass fishing team is a clear representative of that.
“A lot of people have gone fishing for trout or salmon, but not bass. It gives you an opportunity to learn more about that specific kind of fishing,” said Dan Hough, coach and co-founder of the OSU Bass Team.
The bass fishing team was founded in 2009. It first consisted of eight members, but has slowly grown to around 14.
The team competes against 40 other Division I schools across the country for a chance to win money, not only for their club, but for their school as well.
If a team places in the top five at tournaments, they can win anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000, which would be split between the school and the club.
The club goes to two main kinds of tourna-ments each year. The first are tournaments against other clubs around the country, whereas the second kind are Forrest L. Wood, better known as FLW tournaments.
Forrest L. Wood was the founder of Ranger
Boats, so FLW Outdoors named the tournaments after him in 1996.
In these tournaments, the club typically sends two to three teams, consisting of two people per team.
Each team then goes out on a boat, accom-panied by professionals who help monitor the fishing.
They are allowed to weigh in five fish per team, and the team with the largest fish wins the tournament.
During the fishing process, the teams are able to keep six fish in the live well. That way, if they catch a bigger fish, they can release one of the smaller ones they have in the well.
After the weigh-in, all fish are released back into their environment.
“This club offers you a great experience. It’s not very often you can fish with professionals and win money for the school,” said club member Colton Thomas. “Here at the bass fishing club, we explore this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
The team also has a Civil War against the University of Oregon twice a year during fall and spring terms. This has been going on since the club was founded.
At the last Civil War, Oregon State was able to beat Oregon to tie up their Civil War series. They are hoping to continue their winning streak against the Ducks this coming spring.
To do so, the team tries to practice as much as they can.
Practicing isn’t always the easiest, but the team prefers spots like the Willamette River and Dorena Lake in Cottage Grove, Ore.
“We all have grown friendships, so when we want to practice it’s more like just going out and fishing wherever we can,” said Nick Layton, sec-retary of the team.
Joining the team is not too difficult. They have some fishing poles and tackle avail-
able to rent for those who want to try fishing before going out and buying their own gear.
The team is also currently working with the
school to try and get more rental gear for students and faculty.
“This is a growing club, and we are always look-ing for new members, even if they haven’t fished before,” Thomas said.
With more tournaments approaching, OSU started off on a high note this term.
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Zach McDonald and Ryan Sparks show off the $5,000 dollar check they won with a first-place finish at a tournament at Shasta Lake. The check is split between the club and the school.
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