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n With a sailor’s mouth, cheerful attitude, Novotny has solidified her maternal role at West

By Drew Wilson-McGrathThe Daily BaromeTer

Concept manager Jayne Novotny, is a person who many consider the heart and spirit of West dining on campus.

Tuesday through Saturday of every week, she arrives at work by 11 a.m. to help open shop.

Her father was a Teamster directly under Jimmy Hoffa, as was her aunt. Novotny cracked a sly smirk as she discussed her father’s work during her youth.

“They all had semis back in the 40s, and my dad ran moonshine all throughout Missouri and Illinois. We lived mostly out on farms or ranches, and that’s probably why I talk the way I talk.”

Not referencing a dialect or an accent when she mentions “talk,” 64-year-old Novotny, much to the enjoyment of her co-workers, has a mouth to rival that of George Carlin. You haven’t heard a dirty joke until you have heard it from a short, rail-thin woman who, despite her pen-sion for snide humor, has become known as the “Grandma” of West Dining Center.

“She is the most feminine male I

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Baseball: Baseball travels to California this weekend.

SPORTS8 –Women’s basketball cruises 7 – Men’s golf preview

NEWS3 – ‘Ancient Americas’ art showing at LaSells Stuart Center

FORUM4 – Message from ASOSU President, letters

24-hour service not a feasible option for campus dining

‘Grandma’ Jayne serves students for 8 years

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Jayne Novotny, pictured above surrounded by student co-workers Jana Boyle, Amy Nelson, Jessica Tucker and Alyssa Lillybridge, has been an employee at West Dining Center since 2004. She makes a goal to befriend students she works with every year.

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The Majestic Theater in downtown Corvallis.

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According to UHDS, law enforcement was called to Cascadia multiple times when the store had later operating hours due to rowdy customers.

n Students want later hours, UHDS argues that they need to meet business needs

By alex HilbornThe Daily BaromeTer

University Housing and Dining Services currently has no plans to offer 24-hour dining services in any of its establishments, despite a slight grumbling of desire from on campus residents.

Complaints have risen due to the logistical concerns of expanding hours.

In order for the dining centers to cover the costs of expanding their hours of operation to running around the clock, UHDS would have to charge students an additional

estimated $300 to what they already pay to live in a residence hall, for just one dining center to stay open all night. For all to remain open, students would have to pay an addi-tional $1,000.

“Over the years, I’ve talked to resi-dence hall boards. In a perfect world, we would have 24-hour dining,” said Richard Turnbull, associate director of Dining Services. “When I put it back to the residence, the answer is nothing.”

The disconnect between stu-dents’ desire for more services for no additional cost and the fact that UHDS must operate as a financially responsible business has created an impasse to implementing additional service hours.

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CGE wants to unionize research assistantsn Union looking to organize

unrepresented employees as it heads into negotiations

By Don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer

The Coalition of Graduate Employees filed a motion last week with the state Employment Relations Board to be recognized as the union to represent all graduate employ-ees. This is after the union collected authorization cards from 485 unrep-resented graduate student employ-ees of the university.

The Coalition of Graduate Employees is the union that repre-sents 950 of 1,600 graduate student employees in labor negotiations with the university. Currently, not all graduate research assistants are rep-resented by the union. The union’s contract with the university stipu-lates that it only covers work that “is in service to the university.” Currently it varies from department to depart-ment whether research assistants are recognized under the contract.

“We have RAs covered by the contract one term and not the next term,” said Mindy Crandall, presi-dent of the Coalition of Graduate Employees, using the acronym for research assistants. “All work should be treated equally by the university.”

Decision cards were signed by 63 percent of unrepresented employees. A decision card is a card stating that the person wishes to join the union and be recognized under the con-tract with the university.

“If we are recognized as represent-ing everyone, we could bargain for

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From Broadway to Corvallis, the Majestic anticipates ‘Rent’n Auditions for musical ‘Rent’, open to anyone

interested, begin at the end of April, callbacks to be made May 2 by invitation only

By kim kennyThe Daily BaromeTer

The acclaimed rock musical that brought HIV/AIDS under the limelight of Broadway is coming to Corvallis. “Rent” is to be performed at The Majestic Theater on SW 2nd Street.

Auditions will be held April 30 and May 1. There are roles for nine men and six women of different ethnic groups. Actors in their late teens to late 20s are encouraged to audition.

Those who audition are asked to prepare a song approximately two minutes in length to be performed the first night of audition. The second night of auditions will include reading from the script and stage movement work.

A free audition workshop to assist those who may have little to no experience with the auditioning pro-cess will be held at The Majestic Theater at 7:30 p.m. on April 16. Callbacks will be held May 2 by invitation only.

Those interested in backstage work are also encour-aged to make an appearance as extra help behind the scenes.

“If you’re interested, come and audition. If you like to sing and you’ve never done a show but you’re inter-ested in “Rent,” come and audition anyway,” said director Robert Leff.

Leff grew up in Corvallis and attend-ed Oregon State University both as a student and director. A longtime mid-valley director, he has directed at Oregon State, Corvallis Community Theater and Albany Civic Theater. He

has been directing since 1962.Despite having opened originally in 1996, Leff says

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Biden speech leads campaign fight for Obama

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday assumed the role of top campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama, harshly criticizing the eco-nomic policies of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum as a threat to the American middle class.

“If you give any one of these guys the keys to the White House, they will bankrupt the middle class once again,” Biden told autoworkers in Ohio, a key battleground state for Obama’s re-election bid in November.

The speech at a United Auto Workers hall in Toledo was the first of four planned in com-ing weeks by the vice presi-dent. It came hours before the Thursday night release of a 17-minute documentary that frames the narrative of the Obama presidency.

With the Republican race remaining competitive among Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and trailing candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, Biden kicked off the most visible effort to date of the Obama campaign to win a second term in the November general election.

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know,” said Dave, her husband of 35 years.

Since 2004, Novotny has worked at West Dining Center, one of several dining facilities on the Oregon State University campus. She started as a temp, and in 2005 was hired full-time to work in the Clubhouse Deli, which provides soups, salads and sandwiches to students — namely residents of Sackett Hall, West International Housing and the Hawley/Buxton/Poling dor-mitory system directly across the street.

“First and foremost, I was just out looking for a job.” Novotny said. “And then I got to know the kids, and I knew God had put me here for a purpose. I belong there.”

Prior to starting her job at West, Novotny made rounds of the greater Willamette Valley, attending high school in both Corvallis and Philomath, where she eventually met her hus-band. The two were tempo-rary nomads of sorts until they ended up in Arizona, where Dave got a job with the Tucson Police Department. While he trained, she worked three jobs at once to help support their two daughters.

Now that their children have families of their own, she and Dave have settled in a Corvallis far different from the one she knew in 1965. But Novotny said she hasn’t had to look far to find “replacement kids.”

“These kids, the ones I work with, or used to and am still friends with, they keep me happy. They keep me young,” she said. “They are giving me a chance to show them about older peo-ple and what kind of sense [of humor] some of us have.”

Those students seem to agree.“She’s like my Oregon grand-

ma,” said Jordan Guerrero, senior in sports science who worked with Novotny for years.

“She’s definitely put a brighter spin on living in Oregon seeing as how it’s gloomy about nine months of the year.”

Swift hands, steady from years of training show horses and holding more jobs than most can count, fly across the food preparation counters every-day as she makes sure to greet her fellow co-workers, many of whom are students at OSU.

Jana Boyl, senior in apparel design, began working along-side Novotny at West Dining Center four years ago, which is when she got her first dose of the notorious humor of “Grandma Jayne.”

“Jayne has definitely acted as a mentor for me,” Boyl said. “I remember seeking her out at work after my first relationship ended. I couldn’t think of any-one better to talk to, because I knew that she would have something to say that would make me feel better. And I was right.”

Many echo this sentiment. In 2009, the RA staff members of the Hawley/Buxton/Poling resi-dential hall units honored her with an award commending her for her invaluable service to the school and her warm attitude toward all students.

A face etched with laughter lines cringes at the mention of some of her “kids” graduating and leaving soon.

A matter-of-fact sense of humor often masks her aware-ness of the type of role she has played in the lives of the students.

“My favorite aspect of her per-sonality is that she can point out the silver lining of any situation or event, while still being the one of the most down-to-earth women I’ve ever met,” Boyl said.

Novotny has seen two chang-es in management since she started at West, one of which she claims was lacking in a lot of direction and compassion for student-workers, a void which she chose to fill.

“Call me a survivor all you want, honey. But they won’t call me a survivor for the next five years or so,” she said.

By “they,” Novotny refers to the physicians who diagnosed her breast cancer last year. During her diagnosis and subse-quent treatment, which includ-ed heavy doses of radiation and chemotherapy, Novotny contin-ued to work, day in and day out, behind the counters in the Clubhouse Deli.

“Until the last week,” Dave said, “She couldn’t quite handle the last week of radiation. And she had just had carpal tunnel surgery before the diagnosis and was recovering from that too.”

Only after two months of nightly closing shifts at West dining, while undergoing cycles of treatment, did she take a few vacation days.

“I was too stupid to lay down,” Novotny said.

“The big thing about what she sees every year is her friends leaving,” Dave said. “I swear to God, every year I come to almost dread that part of the last term. Around graduation, she just goes to pieces.”

Novotny has been traveling and making her home wherever circumstances allow for most of her life. Though eligible to retire in two years, she is looking for-ward to what she jokingly calls “the new ones,” in reference to the incoming class of student workers.

“We’re all equals, honey; I need to be the one to demon-strate by example. It only takes one person for you kids to see that we aren’t all that different,” she said. “I’m different from your grandma, but I’m also sim-ilar. I may have two legs and a lot of gray hair, but does your grandma have two fingers that she uses like this all that often?”

And with that, Novotny sealed the deal with a playful flip of the bird.

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“Rent” is still contempo-rary and brings issues to the table that are never too dated to discuss. “At the heart of the show, “Rent” is about young people finding their way in the world, and that hasn’t changed,” he said.

Written by Jonathon Larsson and based on Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera La boheme, “Rent” follows a group of young artists and musi-cians in New York City’s Lower East Side.

Among the eight princi-ple characters in the play are a transvestite street drummer, filmmaker, performance artist, pub-lic interest lawyer, dancer, struggling musician, com-puter whiz and a wealthy landlord. Thinking of themselves as a family, the group struggles to come to terms with loss, impov-erishment and the trials of love.

“Rent” is not the only production happening at The Majestic Theater. The Majestic Lab program will give access to the smaller 50-seat space of the the-ater for mini-festivals of music, comedy troupes and other public perfor-mances at the rate of $150 per week.

The Majestic is also launching a DIY Corvallis initiative for the main-stage theatre that seats 272. This space is to be available for screenings, lectures, one-night events and concerts. In the future, The Majestic is also hoping to establish LGBT and bilingual programs.

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Current cultural art show brings more success than years pastn Bigger audience, more

submissions, higher quality all contribute to a better exhibit

By James shrieveThe Daily BaromeTer

The Giustina Gallery is holding its Annual Cultural Art Show for the third year running with the theme of the Ancient Americas.

The collaborative show is organized and juried by Clark Studios, based in Roseburg, and the Pegasus and Giustina Galleries are based in Corvallis.

Both the coordinators and the attend-ees of the exhibit have been overwhelmed by the quality and number of pieces involved, as well as the execution of the whole event.

“This year I felt more satisfied with the results than ever before. The responses from attendees have been pretty intrigu-ing and involved,” said Bill Shumway, curator of the Pegasus gallery.

The idea for the show came from Shumway and his daughter’s original cul-tural connection shows which ran for 12 years. Three to four years ago, with a hit from the economy leading to a lack of gallery space, they decided to collaborate with Tina Price and Kevin Clark.

The collaboration between the Pegasus Gallery, Clark Studios and Giustina gal-lery created a larger footprint of artists in Oregon than just in the valley.

“Tina wanted to build stronger rela-tionships with the community within and outside of the valley; this is the drive of the annual show,” Shumway said. “We also wanted people to respond from dif-ferent levels and styles of art, so the sub-ject was made broad enough to include

any visual art.” Kevin Clark, owner of Clark Studios,

decided on the Ancient Americas theme after discussing it with the other gal-lery owners at last year’s exhibition. “The theme was based on what we had access to, namely the ancient American art involved, which all of our studios had access to,“ Shumway said. “We wanted something that would generate enthusi-asm from the artists.”

The theme is a celebration of the Mayan Calendar, “a calendar which uti-lizes art in language, architecture and decorative beauty… eventually attempt-ing to explain our past, present and even imagining a future beyond ourselves,” according to a detailed description of the Ancient American culture that was the fuel for the creative fires of the participat-ing artists. It was insisted that they tie in a modern spin to their pieces.

This year’s show received a wider selection of art and more artists than the previous years. “We received sculp-tures, masks, pottery, oil paintings, water colors, acrylics, wood block prints and textiles. There was a great variety, and not just from professional artists either,” Clark said.

The show was an open call to any artists, yet there were some “who were selected through the gallery that we know can produce quality work,” Price said. “We wanted to represent both the new and seasoned artists equally.”

Each gallery weeded through the sub-missions they received and picked the ones they decided were of the best qual-ity and that conveyed the theme most honestly.

While no student artists made submis-sions, some professors and researchers from Oregon State University did present

pieces. In all, there were 200 pieces from 90 artists.

“100 pieces from down here in Roseburg met with 100 pieces from the valley in Corvallis,” Clark said. “Price and Shumway share contacts and collect the northern artists while I collect the south-ern ones, and we meet together in OSU.”

Originally the art from the Umpqua area was shown in Clark Studios for a couple of weeks, then the selection was brought up to the LaSells Stewart Center with the pieces from the valley for a reception. Almost all of the art is still on display, except for a couple of pieces at the Pegasus Gallery, which reference the show at OSU.

150 people came to view the pre-view show in Roseburg, and local reviews praised the achievements of the artists and organizers.

300-400 people were at the OSU open-ing, where OSU catering “came through with amazing interpretation of the theme,” Price said. “They made things like tamales and whole-grain salads, which really got people in the mood for the artwork.”

Attendance at the gallery has been good, with many large events bringing in people who can also view the art.

The show gave out awards, with five people from the galleries acting as jury. There were between six and eight win-ners each show. Normally there is only one honorable mention, but two had to be given this year.

Five pieces of art have been purchased and much of the gallery is on sale. Two were bought before the opening in the south, and three on the night of the OSU opening.

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“They are kind of inconve-nient, because everyone has different schedules and they don’t fit everyone’s sched-ules,” said Ashley Coke, a freshman in marine biology who lives in the dorms. “It’s not a huge deal for me, just an inconvenience.”

While students might find the hours that they can access food with their meal plans restrictive, UHDS argues it is obligated to balance making services available to students with hourly operating costs.

“It costs about $600 an hour to keep a dining cen-ter open right now,” Turnbull said. “All of our costs are paid for by resident expenses. I do my best to make residence cost-effective.”

For the dining centers to make enough money to stay open during late hours, a suf-

ficient but unlikely amount of foot traffic would need to come through the facil-ity doors. A decent amount of the dining centers’ profits come from cash-paying cus-tomers who most likely would not utilize late night hours.

Even if the financial incen-tive existed for UHDS to offer 24-hour service in one of its facilities, staffing the estab-lishments offers another problem. UHDS employs stu-dents and nonstudents in a six to one ratio. Since most UHDS employees also attend school, working late night hours could adversely affect their academic performance.

“I think for some people, it would work. It would allow them more flexibility. Having shifts open up could be a good thing,” said Daniel Schenk, a senior studying fisheries and wildlife and an employee at West Dining Hall. “We do that and end up losing money, and they end up cut-

ting hours elsewhere. That’s my concern.”

Employee safety is an issue that also arises when asking employees to work late-night hours. According to Turnbull, when Cascadia Market had later operating hours, law enforcement had to make repeated visits to the store to deal with rowdy customers.

As an alternative to 24-hour dining, Turnbull said UHDS has looked into maybe pro-viding a food delivery service to campus residents through the meal plan system. The potential cost of such an oper-ation remains undetermined.

For now, residence hall stu-dents must satisfy their late-night munchies by ordering delivery food from one of the eateries around campus during their evening hours of operation.

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RAs, be able to assist them with grievances and other work-related issues that we can’t now,” Crandall said.

Recognizing research assistants may have an effect on contract nego-tiations, which the univer-sity recently began with the union. The Associated Students of Oregon State University also passed a resolution Wednesday evening requesting that the university recognize research assistants and to show their solidarity with the union in contract negotiations.

The union’s contract with the university expires June 30.

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ASOSU President: Looking beyond the fog

Buffett, Zuckerberg taxes are insulting and unfair

As we come to the end of win-ter quarter, a light of uncer-tainty shines on ASOSU, and

with capricious cause. The report-ing the Daily Barometer has taken to ASOSU is of their own accord, but I realize that much of the progress and successes brought to you by students has been overlooked and at times ignored. As you read the Barometer, hear gossip or see caricatures on social media ridiculing the work that ASOSU has done this year, I implore you to seek out your own information. Be educated. Although I cannot change what people have written, I can at least share that despite the count-less articles the Barometer has written about me and my role as president, I’ve only been interviewed twice! And you wonder where you all get your news from.

As we’re all students, learning and growing in our capacities as student leaders, I ask that you all be informed constituents, seek information from more than one source or even attend a meeting by the Senate, House or visit Snell 149 where the Executive Branch is constantly working to answer your questions. Once you let other people

think for you, write your feelings and with a swipe of a pen lead you to the brink of disillusion, you have given away your power and your unique voice, and have become a raindrop in a sea of ignorance.

With our college careers as expen-sive and time-consuming as they are, you all should want the most from the experience — that is, the intellectual capacity to think critically about the world and issues that surround us. Make every opinion truly your own, stand when you feel you have to and share when you know you need to.

These are the years that mold us into the adults and informed citizens we will become. Just as we’ve seen in the macrocosm of this country, the media plays a big factor in peace-ful conduct between groups, or mass prejudice between people.

I think if there’s one thing the world asks of us, it’s to be our own per-son. Own up to our actions, speak openly and freely and understand the world is our stage and everyone has a

role. Over this past quarter, amid the media coverage of so-called undis-posed leaders and dissension, ASOSU was able to secure the second biggest win to the student movement since the 2009 referendum at Oregon State University.

On the night of March 5, 2012, Salem legislators approved HB 5201 and HB 5202, the two bills that Oregon State needed for construction of the Student Experience Center. As stated, the Oregon University System will be allocated $84 million in Article XI-F bonds, $43 million for the SEC and approximately $9.5 million for the Memorial Union renovations. The Student Experience Center will be the new home for many of the leader-ship, diversity and civic engagement programs currently housed in Snell Hall — programs with missions for the enrichment and support of stu-dent fee-funded programs in our OSU community. And ASOSU was essential in the passing of these bills.

Regardless of the stories the Barometer has reported on ASOSU, in two years, they’ll have a building and floor for student media to hopefully improve their program and level of

journalism. Welcome to the Student Experience Center: brought to you by students who carried the torch even in the most difficult times to be in ASOSU, and secured the future of many programs supporting the expe-rience, development and leadership of many generations of students to come.

For many working at ASOSU, our work is the first thing on our minds when we leave class or begin home-work or go to bed. We must stay constantly plugged in to the many conversations around campus, city of Corvallis and the state capitol ensur-ing that students are aware and pres-ent in key decision-making moments. If campaigns, movements and suc-cesses like the SEC and MU renova-tions are to happen, then this lifestyle of active student justice is how it has to be, and a life choice many of us strive to uphold. Since June 1, 2011, no elected official or staff member in the Executive Branch has quit or resigned. We’ve proven time and time again that we are all in it for the long haul.

For that is the point of ASOSU: to

Gun ban just another step

Slipper slope processWe want to ban smoking, guns,

plastic bottles and just about any-thing that disagrees with our sense of a perfect world.

Unfortunately for the masses, all of these activities are perfectly legal. I’m not saying I want a gun-wielding smoker filling our landfills with plastic bottles, but where do we draw the line? Should we ban cheeseburgers and french fries? Should we ban caffeine?

What about banning alcohol, which is far more dangerous than guns, cigarettes and pollution combined? Maybe we should ban people with low IQs or a history of accidents from driving vehicles. How is it that the majority decides what to ban?

We already have a system for banning things; it’s called legal-ity. If you want to argue OSU is a

private entity that can set its own rules, I would argue that a bar or restaurant is also private property. So how is it that a “public” smoking ban affects them?

Eventually someone will pro-pose a ban that affects your life and you’ll be up in arms, but until then you’ll vote “yes” on anything that you don’t like, despite the fact it may be ignorant or prejudiced.

Our culture needs to step back and reevaluate what it means to be an American. Save your bans for your children and let us live our lives.

Donivan SpharAffiliate Faculty, College of Forestry

Accessible campus possible

Takes collaboration, hard workThis letter is a response to the

front-page article on the Barometer from Thursday, March 15, entitled “AUITF lacks members with dis-

abilities.” We, the leadership of the Commission of the Status of Individuals with Disabilities (COSID) and the Accessible University Initiative Task Force (AUITF), would like to provide a response to the OSU community.

An accessible campus isn’t built in a day; it’s built every day.

It’s built through the collabora-tion, hard work and dedication of students, faculty and staff who have volunteered their time on AUITF and COSID; built through the efforts of Disability Access Services and the Office of Equity and Inclusion; built through the staff in Facilities Services who have risen to the challenge of building facilities that not only comply with the law, but also go beyond com-pliance to provide better access to persons with disabilities.

We are all well aware there are barriers to equal access on-cam-pus. These barriers exist not only

on sidewalks, in buildings and in parking lots, but they also exist in attitudes.

Do not be discouraged. Pessimism doesn’t build ramps; it doesn’t change the hearts and minds of those on campus who don’t believe in the possibility of a universally designed campus. And it sure doesn’t get us the funding we need to address the issues.

It’s important that we as a cam-pus continue to move forward and dedicate our efforts toward access improvements and not toward dis-tractions that get in the way of our goals.

Jennifer GoSSett, Chair, Commission on the Status of

Individuals with Disabilities Dan LarSon

Chair, Accessible University Initiative Task Force GabrieL MerreLL

Interim Associate Director of Accessibility, OEI

The Buffett tax was proposed by Obama to make up for the supposed inequality in

the percentage of income that rich people are taxed. The Buffett tax would establish a 30 percent mini-mum for the wealthy.

Now, with Facebook going pub-lic, the government is implement-ing the Zuckerberg tax, which will charge Mark Zuckerberg and share-holders for the stocks they own in the company. The figure is estimat-ed at $28 billion. Therefore, instead of paying $2 billion in taxes, which is a record, he would have to pay around $3.45 billion in taxes.

If you still don’t think wealthy people pay their fair share of taxes, then read that last sentence again. Zuckerberg has to pay $2 billion in taxes when Facebook goes public, which is more than any one of us will pay in our lifetime. And he will have to pay that this year, and a similar amount next year, and so on ad infinitum.

Are people really that jealous of successful rich people that they want to rip their wealth from them to make things more “equal?” I have some bad news for you: we aren’t equal.

Some people are stronger, faster, smarter, have better self-control and some of us are harder work-ers than others. We are not made equal; this is not a race thing or a culture thing, but rather, a person-to-person thing. Some people are lazy, lack dedication, lack focus and some people have too much empathy. And if you lack this drive to work hard, it doesn’t mean that someone who does have that drive should take care of you.

The media and poverty-strick-en people constantly attack the wealthy for being evil money-hoarding monsters, but remember that they own the companies, fac-tories and all the businesses that give us jobs. If you believe them to be money-hungry devils, then they are going to start cutting jobs to make up for the money they will lose with tax increases.

We owe these people more than

they owe us. Granted, there have been questionable business prac-tices in the past and present, but they do provide us jobs, capital, goods, services and money to enjoy our lives during the hours we aren’t working for the greedy 1 percent.

What America needs for taxes is a simple tax rate, either 10 percent or 20 percent across the board – with very few exceptions to getting out of it. Donations to charities and organizations like that should help to reduce how much you ultimately pay, but not by much.

Now, some people are going to argue that 20 percent of a poor per-son’s income is not the same as 20 percent of a rich person’s income. I will accept that the impact the amount has on either person is sig-nificantly different, but maybe the fact of the matter is people aren’t quite living within their means. If you are only making minimum wage, then maybe you don’t need a $500 cell phone with a $100 month-ly bill. There are many ways people can survive if they accept their situ-ation and live within it rather than trying to live the life of a much wealthier person.

Beyond that, if some would still

disagree with the notion of a flat tax rate, I have to ask: What is each individual’s overall contribution to the United States and Oregon?

I’ll be the first to admit that my contribution is quite low; I have a minimum-wage job in a cafeteria, and the fruits of my labor only help that cafeteria. But Mark Zuckerberg, on the other hand, employs quite a number of people to help keep Facebook up and running so peo-ple around the world can connect with each other. Verizon employs people around the country to make sure your cell phone has service to text during class, search the web, or even call Safe Ride or a cab if you are stranded and alone at night.

The lives impacted by the mul-timillion and multibillion dollar companies do way more than the average occupy protestor. If you take into account the true con-tribution that these millionaires and billionaires provide to the U.S., then they are definitely paying their fair share in taxes.

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Robert Fix is a senior in business. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Fix can be reached at [email protected].

Yeas & NaysNay to these being the last

Yeas & Nays of the term. Nay to the weather this

week. “Rain, rain, go away…And never come back again.”

Yea to March Madness. The excite-ment and utter joy one feels waking up in the morning of the tourney is the greatest feeling one will feel in one’s life. Nothing will top this feeling. Well, maybe your wedding day, or the birth of your first child. Maybe.

Nay to the feeling you feel at the end of the first day when your bracket has been absolutely decimated. It’s as stressful as a wedding. Or a birth.

Nay to all things Dwight Howard-related. Just go away. Somehow, you made Lebron’s “decision” look some-what OK in comparison.

Nay to the end of the Oden era in Portland. At least Blazer fans can look back on all the…Well we can’t think of any good memories. But it could have been worse; you could have drafted Kevin Durant. Look how that turned out. Right? Right? Dodged a bullet on that one.

Yea to Arizona once again prov-ing they are the greatest state in the union. Legislators have put forth a bill that would require women who wish to have their contraception covered by their health insurance plans to prove they are taking the contracep-tion for medical reasons. Excellent.

Nay to the breaking news that Arizona no longer has any women under the age of 65, as there as been a mass exodus following the introduc-tion of the bill.

Yea to having choices.Nay to the U.S. Department of

Agriculture announcement that schools can now opt out of the pre-vious mandate which required the schools to stop serving the substance known as “pink slime” in their beef. This is the same substance that is used in dog food and cooking oil, but the USDA says if sprayed with ammo-nia, it is fit for human consumption. Sure.

Nay to ASOSU. We were expect-ing another spectacular show this week, but instead, members showed up and we were subjected to rea-sonable debate and smart decisions. Bummer.

Yea to giving voice to those who feel mistreated by those in the media.

Nay to those pesky facts. Sometimes they just sneak up on you when you’re trying to spin why things are the way they are.

Yea to a new study that shows male fruit flies try to find food spiked with alcohol after they rejected by the tar-get of their affections. Add a dance floor, pre-conquest alcohol con-sumption and this describes a major-ity of the reaction of males have every weekend at bars across the country.

Nay to the males reading this and solemnly nodding.

Yea to the MUPC and KBVR work-ing together to showcase talent. OSU Has Talent Finale takes place tonight at 7 p.m. in the MU Ballroom. You should all go.

Yea to spring break. t

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Social advocates keying in on important inequalities, despite criticismsEvery once in a while, there are times

I just want to grab a social justice 2x4 and whack someone on top of the head

until they agree with me – especially people who think social justice advocates can’t “take a joke,” that they are always “thinking about the negative side of things,” “seeing things that aren’t there” or relying on the good old-fashioned standby of “stop being so sensitive.”

These shoddy claims are faced by all advo-cates of social justice, but recently, I’ve noticed them popping up around the issues of wom-en’s rights and feminism. Between the birth control debates happening in Congress, Rush Limbaugh’s misogynist and hateful ranting and even editorials in our very own Barometer on the sexism in a children’s movie, these same claims keep showing up.

For instance, why anyone is against the idea of feminism is beyond me. The idea that women are equal to men is an idea worth fight-ing for, and any good person who values justice and liberty would support it. But our society is filled with discrimination, both overt and subtle, that even when the experts in the field point these issues out, most of us just tend to stick our fingers in our ears and go, “la, la, la – I can’t hear you!”

Allow me to point out a few facts for you to consider. First, our society has inequalities. We can pick out the really easy inequalities in our society, such as the gap between the rich and the poor. But there are also more subtle gaps, like the inequality between men and women, or between thin and fat. As long as these gaps exist, the playing field between these two par-ties is not equal.

Some people come to the field either having more, or they are treated better than the rest of the players. Again, these can be overt advan-tages – think racism in the deep south in the 1950s – or subtle, like the a man who has a lot of sex has no social stigma, while a female that has a lot of sex is a slut, whore, loose, dirty or

immoral.Second, there is the intention and effect of

a message, and these both have an equal part to play in what we say. Even if a statement is intended as a joke, it doesn’t mean that the effect of that statement no longer matters. In other words, if intention was the only thing that mattered in how we communicated, every joke would be funny since it was intended to be funny, even if the joke flat out sucks.

Just because a children’s movie like “The Lorax” or virtually any other children’s film out there is intended to be all funny, happy and cute doesn’t mean that its effect will be the same. The best jokes are directed toward those who have the power in a group, not those who lack the power of a group.

Third, and perhaps the most important fact, is that the marker for what is or is not discrimi-nation cannot be defined by the group that holds the power in society. Otherwise, the definition of discrimination will always be a moving goalpost that can never be reached.

Males cannot determine what discrimina-tion for females is. Saying that someone is just “too sensitive” about an issue is a way to trivialize the discrimination that takes place.

Finally, even if you can’t see the discrimina-tion taking place, doesn’t mean it’s not there. We view the world through our eyes and brain, and both of these are highly selective, con-stantly filtering organs. What you see as a joke, another person may see as yet more reinforce-ment that society views them as ugly, wrong or a life not worth living.

A person’s ignorance on an issue does not make the issue right or wrong. I have no idea how my car engine works, but I trust and listen to the mechanic when he

tells me when something is wrong. Likewise, I listen to and trust those who study society and discrimination regarding how to make the world a safer place.

To be clear, this does not mean that we sud-denly have to cease all jokes, statements or other social interactions in order to be “politi-cally correct.” Whoever is reading this is prob-ably a good person who does not intend to hurt others or cause offense with your words or actions. Unfortunately, you work in a society that has institutions that do offend and discrim-inate every day, and virtually every moment.

So instead of bemoaning someone when they point out a joke is not funny, or is some sort of “-ist,” listen to them. Don’t brush them off; consider what they have to say, consider the society you live in.

Think about how males get higher pay for the same job a female has. Consider how males can walk across campus at night with no fear for their safety, while females have to carry pepper spray and mace. Think about how a friend’s sexual orientation has become a political chew toy for politicians to use to garner votes. Think about how scary it would be to live in a place where a stranger could follow you in their car, get out and shoot you for looking “suspicious” because of the color of your skin.

The above situations play out every day on our campus, other college campuses and towns and cities all across the nation. We all want them to end, and that will only occur when those with the power sit down and listen.

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Harrison Pride is a senior in microbiology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Pride can be reached at [email protected].

challenge, unite, persevere and carry the dreams of those before us until they become reality. It is a call to ser-vice for students today. All of this non-sensical drama and dissension pales in comparison to the good work of our administration that will be remem-bered for the many years to come, especially once this building is stand-ing beautifully with the name “Student Experience Center.”

Just as I’ve shared this news with you all, I encourage you to ask questions. Seek your own truth, as these are your student fees. Get involved with ASOSU and the MU organizations that were essential to the SEC’s success. This building will be the first on our cam-pus to be named solely after students’ experience. Throughout the country, this building is the first of its kind with a mission to serve students and devel-op leaders of tomorrow — today.

If there’s any truth from this year, it will be in the stature of this building — standing tall above trivial matters and uniting students to become leaders that future generations will respect and appreciate. Be the leader that students love and not despise. Be my dream: a strong, vigilant, genuine and authentic student with a passion for justice, lead-ing OSU in partnership with governing bodies for the betterment and benefit of our community. For that is our col-lective voice in brick and mortar: a building to stand on and look beyond the fog.

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refused to leave a Havana church where they had spent the last three days in hopes of gaining a meeting with Pope Benedict.

The pope is due to travel to the island at the end of the month following a visit to Mexico.

The group described itself as “dissidents” and refused to leave Our Lady of Charity Church after arriving there Tuesday, according to a news release from the Havana Archdiocese.

The Partido Republicano de Cuba organization claimed the people occupying the church were members of the group.

In a phone interview with

CNN en Español Thursday, the group’s director said the orga-nization wants political pris-oners released, greater access to information and freedom to travel.

“We are not trying to tarnish the pope’s visit. We are trying to get the church to serve as a mediator for dialogue between the Cuban government and the opposition,” Vladimir Calderon said. “Really, we can-not find other routes, because the Cuban government, the regime, has not let us have access. ... That’s why we haven’t left the church. That’s why we’ve done it like this, because there is no other way.”

Church officials are trying to negotiate with the group, the archdiocese said, calling the

action an attempt to embar-rass the church before the pope’s visit.

“No one has the right to turn temples into political trench-es,” the church release said. “It’s clearly an illegitimate and irresponsible act.”

In the release, Church spokesman Orlando Marquez said other groups around the country had carried similar protests on Tuesday but then had left those churches

So far, the church said it declined to ask the Cuban gov-ernment to remove the group, the statement said.

The church’s statement was also published Thursday in Granma, the official newspa-per of the communist party in Cuba.

There was no visible police presence outside the church Thursday, and parishioners entered and left the building.

An elderly woman at the entrance to the church said the press was not allowed to enter.

In a statement Thursday, the chairwoman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee called on the pope to meet with critics of Cuba’s govern-ment during his visit.

“It is my hope that Pope Benedict will show his sup-port for the Cuban people by meeting with peaceful dissi-dent groups, including those practicing their faith while bringing attention to human rights violations,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said.

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After a victory in the Fresno State Lexus Classic last week, the Oregon State men’s golf team hopes to take that momentum and chan-nel it into the Bandon Dunes Collegiate Tournament they will be playing this weekend.

The team will be traveling to Bandon, Ore., where they will focus on their putting and keeping a positive atti-tude despite projected poor weather conditions.

“The weather we had this week will be similar to what we will be playing in this weekend, so it is helping us prepare for what we are going to deal with,” assistant coach Tim Sundseth said.

Bandon is known for strong winds and rain, so the team is hoping they can use those elements to its advantage.

“I think we are mentally prepared better than any-one else just because we live in Oregon and play in sub-par conditions on a regular basis,” junior Matt Rawitzer said.

At last year’s tournament, the team had a rain delay on the last day of the tourna-ment. They are hoping the weather can hold up this time around.

The course they are play-ing, Bandon Trails, is also a links course, so they will have to use different techniques than they’d use on most courses.

With abnormally large greens, the team will need to focus on its lag putting.

“When in doubt at Bandon, you have to pull out the put-ter,” junior Nick Sherwood said. “There isn’t much chipping there, so we need to make sure our putting is on and that we have good touch.”

With its win last week, the team is hoping to play con-sistent golf like it did down in Fresno to compete with the other teams this weekend.

“There are some really good teams there this week,” Sundseth said. “If we play our best we could finish in the top of the leaderboard.”

At the Fresno State Lexus Classic last week, Oregon State University was able to finish atop the leaderboard for the second time this season.

The team was able to secure a lead after the first day of 36 holes, with four of its players scoring under par for a team total of a 13-under 707.

“Our practice round was awesome,” Rawitzer said. “Our coach said it was our best practice round of the year, and we got a lot of infor-mation on the course.”

The Beavers were able to hold their first place spot

against the other 15 teams participating in the tourna-ment to come away with the win.

Seniors Jonnie Motomochi and Casey King tied for 12th place with a total of 218 to lead the team.

Not far behind them, senior Alex Moore and junior Rawitzer tied for 14th with 219.

“None of us played phe-nomenal, but we played con-sistently, which got the job done,” Rawitzer said.

OSU hadn’t won a tour-nament since fall season at the Pacific Invitational in Stockton, Calif.

“I think we were a lot more focused,” Sherwood said. “In the practice round we all were concentrating on what we needed to do. Honestly, it was almost predetermined in our minds that we were going to win.”

The team has been real-ly focusing on putting and working on personal goals to try and help the team as a whole.

“Last week was a great team effort,” Sundseth said. “It tested our depth as a team and everyone played great which is what we have really been hoping for.”

The team will focus on tak-ing this last win and carry it over to this weekend in Bandon.

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Stambaugh, an all-arounder, only participat-ed in uneven bars and vault two weeks ago after aggravating a lower leg injury that had been nagging since the early-going in the season. She returned to doing all four events last week. It’s still not perfect, but it’s improving.

“I wasn’t really able to train that hard leading up to [the meet], so I was a little more nervous than usual,” Stambaugh said. “I did my best considering where my body is at, so hopefully I’m feeling a little bit better and this week in practice do a little bit more, so I can feel prepared this weekend.”

Both Stambaugh and the coaching staff fully expect her to get healthier and, barring anything unforeseen, to compete again in all-around.

“We’re just trying to work her way back into where she was and still take care of her body,” Chaplin said.

As Mak said, this final regular season meet will be viewed as a precursor to the postseason. This nationally-recognized OSU squad has high hopes for regionals and nationals and wants to use this as a last big performance heading into the events that have higher stakes up for grabs.

“I feel really good about going into postseason where we’re at,” Mak said. “We’ve had some setbacks this year, but that hasn’t phased us at all. I feel like our team has a lot of heart and we’re really ready to come back and show the country what we’re made of.”

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Prior to the beginning of the intramural men’s basketball playoffs, we ranked our top 10 teams. The playoffs concluded Tuesday night, so it’s time for a follow-up.

1. Lambda Chi AlphaHow far they made it:

ChampionsPre-playoff ranking: 4Comment: Congratulations.

2. Super SoakersHow far: Lost to Lambda

Chi in the All-U championship game (48-33)

Pre-playoff ranking: 1Comment: In their first five

playoff games, they outscored opponents by an average of 19 points. Yet somehow, someway, Lambda beat them by 15 in the championship. Did the Dixon Rec worker who enters the scores in online mess that up or something?

3. Oden’s CrutchHow far: Lost to Super

Soakers in the non-Greek semi-finals (54-44)

Pre-playoff ranking: 3Comment: Played the Super

Soakers much better than HAM Squad did.

4. HAM SquadHow far: Lost to Super

Soakers in the non-Greek cham-pionship (45-23)

Pre-playoff ranking: 2Comment: They’re worthy of

a top-5 ranking, but a 22-point loss in the semis is inexcusable for a team we thought was the second best.

5. DestructionHow far: Lost to Super

Soakers in the non-Greek quar-terfinals (40-27)

Pre-playoff ranking: 7Comment: It’s not that they

did anything too impressive — it’s just they didn’t do anything

to screw up their ranking, like two of the teams initially ahead of them did.

6. Unicorn WarhammerHow far: Lost to HAM Squad

in the non-Greek semifinals (53-50)

Pre-playoff ranking: NRComment: Before you jump

all over us for leaving them out of our initial rankings, let us point out that they beat three unranked teams to get to the semis. But a run to the semis is still a run to the semis.

7. Put The Team On My Back Doe

How far: Lost to Oden’s Crutch in the non-Greek quar-terfinals (43-35)

Pre-playoff ranking: NRComment: Upset No. 5 Soul

Train in the non-Greek Sweet 16.

8. Soul TrainHow far: Lost to Put The Team

On My Back Doe in the non-Greek Sweet 16 (32-30)

Pre-playoff ranking: 5Comment: They beat their

football counterparts — Team 1 — in an intense round-of-32 game. At the end of the day, that’s probably all they cared about.

9. Team PolyHow far: Lost to HAM Squad

in the non-Greek quarterfinals (38-30)

Pre-playoff ranking: NRComment: This all-football

team upset No. 6 Charge It To The Game in the non-Greek Sweet 16.

10. Victorious SecretHow far: Lost to HAM Squad

in the non-Greek Sweet 16 (38-29)

Pre-playoff ranking: 9Comment: They got a bad

draw.

Dropped out of the rank-

ings: Charge It To The Game (6), Coast Ballers (8), Blazers (10)

We’d also like to take this time to congratulate the following winter term intramural champi-ons in various other sports:

- High Fives and Smiles (women’s basketball)

- Big, Girl (co-rec basketball)- Dainamite (water polo)- Lambda Chi Alpha 1

(billiards)- Hi Life (co-rec bowling)- Lambda Chi Alpha (indoor

baseball)

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n Tonight’s last home meet of the season, and the last of Mak and Vivian’s careers

By Warner strausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer

The Oregon State gymnastics team will take the floor in Gill Coliseum for the last time this season on Friday when they host Seattle Pacific University and the University of New Hampshire.

While it will be the last time the Beavers compete at home for the sea-son, it will be the last time that seniors Leslie Mak and Olivia Vivian will per-form in front of the home crowd in their careers at OSU.

For both seniors, the crowd at Gill is an environment they will unquestion-ably cherish for the rest of their lives.

“Before college gymnastics, I didn’t love to perform,” Vivian said. “I didn’t have that desire. I was more scared to perform than excited. Just the fans of Gill have totally switched that around for me, and I think I just owe it to them to give them my best performance this Friday.”

For four years, the two gymnasts

have risen to prominence as some of the best gymnasts in Beaver history, and their time spent here will be appre-ciated by all those who have come to see them perform.

“To see how far they’ve both come, it’s great to watch that,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “They’ve been very solid, competitive and they’ve brought so much to the program.”

The accomplishments these seniors have brought to the team will be missed by the rest of the team too, especially their role as leaders.

“We’re celebrating their careers here at Oregon State, and both of them have made such an amazing impact on all of us,” said junior Makayla Stambaugh. “They’ve been great leaders, great models for a lot of us, and I definitely look up to both of them”

Both Mak and Vivian will be honored at Senior Night after the conclusion of the meet.

Luckily for both seniors, this won’t be their final goodbye as gym-nasts of Oregon State. The Pac-12 Championships are the following week, and then regionals will be during the first weekend of spring term.

“I’m kind of looking at it as the kick-start to postseason,” Mak said. “But I’m definitely going to be emotional just because it’s going to be the last time I’m going to be in front of those amazing fans.”

This Friday’s meet will be looked at

as some reconciliation for the team. In the last two meets – on the road at Utah and then at Denver – the No. 8 Beavers finished second in both meets, which are their only two losses of the year.

“After Denver we had a bit of a debrief – a couple of team meetings,”

Vivian said. “I think that was really key. It was really important to get re-moti-vated and light that fire up.”

Although OSU came in second in Denver, some progress was made on the injury front.

n A fast start in conference play is vital for young Beavers, who begin 3-game series tonight against California in Berkeley

By andrew kilstromThe Daily BaromeTer

In a conference loaded with six schools ranked in the top 25 and ten with winning records, it’s safe to see that getting out to a fast start in Pac-12 play is important.

The No. 25 Oregon State baseball team will attempt to start Pac-12 play with a bang when they travel to Berkeley, Calif. to take on Cal (11-4) in a three-game series beginning tonight.

The Beavers are coming off an impressive show-ing in their home debut, winning three of four games at the Nike College Showcase, including an unexpected seven run comeback win against No. 22 Oklahoma on Sunday.

OSU (11-5) will try to corral the momentum gained from that win and carry it into the upcoming series, knowing that starting out the Pac-12 season with wins is vital.

“Obviously if you get out to a fast start, it helps because you’re not playing catch up,” said head coach Pat Casey. “Last year we got out to a great start and then didn’t finish very well. There’s noisy week-ends in the conference. It’s a complete blood-bath every weekend and we have to play very well to stay in the conference race.”

It’s especially important to start the regular season near the top of the conference because of the young makeup of this year’s team. Five true freshmen start for the Beavers, and four others see significant action coming out of the bullpen. Confidence will likely have a large impact on OSU’s long-term success.

“A lot of winning in the Pac-12 is just baseball and a lot of the Pac-12 is momentum,” said junior out-fielder Ryan Barnes. “Winning on Sunday gives us a good boost, especially for our confidence going into the Pac-12 schedule.”

In addition to ending the preseason on a positive note, the pitching staff looked much improved over the past weekend. The starting rotation especially had been inconsistent and shaky going into Friday’s game against West Virginia.

The starting rotation pitched brilliantly, however, considering sophomore lefty Ben Wetzler threw a one-hit shutout in the first game, followed by games in which OSU opponents only scored two and then three runs. Even in the Oklahoma game on Sunday, five of the Sooner’s seven runs were unearned.

“I thought we pitched better,” Casey said. “I thought this weekend we pitched a lot better at home. In particular, I thought [sophomore right hander Dan] Child and Wetzler pitched good in their starts.”

Another reason for OSU’s pitching success was the season debut of freshman star recruit Jace Fry, who made his first appearance as a Beaver after returning from an injury. The lefty provided five solid innings for the Beavers, allowing only one run.

“It was amazing,” said Fry referring to pitching in

Goss Stadium for the first time. “It was really good to get out there, especially after watching them play for a couple of weeks, so I was even more jacked to get out there. Everything’s good and I feel back to nor-mal so I’m excited to get my pitch count up soon.”

Another key for the Beavers against Cal this week-end will be defense. OSU is normally known for its flawless defense, but has looked sloppy in the field so far this year. On Sunday in particular, the defense was a liability when Oregon State allowed five unearned runs on two errors.

“I think we had a bad loss the night before, so it

was just a little bit of a hangover and the excitement to play wasn’t quite there early,” Barnes said. “We’re going to win by pitching and defense and I think our defense will improve.”

The first pitch Friday is scheduled for noon, and OSU then continues the series against Cal with a game Saturday and then Sunday. Wetzler is expected to get the start Friday.

andrew kilstrom, sports writerTwitter: @andrewkilstrom

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Olivia Vivian, pictured here chest-bumping teammate Brittany Harris, is one of two seniors who will perform for the final time at Gill Coliseum tonight.

Women advance in WNIT

By Jacob shannonThe Daily BaromeTer

Oregon State’s last NIT outing in 2009 was short and sweet, when they lost to New Mexico in the second round.

This year’s tournament, and first post-season appearance under sec-ond-year head coach Scott Rueck, has the opportunity to last a bit lon-ger than that.

Proving to have put the last few losses behind them, Oregon State (18-12) will advance to the second round of the WNIT tournament after beating UC Davis 66-48 last night in front of 802 at Gill Coliseum.

“Our focus coming into this was playing better than we have the past couple weeks, there’s six games to go and this is just round one,” said junior guard Sage Indendi.

The opening minutes were slow for Oregon State, but persistent defense would put up points the other way. The Beavers scored 12 points off Aggie first-half turnovers.

The Beavers would find them-selves up 10 midway through the first half, but only went into halftime with a three-point lead.

It wasn’t until two back-to-back 3-pointers by Indendi early in the second half that Oregon State would run away with it.

Like their best games during the regular season, Thursday night was a team win. Rueck was willing and able to go to his bench early. Non-starters would account for one-third of the team’s points.

Thais Pinto’s height would be problem for the smaller Mountain West school. The 6-foot-7 junior went 6-for-8 from the field and led the team with 14 points.

“That was obviously an advantage for us, they didn’t have a player over 6-foot-2. Part of it is the defense they run, that’s what they give up,” Rueck said. “They front the post and aren’t as tall as we are. We knew there would be a lot of opportunity for it.”

Junior Patricia Bright, the second tallest player on the court, would add 12 points of her own.

The Beavers will face St. Mary’s in the second round this Saturday, place and time to be determined.

Jacob shannon, sports writerTwitter: @shannon_app

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