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Oregon State University's student-led newspaper since 1896.TRANSCRIPT
n The 100-plus-year-old OSU institution has fallen on hard times, looks to adapt as some call for its elimination
By Don IlerThe Daily BaromeTer
The Beaver Yearbook office is in a forgotten second floor corner of Snell Hall. The walls are lined with yearbooks, arranged chronologically, and with posters from decades past promoting yearbook sales.
A glance at the book spines quickly shows a trend: The newest books are the thinnest. A chart
on the wall tracks sales, showing the team’s goal and sales this year. So far 125 books have been sold.
Beaver Yearbook has been around since the early 20th century, having originally been called “The Orange.” The yearbook, since its beginning, has chronicled happenings around the university, as it changed from Oregon Agricultural College to Oregon State University. From changing fashions to changing clubs, it is a capsule of an ever-chang-ing institution.
But the Beaver has fallen on hard times as of late. Last year, only 168 books were sold, and an external review of student media — of which
Beaver Yearbook is a part — called for the complete elimi-nation of the yearbook.
“The hard-est part is selling the yearbook,” said Samara Simpson, editor of the Beaver yearbook. “It’s normally an easy sell once people know about it, but a lot of people don’t even know it exists.”
This slide toward irrelevancy and diminished sales has been sudden and irreversible over the last four to five years. New social media, like Facebook, has made the idea of a yearbook anti-quated and unnecessary to many students. And with only three paid student staff members to put it together and sell it to a student body of more than 25,000, the staff has been unable to convince many to buy the yearbook.
“The biggest part is just getting people to know about it,” said Carly Chandler, Beaver Yearbook business manager.
Currently the yearbook has submitted three options to the Educational Activities Committee for continued operations. One is to continue operations as they have been, producing only a printed copy. The second is to produce a digital-only copy, having three staff members spending the year documenting and taking photos of events and students. The third would be to produce a digital-only version that would be available to all, and also to print a limited run of 40 copies.
“My original recommendation was Beaver Yearbook had grown past its lifespan and we should look at a digital-only publication,” said Julia Sandidge, director of student media. “But after talking to the library and university archives, we realized that eliminating the yearbook would affect research at the university.”
An external review of student media completed
n OSU Professors held a reception for their photography on Wednesday
By Alice MarshallThe Daily BaromeTer
The current exhibit at Fairbanks Gallery showcases artwork of the five photogra-phy instructors at Oregon State University. Julia Bradshaw, Chris Becerra, Steve Anchell, Harrison Branch and Jim Folts use a variety of processes to express themselves through photography.
A reception was held in Fairbanks Gallery on Wednesday. The event was open to the public and the majority of attendees were students and faculty of OSU. Discussions of processes, content and composition pre-vailed as the artists shared their work with guests.
Bradshaw exhibited a series of works rooted in the concept of the relationship between
books, photography and their ever-developing relationship with society. Her experiments with color and time in her compositions, and her use of inkjet and silver gelatin pro-cesses have produced an entic-ing collection of photographs.
Bradshaw’s exhibit wel-comed attendees as they entered the building. She included a tryptic composi-tion of photographs of stacked books.
“The association with time is all about what photography is,” Bradshaw said. “Upon see-ing them, the viewer will relate to them because of their ori-entation. They are impossibly tall. What I like about photog-raphy is that it causes ques-tions to arise about what is real and not real.”
Bradshaw gave a few hints at her secrets to creating these photographs, but pre-serves the mystery by not giving away t o o m u c h
information and leaving it to the viewer’s imagination. She plays with colors and the nature of their values in her compositions of stacks of worn book pages.
Branch explained his tradi-tional process to guests of the reception. Through use of a sil-ver palladium, Branch creates achromatic compositions that air on abstraction and show-case the intricate patterns that occur in nature. According to Branch, the ancient process is not an easy one.
“I expect to carry 50 to 60 pounds of equipment every time I go out to photograph,” Branch said.
In support of this laborious process, the rewards far out-weigh the load of equipment it requires which is evident in the meticulous details and archival appearance of his work.
“I love to work in the dark room and I will always work this way,” Branch said. “I still love
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The Beaver yearbook office is located on the second floor of Snell hall. The Beaver yearbook has struggled recently, having sold only 168 books last year.
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Beaver Yearbook struggles to stay alive Chinese performances bring cultures togethern Performers from the Henan
Museum of China brought their ancient history to life yesterday with music, danceBy lara von linsowe-Wilson
The Daily BaromeTer
This week, Oregon State University was honored to host a night of Chinese cultural immersion in collab-oration with the Huaxia Orchestra of the Henan Museum. Arranged by the School of Arts and Communication, many OSU students, staff and com-munity members gathered in the LaSells Stewart Center on Thursday for the event.
Throughout the evening, the Huaxia Orchestra performed and so did Kung Fu artists from the Shaolin Temple. Traditional music mixed with the sharing of ancient Chinese history to form a creative environment.
The Huaxia Museum, formed back in 2000, is known for being one of the oldest collections in China.
The performance took place in three parts, beginning with a pre-sentation and concert of authentic ancient instruments. Some of the ancient instruments featured includ-
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ed the ancient Chinese bone flute and chime bells. Costumes worn by the per-formers and the instruments played were exact replicas of those found in ancient Chinese tombs.
A martial arts demonstration by Shaolin Temple Kung Fu artists fol-lowed the concert.
“Their Kung Fu is always fascinat-ing to watch,” said Erin Sneller, music department publicity and events coor-dinator. “It’s very impressive and seems like a combination of martial arts and gymnastics.”
The Kung Fu artists finished their segment with the presentation of ancient and traditional weapons.
The event then concluded with a musical play about the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. During this portion, the performers incorporated audience interaction with prizes for participants.
The travelling performance group consists of more than 20 dedicated per-formers between the ages of 14 and 45.
This show was the group’s second and final performance in Oregon, fol-
lowing a performance at Southern Oregon University earlier this week.
Steven Zielke, one of the head coor-dinators for the visit, has personally been to the Henan Province several times. Zielke has worked hard through-out his time at Oregon State to con-tinue the long standing relationship Corvallis has with the Henan province to make events like this one possible.
“Our relationship with the Henan Province goes back more than a decade and has included numerous cultural exchanges,” Zielke said.
In the spring of 2011, Zielke conduct-ed the OSU chamber choir in Henan province. He also helped coordinate a visit to Oregon State by the Henan Opera during the winter term of that year.
“We have hosted this group here in the past,” Sneller said. “But we have never done anything of this magnitude.”
Sneller was on many planning and advertising committees for the show and was pleased at the large turnout for the event, which included three of Oregon’s state representatives.
“This show is a representative of what Oregon State does best: demon-strate the importance of interpersonal communication between cultures,”
said Corvallis’ state representative Sara Gelser during her opening speech at the event.
Sophomore Christine Thammasouk enjoyed the event, and says she has never been to anything like the Huaxia performance before.
“The whole thing was very excit-ing,” Thammasouk said. “There were new things going on all the time which made it a lot of fun to watch.
“My favorite part was definitely the Kung Fu performers. Their stunts were very impressive. I’d recommend that anyone come see this group the next time they’re around.”
For more information on this event, and to learn about other events being hosted by the department throughout the term, visit their website at oregon-state.edu/cia/music.
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CalendarFriday, Jan. 18MeetingsStudent Diversity Budgeting Board, 10am-1pm, MU La Raza Room. Budget hearing for cultural centers on campus.
Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 4-5pm, MU 110. Budget hearing for cultural centers on campus.
Sunday, Jan. 20MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 2-4pm, MU 206. Addressing Religious Intoler-ance - In observance of World Religion Day, a film describing current day reli-gious intolerance against members of the Baha’i Faith. Refreshments served.
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SpeakersSocratic Club, 7pm, Milam Audito-rium. Dr. Michael Gurney will debate Dr. Austin Dacey on the question, “Does Morality Require God?” Ques-tions taken from audience; debates are always free and open to the public.
EventsOSU Campus Recycling, All day, MU Quad. RecycleMania Kickoff Display. Visit the recycled jellyfish sculpture, bottle igloo and trash display.
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EventsOSU Campus Recycling, All day, MU Quad. RecycleMania Kickoff Display. Visit the recycled jellyfish sculpture, bottle igloo and trash display.
Monday, Jan. 28EventsOSU Campus Recycling, 6-8pm, Recycling Warehouse, 644 SW 13th St. January Repair Fair. Bring your broken bikes, housewares, electronics and clothing; volunteers will help you repair them!
Wednesday, Jan. 30MeetingsSIFC, 6:30pm, MU 212. Weekly meet-ing. Discussion of incidental fee issues and budgets. All students welcome.
Thursday, Jan. 31MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. The Equality of Women - Devotions and discussion on the role women are playing in the progress of the global society.
Thursday, Feb. 7MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Rethinking Prosperity - Devotions and discussion on the meaning of prosperity and our search for it.
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last spring said the program should be eliminated entirely and its disappearance would be missed or noticed by few on the campus. And with miniscule sales, elimination of things such as student portraits, and a staff who say they receive little help from professional staff, it’s not hard to see why such a recom-mendation was made.
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the making,” Simpson said. “It’s hard having the professional staff question us when they know how hard we work.
“When we talk to them, [the professional staff members] say they’re going to help us and have good ideas, but it’s all talk and we don’t see any action,” Simpson said. “Nobody notices there’s a yearbook here.”
Whether the program is elimi-nated or transformed into a digi-tal only publication remains to be seen. But in the meantime,
Chandler and Simpson are determined to meet their sales goals and to make the best year-book they can.
“This used to be a big deal at OSU, it’s been around for 100 years,” Simpson said. “The uni-versity used to be smaller and it used to feel so personal, but now we don’t have the staff to do it. ... It’s impossible to cover 26,000 students.”
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Shaolin Kung Fu, named after the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng City in China, was performed by a group last night at laSells Stewart Center. This genre of Chinese martial art is known for its simplistic style.
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Genetically modified organisms need a closer look
Response to trillion-dollar coin article
The problem is spendingThe trillion dollar coin came
up in this last debate on the fiscal cliff. The debt ceiling debate will happen in February. The Federal Reserve is a private bank with full control over our nation’s monetary system with no real oversight. When our gov-ernment makes a deficit, there must be a loan to pay the deficit. If we cannot find a bank to buy the debt, the Federal Reserve buys it with U.S. dollars that it prints, just like the coin idea.
The more debt the Federal Reserve buys, the more money there is in the economy. This may sound good but with an increase in circulation, prices increase due to increased scar-city of goods. Increased circu-lation will lower the value of the dollar which will eventually cause it to lose its place as the world trade currency. Once that happens, the United States will hyper inflate its currency if mon-etary policy greatly changes.
The problem is the spending. There shouldn’t be any debate on raising the debt ceiling. The debate is what to cut. It is com-mon sense not to pay off your debts by taking out more debt, but our government continues to do so. Both parties are to blame. Even though most peo-ple demonize the Republicans, the Democrat-controlled Senate has not passed a budget since April of 2009. How can a govern-ment even hope to get close to reducing debt when it cannot even pass a budget? Republicans need to cut defense, but our Democrat president insists on increasing military intervention in foreign countries.
In 2006, President Obama said raising the debt ceiling “is a sign of leadership failure,” but most recently he has seemed to flip on this issue, stating that not raising the debt ceiling is “absurd” and “irresponsible.”
Alex VAn looSenior, forest/civil engineering
Manning tables in the quad
You should try a used car lot.Wednesday, Jan. 16, around
noon in the Memorial Union quad, I was stopped by an individual promoting a par-ticular event. I say stopped in a literal sense, as he physically stood between myself and my desired path towards a delicious Bing’s toasted flat bread sand-wich. Already starting off on the wrong foot, pal.
My friends can attest I am bad at disregarding people in the quad, and his mission seemed kind enough, so I pandered.
Then he said it.“I can tell you’re a sports fan,”
he said while acknowledging my San Diego Padres hat, “You know though, you sport guys usually only talk about things like how fast a fastball is, but if you come to our event, we will actually talk about deeper stuff.”
When someone insults me like that, I revoke the attention given. I went to autopilot, as it was the only defense he had as my teeth desperately gritted together to hold in a livid excla-mation of, “You don’t know my life!”
Look, I love my Padres hat and team. As a CHS baseball coach, sometimes I am concerned with how fast a fastball is; but his assumption is indeed incredibly insulting.
I do not have a problem with groups tabling in the quad. I do
Genetically modified organ-isms have been around for thousands of years.
Humans have selected desirable traits for cats, dogs, cattle, plants and several other organisms. Recently, there has been contro-versy over allowing the growth of genetically modified crops, in regards to not only human safety, but cross-contamination with non-modified crops.
According to the Capital Press, farmers and other supporters filed over 6,000 signatures with the Jackson County Courthouse for a petition to ban genetically modified crops from being grown next to organic crops. The fear of cross-contamination is the rea-son behind the ban. While cross-contamination is an issue with genetically modified crops, I do not believe an outright ban on them is the correct approach to solve the issue. Farmers who grow those crops have a right to grow them. If genetically modified crops are their sole crop, then the ban would mean farmers would have to change their whole operation. This may be labor and capital intensive, and indeed time consuming.
What do we do about genetically modified crops?
Again, I do not feel a ban is the right approach to the problem. The appropriate approach is research — we should research the possible effects of these crops on humans as well as with cross-contamina-tion, and whether these effects are worth worrying about.
Through research we can help alleviate or eliminate many of the
controversies surrounding geneti-cally modified crops. Or at least work to improve them. Among the controversies surrounding geneti-cally modified crops are antibiotic resistance transferring from crop to humans and modified crops enhancing peoples allergies.
Recently, labeling has become an issue with genetically modified crops. While it may help inform consumers on what is in the food they eat, labeling doesn’t seem to make much difference in what food people will pick — we all have our preferences. Labels on tobacco and alcohol products don’t prevent people from using them, yet both products kill hundreds, if not thou-sands of people a year.
In addition, if we label geneti-cally modified crops, should we not also require food companies to put accurate nutritional fact labels on their food, and have stricter ingredient lists on highly pro-cessed foods such as doughnuts and candy bars? Why should we just label modified crops?
We must also not overlook the benefits genetically modified crops have already brought us, and what they could do for the human race. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there are sweet pota-toes resistant to a virus in Africa that can decimate the sweet potato
harvest, rice with enhanced vita-mins and iron to combat malnutri-tion, and a variety of plants that can now grow in places historically they could not due to weather and climate restrictions.
Genetically modified crops have many benefits. They have helped animals grow faster, have affect-ed the taste of crops, and made crops pest-repellent and resistant to viruses which may decimate harvests.
We have modified organ-isms genetically for many years through selective breeding — think Mendel’s peas. He was able to map out, genetically, what traits could appear in the offspring pea plants, or which were recessive or domi-nant, and thus developed the prin-ciples of Mendelian Inheritance.
We have selectively bred dogs. Indeed, when we domesticated wolves to become our faithful com-panions we know today, we bred the wolves that demonstrated the tamest attributes. This is evident in a Russian experiment involving foxes during the Soviet era.
Dmitri K. Belyeav, a Russian scientist, wondered if selecting tameness attributes, as opposed to aggressive ones, would result in hormonal and neurochemical changes, according to Scientific American. After a score of tests, only the ones who were the least fearful and did not show aggres-sion were selected for breeding. Over the 40 generations of this experiment, the end result was a group of domesticated, friendly foxes. I bring this up, not to elab-
Yeas & NaysYea to lounging.
Nay to the cold. And all this flu nonsense going about.
One of you is going to make us sick, and we are going to become con-sumptive wrecks unable to do our jobs.
Yea to hosting political demonstra-tions at your house. Who knew you could fit that many people down with the struggle in one place?
Nay to clickers. Seriously teacher, if your mass lecture class was worth attend-ing or paying attention to, we’d show up.
Yea to Chip puns being almost as awesome as Vaz puns.
Nay to not having any more reason to talk about Chip or his silly visor.
Yea to that kid who vomited all over himself at his fraternity’s initiation. You provided us with a week’s worth of up-chuck related chuckles.
Nay to budgets. Our vision now has Excel spreadsheet lines going across it.
Yea to austerity. Nay to “membership only” house
parties. You’re not that cool anyway.Yea to creating new interpretive
dances to 1970’s Nigerian music.Nay to spilling red wine on your
khaki pants while dancing.Yea to reading only 80 pages of the
assigned reading for class and being able to bluff your way through the class discussion.
Nay to increasing tuition. Stop shov-ing the cost on us.
Yea to the new ASOSU “Wear the Square” campaign. We are sick of pay-ing more and more in tuition every year. We encourage you to get involved and to start agitating. We are down with the revolution. We have noth-ing to lose but our obscenely large amounts of debt. Students of OSU unite!
Nay to Marxism. Man was he off.Yea to that drunk couple talking
too loud, carrying on and making out at the bar at McMenamins on Friday night. Way to class up a family establishment.
Nay to never being able to do that because you are always trapped at work conjuring up the news and becoming a bitter old person.
Yea to traveling with friends across campus late at night. Stick to places you know and maintain situational awareness. Tell people where you are going and when you’ll get there. At minimum, stay on the phone with a friend if you are walking late at night. Steer clear of suspicious people and call the police immediately if some-thing happens to you. Stay safe, we don’t like writing about bad things happening in our community.
Nay to creepers and criminals. Yea to catching a quick snooze dur-
ing class.Nay to waking up to discover you
drooled on yourself during your nap. Yea to it being Martin Luther King,
Jr. weekend. Catch up on some sleep, study and do some community ser-vice in honor of the memory of a great American hero.
Nay to the kids who are just going to use this weekend to go on a three-day bender. Stay frosty children.
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n OSU women’s basketball has chance to even conference record with win over Oregon Sunday
By sarah KerriganThe Daily BaromeTer
The Oregon State women’s basketball team has the chance to sweep the University of Oregon in the Civil War series for the second year in a row on Sunday.
The Beavers (8-9, 2-3 Pac-12) played arguably their best game of the season on Tuesday night against the Ducks (2-15, 0-5).
Until the 63-53 Civil War victory, the Beavers had gone on runs that showed their potential, but weren’t able to sustain them over the course of a game. Tuesday, OSU finally put everything together, however, firing on all cylinders in a complete team effort.
“[We are] figuring out we have five people on the floor at a time that can score,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “We have just raised the level of play and expec-tation of ourselves. I thought that game was kind of an accumula-tion of the past two weeks.”
Freshman guard Jamie Weisner’s game-high 22 points, including four makes from behind the arc, and senior center Patricia Bright’s 10 points led the Beaver offense in the win.
The Beavers will need to continue to push the ball and find the open player in their game Sunday against Oregon.
“If we just stick with our game plan, find open people and pass the ball well like we did, we will get open shots and get the same outcome,” said sophomore guard Ali Gibson.
Although the Beavers executed well on both ends of the floor, they did not maintain the same level of intensity for the full 40 minutes. The Ducks made a late run in the sec-ond half, capitalizing on fast-break opportunities.
“It’s a 40-minute game and you play the same way every minute,” Rueck said. “If you blink against Oregon they are going to score in transition. That is just what they do; that’s who they are.”
With one of the best defensive shooting percentages in the Pac-12, Oregon State has been successfully executing its defense, but still have areas to improve upon including
its fast break transition. “We made sure that we worked on getting back,” said
freshman forward Deven Hunter. “Awareness on talking and making sure that we knew who had the ball and where their shooters were at all times.
“We still have some things to fix,” Bright said. “But I felt like our defense was real good so hopefully that carries on until Sunday.”
Bright contributed six of the Beavers’ 10 blocks against the Ducks. That kind of performance will go a long way
n Boise State transfer Hailey Gaspar has been a standout on vault for OSU gymnastics
By Warner strausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer
When Hailey Gaspar decided to transfer from Boise State, the Oregon State gymnastics team knew she need-ed to be targeted.
Gaspar’s specialty is vault. OSU’s worst event (by scores) was vault in 2012. It was the perfect fit.
“When she was looking to transfer we were really excited because she’s a good vaulter,” said associate head coach Michael Chaplin.
And Gaspar has shown immediate results.
In the first two meets of 2013 for the No. 23 Beavers, Gaspar scored a 9.825 (2nd place) in the Cancun Classic on Jan. 4, and a 9.875 (T-1st) in last Friday’s home meet with Ohio State.
“She has so much confidence in her abilities, and that’s great,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “She competes
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play down to its opponent, looking to keep up winning ways
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Entering Saturday’s home dual against Stanford and coming off of two impressive road wins against No. 25 Air Force and No. 15 Wyoming, No. 13 Oregon State is stressing one thing: teamwork.
Even though Oregon State (4-3, 1-1 Pac-12) won 14 of its 20 matches over the weekend, the Beavers aren’t satisfied. As the season inches closer to the Pac-12 Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, OSU expects constant improvement.
“I thought some guys wrestled well, some not as well as you’d like, but I think overall the effort was better and now we just need to get more of a team effort in every weight class,” said head coach Jim Zalesky. “It was good to win but also we saw some things that we need to work on.”
A complete team effort against Stanford (4-8, 0-1 Pac-12) is exactly what Oregon State is look-ing for.
Though the Beavers have had good individual efforts this season, they’ve yet to put together a complete team effort — something Oregon State will need to do if they want to repeat as Pac-12 champions and improve on last year’s 10th-place finish at the NCAA Tournament.
“Everyone’s starting to wrestle good all up and down the lineup,” said No. 4 Chad Hanke, heavy-weight senior. “We haven’t really done that this year and that’s what we’re trying to do this week-end: every wrestler have a good performance.”
Oregon State’s chances at putting together a complete dual for the first time are promising considering the level of competition Stanford provides.
It’s no secret that No. 13 Oregon State and No. 18 Boise State are the top two teams in the confer-ence, and no one else really comes close.
While Stanford has as many dual wins as Oregon State this season with four, the Cardinal also have eight losses against competition not
quite up to par with what the Beavers have faced so far this year.
“I would say that we’re definitely the best [in the Pac-12], just because it’s my team,” Pena said. “But Boise State’s tough, and there’s also some pretty tough teams in the conference. If we wrestle well, I don’t think they’re going to be able to compete with us.”
Oregon State will also be lifted by the opportu-nity to return home to Gill Coliseum. Coming off of a brutal weekend on the road, wrestling in front of their home crowd is something the Beavers are looking forward to.
“We actually have a really good fan base and a lot of people come out to watch us wrestle,” Hanke said. “Wrestling’s not the most popular sport in a lot of other places, so it’s really cool to
have the crowd come out and sup-port us when sometimes we’re trav-elling and wrestling in front of three people in some places.”
While Stanford isn’t as quality an opponent as faced in recent weeks, Oregon State insists on treating the
Cardinal like any other team.OSU knows every match will matter once the
NCAA Tournament rolls around. Preparing like their next match is at nationals is something the Beavers are working on now.
“Our coaches try to instill the philosophy of take every match like it’s an NCAA championship match,” said No. 10 RJ Pena, 157-pound junior. “They want us to warm-up the same, get ready the same before every match, so for every indi-vidual I take it like they’re the best wrestler in the nation.”
“You’ve got to take each match as it is,” Hanke added. “You’ve got to approach each match the same way because that’s how it’s going to be at nationals. You have to warm up the same, wrestle the same, and it doesn’t really matter who you’re wrestling against.”
Oregon State will try to keep its momentum rolling and improve its dual winning streak to three 7 p.m. Saturday, at Gill Coliseum.
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toward a second win over Oregon in five days.
Oregon freshman Liz Brenner gave the Beavers trouble down low on Tuesday and will be a key player for the Ducks again on Sunday. Oregon State will need to lock down the posts and keep the ball out of the paint.
“Their guard-play is really nice, but as a post player I am going to credit the post,” Bright said. “Brenner … is [good] so I know she is going to come out better than she did the first time.”
The Ducks will be motivated after losing a home game to OSU. Momentum is on the Beavers’ side, as they have won two of their last three Pac-12 games. A win Sunday would be big as the team gets into the heart of the conference schedule.
“Coming in and playing as well as we did, and getting another win on the road, especially a Civil war win,” Rueck said. “I feel like we are riding momentum and hopefully we can capitalize that and get another win Sunday and keep progressing.”
sarah Kerrigan, sports reporteron Twitter @skerrigan123
hard … so it’s great to see her come in here and really light up that event.”
On last year’s team, there was an anchor for beam (Leslie Mak), bars (Olivia Vivian) and floor (Makayla Stambaugh/Melanie Jones). There was always a go-to person for three of four events. But that pres-ence was lacking on vault.
“Certainly, to have a really dynamic person on an event helps,” Michael Chaplin said. “Because everybody in front, they know they’ve got a big gun in the back.”
Now after the first two meets of the season, it has been vault leading the way for the Beavers.
“It’s a really different thing to have such a strong vault lineup, because in the past it’s always been our weakest,” said senior Kelsi Blalock.
With team scores of 48.850 and 49.150 on vault for OSU, the addition of Gaspar has been apparent, and vault has been the best event for the Beavers thus far in 2013.
And heading into Saturday’s meet at No. 15 Utah, home of the largest crowd in college gymnastics, Gaspar and the vault lineup will look to continue its early-season success.
Gaspar also competed on floor and beam at Boise State, but it’s vault that shows off her talent as a gymnast.
“I absolutely love competing at vault, all that power going towards one thing,” Gaspar said. “It’s
over really fast, as opposed to competing beam, where you’re competing on four inches and you’re up there for a minute [and 30 seconds].”
Being a transfer and coming to an unknown envi-ronment is never easy, but she actually knew OSU well before she went to Boise State.
“I almost came here right out of high school,” Gaspar said. “It came down to [OSU] and Boise State.”
Aside from the Beavers being one of two finalists, she had connections with a couple of OSU gym-nasts. She competed against Stambaugh, Blalock and freshman Erika Aufiero at the club level in high school.
Blalock shared a story about a competition in the level nine Western Championships, a club gymnas-tics competition when both were in high school.
Blalock and Gaspar were in the same rotation on beam. In Gaspar’s routine, she had two falls. But the judges weren’t paying attention, and Gaspar ended up going again and scoring higher than Blalock.
“I was always bitter about it,” Blalock said. “When she first came here, everyone’s like, ‘Oh how’s Hailey?’ [I responded], ‘She got to go twice on beam. I don’t like her.’”
“A lot of people were mad about that. It’s kind of a
weird, cool story though,” Gaspar added.Blalock is a competitive person, but her statement
was said jokingly.“We ended up going to train at the Olympic
Training Center together and we got to be really close,” Blalock said. “I was so excited when she came here.”
Oregon State and Gaspar are both thrilled about how well the transition went. Gaspar needed a change of scenery, and couldn’t be any happier with being in Corvallis and on this team.
“I had a lot of fun at Boise State, but it was my time to go and it was a good chance for me to finish up at another college,” Gaspar said.
Gaspar and Blalock have been mainstays at the end of the vault lineup and will continue to be throughout this season. Now it’s just a matter of the rest of the rotations catching up to vault.
“Definitely, it’s one of those events right now, that they just relax on and do their thing,” Tanya Chaplin said. “Now we need to get the rest of the events there too.”
Gaspar has only competed in the orange and black for two meets, but the impact has been vital for a team struggling in other areas.
“She’s hilarious and brings so much to the team,” Blalock said. “I don’t think this team would be the same without her.”
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No. 24 UCLA gives OSU fourth straight lossn OSU men’s basketball is
now 0-4 in Pac-12 playThe Daily BaromeTer
For the third game in a row, the Oregon State men’s basketball team played well enough not to get embar-rassed, but not well enough to come away with a win.
It looked like No. 24 UCLA was about to blow the game wide open several times during the second half, but the Beavers (10-7, 0-4 Pac-12) hung in there, only los-ing to the Bruins (15-3, 5-0), 74-64, Thursday night in Los Angeles.
Although the Beavers came out hot, hitting five of their first six shots, they went 5-for-26 to finish out the remaining 16 minutes of the first half. The Bruins took advantage of the Beavers’ shooting drought and never looked back.
On offense, Oregon State was led by junior guard Roberto Nelson, who finished with 17 points while shooting 50 percent from the field.
There were several oppor-tunities for Oregon State to cut into UCLA’s lead but the Oregon State offense often looked stagnant, and the defense just couldn’t do enough to stop UCLA — the best scoring offense in the Pac-12 at 78.5 points per game.
Junior forward Devon Collier had one of his worst games of the season — scor-ing only nine points and
committing five turnovers. That is his lowest point total since Nov. 25, when he scored seven against Montana State. Collier, along with other starting big man Joe Burton,
will surely benefit from the return of sophomore forward Eric Moreland on Saturday against USC.
Notable statistics from OSU’s 74-64 loss to No. 24 UCLA on Thursday night:
64 – Total points scored by the Beavers, the third time in four Pac-12 games they’ve failed to reach 70 points. Last year, OSU scored at least 70 points in 15 of 18 regular season Pac-12 contests.
26 – Points scored by OSU in the first half, the Beavers’ lowest total at halftime of any game this season.
14 – Combined points scored by Ahmad Starks and Devon Collier, their lowest total of the season. They entered the game averaging 27.7 points between the two of them.
7 – Number of field goals made by Roberto Nelson (7-14 FG), his third game this season with at least seven field goals made. All three of those games he’s shot 50 percent or better from the field.
6 – Number of Beavers with at least two turnovers. OSU finished the game with 17 turnovers total.
10 – Points scored by Olaf Schaftenaar, a career high.9 – Three-pointers attempted by Olaf Schaftenaar in 18
minutes of action. Schaftenaar is shooting 30.8 percent from beyond the arc this season.
8 – Combined number of 3-pointers attempted by Roberto Nelson and Ahmad Starks. Nelson is shooting 45.3 percent from beyond the arc this season, and Starks is shoot-ing 41.7 percent.
18 – Minutes played by Langston Morris-Walker, one game after playing 24 minutes versus Arizona. He played more than 13 minutes in just one of OSU’s first 14 games.
2 – UCLA outrebounded OSU by two, making it the fourth straight game the Beavers have been outrebounded.
57.1% - The Beavers’ free throw percentage (8-for-14). OSU entered the game second-to-last in the Pac-12 in free throw shooting at 65.5 percent.
14-9 – OSU’s lead with 4:58 into the game, before UCLA went on an 18-5 run over the next 7:44 to open up an eight-point lead.
19:45 – How much time was remaining in the game the last time OSU trailed by less than 10 points.
GymnasticsWho: OSU @ Utah, with West Virginia and Southern UtahWhere: Salt Lake City When: Saturday, 6 p.m.
WrestlingWho: OSU vs. StanfordWhere: Gill Coliseum When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
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‘Deeply flawed’ Armstrong admits using performance enhancing drugsCalling himself “deeply flawed,” now-dis-
graced cyclist Lance Armstrong says he used an array of performance enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles then followed that by years of often-angry denials.
“This is too late, it’s too late for probably most people. And that’s my fault,” he said in an inter-view with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday night. “(This was) one big lie, that I repeated a lot of times.”
Armstrong admitted using testosterone and human growth hormone, as well as EPO — a hormone naturally produced by human kidneys to stimulate red blood cell production. It increases the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to muscles, improving recovery and endurance.
In addition to using drugs, the 2002 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year admitted to Winfrey that he took blood transfusions to excel in the highly competitive, scandal-ridden world of professional cycling. Doping was as much a part of the sport as pumping up tires or having water in a bottle, Armstrong said, calling it “the scariest” that he didn’t consider it cheating at the time.
The same man who insisted throughout and after his career that he’d passed each of the “hun-dreds and hundreds of tests I took” contended in the interview that he wouldn’t have won without doing what he did. While Armstrong didn’t invent the culture of doping in cycling, he said, he admit-ted not acting to prevent it either.
“I made my decisions,” Armstrong said. “They are my mistakes.”
Armstrong: I was “a bully”The first installment in his interview, which was
conducted earlier this week with the talk-show host, aired Thursday on the OWN cable network and on the Internet. The second installment will be broadcast Friday night.
Armstrong admitted he was “a bully ... in the sense that I tried to control the narrative,” some-times by spewing venom at ex-teammates he thought were “disloyal,” as well as suing people and publications that accused him of cheating.
He described himself as “a fighter” whose story of a happy marriage, recovery from cancer and international sporting success “was so perfect for so long.”
“I lost myself in all of that,” he said, describing himself as both a “humanitarian” and a “jerk” who’d been “arrogant” for years. “I was used to controlling everything in my life.”
The scandal has tarred the cancer charity Livestrong that he founded, as well as tarnished his once-glowing reputation as a sports hero.
Those who spoke out against Armstrong at the height of his power and popularity not only felt his wrath but the wrath of an adoring public.
Now, with Armstrong stripped of endorsement deals and his titles, those who did speak out are feeling vindicated.
They include Betsy Andreu, wife of fellow
cyclist Frankie Andreu, who said she overheard Armstrong acknowledge to a doctor treating him for cancer in 1996 that he had used performance-enhancing drugs. She later testified about the incident and began cooperating with a report-er working on a book about doping allegations against Armstrong.
Armstrong subsequently ripped her, among others. More recently, he said he’d reached out to her to apologize — in what Andreu called “a very emotional phone call.”
“This was a guy who used to be my friend, who decimated me,” Andreu told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night. “He could have come clean. He owed it to me. He owes it to the sport that he destroyed.”
In his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong said he understands why many might be upset that it took him so long to speak out, especially after going on the offensive for so long. He said he’s reached out in recent days to several people, such as Andreu, who publicly accused him of doping and then were attacked — and in some cases sued — by him.
And the former athletic icon also conceded he’d let down many fans “who believed in me and sup-ported me” by being adamant, sometimes hurtful and consistently wrong in his doping denials.
“They have every right to feel betrayed, and it’s my fault,” he said. “I will spend the rest of my life ... trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.”
Years of success and defiance, then a rapid fallThe Texas-born Armstrong grew up to become
an established athlete, including winning sev-eral Tour de France stages. But his sporting career ground to a halt in 1996 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was 25.
He returned to the cycling world, however. His breakthrough came in 1999, and he didn’t stop as he reeled off seven straight wins in his sport’s most prestigious race. Allegations of doping began dur-ing this time, as did Armstrong’s defiance, includ-ing investigations and a lawsuit against the author of a book accusing him of taking performance enhancing drugs.
He left the sport after his last win, in 2005, only to return to the tour in 2009.
Armstrong insisted he was clean when he fin-ished third that year, but that comeback led to his downfall.
“We wouldn’t be sitting here if I didn’t come back,” he told Winfrey.
In 2011, Armstrong retired once more from cycling. But his fight to maintain his clean reputa-tion wasn’t over, including a criminal investiga-tion launched by federal prosecutors.
That case was dropped in February. But in April, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency notified Armstrong of an investigation into new doping charges. In response, the cyclist accused the organization of trying to “dredge up discredited” doping allega-
tions and, a few months later, filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to halt the case.
In retrospect, Armstrong told Winfrey he “would do anything to go back to that day.”
“Because I wouldn’t fight, I wouldn’t sue them, I’d listen,” he said, offering to speak out about doping in the future.
The USADA found “overwhelming” evidence that Armstrong was involved in “the most sophis-ticated, professionalized and successful doping program.”
In August, Armstrong said he wouldn’t fight the charges, though he didn’t admit guilt either.
And the hits kept on coming.In October, the International Cycling Union
stripped him of all his Tour de France titles. Even then, he remained publicly defiant, tweeting a photo of himself a few weeks later lying on a sofa in his lounge beneath the seven framed yellow jerseys from those victories.
Then the International Olympic Committee stripped him of the bronze medal he won in the men’s individual time trial at the 2000 Olympic Games and asked him to return the award, an IOC spokesman said Thursday.
The USOC was notified Wednesday that the IOC wants the medal back, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.
“We will shortly be asking Mr. Armstrong to return his medal to us, so that we can return it to the IOC.”
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Manti Te’o: A linebacker, a made-up girlfriend and a national hoaxIn a little more than three months,
Manti Te’o probably will be drafted by an NFL team and sign a multimillion dollar deal.
Before teams sink that much money into players, they have questions.
With the revelation that the football feel-good story of the year centered on the Notre Dame linebacker’s love for a woman who never existed, many people have questions for Te’o — a lot of questions.
And as each question in the saga gets answered — none publicly by Te’o —- it seems another one, or two, or three, crop up.
One for instance: Who is now behind the one of the Twitter accounts associ-ated with Lennay Kekua, a woman who apparently never lived, let alone die in September before Te’o, who called her his girlfriend, played one of the biggest games of the young season?
A tweet Thursday purportedly from the fictional girlfriend promised she would have a big announcement that would help sort out details of the story, but the tweet was merely a joke about Te’o.
Two other tweets on the page were retweets from the verified account of Te’o.
“@LennayKay I miss you!” a November 6 tweet from Te’o said.
On September 12, Te’o tweeted “@LennayKay you will always be with me wherever I go!”
It was unclear Thursday whether the person Te’o tweeted to in September used it again after reports broke of a hoax or whether someone created a new account with the same user name.
The airing of the bizarre story began Wednesday, when sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing
as a hoax the existence of Te’o’s girlfriend — the one who he said died around the same time as his grandmother while his team marched toward the BCS National Championship Game.
Then Wednesday, the university held a press conference saying Te’o was the victim of a “elaborate hoax.” And Te’o, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, released a statement saying he was embarrassed that he was the victim of a “sick joke.”
The bizarre developments left many wondering if they, instead of Te’o, were led on.
“Te’o’s story that he is completely innocent in this does not really ring true to us,” Timothy Burke, co-author of the Deadspin article, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night.
The hoaxThe story of the girlfriend came to
light in September as Notre Dame con-tinued its improbable undefeated sea-son and Te’o, a relentless tackler, was beginning to emerge as a front-runner for the prestigous Heisman Trophy.
He led the Fighting Irish, amassing double-digit tackle games and becom-ing the face of one of the best defenses in the nation.
In September and October, Te’o told interviewers that his girlfriend and grandmother had died within hours of each other. The girlfriend, a 22-year-old Stanford University student, died of leukemia, he said.
The twin losses inspired him to honor them with sterling play on the field, Te’o said. He led his team to a 20-3 routing of Michigan State after he heard the news.
“I miss ‘em, but I know that I’ll see them again one day,” he told ESPN.
It was indeed a gripping interest story of determination. And the media ran with it.
No one bothered to seek out Kekua’s family until Deadspin, acting on an anonymous e-mail received last week, started poking around.
“What do you do when you first want to know something? You Google it, right?” Burke said on CNN. “And Google searches for ‘Lennay Kekua’ only showed up articles about her dying, and inspiring Mant’i Teo.
“There’s no evidence of her existing in any way, other than, you know, after she had allegedly died. And we thought that was a little weird.”
Te’o’s grandmother died in September, Deadspin said.
But there was no Social Security Administration record of Kekua’s death. The Birth and Death Registration office in Orange County, California, told CNN it had no record of Kekua nor does the county coroner.
Deadspin called mortuaries and funeral homes in Carson, California, where Kekua was reportedly buried — but came up empty.
The website sought out the person whose picture had been presented as that of Kekua and tracked her down.
She was alive, didn’t have leukemia and had never met Te’o.
“That sort of opened everything up,” Burke said.
The revelation prompted the Notre Dame athletics director to call a news conference Wednesday. There was no way for Te’o to know the relation-ship was a hoax because it had been conducted strictly online and on the phone, said director Jack Swarbrick.
The pair had set up several meet-ings, including in Hawaii, where Te’o
grew up — but Kekua never showed, Swarbrick said.
The university said it did not know how many people were in on the ruse.
According to Swarbrick, Te’o received a call from a woman claiming to be his girlfriend in December, telling him she was not dead. Those calls continued, but Te’o did not answer, he said.
The Stanford University registrar’s office told CNN that it has never had a student registered in Kekua’s name or using an alternate spelling.
“Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there’s no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever exist-ed,” Deadspin contends. “There was no Lennay Kekua.”
Her ‘soulful eyes’So, how did the two fall in love?According to the South Bend
Tribune in Indiana — the newspaper of Notre Dame’s hometown, the two met — yes, met — after a football game in Palo Alto, California, in 2009.
“Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te’o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes,” the paper gushed. “They could have just as easily brushed past each other and into separate sunsets. Te’o had plenty to preoccupy himself that November weekend in Palo Alto, Calif., back in 2009.”
The article went on to say: “Lennay Kekua was a Stanford student and Cardinal football fan when the two exchanged glances, handshakes and phone numbers that fateful weekend three seasons ago.”
Te’o’s father, Brian, was quoted in the article: “They started out as just friends. Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that hap-pened to be the time Manti was home,
so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.”
Media reports indicate the parents never met Kekua.
The newspaper said Wednesday it based Teo’s story on information from the linebacker, his family members and coaches — and moved the story to its archives.
Te’o tried to clear things up with a statement Wednesday saying he “developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online.”
“We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by com-municating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her,” he said in the statement.
“To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone’s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating,” the state-ment continued. “It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympa-thies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother’s death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.”
Will the real Kekua please stand up?Late Wednesday, the story took
another twist when ESPN found an NFL player who said he knew Kekua. The player, Reagan Mauia, a free agent, told the sports network that he and Pittsburgh Steelers star Troy Polamalu met her.
“This was before her and Manti,” Mauia told ESPN. “I don’t think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family.”
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So, this brings up the point: Is this proposed ban the right way to deal with those who grow genetically modi-fied crops, and the right direction to take with regards to genetically modified crops? I feel more research needs to be done with regards to the effects of cross-contamination and human health, but an outright ban is a step in the wrong direction if we are to fully develop and understand the benefits of genetically modified crops and organisms.
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Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey skew-ered the National Rifle Association Thursday for referencing the president’s children in a political attack commercial.
Speaking in a press confer-ence, the outspoken gover-nor decried the move as “rep-rehensible” and argued the group lost some credibility by making the ad.
“And I think for any of us who are public figures, you see that kind of ad and you cringe. You cringe because it’s just not appropriate in my view to do that,” he said. “They’ve got real issues to debate on this topic. Get to
the real issues. Don’t be drag-ging peoples’ children into this. It’s wrong.”
Video of his comments were posted on the governor’s official YouTube page.
The NRA ad, which blasts President Obama as an “elit-ist hypocrite,” asks why he opposes the idea of plac-ing armed guards in every school--a proposal pushed by the NRA--despite the fact that his own children attend a school with similar security.
“Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” a narrator says in the 30-sec-ond ad. “Then why is he skep-tical about putting armed security in our schools, when
his kids are protected by armed guards at their school.”
Released Tuesday night, the ad only airs on the Sportsman Channel, but has gained strong media attention, both on the airwaves and online.
Christie, a father of four, said the commercial went too far.
“My children had no choice realistically in what I’ve decid-ed to do with my career and what effect that’s had on their lives,” he said. “The president doesn’t have a choice and his children don’t have a choice of whether they’re going to be protected or not. The real-ity is our lives in American society don’t lead to that, and
I think it’s awful to bring pub-lic figures’ children into the political debate. They don’t deserve to be there.”
Defending the ad, NRA President David Keene said Wednesday on CNN that the ad wasn’t specifically about Obama’s two daughters, but about all children who attend schools with private security.
“What we’re talking about is folks who have protection for their own children...and then pooh-pooh the idea that the average American’s chil-dren shouldn’t have the same sort of protection,” he said on “The Situation Room.”
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Chris Christie rails against NRA, calls ad ‘reprehensible’
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getting my hands wet and the smell of the chemicals. I still love smelling badly when I come out of the dark room.”
Becerra uses a digital pro-cess that, although still in the same family of photography, is different from what Branch prefers. Becerra explains he began his position as a pro-fessor of photography mostly because of his family. As an owner of a photography busi-ness for seven years, his inter-est in the medium is obvi-ously deep-rooted.
“I never thought it would become full-time,” Becerra said. “I tried to perfect my craft as I went along.”
Becerra’s collection of pho-tographs narrates wedding scenes with intimacy and freshness while highlighting moments of the big day with delicate care and amazing clarity. The viewer feels the intensity of the embrace of a newly wedded couple with a dramatic backdrop of tumul-tuous storm clouds.
“Some people tell me that they really like how I photo-shopped those clouds in the back, and they ask, ‘Where’d you find those clouds?’” Becca said. “But those are actual clouds and there really was a storm coming, so it’s all real and I feel like that’s really, part of my style. I’d
rather capture who the peo-ple really are and their true experiences.”
The photo captures the blur of dancers under string lights, exuding the excite-ment of a reception. A photo of a young bride right before the ceremony captures a fra-gility as well as a sense of anxious anticipation.
“Some of my favorite imag-es are brides getting ready,” Becerra said. “I think they’re so honest, and there’s a ner-vous, raw emotion that I real-ly enjoy capturing.”
Contrasting to Becerra’s photos, Anchell’s work showcases another aspect of human culture: tattoos. His images bring attention to commentaries of those who get ink and insight into reasons for expressing their unique personalities.
Anchell, who was unable to attend the reception, has a history of publishing pho-tography books and of con-tributing photos and writing for photography publica-tions. His photos in Fairbanks Gallery are vivid in color, exciting in composition and intriguing in subject matter.
Folts presents a collec-tion of photographs directly reflecting his reaction to the loss of a dear friend, John Maul, the former department chair of the art department.
His exploration and experi-mentation with portraiture
have influenced the series, all taken inside the office of Maul. The objects in his pho-tos capture the essence of the man who knew and spent the most time with them. In one photo, Folts created a pan-oramic shot of the office by fusing multiple shots into one.
Intimate titles and push pins add a sense of familiar-ity and comfort to the series of smaller black and white photos.
“These are objects that intrigued me,” Folts said. “These are heavily stylized, they’re taken out of context from where they were in the studio. Each one has a caption and every one has a very pre-cise number involved. This is an attempt to call attention to the fact that there’s nothing precise about any of this, and in fact all of those numbers are made up. The captions are a collaboration between me and my memory of John and what he might have said about them.”
Guests stood silently and took in the photos as Folts explained them. His work is personal and intimate, invit-ing the viewer to spend time with them.
The exhibit will continue until Feb. 6.
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