the daily barometer jan. 8, 2012
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changesOn a fall day in 1999, the
rotary phone disappeared from our kitchen wall.
The tan AT&T model that had clicked, spun and hung on the wall since I could remember, the one responsible for my first phone call, had been replaced with a push-button phone.
By then, most families already had cordless phones, and the spin-ning dinosaur on the kitchen wall was an even older artifact than the 1988 Chevy station wagon still rust-ing in my family’s gravel driveway 2 miles east of Bend.
The Daily Barometer however is not a rotary phone. This doughty, printed institution has informed and entertained the student body since 1896, back when Grover Cleveland was president and OSU football was only having its fourth season. But like the telephone, it is undergoing iconoclastic changes.
Continuously diminishing adver-tising revenue and restrictive bud-
Don Iler
Editor-in-Chief
Hoping, dancing, fundraising for miraclesn Beavs Helping Kids prepares
for another round of fundraising to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network
By Ryan DawesThe Daily BaromeTer
The Blair family of Corvallis was hopefully awaiting for a bright, happy baby. Nineteen weeks into the pregnancy, however, everything changed.
Linda Blair was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast can-cer and had to undergo emergency chemotherapy. This resulted in the baby, Ava, being born premature only 27 weeks into the pregnan-cy. In any normal situation, Ava’s future looked bleak, but something miraculous occurred. Both mother and daughter survived, and today Ava is a healthy four-year-old girl — thanks to the Children’s Miracle Network along with the funding and support from Beavs Helping Kids, an organization right here at OSU.
“Eleven million kids in the US are treated every year through hospitals partnering with Children’s Miracle Network,” said OSU junior Taylor Nelson, economics major and one of the founders of Beavs Helping Kids. “98 percent of kids needing heart or lung transplants in the U.S. are treated at these hospitals, as are
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Sandra Woods, once a faculty member at oSU, will return with experience as a former engineering dean at Colorado State University.
ASOSU to provide student names, faces for Oregon legislature
New dean of engineering looks to uphold the college’s structure, qualityn Sandra Woods after
experiences in civil, environmental engineering, reunites with OSU
By Vinay RamakrishnanThe Daily BaromeTer
Sandra Woods, an Oregon State University faculty member from 1984 to 2001 is back at OSU as dean of the College of Engineering.
Woods comes to OSU from Colorado State University, where she served as dean of the College of Engineering, head of the depart-ment of civil and environmen-tal engineering, and interim vice provost. She has a background in environmental engineering, with a focus on the fate of contaminants in the environment.
“I’m thrilled. Very happy to be back here,” Woods said. She started her current position as dean on July 30.
The position opened up in November 2011, when Ron Adams, who had been dean of the College of Engineering since 1998, left to become OSU’s executive associate vice president for research.
Scott Ashford, currently head of OSU’s school of civil and construc-tion engineering, served as interim dean during the 2011-2012 school year. A national search culminated in the selection of Woods, who is now the full-time, permanent dean.
“Dean Woods brings a wealth of experience and demonstrat-ed success to OSU,” said Sabah Randhawa, provost and executive vice president, who made the final decision to hire Woods. “I believe she will help advance engineer-ing and computer science — more
broadly STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math], education that is critical to economic growth in Oregon.” Randhawa said.
Woods sees the rapid growth of enrollment in engineering as her greatest challenge as dean.
“I’ve got to do the best job pos-sible with rapid growth in enroll-ment.” Woods said. “We’ve got to remodel, and develop facilities and hire new faculty members.”
She sees her role as helping fac-ulty and staff develop and deliver programs for students.
“It is my hope that we’ll be able to add faculty so we improve the qual-ity of our academic programs and serve the many students who hope to major in the college of engineer-ing,” Woods said.
While Woods is new as dean, she doesn’t foresee any radical changes in the lives of the students and staff of the college of engineering.
“Ron [Adams] was a great dean. Some things will be different. I hope we’ll be able to add new faculty at an even greater rate,” Woods said. “There may be differences in our approach as to how we allocate resources and identify faculty lines.”
The structure of the engineer-ing college isn’t expected to change much either.
“If you have the right people in leadership positions, structure becomes less important.” Woods said.
Dean Woods doesn’t plan on doing any teaching in her new position.
“I spend a lot of time traveling, so I won’t be teaching,” Woods said. “I’ve taught many classes at OSU and Colorado State. It’s since
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n ASOSU prepares to lobby for students, key out priority issues for advocacy with Oregon’s legislative session less than a month away
By Ricky ZippThe Daily BaromeTer
Coming into this summer and fall term ASOSU had one mission along with their regu-lar tasks of service: to register students to vote. Since this goal has been accomplished and a record number of students have been registered across the state, ASOSU begins to look forward in the utilization of their fall term efforts.
Oregon’s legislative session will be opening up for its regular session on Feb. 4, and a large amount of the effort put forth winter term will be focused toward the capitol, where ASOSU can emphasize on higher education funding.
The importance of higher education and the continual decrease in funding needs to become a concern and priority for state politicians, one which will be emphasized not just to fellow students by ASOSU, but by students directly to state representatives in Salem.
“We want to have an event where we can pull in a lot of students and let the legislature know how we feel, and that students do vote and are in need,” said Dan Cushing, ASOSU vice presi-dent. “But we are looking for deliberate action on [the legislature’s] part. We will be building off of the phone banking and the past success we had last term with this term.”
Visits to the capitol, lobbying for student’s needs and the recruitment of students for these trips will begin early in winter term. There will be two ways these visits will take place. One of the visits will be a “day of action,” one large
day in participation with the Oregon Students Association and other member schools where lobbying can be done as a large collective body.
Individual visits by the OSU campus will be made as well. These sessions will be smaller, having four or five students meet with a legis-lature and representative to provide a voice and face for student issues.
However, time will still be needed. As legisla-tures begin to finalize their bills and committees begin to meet with the opening of the 77th State Legislature, a clearer vision still needs to be established.
“In terms of the OSA, we don’t have a specific task at this point in time related to the budget-ing,” ASOSU President Amelia Harris said.
The topics and history of stu-dent issues and lobby prioriti-zations are known even if the specifics of the actual bill num-bers, presented and the final figures for the state budget, are still to come.
The OSA currently has six priority issues to focus on. Improving funding for schools and financial aid, increased funding for child-care and requiring cultural competency among health care providers across the state, including on-campus health care providers, are among the issues outlined by the OSA.
“Schools not Prison” is another one of the OSA’s platforms for 2013 lobbying. This issue will request the state to prioritize the invest-ment of higher education as opposed to contin-ually increasing the state prison budget, which
has doubled since 1980, according to the OSA advocacy information.
“[We are] looking at measure 11 and trying to reform the minimum sentencing laws that cur-rent jurists and judges are bound to in the state,” Cushing said. “[This] is causing our corrections budgets to go up and education budgets to go down.”
While the capitol is still picking up speed, on-campus efforts are being made as well to
help combat the continual lack of funding from the state. Both Harris and Cushing have looked through OSU’s budgets as an institution in attempts to find wastes in spending, and ways to save money across the campus.
“What we found was that there is very little waste at the institutional level,” Cushing says. “The dollars that we do get are squeezed and are being stretched thin. There really isn’t a lot of extra room at all at the campus level. The problem is at the state level. Every year the state is giving less and less
money to higher education.”The issues focused on at the capitol are
expansive, but still only one facet of the Harris-Cushing administration’s plan of action. Issues in regard to international students with aca-demic dishonesty and tuition use, grad students establishing a union, the process in which sex-ual assault cases are handled and the resources given to victims are all areas to be worked on by ASOSU.
‘‘ ‘‘there really isn’t a lot of extra
room at all at the campus level. the problem is at the
state level.
Dan CushingASOSU Vice President
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I’ve been dean that I haven’t taught.”
Adams now serves as execu-tive associate vice president for research.
“I left my post as dean of engineer-ing to help the university achieve one of its top goals: i n c r e a s e d s o c i e t a l impact of the university’s world class assets through engagement with industry and commer-cialization of research results,” Adams said.
Prior to her first stint at OSU, Woods received a bach-elor’s degree in civil engi-neering from Michigan State University, and a master’s and doctorate in civil engineer-
ing from the University of Washington. She worked her way through her education by working at several different consulting firms.
“When working my way through my undergraduate degree, I was a construction inspector and survey crew chief,”
Woods said. As a graduate
student, Woods worked as an e n v i r o n m e n -tal engineer at a Seattle consulting firm.
“I worked on projects related to wastewater treatment and environmental restoration.”
Adams also had a positive outlook for Woods’ tenure.
“OSU engineering has made great progress and [Woods] will help continue that momentum.”
Vinay Ramakrishnan, news [email protected]
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Campus compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was highlighted throughout fall term, will continue to be a focus through-out the duration of the administra-tion. Lobbying efforts will be made in regards to funding for costs related to becoming ADA compliant, but efforts on campus still need to be done.
The passing of “The ADA Compliance Act” by the ASOSU Senate is one need. HR 04.01 asks for the uni-versity’s action in the internal assess-ment of OSU’s campus for ADA viola-tions, including a plan for fixing these
violations. After the ASOSU House of Representatives passed the resolution in the fall, it was stalled in the senate during the last few weeks of the term and was left to wait over winter break. The resolution will go back up for vote in the beginning weeks of the term.
“We need that legislation,” Harris said. “If congress wanted to pass it that would be wonderful, and would make our point even clearer to have their support.”
Progress may have been made on the part of the university’s acceptance of an internal assessment of the OSU campus. The university’s prioritization of campus ADA compliance had been a hang up in the past, and motivation
for ASOSU to bring forth “The ADA Compliance Act” in the first place.
“They are looking at us getting fund-ing for the $2.5 million for the internal review,” Harris said. “However, we are hesitant to say that it’s actually hap-pening in a timely timeframe because of what we have seen related to acces-sibility at this university. I think we are making progress in having the uni-versity recognize that accessibility is a huge issue on campus, but a lot of work still needs to be done.”
One thing learned from fall term is the power of support. Both Harris and Cushing explained how their success-es have been from an amazing staff and group of volunteers who decided
to join in their efforts. With ideas of tuition increases, safety and funding making their way on deck in the state’s political agenda, all built on top of a foundation of a politically active stu-dent demographic. That help will be needed even more this year in order to be successful.
“Sometimes as students we feel like we can’t make that difference, but it really does make a difference,” Harris said. “The more students who want to go [to Salem] we will take, because it is so important that we tell our stories to the legislature of what we struggle with on this campus.”
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88 percent of all child cancer patients.”Since the group’s start one and a half
years ago, Beavs Helping Kids has hit the ground running with a rigorous fundraising campaign to help financially support the Children’s Miracle Network, and children in dire medical need.
“We started up last fall,” Nelson said. “A few others and I did a similar thing in high school, Kids Helping Kids, and we wanted to continue it again in college.”
Several fundraisers are planned for this year. In one effort, food purchases at select-ed campus restaurants will profit Beavs Helping Kids. Also, they provide a way for fundraising teams to register under them, and these teams can organize their own fundraisers for points, potentially winning prizes through Beavs Helping Kids.
The largest event the group holds is their annual dance marathon, set for February.
“The dance marathon is a way of cel-ebrating the year’s fundraising,” Nelson said. “This is a chance for everyone to meet the families we’ve helped, and for the entire campus to see what is happening here.”
The event incorporates food donated by OSU Catering, games, dancing, music and multiple other festivities, entirely made
possible by donations from community members and the hard work of Beavs Helping Kids.
“The kids that we’ve helped love to dance,” said OSU junior Keely Bertak, a nutrition science major and co-fundraising chair of the group. “Seeing them so happy and excited is amazing.”
According to Bertak and Nelson, the group commits time to raising money, sup-porting the kids and the miraculous nature of their lives.
“Getting to see the families that we’ve helped come to the dance marathon and see how excited the kids get is my favorite part,” said Spencer Ross, co-family rela-tions chair of the group. “Regardless of what the kids are fighting medically, they still have an awesome time.”
“While it’s sad to see the struggle the kids have gone through, it’s so inspiring to see how so many people come together to help them,” said Tara Newell, co-fundraising chair.
Such inspiration has driven the group, and they hope to expand much further.
“Our ultimate goal is that the entire cam-pus will unite for these kids,” Nelson said.
Ryan Dawes, news [email protected]
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ad new faculty so we improve the quality of our
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‘‘ ‘‘media is changing rapidly, and the
question everyone is asking is how we
continue to turn a profit while serving our
communities with news and information.
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We must be conscious of where we place blameComing back to our familiar
world of school will be an interesting transition after
this winter break. Not only do we have the usual rehabilitation of studying we so blissfully forgot about, but some major events hap-pened during those four weeks.
Two major shootings occurred, in Oregon and Connecticut respec-tively in time. Not even a week apart, and millions of Americans were left in shock and dismay over the deaths of both children and adults.
I’m almost sure I won’t be the first or last person to write a col-umn referencing these events, but I also don’t want to drone on about gun control, as most of the atten-tion seems to address. In fact, it’s exactly that mentality I want to talk to about, instead of blaming others.
As a child, I was always taught to take responsibility for my actions, and to own up to my mistakes. While often difficult, it was clearly the right thing to do. I quickly learned, while in the short run it seemed like the harder option, in the long run it always made things easier for everyone involved.
When a major incident like this happens, the first reaction of the American people is to ask them-selves, “Who and/or what was responsible for this occurrence?” Almost never, in my 25 years of life, have I heard that question answered, “We all are.” But you know what? We are all responsi-ble anytime something like this happens.
Before you get defensive, please hear me out.
The first thoughts going through your head are probably in the realm of, “How am I at fault for this? I’m not a killer, and I don’t even know these people.”
It all begins with the idea of a society. As individuals, we make up a society— in our case a soci-ety of Americans. Naturally, we’re identified as a part of this group. But when it comes to a negative issue of society, we immediately separate ourselves and place the blame outward. This doesn’t work. We can’t selectively be a part of a group; we’re either part of it or we’re not.
Even worse than blaming others for these issues is blaming inani-mate objects. Blaming the guns for a school shooting is like blaming the iron for burning you when you touch it. It’s the most illogical con-clusion you can come to.
As people, we make choices. And whether we like it or not, our choices are affected by our envi-ronment. If someone feels like his or her only option is to kill people, no matter how irregular their brain chemistry is, there is something wrong with their environment.
It’s easy to conclude we should just blame the parents. This isn’t
right, as parents don’t have com-plete control over a child’s envi-ronment. Even if they did, their parenting is still affected by what they’ve learned from their own environment while growing up.
The Blue Review recently pub-lished a narrative blog from Liza Long, a mother of a child with mental illness. In it, she sympa-thizes with every parent of a child with mental illness, titling her nar-rative, “I am Adam Lanza’s Mother.”
She writes, “No one wants to send a 13-year-old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle ani-mal collection to jail. But our soci-ety, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare sys-tem, does not pro-vide us with other options.”
Now all we’re left to do is blame society. But notice she used the words “our” and “us” As I pointed out both earlier in this column, and in a previous column I wrote entitled, “Society not to blame for our prob-lems,” as a part of society, you are just as much to blame as everyone else. Not only as a part, but as an individual, you are the most pow-erful tool in affecting and improv-
ing your society. There is something to be said
about the perils of always placing the blame on one’s self. Grieving parents often want to blame them-selves for their child’s death, and are encouraged not to in order to move forward. The idea here isn’t to remove the blame completely, but instead to relieve the weight of exclusive fault that makes the parent(s) feel as though they’ve
been wronged. We need to stop
playing the vic-tim. We need to take responsibil-ity for our actions and our society. If something isn’t right, we all need to come together to figure out how to change it. You can even apply this to your day-to-day school life. If you’re struggling in a class, don’t blame the teacher, but don’t completely blame yourself either. Instead, take responsibil-ity for your grade,
and address your struggle with the teacher. As humans, we must work together to solve problems.
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alexander Vervloet is a senior in communications. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessar-ily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Vervloet can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @rantsweekly.
Editor’s note: At the end of last term, several letters to the editor were printed in regards to Ryan Mason’s comic, printed on Nov. 28.
To those criticizing At Random comics:
Seriously?!Where were you “dehuman-
izers” at when there were two articles last term about legal-izing prostitution? I hope you all write Matt Groening, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, also. Or is it okay to dehumanize alcoholics and people of faith? What forum for humor doesn’t draw attention to stereotypes? Aren’t any of you concerned that there wasn’t ethnic diver-sity in the strip? And as for the graphics department, they should be glad at least one of their artists is bound to be syn-dicated. At Random is the best strip the Barometer has seen since I came here in 2009. I wish more people complained about the columns and editori-als, but I suspect most students just flip to the comic — because it is funny.
C. Ammon CheneySenior, Psychology
Plastic bag ban comes
to townWell, the world didn’t
end. With the new year, Corvallis retailers must
adopt a new ban on single-use plastic and non-recyclable paper checkout bags, effective Jan. 1.
Now shoppers must either bring their own reusable bags or pay for recyclable paper bags at checkout. This isn’t an issue for us, but we’ve known this was coming for at least six months.
Between when the bill was passed and approved on July 2, 2012 and now, retailers and shoppers alike have had time to prepare. During the six-month period before the ban officially went into effect, retailers began implementing a 5-cent charge for using plastic and paper bags.
Now it’s the new year, and retailers with more than 50 full-time employ-ees have cleared out their single-use plastic bags and have began charg-ing 5 cents per paper bag. Retailers with less than 50 full-time employees, according to the bill, have until July 1 before they must fully comply with the plastic bag prohibition.
Some questions popped up once the strangeness settled: What about those little bags we put raw meat, nuts or vegetables in? Fortunately, they’re still here. We completely agree with the ban of checkout plastic bags, but no one wants meat juice collect-ing at the bottom of a backpack or reusable tote.
Although this move away from plastic to reusable is economically beneficial, with new policies come new problems. A study updated in 2012 showed reusable bags can carry a common foodborne virus, according to The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Don’t panic. This happens because most people don’t wash their bags after use. A word to the wise, if you’d rather skip your chances of spending the weekend in the bathroom, wipe the inside of your bag down with a dis-infectant — or toss it in the wash. Then let it dry completely. A moist, dark fold is a cozy home for microbial growth.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, nor should it encourage you to lag when adopting reusable bags. If you don’t clean your counter or cutting board after raw meat dripped on it, you can’t expect it to stay bacteria-free.
Though, out of all the cities/towns in the United States, Corvallis is fairly innovative, we aren’t the first to adopt such a ban. Actually, the first place in the United States was San Francisco in 2007. It wasn’t until recently, how-ever, that their law included charging for alternative recyclable paper bags. In 2009, Washington, D.C. unani-mously approved a single-use plastic bag ban, also.
Looking outside our country, China is the most notable adopter of the plastic bag ban. In 2012, after four years of compliance with the ban, China reported saving 4.8 million tons of oil.
The prohibition has come for a good reason. We know how terrible plastic bags are for the environment: they’re harmful to the wildlife, they’re hard to recycle, they don’t break down in landfills and they add to our demand for oil.
The ban has been a long time com-ing, and the trial period is over. So stock up your nickels or buy a reus-able bag.
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these issues is blaming inanimate objects. Blaming the
guns for a school shooting is like
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you touch it. it’s the most illogical
conlusion you can come to.
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n OSU women’s basketball team lost to UCLA 68-64, Bruins’ 14-point run too much to overcome on Sunday
By mitch mahoneyThe Daily BaromeTer
The Oregon State women’s basketball team fell short of pulling off an upset over No. 16 UCLA at Gill Coliseum on Sunday.
The Beavers (6-8, 0-2) were in control for most of the game, until they gave up 14 straight points to UCLA (11-2, 2-0) in the second half. The Bruins would go on to win the game 68-64. It is the Beavers’ fifth loss in a row.
Sophomore guard Ali Gibson scored a team-high 15 points along with six rebounds. Freshman guard Jamie Weisner had a produc-tive day, finishing with 13 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Junior guard Alyssa Martin was
the only other Beaver to reach double-figures in scoring, and she had 11.
“I thought today was a strong performance overall,” said Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck. “UCLA is obviously an extremely tal-ented, well-coached team, and I thought we gave it a big-time effort. We competed like crazy today.”
Oregon State has not beaten a ranked oppo-nent since 2004, but the first half of the game looked promising for the underdog Beavers.
Two early 3-pointers from Martin gave OSU an early lead, but UCLA’s Alyssia Brewer responded with three consecutive layups to give the Bruins a 13-10 advantage.
Oregon State then began piling on points, and went on a 24-9 run over the next eight minutes. The run led to the Beavers’ largest lead of the game, with the score at 34-22.
The Bruins did not go away, though, as they
narrowed the score to 34-29 by halftime.“We executed beautifully in the first half,”
Rueck said. “And it was some of the best bas-ketball we have played to this point. [But] credit UCLA for cranking up the pressure. [They had a] 14-point run at a key moment and that was really the ball game.”
At the start of the second half, the Beavers struggled to get shots off against an aggressive Bruins defense, and they were battling the shot clock on several occasions. One such instance occurred with the score at 41-40.
While the fans in attendance were counting down the final three seconds of the shot clock, Gibson dribbled right, drove into the lane and hoisted an off-balance jumper just before the time expired. The basket counted, and it sent the crowd of 1,161 into a frenzy.
The following inbound pass by the Bruins was stolen, and Weisner was fouled on the play. She
made her two free throws and OSU was up by five. Their lead would eventually reach six before UCLA went on their 14-0 run.
It took a jump shot from Samantha Siegner to end the Beaver’s scoring drought, which lasted nearly five minutes, but it was not enough.
The game remained close until the end, but OSU could not cut the lead to any fewer than three points, before losing by four.
“Winning is a skill,” said Rueck. “And we’re continuing to develop that skill. It’s never a lack of heart with this team. It’s never a lack of effort. It’s a lack of experience sometimes.”
The Beavers turned the ball over 24 times, and eight of those came during their scoring drought.
They will look to cut down on errors before their next game, which is Jan. 11 at Arizona.
mitch mahoney, sports reporteron Twitter @mitchishere
Oregon State’s upset bid over UCLA dashed in second half
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Senior forward e.J. Singler slices through the oregon State defense. The Ducks outscored the Beavers in the paint, 46-26, in Sunday’s victory for oregon. Singler scored 15 points and had nine rebounds.
OSU falls 79-66 to Ducks in Civil Warn Oregon’s late 15-2 run propels
Ducks in win over OSU at Gill Coliseum Sunday night
By alex CrawfordThe Daily BaromeTer
The Oregon State men’s basketball team has been in this position before.
After losing to the University of Oregon, 79-66, in the 338th meeting between the two teams on Sunday night at Gill Coliseum, the Beavers lost their conference-opener for the second year in a row.
Regardless of the similar slow starts to Pac-12 play, head coach Craig Robinson believes there is a big difference between this year’s squad and last year’s.
“This team is better than last year’s team,” Robinson said. “This is the
best team I’ve had us start a Pac-12 season with in five years.”
The Beavers certainly played like an experienced squad at times during Sunday’s home loss, but at other times they looked over-matched and had trouble stopping the Ducks’ inside game. Oregon grabbed 11 more boards than the Beavers, and outscored them 46-26 in the paint.
Robinson had a simple answer for stopping that kind of prolific scoring in the paint.
“Play better defense,” Robinson said. “I actually thought in the first half our defense was pretty good, but in that second half I just thought we got so caught up in the fact that we couldn’t score, we let our defense lapse.”
The Beavers went in with all the
momentum at halftime, leading 34-28 and scoring the final 5 points of the half. It was a tale of two halves, though. Despite the Beavers decent start, the Ducks came out and changed the game in the second half.
“They just outplayed us,” said junior guard Roberto Nelson. “I think we got a little ahead of ourselves coming in with the lead, and didn’t execute as well as they did. They came out with a purpose and played extremely hard.”
Oregon started the second half on a 15-2 run to go up by seven points, but the Beavers tied it back up with 12:32 to go via three straight buckets from junior forward Devon Collier.
Everything went downhill after that.
Following a jumper from junior guard Ahmad Starks with 11:44 left in
the game, the Beavers proceeded to go over five minutes without making a field goal — at one point missing back-to-back-to-back 3-point shots. During that same time period, the Ducks scored nine points, went up by eight and never looked back.
“This has to be a two-half game and we have noticeably not played a good two-half game in a while, so that’s something I need to have us work on,” Robinson said.
The Beavers only had five play-ers score: Nelson, Collier, Starks, sophomore forward Eric Moreland and senior forward Joe Burton. The other four players who got in the game failed to register a single point. On the other end, the Ducks had nine players who scored at least two points. Still, Robinson says he isn’t worried about depth.
“We have five guys averaging dou-ble figures,” Robinson said. “We have enough guys who can score. What we need to do is, for those guys who can score, to be able to score.”
Obviously no team wants to start conference play with a loss, espe-cially in a rivalry game at home, but Robinson remained optimistic.
“The upshot to this is that we have 17 more games [within the confer-ence], so I’m trying to keep these guys really positive and just move forward,” Robinson said. “I don’t think anybody is going to go 18-0 this season.”
The Beavers play again Thursday at 8:30 PM in Gill Coliseum against Arizona State.
alex Crawford, sports reporteron Twitter @dr_crawf
Oregon State football surprised just about everyone this year.
The six-win turnaround from 2011 was the largest in pro-gram history. The Beavers were picked to finish last in the Pac-12 North and bowl eligibility would be considered a bonus.
They exceeded all expecta-tions. Those expectations were unfairly raised to high levels, and the end result of the sea-son felt like a disappointment as Texas fans raised the roof in the Alamodome.
But if you had asked any OSU fan before the season if they would take a 9-4 record and an Alamo Bowl appearance, 99 percent would take the offer and run, and the people who wouldn’t are delusional.
The success achieved this
season was clearly unforeseen. The biggest takeaway from
the 2012 Beavers? These guys are going to be around.
Aside from the departure of the two seniors, First Team All-American cornerback Jordan Poyer and First Team All-Pac-12 wide receiver Markus Wheaton, most of the key components of this team will be back for two or three more years.
Just look down the list of this year’s freshmen and sopho-more starters: Brandin Cooks, Storm Woods, Isaac Seumalo,
Scott Crichton, Dylan Wynn, D.J. Alexander, Ryan Murphy and Tyrequek Zimmerman.
These are guys who are con-tributing in big ways already, and they have many more games to improve their already impressive skill sets.
This group has the potential to be contenders in the Pac-12 for at least the next two or three years. Even with Chip Kelly at it again for another year of pup-pet-mastery down in Eugene, this group in Corvallis can com-pete with them.
There’s a flaw in this prognos-tication, though — a big one.
The Beavers do not have a quarterback.
From the moment there were two healthy quarterbacks who
Mike Riley is, without ques-tion, the best head coach the Oregon State football
program has ever had. His 81 career wins and five bowl
victories are both Oregon State records. He turned a program that was the lowest of the low into a respectable and consistent contender in the Pac-10/12.
Riley is probably the best thing that ever happened to Oregon State football.
Ironically, the blame for a disap-pointing 3-4 finish to what was almost a magical season falls squarely on Riley’s shoulders.
His back-and-forth decisions at quarterback transformed a potentially historical year into a season that leaves Beaver fans wondering: “What if?”
It started four games in to the sea-son. Up until that point it wasn’t even a question that sophomore Sean Mannion was the long-term start-ing quarterback for this Oregon State team. He played in all 12 games in 2011 (starting 10 of those 12) and
played brilliantly in OSU’s 4-0 start. He even looked poised to make
the jump to the elite level of college quarterbacks.
Then he injured his knee and junior Cody Vaz was thrust into the spotlight. Not many people guessed Vaz would shine the way he did in his first game on the road against a tough Brigham Young team, but he was spectacular and received national praise.
After a serviceable second outing from Vaz that gave OSU its best start in school history, Mannion returned to the starting lineup for an Oct. 27 road game at Washington. It seemed everything was back to normal.
Though Vaz was incredible against BYU, it was still evident that Mannion possessed superior physical skills.
He’s bigger, has a stronger arm and is a year younger than Vaz.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Mannion was the better long-term starting quarterback for the Beavers at that point in the season.
But when Mannion played poorly through three quarters in Seattle, Riley decided to pull the trigger and reinsert Vaz into the lineup.
The move made sense at the time. Mannion clearly was not himself and may not have been healthy, and Vaz had proven he could put up points. Not to mention, an undefeated sea-son was on the line.
Riley did what he felt was best for the team at that time — a decision that was justified.
In retrospect, it might have been the worst thing Riley could have done for the future of this football team.
All of a sudden there was a legiti-mate quarterback controversy swirl-ing around the team. When Riley decided to go with Vaz, he sent a mes-sage that he didn’t trust Mannion, whether he meant to or not.
Mannion had played, by far, his worst game of the season against Washington but he still had a chance to do what good quarterbacks do — make the necessary plays to win
when the game matters most.
Matt Barkley would not have been benched in that situation.
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had proven their worth, Oregon State was a 3-4 team.
If this young group really is as capable as I think they can be, there has to be one guy and only one guy.
As junior quarterback Cody Vaz fell to the ground for the ninth and tenth sack in the Beavers’ final possession, it was obvious to many that sophomore Sean Mannion should have been under center.
Hold your horses.The same people who were saying that were
also clamoring for Vaz’ insertion after Mannion’s fourth interception against Oregon.
Those same people were also calling for Mannion in the Stanford loss, as well as wanting to see Vaz attempt a comeback at Washington.
Whether it’s Vaz or Mannion, it has never been more apparent the future of this team, which
conceivably could be the best group ever to come through Corvallis, depends on this quarterback decision.
It’s been the story of this season, and by far the most talked about subject — from us at the Barometer especially. But there have been count-less examples of quarterback controversies not ending well for the team.
It’s inevitable for this Vaz vs. Mannion debate to go on into the spring, summer and even as far as fall camp.
But know this: If both quarterbacks split time in 2013 without an injury coming into play, it’s not going to work.
And with the amount of young talent at coach Riley’s disposal, picking one and not looking back has to be the move.
As for who should be the starter, well we can wait a while on that topic.
warner strausbaugh, sports editoron Twitter @[email protected]
stRausBaughn Continued from page 5
Geno Smith would not have been benched. So why pull Mannion when he has a shot to solidify himself as an elite quarterback, and OSU as legitimate BCS contenders?
It’s easy for me to rip the decision now, but the deci-sion was rash and damaged Mannion in a way that is dire for any quarterback. It ruined his confidence.
Confidence is what matters most for arguably the most important and challenging position of any sport.
Mannion’s seemed all but shot.
After Riley named Vaz start-er the following week against Arizona State, it looked like he had made his choice for the rest of the year.
But in another bizarre twist, Vaz went down with an ankle injury at the end of the loss to Stanford. Mannion was asked to fill in as if nothing had hap-pened. As if he had never been benched at all.
Mannion threw four touch-downs in the next game against Cal, a 62-14 romp by OSU. But it was clear the Golden Bears had given up on the season.
Mannion ended up starting the final three games.
While Riley maintained all along that he had two capable starting quarterbacks, it began to look like he wasn’t sure if he even had one. It almost seemed as if he did not trust either of them.
When Riley finally announced that Vaz would start in the Alamo Bowl, it marked the fifth time he had changed between the two quarterbacks in seven games.
It doesn’t matter how mentally tough a player is. Repeatedly getting benched and then reintroduced into the starting lineup week to week is a roller coaster of emo-tions that will inevitably affect anyone.
Funny enough, the season ended with Vaz reinjuring his ankle in the first half of the bowl game, and he didn’t look the same for the rest of the game.
The one time Riley actually should have made a quarter-back change, he chose not to.
Mike Riley is still the great-est coach Oregon State has ever known, but Riley and the team will always have to live with the decisions that were made.
And a dream season that was lost as a consequence.
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n A broken heating pipe on the fourth floor of the Linus Pauling Science Center results in water damage, faculty displacement
By Jack LammersThe Daily BaromeTer
On Dec. 17, a heating pipe on the fourth floor of the Linus Pauling Science Center broke apart. Water poured from the pipe, lining the west wing of the fourth floor and causing wall, floor and property damage. After carrying out loads of prop-erty, both salvageable and damaged, paneling and flooring have recently been stripped from the building.
The water from the fourth floor cascaded all the way to the ground floor, with just drips of water falling through by the time water broke through the first floor ceiling. Most of the visible damage can be found on the west side of the fourth floor, with a completely stripped wood floor in what was a dining room area.
People in the building noticed a pre-existing prob-lem with water dripping slowly from the pipe, but repairs had yet to take place.
About 30 staff members have been displaced due to office damages, includ-ing 10 offices on the fourth floor and eight on the third floor. OSU under an emer-gency declaration aims to work quickly to restore and repair the building, thus begging questions involving timelines.
“If we are lucky, we will have news by the first of February,” said Patrick Hughes, OSU chief risk offi-cer. “Once we decide on a contractor and are ready for construction, we’re looking at a four to six week timeline for restoration and repair.”
How much will the rebuilding cost OSU? According to Hughes, a rough projection at this point puts restoration costs at about $100,000 and repair costs at around $350,000-450,000. OSU has a $500,000 insurance deductible and it remains to be seen whether costs will fall above or below the deductible.
According to Hughes, the situation isn’t the best, but isn’t the worst either.
“If the pipe burst on the first floor, we would prob-ably be looking at a $10,000 cleanup,” Hughes said. “If the leak caused damage to the research facilities, we would be looking at a much larger expense.”
Hughes has spent much time over the past few weeks in the building, meeting with Jim Patton, Fire Prevention Officer for the Corvallis Fire Department, and with OSU facilities, risk management and construction teams.
He has also worked with the displaced faculty, who he regards as very coopera-tive and understanding with the repairs.
“This is a high end, brand new building with lots of kids and faculty,” Hughes said. “A lot of the affected staff have been really good, know what happened and have been very professional.”
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Pipe burst on campus creates literal trickle-down effect
Damaged ceiling and wall panels on the third floor of the linus Pauling Science Center were removed after a water pipe leak on the fourth floor on Dec. 17.
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happened and have been very
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