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n Class gives students an opportunity to look at life behind prison bars
By Katja KozberThe Daily BaromeTer
As Spring 2012 comes to a close, students of OSU’s first Inside-Out class look back on their experiences and share how they are helping the community because of it.
Inside-Out is a national prison exchange program that puts stu-dents and incarcerated criminals in a room together to learn about each other and discuss social issues. The class, SOC 499H, has students meet incarcerated students from the Oregon Youth Authority at Hillcrest Youth Correctional facility.
Talking with these prisoners has definitely challenged the students’ original thoughts on criminals and the justice system in general.
“During this class, I have begun to look at the incarcerated as actual individual people. Each has their own story,” said Alicia Logan, a junior in sociology.
“It’s definitely opened my eyes to different aspects of crime and how it affects communities,” said Sarah Ferrer, a student in biochemistry and biophysics. “I’ve learned they are definitely not all bad people, and are motivated to return to their communities and stop people from making the mistakes they did.”
“The class has provided me with the amazing opportunity [to] not only learn about our current cor-rectional system and see it through the eyes of those incarcerated, but also to work on ways to improve it,”
Logan said, referring to the group projects they’ve been working on over the course of the term.
Ferrer’s group is working on a packet of information for newly released inmates. The packet gives
advice on issues such as housing options, college loans, budgets, car maintenance and even affordable diets. The group did this to help inmates transition more comfort-
n MU looking at spending on cultural meals kitchen, covering lost revenue
By Alex HilbornThe Daily BaromeTer
The Student & Incidental Fees Committee has recently released its budgetary review of the Memorial Union Organization.
The budgetary review process takes place so the SIFC can insure that organizations funded by stu-dent money spend their funds in a fiscally responsible fashion. Counting the Memorial Union, the SIFC has now comprehen-sively scrutinized three organiza-tion’s budgets, but all organizations under their domain will eventually go through the process in this cur-rent round of reviews.
As part of the review process, the SIFC has made recommendations to the Memorial Union’s budget boards on how best they can utilize student fees.
“My position chairs the MU advi-sory board as well as works close-ly with the production phase of the budget,” said Memorial Union President Ashley Barnes. “I help facilitate the education around the budget for the MU Board, which helps the board members exam-ine the line items of the budget, ensure efficiency of our spending and make sure we meet the needs of the organization while keeping the fees low.”
The Memorial Union board, which consists of student voting members and faculty representa-tives, works closely with the SIFC to report on the needs of the student programs run by the Memorial Union in an attempt to keep the programs functioning adequately
on the lowest budgets possible.
Only approximately 47 percent of the Memorial Union’s overall $9.3 million dollar budget comes from student fees. The rest of the budget comes from revenue resources such as Memorial Union Retail Foods. The Memorial Union’s budget goes to paying operating costs of the Memorial Union build-ing, Memorial Union East, and a plethora of programs under the Memorial Union’s supervision. For the last half decade, the Memorial Union student fee has actually fol-
lowed a trend of either decreasing or staying consistent from year to year.
“The more students you have paying the same fee [will] gener-ate more money,” said Michael Henthorne, director of the Memorial Union, about why the fee has not seen a real increase the last few years. “The amount per student stays the same. We are in a no-growth period or low-growth period.”
Henthorne claims students will most likely see an increase
in their student fees going to the Memorial Union once the Student Experience Center opens for opera-tions, so that funds stay consistent with the costs of running the new building. In surveys laying out the plans associated with the Student Experience Center, 70 percent of students voiced their support for its construction in what Henthorne calls, “a landslide” victory for this kind of project.
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A taste of life on the inside
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Alicia Logan, Courtney Darr, Sarah Ferrer and Kevin Hulse, student in the Inside-Out class. The class puts prisoners with students so they can learn more about each other.
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Ashley Barnes, Memorial Union president, looks over the Memorial Union budget. The Memorial Union has a budget of $9.3 million, much of it coming from student fees.
Memorial Union review considers allocated funds
Fund raiser for skate park tomorrown Benton County Skateboarding
Alliance hosting art, music benefit at Corvallis Elks Lodge
By evan AndersonThe Daily BaromeTer
Tomorrow, the Corvallis Elks Lodge will host the Benton County Skateboarding Alliance’s Fifth Annual Art and Music Benefit.
Art donated to the BCSA from across the country will be sold at a silent auction, and starting at 7 p.m., several high energy bands will also perform. All proceeds go to the BCSA’s plan to improve the local skate park here in Corvallis.
“We’re trying to add onto the exist-ing skate park,” said BCSA President Vaughn Balzer. “The Corvallis skate park was designed for beginner and intermediate riders. It doesn’t have any advanced terrain.”
“Our starting goal is $90,000 for the phase one bowl,” Balzer said, going on to detail plans for a 3,000 square foot, swimming pool style vertical bowl.
The bowl would be ten feet deep at its lowest point, greatly improving the variety of features available to Corvallis riders.
Though the goal may seem high,
Flat Tail Fest this weekendn Battle of the Bands starts
today at 4 at the MU quadThe Daily BaromeTer
Oregon State University’s annual Battle of the Bands is coming Friday to the Memorial Union Quad. This free event features 12 bands, includ-ing 10 OSU student bands that will compete for the opening spot of the Flat Tail Music Festival Saturday.
In addition to the student bands, Battle of the Bands will feature Blue Ember and Loaded for Bear, the opening act and headliner, respectively.
This year’s Flat Tail will be head-lined by hip-hop artists Ryan Lewis and Macklemore, who was named as one of XXL magazine’s 2012 Top 10 Freshman list.
Sierra Lever, event coordinator, explains that the desire for a diverse lineup at this year’s festival inspired the theme “I.Am.Music.”
“In the past, Flat Tail Music Festival has been primarily alternative rock bands, but I wanted the event to appeal to all music lovers,” Lever said.
The festival will include a variety of genres, ranging from pop to reg-gae to hip-hop.
In addition to musical performanc-es, the two-day event will include a beer garden and merchandise booths. Both Battle of the Bands and Flat Tail are free and open to all ages.
This event is put on by OSU’s Memorial Union Program Council. Battle of the Bands’ opening act is scheduled to kick off the weekend at 4 p.m. Friday.
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CalendarSaturday, June 2EventsOSU College of Veterinary Medi-cine Shelter Medicine Club, 1-4pm, Maple Grove, Avery Park. Veterinary Clinic for pets of the homeless.
Sunday, June 3EventsHuman Services Resource Center & OSU Emergency Food Pantry, Noon, Park on corner of Jefferson & 14th, across from McNary Hall. Apprecia-tion Picnic. Come and enjoy delicious food while celebrating the growth of the HRSC and OSU Emergency Food Pantry.
Tuesday, June 5MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.
EventsThe Pride Center, 7-10pm, The Pride Center. “Procrastinators Unite! 2.0” Unite once again for end-of-term study tables. We offer a social environment with couches and chairs, a quieter back room and yogurt parfaits!
Wednesday, June 6MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
EventsDiversity Development, 2:30pm, Willamette Room, Valley Library 3rd Floor. Capstone Presentations. The coordinators of the cultural centers will share their visions for the upcom-ing school year. Light refreshments will be provided.
The Pride Center, 7-10pm, The Pride Center. “Procrastinators Unite! 2.0” Unite once again for end-of-term study tables. We offer a social environment with couches and chairs, a quieter back room and yogurt parfaits!
SOL: LGBT Multicultural Support Network & Pride Center, 9-11:30am, MU Quad. Coffee in the Quad. Get fuel for finals and diversity organization information.
Thursday, June 7EventsThe Pride Center, 7-10pm, The Pride Center. “Procrastinators Unite! 2.0” Unite once again for end-of-term study tables. We offer a social environment with couches and chairs, a quieter back room and yogurt parfaits!
Saturday, June 9MeetingsVegans and Vegetarians at OSU, 5:30pm, 330 NW 23rd St. All are wel-come to potluck-style meetings where we share recipes and have great conversation.
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Defense official says automatic cuts will cause ‘absurdities’The Pentagon’s chief budget officer
is ringing the alarm bell about loom-ing budget cuts that could destroy the department’s new defense strategy and force the defense industry to face “absurdities” as defense programs are shuttered.
“This is not the way to do defense planning and budgeting,” said Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
Carter was speaking to reporters Wednesday in Washington about the effects of sequestration, a possible automatic cut in the defense budget of more than half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Sequestration would kick in starting in January 2013 if President Obama and Congress can-
not come to agreement on cuts in the overall budget.
Carter is the latest senior Pentagon official to speak against sequestra-tion. His boss, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, has called sequestration a “meat ax” while the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, has warned that the cuts would be catastrophic, leaving the mil-itary with a hollowed-out force.
“Sequester would have devastating effects on our readiness and our work-force and disrupt thousands of con-tracts and programs,” Carter said.
The cuts would be piled on top of the already $500 billion in defense
spending cuts set by the White House over the next 10 years as part of a longer-term budget strategy.
Panetta has said the Pentagon is not planning for cuts because the White House’s Office of Management and Budget has told them not to until the summer.
“There is not a hell of a lot of plan-ning I can do,” because sequestra-tion makes automatic and equally dis-tributed cuts across Department of Defense accounts, using a “meat-ax” approach, Panetta said.
In February, speaking before the House Budget Committee, Panetta said planning could start this summer if Congress had not made a deal on the
budget.In a letter sent in November to Sen.
John McCain, R-Arizona, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Panetta said the effects of sequestration would create the small-est ground force since before World War II, the smallest Navy since before World War I, the smallest tactical fight-er force in Air Force history and the smallest civilian work force in the his-tory of the Department of Defense.
Some in Congress are trying to warn Americans about what can be an obscure and often confusing topic for those who do not follow Washington’s yearly budget dramas.
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The political battle over legislation to reduce the costs of student loans ramped up Thursday.
Democrats accused Republicans of walking away from an issue critical to mid-dle-class Americans just as Republicans proposed several specific options to offset the billions of dollars needed to extend lower interest rates for another year.
First, top Democrats seized on news reports that House Speaker John Boehner told his members he didn’t think a deal could be reached before the July 1 deadline when reduced interest rates on Stafford loans are set to expire and the inter-est rate will double to 6.8 percent.
In a closed session with House Republicans, Boehner blamed the stand-off on President Obama who
Boehner said wants to “fabri-cate fights on things like stu-dent loans because he’s out of ideas; he doesn’t want to talk about his record or his failed policies,” a GOP source told CNN.
As evidence of his desire to keep the rates down, Boehner said if the interest rate expires, he would push new legislation to lower the rates retroactively.
A doubtful Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York fired back. The Senate Democrats’ top political messenger said the news reports “confirm our suspicions that Republicans were never serious about want-ing to stop rates from doubling on college students. To many on the hard right, government should not play a role in help-ing students afford college. Speaker Boehner seems to be following their lead and throw-ing in the towel on this issue a
month before the deadline.”Schumer said it seemed
Boehner “would rather let costs rise on middle-class fam-ilies that work across the aisle to find a bipartisan solution.”
Just over an hour after Schumer issued that state-ment, the top four House and Senate Republicans released a letter they sent to the president outlining several funding mea-sures to extend the lower rates.
“There is no reason we can-not quickly and in a bipartisan manner enact fiscally respon-sible legislation,” they said in their letter.
Signed by Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona, the letter present-ed options for offsetting the nearly $6 billion cost of the
bill. They said they drew their ideas from the budget request the president submitted to Congress for 2013. The ideas include: requiring federal employees to contribute more to their retirement programs; limiting the amount of time students get for an in-school interest subsidy; revising a Medicaid provider’s tax; and preventing overpayments by Social Security.
The House and Senate each have already passed an exten-sion of the lower interest but they did with different cost offsets. The letter to the presi-dent was an effort to kick start talks to merge the two bills, a Senate GOP leadership aide explained.
There was no immedi-ate response from Senate Democrats or the White House on the Republican proposals.
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Political fight over student loans heats up
Rowdy news conference pumps up campaignA raucous news conference Thursday
in Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts, with pro-Romney dem-onstrators trying to shout down cam-paigners for President Barack Obama criticizing the former governor, escalated the November election campaign more than five months before the voting.
Romney, meanwhile, traveled to a shuttered solar panel maker Thursday to focus attention on what he called a sym-bol of the Obama administration’s failed economic policies, as well as cronyism.
“The president took a half a billion dollars of taxpayer money and devoted it to an enterprise that was owned in large measure by his campaign contributors,” Romney said of Solyndra, the California solar panel maker that went bankrupt in 2011. “This is serious conflict of interest.”
Congressional investigators looking into the Solyndra case have yet to find evi-dence of the kind of corruption implied by Romney, the certain Republican nominee for president.
However, the loan guarantee of more than $500 million under a Department of Energy program to the company headed by an Obama contributor has become a favorite target for Republican attacks.
Across the country, the Boston news
conference by Democrats opened a new front in the Obama campaign strategy by taking on Romney’s gubernatorial experi-ence after previously targeting the multi-millionaire businessman’s background as head of a private equity company.
A crowd of about 30 mostly young, white protesters waved signs declar-ing “Obama isn’t working” and chanted Romney’s first name as well as “we want Mitt” and “broken record” as top Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod and several Massachusetts politicians spoke in front of the Massachusetts State House.
Raising their voices over the din, the speakers criticized Romney’s record dur-ing his four years as governor and referred repeatedly to the demonstrators seeking to drown out their message.
“You can’t handle the truth, my friends,” Axelrod said to the protesters. “That’s the problem. If you could handle the truth, you’d quiet down.”
At one point, Axelrod noted that polling shows Romney trails well behind Obama in Massachusetts, calling that an indict-ment of Romney’s record as governor.
“These may be the only voters, right here, for Mitt Romney in Massachusetts,” Axelrod said, gesturing to the demonstra-tors. “It’s a harsh judgment from people
who know him best.”Axelrod also said Romney’s business
background at Bain Capital failed to pre-pare him for government leadership, and his experience in the governor’s office for one term showed Romney failed to deliver on promised economic development.
“He was a drive-by governor here on his way to running for president of the United States,” Axelrod said, later adding that Romney “played a shell game in order to say that he was making progress, and then he left a mess on the doorstep of the next governor.”
Axelrod repeated a consistent theme of the Obama campaign — that Romney’ s motive in business was making the biggest private profit for himself and investors, rather than working for the overall public good.
Citing what he and other speakers called problems from Romney’s term as gover-nor, including lagging employment and increased debt, Axelrod said making prof-its was “fine, but it’s not a prescription for leadership, as we saw in Massachusetts.”
“That’s what happens when you try to transfer those values and those principles into the governance of a state or country,” Axelrod said.
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Reser Stadium also means that the Memorial Union will lose the income generated from the store’s rent, leaving a gap in the orga-nization’s budget that might need filling by student fees. The Memorial Union board and the SIFC, however, continue to look at ways to creatively use student fees already in place to mitigate any potential increases.
The SIFC has recommended that the Memorial Union look into putting clauses in its contracts with its retailers that guar-antee they generate, on a fixed scale in proportion to increased enrollment, more revenue for the Memorial Union each year. The Memorial Union might also gradu-ally raise student fees over the thirty year bond period for the Student Experience Center, so students do not get hit with a drastic increase all at once.
Following SIFC’s advice to spend down a surplus of cash in the Student Involvement Fund, the Memorial Union might use some of this money to offset one-time expenses incurred by the Student Experience Center. The extra funds might help pay for something like fix-tures or furnishings in the Student Experience Center, which the bond funds by regulation do not cover, or help pay for emergency problems in the building that pop up post-construction.
The Memorial Union inherited the surplus of funds from SIFC when they merged into the Memorial Union in 2007. The Memorial Union does not want to use these funds for new programing, because when the money runs out, it would leave a new budget line that would require an increase in student fees.
Another part of the SIFC’s review calls for analysis of student money going to the Cultural Meals Kitchen. The kitchen allows
student organizations to safely and cheaply cater authentic food at their events. SIFC wants the MU to see if student use of the kitchen actually matches the amount of fees going to the program. SIFC wants the income generated by the use of the kitchen to increase in proportion with student fees, so that student organizations do not pay more to host an event than they ultimately make from the event.
“We’re struggling with student fees,” said Eric Alexander, director of student leader-ship, about using fees to fund events. “We want to make sure there are not a lot of bar-riers to events. A small amount from a lot of students, we’re talking cents, or dollars from a few students.”
Alexander claims the Memorial Union follows direction from the SIFC on whether
student fees should help subsidize programs based on the philosophies in place behind the student fee system.
The review of the Memorial Union from the Student Incidental Fee Committee also calls for the committee’s inclusion in any future talks of merging the Student Media budget with the Memorial Union budget. Right now, Student Media resides within the Memorial Union’s organizational structure but receives sepa-
rate funding from the SIFC. Finally, the SIFC wants to see a breakdown
of employee salaries by budget, since the pay for some employees comes from multiple sources.
“Every time we are spending money, we ask, ‘would you personally be willing to go up to a student and ask for money?’ We try to be good stewards,” Alexander said. “SIFC did a great job and I think it’s great [that] we work with them to help students.”
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Balzer pointed out that BCSA is well on track: “We’ve got $13,600 in the bank.”
Balzer stressed the relaxed atmosphere of the silent auc-tion and said that any amount of money is appreciated.
“We have small pieces and larger ones,” Balzer said. “Anyone can donate at any level.”
And anyone might be tempted to; the art collection to be auctioned consists of a wide range of prints, oil paint-ings, glass and copper jewelry, and skateboard photography.
“I think the context that we’re putting it in is interesting,” said Matt Sanchez, a photographer donating several pieces to the event. “When it’s a collective exhibit it’s very cool.”
“Typically, as an artist, [exhi-bition] is done for self pro-motion, but when it’s for this cause, I think it’s really cool. It’s not like I’m making a profit, it all goes towards the skate park,” Sanchez said.
Balzer also enjoys the oppor-tunity presented to the event’s donators and talked about a special example: “One of the artists who was really consis-tent for us was Nicole Garret. She wasn’t really showing
much of her work, but we had our first event and she sold her stuff pretty quickly. She was just voted Local Artist of the Year by Corvallis Weekly.”
It may be surprising to hear that a non-profit organiza-tion is using an art auction to fund skate park renovations, but for those involved, the link between skateboarding and art is obvious.
“There’s a lot of creativity that goes into skateboarding, art and music,” Balzer said.
“You’ll find artists that come from skate parks,” Sanchez said, “because they have to look at things differently.”
“Early on, we did get to some extent that ‘skateboard-ing stereotype’ thrown back at us,” Balzer said, “but it was a minority of people.”
Balzer explained that the city was more than willing to work with the BCSA: “Way back in 2007 we approached the city and formed our non-profit, and became an official Parks & Recreation partner.”
“Our plan has preliminary approval from the city and is in the city’s capital improvement project list.”
Balzer expressed optimism at the unity of the BCSA and the city of Corvallis, and thinks it represents a growing trend.
“That process was not hard,” he said. “By this time in our
culture, skateboarding is more in the mainstream with the X Games.”
Besides the fund raising, Balzer hopes the event will promote more unity within Corvallis.
“There are these differ-ent sections of the town,” he said. “They exist together, but they don’t seem to form that tight-knit community that you would hope.”
The event hopes to draw in many different subcultures by presenting art and music through the cultural lens of skateboarding.
“It provides the opportunity for a rich dynamic in the com-munity,” Balzer said.
He went on to say that the goal of BCSA is “to improve the skate park and we understand that [it] is going to benefit many facets of the community. If you go there in the morn-ings, especially on Saturdays, there are a lot of families.”
The doors to the event will open at 6 p.m. and there is a $5 entry fee.
BCSA is currently accepting anyone who would like to help with their cause and can be contacted at [email protected].
evan Anderson, [email protected]
on Twitter: @dailybarometer
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There is no excuse for finding yourself bored
Getting rid of financial aid, for the greater benefit
I never want to hear the words “I’m bored” again.
Boredom is a phenomenon every one of us has experienced at some point or another, which I under-stand. And while I understand it, I don’t sympathize with or endorse it.
Sometimes you’ll hear the phrase “First World problems” referring to issues that we as a thriving industrial-ized country experience that Third World countries don’t. Boredom is one of these.
I’m willing to bet that you will never hear a member of a tribe in Africa say the words in their language equivalent to “I’m bored.” They are constantly fighting for their survival, and as such, don’t have time for such nonsense.
There are multiple reasons that someone might claim to be bored and what it really depends on is the scope of said boredom.
For my purposes I’m going to break these scopes into two types that I’ll call situational boredom and chronic boredom.
Situational boredom is what most of us think of when we hear the word “boredom.” It’s that moment in time when you think, “I have nothing to do right now and I don’t know what to do.” When we find ourselves in this
mindset, the core issue we run into is that the activities we run through in our mind are a very limited subset of the possible activities we could do. This subset is centered on our com-mon day to day activities.
When you run into this problem, a single message should come across: I don’t participate in enough activi-ties. There is almost an infinite list of possibilities of things that we can do or try as humans. Some of these are required to live, some of them required for an income, but for the most part, there is a lot of time left in between these activities for other leisurely ones.
These leisurely activities are often referred to as hobbies, and I’ve met too many people that have few to none. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you can’t list at least 10 hobbies for yourself, you don’t have enough.
I could spend a column and a half providing a seemingly endless list of
possible hobbies, but I’m going to assume that with the invention of Google you should be smart enough to find new ones for yourself. But please, actually do it.
As a side note, when you find yourself “bored,” the answer is not to make it your partner’s responsi-bility to entertain you. I’ve observed and experienced too many people whose answer to boredom is to indi-rectly make it their significant other’s responsibility to entertain them.
Chronic boredom is something a bit more complex and some might label it as a form of depression. However, I am of the opinion that depression is slightly overdiagnosed and that some people are just bored in life.
If you find yourself not just bored for having nothing to do, but finding the activities that you do participate in not very exciting, this is chronic boredom.
Chronic boredom, for the most part, can be solved with a simple but complex fix: a dream. No, not flying through space in a scuba suit with your dog, but something that you can work toward achieving. People that don’t know what to do with them-selves almost never have a lofty goal.
Dreams aren’t just to get an “A”
on a test or to win a baseball game. Dreams are called such because they almost seem unachieveable or undo-able. They’re something that takes a lot of work, passion, commitment and time to reach.
For some, this is getting on to a spe-cific sports team, for others it’s getting their dream job. Heck, some people’s dreams are to live to see their son or daughter achieve something, because they have a terminal illness or medi-cal condition.
It doesn’t matter what the dream is, but everyone needs to have one (or more), because without them, our actions often don’t have the motiva-tion we find ourselves needing. It’s actually quite amazing what having them can allow people to do.
In short, we are all extremely for-tunate human beings who have no excuse for finding ourselves with nothing to do. Give yourself some-thing to work toward, and find new activities that make you feel great and lucky to be alive and well.
And for the love of god, if you spend more than 20 minutes on Facebook a day, you need a new hobby.
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Alexander Vervloet is a junior in communication. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Vervloet can be reached at [email protected].
As another year comes to a close, interest on student loans continues to accrue.
For those who are graduating, paying back loans may provide a challenge. For underclassmen, more debt is around the corner.
Should college cost less? Should it cost more? The answer depends on what policies are implemented. Policies such as grants, scholarships, loans and where they come from help determine the price of college.
College, like any good or service, has a price based on supply and demand. However, public college prices are artificially lowered.
Most private colleges cost around $35,000 to $40,000 a year, not includ-ing room and board. Most public colleges though, range from below $10,000 for in-state tuition to $25,000 for out-of-state tuition, neither of which include room and board.
Why is there such a discrepancy between prices at public and private colleges? Again, prices at public col-
leges are artificially low. One would assume that the cost of educating a student for a year should be around the $40,000 range since private col-leges charge that much. Legislators, though, have set the prices for public colleges at their rates in order to encourage people to attend college. On top of low prices, lots of fed-eral money is given to students in the form of scholarships, grants and loans.
This all sounds great. More kids are attending college and they’re get-ting more money to pay for their education. But because of this, sup-ply and demand are affected, caus-ing changes in price.
One factor that affects demand is income. When people receive lots of federal money, their “income” has increased. When income increases,
demand increases. A shift of the demand curve to the right means it crosses the supply curve at a higher point. The intersection of the two curves indicates the price.
So when the maximum amount of the Pell Grant increases, so does the price of college as a whole, both private and public. But to combat the higher prices of education, leg-islators increase financial aid again, which raises demand, and therefore the price, again.
With prices increasing over and over, legislators set prices at low rates to encourage people to attend. But with set prices below the equilib-rium price, a shortage of supply (the number a students that a college can have) occurs. This shortage means that people who want to attend col-lege don’t have a seat.
All of these increases in demand cause prices to increase. Activism for more financial aid only feeds this vicious cycle of increasing prices.
Well, what should we do then?
Simple — the federal government has to stop giving out financial aid.
Now, most people would say that without financial aid, many students wouldn’t be able to attend college. Without the government provid-ing “income” to students, demand would decrease, as would the price. Price would not be a major factor keeping people from school. With lower prices, wouldn’t that mean that lower-income people could afford it? The high price now is what keeps out the low-income students.
Also, there are millions of dollars of scholarship and grant money from private companies and philanthro-pists who want to give money to students. Qualifications range from GPA to extracurricular activities to height, as well as combinations of all of them. There is plenty of scholar-ship money out there for students to win and use.
Besides not giving out money to
Yeas & NaysNay to sitting. We recently found
out that the average person sits for up to eight hours every day
and that if you sit for too long, it’s actu-ally dangerous for your health and could shorten your life span. Stand up and pace back and forth while reading the rest of these.
Nay to high prices. A Niagara Falls man ordered $9.91 worth of food at a Denny’s and when it was time for him to pay up he gave the cashier a bag of marijuana and a dollar bill.
Yea to journalistic tips from people who aren’t journalists. These past weeks, we’ve truly enjoyed the phone calls and e-mails on where we need to improve and how to properly run a newspaper.
Yea to giving a health reason for stay-ing faithful. A new study conducted by researchers in Italy concluded that men who cheat on their wives are more likely to die of a heart attack. This is especially true for older men cheating with young-er women, because they feel the need to keep up with their young mistress, so they smoke, drink and eat more. This can all lead to sudden coital death. So don’t cheat on your wives, guys, because it can literally kill you.
Yea to beds in the Quad. Mattress on Campus set up shop in the Quad this past week, with test beds to try out. Although, we don’t think college students need any more temptation to jump into bed with random strangers. Speaking of random hook ups…
Yea to summer ending the spring mas-querade. Let’s be honest — your rela-tionship started because you hooked up once and now it’s awkward because the guy doesn’t want to be a jerk, and the girl doesn’t want to be known as easy, so you enter into a relationship devoid of any actual feelings about the other.
Nay to civility. We swept the Ducks this past weekend, and in the process, denied them an opportunity to claim a share of the Pac-12 title. This should make up for the beat down they gave us in the foot-ball game, right?
Yea to finding out that President Obama has a “kill” list. The thought of our president acting like a complete bad ass pointing and saying “him” seems like something out of an awesome action movie.
Nay to finding out President Obama has a “kill” list, because our world isn’t an action movie, no matter how awesome of a movie it may be.
Yea to telling a great joke.Nay to telling that great joke, a filthy
one at that, and getting poked by the person you’re walking with, as he points out the little kid walking with his mother behind you. You now realize that you may have scarred that kid for life and he will never look at squirrels the same, because he now knows the difference between an escort and squirrels.
Yea to the weekend. Your last few nights of freedom before the long slog toward the end begins — Dead Week. You’re going to have more projects, tests and assignments than you can possi-bly handle. Roommate and significant other troubles will start popping up and the little habits of theirs will now annoy the hell out of you and you’ll fight and then cry, and then make up and then cry. You’re going to be a hot mess this upcoming week and that’s OK. We all will be. And you never stood up, did you?
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Marijuana legalization not the right move for our countryIn the past decade, public
support for the legalization of marijuana has exploded.
Many of its promoters advocate legalization based on economic agendas. My question to the public is, should we pursue radical change to earn a quick buck, or hold fast to the very morals and values that govern our society?
With the national debt climb-ing well over $15 trillion, it sure is tempting to reach to alternative economic stimuli for salvation. But are the economic benefits (if any) worth the societal and cultural costs that would ensue from mari-juana legalization?
Former republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, pub-licly admitted his support for the legalization of marijuana in an interview conducted for Reason Magazine in 2010.
“I think that we should legal-ize marijuana,” said Johnson. “It’s never going to be legal to smoke pot, become impaired and get behind the wheel of a car. It’s never
going to be legal for kids to smoke pot. But let’s tax it, let’s regulate it, let’s control it.”
Governor Johnson’s plan of action sounds enticing, but how would legalization affect adolescent drug consumption? If marijuana were legal, availability would undoubt-edly increase.
Most people can agree that mari-juana is not nearly as dangerous as “hard” drugs such as cocaine, heroin and crystal meth. However, its notorious function as a “gate-way” drug causes many Americans to disapprove of its consumption.
The Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University discovered that adoles-cents between the ages of 12 and 17 who had tried marijuana were 85 percent more likely to try cocaine. That’s a scary statistic. Legalization may directly lead to a rampant increase in “hard” drug use. Now
do we really want that on our con-science? I don’t think so.
Governor Johnson suggests that the U.S should employ the same regulation and taxation scheme used with alcohol with marijua-na. According to USA Today, the United States spends $467.7 billion dollars on substance abuse pro-grams annually. If legalization were to increase the rate of substance abuse, wouldn’t these tax revenues be completely negated or even out-competed by the increasing need for treatment?
Additionally, cultivating mari-juana is a much easier process than distilling alcohol. Therefore, illicit growers will still find profit by undercutting corporate venders and by avoiding federal taxes. Also, Mexican drug cartels would still have business in the United States because they too would be able to undercut corporate products by avoiding taxes.
But the decriminalization of mar-ijuana would save the U.S judicial system money, right? Not quite.
Although possession charges would drop dramatically if not alto-gether, there would have to be legis-lation established in order to regu-late the growing and distribution of marijuana. Systems and laws would have to be established to control a spike in marijuana induced DUIs, which police can’t definitively test without access to blood testing. Police raids would still continue on secret growing operations. Those growing and selling without a license would have to be detained and tried for illegal distribution.
A lot of the hypothesized savings are not really savings at all, but instead a swapping of one prob-lem for another. People will always find a way to try and beat the sys-tem. People will grow and sell their own in order to avoid federal taxes, which will bring about an even big-ger problem in regards to tax eva-sion and other serious crimes that will ultimately cost the judiciary department the same, if not more,
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HIV/AIDS awareness not where it should beWhat was once
the disease that shocked and scared
the world nearly 30 years ago, HIV/AIDS has now morphed into one of society’s most com-placent and non-committal issues.
The nightly news seems well-aware of the fact that John Edwards has a secret love child and that Justin Bieber appar-ently punched a photographer, but when it comes to address-ing one of the deadliest com-municable diseases out there, we seem to skip over HIV/AIDS.
Wake up, America. In case you weren’t aware,
HIV/AIDS is still here — right in our own backyard. HIV/AIDS isn’t a disease stuck in the con-fines of Africa, nor is it a disease that only affects homosexual men and IV drug users. Since HIV/AIDS made its debut in the early 1980s, this disease has affected over 60 million people and killed over 25 million indi-viduals worldwide.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.2 million Americans live with HIV/AIDS and over 56,000 new infections are reported each year in the United States alone. If that isn’t enough to catch your attention, get this OSU students: our 20- to 24-year-old population accounts for the most new infections each year in the United States.
We can talk about the star-
tling statistics or the conse-quences of contracting HIV/AIDS, but America’s public has shown a decreased interest in the subject. According to a 2011 Kaiser Family Foundation sur-vey, America showed a “declin-ing sense of national urgency and visibility of HIV/AIDS.”
America ranked HIV/AIDS seventh on the list of national health concerns — plummeting beneath concerns like diabetes, health insurance costs and obe-sity. At least HIV/AIDS made the list, but a disease of this cali-ber deserves more attention. America’s anger, shock and sad-ness over the HIV/AIDS pan-demic that sparked in the 1980s has fizzled into a complacent concern that, quite frankly, has taken the back burner in many citizens’ minds.
I’ll admit — I wasn’t fully aware of the many burdens that come along with HIV/AIDS until recently. After interning with the Valley AIDS Information Network — a local non-profit that focuses on HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention in Linn, Benton and Marion counties — my eyes have been opened widely to the reality of
HIV/AIDS. I have met amaz-ing people who live with this disease and who have made it their lives’ work to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
As an individual that doesn’t have this disease, I don’t have to worry about if I’ll have the energy to go out with friends. I don’t have to worry about how I would pay for my anti-retro-viral therapy HIV medications, which oftentimes cost over $5,000 a month. I don’t have to worry about how to tell my fam-ily that I have HIV/AIDS or what they would think of me.
These may not be con-cerns for me, or you, right at this moment, but they are very real issues for over one million Americans. HIV is too expensive and too deadly to tolerate, and without America’s awareness and support on the issue, the activism component of fighting HIV/AIDS will die. HIV/AIDS is a virus that doesn’t discrim-inate. It doesn’t care if you’re black or white, gay or straight, fat or thin. Though HIV/AIDS can be prevented by not having unprotected sex, not sharing needles and by getting tested for HIV routinely, America is missing the message. This dis-ease is only preventable if you know how to prevent it and practice those safe behaviors.
According to the CDC, 1 of 5 people living with HIV in the United States don’t know they have it — making it so that
these individuals could seem-ingly infect hundreds of people without even knowing it. The harsh stigmas — for instance, that HIV is a disease for only sex workers, IV drug users or gay men — make talking about HIV/AIDS difficult for a vast majority of our population. If we can’t even talk about HIV/AIDS, how are we supposed to stop it?
Activism remains a crucial and necessary component in spreading awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. When it comes to showing support for HIV/AIDS, the little acts count, too.
Read about HIV/AIDS and understand how this disease can be prevented and then share that information with your friends. If a friend is concerned that he or she may have con-tracted HIV, encourage them to get tested at a one of the many free testing sites in Corvallis. If someone is stereotyping indi-viduals living with HIV/AIDS, remind them that this disease doesn’t discriminate.
Most importantly, speak up about HIV/AIDS — after all, if you don’t, who will?
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Sarah Paeth is a senior in public health. The opinions expressed in her columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Paeth can be reached at [email protected].
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lower the price, college isn’t for everyone. Sorry, but college is not a right of the people, nor is it necessary to succeed.
One might think that if fewer people receive education, then we’d have a higher unemployment rate. This wouldn’t hap-pen because businesses would still need employees, so they would change the qualifications candidates need.
Coupled with new attributes needed for employment, those with degrees regain the value of their education. With so many people having obtained degrees now, the value of a college education has decreased. If the government stops giving out financial aid and less people go to college, the value of their education will skyrocket.
Another reason for the government not
providing financial aid is that it’s not the government’s job. The government exists to protect the people from enemies, both foreign and domestic, and protect the rights of the people. Other than those two obligations, the government should not do anything else.
If we’re motivated enough, we can find a way to pay for college. The “rich” would not be the only ones getting educated. Many middle class, and some low class students, would also because they want to attend college. If they value education as a necessary tool to succeed, then they would find a way. Would it be harder to pay for college? Maybe, but harder would depend on the connotation that followed.
If harder means people must search harder for money, then yes. If harder means higher prices, then no, because prices would be lower. People paid for col-lege before the government started giving out financial aid and people can pay for
their education on their own again. The discontinuation of federal finan-
cial aid does not mean that less people will attend college, but it might happen. Again though, college isn’t for everyone, and finding employment would not be a problem. Businesses would adjust to the new market of potential employees and people would adjust to the different types of jobs available based on their skill sets.
Although financial aid seems like a great idea, it has only brought about debt and a huge increase in tuition. If we really want to encourage people to go to col-lege, we have to stop giving them money. Students need to want to go to college and succeed while there. Financial aid isn’t what’s keeping the majority in college; it’s crippling them.
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Drew Pells is a junior in business administration. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Pells can be reached at [email protected].
money to enforce. Many people like to argue that marijuana is a harmless
non-addictive drug that can be casually and recreationally used with little or no long-term side effects. However, the University of Maryland Center for Substance Abuse Research found that over 100,000 people are in rehab treatment for marijuana addiction.
Also, there is a strong correlation between teen users and the likelihood of experiencing depression and thoughts of suicide as a result of smoking pot. Marijuana, like many other drugs, affects the juvenile mind differently than adults because the individual has not reached full physical and mental maturity. If marijuana were to be legalized, it would become even more accessible to teens than it already is today, which would subsequently lead to more use, and more teen-age depression and suicide.
Also, marijuana will not stimulate economic growth, but instead create a swing where money is spent by the average household. Marijuana will destroy families much like addic-tion to alcohol and tobacco has done. Money that should be spent on groceries, basic necessities, music lessons or sports teams will instead go toward the next high.
To say that marijuana is harmless to society, that it will help stimulate the economy and that it will cut federal and state law enforcement expenditures, would all be comments of an uninformed and naïve citizen. Marijuana legalization would disrupt American families by creating a legal substance that discourages socialization and that takes money away from other, more important expenses.
In the same way, it would not stimulate the economy like people believe it will, because it will only draw money away from other industries. Finally, it is obvious that law enforce-ment expenditures will not fall significantly and may even increase as a result of its regulation. Marijuana is not the answer to our problems, but would instead be a socioeco-nomic detriment to our great nation.
tJames Leathers is a sophomore in microbiology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Leathers can be reached at [email protected].
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Jamie Gregory, a major in music education, believes the organization is very important for local youth. “It can really get our community members involved by serving as men-tors and counselors, and it can show our community that restorative justice is a good alternative and an effective tool to help our current justice system.”
Logan’s group is focus-ing on multiple projects. The first is creating and publish-ing a website that will “dis-play stories, poems, artwork and advice from both inside (incarcerated) and outside (OSU) students,” Logan said. “Through these works, viewers could get a better feeling for
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The students are all very grateful to have taken part in the class and encourage other students to take advantage of it in future terms. “This class is a once-in-a-lifetime opportu-nity,” Settelmeyer said. “It does a great job of sparking student interest in making a difference and walks us through starting to do just that.”
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A U.S. official ridiculed as “another blatant lie” a Syrian government report Thursday asserting that terrorists — not security forces — massacred civilians in Houla.
Last weekend’s massacre, which left more than 100 people dead, sparked outrage across the globe and prompted calls for action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
But Syria attributed the latest violence to “armed terrorist groups,” the vague entities that the regime has blamed all along for widespread violence against civilians during the nearly 15 months of unrest.
“The goal of the armed operation was to completely termi-nate the presence of the state in the area and to make it one that is out of the control of the state,” Qasim Jamal Sleiman, head of the investigative panel, said in televised remarks.
“All of the martyrs are from peaceful families who refused to stand against the state and have never demonstrated or carried weapons against the state. They were in disagreement with the armed terrorist groups, which confirms that there was a goal and an interest to kill them.”
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, called the Syrian account “another blatant lie” and said there’s no “factual evidence” to “substantiate that rendition of events.” She said the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, could soon embark on an effort to establish facts in the case and hold people accountable.
The Syrian government investigation said 600 to 800 armed people gathered after Friday prayers at two primary locations and committed the crimes.
“The place where the massacre was committed is an area where armed terrorist groups are present,” Sleiman said. “The security forces did not enter the area before or after the massa-cre and the area is far from the checkpoints where the security forces are positioned.”
—CNN
Syria denies massacre
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and Belmont’s going to be a good team,” said head coach Pat Casey. “I think they beat Vanderbilt and some other teams that have been good so we have to play well, there’s no doubt about that. Hopefully we can do that and score some runs.”
Left-hander Chase Brookshire will likely get the start for Belmont today, and he could cause trouble for an OSU team that has struggled to hit left-handed pitchers at times.
If the Beavers win their first game, it’s unlike-ly that they would face massive underdog UL Monroe, which has won six of its last seven.
“Everybody that’s in the field of 64 is good, so you can’t overlook anybody,” said senior catcher Ryan Gorton. “If you look past some-body you’re going to get stung, so you have to
take it one game at a time.”The host Tigers of LSU are a daunting oppo-
nent because they come from the power-house SEC and carry a potent combination of offense and starting pitching into this week-end’s tournament.
Additionally, LSU will have home-field advantage in the scorching Louisiana heat and humidity, in a stadium that promises to be filled with 10,000-plus screaming fans wearing purple and gold.
“They traditionally have a bigger stadium and more people that attend games, so you can’t get rattled by fans heckling and what not,” Gorton said. “But as far as baseball, the bases are still 90 feet, the pitcher’s mound is still 60 feet 6 inches… It’s still the game we’ve been playing our whole lives, so nothing changes for us.”
“The weather’s the same for them as it is
for us,” added sophomore left-hander Ben Wetzler. “The weather and atmosphere are never an excuse. We just need to go out and play baseball.”
On the field, LSU possesses one of the nation’s top hitters in Raph Rhymes — the SEC Player of the Year as well as a first-team All-American — who has posted a batting average of .459 on the year, which is tops in the country.
The Tigers have another first-team All-American in right-handed starting pitcher Kevin Gausman, who is 10-1 on the year with an ERA of 2.84. LSU will likely save Gausman for Saturday’s game against either Oregon State or Belmont.
Scoring runs has been an inconsistency for the Beavers this season, so getting to the bull-pen is key against Gausman if they face him.
“It’s tough when you’re facing the number two team in the nation,” said junior shortstop
Tyler Smith. “But we’re really confident coming off of the sweep and we’re really excited to get out there.”
Smith is talking about the sweep of the No. 5 national seed Oregon, which the Beavers defeated three times last weekend to ruin the Ducks’ bid for a Pac-12 Championship.
After its best all-around performance of the season, Oregon State enters today’s matchup playing its best baseball of the season.
The Beavers will need to take down an entire-ly different type of giant in LSU if they want to keep their dream of traveling to Omaha alive.
“We have big momentum,” Casey said. “We played very well against a very good team last weekend. But now it starts over in the postseason.”
Andrew Kilstrom, sports writerTwitter: @andrewkilstrom
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ABOVE: Michael Conforto heads back to the dugout after he was retired during Oregon State’s 5-4 win over Stanford on May 6.
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LSuRecord: 43-16Regional seed: 1Fast facts:• No. 7 national seed• Regular season SEC champs• 4-5 in last 9 games• OF Raph Rhymes (SEC Player of the year) leads nation with a .459 avg.• SP Kevin Gausman is rated the fourth best pros-pect eligible for the 2012 MLB Draft (per MLB.com)• All-SEC: Rhymes (1st team), Guasman (1st), OF Mason Katz (2nd)
Oregon StateRecord: 38-18Regional seed: 2Fast facts:• Finished T-4th in the Pac-12• Won last 4 conference series• 9-5 vs. regional hosts (6-2 vs. national seeds)• OF Michael Conforto (Pac-12 Freshman of the Year) led the conference in rBis• All-Pac-12: Conforto (1st team), SS Tyler Smith (1st), 4 honorable mention
BelmontRecord: 39-22Regional seed: 3Fast facts:• Atlantic Sun Tournament and regular season champs• Won 9 of its last 10• 1-2 vs. top 25• Second consecutive post-season appearance• Seven All-A-Sun selections, led by SP Chase Brookshire (1st) and 2B Zac Mitchell (1st)
Louisiana-MonroeRecord: 31-28Regional seed: 4Fast facts:• Sun Belt Tour-nament champs• Won 6 of its last 7• 0-2 vs. top 25
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momentum on their side, but now it all “starts over in the postseason”
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From day one, the Oregon State base-ball team has had one goal — get back to Omaha, Neb., the site of the College World Series.
The first step was making the postseason, which the No. 16 Beavers (38-18) did by qualifying as the No. 2 seed in the Baton Rouge Regional.
The next stage in Oregon State’s quest
to recapture a national championship is a difficult one — a four team, double elimi-nation tournament with only the winner advancing to Super Regionals.
Getting by No. 3 seed Belmont (39-22) and No. 4 seed Louisiana Monroe (31-28) will be a challenge in itself, but taking down No. 7 Louisiana State (43-16) is an even greater test.
Despite the glaring obstacle that LSU provides, Oregon State refuses to overlook any opponent, and is more concerned with taking things one game at a time, starting with today’s game against Belmont.
“There’s no LSU if we don’t beat Belmont,
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Civil War sweep in baseball is something to write home aboutIf Oregon State athletics had a
highlight reel for each school year, the very last showcase for
this past year would undoubtedly be what happened last weekend — sweeping the Ducks in baseball.
Don’t get me wrong, there have been a few pretty good highlight-worthy moments this year.
Oregon State basketball taking down the top-seeded Washington Huskies in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament would probably be a close second, as would post-season appearances for the gymnas-tics, women’s soccer, golf and softball teams.
Those are all great, but there’s one huge, glaring difference: this is the Ducks.
Of all the varsity sports at Oregon State, only softball, women’s bas-ketball and baseball beat the Ducks more times than not during this past year. Three out of 11 teams had a winning record against Oregon.
Taking it further, only two varsity sports (women’s soccer, women’s basketball) finished higher in the Pac-12 standings than the Ducks.
For Oregon State fans, this rivalry has taken quite a turn in the last couple of years.
The Civil War rivalry is starting to look a lot like the pre-2004 Yankees-Red Sox rivalry (Oregon State base-ball already plays “Sweet Caroline” in the middle of the eighth inning, so we may as well just change our colors to red and navy blue), with the Yankees making winning mul-tiple World Series look as easy as taking batting practice, and Red Sox Nation feeling increasingly malevo-lent toward its counterparts.
If anything, though, it has made the rivalry between the Ducks and Beavers more intense.
I’ve fallen victim to this fan mind-set on occasion. It’s so simple to be a Beaver fan and create grand delu-sions about how evil the Ducks are just because we hate how good they are.
For example, the “Star Wars” anal-ogy. Oregon is the Evil Empire, led by an old emperor who does whatever he wants, builds a new and shiny building every other year, even if it got blown up.
Then there’s Darth Vader, the coach of the best team in the empire. He chokes people to death with his mind, hates talking to space media and not a lot of people like him, but we respect how talented Vader is with his lightsaber.
Finally, there’s the stormtroop-ers who get high before every battle (alright, I guess that didn’t happen in “Star Wars”).
Alright, there’s one example of how Beaver fans really see the Ducks in the current landscape. Maybe I’m the only one who sees the “Star Wars” ties, but regardless, one cannot deny the shift in athletic supremacy going south to Eugene very rapidly.
Which brings us to baseball.Baseball was the one thing the
city of Corvallis had over Eugene. Back-to-back national champion-ships at the College World Series,
routine postseason appearances and Pat Casey, one of the best coaches in the sport.
This is only Oregon’s fourth year having a baseball program after a 26-year hiatus. And they’re already number five in the country!
The school is a machine. Baseball was the one sport Oregon
State fans could claim over Duck fans, with all of OSU’s recent history of success and having fielded a NCAA Tournament team in seven of the last eight seasons.
But going into the Civil War series last weekend, who was No. 5 in the country?
That’s right, the Ducks.This is why that sweep was so
important for fans of Oregon State. In nearly every other sport, Oregon has taken the Civil War from the Beavers.
But baseball is still something Beaver Nation can hold on to. Sure, the Ducks had a better season and have the potential to be better for many years down the road. But right now, baseball is OSU’s.
Oregon came into town and got swept by Oregon State. It’s a
moment to be proud of if you’re a Beaver fan. You have to use that and brag to all the Duck fans you know, because it may be a while before an opportunity of this kind presents itself again.
Not to mention it was the last series before the postseason. Sweeping the fifth-ranked team in the nation in the last weekend of the regular season before heading to the NCAA Tournament has got to do wonders for the team’s confidence.
The reasons to be proud as a Beaver fan during the last eight months when it comes to the Civil War have been few and far between, but this is the defining moment for Oregon State, and it happened right at the end of the year.
So don’t be green with envy at the monoliths dedicated to sports tower-ing over U of O’s campus, because there’s still some hope in this rivalry for Oregon State.
There’s still something to write home about.
Warner Strausbaugh, sports writerTwitter: @WStrausbaugh
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Baton Rouge Regional ScheduleTodayGame 1 — #3 Belmont vs. #2 OSU, Noon PT (TV: CSNNW)Game 2 — #4 UL-Monroe vs. #1 LSU, 5 p.m. PT
Saturday, June 2Game 3 — Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser, Noon PTGame 4 — Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner, 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, June 3Game 5 — Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser, 11:30 a.m. PTGame 6 — Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner, 4:30 p.m. PT
Monday, June 4Game 7 — Game 6 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser, 4:30 p.m. PT (if necessary)