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n After years of watching their chances sink, OSU brings home several awards

By Joce DeWittThe Daily BaromeTer

It seems the days of sinking canoes are over for the Oregon State University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

OSU ASCE brought home several awards from the Northwest student conference hosted by University of Washington last weekend, the most notable of which was a first place in the concrete canoe races, which earned them a spot at Nationals in June.

Co-captain Monica Morales, a senior in civil engineering, said this is the first time in 20 years that OSU has qualified for nationals, which will be held in Reno, Nev.

“We’ve always been the underdogs and its finally gratifying,” said Morales, who has been a member of the team for four years. “My freshman year our canoe just crumbled, so we’ve come so far.”

There were multiple divisions of the Seattle competition apart from the con-crete canoe competition These includ-ed the steel bridge contest, in which participants are timed as they construct a bridge, as well as a paper presented before judges. There is a game of tug-of-war, which the OSU team also won, and a concrete horseshoes contest, in which they placed second.

With regards to the canoe team, Tom Miller, faculty advisor for the OSU ASCE chapter and assistant head of civil engineering at OSU, agreed there has been a definite improvement over the last several years.

“The last probably four to five years they’ve improved each year, and this year was the best we’ve ever done,” Miller said.

Within the canoe competition there are four elements that participants are judged on: races, final product, techni-

cal report and presentation. The races themselves were also split into sep-arate divisions; men’s, women’s and co-ed teams competed in the sprint division and the endurance division.

After placing well in the separate division and all elements of competi-tion, the OSU concrete canoe team placed first overall.

It was not easy, however. Morales said there were several mishaps in the co-ed sprint division, including capsizing of the canoe once it hit the wakes of surrounding motorboats and structural damage done by the rescue boat.

“Since the police had created destruction, they said that we were allowed to use duct tape without any penalty,” Morales said.

Once the canoe had undergone suf-ficient repairs, Miller said it beat the finishing times of all other competitors by five seconds.

Now in her second year as an OSU ASCE member, co-captain Lori Vollmer said the team has improved by “leaps and bounds.”

“There were aspects that we were better at last year, but we still main-

tained that level of greatness,” Vollmer said, citing the fact that while the OSU chapter didn’t place in the design report competition last year, they placed first this year. “Our goal was to go to nationals, it says a lot about the teams dedication.”

Jessy Cawley, senior in civil engi-neering at OSU, presented and answered judges’ questions about her paper on “Globalization and Engineering Ethics.”

“One of the biggest points was that there are lots of people affected by our projects who are not necessarily at the design table,” Cawley said about her presentation, adding that she thought the competition offered positive com-petition. “It was so great to be sur-rounded by so many people who are passionate about what they do.”

As students in ASCE compete in several projects and competitions throughout the year, training and preparation is a year-long ordeal.

“They’ve been practicing paddling the whole academic year, practicing paddling for their races and working out physically to do better as they’re working on making the canoe,” Miller

said.Morales said members are busy set-

ting groundwork, having meetings, creating technical designs and physi-cally training from fall to April for the conference.

“Concrete canoe hasn’t gotten much respect,” Morales said. “Now, because of that hard work, we made that respect happen.”

And just because the Northwest conference is over does not mean the work is.

“Right now we’re figuring out the logistics and our paddlers will con-tinue to practice and workout,” Vollner said. “There’s a lot of work to be done, but we’ll make it work.”

Miller was enthusiastic about the way OSU ASCE as a whole was repre-sented last weekend.

“It shows our students work very well in teams and can excel in the technical and nontechnical aspects of the contest,” Miller said.

OSU will be hosting the 2013 Northwest competition.

Joce [email protected] Twitter: @Joce_DeWitt

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EQUESTRIAN: Team seeks support as it preps for Nationals.

SPORTS8 – Women’s golf selected for NCAA Regionals

NEWS3 – Officials defend drone strikes

FORUM4 – Losing our communication skills, farmers’ markets, afterlife

Women more likely to get knee injuries

Building confidence with compliments n Confidence conference last

Friday designed to help boost self esteem, self image

By Katja KozberThe Daily BaromeTer

To mark the end of the DIY 2012 Confidence Conference, a week-long event held by the Women’s Center, 20 different confidence-building work-shops were held on Friday.

The Confidence Conference, which was first held last year, was created by women’s center volunteer Courtney Strohmeyer and some of her cowork-ers. They put the conference together in the hopes of improving the lives of OSU community members after seeing a lack of confidence boosting programming.

“Confidence is something every-body needs,” Strohmeyer said. “(Last year’s convention) completely changed my world; I just hope other people have the experience I did.”

“We believe that confidence is a key aspect in all areas of life,” said Caity Cagle, a multimedia and publication coordinator at the women’s center, who was also one of the main people behind putting the convention togeth-er. “We’re really just hoping students will be able to learn something new or something more.”

Workshops and guest speakers were held each night of the week, but Friday featured 20 different workshops, each hoping to build confidence in their own way. The workshops were led by community members who responded to an open call to all of campus for any-one with helpful knowledge or strate-gies for building confidence.

Topics varied greatly, including workshops on self-motivation, self-acceptance, communication skills, leadership, friendship, finance man-agement and even drag lessons. All topics were organized into four broad categories relating to dimensions of confidence: personal, relationships, image and future, with one topic per category each hour.

Speakers hoped to “hit all the aspects of what students are interested in,” said Tiffany Ly, co-host of a workshop about white privilege in Greek culture. “We hope the attendees gain some valuable insight and put it to use.”

Alea Payne, host of a workshop about Imposter Syndrome, talked about how understanding yourself and how to keep yourself confident will help you through life.

“[This conference] is a really great way for students to strategize how to improve their future,” Payne said.

OSU alumna Stacey Bartholomew, who held a self-acceptance workshop, also emphasized the conference’s importance.

“This conference gives us the oppor-tunity to look at so many pieces of ourselves,” Bartholomew said.

Beyond workshops and guest speak-ers, the week also featured a compli-ment booth, where Strohmeyer and other women’s center workers gave out compliments to people passing through the quad each day of the week.

Looking toward the future, Strohmeyer assures that the convention will be held next year as well and hopes it will continue even after she graduates.

Though this year’s convention has come to a close, all are encouraged to visit or even contribute to the conven-tion next year.

“If more people found this, more people would benefit,” Bartholomew said.

Katja Kozber, [email protected]

on Twitter: @dailybarometer

Chris Knight | Contributed Photo

OSU’s American Society of Civil Engineers is shown with its concrete canoe. The chapter won several different competitions, including a tug-of-war.

ASCE students sweep competition

n Oregon State University researchers discover women more likely than men to suffer knee injuries

By McKinley smithThe Daily BaromeTer

There are many studies trying to understand why women have a higher incidence of non-contact knee injuries than men, but researchers at Oregon State University are taking a unique approach by looking at the central nervous sys-tem responses of males and females.

“We do not fully understand why non-contact (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries occur,” said Sam Johnson, a clinical assistant professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, “although certain movement patterns seem to put the ACL at more risk for injury.”

Non-contact injuries, such as damage to the ACL in the knee, are of particular interest because no physical blow to the knee occurs.

“For example, the individual makes a cutting maneuver or lands from a jump, and the leg col-lapses and the result is an ACL injury,” Johnson said. “This is in contrast to an ACL injury that occurs from a direct blow to the individual’s knee, for example, a tackle from an opponent.”

The study looked at the higher incidence of non-contact ACL injuries among women and postulated that “one possible reason is differ-ences in movement patterns between females and males during certain tasks such as landing and cutting.”

From there, Johnson wanted to know if the central nervous system, which is responsible

for muscle contraction, was somehow behaving differently.

“We found that females and males differed in one specific mechanism. This specific difference was in recurrent inhibition, which is a mecha-nism in the spinal cord that regulates muscle force output,” Johnson said.

Males have increased inhibition, resulting in an application of force similar to that of “explo-sively trained individuals” such as sprinters and jumpers.

According to Johnson, impulses from the cen

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Obama, Bill Clinton join fundraising forcesIn case you had any doubts,

don’t — Bill Clinton’s fully on board President Barack Obama’s re-election effort.

“Barack Obama deserves to be re-elected president of the United States,” the former presi-dent said Sunday night, as he joined the current officeholder at a fundraiser for the Obama re-election campaign.

It was a very different story four years ago, when Clinton was the biggest and most vocal sup-porter of his wife, Hillary Clinton, in her historic battle against Obama for the Democratic pres-idential nomination.

Clinton was a critic of then-Sen. Obama, arguing that the freshman senator wasn’t ready to handle the duties of the Oval Office. Among Clinton’s most controversial comments came when he challenged Obama’s claim to be more against the Iraq War than Hillary Clinton.

“Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen,” the former president said at the time.

But that was then. After Hillary Clinton ended her bid for the nomination, she and her husband took to the cam-paign trail to help Obama win the White House. The rest is

history: Sen. Obama became President Obama and Sen. Clinton became Secretary of State Clinton.

Now, as Obama runs for a sec-ond term in the White House, Bill Clinton will once again serve as one of the current president’s most high-profile surrogates.

“I think he is beating the historical standard for coming out of a financial collapse and a mortgage collapse. I think the last thing you want to do is to turn around and embrace the policies that got us into trou-ble in the first place,” Clinton said at the Sunday fundraiser at the Virginia home of for-mer Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, a longtime member of the Clinton inner circle. “We need to keep going forward by re-electing Barack Obama presi-dent of the United States.”

Later, at the same event, Obama praised his predeces-sor and joked that “you guys get two presidents for one out of this event, which is a pretty good deal.”

But it’s not just fundraisers — the former president had the starring role in an Obama cam-paign video that generated a lot of buzz after it went up online

Friday.“The president is the decid-

er in chief. Nobody can make that decision for you,” Clinton says in the Web video, discuss-ing Obama’s decision-making process to give the go-ahead to carry out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Tuesday is the one-year anniversary of the al- Qaida leader’s death.

“Look, he knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and it hadn’t been bin Laden. Suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him, but he reasoned, ‘I cannot in good conscience do nothing.’ He took the harder and the more hon-orable path and the one that produced in my opinion the best result,” Clinton adds in the video.

The video also questions whether Mitt Romney, the pre-sumptive Republican presiden-tial nominee, would have given the same order.

An Obama re-election official told CNN, “What’s clear is that the Democratic Party is unified for the 2012 campaign,” and added that “President Clinton will help raise money for the campaign at three fundraisers

and we anticipate more activ-ity on the trail as the election approaches.”

The former president can help the current White House occupant in a number of ways: Clinton’s an extremely talented political strategist and surrogate who can campaign for the presi-dent in places such as the Rust Belt and parts of rural America where Obama may not be so popular. With the economy remaining the top issue on the minds of Americans, someone like Clinton touting Obama could remind them of better economic times.

“Former President Clinton represents economic strength in the eyes of most Americans,” Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala said.

“There is no one with more economic credibility than President Clinton — so when he says President Obama will revive the economy and save the middle class, folks listen. I expect to see Clinton making the case all over the country in 2012,” added Begala, who was a top adviser in the Clinton White House and who now is a senior adviser to Priorities USA, the pro-Obama super PAC.

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President Barack Obama on Monday appeared to call out Mitt Romney over what he said about going after Osama bin Laden on the campaign trail four years ago, as opposed to on the eve of the first anniversary of the raid that killed the ter-rorist leader.

Asked about Romney’s comments ear-lier in the day that the decision to go after bin Laden was a clear one and that “even Jimmy Carter would” have made the call, Obama referred to a difference between what Romney said during his 2008 presi-dential campaign and on the eve of the first anniversary of the attack.

“I assume that people meant what they said when they said it,” Obama said during a joint appearance with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. “That’s been at least my practice. I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did. If there are others who said one thing and now suggest they’d do something else, I’d go ahead and let them explain.”

Obama also appeared to take exception with a reporter’s question that suggested there was excessive celebration around the anniversary of the al-Qaida leader’s death, repeating a charge that Republicans have made.

“I hardly think that you’ve seen any

excessive celebration taking place,” Obama said. “I think that the American people likely remember what we as a country accomplished in bringing to justice some-body who killed over 3,000 of our citizens.”

Romney’s spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, responded in a statement that Obama was using the anniversary of bin Laden’s death as “a cheap political ploy” that she said distorted Romney’s policies on fighting terrorism.

“While the Obama administration has naively stated that ‘the war on terror is over,’ Gov. Romney has always understood we need a comprehensive plan to deal with the myriad threats America faces,” Saul said.

U.S. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 during a raid in Pakistan.

The war of words around the bin Laden death anniversary started last week when Obama’s campaign made it an issue in a Web ad that questioned whether Romney would make the same call in the Oval Office. Former President Bill Clinton nar-rates parts of the video, in which he praises Obama’s decision to order the attack. It also points out Romney saying in 2007 that, “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just try-ing to catch one person.” Days later, he

said, “We’ll move everything to get him (bin Laden).”

Asked by a reporter at an event Monday morning whether he would have made the call, Romney said “of course” he would have. “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.”

Surrogates took up the argument over the bin Laden raid on the Sunday talk shows.

Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs defended the campaign, while senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie char-acterized it as a “bridge too far.”

Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, said the video was “not over the line” and criticized comments Romney made on the issue during his first White House bid as “foolish.”

“There’s a difference in the roles they would play as commander in chief, and I certainly think that’s fair game,” Gibbs said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Gillespie, a former aide to President George W. Bush and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said using the raid for political purposes is one of the reasons Obama has “become one of the most divisive presidents in American history.”

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As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepared to depart Monday night for China, President Barack Obama was tight-lipped about the where-abouts of escaped Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his potential impact on the discussions to be held this week in Beijing.

“Obviously, I’m aware of the press reports on the situ-ation in China, but I’m not going to make a statement on the issue,” Obama said in response to a question about whether Chen was under U.S. protection and whether the United States would grant him asylum if he were to ask for it.

“What I would like to emphasize is that every time we meet with China, the issue of human rights comes up,” he said during a joint news con-ference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the White House.

“It is our belief that not only is that the right thing to do, because it comports with our principles and our belief in freedom and human rights, but also because we actually think China will be strong as it opens up and liberalizes its own system.”

“I have nothing for you on that subject,” State Department spokeswom-an Victoria Nuland said in response to a question about whether Chen is in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, as reports have said.

Nuland confirmed that Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell was in Beijing, paving the way for Clinton’s arrival, but would not elaborate.

“I don’t have anything fur-ther on that,” Nuland said of whether Campbell’s visit was related to Chen.

When pressed, she contin-ued, “I have nothing for you on anything having to do with that matter.”

Chen, a blind, self-taught lawyer, evaded guards who had kept him under house arrest for more than 18 months in a small eastern village and made his way to Beijing on April 22, friends and fellow activists said last week.

Once in the capital, Chen moved from safe house to safe house before finding refuge at the U.S. Embassy, according to Hu Jia, a fellow activist and one of the few people who has

said he has seen Chen since he arrived in Beijing.

“This is a pivotal moment for U.S. human rights diplo-macy,” said Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid, a Texas-based Christian human rights orga-nization seeking freedom for Chen, in an opinion piece published Monday in The Washington Post. “The United States must stand firmly with this broadly popular individ-ual or risk losing credibility as a defender of freedom and the rule of law.”

ChinaAid, citing “a source close to the Chen Guangcheng situation,” said Sunday that Chen was under U.S. pro-tection and that “high-level talks are currently under way between U.S. and Chinese officials” regarding his status.

The situation presents an extraordinary test for the Obama administra-tion’s approach to relations with China, creating a strain between upholding human rights and maintaining steady ties with Beijing.

Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are scheduled to hold talks with Chinese officials in Beijing starting Thursday

about strategic and econom-ic issues. But the Chen affair could overshadow the eco-nomic talking points.

“If Chen is holed up in the U.S. Embassy, it is hard to fath-om how the two sides will stay focused on the many press-ing geostrategic and econom-ic challenges in the relation-ship,” Christopher Johnson, a China analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, wrote in an opinion article for CNN.

The blind activist’s flight from detention comes at a highly sensitive time for Chinese authorities. The rul-ing Communist Party has been rocked by a scandal involving former high-ranking leader Bo Xilai, whose wife is under investigation in relation to the mysterious death of a British businessman in the southwest-ern metropolis of Chongqing.

The downfall of Bo, the for-mer Chongqing party chief who is now being investigated in connection with serious dis-ciplinary violations, has cre-ated shock waves ahead of a once-in-a-decade leadership transition in China that is due to unfold this year.

— CNN

Obama withholds comment on Chen case

The Obama administration publicly jus-tified its use of unmanned drones to target suspected terrorists overseas for the first time Monday, with a top official saying the strikes are conducted “in full accordance with the law.”

John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counterrorism adviser said strikes are used when the option of capture is not fea-sible. Brennan discussed the strikes during a Monday address at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington think-tank.

“President Obama said here five years ago, if another nation cannot or will not take action, we will,” Brennan said. “And it is an unfortunate fact that to save many innocent lives we are sometimes obliged to take lives — the lives of terrorists who seek to murder our fellow citizens.”

The program utilizes unmanned aeri-al vehicles, often equipped with Hellfire missiles, to target al-Qaida operatives in remote locations overseas — often on the territory of U.S. allies such as Pakistan and Yemen. Brennan said the United States “respects national sovereignty and inter-national law” and is guided by the laws of war in ordering those attacks.

But the attacks have drawn repeated condemnations from Pakistan, which says the strikes have killed numerous civil-ians. A drone strike hit a high school in the country’s northwestern tribal region where intelligence officials said Islamic militants were hiding Sunday, bring-ing a fresh denunciation from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

And domestic critics insist that the program isn’t legal, and they remain concerned about the targeted killing of Americans like accused al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in a drone strike in Yemen in September.

“Mr. Brennan supplies legal conclu-sions, not legal analysis,” said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil

Liberties Union. “We continue to believe that the administration should release the Justice Department memos underlying the program — particularly the memo that authorizes the extrajudicial killing of American terrorism suspects. And the administration should release the evi-dence it relied on to conclude that an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, could be killed without charge, trial, or judicial process of any kind.”

A woman stood up in the middle of Brennan’s speech to protest the use of the drone strikes. She was carried out by security.

Brennan’s remarks are the Obama administration’s most candid and open confirmation of the program to date. Attorney General Eric Holder defended the killing of al-Awlaki in March, say-ing the United States had the right to use “technologically advanced weap-ons” against terrorists, and Brennan said the top lawyers for the Pentagon, State Department and CIA have laid out the legal basis for the attacks.

“When considering lethal force, we are of course mindful that there are important checks on our ability to act unilaterally in foreign territories,” he said. “We do not use force whenever we want, wherever we want. International legal principles, including respect for a state’s sovereignty and the laws of war, impose constraints. The United States of America respects national sovereignty and international law.”

Brennan said people are targeted if they are believed to pose a significant threat to the United States or its overseas interests. The targets are usually people holding high-ranking positions within al Qaeda, or who possess critical skills that help enable the terrorist organization to carry out attacks, and there is no feasible chance to capture them.

Arguments in favor of the method include the fact that no U.S. troops are put at risk, and that the precision tar-geting capabilities enable for the care-ful avoidance of civilian deaths. Brennan acknowledged that innocent civilians are killed sometimes, and the administration conducts a full review of the operation when that happens.

But he did not address the issue of backlash from al Qaeda or other organiza-tions. In 2009, a CIA base in Afghanistan was targeted by a suicide bomber who posed as a double agent and killed seven CIA Officers along with a Jordanian intel-ligence official. A Taliban commander claimed that the attack was in retaliation for a drone strike.

And he said the program is now spread-ing beyond the United States, saying that other countries have the technol-ogy -- casting light for the first time on the administration’s concerns about the possibility that other countries using this technology against the United States.

“President Obama and those of us on his national security team are very mind-ful that as our nation uses this technol-ogy, we are establishing precedents that other nations may follow,” he said. “And not all of them will be nations that share our interests or the premium we put on protecting human life, including innocent civilians.”

Brennan also revealed that there are disagreements over use of the program within the administration -- but he added that the nation is at war.

“If anyone in government who works in this area tells you they haven’t strug-gled with this, then they haven’t spent much time thinking about it. I know I have, and I will continue to struggle with it as long as I remain involved in counterterrorism.”

— CNN

Brennan defends Obama adminstration drone strikes

tral nervous system that get the mus-cles to contract may be regulated differ-ently in males and females.

“The impulse is still an action poten-tial coming from the spinal cord telling the muscle to contract in both men and women,” Johnson said. “It just appears that the way the impulse action potential is regulated as it comes out of the spinal cord is different between the sexes (at least in the positioning that the testing was done for this study).”

ACL injuries can be devastating, often requiring reconstructive surgery and an increased likelihood of reinjury. According to Johnson, individuals who have suffered a previous tear are also

more likely to suffer from osteoarthritis, even after surgical reconstruction.

Because these injuries can be so debili-tating, research like Johnson’s that looks into the causes can be used to better understand these non-contact knee inju-ries and possibly identify preventative measures.

Programs exist that have shown some success toward non-contact ACL inju-ry prevention even though the specific causes for their success are unknown or unproven.

“I think the thing I tell people most that’s not uncommon in medicine is that we used aspirin for decades before we knew how it worked. We knew that it relieved pain and reduced fever, but didn’t know how,” said Mark Hoffman, a senior author on the study and associate dean

of undergraduate studies in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

According to Hoffman, efforts need to continue to figure out why some pro-grams are successful and working, but “we don’t need to wait until we know everything.”

Johnson and Hoffman are current-ly conducting a related study that will examine “an individual’s spinal motor control, landing strategy, and the effects of instructions on landing.”

“We are actively recruiting healthy males and females, as well as females who have had one ACL reconstruction,” Johnson said.

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Technology is awesome. It makes our lives easier in almost an infinite number

of ways — except one. It is single handedly destroying

this generation’s communication skills.

“But Alex, thanks to technology, we have so many more mediums of communication! Texting allows us more opportunity to connect with each other.”

Here’s an analogy for you: Texting is to connecting with people as doughnuts are to effective weight loss.

Text messages are the easy, empty calories of communication. You may feel nourished by each text you digest, but you’re really not getting much out of it. In fact, it’s actually destroying you slowly.

What are you not getting out of them? Real validation, empathy and any real connection.

The words someone is saying mean little without tone, vocal pac-ing, amplitude of volume (yes, I understand all capital letters rep-resents yelling, and no, that’s not a legitimate replacement) and body language to validate them (smiley faces aren’t body language). These are invaluable in creating a connec-tion with someone. And yet, many relationships are sustained through texting.

I’m sure you’re also wondering how texting could possibly hurt you. It’s simple, texting annihilates our abilities in both speaking and

writing due to people using it as a replacement for both.

First, speaking is an art, with a lot of different elements. No two people speak to others the same way, and the same person constantly changes how they speak based on their envi-ronment and who they’re talking to. There are a few effective methods of speaking to others, and there are tons of ineffective ways.

The only way to improve your skills as a speaker is to practice. And this isn’t just one on one practice; this is practice in small groups, in large crowds, in the classroom, at meetings, for the media, etc. Those are a lot of different types of speak-ing, and each one takes a lot of time to get comfortable with.

Back when talking was the only method of communication, people still varied widely in their skills in each situation. Often, the experts in each medium of speech were selected and assigned their part as a profession.

Fast forward to present day and we have couples and groups sitting across from each other at a restau-rant table texting and surfing the web on their phones. Not just one person — all of them. Not just to fill a lull — almost the entire time. Heck,

some of them don’t even look up to order their food, they tell their order to their phone and hope the waiter or waitress is listening.

This is sickening. One-on-one communication should be what we’re best at, as people tend to have the most practice in this setting. There are millions of subjects in the world to talk about and people would rather just sit on their phones when they’re with another person or a group of people? How are people not up in arms about this?

If students have to speak formal-ly, it only gets worse. It’s become a well-known fact that the most com-mon fear is public speaking, and it shows in classes with speeches. I’m willing to bet that if these students were offered the opportunity to text their speech to everyone, instead of speaking it, they’d take it hands down.

And then there’s writing. Ask any teacher and they’ll tell

you a horror story about a paper they received that contained abbre-viations like “lol,” used “u” for “you,” or “2” for “to” or ”too.” This doesn’t happen because they were taught this in school; it happens because they spend more time writing text messages than stories and essays.

It’s not just papers either. College students are sending emails to their professors with phrases like “c u in class,” and “i have 2 go 2 the dr tmrw.” It’s a wonder we even have English classes in K-12 school if this how some students still write.

Some will argue with me that these alternate methods of com-munication allow us to maintain long distance relationships, which would otherwise be impossible to keep going. To be completely frank, if they’re leaving for a short period of time, the lack of communica-tion will be positive, as it’ll give you something to talk about when they get back. If it’s a long period, write letters.

There are people that have made vows to give up technology for a certain period of time, which forced them to write letters to communi-cate with people they couldn’t con-veniently meet up with. If you look up their stories, almost all of them admit letters added so much more to the conversation, giving some-thing to look forward to, a sentimen-tal touch and room for personaliza-tion through artistic means.

I understand texting is conve-nient. Yes, it’s easy and quick. But it does not replace speaking or writing.

Next time you see a couple at a restaurant table and both of them are just on their phones texting away, walk up to them and ask why they’re eating together if they’re not even going to look at each other, let alone talk. Tell them I sent you.

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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].

You may have seen me last week in the MU quad sitting behind the Ask an Atheist

booth hosted by the Advocates for Freethought and Skepticism. Students of all kinds, mostly fellow atheists and freethinkers, dropped by.

Of the religious individuals that did come up to ask questions, a friendly discussion ensued. There were no death threats or shouts that we would burn in hell, unlike previ-ous booths we had set up. One per-son, however, did throw water at us.

And while many questions sur-faced with the dozens of interactions that occurred over my two days in the quad, there was one theme that

kept surfacing: heaven.

Every person who claimed to believe in a god or gods also admit-ted to a belief in heaven or an after-life. Of all of the arguments I heard, the idea of an awesome afterlife being an argument for faith or reli-gion was one that kept poking up.

Many people expressed that life lost hope or meaning if there was no life after death, a heaven to see loved ones long gone. People wanted to see those who had done bad things get punished, that there is a reason

for everything and those who did good were rewarded in ways that our simple mortal life could not offer.

There are a couple of assump-tions made by those who believe in life after death that need to be spelled out: (a) In order for life to have meaning or purpose, it needs to be eternal and unending, and (b) there is a cosmic justice — those that do bad will be punished.

These two assumptions are truly terrifying propositions. The idea that life goes on eternally is only appeal-ing when we briefly consider the short life we have here and now.

But with any amount of thought, the idea of eternal life would become mind-drudgingly boring.

Imagine going to a party and not being able to leave for 30 billion years, when our universe will suffer from its entropic heat death and you still have all of eternity to keep partying.

The idea that life after death also gives our life here meaning is just as foolish. The idea of an afterlife cheapens the value of our life here and now. If we accept death as the true end of our life, it means every second is precious to us, every moment worth treasuring, because we will never experience those sec-onds ever again.

I get the desire for life to have

How well do you know your food? Sure we know what store it came from, maybe

even how much we paid for it. But who grew it? Who mixed the ingredients? In what country did it originate?

With the flattening of the world economy, your grocery store has prod-ucts from all over the world. In fact, your fruits and vegetables can travel over 1,500 miles and may have been harvested up to two weeks prior.

This allows us to have a lot of fresh produce year-round. But it also con-tributes to a growing dependence on monoculture, the corporate agricul-ture of growing a single crop, which is not so good for the environment or the local farmer.

However, there is an alternative to the grocery store: the farmer’s market.

Over the past ten years, farmer’s markets across the country have experienced rapid growth. As of 2010, the Department of Agriculture had 6,132 markets registered. It has quickly grown from a niche market, frequent-ed only by hippie-types, to the main-stream, popular with everyone, young and old.

The trend is great; it means

people are buying fresher, more nutri-ent-rich produce than typically found in the grocery store. It also benefits the local economy, with money going directly to local farmers rather than funneled to a corporate conglomer-ate with no local roots. It appears to be a win-win situation, with both the consumer and the farmer benefiting.

While the benefits are many, they are reserved for a select few.

Currently, farmer’s markets cater to the upper and middle class, people with disposable income. You’ll find a weekend farmer’s market on main street suburbia in almost every corner of the country. Most inner cities, how-ever, continue to live in “food deserts,” where people have little access to any healthy food.

Supermarkets fled the inner cit-ies with the affluent classes, leaving poorer residents to shop at conve-

nience stores selling slurpees and chili dogs. Farmer’s markets usually avoid the inner city, unless it is catering to a posh audience like the Manhattan Greenmarkets.

Due to worries about profitability and safety, poorer, inner city residents have few options. Without the option to buy something healthy, a person cannot reasonably shoulder all the blame for a poor diet. So before point-ing a finger, we all need to dig a little a deeper.

If people are only given a choice between McDonald’s and 7-Eleven, then no wonder the rates for every type of chronic, lifestyle and diet-relat-ed disease is higher in poorer, inner-city populations. It may not be that they just don’t eat healthy; it is that they do not have healthy options.

Thankfully, some states are recog-nizing and addressing this problem.

In 2011, New Jersey began the New Jersey Fresh Mobiles Initiative to send mobile farmer’s markets into desig-nated food deserts.

In addition, the state government would allow low-income residents to pay for healthy food with food vouch-ers. This program gives neighbor-

hoods access to the fresh produce so many take for granted, and supplies small, local farmers with another mar-ket to sell their goods in. This is truly win-win for everyone.

Many activist and non-profit groups promote inner city access to fresh produce through similar programs. Hopefully, with continued effort, it will be easier for someone to shop at a farmer’s market than a convenience store.

I hope that farmer’s markets con-tinue to grow, offering local food to the community. But for the health of our country, we need to make sure that everyone is able to enjoy the benefits of fresh vegetables and fruits.

It is not an easy problem to solve. We’ll have to put our heads together and, like New Jersey, think of creative ways to give everyone access to afford-able, healthy food from local markets. People can only be as healthy as their options allow, so let’s help give every-one the power to choose healthy.

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David Schary is a Ph.D. candidate in exercise and sports psychology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Schary can be reached at [email protected].

Women & Secret ServiceThe party never stops, or

definitively starts. An unnamed U.S. govern-

ment source spoke about last year’s El Salvador charade, where Secret Service members spent time at a strip club in the VIP section, where they received sexual favors for cash. The club owner confirmed the case and says he “rou-tinely” takes care of government offi-cials — from the FBI to the USDEA.

“Routinely” is a nice way of putting it, when it’s clear there is a serious, more prolonged issue at hand. The 147-year-old Secret Service doesn’t get caught in a scandal like the Colombian one on its first try; this has clearly been going on for decades. There is a systemic problem.

Likely, it’s partly due to exotic loca-tions, a sense of entitlement and free-dom at the nation’s expense, and loose and lenient leadership from the execu-tive over the years — there are a variety of factors which allow persons in such positions of power to fall into these traps.

The obvious fix would be a full-scale investigation, as is going on now, as to who, what and how these agents find the opportunity to acquire and partake in such services. Hopefully, it will lead to changes in policy.

But an investigation, at best, will only lead to a turnover in personnel, likely toward the top. It’s a penalty, but not an automatic deterrent.

So, some have suggested women. More women are the answer.

Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) says there “would be some progress if there was more diversi-ty and if there were more women... a diversity of people, it brings more accountability.”

As most would assume, a woman is not susceptible to paying for sexual favors or spending down time com-mitting illegal activities. Some would suggest men surrounding men only reinforces the poorest of male stereo-types. A woman in charge, or involved, would not let such an incident happen.

But these are societal assumptions and they aren’t necessarily needed to argue for women getting involved with-in the agency.

According to Secret Service spokes-man Ed Donovan, currently, women make up only 11 percent of the agents and officers — compared to 19 percent of agents in the FBI. It’s highly unlikely that that many men are that much superior to their female counterparts.

Women are just as capable of the aptitude, prowess, tenacity and loy-alty required for a Secret Service agent. Women should not be ignored purely on how opposing forces and parties may view the agency — let others mis-judge the authority. The Secret Service, or any government agency for that matter, shouldn’t dictate who gets hired and employed based on gender.

Women in the Secret Service may very well be the answer to this sys-temic issue. Not because women are less susceptible to vices than men, but because women are just as capable of avoiding vices as men, even if history says otherwise.

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meaning; we all want to have an impact. But meaning is achieved by those individuals who go out and do something, not by those who sit around and ponder how awesome the next life is going to be.

However, by far the most frightening idea of an afterlife is the idea of hell. Nearly every religion has some form of hell, a place for individuals who did not follow their god or gods’ command-ments go to suffer — And oh how they suffer.

“Dante’s Inferno” goes into painstaking detail on how each and every sin is punished in cruel and horrendous ways. The Koran also goes into exacting detail on how people are punished. I have several friends who are absolutely terrified of the idea of hell and they suffer every day out of fear of facing eternal damnation and punish-ment for their actions.

No decent person should be comfortable with the fact that if hell existed, millions of peo-ple would be undergoing unbearable pain and agony, the majority of which for trivial reasons. Even the worst criminals the human race has produced — Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot — do not deserve eternal punishment, no matter how much hate or anger we carry for them.

Hell would be a monstrous place that would

have to be created by an equally monstrous deity to worship. Give me a freedom to choose my own purpose and meaning any day over kneel-ing before any deity that created a hell.

To be fair, I have no clue what happens when I die. I believe that I simply cease to exist.

This prospect doesn’t frighten me in the slight-est; I was dead for billions of years before my birth, and I will be dead billions of years after-wards. I won’t have a chance to care about the nothingness of it because I’ll be, you know, dead. Hopefully people will find my life worthwhile enough, my personality charming enough, that some memory of me will live on, the only bit of me that lives forever.

Until then, I will put on my seatbelt, wear my bike helmet and eat my leafy greens. And most likely, so will you, because deep down, you know the idea of an afterlife is ridiculous.

Otherwise, why would you wear a seatbelt in a car, when heaven is only a jackknifed semi-truck collision away? If that question has you jumping through hoops to explain your position, maybe it’s time to rethink your thoughts on the subject.

Or you just shrug and live the hell out of life.

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

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Response to teacher strike

Columnist Fix not qualified to commentRobert Fix’s column about the teach-

er strike in Gresham is one of the most ignorant pieces of writing I have ever read, and as the son of two teachers, I feel obligated to respond.

First off, since Fix admits that he doesn’t “quite understand the prep time issue,” let’s cover that. My father taught high school in Oregon for over 30 years, and would regularly have upwards of 120 students in six different classes. How much daily prep time were teach-ers at his school allotted? About 50 minutes.

Sure, we could run with the author’s idea to extend the school day, but that conveniently ignores the fact that most teachers already work each day from 7:30 a.m. until at least 4:30 p.m., plus the two or three hours of grading and curriculum planning work that they bring home each night.

Additionally, Fix’s “9-to-5” solution ignores the fact that public schools can barely afford to stay open on their cur-rent schedules. It is an idea that is more of a joke than a solution.

Fix’s ignorance about what goes into a teacher’s job may be somewhat defensible, but the assertion in the sec-ond half of the column that teachers are greedy and selfish is not. In Oregon, the average starting teacher salary is about $30,000. Even when benefits are fac-tored in, that’s an absolute pittance for an employee who has a master’s degree and works as hard as a teacher does.

Teachers put up with more scruti-ny and day-to-day nonsense than Fix could ever possibly understand, and to insinuate they are greedy for fighting for a cost-of-living salary increase is both ludicrous and offensive.

In these tough economic times there is certainly room for debate on this issue, but there absolutely no room for the ignorance of people like Robert Fix.

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Letter to the EditorAgriculture is too important to get only one dayAs Agriculture Day

approaches, and one thinks about the count-

less ways that agriculture affects our day-to-day life, it quickly becomes apparent that one day dedicated to such a vital industry is not enough.

In light of the recent Yahoo! Article, it becomes obvious agri-culture isn’t recognized for the day-to-day amenities and luxu-ries it has provided. Even though events such as Ag Day are a call for the recognition agriculture deserves, there is still more that needs to be done to fight the mis-conceptions agriculture faces.

The Yahoo! Article declaring agriculture a “useless” major is based on job outlook, not neces-sarily a particular degree’s impor-tance to society. In addition to this, the Yahoo! Article looked at agriculture in a very narrow view; the article did not encompass all of the industries affected by the 21 million jobs, according to Western Farm Press.

To think of agriculture so sim-plistically is arrogant, because in fact, agriculture encompasses many industries.

When you think about agricul-ture, food is probably what comes to mind; however, agriculture affects many other industries as well, such as the meat packag-ing industry, tire industry, bio-technology, clothing industries and renewable energy industries. Agricultural products are in gum, toothpaste and glue. Agriculture affects the manufacturing of plas-tics, pharmaceuticals and count-less other products and industries.

Agriculture is not a narrow spectrum of people; it is a way of life. It encompasses us and affects us everyday in ways that most people don’t realize.

While the economy is currently in a downturn and many indus-tries are shrinking, agricultural exports have actually increased. The last fiscal year, agriculture

exports were worth $137 billion, according to Western Farm Press.

Furthermore, the perception that those working within the agricultural industry are just as simplistic is far from the truth. The truth is, no one cares more about the earth and its resources than agriculturalists.

Farmers care about the soil and its quality more than anyone. Ranchers watch over their cattle’s health and wellbeing closely, and all agriculturalists strive, in some part, to conserve the resources, to improve and sustain the environ-ment that we have. Those within the meat-packaging industry care about the quality of product they produce and its safety, and those within the biotechnology industry are constantly working to improve products and decrease the effect upon the earth.

The truth is, the men and women who work within the agriculture industry are the most passionate about conserving the resources the earth has to offer and take the utmost pride and care in producing the best product they can. You won’t find another group of people more passion-ate or determined to sustain the environment.

Agriculturalists are constantly working to improve the liveli-hoods of all, including humani-tarian efforts. Many projects have been implemented in the third-world countries around the world — many of these projects are headed by Oregon State University students and researchers.

Projects range from purifying drinking water, improving agricul-tural production (or in some cases implementing agricultural pro-duction) and providing food for these areas to be sustainable and to combat hunger. In these areas, soil quality is often poor. However,

sustainable and responsible agri-cultural production improves soil quality, as evident in Burkina Faso, where 100,000 hectares of aban-doned and degraded lands have been improved by agricultural endeavors. Sustainability is also exemplified in the century farms — farms that have farmed on the same plot of land for over 100 years are given this distinction.

Within the Willamette Valley, our climate favors production of grass seed. So much so, that the Willamette Valley is the grass seed capital of the world.

In 2009, the farm gate value of the grass seed in the Willamette Valley was $300 million down from $500 million before the recession.

According to Oregon Seed Council, the grass seed farm-ing drives more than $1 billion of economic activity in Oregon, and the industry employs 10,000 Oregonians. This is just one example of how agriculture can drive an economy, and here in the Willamette Valley, it is vital to our economy.

Every day, people should recog-nize the impacts that agriculture has had upon everyone’s daily lives and should respect those within the industry that worked towards improving the lives of others in countless ways. Even if your major isn’t within the College of Agricultural Sciences, chances are it is affected by agriculture in some way.

Even if you do not plan to work within the industry, this doesn’t mean that you cannot have a pas-sion for agriculture and its prev-alence in our society, economy and day-to-day lives. Before you decide to criticize the agricultur-al industry, I offer the following advice: Don’t criticize a farmer when your mouth is full.

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Affirming strong ties in a time of chal-lenges, President Barack Obama and vis-iting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Monday hailed an agreement to move U.S. Marines from Okinawa and expressed solidarity against North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

The two leaders held bilateral talks at the White House and then labeled U.S.-Japan ties an essential alliance for both countries and the Asia-Pacific region.

They confirmed that much of their dis-cussion Monday focused on North Korea, which has signaled plans to conduct a nuclear test after its recent failed missile launch. The United States and Japan lead an international effort to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms ambitions.

“There is a great possibility they will conduct a nuclear test,” Noda said of North Korea, adding that the issue deep-ened the U.S.-Japan alliance through their cooperative efforts.

Obama also noted how consultations between his government and Japan around the failed missile launch earlier this month showed the importance of the alliance.

“We continue our close consultations on the provocative actions of North Korea, which are a sign of weakness and not strength and only serve to deepen Pyongyang’s isolation,” Obama said

Noda is Japan’s sixth prime minister in five years, a reflection of political volatility amid an economic slowdown worsened by the global recession.

He came to power in September as the Pacific power continued struggling with the effects of last year’s earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 16,000 people and triggered a nuclear power plant meltdown.

In his remarks at a joint news confer-ence, Noda thanked the United States for its support in the aftermath of the disas-ter and said the Japan-U.S. alliance “has reached new heights.”

Last week, the two governments addressed a thorny issue of recent years with a plan for the United States to relo-cate about half of its 19,000 Marines based on Okinawa to other places in the Pacific region.

While the relocation faces some opposition in Congress and Japan, the announcement of an agreement signaled a desire by the countries to work together on a way forward in bilateral relations.

Obama praised Noda for his role in addressing the longstanding problem of opposition on Okinawa to the U.S. mili-tary presence.

“The realignment approach being taken is consistent with the security interests of both Japan and the United States,” Obama said, noting it fit his strat-egy announced in Australia last year of broadening the U.S. military presence in the region to offset China’s growing dominance.

Another topic Monday was Japan’s pos-sible membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade alliance that is part of Obama’s strategy to increase U.S. exports and influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

Participants so far in negotiations on the partnership include Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States.

Canada and Mexico also have expressed interest in joining, and Obama said U.S. and Japanese officials will consult on pos-sible Japanese participation.

Last month, Noda issued a sobering

and reflective assessment of his country’s recovery a year after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear melt-down at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The resulting release of radioactivity forced residents of several towns near the plant to flee their homes, and a 20-kilo-meter (12.4-mile) zone around the plant remains closed to the public.

Only two of Japan’s 53 nuclear reactors remain in operation, with others taken offline for routine maintenance and then idled.

The strain on the grid with summer approaching is raising concern in cor-porate Japan, which fears it won’t have enough power to run production lines in the country.

“In case there is a short-term supply and demand gap of energy, it could cause downward pressure on the economy. We must avoid that,” Noda told CNN last month.

The prime minister faces not just the nuclear cleanup and disaster reconstruc-tion, but an economy facing intense pressure.

Japan’s currency, the yen, remains at historic highs versus the U.S. dollar.

A high yen makes it more expensive for Japanese corporations to make a profit when the funds are repatriated, dragging down corporate profits, domestic invest-ment and employment.

Japan’s debt-to-gross domestic product ratio is highest among developed nations, topping 200 percent. The country is also aging at an unprecedented rate. By the year 2050, the government projects, 40 percent of the population will be older than 65, straining public funds while rely-ing on a dwindling tax base.

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This dedication exists throughout the team, but is especially profound amongst the group that is making the trip to Nationals this year. Kelsey Schuetz, an employee at the school’s horse barn, and fellow horse enthusiast, offers her insight on the team’s prog-ress and determination to be the best and represent their school as such.

“They work their butts off,” Schuetz said. “I board my horse here, and I don’t get to use the arena until about nine o’clock at night because they have practices from l0 a.m. until 9 [p.m.]. And I’m sorry, but no one else does that. You just don’t see that.”

It is a grueling regimen that Newman, Whitman and

Sergeant have all grown accus-tomed to. However, while they fight for their passion, and likewise fight for Oregon State, little support from fellow stu-dents and a tight budget has begun to wear some members down.

“Every single year, at the end of the year, you ask your-self, ‘Can I do this again?’” Whitman said. “There are so many outside factors in this organization, especially when you are riding, that you can’t control. You are riding horses you have never ridden before [at nationals]. Sometimes, it is luck of the draw,” Whitman said. “But Dawn and this team are the reason why I am back here. I couldn’t not come back my senior year for them.”

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1500 meter section three race, where she ran a time of 4:17.70 and placed fifth overall. Not only will the time keep Carlyle in the top 100 runners in the 1500 meters this season, but it also broke the school record she set in 2011 of 4:18.73.

Carlyle has now broken a school record four times this track season. During the indoor season she broke her own school record in the indoor mile three separate times.

“She has struggled ever since the NCAA indoor champi-onships meet because she was really disappointed at the NCAAs,” Sullivan said. “Then she hasn’t felt great for the last six weeks due to allergies. The Oregon State doctors that over-see our group have been working with her and helping her with her breathing problems, and they have done a great job. She was able to breathe better this week and tonight. A 4:17 in the 1500 meters is really good and it is extremely legitimate.”

The Beavers will return to action May 5 when they split up to compete at the Oregon Twilight and the Linfield Twilight, which will be the last competition for Oregon State before the Pac-12 Championships on May 12.

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Women’s rowing wins 2N8 at WSU in final regular season racesBy oregon state

athletic CommunicationsPULLMAN, Wash. — The Oregon State

women’s rowing team claimed one victo-ry in five races against No. 16 Washington State at Wawawai Landing on the Snake River on Saturday, but made notable progress as it heads back to Corvallis to prepare for the Pac-12 Championships in two weeks.

The Beavers’ second novice eight beat the Cougars by 26 seconds while their varsity eight came up short of Washington State by only three seconds in what was the closest race of the day.

“We got a lot out of the races today in Pullman,” Oregon State head coach Emily Ford said. “I think the team is making good progress and we’re looking forward

to some great racing at Pac-12s.”The 2N8’s victory was never in doubt

as the Beaver crew led from the start and had a very solid race. Washington State caught some crabs near the finish line, which cemented the result. OSU came across in 7:25.7 over Washington State’s 7:46.8.

“The 2N had a great race today,” Ford said. “They capped off their season with a bang and I was thrilled for them.”

In the V8, Oregon State had a nice start, but struggled to press in the middle of the race. The Beavers led until about 750 meters remained before WSU pulled ahead for the narrow victory.

OSU came up short in the 2V8 as the crew lost most of its margin in the first 750 meters and couldn’t mount a come-

back. In the V4, Oregon State finished the course second at 7:57.58. The boat was solid in the first 500 meters, struggled in the middle,then came on strong again in last 500, coming in seven seconds behind the Cougars.

The Beavers’ 1N8 caught a boat stop-ping crab 400 meters in and they were unable to recover. At the time, they were leading and having a strong race.

With the results, Washington State cap-tured both the Crawford Perpetual Plate (V8) and the Winchell Cup (overall score).

Oregon State will have a week off before the Pac-12 Championships on Saturday, May 13 at the Sacramento State Aquatics Center on Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif.


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Three regional tournaments (West, Central, East) with 24 teams and six individu-als in each were announced on Monday and the top eight teams and two individuals from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships May 22-25 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn.

The Beavers are the No. 18 seed in the West Regional and the 54-hole event will be played at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colo., with the University of Colorado serving as host.

“There are a lot of emotions going on right now — excited, happy and finally getting over the nerves to see if we would make it,” Oregon State assis-tant coach Kailin Downs said. “There was so much buildup over the past couple of months trying to stay in position we needed to be in order to be selected. After six years (of not making it), it definitely feels great and is very exciting to be going back. We feel that we deserve it and have worked hard all season to get to this point.”

With a mix of veterans and newcomers, Oregon State has enjoyed one of its best sea-sons in history with four top-5 and six top-10 finishes in their 11 tournaments. The Beavers shot school-record 2-under 282 in the second round of the Stanford Intercollegiate in Stanford Calif., and equaled their second-best round in school history with an even-par 288 in the final round of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Alexander and Downs have gone with a consistent lineup the past seven tournaments with senior Whitney French, junior Rachael Fischer, soph-omores Lauren Sewell and

Seshia Telles and freshman Anica Yoo leading the way.

“This is very exciting for me, especially because this is my last year,” French said. “We as a team didn’t want to end the season on the note that we did at the Pac-12 Championship. This gives us another chance to showcase what we can do. I am very excited for this oppor-tunity that we get another shot because now it is anyone’s game.”

“I felt really happy because we were one of the last schools to be called on the selection show, which made it very stressful,” Sewell said. “My heart was beating super fast and I didn’t know if we were going to get picked.”

“I am very overwhelmed right now just because I didn’t know what to expect through-out the entire day,” Telles said. “I am looking at regionals as a clean slate and a chance to start over. We have a week to prepare for this and I know that we all have a couple of things as individuals that we need to work on.”

“I was waiting for this moment all day and I was so nervous about it,” Yoo said. “I didn’t know how big of a deal postseason meant to this team and Oregon State because of the history the golf team has had with regionals. I am just very excited and honored to help contribute to this team as we make history after so many years and represent Beaver Nation at regionals next week.”

Oregon State advanced to the NCAA Regionals nine times in 10 years between 1994 and 2003 (missed in 2002) and had its last invitation in 2006 after a two-year absence in 2004 and 2005. The Beavers tied for 10th place in 1998 when they made their only trip to the NCAA Championships where they finished in 16th place.


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n The equestrian team has flown under the radar despite achieving national success

By Drew Wilson-McgrathThe Daily BaromeTer

Later this week, the Oregon State University division of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association will be in Raleigh, N.C. participating in the 2012 IHSA National Championships for the fifth time in a row.

They are going into the competition ranked second in the nation among non-NCAA affiliated schools, and have held a consistent top-five rank-ing amongst participating universities for the last seven years.

One might think that the notoriety the team receives abroad during both the regular season and the national championship competitions would be echoed at home.

Such is rarely the case, according to Elizabeth Whitman, a senior in HDFS, who has been a member of the award-winning team since her freshman year.

“What is hard, is that we go to shows and people look at us like ‘Wow, watch out for them,’” Whitman said. “People are not surprised when we do really well. And then we come back here, and it turns into ‘Wait, who are you?’”

Members of the team feel that, at times, the university shows a simi-lar lack of support — primarily when it comes to funding. While the team does receive some money from the school, those funds do not help sup-port scholarships for interested riders from outside the state, an addition that could very well help bolster the team up to the number one spot nationally. Some students don’t join the program because the initial cost is too high.

“There is a problem with funding,” said Cole Newman, a junior in fine arts. “I feel like the more we speak up, the more recognition we are getting on campus. But I don’t know if it’s neces-sarily the university ignoring us; a lot of people just don’t know about us. It gets hard to tell if they don’t care, or if they just don’t know.”

The team continues to take support when and where it can get it. They are very thankful for the help they do receive in the way of the funds allocat-ed to them from Recreational Sports and the College of Animal Science.

“The College of Animal Sciences provides the travel expenses for myself, and they provide the vans when we go on to postseason,” said Dawn Ross, riding instructor for the College of Animal Science and head coach of the equestrian team. “We generally spend around $7,000 a year for that alone.”

“Rec. Sports just gave us $2,000,

which will go toward the whole post-season.” Ross said. “That included our trip to Florida, our trip to California, and now our trip to North Carolina.”

According to Ross, the funds received from Rec. Sports had already been used to pay for hotel fees during the previous two trips the team made.

Many members of the team say that despite having to pay upwards of $1,500 a term out of their own pockets to participate in the OSU IHSA, includ-ing travel expenses for shows, room and board where needed, and a $320 per term fee for certain classes taught by university instructors (a fee that goes toward making horses available to students for training purposes) they remain, not for the notoriety, but for each other.

“There is something about hors-es. I just need to be around them,” Newman said. “I don’t even know if I can explain it. It is just something about them, and I think that we all have that common bond.”

Seeing as how IHSA is considered a club sport by the Oregon State admin-istration, participating students do not receive funding from the Beaver Athletic Student Fund. Recent discus-sion amongst the team has dredged up the possibility of the team eventu-ally becoming a nationally recognized collegiate program, noting that it will likely help with the various funding issues currently experienced by the

equestrian team and its student riders.Statistics aside, there is still a big

difference between IHSA and what the program would become if it made the switch to NCAA affiliation by becoming a member of the National Collegiate Equestrian Association.

“If it changed to NCEA in the future, I feel like it would really change what our team is about,” Whitman said. “[Right] now we have people who have never ridden before who come and ride. And we have walk-trotters [who] have never ridden that have won national championships. If it were NCEA, we wouldn’t be able to have those people participate.”

Despite the allure of gaining nation-al recognition from sports authorities and students alike, the team is less adamant about having to compromise their group dynamic in order to do so.

“I wasn’t really involved with any-thing else [on campus],” Sergeant said. “So being a part of this has been a whole new experience.”

She claims that she has grown with the program and matured with her teammates. Whitman lends a hand in educating other riders alongside Ross, who teaches horseback riding classes and operates the team horse barn located two miles off campus on 53rd Street and Walnut Drive.

“Each of us is required to get two sponsors per year,” Whitman explained, saying that the role of the

sponsors is to help soften the financial blow on the students participating in the program. Sponsors can be any organization or person willing to help financially; but more often than not, the student’s parents adopt part of that burden.

“Alone, on just plane tickets, we are at over one thousand dollars apiece,” Whitman said. “Two month’s rent for a lot of people.”

“Even though that is her passion, it is not what pays the bills,” said Jill Elizabeth Patrini, concept leader of EBGB’s at Marketplace West and Whitman’s mother. “The team works right up until they go to Nationals, and then they go and they are exhaust-ed and they can’t perform as well as they should be able to. She [Elizabeth] works three jobs just to support her love of riding.”

This year has been one of the tough-est for Whitman, not only financially, but in terms of her craft as well. She hopes to excel above the competition this year and take first place in the national competition, which her and her teammates have been training for vigorously over the last few months.

“I’m riding in six classes this year,” Whitman said. “This is the most I’ve ever ridden in. I’m really proud of my accomplishments, but until I win, I won’t be extremely proud.”

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Carlyle breaks school record in 1,500 meters

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STANFORD, Calif. — Senior track athletes Laura Carlyle and Casey Masterson were the lone Beavers competing at the nationally recog-nized Payton Jordan Invitational tonight, hosted by Stanford University.

“We are really pleased with both of them,” head coach Kelly Sullivan said. “They both came in here with their fingers crossed because there have been some health issues with both of them. I am real-ly proud of how they both came in here.”

Both Carlyle and Masterson competed in the 1500 meters. Masterson com-peted in section six of the 1500 meters, notch-ing a season-high time of 4:33.63 and a finish in third place overall in her section.

“We are really excited for Casey because she has really struggled through a series of health things the last couple of months and both the situations have just been bad tim-ing,” Sullivan said. “Credit to her, I talked to her at the beginning of the week asking if she still wanted to run [but] in a safer environment, or because she is a fifth-year senior, let her make her own decision.”

She said she wanted to go to Stanford and find out where she was at, and that is not an easy thing to do when you have only run one race this season. She is just truly determined, and for her to come out and do as well as she did tonight was really good.”

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n The women’s triathlon team recently finished 22nd overall at Nationals while the men’s team finished 28th

By sarah KerriganThe Daily BaromeTer

The Oregon State Triathlon Club was founded in 1980 and has since grown into one of the larg-est clubs at Oregon State, as well as one of the most popular.

The club is open to anyone and everyone who would like to join. They have members at levels of not knowing how to swim, to regular competitors throughout the year.

To join, there is just a $35 one-time fee per year. This low fee makes the Triathlon Club one of the more accessible clubs at OSU.

“[It’s an] expensive sport, but we try to keep it as manageable as possible,” said senior Blair Bronson.

The main reason the club is able to keep its fee low is because it puts on various fundraisers, including the Beaver Freezer and Beaver Fever.

The Beaver Freezer is now the largest triathlon with an indoor swim in the United States. There are 600 participants each year, and last year 15 different states were represented in the race. The Freezer happens in early springtime at the begin-ning of the main season for the Beavers.

The club also hosts the Beaver Fever as a fund-raiser. It is a duathlon which has an extra running section instead of a swim. The Fever happens in the fall, usually October.

The team trains throughout the year, but only competes in races starting in spring and runs through summer — ending in September. There are about 10 races in which the club regularly competes.

Since the Northwest is the last region of the United States to develop a collegiate triathlon conference, the selection for teams to send to Nationals is very slim. The Beavers have made it every year, with the team getting to send ten individuals, five women and five men. Nationals are held early in the season; they were on April 21 this year. The team did its best ever, with the men finishing 28th overall and the women finishing

22nd. Senior Molly MacGraw finished 18th overall in the women nationally.

“This being my second year, I knew what to expect and I felt neutral and excited to race,” said MacGraw when asked how she felt going into the race.

First-time National competitor sophomore Aaron Seipel said, “When we were out there it was just another race, we were just going harder.”

Selection for Nationals is not based purely on who is the fastest. The coaches take into account the dedication of members to the club as a whole. They look at how often the members are at prac-tices as well as at events that support the club.

The club has four coaches that participate on a volunteer basis: Michael “Taz” Tazman, Nate and Kara Smith, and Erica McKenzie. The team had nothing but praise for all of the coaches. The members appreciate the time and effort that their coaches put into helping each member improve.

“[We have] coaches with great knowledge and couldn’t have done it without Taz,” Bronson said.

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Women’s golf selected for NCAAs

By oregon state athletic Communications

The Oregon State women’s golf team earned an invitation to the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Regionals on Monday. The Beavers are one of 72 teams to receive a bid and will compete in the West Regional in Erie, Colo., May 10-12.

This marks Oregon State’s 11th appearance in the NCAA Regionals, all under the leadership of 24-year head coach Risë Alexander, and first since the 2005-06 season when the Beavers finished in 13th place in the 21-team field that competed at the Washington National Golf Club in Auburn, Wash.

“It has been a long time since we last made it,” Alexander said. “I know the girls are very excited about going and committed to working hard next week to prepare ourselves for the golf course in Colorado. We are going to start new right now and make this a one-tournament season with the hopes to turn it into a two-tourna-ment season.”

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