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n Ed Ray’s State of the University address focused on OSU’s future, impact on state, local economy
By Don IlerThe Daily BaromeTer
Oregon State University’s impact reach-es far beyond the confines of Corvallis, with an estimated global economic impact of more than $2.06 billion, according to research conducted by ECONorthwest for the university. Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University, focused on OSU’s eco-nomic impact in his annual state of the university speech at the LaSells Stewart Center.
“What is happening at our university is quite simply remarkable,” Ray said. “OSU’s impact is growing profoundly, exponential-ly increasing opportunities for success for the people of Oregon by way of educational opportunities, service to our communities and scientific progress at a faster rate than ever before, and we are expanding that impact across the nation and world.”
OSU’s impact on the state of Oregon is estimated to be $1.9 billion, with $842.7 million coming from direct expenditures from the university. The university also contributed nearly 18,000 jobs in Linn and Benton counties and throughout the state. Visitors to OSU, which number 535,000 annually, contribute $32 million to the
local economy every year, and student dis-cretionary spending contributed $250 mil-lion to the local economy. Student spend-ing also created 3,948 jobs in the Corvallis area.
Presidential scholars program, which
aims to create an endowment of $10 mil-Preslion to fund scholarships to attract top performing students as well as those who require need-based aid.
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n Engineering senior Alexandria Moseley gains national recognition
By Gwen ShawThe Daily BaromeTer
In early December, the National Engineers Week Foundation announced its
first annual “New Faces of Engineering College Edition” by recognizing the Most Promising Engineering Professionals of Tomorrow. Oregon State University’s manufacturing and industrial engineering student Alexandria Moseley has been chosen as one of the top 15 engineering students in the
U.S. and around the world. Moseley explained that in
October, National Engineers Week announced that they wanted each of the 15 profes-sional societies related to engi-neering to advertise to their student members that there will be an award. Each soci-ety would take their top three applicants and choose one to be recognized.
“The whole point was to pro-file students from each profes-sional society that are doing really awesome things. Namely, they really wanted to get students who are promoting e n g i n e e r i n g and educating about engineer-ing,” Moseley said. “So I got an email from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and I applied, and they nominated me as their candidate.”
In her fourth year at OSU, Moseley has done a lot to get her name out.
When accepted to OSU, Moseley also got an invitation to apply to Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program as a pre-select student. Through MECOP, Moseley was able to get an early internship in her hometown of Newberg, Ore., where she was introduced to manufacturing engineering and realized it was for her.
Currently, Moseley is work-ing on a double degree in manufacturing and industrial engineering. She plans to do one more internship through MECOP this spring and sum-mer and then graduate next year.
Manufacturing and industri-al engineering are similar, but the reasons Moseley likes each of them are very different.
“The processes that are used to create products are fascinat-ing,” Moseley said. “You know,
after watch-ing more than a few hours of ‘How It’s Made’ e p i s o d e s ; and being really excited to interpret a s s e m b l y d r a w i n g s from IKEA p r o d u c t s ; and trying to d e t e r m i n e m a s s - p r o -
duce handmade Christmas cards for my family, led me to a career in manufacturing,” she said. “Industrial engineering I like because it’s a great blend of project management and statistical analysis to make an operation run as best as it pos-sibly can.”
Scott Ashford, Interim Dean of the College of Engineering was optimistic about Moseley’s abilities. “Alex is one of those exceptional students where she is excellent in academics, but
Flooding causes building leakage, city evacuationsn Rain keeps coming down as residents
in northeast Corvallis evacuated, Mary’s River reaches record water levels
By Joce DeWittThe Daily BaromeTer
Recent heavy rains and flooding in and around Corvallis led to drastic measures taken by city authorities.
Some classes were cancelled yesterday due to flooded roads while certain campus buildings experi-enced leaking from the downpour. News and Research Communications at Oregon State University said no evacuations were needed on campus.
Assistant Director for building services for Memorial Union Auxillary buildings, Sid Cooper, and his team were busy taking care of leaks all day yesterday.
“My group takes care of the cultural centers and Snell and the MU itself, and I’d say the MU and Snell were both pretty heavily challenged today,” Cooper said. “They have different building systems trying to encapsulate water... in the case of both buildings, age was a contribut
Recovery plan hopes to bring back Oregon’s wolfn Wolf management recovery plan will de-list
wolves from endangered species in Oregon, a motion that is very divisive within the state
By Amanda AntellThe Daily BaromeTer
It wasn’t until 1947 that the last wolf bounty was issued in the state of Oregon, marking their extinction in the state. But between 1999 and 2000, wolves have been slowly resettling themselves in Oregon, as Oregon Fish and Wildlife began to track various packs: the Imnaha, Umatilla River, Walla Walla, Wenaha and the Snake River packs.
It has been confirmed that only the Walla Walla pack has a breeding pair, and that the other packs have either had dispersed wolves or had been killed. A breeding pair is legally defined as two adults that have had pups during December, marking the pups’ first steps into the outside world in January.
Oregon State University’s Daniel Edge, head of the department of Fisheries and Wildlife, has been a leader in Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife wolf recovery management plan, which contains the updated movements of the wolf packs and livestock losses as well as several provisionary plans to help settle the wolves into Oregon.
These provisions include relocation, education and assistance to land owners with livestock, and predictions for future statistics of the wolf population in Oregon. The goal of the plan is to get the wolf population in Oregon reinstated as a non-endangered species, causing a suc-cessful recovery and conversation project in Oregon.
“Wolves would make a wonderful addition to our system, and would definitely benefit our ecosystem,” says Dr. William J. Ripple, OSU professor of fisheries and wildlife ecosystems.
To do this, the plan has divided Oregon in half: east and west. The territory divisions are based on how heavy the wolf population is. On the eastern side of the state, wolves have already been removed from the endangered species list, and are no longer protected by federal law. In the west, however, they are considered critically
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Flooding on Conifer Street prompted city officials to issue evacuation warnings to local residents.
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President Ray at a town hall meeting earlier in the year. His State of the University Address informed the OSU community on OSU’s economic influence on the city and state.
OSU’s impact ripples well beyond Corvallis
Engineering student listed among the best in the nation
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Alex Moseley is now in her fourth year in the engineering program at OSU.
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where she is excellent in academics, but she’s
also given back to the profession and
to the school. Scott Ashford
Interim Dean of the College of Engineering
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CalendarMonday, Jan. 23MeetingsCollege Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!
Speakers Socratic Club, 7:30pm, Milam Audi-torium. A debate: Speakers Dr. Nicole von Germeten, a Latin American His-tory professor at OSU and Dr. Joseph Orosco, a Philosophy professor at OSU, will debate “The influence of Christi-anity on Latin America: Beneficial or Destructive.”
Tuesday, Jan. 24MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.
Recreational Sports, Noon-1:30pm, MU 110. Open Hearing. Public input for 2012-13 Recreational Sports budget.
EventsThe Pride Center, 3:30-4:30pm, The Pride Center. A discussion group focused on LGBTQ issues and topcs. Tea will be provided.
Wednesday, Jan. 25MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Recharge your battery - Interfaith meditation, devotion and prayers - bring your favor-ite inspirational reading to share.
Thursday, Jan. 26MeetingsRecreational Sports, 3-4pm, Dixon Conference Room. RecSports Board Meeting. Discussion and deliberation on 2012-13 Recreational Sports budget.
Friday, Jan. 27SpeakersSustainable Energy Initiative, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center. Bill Bradbury, former Secretary of State, will pres-ent “Global Warming Hits Home” and discuss conservation efforts in Oregon, job opportunities created by renew-able energy and Oregon’s new energy economy.
Sunday, Jan. 29MeetingsVegans & Vegetarians @ OSU, 5pm, SSC, 738 SW 15th St. We eat, chat and exchange recipes. All are welcome, even if you aren’t vegetarian.
Monday, Jan. 30MeetingsCollege Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!
Tuesday, Jan. 31MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, Feb. 1MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
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Sunday, Feb. 12MeetingsVegans & Vegetarians @ OSU, 5pm,
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Winter storm takes over Pacific NorthwestA day after heavy snowfall made
Seattle streets look more like ski runs, freezing rain and accumulating ice continued to make travel treacherous Thursday in the Washington city and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
Winter storm warnings were in effect for parts of eight states — Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana — as a storm system moved through the region. Schools in Missoula County, Montana, for instance, were set to open two hours late on Thursday, but wound up closing for the day because of snowfall and road conditions, its website said.
Some of the worst conditions remained in Washington, where the National Weather Service had issued a winter weather advisory through 4 a.m. Friday for much of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area due to “snow and freezing rain.”
The federal agency said there should be small accumulations of snow or ice, while cautioning that the “main impact” will be felt on the roads.
Icy conditions prompted the closure of two of three runways Thursday morn-ing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which got 6.8 inches of snow on Wednesday, shattering a 1954 record of 2.9, officials said. By around 11:45 a.m., the airport reported on its website that one of those runways had reopened, leaving one closed.
Even though the state hadn’t received requests for assistance “so far,” Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire pro-claimed a state of emergency Thursday “purely (as) a precautionary measure.” It would allow the activation of National Guard troops and give state agencies more options to help cities and towns.
“I want to make sure we have every resource available to ensure our com-munities are safe,” Gregoire said in a statement.
The governor took action to ensure the delivery of dairy products with “a brief waiver of the restrictions on truck drivers’ work hours.”
The measure “is needed now to avoid shipment delays that could mean the loss of nearly $1 million a day for the state’s dairy industry,” Gregoire said.
Shortly before noon, temperatures in Seattle were at 29 degrees and weren’t forecast to go above 30 for the rest of the day, according to the weather service. Thermometers in that city are expected to head into the 40s on Friday.
Such see-sawing temperatures have given rise to growing concerns about flooding, particularly in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon, authorities said.
The city of Turner, Oregon, was evacu-ating about 50 families, including 30 to 40 elderly people, said Beth Myers-Shenai, spokeswoman for the Marion County Emergency Coordination Center. A shelter was also being set up as a precaution in the nearby town of Aumsville, she said.
Floods contributed to a car accident in Albany, Oregon, on Wednesday night, said Wanda Omdahl, spokeswoman for the Albany Fire Department. The car full of people drove into deep water and was swept into a canal.
An adult and child were rescued, and a child’s body was recovered, CNN affiliate KPTV reported. Fire officials still haven’t said how many people are missing.
Zach Williams told the station that he and a friend saw the driver steer into a swollen creek, perhaps thinking it was a road.
“I did what I thought I could. I tried to open the doors. The doors were obvi-ously locked. When he broke the win-dow, I assumed the child in the back was old enough to get out through the window,” Williams said. “Apparently, it was just an infant.”
Perilous road conditions continued to be a major issue Thursday, even after the snowfall slowed in some locales Wednesday night.
“Collisions and tree limbs are piling up on state highways,” the Washington State Department of Transportation
reported at midday Thursday on its website.
Such problems, as well as roads still slick due to snow and ice, have led to “long delays (and) road and lane closures throughout the state.” That includes the closing of Interstate 82 in both directions near the Oregon state line and the closing of all westbound lanes on Interstate 90 near Cle Elum, which is about 80 miles southeast of Seattle, “because of a collision involving seven commercial vehicles.”
CNN iReporter Lauren Miles said the Capitol Hill area of Seattle, where she lives, received more than 4 inches of snow.
“The streets are not very drivable,” she said Thursday. “Most businesses are closed again today. Most hills near me have turned into places to sled instead of drive.”
CNN affiliate KOMO showed imag-es of overturned vehicles and carports and awnings that collapsed under the weight of the snow.
While large amounts of snow cause fewer problems in places that receive snow regularly, heavy snowfall is rela-tively rare in Seattle, where steep hills can make winter travel treacherous.
“This city shuts down when winter hits. It’s nuts. ... This city is just so unpre-pared for snow,” Derek Stanek, 25, told CNN’s iReport.
Nevertheless, city officials maintained they were ready for the storm.
The total amount of snowfall near Olympia for Wednesday was 21.7 inches, the weather service said Thursday.
June Lake, Washington, about 90 miles east of Seattle, received 31 inches. Mount Hood Meadows, near Oregon’s Mount Hood, received between 50 and 55 inches.
Avalanche warnings were in effect Thursday for parts of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Some were due to a combination of “heavy new snow” falling on top of a “weak snowpack,” forecasters said.
— CNN
Phone hacking victims awarded court payoutsA British lawmaker said
Thursday that he and 17 oth-ers have been awarded pay-outs over phone hacking by the News of the World newspaper, in settlements totaling hun-dreds of thousands of dollars.
News International, the parent company of the now defunct News of the World newspaper, issued a statement confirming that a subsidiary had agreed to settlements, but did not provide details.
A number of people have brought civil cases against News International over alleged phone hacking by its employees.
Chris Bryant, a Labour Party member of Parliament, posted on Twitter: “News of the World apologizes to me and 17 oth-ers in the High Court — and pays damages plus costs, with no hush clause.”
In another post, Bryant said News of the World “admitted in court today that my phone
was hacked and privacy intruded.”
He listed former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, actor Jude Law, the actor’s ex-wife, Sadie Frost, and high-profile rugby player Gavin Henson as among the 18 peo-ple in court.
News International, in its statement, said that News Group Newspapers, its sub-sidiary that was the publisher of News of the World, “agreed (to) settlements in respect of a number of claims against the company.”
It added that the company “made no admission as part of these settlements that directors or senior employees knew about the wrongdoing by NGN or sought to conceal it. However, for the purpose of reaching these settlements only, NGN agreed that the damages to be paid to claim-ants should be assessed as if this was the case.”
The office of Mark Thomson, the lawyer who is representing many of the claimants, gave details of their payouts.
The office said Law received £130,000, while Frost was awarded £50,000. Law’s per-sonal assistant, Ben Jackson, was given £40,000, while a for-mer PR adviser to Law and his ex-partner, Sienna Miller, Ciara Parkes, received £35,000.
Henson was awarded £40,000, as were Guy Pelly, a friend of Prince William, and Joan Hammell, a former chief of staff to Prescott. Lisa Gower, who was linked to actor Steve Coogan, was given £30,000, the lawyer’s office said.
According to court docu-ments posted online by the Guardian newspaper, free-lance journalist Tom Rowlands — who had worked for fel-low News International titles the Times and Sunday Times — was given £25,000 dam-ages after News of the World
hacked his voice mail to get information it then used in stories it published itself.
In a statement read outside the High Court by his legal team, Jude Law called the behavior of News of the World “appalling” and said he had brought legal proceedings “to try to find out the truth.”
The group of lawyers rep-resenting the claimants said they had obtained documents from News International that revealed its attempts to destroy evidence, partly thanks to the fact that the 12 legal firms involved joined forces to work together.
“As a result, documents relating to the nature and scale of the conspiracy, a cov-erup and the destruction of evidence/e-mail archives by News Group have now been disclosed to the claimants,” said the lawyers’ statement, read outside court.
— CNN
Groups decry reprint of ‘Mein Kampf’ excerpts in GermanyJewish groups in Germany and abroad
are divided about a British publishing house’s intentions to print excerpts of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf.”
Slated to hit the shelves in Germany January 26, it will be the first time that any parts of the book have been reprint-ed in that country since the end of World War II.
Alexander Luckow, an adviser to British publisher Peter McGee — the man behind the magazine that will print the excerpts — said the former German dictator’s writings would appear direct-ly adjacent to commentaries from renowned historians to ensure that the passages are viewed in context.
“We’re convinced that what we’re
doing is protected under citation laws,” Luckow told CNN. “These laws permit citation of ‘Mein Kampf,’ especially when it is accompanied by historical commentary like we’re doing.”
Luckow said the weekly Zeitungszeugen magazine — a play on the German words for newspaper and witness — plans to publish three 15-page extracts as supplemental inserts.
According to Israel’s Jerusalem Post, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, said Tuesday it was preferable for Germans to read annotated excerpts of Hitler’s writ-ings in an academic context rather than accessing the unfiltered material online.
“I can truly do without the publica-tion of this hate-filled book that is satu-
rated with anti-Semitism to the core,” Graumann told the paper. “(But) if one must actually read it, then it’s better in the framework of a critical commentary.”
While some historians expressed few qualms with the announcement that parts of the book would be reprint-ed in Germany, a group representing Holocaust survivors and their families is questioning the value of publishing the excerpts.
“We want to make clear that there is nothing altruistic in the motivation of this publisher,” said Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendents. “He’s out to make a profit.”
— CNN
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Osborn said assistance was offered in various areas of the city for those worried about the safety of their homes or experiencing transportation problems.
“We did an evacuation at Rosewood Drive up by Lewisburg, due to sliding,” Osborn said.
Crescent Valley High School was transformed into a shelter; as of last night 16 evacuees were there to spend the night.
Benton County also offered assistance to people by Lancaster Drive in NE Corvallis and helped relocate them to shelter as well. However, the area around Lancaster was not required to evacuate.
“At this point the water seems to be pretty steady in that area, perhaps receding a little bit, and right now we’re monitoring the situation,” Osborn said. “If people can avoid traveling, that’s preferable.”
He added that if traveling is necessary, drivers should avoid parts of the road that are covered in water, not drive through it. He also stressed the importance of obeying all flood warnings and traffic devices.
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endangered. The recovery plan is to de-list the wolf
as an endangered species completely. To do this, their goal is to have 10 breed-ing pairs—five for each side of Oregon— and develop a compensation program for livestock owners who have lost animals from wolf attacks. This plan is predicted to be completed within five years.
Once breeding pairs have been increased to a high enough amount, Oregon will have legally recovered the wolf. When this is the case, two things are likely to happen: kill permits will be issued to livestock owners who have had chronic problems, meaning more than one, with wolf attacks; and limited con-trolled hunting may also be permitted.
There are various problems Oregon faces with wolves, according to Edge. “Oregon is not Idaho; we don’t have large wilderness areas with no livestock. There are bound to be problems,” he said.
In reaction to reported sightings in 1999, the recovery management plan was established to help prepare Oregon for the inevitable arrival of wolves by keep-ing the numbers in a controlled place and ensuring proper protection to livestock owners. However, there have been dif-ficulties in various areas, one regarding livestock owners, who lose money as well as animals due to an increase in wolf population.
“It’s a huge problem for ranchers
because it’s not just an animal they’re losing, it’s part of their income. They also have to adapt their business and number of ranch hands because more manage-ment’s required,” Edge said.
When chronic deprivation of livestock occurs, ranchers have the authority to either kill the wolves if caught harassing their livestock, or request Fisheries and Wildlife to issue kill orders.
Recently, two wolves from the Imnaha pack have been caught killing livestock, so a kill order was issued. This is where Oregon Wild comes in.
Oregon Wild is considered a slightly extreme environmental group and is cur-rently in a legal battle with Fisheries and Wildlife over the lives of the two wolves. This prevents the state from taking any kind of action to help cattle ranchers, including education.
“I think Oregon Wild understands that ranchers need their herds and land—I think they object to state or federal agencies assisting landowners in lethal removal of animals while they are still listed,” Edge said.
With the influx of controversy, whether Oregon is ready for wolves to come back is a valid question. It is also unknown whether or not they would be beneficial to Oregon’s ecology. According to Ripple, they would.
“It has been scientifically proven that predators are extremely important to an environment’s ecosystem. Without them, the behaviors of the prey animals and even the plants change drastically,”
Ripple said.After doing research in Yellowstone,
Yosemite and Zion National Parks, Ripple discovered that where there were mass amounts of prey animals, like deer and elk, there were very little wildflowers and vegetation. But where there were significant numbers of predators, there were higher amounts of lizards, frogs and wildflowers.
“When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, the Aspen tree population went up significantly, and the behavior of the deer changed drastically,” he said.
Ripple believes that based on the years of research he has conducted in national parks, not only are predators beneficial to ecosystems, but they can be beneficial to ranchers as well.
“For sheep livestock owners, their big-gest problem is coyote. It has been sta-tistically proven that the sheep attacks decrease when wolves are present in an area. They don’t tolerate the coyotes in the area,” Ripple said.
“The ultimate goal here is to not only reinstate the wolf as non-endangered, but also to build tolerance from the people who have to spend the most time around them. By building tolerance, we develop neutrality and peace,” Ripple said.
Tolerance will be found in education and assistance the government is willing to provide land owners and compensa-tion when a livestock head is taken.
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Ray also announced the cre-ation of a new “3+3” program between OSU and Willamette University College of Law, which would allow students to attend three years of under-graduate studies and then three at Willamette, and receive an undergraduate and juris doctor-ate degree in six as opposed to the usual seven.
Ray highlighted OSU’s contri-bution to business, emphasizing the role that research at the uni-versity plays in creating spinoff companies. University intellec-tual property has helped create nine new companies, and more than 100 university patents are actively being used commercially. OSU also received $261.7 million in research money in 2011, which is more research money than all the other public universities in
Oregon combined. Introducing five new areas of
focus for the university, Ray said that the “OSU brand stands for enhanced opportunity for pros-perity for Oregonians.” The ini-tiatives included increasing uni-versity/industry partnerships, public health and preventative health care, enhancing educa-tional opportunities through OSU extension services, develop-ing a Portland regional strategy and sharing science with com-munities and decision makers.
In spite of the various chal-lenges the state faces with the economy and budget shortfalls in the state house, Ray painted a picture of university that has a profound impact on its state and increasingly the world.
“The state of the university,” Ray said, “is not just sound but exceptional.”
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she’s also given back to the profession and to the school,” he said.
“She’s an excellent student academically and she’s partici-pated in several undergraduate research experiences,” said Director of Women and Minorities in Engineering Programs Ellen Momsen. “But I guess the main thing is that she has been the manager of our ambassador program for the last two years and has done an outstanding job.”
Momsen explained that Moseley has contacted more than 100 different high school and middle school teachers, and arranged visits from all of the ambassadors to go visit the classrooms and encourage students that have never thought of engineering as a career to pursue it further.
“Alex is not only excellent at talking to the teachers and arranging, but she is a fabulous presenter herself,” Momsen said. “She’s done incredible presentations. She actually revamped the presentation we use at high schools this past year to make it more engaging for students.”
The National Engineers Week website states that they “raise public understanding and appreciation of engineers’ contri-butions to society.”
Momsen said that all that Moseley does goes to show that engineering is not about sitting in a cubicle crunching numbers.
Brett McFarlane, Director of Undergraduate Programs for the College of Engineering, said Moseley has been so recog-nized around the school because she has the communication skills, the motivation, the drive, the energy and the academic skills and is highly involved in activities and programs.
“I think what (her being recognized) shows is that the industry recognizes the importance of all of those in engi-neering leadership,” McFarlane said about Moseley, who remains modest about the recognition.
“The greatest thing about this award is that it really shows that Oregon State has a stellar engineering program,” Moseley said. “I’m not, by any means, the only kid that should have been on this list.”
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A day after heavy snowfall made Seattle streets look more like ski runs, freezing rain and accumulating ice continued to make travel treacherous Thursday in the Washington city and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
Winter storm warnings were in effect for parts of eight states — Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana — as a storm system moved through the region. Schools in Missoula County, Mon., for instance, were set to open two hours late on Thursday, but wound up closing for the day because of snowfall and road conditions, the county’s public schools website said.
Some of the worst conditions remained in Washington state, where the National Weather Service had issued an ice storm warning through 2 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) for the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area, portions of the coastline and the state’s southwest interior, including the capital, Olympia.
“An ice storm warning means severe
winter weather conditions are imminent or occurring,” the weather service said. “Significant amounts of ice accumula-tions will make travel dangerous or impos-sible. Travel is strongly discouraged.”
Shortly before noon, temperatures in Seattle were at 29 degrees and weren’t forecast to go above 30 for the rest of the day, according to the weather service. Thermometers in that city are expected to head into the 40s on Friday.
Such see-sawing temperatures have given rise to growing concerns about flooding, particularly in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon, authorities said.
The city of Turner, Ore., was evacuat-ing about 50 families, including 30 to 40 elderly people, said Beth Myers-Shenai, spokeswoman for the Marion County Emergency Coordination Center. A shel-ter was also being set up as a precaution in the nearby town of Aumsville, she said.
Floods contributed to a car accident in Albany, Ore., on Wednesday night, said Wanda Omdahl, spokeswoman for the
Albany Fire Department. The car full of people drove into deep water and was swept into a canal.
An adult and child were rescued, and a child’s body was recovered, CNN affiliate KPTV reported. Fire officials still haven’t said how many other people are missing.
Zach Williams told the station that he and a friend saw the car’s driver steer into a swollen creek, perhaps thinking it was a road.
“I did what I thought I could. I tried to open the doors. The doors were obvious-ly locked. When he broke the window, I assumed the child in the back was old enough to get out through the window,” Williams said. “Apparently, it was just an infant.”
Perilous road conditions continued to be a major issue Thursday, even after the snowfall slowed in some locales Wednesday night.
Avalanche warnings were in effect Thursday for parts of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.
—CNN
Storm parked over Northwest continues to rain, snow
In just one of the many efforts toward building a stronger OSU community, a program such as
Diversity Development has become a valuable resource for students to learn about cultures that they may not be familiar with. Departments on campus have begun to collaborate with one another to provide such services. One particular department that works closely with the cultural centers includes University Housing and Dining Services.
Each cultural center is assigned a Community Relations Facilitator who acts as a liaison between the centers and UHDS. The CRF for the Asian & Pacific Cultural Center, Nick Taylor, asked if the APCC staff could help come up with a list of phrases/stereo-types that pertain to people of Asian descent; we came up with several that we had either heard of or have per-sonally been called. Taylor wanted to use this list to introduce the topic to residents in Poling Hall by means of facilitation.
On Nov. 13, 31 hall residents went to the lounge for “Sushi and Stereotypes.” As sushi was served, groups of students were asked to compile a list of stereotypes/phrases that relate to people of Asian descent and to discuss amongst themselves. During the discussion, things that were not mentioned from the APCC staff’s list had come up. Among the stereotypes/phrases were “chink,” “jap,” “twinkie,” “knows karate,” and even “model minority.”
“I also talked about the effect of positive stereotypes and how they can actually affect people negatively,” Taylor said. These residents were very keen to listen and tried to get a better understanding of where these stereo-
types came from and what they actu-ally do to the people they target.
The purpose of facilitations like this is to expose freshmen, a cohort of individuals who may not be aware of the issue, to the injustice and dis-crimination that minorities often face. Name-calling, inappropriate jokes, and assumptions create a void between the dominant culture and the minorities, leaving barely any room to learn about one another.
“[The facilitation] opened their minds to other perspectives, espe-cially because often times people only see one side,” Taylor mentioned. “From the minority perspective, it’s a lot different and we miss a lot of things if we don’t allow ourselves to be open to others’ points of view.”
As someone who identifies as Asian American, I was very proud and impressed with the outcomes of the facilitation. Things like general-izations are not going to disappear overnight, but the fact that people showed up out of their own interest to a facilitation about a struggle that minorities fight everyday gave a lot of hope. People who become aware learn to think twice when those phrases/stereotypes come up and even step in to try to stop it. Even though the topic of stereotypes is not easy to dismantle, especially for society as a whole, there is promise that students are at least taking the initiative to better under-stand the oppression that minorities are going through.
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Speaking on discriminationAssuming, not helping
Last Friday’s column “Hints of dis-crimination, intolerance still seen today” ended up being precisely what it professed to oppose.
When the author, Sarah Paeth, claims that an elementary school teacher is bigoted for using a math problem, which refers to slaves, it is Ms. Paeth alone who infers the color of these persons must be black. Apparently, unbeknownst to her is the thousands of years of slavery that occurred on this planet prior to American slavery — a form of
oppression that did not discriminate based on color.
No worse is the fact that this article also assumes that issuing an example of slavery somehow allows us to infer the authors feelings on that subject. Talking about slavery does not make you a bigot, and slav-ery is not restricted to one race.
There are only two conclu-sions this article allows us to draw. Trumping up false controversy does nothing positive for race relations, and the article’s author needs to take a course in world history.
Duncan GumaerPhilosophy major, Senior
Powerful Words, Careless Mind: Asian American Stereotypes
Check mate.Despite 13 million
Americans unemployed, President Barack Obama took a bold step in rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. But it only makes the criticism — on his reign and American environmental policy — that much louder.
Some demanded he defend his actions with reality and authority — don’t make this a game of poli-tics over purpose. Unfortunately, it was the first plate Obama offered.
“This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline,” Obama said. “But the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project…I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision.”
As if he couldn’t scrounge up
any other defense, he fell directly into the hole opponents hoped he would fall into — one of impru-dence and irresponsibility. And it leaves some wondering the merits behind a rejection.
Some would question why a new project for energy should be rejected, especially given all the debate over new sources and the size of this project. Yet, Keystone I has been in operation since 2010, already reaching from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska and Illinois. XL is a 1,660-mile extension to an already 2,100 miles of pipeline.
Some would call Obama anti-American, beholden to the energy lobby — that he simply chose poli-tics over American jobs. Keystone XL was here to help America, not hurt it.
But in fact, speculations hurt.TransCanada, owner of the pipe-
line, expected the project to create nearly 13,000 jobs in construction and 7,000 in manufacturing. They also deal in “job years,” where a job held for two years counts as two.
Soon after the original proposal of the XL pipeline, Jack Gerard of the American Petroleum Institute backed the claim, stating the project would create “20,000 new American jobs here in the United States.”
On Wednesday, Jay Timmons, the CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers said, “There are 20,000 direct jobs related to the
pipeline itself, 118,000 spin-off jobs that would come from that — this is a terrible, terrible decision.”
The State Department reported the pipeline would create around 5 to 6,000 construction jobs.
Then, the Cornell University Global Labor Institute published a study on the pipeline’s employ-ment effects and called for “no more than 2,500 to 4,650 tempo-rary direct construction jobs for two years.”
Speaker of the House John Boehner says the Keystone pipe-line would create 100,000 new jobs — an optimist.
Riveting possibilities, but we’re working with estimates.
Even worse, according to a TransCanada report on the con-struction of the original Keystone pipeline, a measly 11 percent of
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Highlighting the top products of CESThe Consumer Electronics Show, or better known as CES,
came to an end last week. While there were hundreds of gadgets put on display — some surprising and useful
innovations to technology — there will only be a few that get talked about in the interest of time and space.
One of the more interesting techs to be displayed was a pro-gram that allowed you to control your computer by tracking your eye movements. According to an article by Gizmodo, the program works with the new operating system Windows 8 and is surprisingly accurate. This new program is developed by a company called Tobii, which specializes in technology revolving around the eye.
I’m sure that chronic texters will be excited at the possibility to text their friends in class without the teacher being any wiser when this becomes compatible for phones. However, this actually provides a greater societal benefit than what the company probably even realizes.
For instance, people with locked-in syndrome unable to move their body with the exception of their eyes will now have an even easier time communicating to doctors and their loved ones. This also provides amputees or para-plegics an opportunity to interface with technology that may have been too difficult or impossible before.
Another technological innovation to come out of CES is an app to help speeders avoid getting tickets. There is a social network for the road called Escort Live. If you buy their $70 special car charger, you can turn your phone into a spotter for speed traps and police lasers. Now if someone in front of you using this service gets tagged, it sends an alert to every nearby phone to let you know there is a speed trap.
While it’s an interesting service to help reduce speeding tickets, I must, in all earnest, say that I don’t encourage or condone speeding, and that all drivers should obey all posted speed limits and drive safely. Mentioning this service is merely an attempt to help some of the lead-footed students from losing all of their money on speeding tickets.
However, probably the best the innovation presented at CES was the waterproof coating that can be added to cell phones. Liquipel is a California-based company that developed a “nano-coating” to go on the interior and exterior of phones to prevent water damage. According to co-founder Kevin Bacon (not the actor), the coating will protect phones from splashes and even poolside accidents. This will help ease the mind of pretty much everyone who owns a cell phone, because there is a paranoid feeling anytime a liquid appears that it might break the cell phone. Plus, most companies don’t offer too much help in the event of water damage.
Before anyone starts complaining about having to buy a new cell phone to get the waterproof coating, it turns out that Liquipel will be able to add the coating to current cell phones. If you are one of the people who gets weirdly attached to your cell phones, or are just too cheap to scrounge up $400 for a new one, you should soon be able to get your cell phone waterproofed.
While many of you probably don’t care about technology until you can buy it, or you are so behind on operating technology you just figured out how to safely work a toaster, CES does give the world an opportunity to see the direction technology is heading — what the international society finds important and worthwhile. Some people may find this technological showcase one of those elitist, self-indulgent events and money spent on this event could have gone somewhere else — quite true — but all these projects need funding, and this is where they are showcased. In the very least, people should be happy that there is more effort being put into preventing your cell phone from getting wet than making nukes or death machines.
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Yeas & NaysNay to already wanting the term
to be over and it’s only the end of the second week. We repeat,
the second!Yea to realizing that everyone is suffer-
ing with you. It’s nice when people can share your misery.
Nay to Dixon being absolutely packed. Just give up on your resolutions already!
Yea to finding new ways to motivate students.
Nay to finding unnecessary ways to motivate students. A new school poli-cy from Coney Island, New York aims to “keep students in their seats and off the toilet.” A brilliant idea, as everyone knows the biggest problem facing stu-dents these days is whether or not they go to the bathroom too much.
Nay to professors who assign their col-lege research papers as readings for class. Look, we got it: you’re are a very impres-sive individual, and you are a professor at a college, at a young age no less. It is just when you have us read your own writ-ings, some people, and we’re not those people of course, but some people might consider you a pompous clown. Again, we’re not saying this, but others might.
Nay to associating Blue Ivy with psy-choactive drugs. Only a week old, but there is now a new strain of marijuana named after her. Numerous weed dis-pensaries in Los Angeles are now selling a new strain of marijuana, calling it “OG Blue Ivy.”
Nay to not being able to think of a good pun off that. We tried, but got nothing.
Nay to American Idol returning this week. Between J-Lo — whose presence on a singing talent show is laughable to begin with — Randy — who knows no other words besides “dawg” — and Steven Tyler, doing his best creepy grand-pa impersonation, the show needs to just end. Don’t we have enough bad singing talent shows anyway?
Yea to breaking a Nay streak.Yea to love. Nay however to overly affectionate
couples. We understand you love the person you’re with or at least dating. However playing pocket pool with your guy or putting your hand down the back of your girl’s pants is a bit much, no? The people around you at Java or Qdoba don’t need or want to see that. It’s prob-ably better if you just save all that for Impulse or Peacock — you won’t stick out as much.
Yea to those who braved the treach-erous conditions of Wednesday and Thursday, shaking your groove thing at Impulse, as the creepy guy in the cor-ner looks on, and cutting loose at The Peacock on Wednesday.
Nay to those who encourage snow — all of you who run outside and take ten thousand pictures and post them on your Facebook and Twitter, proclaiming how great it is that it’s snowing. You know what happens after the snow falls? It starts melting, and that pretty snow you love so much turns to slush. Then your feet get wet from a walk down the block. Then it rains. Then no one’s happy.
Yea to the “weather from hell” (hope-fully) being over.
Nay to this probably only being the beginning.
Yeas&Nays advises everyone to be safe this weekend. Find a nice heater, open a bottle of wine and curl up with a nice book, or someone who keeps you warm.
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Comet death may hint at birth of EarthIt may be the closest thing to hell ever
observed by science.Researchers revealed breathtaking
images on Thursday of a kamikaze comet called C/2011 N3 (SOHO) taking a swan-dive into the sun.
Images and research published in the journal Science show a house-sized rock plummeting at more than 1 million miles per hour through million-degree tempera-tures to within a relative hair’s breadth of the sun’s surface.
Observations like this have never been seen before, says Karel Schrijver, who led the research at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. “It’s never been observed any-where near this close to the sun.”
Comets that brush by the sun are called sungrazers. Thanks to orbiting satellites that can better observe sungrazers, scien-tists believe they can learn more about how the sun works and the ancient beginnings of Earth.
Analysis of data from last July’s comet strike paints a picture of a fascinating ride into a virtual hell.
Imagine sitting on top of the comet as it streaks toward the sun at more than 1 million mph. Looking like “the dirtiest snowball that’s ever been made,” the black, half-rock, half-ice comet pours off vapor and dust due to evaporating water stream-ing from its surface at 1,000 mph, says Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory planetary astronomer Carey Lisse, who reviewed the research.
Closing in fast, the comet hits the sun’s 1,000,000-degree Fahrenheit corona, creat-ing a fiery shockwave of gas in front of it.
The ride gets bumpier and bumpier. The comet begins to rotate faster and faster, and it begins to shed chunks.
Finally - about 62,000 miles from the surface of the sun - nothing.
A 70,000-ton rock’s 30-minute suicide dive into a raging cauldron reduces it to vapor.
“That’s when we realized we’d not just captured a comet, we’d actually seen it vanish - the end of the life of that particular comet,” says Schrijver. “It had completely evaporated.”
By studying how comets fall apart, scien-tists may be able to reverse the process and learn how planets are formed, says Lisse. We still don’t know how space dust - a.k.a. “the stuff between the stars” - coalesces to form planets. But comets are made of this stuff. So if we can figure out how comets are created, we’ll know a lot more about how Earth formed.
“Comets really are the dinosaur bones of solar system formation,” says Lisse. Hundreds of comets brush by the sun each year, experts say, but only one or two per year actually hit the blazing bullseye.
July’s sungrazer was a piece of the Kreutz comet, Lisse says, a larger object that broke apart thousands of years ago yielding spec-tacular comets reported on Earth in the years 1106, 1843, 1882 and 1965. The last of those, called Ikeya-Seki, was bright enough to be seen during the day.
Lockheed Martin’s paper stemmed from combined data from NASA’s orbit-ing Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SHO) and the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).
As more sun-grazers are pinpointed, scientists may be able to learn clues to a comet’s makeup by performing thermal desorption spectroscopy, Lisse predicts. It’s a technique that identifies the comet’s elements by the type of light it gives off while the sun toasts it like an interstellar marshmallow.
Lockheed Martin’s scientists determined C/2011 N3 (SOHO)’s mass by measuring energy from the sun’s light and the amount of energy it takes to evaporate material off the comet, says Schrijver.
By observing more sungrazers, Schijver hopes to uncover mysteries about the region around the sun that’s been hidden by extreme light conditions. He’s interested in learning more about the acceleration of charged particles given off by the sun - the solar wind.
“These are places that we have no other means of exploring,” he says.
So, get ready to see more hellish images of building-sized boulders vanishing into thin air on the surface of the sun. “I predict this is just the beginning,” says Lisse.
Just last month a comet dubbed Lovejoy crashed into the sun and actually survived - astonishing many amateur and profes-sional astronomers by piercing the sun’s super-heated atmosphere without being pulled in and disintegrated.
Schrijver says teams are already being assembled to track other sun-grazers with the SDO satellite.
In effect, by their demise, comets become nature’s scientific probes, possibly to unlock a treasure trove of knowledge about our solar system.
— CNN
South Dakota residents were hired for the original South Dakota section of the pipe-line. Between supervision, equipment operator, laborer, construction management, welders and truck driver jobs for the South Dakota sec-tion construction, only 282 of the 2,580 workers were from South Dakota. Quite effective job creation.
Some would say we don’t have time to waste with poli-tics and posturing. Our econ-omy needs help now.
Yet, Keystone XL would not begin construction, even if approved today, until 2013. And some thought Solyndra’s $545 million loan guarantee was a mess? The cost of XL sits at a cool $7 billion cost. Both involve banking on a whim.
Some say rejecting Keystone XL is to “threaten our energy security.” Yet, America doesn’t know energy security. Foreign dependency is something forced upon the world — or accepted — decades ago.
OPEC simply controls the price of the world’s oil barrel.
Keystone XL has a proposed six shippers, essentially cus-tomers to the product. Two of the bigger players are Motiva — a joint refining enterprise owned by Shell and Saudi Aramco, which is based in Saudi Arabia — and Valero — Keystone’s largest player, with a guaranteed 100,000 barrels a day until 2030.
Both companies own refin-eries in Port Arthur, Texas, the endpoint for the XL pipeline. Port Arthur is a free-trade zone. There are no taxes on exports or imports.
A business model where the company withholds crude oil to be refined and sold solely to the United States is a failing one. The oil market is dictated globally, not nationally. As OPEC lowers prices, America won’t be so keen to buy from Valero, which only pressures the company to lower their own price, losing profit.
But despite a project mud-dled with foreign interests, it could still theoretically turn America off Middle Eastern
products. Unfortunately, again, that’s not the case.
According to a Keystone XL assessment report by Ensys Energy, which was contracted by the U.S. Department of Energy, “The volume of [Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin] crude imported by the U.S. would be unaffected by the availability of the KXL pipeline.”
The report goes on: “The WCSB export system is large-ly land-locked, and western and eastern Canada have little potential to absorb additional volumes. Therefore, WCSB streams must move to the U.S. unless additional pipe-line capacity is made available to the BC coast and thus Asian markets.”
It’s not Canada, the neigh-bor offering to help out America. This is business playing business. It’s a move that makes financial sense — just not for us.
Some would then call it blind faith in putting too much hope in alternative sources. But blind faith doesn’t involve an underhand; alternative
energy fails because we fund and subsidize traditional fuels at the same time. In the man-ner only our Congress would, subsidizing two competing products doesn’t spell success for both. This rising tide does not lift all boats.
Temporary and hypotheti-cal is no way to go about solv-ing our energy problems — and it goes for both alterna-tive subsidies and traditional ones. As we waste time com-plaining about the rejection of a project that could not better our situation today, we also lose time considering the markets we could establish in other areas.
Some would say alternative energy is a pipe dream. But at least it’s not a pipeline, even if Obama can’t defend his sign off.
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This weekend the Oregon State University swim team heads to Boise, Idaho, to compete against Boise State University Saturday.
The Beavers raced the Broncos in February of last year and lost to them by a score of 178-83. The Boise State swimming and diving program is fairly new, hav-ing started up just six years ago. Going into this meet, the Beavers will be down 28 points due to the lack of a diving team.
“A few years ago [the Beavers] destroyed the [Broncos], who were only four or five years old. We had beat them previously a couple times before that, then we had one really close meet and then last year they stomped us a little bit,” said head coach Larry Liebowitz. “I think we’re a lot better this year and I don’t think they are
quite as good.”The Broncos are led by
senior Amber Boucher, who raced in four events at the NCAA Championships last year.
“They have one girl, Amber Boucher, who is really out-standing so one of our lead girls needs to stand up, race
her and straight up beat her,” Liebowitz said. “So if we can do that then we have a good chance.”
“They [the Broncos] match up really, really well for us,” said senior Margo Clinton. “So it will be mentally tough for all of us.”
The Beavers recently added
lifting weights to their workout routine. They hope that bit of cross training will help them take the win this weekend.
“This week we’re a little sore, but we should be well prepared,” said senior Rachel O’Brian.
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In addition to Sakaguchi, fifth-ranked Mangrum and fifth-ranked senior heavyweight Clayton Jack have been consis-tent in their winning ways, both with 26 wins on the season.
Redshirt sophomore 157-pounder R.J. Pena has also been impressive this season. In the loss to Wyoming, he record-ed a team-leading 17th pin.
Oregon State expects to close out matches and win decisively this coming weekend. Though Northern Colorado and North Dakota State are both respect-able opponents, OSU is clearly the better team and look to get their first win at Gill Coliseum since Nov. 20, when they beat Boise State.
The weekend could also prove to be a milestone for Zalesky. With two wins, he would reach 200 career dual wins in his astounding coaching career.
Andrew Kilstrom, sports [email protected]
the McKale Center in Arizona.
“It’s really important that they start to create their own energy,” said associate head coach Michael Chaplin. “They need to stay together and cheer each other on and feed off of that, because you won’t have the three or four thousand Beaver fans cheering for you.”
That “energy” is crucial for the Beavers when traveling to a road opponent, especially one ranked in the top-15, as well as a conference opponent, as is the case with Arizona.
“Normally when we travel, we have our own energy,” Harris said. “And even if we don’t have our wonderful Gill fans with us, we still keep the energy high.”
“We still focus in on creat-ing our own bubble around our team and our own world around our team,” Tanya Chaplin said. “And we want to take that down there, so when we go on the road, it’s a great opportunity for us to really focus on that.”
The Beavers have defeated the Wildcats in their last 10 meetings, so they are hop-ing history will repeat itself.
However, Arizona had an impressive opening per-formance themselves, fin-ishing second of five in the Cancun Classic, ahead of two ranked teams: No. 20 Auburn University and No. 25 Louisiana State University.
“We’re looking forward to it,” Michael Chaplin said. “It’s a good competition … Arizona is a strong team and I think that that’s a good challenge for us.”
Last year’s Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year, senior Leslie Mak, was awarded with Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week after a strong showing in the opener. Mak is ranked third on the bars, tied for sixth on beam, tied for 13th on the floor and is eighth for all-around. Mak, Stambaugh, Harris and senior Olivia Vivian look to be the core of a very promising group in 2012.
Focusing on the details and creating a team-wide energy in the presence of a road crowd will be the spotlight for the Beavers this Friday.
The team’s first meet showed what kind of potential it has, and an equally strong perfor-mance in its first time on the road will be a testament to Oregon State’s top-5 ability.
Warner Strausbaugh, sports [email protected]
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Redshirt freshman 125-pounder Pat Rollins wrestling against Boise State earlier this year. Rollins won his match and the Beavers won the dual, 32-10.
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The Beavers didn’t just train in the pool this weekend, as they recently added weight lifting to their weekly routine.
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Women lose to UCLAThe Daily BaromeTer
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Last night, the Oregon State University women’s basketball team couldn’t get things losing 69-60 to UCLA in Los
The Beavers were led by freshman guard, Ali Gibson who had 18 points and four steals. To complement, junior guard Sage Indendi’s 13 points wouldn’t find the momentum to close in on the Bruin’s lead.
UCLA was led by Rebekah Gardner’s 19 points, and Markel Walker’s mere triple-double. Walker had 16 points 18 rebounds, and 9 assists.
UCLA would capture the momentum early, going up ten points early in the first half.
Oregon State would briefly regain its patience and compo-sure, limiting the Bruin’s shot selection defensively, and put-ting the ball in the post for easy points.
This spark of success would lead to an 11-1 run and tie the game at 31, allowing them to pull within 4 by halftime.
In the end, this wouldn’t keep the Bruins from shooting an impressive 46% from the field, keeping their cushion of a lead until the clock ran out.
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National rankings1. Nebraska2. Utah3. Arkansas4. Oregon St.5. Alabama6. Georgia7. UCLA8. Florida9. Penn State10. Oklahoma11. Michigan12. Ohio St.13. Arizona14. Stanford15. Illinois-Chicago16. Denver17. Boise St.18. NC St.19. San Jose St.20. Auburn21. West Virginia22. Missouri23. Maryland-CP24. Minnesota25. LSU
OSU ranking by event
• Bars (2nd)• Floor (3rd)• Beam (T-5th• Vault (T-18th)
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Wrestlers at home, looking to avenge last weekend’s loss
Gymnasts ready for encoren Week after setting the bar ‘really high’
with a season-opening 196.525, No. 4 Beavers take on Arizona in Tucson
By Warner StrausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer
After their stunning opening-night performance, the Oregon State University gymnastics team now sits at num-ber four in the nation as it travels down to Tucson, Ariz., for its first road meet of the season.
The Beavers will face No. 13 University of Arizona tonight, one week after snapping then No. 4 University of Oklahoma’s regular season winning streak of 32. OSU’s debut vaulted them up to the top five, but the team cannot settle for one good showing.
“Yes, we set the bar really high, which is awesome,” said sophomore Brittany Harris. “But … we can’t stop there.”
A common theme for practices this week is focusing on the details – making sure everything is crisper, cleaner, and more efficient. Even if it didn’t look like it, last Friday’s meet was the team’s first of the season.
“We need to continue to work on landings, work on our leaps and jumps … hitting handstands, a lot of the details,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin.
“I think we just need to keep working hard in the gym just like we have been, focused on the little details,” Stambaugh said.
This will be the first time the Beavers will have a road meet this year. The advantages of having the home crowd of Gill Coliseum supporting the team will not be present down in
OSU 87, UCLA 84
n Cunningham scores 21, Collier adds 20 in Oregon State’s win over UCLA in front of over 6,000 at Gill Thursday night
By Alex crawfordThe Daily BaromeTer
The Beavers have been taking the sea-son one game at a time but this game they knew they had to win.
A loss would have been their fourth in a row and a dagger to the heart of a team trying to build momentum in a wide-open Pac-12 race.
Luckily, for the sake of the Beavers and the 6,000 fans that packed Gill Coliseum on Thursday night, Oregon State (12-7) defeated the UCLA Bruins 87-84.
Coach Robinson walked into the post-game press conference wearing a burnt orange and white checked shirt-a shirt he hadn’t worn since the Beavers beat Texas in overtime nearly two months ago. That win was probably the biggest win for the pro-gram this season and tonight’s win, second.
Robinson shrugged when asked if it was a coincidence or not but everyone in the press conference and everyone in Gill knew that tonight was a must-win game.
“We needed this badly,” sophomore for-ward Devon Collier said. “We were on a losing streak so we needed to get a win. This one was good for us.”
Against a UCLA frontcourt that includes 6-foot-10, 305-pound big man Joshua Smith, Collier had a big game for the Beavers putting up 20 points and grabbing four rebounds. Robinson pointed out that Collier was playing in front of his father and brother who flew in from New York.
“Today he just came out very aggres-sively,” Robinson said of Collier. “When you have a guy who can get points for you like that in the low post it opens up everyone else.”
Despite only having five first-half points, junior guard Jared Cunningham showed everyone why he is the Pac-12’s leading scorer this season and finished the game with 21 points, 10 of those coming on free throws.
When UCLA was making a comeback late in the second half and Oregon State
seemed like it was going to let a slim lead slip away like had in previous games, the Beavers defense finally held tough.
“We just wanted to go out there, play defense, and play hard all the way to the end,” Cunningham said. “We made some big plays and everybody stepped up. We got the win tonight and that’s what we needed.”
Next up for Oregon State is a hungry USC team that currently sits at 0-6 in confer-ence. It would be easy for the Beavers to go flat after the emotional high of winning their second Pac-12 game of the season in such a do-or-die situation.
“I think the biggest thing is the confi-dence that comes with winning and beat-ing a team that is doing well in our con-ference. The second thing is execution,” Robinson said. “We still have to get better defensively. When you are as efficient as we are on offense, our defense ends up being secondary and instead of it being second we need them to be even.”
With the Pac-12 race as wide open as it is, the Beavers hope to ride this little bit of momentum all the way to the bank and maybe even to a ticket in the big dance.
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Junior guard Jared Cunningham rises up for a layup Thursday night against the Bruins. Cunningham scored a team-high 21 for the Beavers, who improved to 2-5 in conference play.
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Makayla Stambaugh and the OSU gymnastics team dazzled the crowd at Gill last Friday.
n Beavers say key to rest of the season is belief, beginning with a bounce- back performance this weekend
By Andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer
When asked what the Oregon State University wrestling team must do to place at the NCAA Championships this year, red-shirt sophomore 149-pounder Scott Sakaguchi replied with one word, “believe.”
The Beavers will look to regain their winning form when they take on Northern Colorado this Friday, 7 p.m. at Gill Coliseum, and then again on Sunday against North Dakota State.
Belief will be vital for the Beavers’ success this coming weekend, as well as the rest of the season. Following a devastating 23-22 loss by criteria to the now No. 5-ranked Wyoming Cowboys, the Beavers are faced with their first major dose of adversity.
In Oregon State’s two biggest matchups of the season, Missouri and Wyoming, the Beavers had difficulty closing out matches,
which is a necessary skill to perform well come March.
It’s a problem that has been stressed in prac-tice by head coach Jim Zalesky, and has been acknowledged by the wrestlers.
“There was a couple of matches where we lost focus and left easy points on the table, myself included,” junior 141-pounder Mike Mangrum said. “But now we’re really moti-vated and ready to get out there and avenge
that loss.”Despite the tough loss, the Beavers still
maintains their confidence that they can com-pete at nationals, and team morale remains high.
“Early in the season there was belief, but it’s starting to build now and people can see that we’re just as good as everybody else in the nation,” Sakaguchi said. “If we believe in ourselves, then we can go far.”
Sakaguchi has been one of the many bright spots for the Beavers this season, and has wrestled consistently throughout the entire season. His 25 wins are good for third on a team loaded with top performers.
Jim Zalesky198 career wins
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OSU wrestling at home this weekendOpponent: Northern Colorado Tonight, 7 p.m. — Gill Coliseum Opponent: North Dakota State Sunday, 2 p.m. — Gill Coliseum
Next up...Oregon State vs. USCWhen: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.Where: Gill ColiseumOn air: ROOT Sports
(4) OSU vs. (13) UADate: TonightTime: 7 p.m.Location: Tucson, Ariz.Venue: McKale Center
OSU picks up much-needed second Pac-12 win
