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A passion for math
Justin Frost
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Mathematics professor Ed Waymire’s passion for math was nurtured by his grandfather. Waymire gave a lecture on math and science Tuesday night for the Gilfillan Lecture Series.
Mathematics serves as lens through
which professor Ed Waymire views world
interpret the world around him. This frame
of logic extends from Waymire’s early childhood with his grandfather’s influence guiding
his sense of the world through mathematical
motifs and instilling a passion for the problemsolving framework.
these things together. Ever since then math has University, Waymire’s gaze toward graduate
been quite comforting; my brain is just wired school was briefly obstructed by the Vietnam
draft.
to see problems in terms of math.”
“I was set to be drafted in December — I
Once enrolled in school, Waymire’s passion
By Justin Frost
for math began to shine through, spending was number 142, but fortunately my number
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his study hall periods zipping through multi- was never called. I was fortunate that I could
Professor Ed Waymire’s office is filled with
study mathematical solely for my desire to do
“I remember my grandfather teaching plication tables and manipulating numbers.
old mathematics textbooks, their edges fraying
so,” Waymire said.
me multiplication tables and conversions,” After studying math in college and collecting
and pages yellowing as they sit on the shelf.
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Waymire uses mathematics to solve and Waymire said. “We really enjoyed learning his undergraduate degree from South Illinois
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Sexual Assault
Awareness Month
continues with
Wednesday events
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As Sexual Assault Awareness Month
comes to a close, there are a few more
events to raise awareness and demonstrate support for survivors.
All day Wednesday, April 29 is
Denim Day, an international event to
demonstrate support for survivors by
wearing jeans for the day. According
to the Denim Day event details on
the Oregon State University calendar,
the day is in honor of “an Italian court
case that was overturned because
the justice deemed the victim must
have assisted in the removal of her
jeans because they were too tight to
have been removed by the assailant
themselves.”
Wednesday night will be the Take
Back the Night march in the Memorial
Union quad at 6 p.m. Take Back the
Night is meant to represent OSU’s
commitment to supporting survivors,
according to the event page.
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With more than 400 clubs
on campus, there is something for nearly everyone.
Those who find their interest piqued by the vast expanse
of space can find a place to
explore their fascination in a
new club on campus: gravity and
space club.
The gravity and space club formed
in fall 2014, put together by co-founders
Alexsis Hundley-Kennaday, Sophia Zhang
and Cristina Martinez, all friends and
engineering majors.
The club is geared toward engineering and
science majors, but anyone who is interested
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can join. There are currently about seven
members in the club and the founders would
be happy to welcome in new members.
“We talk about space-related events and
we’re trying to incorporate more star gazing
events,” said Zhang, a senior in electrical and
computer engineering. “More group events in
general — maybe space movie nights.”
Movies mentioned were “Interstellar,”
“Gravity” and “Space Jam.”
“The goal of GRASP as it expands is to be an
umbrella type of organization. So when someone comes up with an idea, we can branch off
and do a project,” said Hundley-Kennaday, a
sophomore in industrial engineering.
GRASP is in the middle of a project funded
by the Oregon NASA Space Grant. HundleyKennaday, Zhang and Martinez are currently
building a payload that will be launched in
a sounding rocket in June for RockSat-C, a
program through the University of Colorado
Boulder.
A payload is the rocket’s cargo. Within the
payload, variables — such as the speed of the
rocket, the temperature, amount of radiation
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and the axes that the rocket spins on — can
be monitored.
“For ours, we’re testing how microorganisms will respond to microgravity,” HundleyKennaday said.
Martinez, a sophomore in nuclear engineering, said that the group hypothesizes that the
microorganisms will exhibit no real changes
in their behavior and metabolic activity, but
that any changes they do observe can help
to understand the environmental cues that
cause microorganisms to go into dormancy.
“We’re using tardigrades, which are
extremophiles; they do very good in the heat
and radiation that will form in and around the
rocket. Some are even found outside of the
international shuttle,” Martinez said.
In the past, the group participated in a
weeklong RockOn workshop where they built
a payload to launch in a rocket.
“This was a stepping stone for the current
project we’re working on because it shows
us the foundation of working on payloads
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his vehicle and began to drive away. One of the
officers conducted a traffic stop and the man was
issued additional citations, according to the log.
Identity theft
According to the log, a Corvallis police officer
spoke to a man over the phone who said that —
upon trying to file his taxes — the IRS told him
someone else had already filed. The man reportedly had no information from the IRS about the
alleged fraud.
Vehicle impound
Tuesday, April 28
A Corvallis police officer stopped a man for running a stop sign, according to the log. The officer
Upon stopping by a residence to respond to a wel- reportedly learned the man had no insurance for
fare check, a Corvallis police officer reportedly found his vehicle and had been stopped two hours earlier
a man and woman dancing and shouting in the area. by a different Corvallis police officer. The man had
The officer arrested the man for probation violation already been cited for careless driving and driving
uninsured by the other officer. The officer then cited
as well as possession of methamphetamine.
the man for driving uninsured again and for failing
to obey a traffic control device, according to the log.
Monday, April 27
The man’s vehicle was then reportedly impounded.
Possession of meth
Vehicle tow
Disorderly conduct
According to the log, Corvallis police stopped a
man who was driving a black Chevy Corvette due
According to the log, a Corvallis police officer
to inoperable headlights. The man also report- responded to a call reporting a woman being chased
edly did not have a driver’s license. The officers by a man. The man was cited for disorderly conduct
informed the man that his vehicle would be towed in the second degree.
if he tried to drive it, and that he should not drive
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it until he had his license, according to the log. As
the officers were leaving, the man allegedly started
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Lecture to cover
environmental
law details
Use evidence to fight
poverty, Kristof says
By Shasta Kearns Moore
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PORTLAND TRIBUNE
University of Oregon Law
Professor Mary Wood will be visiting Oregon State University this
Thursday to discuss the ecological
rights as citizens.
Wood released a book in
2013 titled “Nature’s Trust:
Environmental Law for a New
Ecological Age.”
Wood is an expert in environmental law and faculty director
to U of O’s Environmental and
Natural Resources Law Program.
Her lecture is this Thursday,
April 30, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the
LaSells Stewart Center.
PORTLAND — The answer to global poverty might be
closer and easier than you think.
That was the message from Nicholas Kristof, a New York
Times columnist who returned to his old stomping grounds
in the Portland area to give the fifth-annual Kathryn Robertson
Memorial Lecture at Oregon Health & Science University on
April 20.
Kristof said that while issues of poverty are complex, oftentimes the best and most effective solutions aren’t employed.
“There are no silver bullets anywhere, but there is silver
buckshot,” he said. Kristof said he finds simple and cheap
solutions that aren’t funded adequately, but that there is a
dawning awareness of the need for scientific research on
interventions.
“What matters at the end of the day is your impact, not
your tax status,” he said of nonprofits.
Most recently, Kristof reported on three-foot-long nearly
blind Gambian pouched rats that are being used to sniff out
landmines and positive tuberculosis tests.
“And they work for bananas,” he said.
He argued that rather than spending hundreds of dollars
per child to build a brick-and-mortar school, a vastly cheaper
and more-effective means of educating children in some parts
of the world is offering free food during the school day or even
free doses of de-wormer to ensure that children are free from
parasites and ready to concentrate.
While much of the lecture concentrated on issues in underdeveloped countries, Kristof also acknowledged the growing
income gap in the United States and the need for more robust
social programs here in Oregon.
“We certainly have issues of inequity here as well,” Kristof
said.
He pointed to sex trafficking as a continuing major Portland
problem.
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Correction
In the Monday, April
27 edition of The Daily
Barometer, the article “‘Dear
OSU’ forum for student feedback” incorrectly referred to
the event as “Dear OSU” and
gave an incorrect time, date
and location for the event,
based on information from
the Associated Students of
Oregon State University
website. The event is actually called “Dear ASOSU”
and will take place Thursday,
April 30 in the Memorial
Union plaza with proceedings beginning at noon and
a microphone available for
speakers from 1 to 3 p.m.
The event will end at 4 p.m.
The Daily Barometer regrets
the error.
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PORTLAND — Uber and Lyft launched officially in Portland
Friday at 2 pm.
The companies were given the all-clear to operate in the city,
not just the surrounding suburbs where Uber has been operating
without regulations for months. The Portland City Council voted
3-2 on Tuesday in favor of a 120-day trial period for rideshare or
Transporation Network Companies, plus lifting the cap on taxi fares.
It began on April 24.
Uber driver Amy Hall of Beaverton was invited to meet the media,
along with sample customer Charles McGee, outside Milo’s Café on
Northeast Broadway.
Hall said she started driving for Uber in the suburbs in January. She
has a crotchet bag business which she plans to launch on craft e-tailer
Etsy, and is driving for Uber on her own schedule rather than get a
full time job. She has never considered being a cab driver.
“I’ve taken taxis in my life when I needed to, but it always feels
creepy.”
Hall said she enjoyed the work and felt physically secure. “I don’t
have that feeling at all, especially after all the people I have given rides
to.” Her fiancé also has no fears for her safety. “He is super-supportive.
I sometimes text him a picture of what my fee was, and say ‘Ka-ching!’
It’s just a fun way of saying hello.”
In testimony before the council, those opposing the pilot project
suggested that amateur drivers may not be as good as professional
cab drivers. Friday morning, Hall, who was driving a white Lexus SUV,
had a close call with a cyclist. While waiting to give media members
a spin around the block, she edged into the bike lane on Broadway
causing a cyclist to severely swerve. He yelled in her window “YOU
NEED TO PAY ATTENTION!”
Hall says the app calculates her gross fare time income at $21 an
hour. (Drivers get to keep 80% of the fare that passengers pay. Tips
are optional.)
“The other day a mom saw my face and my car (on the app) and
she pinged me. She sent me to pick up her daughter, who is 21, and
take her to lunch at Bridgeport Mall. She wouldn’t have sent a taxi
to do that.”
Uber spokesperson Kate Downen said all will drivers need to
comply by the City’s new rules before being allowed on to the platform, meaning before they can activate the app in Portland and take
passengers. They will send a screen shot of their business license to
Uber, who will authenticate it. They also need to display it inside their
car, along with a black “U” logo on the windshield.
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Wednesday, April 29
Meetings
ASOSU House of Representatives,
7pm, MU Journey Room. House
meeting.
College Republicans, 7pm, Gilkey
113. Join the College Republicans for
friendly conversation on current events
and politics.
Events
Student Health Services, 6pm, MU
Quad. Take Back the Night. Part of
Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Craft Center, 1-3pm, Craft Center,
Student Experience Center Basement
Level. Watercolor Wellness. Supplies
provided.
Thursday, April 30
Events
ASOSU, Noon-4pm, SEC Plaza. #DearASOSU - event to encourage students
to share their thoughts about OSU and
student government.
Friday, May 1
Meetings
Student Organization Resource for
Community Engagement (SORCE),
2-4pm, SEC 354.
Events
Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC, Navy
ROTC, 10am, MU Quad. Joint Service
Review. The reviewing official and
guest speaker is Lieutenant Colonel
Bruce “Snake” Crandall (RET), a Medal
of Honor recipient.
Saturday, May 2
Events
Craft Center, 11am-2pm, OSU Craft
Center. Mom’s and Families Weekend
Photo Booth. Wacky props included.
Tuesday, May 5
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ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU Journey
Room. Senate meeting.
Wednesday, May 6
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ASOSU House of Representatives,
7pm, MU Journey Room. House
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friendly conversation on current events
and politics.
Bird Nerds, 5pm, Nash 032. Monthly
member meeting with speaker Kyle
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Student Experience Center Basement
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Thursday, May 7
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Baha’i Campus Association,
12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Is travel
a tool for global peace? A discussion.
Friday, May 8
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Student Organization Resource for
Community Engagement (SORCE),
2-4pm, SEC 354.
Tuesday, May 12
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ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU Journey
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Wednesday, May 13
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By Jack Heffernan
THE REGISTER-GUARD
EUGENE — Slowly but surely, Native
American mascot names are disappearing
across the country — and Native American
rights advocate Suzan Harjo is a big reason
why.
Harjo, 69, organized the legal battle
to strip Washington, D.C.’s professional
football team of its federal trademark rights
to the “Redskins” name. She also gave
advice and provided resources to groups
that persuaded the Oregon State Board of
Education in 2012 to ban public schools’
Native American mascot names — with a
deadline for schools to do so by 2017.
Harjo — one of two keynote speakers at a
free symposium on indigenous Americans
to be held Thursday at Lane Community
College — has advocated for banning
Native American mascot names since
her high school days in Oklahoma in the
1960s. Back then, she was inspired by an
activist who successfully fought to get rid
of the “Little Red” mascot — a white man
in Indian costume — at the University of
Oklahoma.
Since then, her cause has seen nationwide success. According to the National
Congress of American Indians, the number of teams that use mascot names that
the group considers to be derogatory has
decreased in the past 50 years from about
3,000 to fewer than 1,000.
Since 1992, Harjo and other activists
have been engaged in a court battle with
the NFL football team over the “Redskins”
name. She calls the team the “worst offender” of mascots that symbolize Native
Americans.
The most offensive aspect of the name
is not its description of a Native American’s
skin color, but rather its historical significance, Harjo said.
Throughout early U.S. history and even
into the 20th century, Harjo said, political leaders placed bounties on Native
Americans. Depending on whether the
victim was male, female or a child, a
bounty hunter would receive a reward if
he or she provided evidence in the form
of a portion of the victim’s skin, Harjo said.
The hunters would call what they brought
back “redskins,” Harjo said.
“It’s so dastardly,” she said. “We can’t be
polite about it.”
Since purchasing the Redskins in 1999,
owner Daniel Snyder has opposed changing the team’s name.
“A Redskin is a football player,” Snyder
told The Washington Post in September.
“A Redskin is our fans, the Washington
Redskin fan base. It represents honor,
represents respect, represents pride, hopefully winning.”
But part of the reason such names still
exist is that the American education system
has offered an incomplete and inaccurate
history of Native Americans, Harjo said. As
a result, many Americans are oblivious to
the implications of such names, she said.
“It creates the myth that it’s OK to use
these names in sports because it’s ‘just
good fun,’” Harjo said.
The Washington Redskins are currently
appealing the U.S. Patents and Trademarks
Office’s decision last June to cancel the
federal trademarks to their name. A decision on the appeal could be made this
summer. Should the appeal be denied,
Harjo said she is hopeful the team will seek
another name.
But whether the team actually changes
its name is not the main point, Harjo said.
“These people can call their team whatever racist name they want,” Harjo said.
“What we’re saying is that the federal
government should not sanction this with
a trademark that hands billions of dollars
to an entity.”
The trademark gives the football team
exclusive rights to use the Redskins name
and adorn it on football shirts, pennants
and other souvenir items.
If they lost the trademark, “they would
just get another emblem or name,” she
said. NFL teams “are not altruistic organizations, so they would would change in a
hot minute.”
Harjo joked that a new name could actually do the team some good.
“It would make them a better team,” she
said. “They haven’t been to a Super Bowl
since we filed a lawsuit. I think it’s karma.
I just have to think they would have a new
energy and spirit.”
To address the mascot issue elsewhere,
Harjo and others have fought to pass legislation that would ban Native American
mascot names in multiple states. Oregon
school officials were among the first in the
country to ban Native American mascot
names, which did not come as a surprise
to Harjo.
“There’s a lot of goodwill in Oregon,”
Harjo said. “People look to it as one of the
bellwether states.”
Opponents of both the “Redskins” controversy and Oregon’s ban have pointed
out that Native Americans themselves
seem to disagree about the offensiveness
of mascot names.
In March 2014, then-Oregon Gov. John
Kitzhaber signed a bill into law that allows
some school districts to keep their mascot
if they obtain a written agreement with a
nearby Native American tribe.
But with the overwhelming majority of
Native Americans opposing such mascots
— 75 percent of federally recognized Native
American tribes by Harjo’s estimation —
one tribe’s approval is not sufficient, she
said.
“The few should not be able to take over
the vast majority of Native Americans,”
Harjo said.
Stan Taylor, chairman of the LCC Peace
Center, said the group paid Harjo $9,000
to speak at Thursday’s symposium, which
also features activist Dennis Martinez,
recent winner of the Ecotrust Indigenous
Conservation Leadership award. Taylor
said the group’s goal is to give Native
Americans a forum to be heard.
“In many ways, our history is one of erasing their voices,” said Taylor. “We are trying
to reassert those dialogues that should be
there in this context.”
Now a grandmother, Harjo said she
wants to take more time to write. She will
not, however, stop promoting her cause.
“You have to let the rest of the world
know how present you are,” Harjo said,
“how you affect their families, how you
are their family.”
Springfield man arrested on arson charges
By Chelsea Gorrow
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SPRINGFIELD —
A Springfield man is accused
of lighting his home on fire and
dousing another resident with
gasoline, following a dispute
with a property manager over
his rental agreement.
Robert Anthony Beisser, 65,
is charged with two counts
of first-degree arson, menacing and recklessly endanger-
ing another person. Additional
counts of reckless endangerment, reckless burning and
first-degree assault were not
filed by the district attorney.
The incident began around 9
p.m. Sunday when Lane County
sheriff’s deputies were called to
a home in the 2600 block of
Fifth Street in Springfield after
receiving a report of a disorderly man.
Deputies said they learned
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that Beisser had been involved
in a verbal dispute with his
property manager and attempted to hit the manager. At that
time, no arrests were made.
Less than two hours later,
however, deputies were back
at the home in response to
a report of a fire. Springfield
police and fire crews also
arrived at the home and discovered that Beisser had allegedly lit a gas can on the back
patio, igniting the patio, which
was attached to the home while
four people were still inside.
He also allegedly threw gasoline on one of the residents.
The fire was put out by the
residents with a fire extinguisher and a garden hose, deputies
said.
The rooms in the home are
rented out, similar to a quadtype of residence, where there is
a common area for roommates
to share, Sgt. Carrie Carver said.
It is unknown if the property
manager also lived in the home.
Beisser was taken to the Lane
County Jail.
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Measure 11 offense that carries a mandatory minimum
jail sentence of 7½ years upon
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Oregon Lottery
celebrates 30 years
By Alisha Roemeling
STATESMAN JOURNAL
SALEM — The Oregon Lottery celebrated it’s 30th anniversary
on Monday, complete with four cakes and ample applause.
More than 100 people gathered in the lobby at the lottery
office at 500 State St. to celebrate 30 years of “doing good things,”
a motto established at the inception of the organization in 1985.
Oregon’s lottery is both a public trust and a market-driven
business in which lottery money funds education, economic
development, state parks, watershed enhancement and gambling addiction prevention throughout the state.
The organization’s mission is to operate with the highest standards of security and to earn maximum profits for the people
of Oregon commensurate with the public good.
Elisa Dozono, the chair commissioner for the Oregon Lottery,
stood at a podium in the lobby and spoke to employees and
other community members about the importance of numbers
at the organization.
Pointing at the large lottery numbers printed on the carpet
of the lobby, Dozono read out some statistics.
“The Oregon Lottery office started with 116 employees in
1985 and has since grown to 454 employees in 2015,” she said.
“In 1985 we started with 1,760 retailers and now have 3,952.”
Dozono spoke about the important and challenging work
the office does.
“You can see how far we’ve come, and it’s because of the
great work you do,” she said. “All of us working together is what
makes Oregon great.”
Marlene Meissner has worked for the Oregon Lottery as a
public affairs specialist since March of 1985, before the organization even sold tickets. She said she remembered the day
they sold the first ever scratch-it called “The Pot of Gold,” like
it was yesterday.
“We worked six days a week for the first month to prepare for
our first day of sales,” she said. “Seems like it was just yesterday,
but 30 years later here we are.”
Meissner now works part time as a player services specialist
and said the best part of working at the lottery is knowing that
she’s made a difference.
“I feel like I’m doing work that’s really contributing to the
organization’s mission,” she said. “I’m so proud to be a part of
this place.”
Ray Martin sat at the front desk in the lobby during the
ceremony.
Martin, who worked at the Oregon Lottery for about 22 years
before retiring, intermittently mans the front desk and helps
with other tasks. During his full-time tenure, Martin was the
winner awareness coordinator, in charge of handing out the
money won by participants.
“It’s been such a fun job,” Martin said. “I’ve met so many cool
people. I even stay in touch with some of the winners.”
Martin went on to say that he loves the feel-good nature of
the lottery.
“Giving away prizes to someone who thinks it’s the greatest
thing in the world... that’s a nice feeling.”
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Professor Ed Waymire chats with Ellen Gilfillan after his lecture Tuesday night. Waymire gave a talk titled “Blending Scientific
and Mathematical Curiosities.”
He then took his mathematical sensibility to graduate
school, eventually earning his
Ph.D. from the University of
Arizona in 1976. Since then, he
has worked to share his passion of logic with others and
help solve interdisciplinary
issues through his mathematical lens.
“Math tends to resonate
with the thought-process
development all the way back
to Newton’s explanations of the
natural world quantitatively,”
Waymire said. “Mathematical
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The professor has utilized
his unique logical ability to
contribute solutions ranging
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quantitative language of which
both occupying space on his
chalkboard.
This perspective through
which he sees the world has
allowed Waymire to work across
various fields of science, tapping into the natural synergy
between math and science.
The inclination for mathematical logic is so strong within
Waymire that he believes complex problems can always be
made simpler through the logic
of math, citing a quote from
mathematician and computer
scientist John von Neumann:
“If people do not believe that
mathematics is simple, it is only
because they do not realize how
complicated life is.”
On Tuesday evening,
Waymire sought to use math in
order to answer some questions
of natural phenomena using
mathematical theorems in a
talk titled “Blending Scientific
and Mathematical Curiosities”
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ics, but weather and natural
“I’ll retire when I stop loving
phenomena as well. Alongside
colleagues at NASA and various what I’m doing,” Waymire said.
institutions across the nation, “And I don’t see that happening
Waymire was able to “Fourier anytime soon.”
transform the Navier-Stokes
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Former Oregon State Alumni battle for the ball during the annual game in Reser Stadium Alumni game participants gather for a group photo on the 50-yard line after the game in
on Saturday.
Corvallis on Saturday.
Saturday’s men’s soccer alumni game brings home
past players, adds excitement for the new ones
forward to the direction that the program is headed.
“A lot of the guys fly in from all over to be here, because the
program is special,” said Christian vanBlommestein, who played
for the Beavers from 2000-2003. ”Our time here was short, but it
By Brain Rathbone
was special — just want to continue to be a part of the program.”
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And after the type of year that the program had on the field,
Saturday, April 25 the Oregon State men’s soccer team hosted its during which the team earn a spot in the NCAA tournament for
annual alumni game, which provided a chance for former players the first time in over a decade and won its first tournament game
— from all different eras dating back to the 1960s — to lace up in program history, there was much to be excited about.
“(Head coach Steve Simmons) is doing an incredible job,” said
their boots and relive the glory years of playing college soccer for
vanBlommestein, who played in the program’s only two tournathe afternoon.
As the players — some with more gray hair than others — played ment games prior to this season. “The team is really growing; it’s
through a hail storm, it gave them a chance to reunite with former becoming a powerhouse within college soccer — it’s really exciting
teammates and reminisce about their playing days, while looking for all of the alumni to watch.”
Simmons has been working to not only build the program, but
to build excitement from the former players in the program. The
team’s success a season ago helped the cause.
“Those (Alumni) are proud of the team that won this
year,”Simmons said. “There is a lot of pride there.”
“That was very exciting; I thought they were better than they
ended up (losing in the second round of the tournament),” said
Arvid Berg, who played for OSU 1969-1971. “They are definitely
nationally competitive ... and it’s a really good thing.”
One thing to be prideful about is the recent Beavers who were
selected in the MLS draft this year. Senior Khiry Shelton was the
second overall pick by New York City FC — the second-highest a
Beaver has been selected for — while Will Seymore was selected
in the second round by FC Dallas.
Shelton, an All-American and Pac-12 player of the year, has
already earned his way into the starting job for the MLS expansion team.
“He’s special; when you play with people at that level, they stand
out,” said vanBlommestein, who was teammates with current
MLS player Alan Gordon who recently played his 200th career
MLS game. “Khiry has that X-factor that gift that many of the guys
out here don’t.”
To follow up the program’s most successful season on the field
paired with the buzz that Shelton’s draft pick created, the coaching
staff used the momentum to deliver the sixth-ranked recruiting
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Zach Striar looks to make contact during the alumni game.
Bringing in the caliber of the recruiting class is a must to stay
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Mikhail Doholis during Saturday’s alumni game at Reser.
competitive in the conference — which only has six teams — that
has teams such as UCLA and Washington, which are powers not
only in the conference, but in the nation.
“I feel like we always have to have a top recruiting class,”
Simmons said, “because everybody in our conference has a top
recruiting class.”
The team has built momentum heading into next season, and
with that momentum expectation will rise. Simmons and the rest
of the team now face the difficult challenge of sustaining success
and becoming a consistent tournament team.
“Momentum doesn’t last forever unless you capitalize and
create a new one,” Simmons said. “We want to make sure to do
that with the momentum we have and capitalize on it and build
a foundation to sustain.”
Brian Rathbone, sports reporter
On Twitter @brathbone3
[email protected]
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Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Vincent juggles the ball while on the move during the alumni Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Vincent extends to block a shot while participating in the alumni
game in Reser Stadium Saturday.
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OSU women’s rowing program
proves it can hang with top
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On Saturday and Sunday, the Oregon
State women’s rowing team took part
in the Clemson Invitational in South
Carolina.
The Beavers — who are currently
ranked No. 18 in the nation by the
CRCA/USRowing Coaches Poll — took
part in the two-day regatta, which featured 20 other schools including the
No. 4 school in Virginia and three top 15
schools in Washington State, Texas and
Harvard-Radcliffe.
Oregon State’s Varsity 8 had an impressive day from start to finish on Saturday.
In the morning race, the rowing squad
managed a third place finish with a time
of 6 minutes, 43.5 seconds, which was
nearly 3 seconds faster than next placed
Clemson and fewer than 15 seconds
off the pace of first finisher Washington
State.
Second Varsity 8 was the next group
to compete, and again the Beavers were
able to put in a nice run and finish in
third behind Washington State and Texas.
OSU’s Varsity 4+ also clocked a good
pace when the team finished its race in
fourth.
In the afternoon session, the Varsity
8 squad once again solidified their spot
within the national rankings by finishing
their race in third behind higher-ranked
Indiana and Harvard-Radcliffe.
Second Varsity was able to improve
upon their early placing and moved
up into second behind just HarvardRadcliffe during the afternoon races,
and Varsity 4+ did much of the same,
finishing out their day in third place
behind Indiana and midday dominant
Harvard-Radcliffe.
On Sunday, the Beavers took part
in their final races and again finished
strong.
In the Varsity 8, OSU was able to finish in fourth behind three top-ranked
schools — Virginia, Washington State and
Harvard-Radcliffe — and finish ahead of
No. 20 Minnesota, Oklahoma and Penn.
Second Varsity ended the day in third,
but managed to get their revenge against
Harvard-Radcliffe by two-hundredths of
a second.
Varsity 4+ finished out the day for
Oregon State, coming in sixth ahead of
Oklahoma with a time of 7 minutes, 40.8
seconds.
The Beavers will now get set to host
Washington State and UCLA on Saturday
at Dexter Lake in Lowell.
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Oregon State moved to 27-13 on
the season and 10-8 in Pac-12 play
after taking two of three games from
No. 13 USC over the weekend. The
Beavers are now in sole possession
of fifth place in the conference with a
three-game series againstWashington
set to begin Thursday.
Here are some news and notes
heading into another important series
for Oregon State, as well as some
interesting developments with past
players in professional baseball.
Beavers looking for a winning April
Oregon State hasn’t experienced a
losing record in a month since May
2011 when the club went 6-9.
The Beavers are 6-6 in the month
entering Thursday’s game against
Washington, which is the last day of
April. A win would continue OSU’s
streak to 16-consecutive winning
months of baseball.
Oregon State holding up in RPI
The Beavers are currently 37th in
the RPI — The Rating Percentage
Index is a ranking of teams based
on overall record combined with
strength of schedule — which is the
fourth highest ranking of any Pac-12
team. No. 2 UCLA has the highest RPI
in the nation, No. 13 USC is 10th and
No. 7 Arizona State is 23rd.
As of Friday, Baseball America
projects Oregon State to make the
postseason as a No. 2 seed. If the
season ended today, that would likely
mean the Beavers would play in the
Dallas Regional, assuming Dallas
Baptist was awarded a No. 1 seed.
Baseball America has Texas Tech (No.
3 seed) and Columbia (No. 4 seed) as
the other two teams that would be in
the regional.
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Former OSU baseball player Michael Conforto celebrates after a good at bat during the Beavers’ win
against UNLV in Goss Stadium June 1, 2014.
While the postseason is still a long
way away, it seems as though OSU’s
chances are high at this point in the
year, considering 64 teams make the
playoffs.
Favorable schedule the rest of the
way
Oregon State has played the toughest part of its schedule, and should
enjoy its remaining matchups.
OSU has already played the three
of the top four teams in the confer-
ence — UCLA (1), ASU (2) and USC
(4) — and has just two remaining
conference series on the road.
Three of OSU’s four remaining
conference opponents reside at the
very bottom of the Pac-12 standings.
Washington, this week’s opponent, is
currently ninth at 8-13 in conference
play. Utah, which OSU plays the following weekend beginning May 8, is
10th at 6-12. Lastly, the Beavers face
last place Stanford (5-13) on May 15
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before ending the season against a
formidable opponent in Cal.
With such a favorable stretch in
front of them, it’s the perfect time for
the Beavers to make a run toward the
top of the conference standings.
Past OSU players threatening to
make MLB rosters
Former Oregon State left fielder
Michael Conforto made some noise
last week when ESPN’s Keith Law said
in an ESPN online chat that the New
York Mets prospect could join the big
league club as early as September if
managed properly.
Conforto is currently hitting .346
with four home runs and 15 runs
batted in in 61 plate appearances for High-A St. Lucie. Many have
wondered why Conforto hasn’t been
promoted to New York’s AA affiliate
Binghamton yet, including Law, who
went on to say in the chat: “I don’t get
their handling of him; not last summer after he took too long to sign, not
now. This guy could play in the majors
this summer if they’d just get him on
track to do so.”
This week, meanwhile, it’s former
left-handed pitcher Matt Boyd making headlines. Boyd, of the Toronto
Blue Jays organization, is 1-1 this year
with a 1.31 earned run average in 20
2/3 innings. The Blue Jays’ bullpen
has struggled out of the gates in the
2015 season, and could look to add a
guy like Boyd if any injuries occur or
struggles continue.
Boyd was the 29th ranked prospect
in Toronto’s organization following
last year and has been impressive so
far in 2015.
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‘The Hunting Ground’ should be made available to students
W
hen we read the March 31 Life@
OSU address by President Ed Ray
concerning the next steps to sexual
violence prevention and saw that “The Hunting
Ground” was scheduled to be screened during April — Sexual Assault Awareness Month
(SAAM) — it piqued our interest.
The documentary concerning the “expose of
sexual assault on U.S. campuses, institutional
cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims
and their families,” according to the film’s
official website, was scheduled to be screened
April 16.
But when we looked at the list of SAAM
2015’s events, the film wasn’t listed as an event.
We spoke with Angelo Gomez, Oregon State
University’s executive director of equity and
Editorial
inclusion, and learned that there was a delicate
reason for this.
According to Gomez, the film was shown for
the first time at OSU in the Memorial Union
Ballroom on April 16 — to an invited audience — in conjunction with four other Oregon
schools, and was organized by sexual assault
survivor Brenda Tracy, according to an April 16
piece from the Oregonian.
After this viewing and after running the film
by specialists who work with sexual assault survivors on a regular basis, the concern arose that
a public showing of the film to OSU students
might incite hopelessness and discourage
students from speaking out to their university
for help.
“It’s a real problem,” Gomez said. “The film
talks about real experiences and the students
involved receiving little support from their
universities.”
Such universities included, but were not
limited to, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Florida
State, Berkeley and George Mason University,
according to a Jan. 23 piece from Variety.
We haven’t seen the film yet, but we imagine
that OSU isn’t included in the list; otherwise
there would have been backlash by now, right?
“It shines a light on a national problem,”
said Gomez, “but it doesn’t address the good
that has been done at universities like OSU.”
He expressed in the interview that showing the
film is still an option during April, provided that
there is a strong student interest.
“My preference,” Gomez said, “is that the
film is helpful to students and by showing it we
can make resources at OSU known.”
Gomez also expressed that after having seen
the film himself, he felt that fears of hopelessness might have been over-cautious and that
the office of equity and inclusion would be
happy to assist in another screening, given
student interest.
Although as witnessed in The Blog Brown
Daily Herald, students were morosed after
viewing the film; however, there was a
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Anal sex equality, importance of communication in relationships
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ear Dr. Sex,
My partner really enjoys
anal sex. I have tried it and
really dislike it on an emotional as
well as a physical level. I want to give
him what he likes. Is there anything
we can do to reach a compromise or
will this always be a struggle in our
relationship?
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Dear To Anal or Not to Anal,
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The first issue is the fact that he
really enjoys anal sex as the penetrator and you don’t like it as the recipient. My solution to this dilemma isn’t
necessarily ingenious but it is very
practical and usually works.
You need to switch roles.
To help him understand why you
physically don’t like being the receiver of anal sex, he needs to be put in
the receiver position.
Here’s how you do that: Estimate
his penis size and go to an adult shop
and purchase a dildo approximately
the same size as his penis. Now go
home and penetrate him anally
with it.
If he enjoys it, then, as a couple, the
compromise is you take turns being
the penetrator and the recipient.
Email questions for the column to [email protected], with the subject “Ask Dr. Sex.”
Your name will not be published.
“Submissions not associated with Oregon State University will not be accepted.”
It is interesting that most, not all,
heterosexual men do not like being
the recipient. Actually most of them
don’t even like thinking about being
the recipient.
If he wants you to take it up the
tailpipe, he needs to be willing to do
the same.
The second issue going on here is
that you want to give him what he
likes when it isn’t what you like.
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Feminism: Not an ugly word, applicable for anyone, everyone
P
icture the scene: You’re at work, and a
new coworker has approached you to
introduce herself. After chatting amiably for a few minutes about one such subject
or another, the red-hot issue of feminism
comes up.
Your new coworker then proceeds to identify
herself as a feminist.
What is your initial reaction?
For most folks, they would, at the very least,
feel apprehensive. There is a good portion that
will instantly picture a feminist as a “crazy”
woman who hates men and lives in a tree,
and likely only a small portion of you who
“vastly superior” to men — just equality of
the sexes.
When thinking of feminism, picture the
ultimate goal as being an equally balanced
teeter-totter; if either side is higher than the
will understand what it truly means to be a
other, everyone loses.
feminist.
Why, then, is there such a cultural bias
So what does it actually mean?
toward having such a strong aversion to a
Merriam-Webster defines feminism as “the
person identifying as a feminist?
theory of the political, economic and social
Since the 1970s, when the first waves of femiequality of the sexes,” or “organized activity
nism were gaining attention and success, there
on behalf of women’s rights and interests.”
was an immediate backlash to control and
Nothing about hating all men on sheer fact of
ultimately put a stop to the feminist movement.
their being men, nothing about women being
Political leaders, the media, even schools
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repeated the message: Feminism is a hateful,
man-hating movement that will destroy this
country. The reason for all these misconceptions is clear: fear. Fear of change, fear of
empowerment, even fear of equality. Fear is
what drove many to misconstrue what they did
not know, and then purport their “knowledge”
as factual evidence.
Well, fact: Feminism is not about hating men.
It’s about believing that all genders should
have equal rights.
Another fun fact: Anyone can identify as a
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School choice irrelevant to future happiness
I
t is no secret that some universities — the vast majority
of which are private — tend
to be considered more prestigious
than other various colleges around
the nation.
And it is this notion that haunts
many high-school students on their
journey to secondary education.
The idea that your ability to be
successful is dependent on the university at which you study leads
many students to unnecessarily
stress about the college application
process, and often feel unhappy with
where they end up, should they not
be admitted to a university considered to be “esteemed.”
But is this hypothesis really true?
Are our future successes truly
limited should we choose to attend
a state university as opposed to
one of the prestigious Ivy League
institutions?
In short, they are not.
What makes such esteemed universities capable of providing students with an increased likelihood
of future success is not so much the
quality of their teachings, but the
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depth of their wide-spread alumni
network.
And while prestigious universities
are ultimately the institutions which
have succeed in cultivating such
advantageous alumni networks, that
is not to say that all other universities
have non-existent alumni networks.
Success is not merely determined
by the quality of one’s academic
accomplishments.
Instead, it is the drive to be successful and the relentless pursuit of
prosperity that ultimately determine
one’s future.
Although a degree from a public
university may not be initially as
impressive as a degree from Harvard,
this can become irrelevant in your
ability to succeed when the right
connections are made.
After all, while college is most
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ics and participate in the universal
quest for knowledge, in the end it
becomes less about the quality of
your education and more about how
you use it.
And it is for this reason that networking is such a critical component of our undergraduate studies
— because while good grades are
essential to receiving internships
and other career building opportunities, leaving college with little
to no professional experience puts
students at a significant disadvantage when competing against plenty
of other well-qualified candidates.
It is evident that, despite popular
belief, it does not really matter where
you go to school for your secondary
education.
There are opportunities to be successful in the future wherever you
may end up.
All you need is the drive and determination to do so.
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strong desire for its presence on university
campuses.
In the online version of the The Blog
Brown Daily Herald, a student expressed
that the film should be required in freshman
orientations nationally.
We also spoke with Vice President of
University Relations and Marketing Steve
Clark about the film showing and his opinion concerning the hopelessness that might
affect OSU students.
Clark mentioned the intent of OSU to
provide better and more immediate services
to the OSU community as well as a safe
environment.
“‘The Hunting Ground’ film shows the
problem; OSU is not ignoring that,” Clark
said, “and it is important to have this information available, but to also provide assistance to students.”
When asked if he felt the film should be
shown to students, Clark said “Universities
provide opportunities to learn. This film is an
opportunity to emphasize what is different
about OSU and what we need to make better.
It is an important conversation that needs to
be had. It is an opportunity for dialogue and
how to make this university, this community,
safer for faculty and students.”
So given this information, here is our take.
We can appreciate the delicacy with
which the initial screening of “The Hunting
Ground” was handled and the general concern for students.
But we think that as a campus community,
we are pretty tough.
As students, we are incredibly aware of the
awesome resources we have available to us.
This documentary needs to be shown, and
the problem needs to be publicly addressed
so that those who have been hurt can begin
healing and achieving justice.
As a student body, we should make it
known to the office of equity and inclusion
that we are very interested in another viewing of “The Hunting Ground.”
This needs to happen, because currently,
none of the theaters in Corvallis are showing
the documentary. If change is going to take
place, what better place to begin than OSU?
reaching a compromise about anal
sex won’t result in anal sex still
being an ongoing struggle.
This kind of situation happens
Well, maybe you didn’t mean
frequently in relationships where that, but your question suggests
couples have to compromise that once you reach a compromise,
when partners don’t want the the issue is no longer a struggle.
same thing.
Long-term couples have certain
The problem with this particular issues that come up time and time
issue is that there is a big difference again in the relationship.
between you doing something
They are referred to as unsolvyou don’t want to do and him not
getting to do something he wants able problems. Unsolvable problems are things in a relationship
to do.
Often times when partners don’t that partners are willing to accept,
want the same things, it’s because live with and deal with.
It could be as simple as the
they want different things — not
because one perthings you agree
son doesn’t want
to disagree about
The problem with
what the other
— or it could be
person wants.
this particular issue more serious
issues such as
For example —
is that there is a big how to disciand this is a very
pline children,
simplistic examdifference between
money or
ple — let’s say you
you doing something spend
want Pad Thai,
divide household
you don’t want and chores.
but he wants
a burrito. The
him not getting to do
So even if you
wanting different
do come to a
something
he
wants.
things probably
compromise on
isn’t because you
this issue, you
don’t want a burwill probably
rito or he doesn’t want Pad Thai.
never come to love anal sex and
Additionally, my solution above your partner will probably never
still doesn’t address the issue of come to love being penetrated by
how much you do not enjoy anal a dildo — although stranger things
sex emotionally, as my solution is have happened.
only a compromise on a physit
cal level. I would hope that if
your partner is compassionate Dr. Kathy Greaves is a senior instructor and faculty
in the college of public health and human
and empathetic that he wouldn’t member
sciences. Greaves hosts sexuality and relationship
want you to do something that Q&A sessions in the residence halls and the co-ops,
you dislike on both a physical and in sororities and fraternities, in the cultural centers
an emotional level — just for his and for community groups. The opinions expressed
in Greaves’ columns do not necessarily represent
pleasure.
those of The Daily Barometer staff. Greaves can be
The third issue is thinking that reached at [email protected].
Correction
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n Continued from page 7
mistake — this is not the same as
a document explicitly declaring
women as being legally equal
to men.
feminist.
Scarier — according to the
Since feminism simply means
equality for the sexes, you can be website dosomething.org, a cama man and support equal rights paign by the United Nations
Secretary General noted the stafor all at no extra charge.
tistic that 603
The backlash
million women
against feminism
live in counlives on in part
The feminist
tr ies where
to the pervading
domestic viobelief that femimovement will go
lence is not yet
nism is an old,
nowhere
with
considered a
outdated concrime.
any further
cept — one that
This is terhas no place in
misconceptions
rifying, and
modern society
dragging us down
should let you
because there is
know
how
simply no lonand ultimately
urgently
we
ger a need for the
holding us back.
still need the
movement.
feminist moveUnfortunately,
ment in this
this could not be
and
every
country.
further from the truth.
The feminist movement will go
Statistics don’t lie; accordnowhere
with any further mising to womensissues.com writer
Linda Lowen, women earn only conceptions dragging us down
78 cents for every dollar earned and ultimately holding us back.
To reiterate, feminism is about
by a man.
supporting
equal rights for both
Furthermore, even America’s
female CEO’s earn 33 cents for sexes, with a focus on women’s
every dollar their male CEO equality.
Feminism is not about hating
counterparts earn.
men.
Beyond the statistical facts of
Men can — and should —
the wage gap, though, lies a truly
identify
as feminists.
astounding bit of information
As Malala Yousafzai, famous
that should make the hairs on
everyone’s neck rise — in the U.S. Pakistani activist and youngestConstitution, there is nothing ever Nobel Prize laureate tells us,
explicitly protecting or demand- “We cannot all succeed when half
of us are held back.”
ing the equal rights of women.
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The 19th Amendment simply
states that no citizen shall be
denied the right to vote on the
basis of sex alone, but make no
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represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. King
can be reached at [email protected].
is their right as the student leaders of the publication and Latrice is
welcome to disagree with the choice, but it isn’t her call what goes into
Prism unless she’s a part of the judging committee” was incorrect.
The decision of what content gets released in Prism Arts and Literary
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stating “It’s also up to the editors of Prism Magazine, the poem’s pub- editor-in-chief.
lisher, to determine what graces the pages of each term’s edition. That
The Daily Barometer regrets the error.
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