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n African Student Association coordinates with other organizations to put together this year’s Africa Night
By Hannah JohnsonThe Daily BaromeTer
Two cheetahs prowled through LaSells Stewart Center on Saturday. purring down the aisles in the auditorium.
“The African Student Association is one of the many cultural groups on campus. We had to coordinate with ISOSU as well as many other organizations,” said Kevin Gatimu, event organizer and Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineer-ing. “ISOSU gave us a lot of freedom of what we could do. We had to coor-dinate a lot by ourselves and com-municate for performance groups outside of Corvallis.”
The night began with a dinner made up of fruit cups, mixed veggies, rice and samosas, accompanied by a ginger drink.
At one point, a surplus of people showed up to Africa Night, and the staff temporarily ran out of silverware.
After everyone finished eating, they moved into the auditorium with projections of elephants on the walls. A large cloth draped down in the background of the stage that had elephants walking on a plain.
Many dances filled the night, including one with a group of women wearing different brightly-colored shirts and sashes at their hips.
Africa Night featured a comical
video, “Who’s the African on Campus? Season 3—Prince Abubu.”
The video was followed by a group of drummers and dancers from Portland. It began with the group of male drummers and then a group of four female dancers came and danced along to the drum music. They left temporarily but came back
and were dancing with drumsticks in their hands. Then they joined the other drummers in drumming while dancing at the same time.
After a short intermission, brothers Kevin and Brian Gatimu went over some of the myths of Africa.
Brian Gatimu is a senior in micro-biology from Kenya. He chose to
be a part of this event because of the enter-tainment aspect of it. He wanted to make a good show and provide entertainment for all age groups.
Brian Gatimu influ-enced many other people to support the event, including his brother.
Another person that Brian Gatimu reached out to was Chidi Okonkwo, a senior in public health. He’s from Nigeria and came to Oregon last year. He thought it was a good way to get connected and show the culture. Okonkwo danced as a part of the entertain-ment and explained the work put into the event.
“The preparation for
the dancing routines took a while,” Okonkwo said. “Dance practice was for three hours. It was fun but also challenging to get that much put together in time.”
The coordinators were all pleased with the cheetahs that came. Last year they were only able to get one but this year they were able to get two to come. Kevin Gatimu said they used the cheetahs as a selling point.
“Not only am I proud of my dance group because it took a lot of prepara-tion, I was proud of the two cheetahs because a lot of people didn’t believe we’d actually have them brought to Africa Night,” Kevin Gatimu said.
The last two acts included a group of rapping. A man from Haiti per-formed a rap without music for the disaster that struck Haiti in 2010.
The night ended with a final dance similar to the starting dance and a fashion show.
“The whole process was a bit hec-tic,” Brian Gatimu said. “There are very few members so one individual had a lot of responsibilities and I didn’t want to have the same thing every year.”
“My brother likes to progress and improve it every year. Last year we had one cheetah and this year we had two,” Kevin Gatimu added.
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OSU to promote green living during Earth Weekn In its 13th year, Earth Week
will bring a mix of new, old sustainability events to campus
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Oregon State University is promot-ing sustainability and awareness with a broad array of events during Earth Week, which kicked off Saturday.
A number of new events will make their first appearance this year. Among them, the Campus Creature Census is inviting the community to contribute to a creative collection of the various plants and animals that inhabit OSU. Participants may submit an entry in prose, field guide, artistic or poetry form, which may be added to the compilation.
Returning events include the Hoo-Haa Earth Day Celebration, hosted by the Organic Grower’s Club at their farm on Monday. From 3 to 7 p.m., guests may enjoy free food and live music, watch a bubble artist in action, learn about soil and discover how chickens may be used to till the earth. Transportation is pro-vided by bus, which will leave campus every 15 minutes from outside of the OSU Beaver Store.
The 13th Annual Earth Week Community Fair will make its appear-ance on Tuesday. Around 50 groups, both on and off campus, will be present to offer activities and environmental information. Students may also bring in their Styrofoam for free recycling. Acceptable items include Styrofoam sheets and wraps, as well as both bend-kevin ragsdale | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Two cheetahs took center stage at laSells Stewart Center, with trainers leading them.
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africa Night 2013 featured a variation of acts including dance, music, comedy and fashion — as pictured — on stage to entertain the audience at laSells Student Center on Saturday.
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Bonamici visits OSU talks about research losing funding from budget sequestration
By kate virdenThe Daily BaromeTer
United States Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) visited Oregon State University on Friday. She took an informative and private tour of one of OSU’s many research facilities, the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory.
Oregon State University is one of two institutions in the nation to have sea, sun, space and land grants; with such incredible recognition comes many different kinds of extensive research.
Bonamici is on the U.S. House’s Science, Space and Technology Committee and is dedicated to research. She commented on the recent national budget sequestration — she does not support it, because she thinks “there is a better way to cut spending without losing research dollars.”
In light of recent catastrophic events like the 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, Bonamici was interested in the Wave Research Laboratory, because Seaside is part of her congressional district.
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n The creative writing MFA program’s Visiting Writers Series brings Dawn Raffel to OSU
By kyle reedThe Daily BaromeTer
Author Dawn Raffel gave a reading in the Valley Library on Friday evening as a part of OSU’s Visiting Writers Series, hosted by the master’s of fine arts in creative writing program.
The series focuses on bringing in nation-ally known authors to present at the campus. For the event, Raffel read excerpts from two of her own works, “Further Adventures in the Restless Universe” and a descriptive memoir, “The Secret Life of Objects.” Her style is described as minimal-ist, experimental and avant-garde.
Raffel’s memoire focuses on everyday objects, many of which hold some sentimental value,
which she then relates to life events. “I realized that my house was full of stuff like this
[coffee mug] that you wouldn’t give me five bucks for, but to me is priceless,” Raffel said.
“The Secret Life of Objects” was written within the span of a week, and was inspired in part by the discovery of an autobiography that her father had written when he was 17. This gave her the desire to create and record stories of her own that her children could have.
After the reading, a question-and-answer panel was opened. Attendees were able to purchase books and have them signed.
“The reading was really lovely, I really think that she read her pieces very well,” said graduate stu-dent Jennifer Christie. “They are short and sparse, so it’s good for a reading. The descriptions can stay with the audience without getting too abundant
in details. It’s good for the audience to hear those kinds of stories.”
OSU’s MFA program, which is ranked as one of the top 25 in the nation, offers its students an opportunity to prepare for the professional world of writing.
“The community and professors are very personable,” Christie said. “They work one on one with you and just dedicate everything about themselves to you, and they really foster whatever you are interested in. They don’t tell you, ‘Don’t do that,’ they say, ‘Do that and let’s make it work.’”
The MFA program will host one final reading for the series, on May 10 in The Valley Library rotunda, and will feature authors Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell.
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MU Quad. 2nd Amendment Week. Many events including a concealed handgun class, guest speaker Lars Larson and a drawing for a firearm.
Career Services, 11am-4pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Spring Career Fair. Employ-ers from various industries, offer jobs and internships, and provide other future career opportunities.
Campus Recycling, 11am-3pm, MU Quad. Earth Week Community Fair - activities, booths and free styrofoam recycling.
Center for Leadership Development, Noon-1pm and 2-3pm, MU 206. “How to be a Juicy, Succulent Leader.” Learn how to be a happy, creative, and balanced leader.
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Weekly meeting.EventsOSU College Republicans, Noon-4pm,
MU Quad. 2nd Amendment Week. Many events including a concealed handgun class, guest speaker Lars Larson and a drawing for a firearm.
Pride Center, 6-8pm, Pride Center. Come enjoy mocktails as we discuss high risk alcohol consumption.
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Runners start London Marathon with moment of silence for Boston victims
LONDON (CNN) — Despite the spring sunshine, the start of the London Marathon on Sunday was a somber occasion.
Thousands of runners joined in a 30-second silence on the start line to remember those killed and injured by the blasts near the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Before the tribute, signaled by a whistle blast, an announcer told the massed runners: “We will join together in silence to remember our friends and col-leagues for whom a day of joy turned into a day of sadness.
“Let us now show our respect and support for the victims of the tragedy in Boston.”
The runners, many also wear-ing black ribbons as a Boston tribute, then poured over the start line to begin the 26.2-mile race.
Along the route, the mood became more festive, with loud cheers and applause for the passing runners from the specta-tors lining the barriers.
Prince Harry also made an appearance, visiting the finish line to show his support for the race stewards.
Tatyana McFadden, who won the women’s wheelchair mara-thons in London on Sunday and in Boston last week, dedicated her Sunday victory to those who died or suffered in last week’s Boston bombings.
“We hope such small acts will help the healing process. Other efforts are in the works,” her mother, Deborah, told CNN.
McFadden, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, spent her early years in a Russian orphan-age — walking on her hands because she had no wheelchair — but embraced athletics after she was adopted and brought to the United States by her new family.
The winner of the men’s wheelchair race was Australia’s Kurt Fearnley, and the winning runner in the men’s elite race was Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia.
The first-placed runner in the elite women’s event was Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya. Fellow country-woman Edna Kiplagat came in second.
The race is being staged amid heightened security, as police take extra precautions after the Boston Marathon bombing six days ago.
Although some spectators admitted to slight apprehen-sion about coming out Sunday, the prevailing mood seemed one of solidarity.
“If you live your life just scared of what’s going to happen, you won’t do much,” one man near the finish line told CNN. “I think it’s important everyone comes and just shows that there are thousands of people who are here for the right intentions.”
More than three-quarters of those taking part in Sunday’s race are raising money for charity.
Race organizers are also donating 2 British pounds to the One Fund Boston — set up to help those most affected by
the Boston bombing — for each runner to cross the finish line.
With about 35,000 runners, that’s expected to come to about $100,000.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson tweeted Sunday to wish all those involved in the event good luck and “a great day out,” adding, “@bostonmarathon our thoughts are with you today.”
Race director Hugh Brasher urged participants in an e-mail Friday not to lose sight of what the London Marathon stands for.
“One of the original aims of the London Marathon was ‘to provide some fun and a sense of achievement in a troubled world,’ “ he wrote.
“Following the tragic events in Boston earlier this week, that goal will be even more meaning-ful when the running commu-nity comes together on the start line of this Sunday’s race.”
Several hundred additional officers were on the streets for the event, a move the Metropolitan Police said was intended to “pro-vide visible reassurance to the participants and spectators.”
Police also appealed for any-one there to take extra care with their belongings, to avoid spark-ing security scares.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators usually turn out to support those taking part in the race.
Chief Supt. Julia Pendry, police commander for the event, said police worked with the organiz-ers, partners and other emer-gency services to ensure the right
plans were in place.“Following the terrible events
in Boston, we are providing addi-tional visible reassurance to the public in what is naturally a wor-rying time,” she said.
“I would stress there is no change to the threat level to London and nothing at this stage to link the Boston bombings to the London marathon.”
Will Geddes, managing direc-tor of threat management com-pany International Corporate Protection, told CNN this week that it is “very difficult” to secure a marathon because of the length of the route.
Any potential terrorist “will be looking for the largest number of casualties they can achieve, so the start point and the finish point will no doubt be two areas the Metropolitan Police will be focusing on and how they can secure those,” he said. But, he added, “to a certain degree, there is only so much they can do.”
The course, which starts in southeast London, wends through the Canary Wharf busi-ness district and passes by some of the capital’s most famous land-marks, including Tower Bridge and Westminster, before finishing near Buckingham Palace.
Last summer, authorities implemented a huge security plan to keep the city safe during the London Olympics.
And they sought to reassure the public ahead of Sunday’s race, with calls for supporters to come out in droves to show solidarity after the tragic events in Boston.
has been inactive for 300 years. According to Mail Online’s Science and Technology section, the eruption of the undersea plates could destroy coastal communities on the northwest side of the U.S..
Dan Cox, a civil and construction engineering professor at OSU, was able to provide information regarding the research the Wave Research Laboratory does. Cox described the laboratory’s top priorities as safety, minimization of dam-age and recovery.
At the laboratory, researchers and stu-dents are able to make world-renowned
simulations and estimate damages by taking data from recent occurrences while finding new and innovative ways to rebuild coastal communities.
Chris Bell, professor of civil and con-struction engineering at OSU, notes that OSU has gained international attention based on its research, and has coopera-tive agreements with Korean universities.
In addition to the research taking place at the Wave Research Laboratory, Alicia Lyman-Holt, a civil and construction engineering education and outreach coordinator, highlighted the interna-tional and local attention the lab receives annually.
She spoke about how undergraduate
engineering students give regular tours of the facility during open houses — like OSU Parent Weekends and da Vinci Days — allowing the community to witness the on-going research. Bonamici prized the people and students who are ready to take on innovative roles in research.
“I learned a lot about what OSU is doing with research and how it will not only benefit the state and country, but also internationally,” Bonamici said at the end of the tour.
She noted the overall importance of investing in science.
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Meditation yields great benefitsAfter spending 10 days as
a pseudo-monk, the world tends to look and feel quite
different. The 240 hours of constant, silent meditation and reflection has an effect that is almost indescribable. Many people don’t take even five minutes of their day to reflect on their lives, because they’re so distracted by what’s going on around them. Because of this, when I tell people about the experience, most seem to be unable to even fathom the implications.
Meditation is a topic with a mul-titude of views and attitudes toward it. Some believe it to be “hippie crap” while others swear by it. After such an intensive experience, I can definitively say it is far from crap.
Meditation isn’t just an exercise of closing the eyes and trying to free the mind — it is far more. It is a process of healing. When you meditate, you are looking deep within, attempting to retrain the habits of the mind in order to live a healthier, happier life.
In his book, “Karma and Chaos,” Paul R. Fleischman writes, “We must see deeply into ourselves, our personal fears and prejudices and conven-tions and opinions, so that we may stand thoughtfully, clear-sightedly on reality.”
Fleischman says that through medi-tation we can “ascend while carrying the burdens and demands of [life].”
There are many techniques and forms of meditation. These range from “mindfulness meditation,” in which you focus on being aware of everything that is within, to “tran-scendental meditation,” in which the practitioner attempts to rise above all that is impermanent through breath-ing techniques, to “heartbeat medi-tation,” which focuses on the pulse, circulation and magnetic fields within the body.
‘Retarding’ our language, political correctness and the likeEditor’s note: Armand Resto’s guest
column is in response to Thomas McElhinny’s April 19 “Ask an ethicist” column, “The ‘r-word’ is retarding our discourse.”
Foremost, Thomas McElhinny’s position seems to be lacking in any concrete evidence that
the “mentally-challenged” or “men-tally-retarded” or “autistic” commu-nity is actively moving to eradicate the label “retarded” from our discourse. How can society measure this theo-retical effect of “disrespecting entire groups of people” without any sta-tistic or direct message to work from?
What concern is it of any indi-vidual outside a particular class to say what is or what is not offensive to that particular class? How in any sense are “harms to family, friends and persons” perpetuated if it is not those “family, friends and persons” espousing the message?
Of course, if that community is in fact decrying the labels, then out of dignity and respect, society should defer to their judgment. There is an evidentiary argument against such
offensive labels in that situation. Nevertheless, even if that were the
case, whether it is McElhinny speak-ing or the “mentally-challenged” community as a whole, this objec-tion is a symptom of the “politically correct” movement — and it is a hin-drance to social progress.
McElhinny makes the case that how society uses language — even a single term — matters. I agree. Language can be powerful; it can promote or reject certain societal norms and practices.
However, McElhinny’s case — definitive, politically correct irony — overvalues language to the point of impairment.
Primarily, politically correct regula-tions attempt to cure certain cultural and societal stigmas — traditional discrimination of the sort — by shift-ing our discourse to a more respect-able and impersonal level. Yet in doing so, politically correct prefer-
ences avoid reality and shy away from the emotions that rise from these traditionally “unsavory” labels.
In turn, we avoid serious reform to those very stigmas the politically correct movement seeks to eradicate. Instead, society focuses on the sym-bolic nature of our discourse, how certain terms, phrases and labels may suggest cultural predilections, and how reframing these words would cultivate a more dignified “cultur-al attitude” toward those minority groups. That is not real change.
Take another political issue, for instance.
Conservatives most certainly pre-fer to frame their fiscal policies as promoting “upward mobility” for the “economically disadvantaged.” But nowhere do we see conservatives pushing for a serious progressive tax, which is far more upwardly mobile than the flat tax.
Moreover, given this politically correct phrasing, the dire economic situations of the destitute, indigent and “lower class” are depreciated; an “economically disadvantaged”
label suggests a sound fiscal policy will eventually “advantage” those individuals. Theoretically, this may be true, but in reality, for the foreseeable future, this is specious language for the masses. Politically correct phras-ing devalues reality.
Sadly, liberals — along with pro-ponents of this politically correct usage — have no issues with this sur-plusage. They seem to support, even promote this language, finding some sort of reverence or righteousness in the linguistic decisions. But this pious judgment only reflects back on the individual — a purely selfish result — and does not help the subjects of the surrogate labels.
In the instant case, the difference between calling someone a “retard” and the terms “mentally-challenged,” “intellectually disabled” and “mental-ly retarding” is the difference between realities and hypotheticals. It is the difference between attending and fixing the ailments of said minority versus pretending to be the political shepherd for said class.
Despite the desire to rush in and be the winds of change, to promote a more just and respectable discourse, the politically correct movement only serves to maintain the status quo.
Rather than focusing on serious issues of reform, proponents of politi-cal correctness bicker over what the appropriate label should be. The majority, the status quo, sits idle, indifferent to this irrelevant debate.
Language is powerful and can most certainly dictate societal norms and perspectives. But language must be used as a sword, not a shield, in times of struggle and suffering.
There’s power in calling for political change — be it in medical advance-ment, financial support or persistent discrimination — with terms such as “autistic,” “retarded” or “mentally deficient.” Making a case to help the “destitute” and “starving” is far more poignant than aiding the “economi-cally disadvantaged” or the “working class.”
These explicit labels, offensive to some, call for not just desired change, but necessary change. We should strive for visceral reactions and immediate attention, not the symbolic change the politically cor-rect movement asks for.
McElhinny is correct in his belief that some labels can retard our lan-guage. But they are not those labels that McElhinny wishes to do away with. They are instead the very labels he advocates for.
Whether the hope is societal change, political reform or even fiscal fairness, language is the most immediate tool. We should not trade in our sword for a shield.
armand restooSU alumnus, former Barometer forum editor
The death of ‘old journalism:’ We’re all journalists now
CHrisTian sMiTHrud is a JuniOr in neW Media COMMuniCaTiOns.
Media, as we know it, has changed forever.
It’s been clear for the last few years that this was the case, but the events in Boston on Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19, put the proverbial nail in the coffin.
Four of us Barometer staffers went out on April 18 after work.
There was only one topic being discussed: What was happening in Boston.
We were constantly checking our phones. We weren’t watching CNN. We weren’t going on the websites for the Boston Globe or Boston Herald. And we definitely weren’t going to wait for a print newspaper the next day to see the AP story.
We were all on Twitter.One guy in our group said, and then tweeted,
this: “Tonight will be remembered as the night old media died.”
It was a statement no one else scoffed at. Quite the opposite, we all agreed.
At 5:24 p.m. on April 18, the Boston Police Department’s Twitter account posted a surveil-lance video of the two suspects, and asked any-one who recognized them to call an FBI phone number. It had more than 7,000 retweets.
Later that night, the MIT’s Twitter was pro-viding updates about what was happening on campus.
Throughout the evening and into the morn-ing, the Boston P.D., Massachusetts P.D., FBI Press Office and the governor of Massachusetts were all tweeting out updates, either seeking information or providing it.
But more importantly than the crowd-sourc-ing used by the authorities were the people — the citizens — who were on Twitter late at night on April 18 and into the early morning of April 19.
Tens of thousands were on Twitter, listening
to the Boston P.D.’s police scanner and updating everything up to the second.
Everyone is a journalist now. People thou-sands of miles from Boston were sitting at home on their laptop and following the wild goose chase. And they were more in the loop than the major cable news networks.
The argument against social media in this context is true. A fake Twitter account was made to impersonate the Boston Marathon bomber. The missing student from Brown University instantly became a suspect, thanks to Twitter and Reddit.
But those tweeters weren’t the only ones reporting inaccurate information.
CNN and the AP incorrectly reported that a Boston Marathon suspect had been arrested on the day of the bombing, Monday, April 15. The New York Post wrongly identified two innocent men as the suspects in the bombing.
These are news sources held accountable for
the information they’re providing. Compare that to people on Twitter who aren’t responsible for their tweets.
In a slew of inaccurate information, people turned to social media instead of the traditional news outlets and stayed up to date with what was going on.
It’s been a long process of transformation in the field of journalism since the Internet became widely used. Many prominent papers in the U.S. are going through significant cutbacks because people aren’t paying for their news anymore: They’re finding it online for free.
We’ve now witnessed the magnitude of the changing dynamic in journalism. The dinosaurs of media are newspapers and the message is now clear: Adapt or die.
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n Oregon State dropped two games on Saturday, won 8-0 to avoid sweep on Sunday
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No. 5 Oregon State won the third game of a three-game series against last-place Washington, 8-0, on Sunday. The only problem: The Beavers had already lost the first two games, and subsequently, the series.
After Friday’s scheduled game was postponed because of rain, the two teams played a doubleheader on Saturday.
Senior left-hander Matt Boyd got the start for Oregon State (30-8, 11-4 Pac-12) in game one, allowing three earned runs and one unearned run during his six innings of action. The run total was uncharacteristic for Boyd, who had allowed only 11 earned runs all season.
The five eventual runs scored were also high for a Washington (11-26, 5-10) team that entered the weekend last in the Pac-12 in runs scored and ninth in batting average.
Offensively, the Beavers didn’t do much to help out the OSU pitching staff. OSU’s only run came off a sacrifice fly from senior outfielder Ryan Barnes in the ninth inning, when the damage had already been done.
While the Beavers never led in game one, game two proved to be a different story. OSU trailed 1-0 until scoring three runs in the top of the fifth inning.
Oregon State carried a 3-2 lead into the eighth inning, when the Beaver bullpen suffered its biggest collapse of the season.
Five pitchers combined to allow eight runs, giving the Huskies a convincing 10-3 win. Junior right-hander Scott Schultz had his worst outing of the year, surrendering four runs and only recording two outs.
Junior left-hander Ben Wetzler saved the weekend for the Beavers, throwing the first complete game shutout of his career in Sunday’s series finale.
Wetzler scattered four hits and walked only one batter, while striking out six in the effort.
The Beavers got back on track offen-sively as well, scoring five runs in the first inning and collecting 11 hits in the game.
Sophomore right fielder Dylan Davis drove in two runs and had two hits, and senior first baseman Danny Hayes added two hits of his own, in addition to two runs batted in.
Despite dropping two of three games to the Huskies, Oregon State
remains in first place atop the Pac-12 standings. Second place Oregon also lost two games over the weekend — to No. 18 UCLA — allowing the Beavers to keep pace.
OSU will stay in Seattle to take on the Seattle University for a nonconference game on Monday, before returning home for a conference series with USC.
Junior right-hander Dan Child is expected to get the start for the Beavers.
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above: Junior lef t -hander Ben Wetzler runs to cover first base in Sunday’s 8-0 win.right: Junior second baseman andy Peterson slides safely into second base.
n The Beavers knocked off Concordia 1-0 on Saturday because of an own goal
By sarah kerriganThe Daily BaromeTer
The only separation between the Oregon State men’s soccer team and Concordia was an own goal by the Eagles late in the second half.
The Beavers started the match with a high pressing attack. Just a minute into the game, the Beavers had a shot go off the crossbar and a header from a corner got saved off the line.
OSU was never able to capitalize offensively, but constant pressure and persistence led to the deciding mistake from Concordia.
“On the attacking side, I think we created a lot of chances,” said head coach Steve Simmons. “Just that final little bit, the final pass wasn’t quite there.”
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Gymnastics’ season endsn Makayla Stambaugh, Brittany
Harris, Chelsea Tang don’t place at NCAA Championships
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The 2013 season came to end for the Oregon State gymnastics team.
Three gymnasts for the No. 15 Beavers — senior Makayla Stambaugh, junior Brittany Harris and sophomore Chelsea Tang — competed as individuals in the NCAA Championships on Friday in Los Angeles.
Harris and Tang qualified to go as all-arounders at the NCAA Regional Championship in Corvallis on April 6.
The two had the highest scores in the all-around who were not on one of the two teams that advanced to nationals. Tang placed third at regionals and Harris was fifth.
The two did not advance to Sunday’s individual finals. The top four scores for each event and the all-around move on to individual finals.
Tang placed ninth with a score of 39.275 and Harris finished in 12th with a 39.075.
Stambaugh qualified for nationals on floor exercise by having the highest score for an individual event and not being on an advancing team.
Her score of 9.675 at nationals was her lowest in 2013. She stepped out of bounds on her final tumbling pass.
All three of OSU gymnasts received First Team All-Pac-12 honors for the 2013 sea-son: Tang for beam, Harris for uneven bars and Stambaugh for vault, bars and floor.
The winner of the NCAA Championships, Florida, became the fifth national cham-pion in history.
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OSU scoresAll-around: Tang 39.275, Harris 39.075Vault: Tang 9.825, Harris 9.650Bars: Tang 9.800, Harris 9.800Beam: Tang 9.800, Harris 9.800Floor: Tang 9.850, Harris 9.825, Stambaugh 9.675
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In the first half, the Beavers struggled to find a lane for a pass between the back line to the attacking third, but came out in the second half with faster pace and found gaps through the midfield.
“There was a lot of good competition in the midfield,” said sophomore Will Seymore. “But second half, we quickened up our tempo in the midfield and that opened up space as well.”
Throughout the game, the Beavers had the majority of the possession, which allowed them to wear Concordia down and create more opportunities in the
attacking third. They patiently built up the attack from
the back without forcing the ball for-ward. The team had stressed defense in practice going into the game. Seymore said the team was satisfied with how they defended.
“Attacking-wise it wasn’t the best we have been,” Seymore said. “Because we defended really well, it allowed us oppor-tunities to go forward and we got the result.”
Although the Beavers were able to get the win, they are still looking to improve upon many aspects of their game, includ-ing attacking in the final third.
“I thought the guys did what needed to be accomplished,” Simmons said.
“Having said that, we could have done much better.”
Oregon State’s next opponent will be the Portland Timbers’ U-23 team. Maintaining high pressure throughout the field and playing the ball with pace from the start of the game will be points of emphasis for OSU.
“We worked hard all game and we tried to do our best,” said transfer student Ole Sandnes. “But we want to play better. We want to be more in control of the game, keep the ball moving faster and work on getting the result by moving the ball quickly.”
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The JV 8+ boat stole the show Sunday for the Oregon State men’s rowing team as it cruised to a five second victory (6:01.8 - 6:06.8) over Stanford’s boat in the event. The Beavers led wire-to-wire in the final race of the day, which gave them their second victory during the Stanford Invite’s second day.
Before the JV8+’s impres-sive victory, 20th ranked OSU had finished second to the seventh ranked Cardinal in the Varsity 8+ (5:45.3 - 5:59.2) and the Freshmen 8+ (6:02.0 - 6:03.0). A second faster for Head Coach Steve Todd’s team in the Freshmen 8+ race, and they might have snatched two victories from Stanford in their own invitational.
“We made some progress today,” Todd said following the race. “The races with Stanford show an improve-ment from a few weeks ago in San Diego (at the SD Crew Classic).”
Sunday’s OSU victory in the JV8+ was its second against
Stanford this season as it beat out the Cardinal during the San Diego Crew Classic
Earlier in the day, the Beavers finished first versus Santa Clara in the Varsity 8+, crossing the finish line at 6:03.2, a full 13 seconds in front of SC. Then OSU’s Freshmen 8+ (6:02.0) and JV 8+ (6:05.2) boats finished sec-ond and third to California’s boat which crossed the finish line at 5:58.2.
“Redwood Shores gave us a good measure for what needs to change to reach our best performance next month at Pac12s,” Todd added.
During the two-day compe-tition, Oregon State finished first in four races out of the 11 they were on the water for. Out of those 11, the `Beavs raced ranked opponents in six, winning one and finish-ing a second out of first by another.
OSU now focuses its atten-tion to California, which it will see again next Sunday, April 28 in Vancouver, Wash., as the Beavers will host the Bears in a home dual on Vancouver Lake.
Softball avoids sweep against Californian Senior Tina Andreana throws
complete-game shut out, OSU wins 1 of 3 against No. 10 Cal
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The Oregon State softball team’s 13-game losing streak to Cal came to an end on Sunday, thanks in large part to senior pitcher Tina Andreana.
The Beavers defeated the highest-ranked opponent they have beaten all season when they topped No. 10 California, 1-0, behind a complete-game effort from Andreana.
It was OSU’s first win against the Golden Bears since April of 2009.
After losing on Friday and Saturday, the Sunday win prevented OSU (27-17, 3-11) from getting swept, which would
have been the third time they had been swept by a Pac-12 opponent this season.
Instead, Andreana pitched one of the better games of her career.
Andreana walked six, but limited Cal (35-9, 9-6) to just two hits. She struck out seven batters and got out of several jams, most notably when she got a game-ending groundout to third with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh.
Oregon State only collected four hits on Sunday, but made the most of an opportunity in the fourth. Senior Ashley Sanchez led the inning off with a single, then advanced to third base when senior Lea Cavestany reached on a throwing error with one out. Freshman Natalie Hampton then grounded out to short-stop, which was enough to score Sanches for the game’s only run.
Cal pitcher Jolene Henderson, last sea-son’s Pac-12 pitcher of the year, finished with a line of six strikeouts, four hits and one unearned run allowed. Prior to Sunday’s game, Henderson had won all 10 of her decisions against OSU in her career.
The Beavers now have 11 games remaining: Conference series against No. 22 Arizona, No. 7 Oregon and No. 18 UCLA, and a nonconference double-header against Portland State.
The win draws OSU closer the 30 win mark that head coach Laura Berg has said could be Oregon State’s magic number to advance to the postseason.
OSU will host Arizona for three games beginning on Friday.
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There are, of course, many criticisms regarding specific techniques, as well as medita-tion as a whole. John Horgan, a columnist and blogger for Scientific American, criticizes meditation techniques, calling them a cult. He says, “[Cults] harness the placebo effect, the tendency of our belief that something will benefit us to be self-fulfilling.”
Horgan claims that med-itation is no different than practicing any other religious dogma. But Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Boston University (BU) say otherwise.
In the November issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, investigators at MGH and BU, as well as other research centers, found that
through participating in an eight-week meditation training program, subjects were found to have measurable effects on their brain function outside of meditation.
My own experience suggests this to be true as well.
While I only spent a week and a half meditating, I’ve found myself to be much calmer and less apt to react emotionally. As I was practic-ing mindfulness meditation, or “vipassana,” I spent a lot of time focusing on the sen-sations in my body. As such, I’ve also noticed an increased sensitivity to sensations in my day-to-day life.
Meditation also makes it apparent that the more one focuses on what’s going on inside of them, the more one notices outside of themselves. This is kind of like when you lose your car keys. You spend hours looking for them, only
to come up empty-handed. But then you pause for a moment, and reflect on where you were when you last had them. Suddenly you have an epiphany and know exactly where they are.
Special mention must also be given to a specific type of medi-tation: “Compassionate media-tion.” This technique focuses on spending time simply shar-ing compassion for both the self and all living things.
MGH and BU specifi-cally studied compassionate meditation.
“Since compassion medita-tion is designed to enhance compassionate feelings, it makes sense that it could increase amygdala response to seeing people suffer,” wrote Gaëlle Desbordes, a researcher at MGH. “Increased amygdala activation was also correlated with decreased depression scores in the compassion medi-
tation group, which suggests that having more compassion toward others may also be ben-eficial for oneself.”
Since my time as a pseu-do-monk, I have continued my meditation practice once in the morning, and once at night. My combined practice of mindfulness and compas-sion has yielded great results. It is my hope that readers will find some good in meditation, and share in my positive results.
If you’re interested in medi-tation, but don’t know where to begin, there is a medita-tion group run through OSU’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Contact them at 541-737-2131 for more details.
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SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — We already knew that opponents of immigra-tion reform had no good arguments in favor of preserving the status quo. Now we know they have no shame.
Some of them are deliberately mixing apples and oranges and trying to use the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing to scuttle efforts in Washington to achieve immigration reform.
All last week, my friends in the immigra-tion reform community held their collective breath and hoped that — when investiga-tors finally zeroed in on a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing — that person would NOT turn out to be foreign-born. Immigrants are blamed for enough in soci-ety; they need not be blamed for this tragedy.
Besides, from the perspective of the reformers, the timing couldn’t be worse.
A few days after the bombing, the Senate’s “gang of eight” unveiled what is the most significant piece of immigration reform legislation in more than a quarter century. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 is an expertly crafted, bipartisan com-promise that has a real shot at improving the lives of millions of people and fixing a broken system.
Yet, because of unrelated events, the legislation could wind up hanging by a thread. Why? Because the prime suspects in the Boston bombing are immigrants: 19-year-old Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The brothers are from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States. Tamerlan was killed Thursday night in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar escaped
and was at large Friday until he was found in Watertown, Massachusetts, and appre-hended by police.
According to what two sources told CNN, Tamerlan had been living in the United States legally on a green card. Dzhokhar first came to the United States as a tourist in the early 2000’s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen just last year, on September 11, 2012.
There’s that infamous date again.It’s worth noting that Americans started
the long and difficult journey toward immi-gration reform on September 5, 2001, when President George W. Bush welcomed Mexican President Vicente Fox to the White House for a state dinner in his honor.
Earlier in the day, both leaders told report-ers that they wanted to fix the immigration system and match willing employers in the United States with willing workers in Mexico. The reform was supposed to include a pathway to legal status for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Six days later, our country was attacked and the world changed. Immediately, immi-gration reform was put so far onto the back burner that it eventually fell clear off the stove.
Most supporters of immigration reform, including many Latinos, believe that this was immensely unfair. The 19 hijackers were from the Middle East, and they came to the United States legally, many on student visas. So why would their evil acts have the effect of torpedoing the prospect of immigration reform that primarily affects millions of illegal immigrants from Latin America?
Now, here we are again. Earlier this week, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa — a vocal foe of immigration reform who has sug-
gested the answer to securing the border is electrified fencing because, as he once said on the House floor, “we do this with livestock all the time” — suggested that the congressional debate on the immigration bill should go slow because the suspects in the Boston bombing might turn out to be foreign nationals.
That is just what happened. Was that a lucky guess? Or is that how this guy’s mind works — that every time something bad happens, an immigrant must be to blame?
On Friday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa jumped into the fray during a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Given the events of this week, it’s impor-tant for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system,” he said. “How can we beef up security checks on people who wish to enter the United States? How do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for ben-efits under the immigration laws, including this new bill?”
Also piling on was conservative columnist Ann Coulter, who has made clear over the last few months that she opposes immigra-tion reform because she thinks it would lead to the “end of America” since Latinos are busy “having illegitimate children and going on welfare.” She marked the shootout in Boston, and took a poke at the Florida senator who is leading immigration reform efforts, by mischievously tweeting:
“It’s too bad Suspect No. 1 won’t be able to be legalized by Marco Rubio, now.”
Again, the Tsarnaev brothers were immi-grants, but they didn’t need to be “legalized.” They were already in the country legally. But, hey, why let facts in the way of a good screed?
Boston bombing shouldn’t derail immigration reform
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