Barometer The Daily MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331 DAILYBAROMETER.COM VOLUME CXV, NUMBER 138 PAGE 8 SOFTBALL: Beavers make regional final, lose to Oklahoma. SPORTS 8 – Baseball team takes two of three from WSU 7 – Men’s golf finishes two spots short of qualifying for nationals FORUM 4 –Let research assistants unionize. They’re employees too. NEIL ABREW | THE DAILY BAROMETER Before returning to OSU, Mohamed Elgarguri fought alongside the rebels that overthrew Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. The speech communications major is married and was a finalist for Memorial Union president. Streets of Corvallis to the shores of Tripoli n Mohamed Elgarguri fought against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya before returning to OSU By Joce DeWitt THE DAILY BAROMETER Mohamed Elgarguri clearly remem- bers the thoughts that went through his head as he experienced his first enemy ambush in Libya at the height of the Arab Spring last year. He wasn’t thinking about the fact that he had been shot. In fact, he said, his adrenaline level was too far through the roof to even feel pain. He wasn’t thinking about the 100-meter sprint from his hiding spot to the truck that represented his only means of escape in a shower of bullets from Gaddafi’s militants. No, in the midst of combat between Muammar Gaddafi loyalists and revo- lutionaries, Elgarguri was thinking about his kids. “I was saying to myself, ‘What brought me here?’” said 23-year-old Elgarguri, a speech communications major and political science minor at Oregon State University. He imagined a situation, years in the future, when his children would ask him what he was doing when the fights in the Middle East broke out. “If I had to tell them that I was smoking medical marijuana and fornicating in California, it would reflect poorly upon my character, so I kept saying, ‘I’m not going to let them get me.’” And they didn’t. Elgarguri remem- bers running the fastest 100-meter sprint of his life to the five-person recon vehicle that carried 11 reporters and revolutionaries that happened to be in his charge. He remembers holding See ELGARGURI|page 3 College of Forestry grows sustainable future n Although it has seen changes over the years, the college continues to prepare graduates By McKinley Smith THE DAILY BAROMETER The College of Forestry has been a part of Oregon State University for over one hundred years. During this time, the College of Forestry has grown from a graduating class of four in 1910, to a program that sends its emissaries around the globe on a variety of missions, ranging from tracking hummingbirds to research- ing climate change. “The College of Forestry is tremen- dously broader than people might think,” said Paul Doescher, head of the department of forest ecosystems and society. “It’s [a] challenge for people to understand the breadth of the college.” The variety of classes and ongo- ing research projects speak to the scope of the College of Forestry. John Bliss, a professor in the department of forest ecosystems and society, is preparing an undergraduate course where half the students will be from OSU and half will be from Japan. “Many years ago I mentored a Ph.D. student from Japan, Yoshitaka Kumagai. Yoshi is now a professor at Akita International University in Japan,” Bliss said. “Last summer he called me up and recruited me to work on developing an exchange class between OSU and AIU. The unique class will focus on two rural communities, one in Eastern Oregon and one in Akita, Japan, to examine how each community is affected by globalization.” Forestry students and faculty have worked in countries all over the world, from Australia to China, and Chile to Ethiopia. One such student is Sophia Polasky-Lauer, one of Bliss’ graduate students in the college, who has also spent time in the Peace Corps. She is developing a proposal for her future research. “I’m working on social mobil- ity and climate change,” Polasky- Lauer said. Polasky-Lauer is looking for ways to measure vulner- ability in places like West Africa, identifying external stresses like the effects of climate change and help- ing such communities respond. In the department of forest engi- neering, resources and manage- ment, Arne Skaugset is conducting three studies on water quality of aquatic ecosystems. “The data sets quantifying the effects of the industry were dated,” Skaugset said. His new studies will measure the effectiveness of con- temporary forest management on fish, amphibians and other mem- bers of these aquatic ecosystems. Jeff Morrell of the wood science and engineering department heads 50 to 60 projects at any given time, with field sites ranging from Australia to Hawaii. Utility poles, treated wood and termite damage all come under the heading of what the department deals with. “We kind of do everything that relates to deterioration of wood,” Morrell said. According to Executive Associate Dean for the College of Forestry Steve Tesch, the world needs the research the college performs now and in the future. “People are saying that in 30 to 40 years, we’ll add two more billion people,” Tesch said. “A billion people are going to put one heck of a demand on the world’s forests.” While forests are traditionally seen as a source of lumber prod- ucts and fuel, sustainable forests and their contribution to clean water and animal habitat preservation are also important parts of forest management. McKinley Smith, reporter [email protected]On Twitter: @dailybarometer ‘‘ ‘‘ People are saying that in 30 to 40 years we’ll add two billion people. A billion people are going to put one heck of a demand on the world’s forests. Steve Tesch executive associate dean HANNAH O’LEARY | THE DAILY BAROMETER The College of Forestry continues to adapt and change, as it has done during its history of over 100 years.
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SOFTBALL: Beavers make regional final, lose to Oklahoma.
SPORTS8 – Baseball team takes two of three from WSU7 – Men’s golf finishes two spots short of qualifying for nationals
FORUM4 –Let research assistants unionize. They’re employees too.
Neil Abrew | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Before returning to OSU, Mohamed Elgarguri fought alongside the rebels that overthrew Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. The speech communications major is married and was a finalist for Memorial Union president.
Streets of Corvallis to the shores of Tripolin Mohamed Elgarguri fought
against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya before returning to OSU
by Joce DewittThe Daily BaromeTer
Mohamed Elgarguri clearly remem-bers the thoughts that went through his head as he experienced his first enemy ambush in Libya at the height of the Arab Spring last year.
He wasn’t thinking about the fact that he had been shot. In fact, he said, his adrenaline level was too far through the roof to even feel pain. He wasn’t thinking about the 100-meter sprint from his hiding spot to the truck that represented his only means of escape in a shower of bullets from Gaddafi’s militants.
No, in the midst of combat between Muammar Gaddafi loyalists and revo-lutionaries, Elgarguri was thinking about his kids.
“I was saying to myself, ‘What brought me here?’” said 23-year-old Elgarguri, a speech communications major and political science minor at Oregon State University.
He imagined a situation, years in the future, when his children would ask him what he was doing when the fights in the Middle East broke out. “If I had to tell them that I was smoking medical marijuana and fornicating in California, it would reflect poorly upon my character, so I kept saying, ‘I’m not going to let them get me.’”
And they didn’t. Elgarguri remem-bers running the fastest 100-meter sprint of his life to the five-person recon vehicle that carried 11 reporters and revolutionaries that happened to be in his charge. He remembers holding
See elgArguri | page 3
College of Forestry grows sustainable futuren Although it has seen changes
over the years, the college continues to prepare graduates
by McKinley SmithThe Daily BaromeTer
The College of Forestry has been a part of Oregon State University for over one hundred years. During this time, the College of Forestry has grown from a graduating class of four in 1910, to a program that sends its emissaries around the globe on a variety of missions, ranging from tracking hummingbirds to research-ing climate change.
“The College of Forestry is tremen-dously broader than people might think,” said Paul Doescher, head of the department of forest ecosystems and society. “It’s [a] challenge for people to understand the breadth of the college.”
The variety of classes and ongo-ing research projects speak to the scope of the College of Forestry. John Bliss, a professor in the department of forest ecosystems and society, is preparing an undergraduate course where half the students will be from OSU and half will be from Japan.
“Many years ago I mentored a Ph.D. student from Japan, Yoshitaka Kumagai. Yoshi is now a professor at Akita International University in Japan,” Bliss said. “Last summer he called me up and recruited me to work on developing an exchange class between OSU and AIU. The
unique class will focus on two rural communities, one in Eastern Oregon and one in Akita, Japan, to examine how each community is affected by globalization.”
Forestry students and faculty have worked in countries all over the world, from Australia to China, and Chile to Ethiopia.
One such student is Sophia Polasky-Lauer, one of Bliss’ graduate students in the college, who has also spent time in the Peace Corps. She is developing a proposal for her future research.
“I’m working on social mobil-ity and climate change,” Polasky-Lauer said.
Polasky-Lauer is looking for ways to measure vulner-ability in places like West Africa, identifying external stresses like the effects of climate change and help-ing such communities respond.
In the department of forest engi-neering, resources and manage-ment, Arne Skaugset is conducting three studies on water quality of aquatic ecosystems.
“The data sets quantifying the effects of the industry were dated,” Skaugset said. His new studies will measure the effectiveness of con-
temporary forest management on fish, amphibians and other mem-bers of these aquatic ecosystems.
Jeff Morrell of the wood science and engineering department heads 50 to 60 projects at any given time, with field sites ranging from Australia to Hawaii. Utility poles, treated wood and termite damage all come under the heading of what the department
deals with.“We kind of do
everything that relates to deterioration of wood,” Morrell said.
A c c o rd i n g t o Executive Associate Dean for the College of Forestry Steve Tesch, the world needs the research the college performs now and in the future.
“People are saying that in 30 to 40 years, we’ll add two more billion people,” Tesch said. “A billion people are going to put one
heck of a demand on the world’s forests.”
While forests are traditionally seen as a source of lumber prod-ucts and fuel, sustainable forests and their contribution to clean water and animal habitat preservation are also important parts of forest management.
CalendarTuesday, May 22MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.
EventsCenter for Leadership Development, 4:30-5pm, MU Council Room. Officer Transition Series: Join student lead-ers at OSU for workshops on officer transitions.
ASOSU, 5-6:30pm, MU 109. ASOSU Town Hall: An open forum to come and get your opinions on ASOSU heard!
Wednesday, May 23MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.
Vegans and Vegetarians at OSU, 5:30pm, 330 NW 23rd St. All are wel-come to potluck-style meetings where we share recipes and have great conversation.
EventsLatter-Day Saint Student Associa-tion, 7:30pm, MU Journey Room. Out-reach: Presenting the movie “Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration”
Women’s Center, Women’s Studies, Office of Equity & Inclusion, Memo-rial Union, 4pm, MU 109. “After the Silence”: a story of inspiration for any-one whose life has been touched by the horror of domestic or interpersonal violence. Peggie Reyna (with inter-preter), the social worker on whom the film is based will answer questions. Representatives will be available from CARDV and CAPS.
Tuesday, May 29MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.
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Saturday, June 9MeetingsVegans and Vegetarians at OSU, 5:30pm, 330 NW 23rd St. All are wel-come to potluck-style meetings where we share recipes and have great conversation.
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Police, protesters clash outside NATO summitProtesters and police
clashed Sunday outside the NATO summit in Chicago, where world leaders met to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan.
Police hit protesters with batons as they pushed against a line of officers, video from CNN affiliate WLS showed. The clashes came toward the end of a day of peaceful protests.
Occupy Chicago, one of the groups that helped to organize the demonstrations, reported some people were injured.
“The police have several demonstrators detained behind their lines, calling for medics. Bloodied protesters being dragged out of sight now,” the group wrote on its Twitter page.
An official with the city, who was not authorized to talk to the media, told CNN that between 50-75 protesters had refused to leave the area and had thrown objects at police. Individuals identified as aggressors were “extract-
ed,” the official said.As violence raged outside,
inside the NATO meeting U.S. President Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and hosted other world leaders. He stressed that more work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan.
“There will be great chal-lenges ahead. The loss of life continues in Afghanistan. There will be hard days,” Obama said at the NATO summit. “But we are confi-dent we are on the right track and (what) this NATO sum-mit reflects is that the world is behind the strategy we’ve laid out. Now it’s our task to implement it effectively and I believe we can do so in part because of the tremendous strength and resilience of the Afghan people.”
Obama and other world leaders were expected to draw up a road map out of the war in Afghanistan. The summit comes at a key time for NATO countries, who are trying to
figure out how to meet a 2014 deadline to withdraw from an unpopular war in Afghanistan while shoring up that nation’s security forces.
“There will be no rush for the exits. We will stay com-mitted to our operations in Afghanistan and see it through to a successful end. Our goal, our strategy, our timetable remains unchanged,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday.
Security was tight at the summit following Saturday’s arrest of three men, described by authorities as anarchists who plotted to attack Obama’s Chicago campaign headquar-ters and lob Molotov cocktails at police during the summit.
Two other men, not believed to be part of the alleged plot, appeared in court Sunday to face charges from “related investigations,” authorities said.
Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, of Chicago, is charged with falsely making a ter-rorist threat, prosecutors
said in a statement. Mark Neiweem, 28, also believed to be from Chicago, is charged with attempted possession of explosives or incendi-ary devices. Bond was set at $750,000 for Senakiewicz and $500,000 for Neiweem.
“While the cases that were charged in court today arose from related investigations, the two defendants are not charged with any involve-ment in the terrorist case from yesterday, and today’s cases are separate matters. The two defendants ... each face their own charges aris-ing from separate incidents,” prosecutors said.
Police insist there were no imminent threats to the lead-ers of more than 50 nations gathering at the summit.
The leaders are expected to formally adopt a timetable to transition security from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force to Afghan forces, senior admin-istration officials told CNN.
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Obama continues push for financial regulationAfter a rough week in the investment
industry, President Barack Obama used his weekly address Saturday to urge Congress to stand by increased regu-lations of Wall Street, while Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin continued the Republican call for the Democratic-led Senate to pass a budget.
The recession was caused by Wall Street treating the “financial system like a casino,” and this week’s $2 billion loss suffered by JPMorgan Chase could have cost taxpayers, Obama said.
Congress should back reforms such as those enacted nearly two years ago “because we can’t afford to go back to an era of weak regulation and little oversight where excessive risk-taking on Wall Street and a lack of basic over-sight in Washington nearly destroyed our economy,” Obama said.
That law, known as Dodd Frank,
passed Congress by narrow margins and is a target of Republicans on the cam-paign trail.
The president said the new rules require financial powerhouses to “write out a ‘living will’ that details how you’ll be wound down if you do fail.”
“So unless you run a financial institu-tion whose business model is built on cheating consumers or making risky bets that could damage the whole econ-omy, you have nothing to fear from Wall Street reform,” he said, then defended his position from suggestions that it is an undue restriction on the free market.
“I believe the free market is one of the greatest forces for progress in human history; that businesses are the engine of growth; that risk-takers and innova-tors should be celebrated,” he said. “But I also believe that at its best, the free market has never been a license to take
whatever you want, however you can get it.”
Meanwhile, Johnson said in the Republicans’ address that Democrats in the Senate and Obama are acting irre-sponsibly by refusing to pass a budget.
“For his part, President Obama has done nothing to encourage the Senate to pass a budget. Just this week in the Senate, the president’s budget lost by a vote of 0 to 99,” Johnson said. “This is a stunning repudiation of his leader-ship. At a time when America requires sober financial management, President Obama’s fiscal plans have been so unserious, that not a single member of his own party supported them with their vote.”
Spurred by Republicans, the Senate held votes on five budget proposals on Wednesday, none of which passed.
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Lockerbie bomber dies more than two years after releaseAbdelbeset Ali Mohmed
al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie airline bombing that killed 270 people, died Sunday, the Libyan govern-ment and family members said. He was 60.
The former intelligence officer, who had suffered from prostate cancer, will be buried Monday, according to a Libyan foreign ministry spokesman.
Al Megrahi’s cousin, Omer al-Gharyani, told CNN he was
at a Tripoli hospital with al Megrahi when he died.
His death came more than two-and-a-half years after he was freed from a life sentence in Scotland because he was said to be dying.
His brother said the family refers “to the deceased as ‘the convicted innocent.’”
“May God bless his soul,” he added.
Relatives of those killed in the bombing expressed relief and, in some cases, anger.
“He was a mass murder-
er. I feel no pity,” said Susan Cohen, whose daughter was among the 189 Americans killed.
The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 was the deadliest act of air terrorism targeting Americans until the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to the FBI.
American and British inves-tigators who painstakingly pieced together the wreckage concluded it was destroyed by a bomb.
Authorities in those nations claimed al Megrahi — once the security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines — and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah were Libyan intelligence agents who plant-ed the explosive. They were charged in November 1991 on 270 counts of murder and conspiracy to murder.
That indictment set off the first battle over al Megrahi, until Libya handed him and Fhima over in the face of inter-national pressure.
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Before returning to Corvallis, Elgarguri worked as a DJ in San Francisco, and for a French television company, while he was in Libya. He has applied for a position in the ASOSU executive cabinet.
on with all his strength until the truck was a safe distance from enemy fire.
“I have no idea how I managed to stay on the car,” Elgaguri said, since he had neither a helmet nor a weapon, and the only thing that kept his feet from slipping off the ledge of the truck were the ridges of his combat boots.
This was one of many near-death encounters Elgarguri had while in Libya after having a life-changing epitome while watching Al-Jazeera in a restaurant in San Francisco where he free-lanced as a DJ.
Though he has a diverse ethnic heritage that comes from several countries in the region — his father was half Libyan and half Italian, and his mother is half Egyptian and half Turkish — Elgarguri said the revolutions in the Middle East did not catch his imme-diate attention until they began in Libya.
“I watched footage of a friend of mine who had gone to Libya for business and ended up protesting,” he said. “I saw footage of him being shot and his body carried away on a stretcher.”
Elgarguri said it was this moment in par-ticular that altered his views of the world and his role in it. After a three-year bout with post traumatic stress disorder, which came from his father’s death in a car acci-dent in his hometown of Corvallis, Elgarguri remembers crying for what seemed like the first time.
“I felt a renewal of a sense of purpose. I felt my self-destructive instincts. My wast-ing of self-potential and time was immedi-ately made clear in my eyes and I felt the need to do my best and be my best,” he said. “For the first time in all those PTSD
years, tears came to my eyes, and I said, ‘I cannot stand idly by while these events are occurring overseas in the homeland of my father.’”
After a “spiritually cleansing” pilgrimage with his mother throughout the Middle East, which he said helped him “surrender his ego,” Elgarguri smuggled himself into Libya to fight for the one cause he believes in.
“No savage barbarian has ever used mercenaries against his own people,” Elgarguri said in reference to Gaddafi’s reign. “After Tripoli fell and Gaddafi was on the run, I said good bye.”
He worked with a number of international organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and TF1, a national French TV Channel.
“Whatever skills and talents I was blessed with were to be used for the benefit of others,” he said.
After surviving combat situations on recon, pro-ducing reports for TF1 and working on the medical side, Elgarguri returned to Corvallis in December 2011 where he is studying and living with his wife who is pregnant with their first child.
In his view, nothing but divine interven-tion brought him back to the city of his childhood, where he hopes to make a dif-ference within the Associated Students of OSU. “My life proves, without a shadow of doubt, that coincidence is not possible,” he said.
Elgarguri was recently a finalist in a pool
of applicants for Memorial Union president and, since he wasn’t selected, has his sights set on three different positions within the ASOSU executive cabinet.
Because the only thing that would moti-vate Elgarguri to return to Libya would be to rebuild, he said he hopes to concentrate on how he can most benefit his “direct community.”
One of the biggest goals Elgarguri has for the OSU student body is the development of a Middle Eastern cultural center, as it would
represent a geographical region that does not have a home on campus.
“I believe in fate. My not being chosen for the MU position opened up a way for me to serve on Harris and Cushing’s executive board,” he said. “I want to reach out to the community of interna-tional students who I feel have been neglected and underrepresented.”
Elgarguri said Vice President Dan Cushing has written a resolution
calling for the construction of a Middle Eastern center. He is waiting to hear back from ASOSU members about which, if any, of the executive positions he will hold for the coming academic year.
Elgarguri said he feels responsible for using the experience and skills he has to benefit the university. “I don’t feel whole or complete without putting myself at the benefit of others,” he said.
There has been an ongoing debate over how much, more or less, teachers
should be paid in order to encour-age better results from their stu-dents. In essence, this would be performance pay, since teaching is part of the service industry.
This belief, however, that pay-ing teachers more based on how well their students do on tests is a flawed solution. Teaching may be public service, but the service provided is completely different from the traditional mold of the service industry, and it cannot be directly tied to the performance of their consumers, or students in this case. This type of solution does not encourage a better education system and could actually hinder student development.
Just like the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act, with perfor-mance pay, teachers are encour-aged to teach for the test, not the complete understanding of the concept. Not only that, but with performance pay, the preferred method to measure performance is through standardized tests, one of the worst testing methods we have.
Tests should be set up to show that students understand the con-cepts, rather than simply memoriz-ing facts. Granted, for a math test, standardized testing works great, but for an English class or phi-losophy class, a standardized test doesn’t exactly show that students have grasped the greater concepts. We need our students to not only know the facts, but be able to use them and understand their impor-tance in the world.
Probably, the worst aspect of performance pay is that the blame is placed entirely on the teachers. The United States didn’t fall so far in the education rank-ings because teachers failed to do their jobs, but because par-
ents haven’t stepped up. Parents have to work with their
children as much as teachers do to demonstrate the importance of education. When I was in elemen-tary school, my father visited my teachers every day to find out how I was doing. His philosophy is that if there is a problem, he is going to find the solution now, not after the report card comes out. When I was living with my mother during high school, she never visited my teachers, didn’t ask about my daily performance and instead just wait-ed until a report card came home.
My perfor-mance dropped dur ing high school, but not by much, because my father instilled such a high importance of education into me. This is what parents need to do; they don’t have to utilize my father’s method, but should focus on encouraging education. I understand that parents have several responsibilities that they need to deal with, but there is always time in the day to encour-age education.
As a society, we have grown complacent with how education is being handled. We believe that since teachers have the kids for about eight hours a day, there doesn’t need to be that much more education at home. Plus, parents
wanting to spend real time with their children choose to go to the movies or on vacations instead of spending time going over home-work. However, again, parents alone are not to blame for our fail-ing education.
This isn’t an issue that comes down to one factor or one solution; this is going to take time and effort from everyone — parents, teach-ers and students. Performance pay seems like a great idea on paper, and sure, there are a few coun-tries that have implemented the process with successful results, but performance pay was not the sole reason teachers “performed” better. Students don’t automati-
cally understand the material just because their teacher receives a larger salary.
Instead, with the combined effort of govern-ment, schools and parents, these countries man-aged to set up a system that works. That is what needs to happen in the
United States — everyone needs to come together with their sole agenda being the prosperity of the students, not their political or ide-ological beliefs.
We need to stop looking for solu-tions before identifying the root of the problem. Too many people are focused on the problem and trying to come up with a solution without asking why that problem exists.
If students aren’t performing well in the classroom, we need to look at the schools and their home life. Teachers constantly claim that if they had more sup-port from parents, their job would be much easier. And this parental support doesn’t have to be drastic, just a gentle nudge encouraging students to put a little more effort in — maybe all it takes is a little help with homework at night.
Teachers aren’t the enemy or the cause of the problem, but they could use some support from out-side the classroom.
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Performance pay for teachers doesn’t necessarily aid students
Individual mandate a conservation principleThe most controversial piece
of one of the most contro-versial acts of legislation,
The Patient Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is the individual man-date. The individual mandate would force all U.S. citizens to buy health insurance, or face a fine.
This single aspect is what many people believe led to the republican takeover of the house of representa-tives in 2010, and many other state legislatures and governorships. It also partially gave fuel for the Tea Party to be created.
So naturally, the individual man-date must be a rather liberal idea, because it infuriated so many con-servatives and energized them for the largest swing of seats in the his-tory of the house of representatives. However, that is false.
The individual mandate was an idea that was thought up in the early 1990s by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C. It was the conser-vative response to Hillarycare back in the 1990s.
The conservative reasoning behind this mandate is rather simple: per-sonal responsibility. Currently, in the U.S. health care system, one can receive treatment regardless if they have health insurance or not. It is illegal for hospital emergency rooms to turn away care from someone who urgently needs it.
Often, those who don’t have health care coverage are either already sick or poor. The sick usu-ally have pre-exist-ing conditions and are denied cover-age because of how much they would cost the insurance companies to pro-vide coverage for, and the poor can’t afford health insurance in the first place. Now, they get a free ride for care and it costs the hospitals, and in turn, the taxpayers, dearly to pay for this ‘free’ care.
Free care eschews personal respon-sibility, which is the cornerstone of conservative philosophy. The individ-ual mandate would get rid of the free riders in the system, who cost taxpay-ers a ton of money. Everyone would be required to participate under the principle of taking responsibility for your own care when it is needed.
If we allowed our hospitals to flat out reject people who were sick and didn’t have health insurance, this type of freeloader wouldn’t exist. However, our society would be quite pathetic.
Only recently, as in when Obamacare was being debated in Congress, did conservatives begin to renounce the individual mandate as a way to reform our health care system.
As recently as 2005, Mitt Romney instilled an individual mandate in Massachusetts when he successfully pursued universal health care in that state as governor. It is currently the only state to have universal coverage.
Furthermore, when he signed the bill, there was a member from the Heritage Foundation on stage next to him, clapping wildly as he signed it. This was one of his biggest accom-plishments in Massachusetts, and ironically, it was his biggest liability in the GOP primaries this year.
Governor Romney and President Obama’s health care reforms were far too similar for republican voters to be comfortable with, but luckily for Romney, everyone else in the field was extremely weak. In fact, Obama him-self said that they modeled a good amount of their health care reform off of the one that Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
One would guess, likely cor-rectly, that the GOP has done a 180 degree turn on the individual man-date because of the endorsement by such a high profile, hated democrat, President Obama. If Obama had cho-sen a different route, then perhaps the individual mandate would have some credence, but since Obama has embraced it, it has become the epitome of bad policy in conserva-tive’s eyes.
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Graduate research assistants should be able to unionizeNow that nearly 63 percent of all
unrepresented graduate student employees have signed a decision
card declaring their desire to join the union, we believe it’s time for the university to fully recognize all graduate employees, regardless of what type of “assistant” they are considered to be.
In early March, the Coalition of Graduate Employees filed a motion to the State Employment Relations Board to fully clas-sify all graduate employees under the same union — this would bring in around 485 new graduate employees into the current union of around 950.
Currently, graduate research assistants are not a part of the union, as the university con-tract holds that only graduates that work “in service to the university” will be covered.
The university has attempted to create a definitive line between what is an employee and what is not. Alone, it’s a wise decision to distinguish between the two, to be certain those who are not truly employed by the uni-
versity, or who do not perform duties required of an employee, don’t receive union benefits.
However, this division between graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants is arbitrary; the university’s defini-tion of an employee is based upon a now outdated 1970s court and flimsy academic requirements.
Since that 1977 court case (University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation v. the University of Oregon), which pitted U of O against its graduate employee union, even the university at hand has overturned the rul-ing. In the early 1990s, U of O entered into a voluntary agreement with the union to recog-nize graduate research assistants as part of the bargaining unit.
If the University of Oregon — as well as many other universities — already recognizes graduate research assistants as employees of the university and part of any kind of bargain-
ing unit, what is the big deal here at Oregon State? With one Oregon university already rejecting the precedent, our university will have a hard time persuading ERB to uphold the original ruling.
However, inconsistencies in the interpreta-tion of past court precedent is not the sole weakness in the university’s argument against the unionization. Their definition of what a true employee is fails to establish any defini-tive distinction between the two groups of graduate assistants. There isn’t really as big of a difference between the two as the university would lead you to believe.
The university views graduate research assis-tants as students focusing on academic work, while teaching assistants provide a service to the university. But this division is blurred.
Many times, research assistants work on projects that are unrelated to their own thesis research, and any research they do conduct automatically becomes property of the uni-versity. They have established times of work and their research projects have deadlines,
which often make money for the university in the end. Plus, these research assistants will sometimes cross over into teaching and then go back to strictly research, which makes the distinction line pretty blurry.
We aren’t quite sure why the university is combating the CGE’s motion and not just rec-ognizing research assistants outright. Research assistants provide a valuable service to the university and if they want to be organized as part of a union, then they have the right to.
Yes, recognizing them as part of the bargain-ing unit will increase CGE’s size and clout, but we don’t see how the university stands to ben-efit from not recognizing RAs as employees.
The university’s reliance on an outdated court precedent and a suspect distinction between what constitutes an employee isn’t an adequate defense in rejecting the unionization of all graduate employees.
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factor or one solution; this is going to take time and effort from everyone — parents, teachers and students.
Should employers take looks into consideration when hiring?Should your physical appearance mat-
ter in the workplace? The response from most people would be a reflex-
ional “No.” For me, if you completely disregard skin
color as a component of physical attractive-ness and avoid the whole racism issue, then yes, I can think of at least a few exceptions that would yield reconsideration.
First, lets think of the classic examples.Runway models — You must be exception-
ally thin and pretty to make it in this pro-fession. Discrimination based on weight or appearance is part of the hiring process.
Bartenders — Physical attractiveness will warrant better tips. From a financial business perspective, looks do matter. However, here’s where we start to blur the lines between eth-ics and effective business policy.
Let’s analyze a field such as sales. Should all positions in sales be at least in some part related to physical appearance?
Good sales skills aren’t entirely defined by physical characteristics, but they are defi-nitely magnified by them. Men are not likely to buy weight-training supplements from a 5’7”, 120-pound scientist. They want to buy it from the 6’4”, 235-pound bodybuilder work-
ing at GNC who can personally vouch for the efficacy of the given product.
Likewise, men are much more likely to take advice on how to rekindle a dwindling relationship from a smoking hot employee working at Victoria’s Secret than they are from a 60-year-old “sex expert” who charges $60 per hour for her consultation sessions (speak-ing in hypotheticals, and not from personal experience, of course).
We are all aware that discrimination based on looks is a prevalent issue in today’s hiring practices in fields and professions across the board. However, businesses and corporations can subjectively and arbitrarily deny appli-cants employment for almost any reason they see fit. This means that they can directly, and in many cases legally, deny people employ-ment based on their physical attractiveness.
But who is audacious enough to come right out and reveal such hiring practices? After all, most corporations are “equal opportunity employers,” right?
Victoria Hospital in Texas instituted a new
policy disallowing the employment of obese people. This means that both health care and non-health care staff must be below a certain body fat percentage to obtain a job.
Is this unethical? They don’t seem to think so. Their policy reads,
“[Employees] should fit with a representational image or specific mental projection of the job of a healthcare professional.”
I think I just had an “Aha!” moment. Victoria Hospital executives have an excellent point. If I were a patient, I wouldn’t listen to an over-weight cardiologist telling me that I needed to lose a few pounds to decrease my chance of heart disease, heart attack and stroke. He would have no credibility in my eyes. Sorry doc, but I’ll do as you do, not as you say.
I think that of all people, medical physi-cians should walk the talk. I think that over-weight doctors are a poor representation of the very knowledge and practice that they
spent eight or more years of their lives, and hundreds of thousands of their own dollars, learning. I am a pre-medical student and yes, I believe that physicians should not be hired if they are unable to live healthy lives them-
selves. Of course, this disre-gards doctors with clinically diagnosed eating disorders, genetic predispositions and things of that sort.
So, should looks factor in to hiring new employees? It depends. No one needs a sexy laboratory professor or hunky nuclear reactor operator.
However, as discussed earlier, some professions do require a certain degree of physical attractiveness or fit-ness to obtain success. Some professions require pretty while others require merit; there’s no changing this ugly truth.
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Centralization is not a cure-all, not even in today’s connected worldOn Tuesday afternoon,
former UK Prime Minister Gordon
Brown gave a lecture on the global economy in which he argued that the world is becoming ever more intercon-nected, and that many prob-lems will need to be solved through greater international cooperation. While Brown’s argument is certainly true with regards to some pressing issues, further centralization of political power isn’t a wise idea in general.
The first part of Brown’s argument is most certainly correct: “We are all part of an interdependent economy. What happens to us in one country affects all of us right across the world.”
This point was underscored yesterday at the economics department’s weekly seminar, where University of Michigan economist Jing Zhang dis-cussed the impact of Chinese productivity growth on living standards in other countries. The days of autarky and isola-tionism are long gone and are not coming back.
Furthermore, it is true that this interdependence neces-sitates increased international cooperation on certain issues. Greenhouse gas emissions from one country affect not just the polluting country, but the entire planet. Likewise, the alleviation of extreme pover-
ty is not, and should not, be the sole responsibility of the countries in which the world’s poorest citizens are living.
However, in the interest of protecting individual liberties and for pragmatism’s sake, I strenuously disagree that fur-ther transfers of power from local and state governments to national and internation-al bodies is a wise course of action.
It is often much more dif-ficult for a government to infringe upon the rights and liberties of its citizens if those citizens are free to move to another jurisdiction. Thus, in the interest of protecting indi-vidual liberties, political pow-ers should be put in the hands of local and state governments rather than national or inter-national governing authorities as far as is reasonably possible.
Take health care, for instance.
Obviously, there are many health-related issues that are best addressed nationally and internationally. Successfully combatting the spread of infectious and communicable diseases has often required significant international cooperation.
Likewise, it often makes more sense for medical and scientific research to be fund-ed by the federal rather than state governments, as a dis-covery made in one state will
likely end up benefitting peo-ple in multiple states.
However, it is wrong to assume that health insurance is within the proper jurisdic-tion of the federal government.
I have no problem with Massachusetts adopting an individual mandate or Vermont adopting a single-payer system. After all, if any of these states’ residents object to either of these policies, then these residents can always move to New Hampshire. It is much more difficult, however, to move to another country if you object to a federal govern-ment policy.
The second problem with centralization of political power is more pragmatic — sometimes a policy that is entirely appropriate for one place is not at all appropriate for another. The Eurozone’s current monetary and finan-cial mess is a case in point.
For more than half a cen-tury, many European lead-ers have worked tirelessly to improve economic integration and international cooperation among different European countries. In many ways, this has been a good idea. I espe-cially applaud the relative suc-cess of the European Common
Market, which has greatly lib-eralized trade in goods and services within Europe and the Schengen Area, allowing for the free migration of peo-ple throughout much of the continent.
However, the euro has undoubtedly been a disaster. With the enactment of a single currency, the countries using the euro left themselves sus-ceptible to the kind of severe macroeconomic difficulties they are currently experienc-
ing. Many economists on both sides of the Atlantic under-stood this possibility and thus recommended against the adoption of the single curren-cy. Despite this recommenda-tion, the European political elites decided to forge ahead anyway.
Ironically, Gordon Brown, who was the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer in the early 2000s, clearly understood these potential problems, and he probably deserves much of
the credit for keeping the UK from adopting the euro.
It’s true that the countries of the world are becoming more interconnected and that there are many pressing issues which require increased international cooperation. However, we shouldn’t, as a general rule, centralize even more power in the hands of national and international bodies.
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Texas pastor behind Chinese activist’s freedomIt has been a busy week
for Pastor “Bob” Xiqiu Fu, a pastor from Midland, Texas, who has spent considerable time on the international stage working for the release of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist who arrived in the United States on Saturday after weeks of diplomatic back and forth between two global super powers.
Weeks ago, when Chen escaped from house arrest by jumping over a high wall and hiding out in a pig sty, Fu was the first to know.
When Congress called two hearings in 10 days to address Chen’s situation, Fu was front and center.
Both times, Chen called Fu’s cell phone and he translated for the Congressional hear-ings, and the English speak-ing world, the concerns of the blind activist for his extended family.
“It’s really an answer to prayer,” Fu told CNN of Chen’s arrival to the United States.
Fu said he talked with Chen six times before the latter boarded a flight from Beijing to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
“He sounded very upbeat but concerned about his other
extended family members he is leaving behind who are fac-ing some real serious retribu-tion from the local authori-ties,” Fu said.
Fu is the president of ChinaAid, a Christian human rights organization that has been campaigning for Chen’s freedom.
On Tuesday, Fu was in Washington, D.C. He began his day at an event with for-mer President George W. Bush, who name-dropped Fu from the podium at an event billed as a Celebration of Human Freedom.
Fu sat in the front row between Bush and his wife Laura. His job was to intro-duce the former First Lady.
Mrs. Bush spoke glow-ingly of how Fu had helped secure a notebook with the book of Revelation hand cop-ied by Chinese prisoners for the Freedom Collection at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
Fu took the chance behind the podium to share his per-sonal story, telling how he was a student leader in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, then became a pastor of a house church in China.
After he and his wife were arrested for “illegal evange-
lism,” they fled to Hong Kong in 1996.
From there, they immigrat-ed to the United States and ended up in “dusty” Midland, Texas, where in 2002 they founded ChinaAid.
The group focuses on “exposing the abuses, encour-aging the abused, and spiritu-ally and legally equipping the leaders to defend their faith and freedom,” according to a statement on its website.
In Chen’s case, that has meant being fully engaged with campaigning for his freedom.
After the event with Bush, Fu headed to the Rayburn House Office Building to appear in front of a subcommittee hear-ing on human rights to discuss the Chen case.
Before it began, Chinese journalists and members of the international media pep-pered Fu with questions about Chen’s condition and whether or not he would be calling into the hearing.
Fu smiled and answered their questions, alternating between Chinese and English, and said he had lost contact with Chen since the previous night.
Once the hearing got under-way, Fu slipped out into the
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Fu and the staff member slipped into a back room. A few moments later, Fu’s assis-tant slipped out and motioned to the reporters to go back into the hearing room, indicating Fu had connected with Chen again.
For the second time in 10 days, Fu took to the dais with Smith, holding up his cell phone and translating ques-tions to Chen and relaying his answers.
“They’re doing fine, espe-cially my two children,” Chen said on the phone through Fu. “They kept telling my wife and I that this is such a wonder-ful place, we can play outside. And he said you can tell from my wife and I how terrible they had been back to our home town. They were only allowed to have one hour outing every day,” the activist described of his family’s time in a Beijing hospital.
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Lauren Chamberlain hit a routine grounder to short-stop and Casey attempted to score, but Elizabeth Santana saw the Sooner racing home and nailed her at the plate for the first out. Ricketts would walk to load the bases, how-ever, and on a 1-0 pitch Jessica Shults hit a grand slam into the stands in right field to put Oklahoma on top, 4-0.
The Beavers threatened in their half of the opening frame when Hannah Bouska walked and Erin Guzy singled into shallow left field to put runners on first and second with two away. Ricketts would induce a slow roller down the first base line, which she field-ed unassisted, to keep Oregon State off the board.
The Sooners left two on in the third and one on base in the fourth before extending
their lead in the fifth. Ricketts struck out looking to start things off, but Shults hit her second home run of the game, this one a solo shot, to add another run for the hosts. Katie Norris singled home another run later in the frame to give Oklahoma a 6-0 lead, the eventual final score.
Despite the bitter ending, the year proved fruitful for a number of players whose individual performances set personal bests and helped push the team to new heights. Junior Elizabeth Santana fin-ished the season batting a team-leading .344 (64-for-186) and her 41 RBIs are eighth all-time in single-season history at Oregon State.
Dani Gilmore concluded her freshman season second on the team with a .322 average. Her 48 runs scored are third in OSU history for one sea-son, her 39 walks are fifth and her 17 stolen bases are good enough for second. Gilmore’s
nine home runs also led the Beavers and are the most for a freshman at OSU since Tarrah Beyster hit 12 in 1997.
Hannah Bouska’s 12 sacri-fice hits this season are tied for seventh in school history and her 14 stolen bases are tied for sixth for any one year. Erin Guzy and Desiree Beltran also set personal highs for average, home runs, hits, runs, doubles and RBI. Beltran was also hit by a pitch 19 times, which beats her OSU record of 14 set last year. Senior Paige Hall had one of the best seasons for an Oregon State pitcher in the last 20 years, winning over 75 percent of her games (14-4) while also successfully closing out six Beaver wins. Her six saves tie an Oregon State single-season record, lead the Pac-12 and are sixth nationally.
The team will return much of its firepower in 2013, includ-ing Santana, Gilmore, Bouska, Beltran, Garcia, outfielder Lea
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The game-three victory assured that the Beavers (currently sixth place) remain only a half a game out of fourth place in the competitive Pac-12, with only three regular season games remaining.
That three-game series will take place Friday, when No. 6 Oregon invades Corvallis in a matchup that holds massive implications for both squads.
what is at stake, and the pressure and intensity is tenfold that of any other event. I think we started out a little tense and tried to play perfectly instead of just going out and taking care of business. At the same time, it is very difficult to follow up a great round, and I think in the back of their minds they might have felt like they were going to need to shoot the same kind of score today.
“The team was great,” Reehoorn added. “It was not looking good for a while, and they really fought hard the last nine holes to finish well and make it close. They did the same thing yesterday to bounce back [after] such a disappointing finish the first day.”
The one player who won’t return next season is senior Jonnie Motomochi, who shot a 2-over 72 on Saturday to finish the regional in a tie for 41st place with a 4-over 73-69-72—214. Motomochi concludes his four-year career at Oregon State as a team leader who always played with a smile that was reflective of his outgoing personality.
“It’s sad to say goodbye to Jonnie,” Reehoorn said through his Twitter account immediately following the round.
Junior Matt Rawitzer followed up his Oregon State-best 5-under 65 that he fired on Friday with a 2-under 68 to record his first top-10 finish as a Beaver with a 4-under 73-65-68—206 to tie for 10th place. The transfer from the University of Idaho had four birdies in his final round and conclud-ed his first season with the Beavers with four subpar rounds in his last six tournaments.
“Matt started out the same as the other guys, a little up and down, but he was able to save par on the greens he missed early and avoid an early bogey or two, which allowed him to get more and more comfortable in his round,” Reehoorn said.
Junior Nick Chianello also had a great first season in the orange and black after transferring from the University of Portland last spring, finishing the year as the Beavers’ scoring average leader after a tie for 25th place at regionals with an even-par 71-66-73—210.
A couple of Oregon State veterans, junior
Nick Sherwood and sophomore David Fink, will also return next season as two of the most experienced players on the team. Sherwood was his usual consistent self at the regional with a 1-over 70-71-70—211 for a tie for 27th place, while Fink has gradu-ally worked his way back from an injury and finished tied for 48th with a 6-over 73-69-74—216.
California, which won the Pac-12 Championship at Trysting Tree Golf Club in Corvallis, took home the team title with a 25-under 815 to finish six strokes ahead of San Diego State (19-under 821). The University of Alabama at Birmingham (-10), Stanford (-8) and the University of Central Florida (-5) also advance to the NCAA Championships.
Josh Anderson of Pepperdine University, who competed at the regional as an individ-ual, advances to the NCAA Championship after claiming medalist honors with a 14-under 196.
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golf team made a late charge on the back nine in the final round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Stanford Regional on Saturday, but fell just short of earning a trip to the NCAA Championships to conclude an outstanding season.
The Beavers finished the three-day, 54-hole tournament in a tie for seventh place with a 1-under 287-269-283—839 at the par-70, 6,742-yard Stanford Golf Course and just four strokes out of the top five spots, which earn a trip to the NCAA Championships at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Oregon State wraps up its 2011-12 cam-paign with two team titles, a fifth-place finish at the inaugural Pac-12 Championship and its sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA Regionals. Four of the five players who competed at the Stanford Regional will return next season, giv-ing head coach Jon Reehoorn and assistant coach Tim Sundseth confidence heading into next season.
“Right now I’m disappointed,” Reehoorn said. “At the end of a three-round event, when it comes down to four shots, it is very easy to think back to where we lost shots and say ‘what if.’ But the guys played well. In a few days I’m sure I will allow myself to think that we accomplished a number of good things and be excited with the progress we are mak-ing. One thing I know for sure right now, is the best part of this week [happened] off the course. The guys were really all about the team and it was a lot of fun to be with these five. All of them, including the four returners, truly care about Oregon State and the team first. They want us to be great and that can only lead to very good things in the future.”
A day after shooting the lowest team score on a par-70 course in school history, an 11-under 269, the Beavers got off to a tough start on their first nine holes, as they were 7-over at the turn. Whether it was nerves or the pressure of the final round, all five play-ers relaxed and shot a better score on their final nine holes. Despite the strong finish, the top five teams shot equal or better rounds on Saturday to separate themselves from the field.
“Regionals are so much different than any other event,” Reehoorn said. “Everyone knows
n OSU hung on for a 7-5 win Sunday after losing to the Cougars on a walk-off grand slam Saturday
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PULLMAN, Wash. — It was a record breaking weekend for No. 23 Oregon State University, as it won two of three against Washington State in a series that was highlighted by head coach Pat Casey’s program-tying 613th win and freshman left-fielder Michael Conforto’s OSU single-season record 69th RBI.
The series was tied at a game apiece head-ing into Sunday’s rubber-match, which was important for Oregon State (35-18, 15-12) because of standings implications and poten-tial postseason seeding.
Sophomore right-hander Dan Child got the start for OSU and earned his sixth win of the season after completing eight innings, while allowing five runs on 11 hits.
Junior center-fielder Max Gordon got OSU on the board early with an RBI double in the third inning. Conforto then provided more early offense for the Beavers with a three-run home run to put Oregon State up 4-0.
After WSU (26-26, 11-16) scored two runs to narrow the lead to two in the fourth, senior third baseman Ryan Dunn put OSU back up by four with a two RBI double.
OSU and WSU traded runs in the fifth before the Cougars made things interesting with a sacrifice fly in the seventh and the ninth innings to narrow the lead to two once again.
Freshman right-hander Dylan Davis entered the game for junior right-hander Cole Brocker and subsequently earned his first career save, recording the final out for the 7-5 OSU victory and series win.
The game-three victory came after an OSU win in game one and a WSU win in game two.
Junior designated hitter Danny Hayes played fantastic all weekend, going 6-for-11 in the series with three home runs and eight RBIs, including two in game one that pro-
pelled the Beavers to a 10-2 romp.
It looked like the Beavers might steal a close victory in game two after trailing 5-4 going into the final inning, when junior shortstop Tyler Smith tied the game with a two-out double to breathe new life into a game that had looked all but over.
But WSU was not to be denied, and quickly loaded the bases in the bottom half of the ninth. Junior left-hander Matt Boyd quickly recorded two outs, but failed to record the final out that would have sent the game into extras, when P.J. Jones launched a walk-off grand slam for the Cougars.
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Baseball takes two of three at WSUMen’s golf finishes seventh
Softball loses regional final to OU
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Head coach Pat Casey won his 613th career game as a Beaver on Sunday.
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Senior Jonnie Motomochi wrapped up his collegiate career this past weekend.
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The Oregon State softball team celebrates its seniors after a May 12 game against Arizona. The Beavers will lose five seniors, but will return the majority of their starting lineup next year as they seek a second consecutive postseason berth.
n Beavers’ memorable season comes to an end after going 2-2 in Norman Regional
by Oregon State Athletic Communications
NORMAN, Okla. — The Oregon State softball team’s most successful season in the last five years came to an end at the hands of No. 4 Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon, as the Beavers dropped a 6-0 regional contest to the host Sooners at Marita Hynes Field in Norman, Okla. With this result, Oklahoma advances and will host Arizona in NCAA Super Regional action next weekend.
Oregon State finishes the 2012 sea-son with a 36-23 overall record, the team’s best since 2007. This year the Beavers also set school records for runs (301) and RBIs (269). Their .273 team batting average is tied for fifth, their 202 walks are second and their 70 steals are tied for third.
The 18 runs OSU scored in Norman are the most for the team in a regional since they plated 26 in Madison, Wis. in 2005.
The Beavers had trouble getting the bats going against one of the top pitchers in the country, as Keilani Ricketts tossed a complete game, allowing only two hits and striking out 10.
Oklahoma scored four times in the first inning on just one swing of the bat. Georgia Casey led off the game with a walk and moved to third when Destinee Martinez’s ground ball snuck under the glove of Ya Garcia at second base. Martinez stole second to put two runners in scoring posi-tion with nobody out for the Sooners.
