The Daily Barometer 02/27/13

n Chorus Festival 2013 brought together high school talent, OSU men’s, women’s choirs

By John Aljetsspecial to the Daily Barometer

Music has the power to bring peo-ple together. This last Monday, the power of music brought together choirs from around the local area, including Oregon State University’s very own choral groups.

The Chorus Festival 2013 at LaSells Stewart Center showcased the talents of high school singers from West Linn, West and South Albany, Crescent Valley, Springfield and Corvallis. The high school groups even joined the OSU men’s and women’s choirs on stage at the end of the show to form massive groups.

“[The event] went very well,” said Tina Bull, director of Bella Voice, the

women’s choir. “It was super fun having all those young women singing [with] us all. [There was] a giant stage full of high school students with the college stu-dents. So, we really enjoy that outreach.”

Singing with college choral groups can help young singers become better, but it also helps the older musicians as well. Chuck Gidley, a senior majoring in business who sings with the men’s choir, said singing with the high school stu-dents can help put it all in perspective.

“I think sometimes [the singers] lose [sight of] how far they have come, and that’s kind of a confidence boost for them,” Gidley said

This term, the choirs have been focusing on preparing the songs they sang at the festival. Now that it’s over, the focus is going to shift towards their big trip to New York this May. They have planned performances at the Lincoln Center and at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, said Russ Christensen, the director of

the men’s choir.

“We are going to be combining forces along with the symphony for a major work, Vaughan Williams’ ‘Dona Nobis Pacem,’” Christensen said. “Our soloists

will be former OSU grads. Anyway, it’s a big undertaking, and we are excited about it.”

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audri rousseau, recently crowned miss linn-Benton, notes dance as a creative outlet for

her and has competed in

pageants since she was in the seventh grade.

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Miss Linn-Bentonn Audri Rousseau named Miss Linn-

Benton 2013 in a competition Feb. 16By Katherine Choithe Daily Barometer

When Audri Rousseau first met 2002 Miss America winner Katie Harman in the third grade, Rousseau fell in love with the idea of beauty pageants.

Rousseau, an Oregon State University student, was named Miss Linn-Benton 2013 in a com-petition held on Feb. 16 at the Hult Center for Performing Arts in Eugene.

“I was completely shocked,” Rousseau said. “I basically just burst into tears because I didn’t think that I was going to win at all.”

Originally, Rousseau signed up for the competi-tion to gain experience, but ended up winning the competition.

According to Joce DeWitt of the Salem Statesman Journal, there were five events in the competition, including interview, evening gown, lifestyle and fitness, or swimsuit competition, talent and on-stage questions.

Rousseau performed a jazz dance for her talent event.

“My dance and cheer background made me so much more comfortable on stage,” Rousseau said. “Being comfortable on stage is, for a lot of people, the biggest hurdle to get over.”

Rousseau started taking ballet lessons in kinder-garten and later took pre-jazz lessons the summer after second grade. Rousseau took lessons until her freshman year of high school, when she began cheerleading for West Salem High School.

“[Dance] has been a creative outlet for me,” Rousseau said. “If I’m bored, upset, or have too much energy, I just dance.”

See linn-BenTOn | page 2 Career Fairn OSU to hold career fairs today,

tomorrow for students from all experiential backgrounds

By Jenson Vlissthe Daily Barometer

Headhunters from 140 companies will speak with students during the next two days at the winter career fair in hopes of picking the best candidates for openings within their companies.

Today’s fair will encompass compa-nies ranging from Fortune 500s, start-ups, non-profits, military and represen-tatives from graduate programs at other universities.

Tomorrow’s fair will have engineering companies, but Lindsey Reed, employ-er relations manager at Oregon State University Career Services, emphasizes students from all majors can attend.

“They are not interested in hiring a degree, they’re hiring a person,” Reed said.

Even if a student isn’t ready to shift from student to professional, the fair is still valuable. Employers typically scout interns and full-time jobs well before the start date. It is a great service for students to familiarize themselves with the hiring process before they are thrown into it.

“If it is your first time and you are feel-ing a little awkward, just go and observe,” Reed said. “Then when you are ready, you will feel a little more comfortable.”

Students interested in attending the fair are suggested to spend time review-ing the schedule on oregonstate.edu/career/career-fairs and consider which booths they want to visit and brush up on the basics of the companies.

The fair will take place at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center both days from 12-4 p.m.

All students are encouraged to bring updated resumes, and to remember the companies are here to hire OSU students, Reed said.

Jenson Vliss, news [email protected]

n Happy Trails Records attempts to keep its doors open while others shut down

By Ricky Zippthe Daily Barometer

On the corner of 3rd and Monroe, with music post-ers and advertisements for local shows covering the storefront windows, one local business tries to hang on to what seems like the death of an industry.

Since 1974, Happy Trails Records has been one of a handful of used and new record stores within the city of Corvallis. While others have come and gone throughout the years, Happy Trails stands alone.

Doug DiCarolis, owner since 1986, still sits behind the counter organizing old CDs and vinyls wondering how much longer this will last.

As music moved to digital and downloads, the need for vinyl and CDs has dropped off the map. There becomes less of a need to go down and wait outside the local record shop for the newly released album of favorite bands when people can sit inside the comfort of their own homes and have their songs delivered straight to their computers.

“In 1991, when we were on 2nd St., we had a midnight release,” DiCarolis said. “There were 200

Singing, uniting as a chorus

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the osU men’s and women’s choirs sang alongside singers from West linn, albany, crescent Valley, springfield and corvallis at lasells stewart center on monday.

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SIFC, ASOSU mediate budgetsn Diveristy Development, Music

Ensemble remain at original budget proposal levels

By Ricky Zippthe Daily Barometer

During last week’s joint session, the House of Representatives voted down two budget proposals from the Student Incidental Fees Committee: Diversity Development and Music Ensemble.

Because both bodies of the Associated Students of Oregon State University had to approve each proposal, the budgets were moved to mediation, which is made up of House, Senate and SIFC members.

Tuesday night the mediation commit-tee met to discuss the main conflicts of both of these budgets.

For Music Ensemble, the conversation centered on its budget’s lack of detail.

Brad Alvarez, Student and Incidental Fees Committee chairman, said the budget was cut and pasted from last year and turned in late. While he was supportive of a proposal for the contingency fund, Alvarez and other committee members could not deny the problems with the proposal.

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“They really need to get on top of this,” said committee member and Senator Tyler Hogan. “This process does mater and they need to take this process seriously.”

Speaker of the House Jacob Vandever was at the Musical Ensemble’s presenta-tion and was able to attest to the minimal amount of information and the last-min-ute presentation of information.

“I don’t know what they could expect SIFC to do except lower their budget,” Vandever said.

The vote was taken and came through unanimously, upholding the original SIFC proposal at $2.20. However, the options of receiving funding through contingency funds are still open and look promising, Alvarez said.

Diversity Development has received a lot of attention from both the board, ASOSU and student support in the last few weeks with its budget. The main discussion is about the hiring of full-time staff positions.

Last week they stated the reasons for hiring are not just to help out current employees, but to provide opportunities for mentorship for students.

Diversity Development requested a fee

increase for the hiring of two positions but the committee did not find sufficient evidence to justify the increase. According to Hogan and other members, the increase would be dramatically high at 50 percent and there would be difficulty in passing the increase with such little information.

There was a discrepancy between the mediation committee passing the pro-posal allowing for Diversity Development to hire its positions — an increase of $2.23 from the proposed $14.30.

• Members for the increase reasoned the process could be started and professional staff could be hired as quickly as possible.

• Members against the increase were not worried about the committee not extend-ing the funding. Clarification within the committee guidelines also stated there are mandatory increases for programs.

The committee also looked at the need to keep equal standards for all institutions and proposals. Senator Madison Parker addressed this issue at the joint session, saying the committee does not approve the funding of new positions without job descriptions that have been worked through human resources.

• Those in favor of the increase found it was not specifically written down that committee could not approve funding for positions without a job description.

Diversity Development presented a work-ing job description to the mediation committee.

• Members against the increase of fund-ing said while it was not written down, it was an implicit and strictly followed rule. The reasoning was repeated by several members of the committee that last year funding for a position was made without a job description and led to a delay in human resources. Today, that money is still unused and the position remains unfilled.

The majority of the meeting was held in this discussion and mainly members explaining and re-explaining their points.

Parker, Hogan and Terra Setzler along with Alvarez said they were not debating the need for these positions.

ASOSU President Amelia Harris was not in favor of voting down an increase along with Representative Matthew Palm.

The mediation committee after a 10-5 vote, kept funding at $14.30 for fall, winter and spring terms and $8.30 for summer.

There was an agreement about the need for continued communication with Diversity Development in order to make sure they will be as prepared as possible for the contingency proposal.

Ricky Zipp, news [email protected]

people outside waiting in the snow, partying … that was the high watermark of our business.”

According to DiCarolis, there had always been three or four record shops in Corvallis, but they are no longer in the city. Oddly enough, business is fueled by the purchases of vinyl, a music medium seemingly archaic when stacked up against the iPods and online options available today.

“It’s always a struggle,” DiCarolis said. “But we are sell-ing more vinyl and less CDs … I don’t know if buyers of vinyl will be enough money to keep [Happy Trails] going.”

DiCarolis began pulling out albums he had for sale pointing out the cover and explaining the importance of listening to full

albums in the order that was intended. While jazz and clas-sic rock fill the majority of their shelves, new bands and modern releases of vinyl albums are also available.

He continued to explain the missing aspect of music when songs are shuffled around and bits of them are heard before skipping along the playlist, when a couple walked in looking for a specific album. DiCarolis told them he did not have it but could order it for them. Then they asked if there was another place in town to buy music.

“No” was all DiCarlos was able to say and he told them the clos-est places would be in Salem or Eugene.

But it is not just the local shops that have taken a hit. Even stores like Borders have shut down and Fred Meyer’s music has become a

shell of what it once was.Is there an importance in hav-

ing some physical piece of music?“There’s one fatal flaw with

downloading,” DiCarolis said. “That item doesn’t physically exist. When you have a collection it actually retains value, when you download music it’s worthless.”

For DiCarolis, this does extend beyond simply money. He spoke of how music held the ability to inspire cultural movements. Listening became an activity and when he had a new album every-one would come over to listen to it. There was a whole experience to consuming music that is slowly fading out, DiCarolis said.

“It saddens me from an artis-tic standpoint,” DiCarlos said. “When you invest yourself more inside the music, it can really inspire and move you when it is not just background noise. … On

the one hand I understand the new way, but I have experience in the other way as well and it was better.”

DiCarolis said no one knows what the future holds. He talked about how Eugene’s record con-vention last year was larger then ever and while there is a loyal customer base, he sees more and more college students com-ing in and buying vinyl.

But even while vinyl slowly climbs in popularity, it would be highly unlikely for vinyl to grow large enough in Corvallis to solely pay the bills. DiCarolis said larger cities will always have a place for used record shops and stores selling only vinyl records but Corvallis may not be able to match their abilities.

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Rousseau’s mother, Lisa, said her daughter was devoted to dance and cheerleading at West Salem. Rousseau stopped dance lessons in high school in order to focus on her grades and school work.

“She may have started dancing before she started walking,” Lisa Rousseau said. “She has always loved to perform for an audience, whether it be for mom and dad at home, at a dance recital, or dancing and cheering for her high school.”

The Miss Linn-Benton competition was not Rousseau’s first beauty pageant. In 2011, Rousseau was awarded the Distinguished Young Women scholarship, another competi-tion including talent, interview, evening gown

and on-stage questions.“I think that experience helped a lot

with getting ready for this [competition],” Rousseau said.

Rousseau said in seventh grade she begged her parents to let her compete in her first pageant. When she was granted permission, she placed as the fourth runner-up out of 190 other girls.

“I was over the moon and so excited,” Rousseau said. “My parents let me do it as, ‘OK, we’ll get this out of her system and then we’ll be done,’ and I did so well, so they were like, ‘Oh no, now we have to keep doing this.’”

Rousseau is now preparing to compete in the Miss Oregon competition in Seaside from June 26-29. She will compete with 20 to 25 others for the title.

Rousseau plans to revamp her dance, watch her eating, work on her interviews and

stay up to date on current events to prepare for the Miss Oregon competition.

“Audri is well on her way to achieving her goals and could easily be our next Miss Oregon,” said Zonnie Ann Borg, co-director of the Miss Linn-Benton Scholarship Program. “And who knows, perhaps the next Miss America.”

Someday, Rousseau hopes to have her own effect on girls who dream of becoming a princess.

“For me, it was such an eye-opening expe-rience,” Rousseau said. “As a little girl, I saw a princess, and if I can go into an elementary school and just be a princess to a couple of third graders, that would be amazing.”

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Editor’s Note: The following letters are in response to the edi-torial “Greek life shouldn’t have exception,” published on Feb. 26.

Reflects poorly on Greek life as a whole

My name is Aaron Estoup and I am currently a junior in the College of Business program and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. I am send-ing this email because I am outraged by today’s editorial article that was regarding Greek life’s “exception.” I am not commenting regarding the diction of the article and the “facts” and statistics that were used throughout the article. The attack of Greek life, even if only the extreme cases, still overall reflects Greek life as a whole. I would love to see current facts that would show advantages of joining Greek life and our philan-thropic efforts toward society. The Sigma Chi freshman GPA has been over the overall freshman GPA the last three years. Sigma Chi has also raised over $35,000 for Doernbechers Children’s Hospital in the last three years. Over $20,000 have been raised already this year by Greek members to various institutions which none has been noticed by the Barometer. I understand these are the opinions of editorial staff, but there is ignorance in the fact that Greek life provides nothing to this campus and nothing to this community. I look forward to an email explaining this article and to future attempts to show that Greek life is full of alcoholics. This is a campus-wide newspaper and I, along as many others, would like to see the entire campus represented in more than a negative [manner].

AAron EstoupJunior in business

Greeks have a higher GPA than the university

Not many people are happy about being forced to live in the dorms their first year. These people are mostly those who cannot afford to live in the dorms due to such high costs for living and dining. Co-ops and

Greek housing do provide a relief to this financially. You lose me in how you somehow think that money is going to [lure] in gullible freshman. Give them some credit — no one is going to want to join Greek life and sign themselves to the commitments they have just so they can have less expensive living. While houses want to be able to offer the opportu-nity for freshmen to live in, it is not required in most houses and most houses on our campus do not need them to live in. The real issue here is trapping freshman to live in situa-tions less than ideal and financially straining. I would also like to point out that binge drinking is a campus-wide issue and that the only people on campus required to go through alcohol safety classes are those in Greek life. Also, the all Greek GPA for Spring 2012 was a 3.02, while the entire university’s average was a 2.99. Before lumping OSU Greeks in with the entire population of Greeks, I think more research should be done. So instead of focusing on negative blatant stereotypes, we should be focusing on how much money this is costing future students, how many students will not choose to go here based on money, and how Co-ops are also a part of this. And the Co-ops are a great place of residence for fresh-man, without years of obligation.

BrittA rAsmussEn

Sophomore in sociology

Why Greek life should be granted an exception

I would like to contend why Greek life should be granted such an excep-tion from the First Year Experience.

The editorial does point out some disheartening facts about the college drinking culture, whether among dorm or Greek life residents. My sister is a freshman in an OSU dorm, and assures me “parties, binge drink-ing and poor academic influences” are not absent there. However, it fails to mention the positive value Greek life adds to the experience of students who choose to associate themselves with these organizations.

Greek life organizations have a

proven history and tradition of pro-ducing some of the world’s finest political, humanitarian and busi-ness leaders. According to national statistics provided by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, since 1910, 85 percent of Supreme Court Justices have been fraternity or soror-ity members. Seventy-six percent of U.S. senators were fraternity or sorority members. All but two presi-dents since 1825 have been frater-nity members. Of our nation’s 50 largest corporations, 43 are headed by fraternity or sorority members. Greeks contribute approximately 10 million hours of service annually, making it one of the largest networks of volunteers.

Dr. Linus Pauling, the only man to have ever won two Nobel Prizes, lived in a fraternity at OSU as a freshman, as did OSU’s only Heisman winner, Terry Baker. Mercedes Bates, better known as Betty Crocker, is a member of a sorority from OSU.

According to the “Oregon Stater” publication from spring of 2010, Greeks are twice as likely than other alumni to give back to their alma mater. That fact seems to address the First Year Experience “effort to increase the likelihood of freshmen connecting to the university.”

These facts are no coincidence. Greek life has an immensely posi-tive impact upon its members for life. They should be allowed excep-tion from a program which will have crippling affects on all these organizations.

The editorial notes, “We’re just worried the exception to the First Year Experience program might lead easily-influenced freshmen down a path they would have otherwise steered clear of.” I contend these students won’t seek Greek life just to get out of the dorms unless they view dorms as an inferior product, and of course their parents agree. It will not influence those to join an organization they don’t truly desire to associate with. The exception is for those who wish to be members in Greek life, allowing the freedom to live in their chosen chapter houses.

mAtthEw shEEtsSenior in political science

Don’t lump all Greeks togetherAlthough I’m sure you’re already

receiving comments in response to your recent article about Greek life being an exception to the first year housing, I need to voice my own personal disgust. First of all, if you have to proactively apologize for “lumping all sororities and fraterni-ties into a group” then don’t do it. I’ve heard generalizations about Greek life, but this is an all-time low. First of all, sororities have minimum GPA requirements and the members are held to these standards. We (I’m a proud Alpha Chi Omega) also put in over four hours of study tables a week. I also chose to move into the sorority house winter term of my freshman year, and received a 4.0 that term. Aside from academics, we have community service require-ments, participate in philanthropies and volunteer around the com-munity. I’d love to know what the members of The Daily Barometer are doing around campus other than writing negative articles about other groups on campus.

None of your statistics or research comes from Oregon State University. While I’m sure there are some Greek houses in this nation that don’t care about their standards, Oregon State does. As a member of Alpha Chi Omega, I was one of the girls who lost their sisters to suicide last spring. This suicide had nothing to do with alcohol, contrary to popular belief, as Lauren did not drink. When Lauren passed away, the support of the entire Greek community was unbelievable. If you think that we are all binge-drinking hoodlums, you obviously haven’t been lucky enough to be involved in Greek life with the rest of us. I hope you quickly real-ize how ignorant this editorial was. Please don’t ruin this opportunity for the incoming freshman, because it is absolutely not your decision to make.

EmmA woodruff

Marketing student

I’m sure we have all heard of the “So God Made a Farmer” commercial during the Super

Bowl. Many would argue it was a great representation of the daily struggles and lifestyle of farmers in the United States. To others, it showed a lifestyle that perhaps they did not compre-hend. The goal of those who put it on was achieved: It got people to think and — even if briefly — recognize and appreciate the day-to-day struggles farmers face. This is one way agri-culturalists are bringing agriculture to the general populace, through television.

Today, there are more communica-tion mediums than ever before. The Internet, social media, television and other sources are growing markets for advertising. To expand agricultural education, agriculturalists will have to use all these forms to reach their audiences.

Is it up to agriculturalists to garner interest in agriculture, and therefore spur people’s interest in learning about the industry, or should agri-cultural education already be part of our curriculum? Anyone from a smaller school would have experi-enced agriculture as part of their cur-riculum. Considering the importance of agriculture in smaller communities where agricultural activities spur the economy, as well as through orga-nizations such as FFA or 4-H, these organizations heavily advocate for students to join.

However, budgets cuts often threat-en these vocational agriculture pro-grams, as they did in my town. Twice it went up for a vote for whether my town should keep the agriculture program. Twice, the voters rendered it important enough to keep.

Budget cuts affect education in many ways, but when we come to budget shortfalls, why is edu-cation cut at all? When education funds are cut it puts more strain on schools statewide, and indeed even more so on smaller schools. When this occurs, vocational agriculture courses come to the chopping block. This in turn hurts current students within these agriculture programs, and prevents future students from having the opportunity to learn about agriculture.

So then how do we educate the populace about agriculture? With the economy still in a pit and with the possibility of more budget cuts looming, can schools afford to have vocational agriculture classes, or will they cut them? If they are cut, how do we educate people?

This brings up an interesting ques-tion: Why should those in large urban

centers not be educated about agri-cultural practices?

There is a level of discontent between urban voters and rural vot-ers. The urban voters outnumber the rural voters, and sometimes vote on a subject they know little about — such as wolf re-introduction or manage-ment. This leaves the rural voters feeling infuriated, and among other things, misrepresented. This may be due in part to a lack of education about subjects that affect agricul-ture. Agriculturalists can change this by adapting new com-munication medi-ums to educate voters and teach-ing them about agriculture.

I think agricul-turalists should adopt new com-munication medi-ums to help relate the importance of agriculture and to expand the con-sumer’s mind of what agriculture is exactly. Grade schools and high schools — regardless of population size — should integrate vocational agriculture programs, and when bud-get cuts come from Salem, fight to keep such programs alive. They may meet resistance at first — there will be people who say they do not care

— but, over time, I would believe the support for such programs would only increase.

Agricultural education goes beyond grade school and high school. I would advocate for any student even some-what interested in agriculture to take a class within the college.

There are agricultural classes that fill baccalaureate core requirements. The College of Agriculture is more than just classes labeled, “AG.” It involves geography, geology, fisheries

and wildlife, botany, animal sciences, crop science, crop and soils sciences, rangeland sciences, biological and eco-logical engineering, plant pathology, entomology, toxicol-ogy and many more.

Within the College of Agriculture, you can find a class that sounds interesting to you. It may lead to a new passion, or it may just help you become more edu-

cated on something you may know little about, and didn’t get the chance to appreciate when you were younger.

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Tyler Pike is a junior in agricultural sciences. the opin-ions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Barometer staff. pike can be reached at [email protected].

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simple enough to install, and it could make a huge difference, especially if it saves your life.

Landlords are only required to install carbon monoxide detectors if a “dwell-ing unit” has a carbon monoxide source located within the unit, the structure containing the unit or if the room with the source of monoxide is “located by a door, ductwork or a ventilation shaft,” according to ORS 90.316.

If you live in a house or apartment with a carbon monoxide source and don’t have an alarm, we strongly urge you to talk to your landlord.

House Bill 3450 defines “carbon mon-oxide source” as “a heater, fireplace or cooking source that uses coal, kerosene, petroleum products, wood or other fuels that emit carbon monoxide as a by-product of combustion.” As defined in Division 47, “Petroleum products include, but are not limited to, kerosene, natural gas or propane.”

Carbon monoxide poisoning increas-es during the winter months because we use heaters more often, we let cars idle, we close off the outside — which decreases ventilation — and we bundle up in the evening and let our heat source run through the night.

When carbon monoxide is absorbed into the bloodstream it displaces oxygen and, eventually, can cause permanent brain damage and death. It’s sometimes referred to as “the silent killer” because it’s a poisonous, colorless, tasteless and odorless gas that can creep up unde-tected by humans. This is why it is so important to have a carbon monoxide alarm.

Carbon monoxide kills more than 200 people each year and thousands more develop symptoms requiring them to seek medical attention, according to the Boston Children’s Hospital webpage.

In April 2004, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parents were found dead in their home. They died of carbon monoxide poi-soning. Yankovic’s parents had started a fire in their fireplace with the flue closed, according to Yankovic’s personal message to the world. In his message Yankovic asks, “Please, go out and get carbon monoxide detectors for yourself and your loved ones.”

This is not meant to start a panic. We only wish to bring awareness to our fel-low peers, Oregon State staff members and the Corvallis community.

Installing a carbon monoxide detec-tor or alarm is a preventative measure worth taking. It might mean spending a few less days eating out this month, or taking a weekend off from drinking. We understand financial struggles, but when it comes to priorities, our health should always be at the top of the list.

If you’re living with a carbon monox-ide source and you don’t have an alarm, it might not cost you anything more than time. Ask your landlord about installing a detector, or contact the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal, which worked to develop the minimum standards of carbon monoxide alarms, for more information at 503-378-3473.

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Starting five High School VarsityBrad Halberg Lake Oswego ‘09 0Will Storey Lake Oswego ‘10 0Alex MacLean Lake Oswego ‘10 2Michael Brady Lake Oswego ‘09 3Connor Hamlett Meadowdale ‘10 2

The MinoTaurs are essentially the old Lambda Chi team, which won the All-U championship last year and finished second two years ago, minus Tito Garcia (go-to scorer) and Michael Smith (extremely athletic), plus Connor Hamlett (6-foot-7, OSU football player) and Will Storey and Jack Lomax (former OSU football players). We’ll call that an even trade off, considering Hamlett averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds as a senior in high school.

Starting five High School Varsity Kevin Jarvis Crescent Valley 3Mark Sandoz The Dalles 3Nathan Rooney Mt. View 4Dylan Wile South Eugene 2Tommy Bain Philomath 2

Fantasy Factory has a great starting five but no bench to speak of. Literally, they don’t have any players coming off the bench, and could struggle in the later rounds of the playoffs because of that. With one or two solid bench players Fantasy Factory easily could have cracked the top three. Their lineup is a traditional one with a quick point guard (Kevin Jarvis) who can shoot, a small forward (Mark Sandoz) who is their best player and constantly slashes for layups, and both bigs are good on both ends of the court.

Starting five High School VarsityBrandon Blair Sprague ‘09 3Sam Nelson David Douglas ‘09 0Tyler Hagan El Segundo ‘10 4Tyler Maes David Douglas ‘10 3Chris Evola Westview ‘08 0

The highest scoring team in all of IMs, Yeeders eclipsed 70 points three times in four games. Blair can stroke it from the perimeter, Evola grabs every rebound in his vicinity and throws outlet passes like he’s Kevin Love, and Hagan… wait a second, according to the official Whittier College athletics website, a Tyler Hagan from Segundo, Calif., played in 15 games last year for the Poets, a Division III team in Los Angeles. We believe that makes him ineligible for IMs.

Starting five High School VarsityMichael Levos North Medford ‘10 3Ravi Patel Sweet Home ‘05 3Josh Makepeace North Valley ‘06 4Matt Triplett Canby ‘08 1Nate DuFresne Beaverton ‘09 3

We made fun of #getnbuckets’ team name earlier this term, but they really do get buckets. They outscored their opponents 253-110 in the regular season. In their last game, an 82-17 win, they held their opponent scoreless until the 6:14 mark of the first half. They’re also so hotheaded and competitive that they complained about calls late in the second half when they were up by 50-plus points, so don’t expect them to take it easy and lose to a team they shouldn’t.

Starting five High School VarsityChris Cook St. Louis ‘09 2Robert Phillips III Jesuit ‘09 3Vince Hicks La Salle ‘08 3Damien Evans Philomath ‘05 2Taylor Knoth La Salle ‘09 1

Money Team might only be fourth in our power rankings, but they have a legitimate shot at winning the championship. This team’s a lot like the Houston Rockets. They love to run and put a ton of points up. Cook is as quick as anybody and Phillips III has pos-sibly the best all-around game in IMs this year. They have size down low, so Money Team theoretically matches up with any team out there. Now throw in the fact that all five players on the court are above-average shooters from 3-point range and you’ve got a contender.

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Nick halberg, Will storey, connor hamlett, alex maclean, Brad halberg, michael Brady, Jack lomax.


John tommasini, chris seibel, andre aicher, tyler lewis, conor roark, alex Fox, coach Johnny hekker.


Jordan makepeace, michael levos, ravi patel, Josh makepeace, Nate DuFresne, Brett leavitt, matt triplett, Jake Fowler.


chris cook, Damien evans, Blaine Galloway, robert phillips iii, taylor Knoth, Vince hicks, Willie Novak.


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No. 1 mInotaurs

No. 5 Fantasy Factory

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Men’s “A” Intramural Power Rankings

This year Grady Garrett and Andrew Kilstrom scouted the entirety of the Men’s “A” intramural basketball. After four weeks, we’ve narrowed our power rankings down to 25, with the top 10 receiving analysis. Here are the top teams going into the playoffs. The bracket will come out later this week, with games beginning on Sunday. If you have any

questions or complaints hit us up on twitter (@gradygarrett, @AndrewKilstrom.)

Top 251. The MinoTaurs (4-0)2. #getnbuckets (4-0)3. Yeeders (4-0)4. Money Team (4-0)5. Scrubz (4-0)6. Fantasy Factory (4-0)7. Cheeseballs (4-0)8. Honey Badgers (4-0)9. Charge it to the Game Part II (4-0)

10. SAE A Team 1 (4-0)11. Lambda Chi (3-1)12. Lillard Time (4-0)13. Flint Tropics (2-2)14. Sig Ep (3-1)15. East County (3-1)16. Sabonis’ Massage (3-1)17. J’s for Dayz (4-0)18. Curry County +1 (3-1)

Starting five High School VarsityTaylor Reynolds Bend ‘09 2Zach Reynolds Bend ‘09 2Nate Seaholm Tillamook ‘10 3Daniel Gienger Tillamook ‘09 3Blaine Kuehnert Tillamook ‘09 3

The Cheeseballs, who cruised through a weak time slot, don’t have any individual stars you have to worry about, but there’s something to be said about teams that have good chemistry and play together. IM games so often resemble games of pick-up basketball rather than organized bas-ketball. Considering so many of the Cheeseballs played together in high school, including two twins who have probably played together their whole lives, we imagine this team will have a chemistry advantage over nearly any team they’ll face.

Starting five High School VarsityAndre Aicher South Salem ‘08 2Connor Roark South Salem ‘09 2John Tommasini Roseburg ‘07 2Tyler Lewis West Salem ‘07 2Thomas Ghost-Dog Burns ‘08 4

The Scrubz played in a joke of a time slot, but we still think they’re pretty legit (average margin of victory: 24.5 points). Aicher is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover; he doesn’t look like a baller, but he’ll light you up from deep. You may recognize Tommasini because he’s a former OSU baseball player. And yes, Thomas’ last name really is Ghost Dog; we know because we found an article about him playing in a high school all-star game, so he obviously wasn’t lying about his varsity expe-rience either.

Starting five High School VarsityJeff Garmire Mt. View 2Trevor Tatone Canby 2Grant Patton Lake Oswego 2Kyle Shick Sunset 1Rick Bettinelli Tualitin 0

These guys could be really good if they played their best players more minutes. Charge it to the Game Part II has had as many as ten players this year, and some are clearly better than others. Nonetheless, this team has a solid starting five and a couple of capable bench players. Garmire is as good as anyone in the league when he wants to be (trust me, he’s not always in the right state of mind if you know what I mean), and there’s a good mix of guards and bigs. Kunstel has solid post moves, but lacks physicality despite being 6-foot-4.

Starting five High School VarsityAndy Applebee Gladstone ‘09 3Aaron Petrous Gladstone ‘09 2 Aaron Sneed Gladstone ‘09 2Kyahn Daraee Southridge ‘09 2Miles Naughton Elgin ‘09 2

The Honey Badgers aren’t particularly tall, nor are they a particularly great shooting team, but they do have something most teams don’t: Possibly the best pure point guard in IMs in Applebee. He plays the game differently than most of the point guards we watched this term. He’s extremely quick and good with the ball and gets into the lane at will. We see that creating match-up problems for whoever the Honey Badgers face. We should note that the Honey Badgers are made up of Sigma Chi members, but aren’t recognized as an official Greek/co-op team.

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Starting five High School VarsityMichael Alessi Bishop Blanchet ‘12 2Reid Paulson Woodinville ‘11 1Ben Eggert Tigard ‘09 0Kevin Smith Redmond ‘07 3Erik Eagon Beaverton ‘11 1

SAE entered the final week of the season outside the top 10, ranked behind fellow Greek teams Lambda Chi and Sig Ep. The only somewhat decent team SAE played, Varsity A, they beat by two. But then Sig Ep (the tallest team in IMs) laid an egg in its regular-season finale, and Lambda Chi didn’t particularly impress us with a six-point win over a team that didn’t make the playoffs. So we’ll anoint SAE the favorite to emerge from the Greek/co-op bracket by default. A Greek/co-op team has won the All-U title five of the past six years, but we’ll be surprised if that trend continues.



Blaine Kuehnert, madison Boehm, Zach reynolds, Daniel Gienger, taylor reynolds, Nate seaholm.


Nathan rooney, Kevin Jarvis, Dylan Wile, tommy Bain, mark sandoz.

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Men’s “A” Intramural Power Rankings

This year Grady Garrett and Andrew Kilstrom scouted the entirety of the Men’s “A” intramural basketball. After four weeks, we’ve narrowed our power rankings down to 25, with the top 10 receiving analysis. Here are the top teams going into the playoffs. The bracket will come out later this week, with games beginning on Sunday. If you have any

questions or complaints hit us up on twitter (@gradygarrett, @AndrewKilstrom.)

Top 2510. SAE A Team 1 (4-0)11. Lambda Chi (3-1)12. Lillard Time (4-0)13. Flint Tropics (2-2)14. Sig Ep (3-1)15. East County (3-1)16. Sabonis’ Massage (3-1)17. J’s for Dayz (4-0)18. Curry County +1 (3-1)

19. Moharebeens (3-1)20. Polyester (2-2)21. Lazy Sunday (4-0)22. Alpha Wolf Squadron (4-0) 23. ABC Cookie Monsters (4-0)24. Babbitt’s Ballers (3-1)25. Richie Rich & Dixie Chicks (4-0)

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1. Soccer Junies (4-0)I’ll set the Soccer Junies’ odds of win-

ning the championship at 3/8. For those unfamiliar with gambling lingo, that means they’re four times likelier to win the wom-en’s A title than the Miami Heat are to win the NBA title (3/2 odds).

Essentially, this same group of current/former OSU women’s soccer players won the A league two years ago and finished second last season. Unlike the Division I athletes who play in the men’s A league, these girls actually take this seriously and play like they want to win. And they’re in five times better shape than any team they’ll face — while half the women’s “A” league is probably hungover on Friday mornings, most of these girls are up at 6 a.m. going through grueling workouts.

Basketball-wise, they’re obviously tough to score on because they’re so quick and athletic. At 5-foot-10, Erin Uchacz gives them size inside. If Jacy Drobney, a four-year varsity player in high school, was four inches taller, I think she’d be playing Division I basketball instead of Division I soccer — she can really shoot and handle the ball. Ashley Seal played varsity ball, too.

All that said, I would have put the OSU

women’s soccer team’s odds of making the NCAA Tournament at about 90 percent after it started the season 9-1. So, uhhh, yeah… nothing is guaranteed.

2. Let My People Free Throw (4-0)If there is a team capable of knocking off

the Soccer Junies, it’s Let My People Free Throw. Playing in by far the toughest time slot, Let My People Free Throw went 4-0 and averaged a league-high 44 points per game (by comparison, the Soccer Junies averaged 34.5 points per game).

Pretty much everyone on this team played at least two years of varsity bas-ketball in high school, so they’re probably overall better basketball players than the Soccer Junies are.

But for what it’s worth, I asked a player who faced the Soccer Junies last year and Let My People Free Throw this year which team was better: “The soccer girls, definitely.”

To be honest, I think it’s a two-team race for the title… but I’ll at least label the follow-ing teams “potential contenders.”

• High Fives and Smiles (2-2): This team features three girls who were on the team

that beat the soccer girls in the champion-ship game last year. But this team has a glar-ing problem: It doesn’t have enough players. Twice this season High Fives and Smiles was forced to play with just four players. I asked one of their players if they’ll have five players for the playoffs, and she responded: “I don’t know… I don’t really care.” OK then.

• Kappa Kappa Gamma (2-2): The Kappas lost by six to Let My People Free Throw (respectable) and beat High Fives and Smiles (playing with four players) by 21. Their other loss came in overtime, and was a game they would have won had their opponent not hit a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation.

• Charisites (3-1): In their three wins, the Charisites outscored their opponents 130-44. But against the Soccer Junies, they lost by 24.

• Alpha Phi (4-0): Three of their four wins came by three points or less. So they’re kind of a fluky 4-0.

• Delta Gamma (2-2): The DG’s only real loss was by three to Alpha Phi. Their other loss came via forfeit.

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What to expect, how to act in IM playoffsA few weeks back I wrote

a column essentially ripping people that

took intramural basketball at Oregon State too seriously. Since then, people’s behavior has seemingly improved — if only slightly. There were still be some fights and technical fouls, but overall the sportsmanship was marginally better.

Still, with IM playoffs right around the corner, I think it’s necessary I remind everybody what to expect and how they should conduct themselves in what are notoriously rowdy games.

Similar to the last column, this is advice for how to act whether you’re on the court or in the stands.

1. Be ready for an entirely dif-ferent level of intensity

Remember how fun high school basketball games were? If you went to a bigger school and either played in or attended home games, you know how fun they can be. The student section at basketball games was the best of any sport. The fans are mere feet from the action and can do any amount of heckling. Love it or hate it, there were always the “You got swatted” and “air ball” chants. I especially loved when the student section would single out one player in particular and make his life miserable.

Believe it or not, IM games are pretty similar. You know the bench on the near sideline of Court one at Dixon? That thing

is going to be packed and over-flowing into the hallways with spectators. Greek Life, espe-cially, goes all out to support their house teams when they go far in the playoffs. Greek Life almost always has some of the best teams and their fan base makes IMs 10 times bet-ter. Some might say it’s stupid or childish, but it’s really a fun atmosphere if you just embrace it for what it is.

2. Don’t go overboardWhile the atmosphere will be

as electric as an IM atmosphere can get, remember that it is just that — intramural basketball. With a lot of people generally present, the games feel impor-tant. But please understand that it’s still an IM game and not the state finals. The glory days of high school are long gone. No one’s going to impress head coach Craig Robinson enough to get a walk-on spot — well maybe you will, after OSU’s awful 13-15 season. But seri-ously, unless you’re playing a sport at OSU, your days as an ‘athlete’ are pretty much over.

You know the guy that’s obsessed with his high school accomplishments and makes a point to belligerently tell you

about this one time in some high school game no one cares about at a party? Those are usually the guys that end up getting thrown out of IM playoff games for fighting or some other form of testosterone explosion. Calm down. Is hitting that player or spitting in a referee’s face really worth it? Don’t be that guy. Please.

3. Behave as fansThis mostly applies to Greek

Life because they have by far the most fans presents at games — but this applies to everyone. IMs are far more fun when there are fans rooting for their team and heckling the opposition. All of the digs at players for their play, attire or behavior are more than acceptable — in fact, it’s encour-aged. Just remember what I said for number two. Don’t go overboard with it. Don’t scream unjustified obscenities and don’t attack players in unnecessary

ways. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all yelled some-thing at an OSU football or bas-ketball game that was probably questionable at best.

This goes for comments toward the referees as well. Remember, they are our peers and they’re doing their best. They have no rooting inter-est and aren’t rigging things like some will accuse them of. The “get off your knees ref, you’re blowing the game!” jab is unoriginal and stupid. Don’t yell those kinds of things at the innocent refs. No one thinks your funny and no one wants to be berated for no reason.

But I like what I’ve seen in the last two weeks, keep up the good work. Good luck in playoffs and may the best team win.

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“If people feel Hagel makes a mistake in the future, they will come after him even harder than if this ugly process of recent weeks hadn’t happened,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fel-low at the Brookings Institution and a co-author of “Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy.”

The former Nebraska senator’s nom-ination as defense secretary was sub-ject to harsh criticism from some fellow Republicans over past statements on sensitive political and national security matters.

His shaky performance at his con-firmation hearing and the subsequent fierce political wrangling over his selec-tion and on unrelated matters did not help his case.

But efforts to further delay his nomi-nation were swept away on Tuesday as the Senate confirmed him, 58-41, with a handful of Republican votes in his corner. Hagel will be sworn in on Wednesday, succeeding Leon Panetta.

President Barack Obama, a former Senate colleague, called Hagel a patriot who “fought and bled for our country.”

Obama said he will count on Hagel’s “counsel and judgment” as the United States ends combat operations in Afghanistan and stays “ready to meet the threats of our time.”

The task for Hagel, 66, going forward is to swiftly move past the protracted nomination battle, prove himself a strong and capable Pentagon chief, and repair relationships on Capitol Hill, said Fran Townsend, a former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.

“Of course, when he walks through the door he is bruised and battered. But I think we shouldn’t overestimate the impact of that,” Townsend said. “Frankly, once he is confirmed as sec-retary of defense and once he sits in the seat and takes on the mantle of respon-sibility, everyone in the Pentagon is going to stand up and salute smartly, as well they should.”

Hagel, a decorated Vietnam vet-eran, said in a statement that he was honored to have been nominated and confirmed, and pledged to work closely with Congress to “ensure that we maintain the strongest military in the world.”

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O’Hanlon said Hagel would not “be damaged goods” and the politi-cal outcry over his nomination would

quickly be overshadowed by the latest budget drama engulfing Washington over spending cuts, which would hit the Pentagon hard, if enacted.

Bad feelings about Hagel stem, in part, from his 2007 comments that the “Jewish lobby intimidated lawmakers.” Republicans who are already uncom-fortable with Obama’s policies toward Israel are uneasy about a defense sec-retary holding such views.

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, said in a state-ment that Israel “looks forward to working closely” with Hagel.

Hagel’s criticism of the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, and his past positions on Iran and on U.S. military intervention also raised red flags with his opponents.

Moreover, he spoke about an ambas-sadorial nominee in the late 1990s as being “openly, ggressively gay,” remarks for which he has since apologized. Obama ended the prohibition on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.

And Hagel hasn’t been sparing in his criticism of conservative and GOP figures, saying radio show hosts like Rush Limbaugh “try to rip everybody down” but “don’t have any answers,” and labeling George W. Bush as callous on Iraq when he was president.

Last week, 15 GOP senators sent a letter to Obama calling on him to withdraw Hagel’s nomination.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the rank-

ing Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a fierce Hagel critic, did not sign the letter. But he led the charge against him in the Senate, stalling the nomination at one point in exchange for more information from the White House on the deadly September terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

That sentiment gained traction in conservative circles.

“There is simply no way to sugar coat it. Senator Hagel’s performance before the Senate Armed Services Committee was remarkably inept and we should not be installing a defense secretary who is obviously not quali-fied for the job and who holds danger-ously misguided views on some of the most important issues facing national security policy for our country,” said Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.

There was a healthy serving of poli-tics behind the Hagel pushback, some experts say. He isn’t the only potential member of Obama’s first or second-term Cabinet to be grilled during the nomination process.

At the start of his first term, Obama’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, emerged from a tough confirmation fight in the wake of recession to help push through Wall Street reform as well as the banking and auto industry rescues. His successor, Jack Lew, is expected to be confirmed.

Some Republicans also believed

that Hagel, like Susan Rice, was vulner-able in a divided political climate in Washington made more sharply parti-san by Obama’s re-election, according to experts.

Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of state after drawing heavy criticism from McCain and other Republicans over her public statements about the Benghazi attack.

Democratic supporters of Hagel came to his defense this week as the vote drew near.

“The president wants him in the room as he’s making important deci-sions. There’s no question about his integrity of character. I think the presi-dent deserves to have the Cabinet he wants as long as the person is quali-fied,” Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The consternation over Hagel’s con-firmation has been “kabuki theater,” said David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

“The political divisions that dictated the pace and twists of his confirmation process pre-date him and will post-date his confirmation,” Rothkopf said. “The reality is that Hagel won’t drive (defense) policy, the president and Hill politics will.”

And time will heal even these politi-cal wounds, Rothkopf said.

Hagel confirmed as U.S. defense secretary, bruised after political fight

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration is moving toward increasing aid to the Syrian opposition, including providing nonlethal military equipment and pos-sibly strategic military training, sources told CNN Tuesday.

The changes are under dis-

cussion with allies as well, as part Secretary of State John Kerry’s meetings this week in Europe, a senior administration official said.

The sources said the United States is not considering pro-viding weapons.

The administration is also

moving toward giving humani-tarian aid directly to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the offi-cial said, adding that this was already happening in limited amounts.

The consideration was first reported on Tuesday by The Washington Post.

The United States is also looking to remove restrictions on “dual-use” equipment, such as those involving communica-tions, body armor, flak jackets, night-vision equipment and military vehicles, according to another source familiar with the policy discussions.

Such items are defensive in nature, but they could be used to aid in combat. The training would be intended to help rebels allocate resources and set objectives, strategize and possibly train a potential police force, the source said.

“They are doing a redefi-

nition of what is lethal,” the source said. “They have been working on this for a while.”

The source said the United States is also helping the new Syrian government in exile get on its feet by developing gov-ernment institutions, strategic communications and outreach.

US weighing nonlethal aid to Syrian opposition, sources say still ruling out giving weapons to rebels

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