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n Experiment treats male snakes with estrogen, males produce female pheromones By McKinley Smith THE DAILY BAROMETER Among the crevices of Manitoba, Canada and a roiling mass of mating garter snakes, scientists at Oregon State University verified the link between hormones and pheromones. “The question for the start of this experiment was, ‘What was the cue, what’s the physiological cue or the trigger, to cause the production of pheromones?’” said Robert Mason, zoologist and chairman of the biol- ogy program at OSU. “We suspected it might have to do with estrogen, so now we verified that. And we’ve also seen that it’s not just estrogen, but the dose of estrogen.” What a snake sees from his low vantage point on the ground is what Mason likens to a mass of “living spa- ghetti.” A male snake would have a hard time finding the Juliet to his Romeo from sight, so he relies on his tongue. As snakes move, they leave bits of themselves everywhere, much like how humans leave fingerprints. These leavings are lipids that con- tain pheromones, “odor cues,” that other snakes sense by flicking their tongues. Snakes just follow the yellow brick road of lipids and pheromones, flick- ing their tongues against the bodies of other garter snakes to determine their sex and whether they should extend an invitation of love. Mason and his team wondered if male snakes treated with estrogen would produce the same pheromone as female garter snakes, consequent- ly attracting their fellow male snakes. To do this, Mason’s group used a silastic implant to deliver estrogen to male snakes over the winter before mating season. “So what [a silastic implant] is, is a time release capsule that lasts for eight months. So we gave them a steady dose of estrogen for eight months,” Mason said. After these snakes were released, Mason’s team watched and observed what happened. Mason describes it as a “nail-biting experiment,” the results of which were “so dramatic.” The treated male snakes entered the writhing mass of garter snakes and began their search for females, but were beset by besotted males. “It turns out we made these males smell like very large females, so they were very attractive,” Mason said. “They were actually just as attractive; they were more attractive than other males; they were more attractive than small females.” Another question remained: Would the male garter snakes treated with estrogen be doomed to embarrassing misunderstandings? According to Mason, the estrogen hormone given to the male garter snakes only activated some female characteristics; it didn’t change the males into females. The next season, the male garter snakes were back to normal. “Garter snakes, like most snakes and lizards, are incredibly good at using chemical information to make decisions,” said Rocky Parker, a post- doctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center who worked with Mason on the project. “The red-sided garter snake is a model vertebrate for studying how chemical cues facilitate reproduction, especially since this snake uses the female sex pheromone to distinguish the spe- cies, sex, age, reproductive condition, and even population of other snakes using a single tongue-flick. That is an impressive level of precision.” Research on the function and effect of steroid hormones, such as testos- terone and estrogen, in snakes can be applied to a better understanding of human hormones and pheromones. “Garter snakes produce the exact — not similar — the exact same estrogen you produce. The males are producing testosterone that’s exactly Barometer The Daily THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331 DAILYBAROMETER.COM VOLUME CXV, NUMBER 97 PAGE 8 WRESTLING: Eight qualify for NCAA Championships. SPORTS 8 – Men beat WSU 8 – Updated men’s bracket DIVERSIONS 5 – Interview with singer Halie Loren FORUM 4 – SEC construction approval finally approved, important step HANNAH GUSTIN | THE DAILY BAROMETER Shivangi Agrawal, pictured above in the Memorial Union Lounge, has found ways to become involved at OSU. KYEUNG BUM KIM | THE DAILY BAROMETER Joseph Levy concentrates on a map of Antarctica, where his research has led him to discoveries about of the soil. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO | COURTESY OF C.R. FRIESEN Snakes rely on their tongues to find their partners. Visually speaking, snakes look like “living spaghetti” to other snakes. From fitting in to rising above Joint meeting ends early, accomplishes nothing n Joint meeting to approve budgets begins, only to end once quorum wasn’t met By Don Iler THE DAILY BAROMETER Last night’s Joint Session of the Associated Students of Oregon State University House and Senate ended after voting on only four budgets, once senators realized the House of Representatives did not have quorum to hold the meeting. The meeting had been going on for more than an hour. The legislature was to approve bud- gets from the Student Incidental Fee Committee as part of their respon- sibility of approving student fee budgets. It was decided to adjourn the meet- ing even after a proxy member was found and sworn in to bring the house to quorum. However, there were ethi- cal concerns raised about voting on n International student Shivagni Agrawal shares her realization that being different isn’t necessarily a bad thing By Martin Forde THE DAILY BAROMETER Freshman Shivangi Agrawal is not a morn- ing person, she goes to class every day and is occasionally late. She swims at Dixon, does her homework and cooks her own meals, just as most Oregon State University students do. But Agrawal is forced to live with some- thing most students aren’t — congenital birth defects. “Basically, I don’t have knees. Where nor- mal people have their knees, that’s where it ends. I also have three fingers on each hand,” Agrawal said. While these birth defect don’t do much other than affect her mobility, many people, particularly when she was home in India, have trouble coming to terms with Agrawal’s impairments. “Whenever I used to walk in the street, people used to stare at me, or point at me. I just wanted to be a face in the crowd,” Agrawal said. “It’s not my fault — I just wanted to be normal.” The social stigma that existed in her home town was partially responsible for Shivangi’s move to the United States. Originally from New Delhi, India’s capital city, Agrawal moved to the United States in August. Notwithstanding not being acquaint- ed to a single person upon her arrival to Oregon, and having to pay the heavy cost of an international student, Agrawal seems to have adapted quite comfortably to American college life. “I feel like I belong here,” she said. When asked what she thinks of OSU, Agawal said, “People here are so nice. Over here, peo- ple don’t even look at me the second time and I am just a face in the crowd,” she said. “Over here, people really make you aware of your identity. In India, we didn’t have any clubs, or cultural centers, or anything like that.” Agrawal feels the OSU community is diverse and tight-knit compared to India, where “if you were a minority, you would just be a minority. People wouldn’t listen to you.” Agrawal has chosen to take full advantage of all the opportunities presented to her at OSU. She recently received a job at the Valley Library at the information desk and has been involved at the Women’s Center. She is also an active member of the Able Student Alliance, which aims for better cam- pus accessibility. Despite making such a seamless transition in attending college halfway across the world, Agrawal is no stranger to adversity and dif- ficulties in her life. “I used to feel like people didn’t include me in things,” she said. “It was pretty hard to deal with. I used to think that it was karma, and that I deserved to feel like that: to feel left out and that I wasn’t supposed to be happy Soil salt in Antarctica found to store water molecules OSU scientists explain how to make snakes sexy n Scientists hope to discover whether there are organisms living in Antarctic soil By Michael Mendes THE DAILY BAROMETER Scientists have discovered a new effect of salt-filled soils in Antarctica: the trapping and storage of water molecules. A study of Antarctica’s rare patches of non-icy land has revealed moist patches in areas that don’t have snow melt. Samples from the McMurdo Dry Valleys were taken to a lab for confirmation, and the results were replicated: the salt in the soil was tak- ing in water vapor from the air. “Normally, any snow would sub- limate away and no water would go into the ground,” said Joseph Levy, author on the study and post-doc- toral research associate with Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Sublimation refers to the direct transition of water from solid snow to water vapor, without passing through the liquid phase first, which happens due to the low-humidity conditions of the region. One simple experiment to sup- port this consists of drying out the soil sample and placing it in a closed container at room temperature, with some liquid water in the same con- tainer, but separate from the soil. The soil will become moist and briny despite having no contact with the standing water. “When you have water moving through the soil and it evaporates, it leaves behind salt,” said Andrew Fountain, professor of geology at Portland State University and an See ANTARCTICA|page 3 See SNAKES|page 3 See RISING|page 6 See JOINT SESSION|page 6
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n Experiment treats male snakes with estrogen, males produce female pheromones
By McKinley SmithThe Daily BaromeTer
Among the crevices of Manitoba, Canada and a roiling mass of mating garter snakes, scientists at Oregon State University verified the link between hormones and pheromones.
“The question for the start of this experiment was, ‘What was the cue, what’s the physiological cue or the trigger, to cause the production of pheromones?’” said Robert Mason, zoologist and chairman of the biol-ogy program at OSU. “We suspected it might have to do with estrogen, so now we verified that. And we’ve also seen that it’s not just estrogen, but the dose of estrogen.”
What a snake sees from his low vantage point on the ground is what Mason likens to a mass of “living spa-ghetti.” A male snake would have a hard time finding the Juliet to his Romeo from sight, so he relies on his tongue.
As snakes move, they leave bits of themselves everywhere, much like how humans leave fingerprints. These leavings are lipids that con-tain pheromones, “odor cues,” that other snakes sense by flicking their tongues.
Snakes just follow the yellow brick road of lipids and pheromones, flick-ing their tongues against the bodies of other garter snakes to determine their sex and whether they should extend an invitation of love.
Mason and his team wondered if male snakes treated with estrogen would produce the same pheromone as female garter snakes, consequent-ly attracting their fellow male snakes.
To do this, Mason’s group used a silastic implant to deliver estrogen to male snakes over the winter before mating season.
“So what [a silastic implant] is, is a time release capsule that lasts
for eight months. So we gave them a steady dose of estrogen for eight months,” Mason said.
After these snakes were released, Mason’s team watched and observed what happened. Mason describes it as a “nail-biting experiment,” the results of which were “so dramatic.”
The treated male snakes entered the writhing mass of garter snakes and began their search for females, but were beset by besotted males.
“It turns out we made these males smell like very large females, so they were very attractive,” Mason said. “They were actually just as attractive; they were more attractive than other males; they were more attractive than small females.”
Another question remained: Would the male garter snakes treated with estrogen be doomed to embarrassing misunderstandings?
According to Mason, the estrogen hormone given to the male garter snakes only activated some female characteristics; it didn’t change the males into females.
The next season, the male garter snakes were back to normal.
“Garter snakes, like most snakes and lizards, are incredibly good at using chemical information to make decisions,” said Rocky Parker, a post-doctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center who worked with Mason on the project. “The red-sided garter snake is a model vertebrate for studying how chemical cues facilitate reproduction, especially since this snake uses the female sex pheromone to distinguish the spe-cies, sex, age, reproductive condition, and even population of other snakes using a single tongue-flick. That is an impressive level of precision.”
Research on the function and effect of steroid hormones, such as testos-terone and estrogen, in snakes can be applied to a better understanding of human hormones and pheromones.
“Garter snakes produce the exact — not similar — the exact same estrogen you produce. The males are producing testosterone that’s exactly
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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITYCORVALLIS, OREGON 97331 DAILYBAROMETER.COM VOLUME CXV, NUMBER 97
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WRESTLING: Eight qualify for NCAA Championships.
SPORTS8 – Men beat WSU8 – Updated men’s bracket
DIVERSIONS5 – Interview with singer Halie Loren
FORUM4 – SEC construction approval finally approved, important step
HannaH GuStin | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Shivangi Agrawal, pictured above in the Memorial Union Lounge, has found ways to become involved at OSU.
KyeunG BuM KiM | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Joseph Levy concentrates on a map of Antarctica, where his research has led him to discoveries about of the soil.
contriButed pHoto | cOuRTEsY Of c.R. fRIEsEn
Snakes rely on their tongues to find their partners. Visually speaking, snakes look like “living spaghetti” to other snakes.
From fitting in to rising above Joint meeting ends early, accomplishes nothingn Joint meeting to approve
budgets begins, only to end once quorum wasn’t met
By don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer
Last night’s Joint Session of the Associated Students of Oregon State University House and Senate ended after voting on only four budgets, once senators realized the House of Representatives did not have quorum to hold the meeting.
The meeting had been going on for more than an hour.
The legislature was to approve bud-gets from the Student Incidental Fee Committee as part of their respon-sibility of approving student fee budgets.
It was decided to adjourn the meet-ing even after a proxy member was found and sworn in to bring the house to quorum. However, there were ethi-cal concerns raised about voting on
n International student Shivagni Agrawal shares her realization that being different isn’t necessarily a bad thing
By Martin FordeThe Daily BaromeTer
Freshman Shivangi Agrawal is not a morn-ing person, she goes to class every day and is occasionally late. She swims at Dixon, does her homework and cooks her own meals, just as most Oregon State University students do.
But Agrawal is forced to live with some-thing most students aren’t — congenital birth defects.
“Basically, I don’t have knees. Where nor-mal people have their knees, that’s where it ends. I also have three fingers on each hand,” Agrawal said.
While these birth defect don’t do much other than affect her mobility, many people, particularly when she was home in India, have trouble coming to terms with Agrawal’s impairments.
“Whenever I used to walk in the street, people used to stare at me, or point at me. I just wanted to be a face in the crowd,” Agrawal said. “It’s not my fault — I just wanted to be normal.”
The social stigma that existed in her home town was partially responsible for Shivangi’s move to the United States.
Originally from New Delhi, India’s capital city, Agrawal moved to the United States in August. Notwithstanding not being acquaint-
ed to a single person upon her arrival to Oregon, and having to pay the heavy cost of an international student, Agrawal seems to have adapted quite comfortably to American college life.
“I feel like I belong here,” she said.When asked what she thinks of OSU, Agawal
said, “People here are so nice. Over here, peo-ple don’t even look at me the second time and I am just a face in the crowd,” she said. “Over here, people really make you aware of your identity. In India, we didn’t have any clubs, or cultural centers, or anything like that.”
Agrawal feels the OSU community is diverse and tight-knit compared to India, where “if you were a minority, you would just be a minority. People wouldn’t listen to you.”
Agrawal has chosen to take full advantage of all the opportunities presented to her at OSU. She recently received a job at the Valley Library at the information desk and has been involved at the Women’s Center.
She is also an active member of the Able Student Alliance, which aims for better cam-pus accessibility.
Despite making such a seamless transition in attending college halfway across the world, Agrawal is no stranger to adversity and dif-ficulties in her life.
“I used to feel like people didn’t include me in things,” she said. “It was pretty hard to deal with. I used to think that it was karma, and that I deserved to feel like that: to feel left out and that I wasn’t supposed to be happy
Soil salt in Antarctica found to store water molecules
OSU scientists explain how to make snakes sexy
n Scientists hope to discover whether there are organisms living in Antarctic soil
By Michael MendesThe Daily BaromeTer
Scientists have discovered a new effect of salt-filled soils in Antarctica: the trapping and storage of water molecules.
A study of Antarctica’s rare patches of non-icy land has revealed moist patches in areas that don’t have snow melt. Samples from the McMurdo Dry Valleys were taken to a lab for confirmation, and the results were replicated: the salt in the soil was tak-ing in water vapor from the air.
“Normally, any snow would sub-limate away and no water would go into the ground,” said Joseph Levy, author on the study and post-doc-toral research associate with Oregon
State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.
Sublimation refers to the direct transition of water from solid snow to water vapor, without passing through the liquid phase first, which happens due to the low-humidity conditions of the region.
One simple experiment to sup-port this consists of drying out the soil sample and placing it in a closed container at room temperature, with some liquid water in the same con-tainer, but separate from the soil. The soil will become moist and briny despite having no contact with the standing water.
“When you have water moving through the soil and it evaporates, it leaves behind salt,” said Andrew Fountain, professor of geology at Portland State University and an
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CalendarThursday, Mar. 8MeetingsOSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111. Regular meeting.
College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 132. All are welcome no matter what beliefs or political party.
SpeakersCollege of Forestry, 3:30-5pm, 107 Richardson Hall. 2012 Starker Lecture Series - Watershed Moments: People, Forests & Water. “The Clean Water Act: Fundamentals and Effects on For-estry” - Dr. Jay O’Laughlin, Professor of Forestry and Policy Sciences and Direc-tor, Policy Analysis Group, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
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emergency relief chief met Wednesday in Syria with top government officials and visit-ed an area ravaged by weeks of government attacks, describ-ing it as devastated.
A spokeswoman for the U.N.’s Valerie Amos said Amos visited the Bab Amr neighbor-hood of Homs after meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.
“Valerie told me on the phone from Damascus this afternoon that the areas of Bab Amr that she saw were devas-tated,” said the spokeswom-an, Amanda Pitt of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in an e-mail to CNN.
Wednesday’s meeting with al-Moallem followed com-plaints by Amos that the Syrian government was refusing to let her into the country, where the regime has launched a bru-tal crackdown on a year-long uprising.
Amos and al-Moallem dis-cussed the aim of the U.N. officials’s visit, intended to gain access for humanitarian orga-nizations to areas affected by heavy fighting, Pitt said in an e-mail to CNN.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Amos entered Baba Amr along with a team from the Syrian Arab
Red Crescent. The visit lasted 45 minutes, ICRC spokesman Hicham Hassan said.
Amos’ visit came as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at the Syria government for the growing humanitarian crisis.
“The regime’s refusal to allow humanitarian workers to help feed the hungry, tend to the injured, (and) bury the dead marks a new low,” Clinton said in Washington D.C. “Tons of food and medicine are stand-ing by while more civilians die and the regime launches new assaults. This is unacceptable, and we agree completely with a great majority of the inter-national community. The regime must, as it promised last November, withdraw its forc-es, release political prisoners, permit peaceful protests and allow international journalists to do their jobs, which is to tell the truth.”
Syria, which blames the violence on “terrorists,” said on the state-run news agen-cy SANA that Amos “stressed respect for Syria’s sovereign-ty and rejection of using the humanitarian dimension for political purposes.”
Al-Moallem “stressed that the Syrian leadership is doing its best to provide the food-stuffs and medical care and services for all citizens despite
the burdens it faces because of the unfair sanctions imposed by some Arab and Western countries on Syria,” SANA reported.
In Syria, opposition activ-ists reported yet another day of widespread violence by the government.
At least 40 people were killed Wednesday, including seven children, one woman and two military recruits, accord-ing to the opposition Local Coordination Committees in Syria. The death toll included 26 people in Homs, seven in Idlib, two in the Aleppo suburb of Atareb, three in Daraa and two in Damascus suburbs, the group said.
SANA said 14 “army and law enforcement martyrs” were buried Wednesday.
Amos wanted to go to Homs and Bab Amr to see for her-self the impact of the fight-ing and lack of humanitarian access, and al-Moallem said she could go wherever she wanted, according to Pitt, the U.N. OCHA spokeswoman.
“Valerie said they tried to enter opposition-held areas in Homs but were not able to do so,” Pitt said in the e-mail to CNN. “Security was clearly an issue and they heard gunfire several times. She also said that Homs feels as though it has closed down; they saw very
few people around.”Amos will continue to try to
arrange humanitarian access with partners including the diplomatic community, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the ICRC, and perhaps the educa-tion and health ministers, Pitt said.
Clinton called on all coun-tries to come together to bring an end to the violence by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“It is past time for all Syrians to break with Assad and stand against this bloodshed,” she said.
Syrian authorities last week granted teams from the Red Cross and the Red Crescent permission to enter Baba Amr; but on Friday, the ambulances and aid workers carrying food and medical supplies were turned away.
Opposition activists in Homs say al-Assad’s regime had been trying to clean up evidence of a bloody massacre in Baba Amr before aid work-ers arrived.
On Wednesday, the Red Crescent team found that most of the people who had been living in Baba Amr had fled, according to the ICRC’s Hassan, who spoke to CNN from Geneva, Switzerland.
— CNN
‘Iran is not telling us everything,’ U.N. atomic agency chief saysIran is not open about its nuclear pro-
gram, but it should be, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday.
“Iran is not telling us everything. That is my impression. We are asking Iran to engage with us proactively, and Iran has a case to answer,” said Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Amano told CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance that Iran has declared a number of nuclear facili-ties to the IAEA, which has them under its safeguards.
“For these facilities and activities, I can tell that they are in peaceful purpose,” Amano said. “But there are also, there may be other facilities which are not declared, and we have the indication or information that Iran has engaged in activities relevant to the development of nuclear explosive devices.”
Also Wednesday, a Western diplomat here said that the five permanent mem-bers of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany — the so-called P5-plus-1 — have agreed on a joint statement on Iran, which will be delivered Thursday to the
IAEA.“The statement underlines our con-
cerns about Iran’s nuclear activities, including its uranium enrichment activi-ties at Natanz and Fordow,” the diplomat said. “It calls on the director general of the IAEA to report back on Iran’s progress in fulfilling its obligations.”
Diplomats at the IAEA say the state-ment is notable because it represents a unified message from a group that has often had difficulty speaking with one voice.
“The hope is it helps isolate Iran and indicates that Russia and China are in the West’s camp in calling on Iran to comply,” the diplomat said.
The United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany agreed Tuesday to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Iran signaled a willingness to let international inspectors visit a key military base that international inspectors suspect could be involved in a nuclear weapons program.
The P5-plus-1 said in a letter from the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, that they would
resume stalled talks. She was responding to an overture that Iran made last month.
Israel, the United States and other countries have said they suspect that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. International inspectors also have voiced concern, but Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian purposes. Israel has spoken openly about the pos-sibility of an attack on Iran’s nuclear program.
Inspectors want to enter Iran’s Parchin military base to investigate evidence of ongoing activities there. Iran offered Tuesday to let international nuclear inspectors in, but only after details are worked out, its team at the IAEA said. IAEA inspectors had asked to visit the facility during a February trip to Iran but were rebuffed, the agency and Iran have both said.
Inspectors say they believe Iran may have used Parchin to test explosives that could be used to detonate a nuclear weap-on. IAEA inspectors visited Parchin twice in 2005, but inspectors did not enter the building that housed the test chamber.
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author on the study.Soil salt in temperate cli-
mates is generally of the car-bonate variety, which doesn’t exhibit this effect. Cold and hot deserts, however, tend to have chloride salts that bind with water much more easily.
“A lot of deserts have salty soils,” Levy said. “What makes this area of Antarctica really special is that we can iso-late and study this particular mechanism.”
“Every time we see water in the ground here, we can exper-imentally determine why that is. It’s a natural laboratory.”
Where water exists, it’s pos-sible that microbial life exists as well. The saltiness and cold would make life difficult, but it certainly wouldn’t be the first example of microbes surviving in extreme Antarctic
conditions. This is one of the questions researchers plan to investigate next.
“The big thing we want to know next: Is anything liv-ing in these Antarctic soils?” Levy said. “Places like this are where you find the toughest organisms.”
This may also create a new line of inquiry for a phenom-enon seen on Mars: darkened stripes of soil that appear to elongate down slope as time goes by.
“These recurrent slope lines on Mars look like places where water is oozing down a slope,” Levy said.
This study was a collabora-tion between Levy, Fountain, and Kathy Welch and W. Berry Lyons from Ohio State University.
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antarctican Continued from page 3
the same as what people produce, and dogs, and cats, and turkeys and camels,” Mason said.
Chemicals that mimic estrogen and other hormones may have an effect on the animals that produce these hormones naturally.
“Many environmental contaminants, especially at low, ‘acceptable’ levels of use in agriculture, can have estrogen-like effects,” Parker said. “For instance, Tyrone Hayes’ lab at UC Berkeley has shown that atrazine, a heavily used agricultural pesticide, can have permanent feminizing effects on the devel-opment of male frogs exposed to low levels in their water. The difference with our study is that we showed the feminizing effects of estrogen were reversible….This begs the question of what happens to male snakes who are born in agricultural areas where these estrogen-mimicking pollutants are used? Do those males end up producing female pheromones and attracting other males? We don’t know.”
Mason and Parker recently published the research in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Its title: “How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of female sex pheromone in red-sided garter snakes.”
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Yelling at kids not a beneficial reaction, study saysn Researchers from Child
Development Lab discourage yelling
By amanda antellThe Daily BaromeTer
Recent studies show that when parents yell, their kids yell back louder.
Overreacting to a child will have negative impacts on his or her self-esteem and behav-ioral development, and may lead to even worse temper tantrums. This is most com-monly seen when the child reaches the “terrible twos.”
When children reach two years of age, they become mobile, i.e., start to walk, maybe even talk.
Parents overreact for vari-ous reasons, whether it’s the stress of a job, life or school.
“Most often I think of over-reaction as occurring because of a lack of knowledge and awareness. Sometimes par-ents don’t understand devel-opmentally typical behavior and overreact thinking the child should know better,” said Joanne Sorte, director of Oregon State University’s C h i l d D e v e l o p m e n t Laboratory. “Sometimes par-ents are overwhelmed and react before they weigh the seriousness of what has just happened.”
Sorte added that occasion-ally, parents may be embar-rassed and feel that an out-burst response will show oth-ers they have the situation under control.
“Sometimes issues may have just gotten blown up and parents don’t know what else to do. Sometimes par-
ents are stressed and tired. Sometimes they just don’t know any alternative,” Sorte said.
There are a variety of rea-sons that parents overreact to their kids. But research sug-gests overreacting may not be the best way to deal with problems.
Shannon Lipscomb, assistant professor of Child Development at the OSU Cascades campus, said that when parents start yelling during a child’s tantrum, it will only encourage the child to yell louder, because that’s what the parent is teaching the child to do.
“Our recent study shows that in the period leading up to toddlerhood, how parents deal with this growing inde-pendence can determine how much children will act out as they get older,” Lipscomb said. “During the challenging time peri-od [nine months to age two], children are testing their limits, while parents are starting to have higher expectations for their chil-dren’s behavior.”
Lipscomb’s study, which was published in the jour-nal “Development and Psychopathology” and fund-ed by the National Institutes of Health, observed 361 families. Despite various differences between the families, the strongest and most consistent effects on children’s behavior came from parenting and the home environment.
Lipscomb’s research shows that when parents are able to find fun, posi-
tive activities to share with their children, the “terrible twos” can seem a whole lot less terrible.
“Parents’ ability to regulate themselves and to remain firm, confident and not over-react is a key way they can help their children to modify their behavior. You set the example as a parent [through] your own emotions and reac-tions,” Lipscomb said.
Sorte suggested some solu-tions for parents trying to console children who have just been yelled at.
“After an overreaction, it is important for the adult to bring closure to the situation. I like the idea of the adult briefly explaining to the child what the issue was, and why it was dangerous or wrong,”
Sorte said. “A hug might be a good thing at this point.”
Studies show that yelling at children is not the most ben-eficial reaction to a stressful situation. It becomes a nega-tive influence in their lives and creates a situation where the child thinks problems can be solved by yelling.
This article addresses the importance of parents “keep-ing cool” for their kids.
“Parenting is a very big job, and yelling will probably happen now and then, but if parents work to develop their role as teachers of their children, the balance, overall, will most likely be positive,” Sorte said.
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According to event organizer Kaylah Williams, an OSU student in anthropology who has worked with Invisible Children since high school, a Ugandan affected by the war will be speaking at the event.
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Anthropocene signals a need for change
OSU accessbility improvements
Difficulties getting to classOregon State University’s main campus has been
making many different changes. From building new buildings to renovating old buildings, OSU is transforming into a bigger and better university. However, even though the changes on the campus are good, these changes often neglect the people in wheelchairs.
I believe OSU should raise awareness about dis-abilities around campus, especially for people who use wheelchairs and create a better environment for them on campus. For example, students who travel in wheelchairs will never reach the highest floor of the Strand Agricultural Building (STAG), due to the fact that the building’s elevator never reaches the highest floor of the building.
The Disability Access Services of OSU work with the registrar officers on campus to schedule classes on accessible floors when a student has a disability that prevents him/her from reaching the floors of the classrooms. In other words, students in wheel-chairs will never have a class at the highest floor of STAG. Under certain circumstances, a student in a wheelchair might need to go to the top floor of STAG, but he/she will not be able to access it.
Additionally, even though there is a ramp for students with wheelchairs to get into the Women’s Building, the ramp is too steep for them. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences, the ramp at Women’s Building is too steep for anybody in a wheelchair to travel on.
Other than the ramp in the Women’s Building, there are almost no other ramps clearly visible on campus. For instance, at Covell Hall, the main entrance only has a long, steep set of stairs. Without any ramps to get into the building, how can stu-dents with wheelchairs get to class?
Although the school is making efforts to improve access to buildings for students with disabilities, there is still room for improvement. Over the last year, OSU has only installed or upgraded the acces-sibility ramp at Weniger Hall, Milam Auditorium and Withycombe Auditorium, and there are more buildings that need to be improved.
I encourage the university to improve on these conditions and install safe accessibility ramps in all campus buildings and provide elevators in all buildings within the next three years. Even though many buildings, on campus need to install these accessibility ramps and elevators, I believe OSU has the resources and time to make these improve-ments to campus buildings.
Willie leung
Time to change approach in international business education
Humans have impacted the environment in some remarkable ways since
the beginning of civilization, in both obvious and subtle fashions. The big question lately has been “How much of an impact have we’ve truly had?”
The recent consideration to add an epoch to the geologic time scale called the Anthropocene, or “age of man”, is the figurative nail in the cof-fin for this argument. Amending the geologic time scale indicates that enough of an impact has been made on a planet’s systems to be detected clearly in the future rock record — a concept that should shock any-one who considers it. A change to the geologic time scale should be a wake-up call to politicians and non-academics. This isn’t solely a problem of climate anymore; it’s one of the entire planet.
A remarkable aspect of the debate for the Anthropocene is that boundaries for geological ages are often determined by extinctions, where certain fossils in an old layer of rock are not present in a younger layer (or vice versa). There is plenty of evidence to suggest we are cur-rently in a mass extinction.
Scientists estimate that current rates of species extinction are 100 to 1,000 times faster than a back-ground levels of one species going extinct per year. Some have deter-mined that current extinction rates
qualify this as the sixth extinction event, on par with the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
And the kicker is that we can already see this evidence in sediment cores, specifically in bays, as native species have been drastically reduced by invasive species. In New Zealand, for example, the sediment cores show a gradual shift from 10 percent invasive species of clams in the early 1800s to 90 percent invasive species today in those bays and harbors. This is a common pattern in areas in the rest of the world with other species like Zebra mussels, or locally with the Himalayan blackberry — just two examples of hundreds.
Even more compelling are the hundreds of thousands of synthetic chemicals and materials created by industrialization that may end up in the rocks. Methyl-mercury is one of the most resilient due to its accumulation in organisms and its longevity. Future scientists may find higher ratios of mercury in the fossils from this epoch.
Most of these chemicals we haven’t studied at all for potential effects, however, which means we don’t yet understand how they react with the environment. Despite this, it isn’t difficult to believe these
materials may leave some trace that lasts long enough to be detect-ed millions of years from now.
Perhaps the smoking gun of all this evidence lies in radioactive dating. Believe it or not, all radioac-tive dating using carbon-14 must use pre-1950 levels of background radiation in order to be accurate due to atomic weap-ons testing in the late 1940s and ‘50s and later effects of industrializa-tion. Any future radiocarbon anal-ysis of the rock record will show a change in these rates, thus pro-viding an excel-lent marker for an Anthropocene epoch boundary.
Beyond car-bon-14, atomic weapons use and testing has deposited small amounts of plutonium and other radionuclides all over the plan-et, giving an even more precise boundary, as plutonium is mostly man-made. To find it in one layer of the rock record would make the boundary as easily identifiable as the layer of iridium that separates the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods at the last extinction.
These are just a few of the most
compelling arguments for the nam-ing of a new geological epoch, and there is much more evidence not discussed here. The adoption of the term by formal stratigraphic insti-tutions will take many more years of research before formal accep-tance, but initial evidence supports
the label. What this means
is that there is no longer any debate on whether we’re affecting just our climate, or if a carbon tax is a good idea; this is a systemic issue and an ultima-tum. Industrial civilization will have enough of an impact to be clas-sified as a mass extinction in the rock record, with or without the new
epoch label. We need to acknowledge that our
impacts are real and reconsider the true effect we have on the environ-ment, immediately. Unfortunately, all of these impacts only get worse the longer we wait. We are facing a fork in the road and the time for decision is now.
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Amanda Enbysk is a junior in geology. The opinions expressed in her columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Enbysk can be reached at [email protected]
When I entered Oregon State University as a freshman in the fall of 1975, I had a dream: I
wanted to be in international business. I had a good head for numbers and based, on my high school experiences, at least a modest gift for languages, so it seemed like an attainable goal.
In those days, the credential that OSU offered was a “Concentration in International Business.” My sense was that to succeed in the international arena, in addition to strong business skills, I would need to improve my understanding of the world, world cultures and of course, I’d need foreign language skills. My first step in reaching for this career was an appointment with my College of Business counselor.
I was surprised by what he told me. Take a quick guess at how many credit hours I needed to take in world history, ethnic stud-ies, foreign languages and foreign cultures. Zero.
Not one credit hour of instruction in those areas was required. More troubling than the fact that these classes weren’t required is that my advisor actively discour-aged me from taking any classes in any of these areas. Why?
“Simple,” he said. “Money. Every class that you take outside of the College of Business shifts money to another department, like the department of modern languages.”
Instead, he encouraged me to use my electives to take more classes in accounting, marketing and finance.
I ignored his advice, and took many class-es outside of the College of Business, in lan-guages, cultures and history. And from that point on, I received most of my career coun-seling from my professors in the depart-ment of modern languages.
One particular professor gave me advice based on what was best for me, rather than on what funneled money to a particular college. Four years later, I was more or less fluent in Spanish, and I had a good founda-tion in French. I never regretted my choices.
By 1981, I was surrounded by profession-als who, by study, and by previous work and life experience, were at ease in various cultures and languages. All of them spoke at least one foreign language fluently, and
many spoke several languages. All of them demonstrated a knowledge of foreign cul-tures — including my own — and that gave them an advantage in their work. I quickly learned that while any shortfalls in my edu-cation in business areas like law, finance and accounting could be easily remedied, bigger issues related to culture and language were much more difficult to rectify. Had all of my electives been from the College of Business, I would have been at a distinct disadvantage compared to my peers.
Isn’t English the language of busi-ness around the world? Absolutely. But it would be myopic to think that the knowledge of a foreign language — and of foreign cultures — wouldn’t deliver a business advantage. Around the world, business prospers where there is a per-sonal relationship between associates, and that’s much easier with a knowledge of the language, history and culture of your counterparts.
Has this attitude in the College of Business changed? Decide for yourself. There is still no language requirement to earn an option in international business, and just one credit in foreign cultures is required. A study-abroad term has been added. In that term abroad, the impact of foreign cultures on international business is taught.
That isn’t enough. Mastery of a foreign language on a “junior,” or 300-course level, should be a requirement for the International Business option. So should a knowledge of foreign cultures and world history.
Cross-departmental requirements aren’t unprecedented. It’s time for the OSU College of Business to think about properly preparing students for a career in interna-tional business.
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Bill Leslie earned his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, Penn (Business Administration, ’79, OSU — but also with a Certificate in Latin American Affairs). He worked many years in international finance and is now General Manager of Gresham Toyota and a freelance writer.
SEC finally on the wayWe applaud the state legisla-
ture for coming together to approve the Capital
Construction Bill — which included bonds for the Student Experience Center and a new residence hall. This bill is an important step in improving Oregon State University, and addresses some of the problems the university faces.
The Memorial Union is a beautiful building, the centerpiece of our campus and a practical memorial for those who have given their lives in service of our country. But it does not meet the needs of a student body that is much larger than when the original building was built in the 1920s. That is why it was incredibly forward thinking by our student body to approve a fee to pay for construction of the SEC in 2010.
But when the state legislature met in 2011, it did not approve bonds for the building. At the time, there were con-cerns about the amount of debt the state was taking on, and several construction projects proposed by the university sys-tem were not approved. It should have been approved then — and it has been an inconvenience — but good things come to those who wait and we are happy that it will now be a reality.
The Student Experience Center will be a new showcase of our campus — a modern home for student activities and leaders, many of whom languish in the mold infested, creaky confines of Snell Hall. The Student Experience Center will be the capstone of a university that is reaching to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. It will be a new home for student media, which is adapting to meet the paradigm shifts within the media in today’s world. It will be a new home for a student government that is looking at being more inclusive and better at meet-ing students’ needs. It will also hopefully look pretty darn sweet and put the hand dryers in Kelley Engineering to shame.
But what is also exciting about this capital construction bill is that it pro-vides funding for a new residence hall. Our university needs a new residence hall to house the huge influx of students that have arrived at our gates. However, this new residence hall should keep in mind the needs and desires of students who are not just first year students, but should be made attractive to those who have been at the university for a couple years and may have interest in student housing if it were specifically tailored to an older crowd.
Building a new residence hall is an important step in helping the university house more students. It takes some of the pressure off the city with a near zero percent vacancy rate for rental prop-erties, and one which finds students spreading out farther and farther from campus. One of the biggest complaints of Corvallis residents is that the univer-sity has not done enough to house extra students who are attending the univer-sity; this is a step in the right direction.
While we would have enjoyed being able to make today’s issue of The Daily Barometer in the new offices, we are happy to know that future editors and reporters will have a brand new building.
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The return of Mad Men, we can hardly waitn All the boozing,
misogyny, adultery returns to TV March 25By Warner Strausbaugh
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Adultery? Chainsmoking? Drinking whiskey at noon?
Yes, yes and yes.March 25 – two-hour season
premiere. Mark your calendars. AMC’s “Mad Men” will trium-phantly return after the saddest 17-month hiatus of my life.
Absence sure does make the heart grow fonder in the case of “Mad Men.” I missed every-thing about it. I missed Don drinking and/or smoking liter-ally every time he’s on screen. I missed Pete Campbell saying “a thing like that.” I missed Peggy Olson transitioning into a full-blown 1960s hippie. I missed camera shots of Joan Harris walking away (still will always be Joan Holloway in my mind… damn that doctor!). Although I didn’t miss that neighbor kid Glen, he was a creep.
So now we move on to another season of the show. It’s been a while so here’s a very brief refresher course on season four:
• Sterling Cooper became Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The new company has no money, no support, no one believes in them, but they have a lot of scotch. And Don Draper.
- Speaking of Draper, Our main character went off the deep end and then some. He’s drunk in half of the episodes, making idiotic decisions, and realizing that the entire com-pany is hinging on his spo-ken word and persuasiveness to succeed… and he doesn’t seem to care. Although his one-page ad in the New York Times announcing that SCDP was done with tobacco was bril-liant. Oh, and did I mention he’s marrying his secretary? We’ll get to that later…
• Roger Sterling, a.k.a. the
king of one-liners, has become irrelevant to the company. His one big account, Lucky Strike cigarettes, has left SCDP, and the silver-haired schmoozer with heart troubles is seem-ingly on the outside looking in nowadays.
• Peggy Olson is becoming a superstar. Her strange father-daughter, or brother-sister, or husband-wife relationship with Don is both the best and worst thing for her. But it’s making her better. She obviously is taking on a huge role with SCDP and definitely cares about the well-being of the company more than anyone else in the office does.
• We got a full dose of Henry Francis (who I’d like to dub as the worst character of the entire series) and the former Betty Draper’s ridiculous marriage. I won’t get into how I feel about Betty, but let’s just say I really, really can’t stand her.
So now that we’ve broken down the big picture of season four, what will season five have in store for us after such a long break?
The biggest plotline of inter-est heading into the premiere will be this soon-to-be marriage between Don and his secre-tary Megan. You have to figure Roger Sterling is getting a kick out of this one as he slowly dies by drinking vodka with milk at 10 a.m., because Sterling mar-ried a secretary and Don called him a “fool.”
Clearly, Draper is out of whack. He’s an out-of-his-mind alcoholic looking to fix both his past and his future in the pres-ent, and doing a terrible job at it. He has conjured an alternate reality where happiness will be found with his secretary. But it’s a lost cause. I’m setting the over/under on 6.5 episodes for Don and Megan’s split-up.
I do have to say that I prefer her to the ex, but that’s not say-ing a lot. Don ultimately choos-es a wife who makes no sense
to him: someone he can feel comfortable bossing around, be more intelligent than and who can cook dinner for the kids while he’s away being friv-olous. Gotta feel bad for the girl, she has nooooo clue what she got herself into. But hey, at least the children will have a more psychologically stable mother-figure in their lives than Betty Draper.
Then we get to Peggy. She basically saves the company in the end by landing the Topaz Pantyhose account, but is rendered irrelevant by the fact that Don Draper is marry-ing his secretary. It’s all cheers and congratulations for the newlyweds, when at the same time, SCDP may not have been able to afford the lease on their office in a month. This is a very common motif that crops up over and over again in “Mad Men.” Men have the power, women are on the backburn-er. And even the women who do have some semblance of business savvy still are under-mined by the men who really are moving the pieces in the office.
I think this HAS to be the season Peggy becomes even more important in the show. She’s already obviously among the top three most important characters, but she has to reach that next level — that status of becoming the woman who breaks through in a heavily male-driven society. She also likes to smoke pot and is getting involved with some Brooklyn hipsters (did that word exist 50 years ago?), so she’s already becoming a precursor for the late ’60s movement.
Seventeen months is a long time. The show left the audi-ence talking about the strang-est season finale they’ve given us. Matthew Weiner held out in a contract dispute, and I’m not knocking it at all, I think it’s great that he turned down $30 million over three years to maintain creative flexibility. It’s noble, actually.
But I’m just saying, fans have been clamoring for the return of “Mad Men” for a while. They better deliver.
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Halie Loren to perform tomorrown Corvallis native will sing with the
symphony orchestra for annual benefit concert for student musicians
By don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer
Some folks leave their hometowns and never look back, others never get the chance to leave. But some come back to their hometown, famous and different, looking to help out a worthy cause.
Halie Loren, a Corvallis native and an interna-tionally famous jazz singer will perform with the Corvallis-OSU symphony orchestra tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center. The concert is a special benefit for the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Society Student Musician Scholarship Fund, which helps student musi-cians here at Oregon State University. Loren will also be celebrating the American release of her latest album, “Heart First,” which will be avail-able for sale at the concert and recently went to number one in the Japanese jazz charts.
Loren recently spoke with managing editor, Don Iler, about her career and upcoming con-cert here in Corvallis.
Q: When did you realize that you wanted to be a singer?
A: There was no specific moment, I was just always [a] singer. I grew up taking a lot of joy from music but I caught the performing bug at age 10.
Q: What are some of your influences?A: I was really influenced by my mom’s record
collection. Nat King Cole, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Annie Lennox. I could go on [laughter]. I used to live in Alaska when I was little and so I really enjoyed listening to Jewel who is also from Alaska.
Q: What’s your favorite song to sing?A: It changes every single performance.
Certain songs feel appropriate at certain times, like they need to be performed. It depends on what is going on in life and in the world too.
Q: How do your performances change depend-ing on the audience and venue?
A: It depends so much on the venue. My band always put our best foot forward but the kind
of venue influences the performance the most. All my performances in Corvallis I feel warmly received, like I’m a hometown girl. But we’re lucky to find audience support wherever we go.
Q: Did you receive any formal training or schooling?
A: I didn’t have any technical training. I went to the school of getting out there and doing it. It’s the best form of training, just getting out there in front of an audience and performing. The more I tour and perform, the better I get on so many levels.
Q: Who have been some of your mentors?A: The biggest mentors have been the people
I work with. I knew almost nothing about the performance world and I learned a lot from the people I work with who have been doing it longer than I have. The combination of my band working together has had so much influence on me.
Q: Have you ever performed with an orchestra before?
A: No, this will be a totally new experience for the band and I. We’ve never joined forces with a symphony. We’ll be performing some mate-rial from the new CD so there will be some new songs for people who haven’t heard them before. “Heart First” has a mix of all sorts of musical influences, from jazz standards to classic rock and Bob Marley, as well as original material.
Q: When did you make the album?A: We worked on it in August, September and
October. It was released in Asia in December and will be released March 6 here.
Q: What is it like touring all over the world in different countries?
A: Last year has been the busiest year. I’m liv-ing out of a suitcase at least a third of the year traveling. I will be gone 50 percent of the time in 2012. It’s getting more and more busy but that is sign of a growing career.
Halie Loren will be performing tomorrow night at the LaSells Stewart Center at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $22 and will be available for half price for OSU students.
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Halie Loren, a Corvallis native, has recently released a new album, “Heart First,” that is already on the top of the Japanese jazz charts.
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Agrawal said her mother played a big role in helping her change her mindset.
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over $29 million in budgets without having the majority of house members present.
“Representatives are elected by the people to be on duty,” said Sen. Mousa Diabat, chairman of the Senate Ethics and Oversight Committee, “and to not show up on one of the most impor-tant days shows that this representative does not have the right to continue to be in that position.”
Quorum is the number of members a legisla-tive body must have in order to conduct busi-ness. The house of representatives needed to have at least 12 out of 22 current representatives to meet quorum. Only 11 showed up — with several of those 11 being proxy replacements.
“The pressures of being a student overcame the responsibility of being a representative. I’m not sure they understood the importance and gravity of tonight,” said Speaker of the House Drew Hatlen.
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“We were looking to send a message to Ed Act to improve the growth of new organizations in Ed Act,” said Michael Robb, chairman of the House Appropriations and Budget committee, using the acronym for educational activities. “There are current structural roadblocks to rec-ognizing student groups.”
Complaints were raised that the process of recognizing and funding groups was not trans-parent enough, but guidelines are easily found online through a websearch.
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Oregon State women lose to 11-seed Washington Staten Beavers end season with
fifth loss in six games, await postseason fate
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Three weeks ago, the Oregon State women’s basketball team was soaring.
Winners of six straight, the Beavers were in the conversa-tion for an NCAA Tournament bid.
But after finishing the regular season 1-4 and bowing out of the Pac-12 Tournament in the first round Wednesday, a post-season appearance of any kind is all but a certainty.
Oregon State, the tourna-ment’s six seed, lost 65-56 to 11-seed Washington State Wednesday at the Galen Center on Southern California’s campus.
Simply put, the Beavers (18-12, 9-9 Pac-12) dug a hole they couldn’t quite climb out of.
The Beavers, who started 4-for-17 from the field, trailed 17-2 early.
They eventually climbed to within five at halftime and to within one late in the second half, but couldn’t get over the hump.
On three separate second-half possessions, OSU had a chance to take the lead but didn’t. The Cougars (12-19, 5-13) eventually went on a late run that put the game out of reach.
This marked the second time this season that OSU suffered a loss to the conference’s second-to-last-place team. WSU came to Corvallis and beat the Beavers 65-61 in double overtime on
Dec. 31.Freshman Ali Gibson led the
Beavers with 19 points, but was just 7 of 21 from the field and 2 of 12 from long range.
Senior Earlysia Marchbanks was efficient from the field, fin-ishing with 16 points on 7 of 10 shooting, but committed six of the Beavers’ 16 turnovers.
Marchbanks, the team’s lead-ing scorer (12.3 points per game) and rebounder (7.2 per game), is the team’s lone senior.
OSU will learn its postseason fate Monday.
Box score 1st 2nd Total
WSU 32 33 65OSU 27 29 56OSU statistics:Gibson: 19 pts (7-21 FG)Marchbanks: 16 pts (7-10 FG), 11 reboundsBright: 10 pts (4-5 FG)WSU statistics:Thomas: 17 pts (7-13 FG), 6 reboundsNoyes: 10 pts (4-13 FG)Perkins: 6 pts (2-8 FG), 10 rebounds
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Eight wrestlers qualify for nationals for second consecutive yearn It’s been 34 years since OSU
sent as many as 16 wrestlers to nationals in a 2-year period
By andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer
As Mike Parker would say, it’s a great day to be a Beaver.
The woman’s basketball team had its best season in years, the gymnas-tics team is looking as dominant as ever, and the men’s basketball team is coming off a thrilling victory over Washington State in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament yesterday.
Amazingly, amidst all of this success, one team is arguably shining brighter than any of the others — the No. 16 wrestling team.
The Beavers learned Wednesday afternoon that they would be send-ing a staggering total of eight wres-tlers to the NCAA Championship tour-nament in St. Louis, Mo., which starts March 15. The news is coming after a dominating perfor-mance at the Pac-12 tournament Feb. 26 in which OSU took home first place as a team and had four individuals crowned as champions.
“I thought we wrestled well. It’s not just if you win it’s how you win and I thought we wrestled really well as a team and as individuals,” said head coach Jim Zalesky. “I think that was the best we’ve wrestled so far this year. The four [individual champi-onships] are the most we’ve had since I’ve been here so that’s exciting.”
It’s the second year in a row Oregon State has sent eight wrestlers to the national tournament. The sixteen qual-ifiers are the most in a two-year span for OSU in over 30 years, dating back to the 1976-77 and 1977-78 seasons.
Redshirt freshman Pat Rollins (125 pound weight class), junior Ty Vinson (184) and redshirt freshman Taylor Meeks (197) are all heading to nation-als for the first time.
Senior Garrett Drucker (133), junior Mike Mangrum (141), sophomore Scott Sakaguchi (149), sophomore R.J. Pena (157), and senior Clayton Jack (heavyweight) are all competing at the NCAA tournament for at least the sec-ond time.
Mangrum has been seeded fourth in his weight class for the national tourna-
ment, while Jack is seeded third among heavyweights.
Despite the large amount of time in between the Pac-12 and NCAA tour-nament, OSU has remained focused on what’s to come. The team has had fewer combined practices and more individual workouts to get more time with coaches in preparation for the season finale.
In addition to the slightly altered training regimen, the Beavers seem to have adopted the basketball team’s “One Day At A Time” motto going forward.
“We’re just trying to get mentally pre-pared right now,” Pena said. “Taking the couple of things we do wrong here and there and try and fix them. We’re getting ready for the national tournament and trying to take it one match at a time, one day at a time.”
“For the most part I just have to live in the here and now and focus on what we’re doing,” added Jack. “Then come nation-als, I’ll be ready and aggressive. I just want to take things one match at a time until I’ve won a championship.”
The wrestling team is also drawing inspi-ration from increased support around campus. Many OSU
athletes, students and faculty reached out to congratulate the team on their championship via twitter, and the team was greeted with raucous applause when it was introduced at halftime of the men’s basketball game against Utah last Thursday.
“It’s awesome,” Pena said. “It’s nice to be appreciated by our school. We work really hard every day and it’s nice to have fans support us. The standing ovation from the crowd at the basket-ball game after winning the Pac-12 title was amazing. It felt great having that support.”
The Beavers will enjoy their contin-ued support during their final week of practice before departing for nation-als next Monday. If they can improve on last year’s 21st place finish, their popularity around campus will almost certainly climb even higher.
But regardless of the overall finish, and for the time being, it’s a great day to be a Beaver.
andrew KilstromTwitter: @andrewkilstrom
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Clayton Jack, pictured here wrestling against Evan Knutson of North Dakota St. earlier this year, is seeded third among heavyweights heading into NCAAs.
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Redshirt freshman Taylor Meeks is one of three Beavers who will be making a first-time appearance at the NCAA Championships next week.
Men beat Washington Staten Beavers advance to play top seed
Huskies, a team they’ve lost to twice already this year, at noon today
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — One down, three to go.After defeating Washington State on
Wednesday, the Oregon State men’s basketball team will play the University of Washington at noon today in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament.
The winner will face the winner of today’s 2:15 p.m. game between UCLA and Arizona tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the semifinals.
The Beavers, the tournament’s nine-seed, lost both regular season matchups with the Huskies — 95-80 in Seattle, Wash. on Dec. 29, and 75-72 in Corvallis on Feb. 12.
But regular season results mean little, as OSU proved yesterday.
The Beavers (18-13, 7-11 Pac-12) beat eight-seed Washington State 69-64 Wednesday at Staples Center.
OSU jumped out to a 24-8 lead behind the hot shooting of sophomore guard Ahmad
Starks, who made 4 of 5 three-point attempts before the second televi-sion timeout.
But the Cougars, who had defeated OSU twice earlier in the season, responded with an imme-diate 24-4 run of their own and later took a 1-point lead into the locker room at halftime.
The Beavers trailed by as many as six early in the second half, but turned up their defensive pressure late. A Mike Ladd layup put WSU ahead 60-58 with 4:06 left, but the Cougars (15-16, 7-11) didn’t score from the field again.
OSU made nine free throws down the stretch to pull away.
Despite their fast start, the Beavers shot 44.2 percent from the field and 31.3 percent from three-point range. They also missed 11 free throws. The Cougars shot the ball better — 48 percent from the floor and 40 percent from deep.
Another thing the Beavers had going against them was the fact that All-Pac-12 junior guard Jared Cunningham was virtu-ally invisible on the offen-sive end, finishing with a season-low four points on 1 of 8 shooting. But Cunningham was a factor defensively, limiting WSU point guard Reggie Moore to 3 of 16 shooting.
Notes: The last time Cunningham had back-to-back single-digit scoring efforts was February of 2010... OSU started three guards (Cunningham, Starks and Challe Barton) for the first time all year the last time they played Washington... the Huskies earned the confer-ence’s No. 1 seed despite a 65-59 loss to UCLA in their final regular season game... this is the second year in a row the Beavers have played the conference’s top seed in the second round (lost 78-69 to Arizona last year).
Pac-12 Tournament:
Devon Collier 19 points
Ahmad Starks Four 3’s
Box score
OSU 69, WSU 64 1 2 TotalOSU 38 31 69WSU 39 25 64OSU statistics:Collier: 19 pts (3-6 FG), 6 reboundsBurton: 15 pts (5-7 FG), 5 rebounds, 4 stealsStarks: 13 pts (4-11 FG)Moreland: 9 pts (3-6 FG), 12 rebounds, 2 blocksCunningham: 4 pts (1-8 FG), 4 assists, 2 stealsBrandt: 5 pts (2-7 FG)Nelson: 4 pts (1-2 FG)WSU statistics:Motum: 18 pts (6-10 FG), 6 reboundsCapers: 14 pts (6-7 FG), 8 reboundsMoore: 10 pts (3-16 FG), 10 assists
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right now. taking the couple of things we do wrong here and there and try
and fix them.
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