Inside this issuePresident Ed Ray | 2Oregon State University’s president highlights some of this year’s graduates.

Michelle Obama | 3The first lady is speaking at this year’s commencement.

Letters from Colleges | 4 - 6Deans from colleges write messages to graduating students.

Twins Graduate | 7When the date for graduation was changed, a mother of two twins had a choice to make.

Alumni | 10, 12 & 13Life after OSU: We look at three graduates who stayed around Corvallis.

Year in News | 11Top stories from a year of reporting on OSU.

Map of University | 15Lost? This map can help you find your way.

Year in Sports | 20The year that was in sports.

Sunday, June 17, 2012 COMMENCEMENT

Michelle Obama, Keynote speakerPhoto courtesy of The White House

At Oregon State University, we are proud to be part of Oregon’s land-grant uni-versity, dedicated to serve the people

of Oregon and this nation.We join in this mission dedicated to aca-

demic excellence, cutting-edge research and outreach, and engagement in communities throughout Oregon, in order to benefit those we serve in positive and profound ways.

Yet, I am most proud of OSU’s greatest con-tribution to society: our graduates.

This Sunday, June 17 — during Oregon State’s 143rd Commencement Ceremony — we will graduate a record number of 4,979 students. This year’s graduates are exception-ally well prepared to play an immediate and meaningful role in our workforce and in society across Oregon, the nation, and the world. These graduates will improve the 21st century’s economy, our environment and community liv-

ability in areas ranging from technology and business solutions, to the arts and sciences, natural resources and human health.

At Oregon State University, people come together to make a positive difference in the world. In our classrooms and in research labs across campus, OSU faculty and students col-laborate and inspire each other — not just as learners and teachers, but as partners in edu-cation, volunteerism, problem solving, mentor-ships and research discovery.Here are but a few of the exemplary people who will graduate this year from Oregon State:•ChamroeunLim, a refugee from the slums

located between Cambodia and Vietnam, leaves Oregon State as one of the few stu-dents in school history to earn four different Honors International degrees.

•Tonya Lynn Sartor, who before attend-

ing OSU, served in Iraq and was awarded a Bronze Star. She is the first person in her family to graduate from a university and upon graduation, plans to enter a physician’s assistance degree program.

•RyanHadden, a two-year member of the Beaver football team, a young father, a Linus Pauling Institute research assistant with a pas-sion for preventative health care, graduates Sunday with a 3.94 grade point average.

•MarshaLampi, a five-year track and cross country athlete, and a participant in interna-tional research on a novel influenza vaccine, leaves Oregon State to pursue a doctorate in bioengineering and cancer treatment at Cornell University.Following commencement, this year’s gradu-

ates will join other thousands of OSU alumni, who are making significant differences through-out the worId. In doing so, they take their degrees from a very special university and embody the fulfillment of our mission.

Founded in 1868, Oregon State is one of only two universities in the United States to have land, sea, space and sun grant designations. And OSU is one of two universities in Oregon to have earned the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s top-tier “very high research activity” designation, as well as the Carnegie Foundation’s “community engage-ment” classification.

The accomplishments and impact of Oregon State are growing. And moving forward, we will further excel by welcoming an increasingly diverse student body from across the state of Oregon, all 50 U.S. states and from more than 80 countries. Oregon State’s success will always be defined by our high-achieving students, and the OSU faculty and staff who engage with students in part-nerships of world-class classroom learning, innovative research, service learning and problem solving.

Congratulations to the Oregon State University graduating class of 2012.

EdwardJ.RayPresident

Oregon State University

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President Ray on OSU

Contributed photo | OregOn State UniverSity

Ray is the 14th president of Oregon State University. He previously served as the vice president and provost of Ohio State University.

TimelineFirstcommencement:1870 — 25 students enrolled, two men and one woman graduated with a bach-elor’s of science

Tuition: $10 per term

Firstcommencementoncurrentcampus:1889 — College Chapel in Administration Building (now Benton Hall)

Corvallis population, 1900: 1,819 Students enrolled, 1900: 405

Firstprofessionaldegree:1907 — master’s in engineering

Memorial Union built, 1929

Firstdoctorate:1935— three in science and one in agriculture

Officially recognized as Oregon State College, 1939

Corvallis population, 1950: 16,207 Students enrolled, 1950: 5,887

FirstcommencementatGillColiseum:1950

Corvallis population, 1970: 35,153 Students enrolled, 1970: 15,509

Dixon Recreation Center built, 1976

Firstoutdoorcommencement:2001, Reser Stadium

Corvallis population, 2000: 50,800 Students enrolled, 2000: 16,788

2012commencement: 4,979 students — the largest ever

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First lady’s visit a big occasion for OSUn Michelle Obama’s initiatives similar to

university’s areas of focus on public health, exercise, healthy eating

by don ilerTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

It’s not every day that someone like Michelle Obama appears in the sleepy little college town that is Corvallis, Ore., but this is the second time Obama has come to the city in a year and the first time the university has ever had a first lady speak at commencement.

While it may come as a surprise Obama would visit Corvallis, the issues the first lady has focused on match up with many of the areas of focus for the university.

“Mrs. Obama’s leadership to improve the health of our nation’s communities and reduce obesity among young people is outstanding,” said ed Ray, president of Oregon State University. “And her efforts are very much in keeping with Oregon State’s overall mission. As a top-tier land-grant university, we are focused on academic programs, research and outreach, and engagement that pro-mote healthy people, a healthy environment and a healthy economy.”

In 2010, Obama started the “Let’s Move!” cam-paign, to bring together various different groups of people from doctors to community leaders to tackle the problem of childhood obesity. The campaign aims to create resources to make healthier food more available to children and to get children more physically active.

Along with Dr. Jill Biden, Obama started “Joining Forces,” an initiative to support service members and their families by addressing the unique needs in employment, education and wellness for military families. Obama has also joined in the call for American businesses to hire more unemployed veterans and military spouses.

“During her campaign for better childhood nutri-tion for improved community health, the first lady has gained national insights, community perspec-tives and a passion for improved health that few can match,” Ray said. “We know that the 3,000 or so Oregon State bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree graduates who will participate in this year’s commencement ceremony — and their guests and family members — will be inspired by Mrs.

Obama’s address.”Obama grew up in Chicago, Ill., and graduated

from Princeton University before attending Harvard Law School. After Harvard, the first lady worked at Sidley & Austin, a Chicago law firm, where she met her future husband Barack Obama.

Obama has two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, the men’s bas-ketball coach at OSU.

This will be the third commencement Obama is speaking at this year, having spoken at Virginia Tech and North Carolina A&T in May. In the past, the first lady has given commencement addresses at George Washington University, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and University of Northern Iowa.

don iler, managing editornews@dailybarometer.com

On Twitter: @doniler

Contributed photo | COUrteSy OF tHe WHite HOUSe

The Obama family during a photo shoot at The White House, Michelle, Malia, President Barack Obama and Sasha.

Fastfacts• 2012 is the largest class in Oregon State University history.

• 3,473 graduating students will be attending commencement, another record.

• An estimated 33,000 people are expected to attend the commencement ceremony.

• Oldest member of the graduating class is 76, the youngest is 18.

• The average age of graduates is 25.

• Graduates come from 48 different states, one U.S. territory, five overseas military addresses and 54 countries.

• This year’s graduates will be joining the many illustrious alumni from Oregon State. Among them are: - Terry Baker, 1962 Heisman trophy winner. - Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel prizes, one in peace, the other in chemistry. - Sara Jean Underwood, 2007 Playboy Playmate of the Year. - Gary Payton, former NBA player. - Chris Anderson, publisher of The Oregonian. - Mary Carlin Yates, former U.S. ambassador to Burundi and current U.S. ambassador to Ghana.

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First, congratulations graduates! I hope your journey has been rewarding and you take time to

truly reflect on all you’ve accomplished and all you’ve experienced — the good, the bad and everything in between. There are special, defining moments in our lives, and this is one of those moments.

My father, a very wise Chinese man, gave me the following advice when I graduated from the university — in Chi-nese. I finally translated it in english after he passed away so I can share it with my students in this country. His simple advice certainly has helped me in life, and I hope it can do the same for you.• Be humble and have a grateful heart.• Finish all projects that you start, big

or small.

• Respect all people from whom you can learn, and follow those principles by which you will be guided in the right direction.

• Choose friends whose strengths and weaknesses are known to you.

• Keep your environment clean and tidy. It clears your mind and reduces stress.

• Treasure your time alone and com-mit yourself to quality and constant improvement.

• Don’t just talk about ethics, practice them.

• Show proper manners in public and private.

• Be frugal in time of plenty. It is easy to become wasteful in boom times, but difficult to return to frugality.

• Handle your temper when you are angry. Do not allow your mood

swings to affect others. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

• Treat everyone you meet how you want to be treated.

• Do not wear fancy clothes, and do not eat fatty foods. Improper dress makes the wrong impression; fatty foods cause chronic disease.

• Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with the people you love and respect.

• Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.

• Be knowledgeable in broad areas and be an expert in specialized areas. Be a lifelong learner.

• Work patiently and persistently, rest mentally and spiritually, and exercise

regularly.• Be generous with your heart and

hands. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

• Hold yourself in high esteem. Be forgiv-ing of yourself and others.

• Take responsibility for every area of your life. Stop blaming others. No whining.

• Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.

• Most importantly, love your reputation as much as you love your life, because your reputation will precede you. This has been a treasure to me, and

now let me pass it on to you!

tammy bray Dean of College of Public Health and Human Sciences

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Reflections

One final impression

College graduation has been long viewed as the penultimate accomplishment — a step-ping stone, if you will, to a career.

But the mold continues to be reshaped and reimag-ined — even shattered.

A 2011 Northeastern University analysis of 2009 graduates, found that only 56 percent of graduates were working in a job that required a college degree — the median annual income was $26,756. Twenty-two percent were working jobs not requiring a degree and 22 percent weren’t working at all.

For science and math majors, nearly 70 percent of said students were working in a job that required a degree. In contrast, for humanities majors, only 45 percent were — and nearly 30 percent were working jobs that do not require a degree.

What happened? Slaving four to five years over a degree that costs thousands of dollars and thousands of hours should provide some value — more than a sheet of paper. A degree should distinguish a gradu-ate from the layman, not leave one rotting in the profu-sion of indecisive undergraduates continually entering the work force.

Yet, coupled with a still stuttering economy — an 8.2 percent unemployment rate — the tunnel remains dark. Ahead, only the tiniest hint of light — but a radi-ance nonetheless.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2011, the unemployment rate for persons without a high school diploma, age 25 and older, was 14.1 percent. With a high school diploma, 9.4 percent. A bachelor’s degree, 4.9 percent. A master’s degree, 3.6 percent.

In 2011, the median weekly earnings for adults 25 and over without a high school diploma was $451. A bachelor’s degree earned $1,053. A master’s degree earned $1,263.

You did earn something. And if money means any-thing to you, there’s a correlation in your favor.

You have gained a document — ironically intan-gible — that has some semblance of value in society. But it all depends on how you apply it and where you take it. To mind, a diploma is no more a blank applica-tion for you to fill in than a blank check for you to cash.

In reality, barring the engineers and scientifically sound among us, we have no discernible skills. But we do have the wherewithal to step out of bounds, look beyond the traditional forms of an occupation.

A business degree doesn’t necessarily include suits. A philosophy degree is not reserved to academia. A science degree may not involve labs and research.

To “think critically,” to understand two divergent streams of American political thought, to comprehend the teachings of existentialist theory, to write an edito-rial for the school paper — these are merely habits and hobbies we grow accustomed to, not skills devel-oped over time. No employer seeks these superficial, albeit unique attributes.

However, in these developed (for some, innate) talents we may just find a niche. We may go beyond the status quo, beyond what occupations the previous generation sought out. You may go beyond the point where you imagined you would end up — always looking to run away from an end, not toward it.

It’s been an ageless tenure; Corvallis tends more to an eon than an era. We’ve lost goals, friends, purity, will and desire — and found all anew. We lost time and made it up in memory.

Now, it comes to a head, which all of this was theo-retically meant for — a moment of both effulgence and haze, an interstice rather than a terminal, graduation into life, the real world.

And at this point you may weep. You may beam.You’ll mourn, admire, dread and cherish this very

moment and the very next — no matter what the future supposedly looks like. For one day, a moment of slight reprieve from impending reality.

No matter how weary and unprofitable the uses of this world may seem, still, underneath, you know you’re going to be different than the rest. You aren’t the one to fail, to fall in line, to lose at this weighted game of life.

You won’t become another statistic. You aren’t ready to be another number.

Not yet. And here’s to hoping that becomes never. Armand resto

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Editorial

College of Pharmacy

Department of Environmental Science

College of Forestry

College of Business

College of Public Health & Human Services

When you came to the environmental sciences program, we asked

you why you chose this major. Your answers were varied, but shared a theme; you wanted to be armed to protect or restore places that you love and earth in its entirety.

We have armed you. You complet-ed a rigorous science and mathemat-ics curriculum, took courses in each of the spheres of the environment, in economics, ethics, management and policy. You acquired depth of knowledge in a related field, ranging from botany to environmental policy. A recruiter from Yale’s Graduate School of Forestry and environmental Studies told me she has never seen a stronger undergraduate environmen-tal sciences curriculum than we offer at OSU.

You also armed yourself. Many of you pursued international study to widen your perspective on global concerns of today — Madagascar, Wales, Chile and other nations were

While at Oregon State University, you were divided into eight separate

majors. But as you move into the worlds of work and service, you will need to work together, and with many others, to manage our forests and forest-based resources for future generations.

Throughout your years at OSU, we worked with you to develop skills, knowl-edge and attitudes that will provide a foundation for your future endeavors, whatever they may be: deep technical skills required by employers, the ability to solve difficult problems and to think critically about issues of the day, the will-ingness to work effectively in teams but also as individuals, the ability to speak and write effectively, and a recognition of the need to work hard and maintain high ethical and professional standards.

What can you expect from the world? • Change — and the need to continually

adapt to new situations. Be flexible, be patient and look for opportunities to grow.

• Assignments from supervisors that are often less specific than those you’ve experienced in college. Anticipate what’s needed and seek clarification when you’re uncertain.

• A short apprenticeship — your path from being a novice in your own eyes to an expert in the eyes of others is likely to be very short.

• The need to make decisions and recom-mendations in the face of incomplete

and often conflicting information. There are often no right answers, only best guesses based on information avail-able at the time.

• The expectation that you will accept responsibility for your actions and your work. Hold yourself accountable to high standards, because others will.

• Expect to get knocked down once in awhile. Be willing to accept help from others in getting back up and be quick to do the same in return.And finally, just a few recom-

mendations as you prepare to leave us.

embrace change, otherwise you’ll face a long life of frustration. Find something larger than yourself to become a part of.

Respect your work, but also those with whom you work. Your success in college often depended on your individual effort, but in the working world, it often depends on those with whom you work.

Be prepared to think outside the box, but realize that sometimes it’s necessary to think within the box. Learn to balance work and play — value friends and fam-ily. Continue to hone current skills and knowledge, but seek new ones as well.

Be inquisitive and listen to others — we all have much to learn. Be confident in your newly gained skills and knowledge, but also be humble because there’s so much you don’t know. Realize that your education is not ending — it’s just beginning.

Now go get ‘em.ed Jensen

Associate Dean of College of Forestry

It is with great pride that Oregon State University College of Pharmacy honors our graduates in the Class of 2012.

To the doctor of pharmacy recipients, what you have accomplished over the past four years through your hard work and dedication in becoming innovative pharmacists prepared to care for patients in Oregon and beyond, is inspiring. Through classwork, clinical experiences and outreach to our communities, you have positioned your-selves to become leaders for healthcare in our state, our nation and the world.

We are equally proud of the students receiving their master’s or doctorate degrees. Scholarships and research in the phar-maceutical sciences drive discoveries in biomedicine that will literally change our world. Your hard work, creativity and com-mitment to advancing healthcare through discovery provides a foundation for critical inquiry that distinguishes our college and university.

We are enormously proud of the achievements of all our graduates and confident the knowledge and experiences you’ve gained at OSU have prepared you for an exciting career. Your choices are really limitless.

Whether you choose to engage in patient care — in commu-nity, long-term care or hospital settings — pursue fundamental research in drug discovery and action, explore public health opportunities or pursue further education and training, you are well prepared to make a significant impact on society.

This year marks the 114th year students have graduated from the College of Pharmacy at OSU. While much has changed in that time, a strong legacy of leadership in healthcare and biomedical research remains intact.

We encourage you to continue to grow as you enter your professional lives, and we are counting on you to accept the challenge to make a difference in the lives of others.

We are proud to call you Beavers.Congratulations!

Mark Zabriskie Dean of College of Pharmacy

Four years ago, many of you started your degree during what can be considered one

of the most turbulent times in our economic history. If you are a gradu-ate student, perhaps you returned to college during the past four years because your company was down-sized, or you made the decision to extend your undergraduate studies because of the state of the economy.

In the fall of 2008, the banking industry was collapsing around us, the global economy was facing a recession, and we were in the midst of an unprecedented presidential election. You have been immersed in your education during a time when the economy was one big case study providing real-time topics and con-versations for your business courses.

As you enter the workforce or seek new opportunities with your degree, the economy is different than when you enrolled and it con-tinues to change. Your education has prepared you well and will position you for a successful career.

This doesn’t mean you will love

the first job you accept, or that you will have recruiters chasing you or that recruiters will be filling your email inboxes with requests for interviews. That is not the nature of the world right now. It is competitive and you have to seek and create opportunity.

Innovation and entrepreneurship have never been so important. As a graduate of the College of Business, you have heard these words con-tinuously from the time you enrolled in BA 101, and throughout your coursework and your experiences beyond the classroom.

Be confident you have the skills and education to succeed. Move out of your comfort zone now and throughout your career. It will allow you to advance, take on new chal-lenges, learn, grow and innovate.

I learned the value of this from Jean Mater, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemical engi-neering at Oregon State University. When I became dean, she was 84 and a member of the Business Advi-sory Council. She explained to me

that if I didn’t feel nauseated every day, I was not working outside my comfort zone and therefore was not learning.

Your career will be stalled if you don’t embrace change. You have many opportunities ahead of you, and if you try one thing and it is not exactly what you anticipated, you have the skills, the ability and the knowledge to make decisions that will allow you to navigate the changing economy, and continue to create other opportunities that will position you for success throughout your career.

Regardless of your journey, whether you have been an OSU student for two years, four years or longer, you are now graduating and embarking on new experiences. Four years ago, I would not have told you this, but this year, I can confidently tell you that there are opportunities that await you.

Be innovative. Be entrepreneurial. Find an opportunity or create one.

ilene Kleinsorge Sara Hart Kimball Dean of College of Business See SCIENCE | page 16

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‘Let’s Move’ a good, though incomplete solution to obesity epidemicToday, in America, one in

three people are consid-ered obese. even if you’re

not obese right now, there’s a high probability you eventually will be. You are likely to pre-maturely die from simple, daily lifestyle decisions. While you can easily take scientifically proven steps to drastically reduce the risk of prematurely killing yourself, chances are you won’t. And you’ll also pass on these fatal lifestyle habits to your children, who probably won’t even live as long as you.

Depressing, huh? Is there a way out of this mess? At least one important person thinks we can find a solution.

First lady Michelle Obama launched the “Let’s Move” cam-paign with an ambitious goal to eliminate childhood obesity in one generation. That’s a huge mission for a huge problem. To successfully achieve it, “Let’s Move” attempts to empower the individual to make a change.

If you browse the “Let’s Move”

website, you’ll see all the facts and figures describing the dam-age obesity is unleashing on the United States. Once you are thoroughly depressed by the state of our growing waistlines, “Let’s Move” provides simple strategies to eat better and move more. Finally, depending on your life situation, you can get content-specific strategies to com-bat obesity.

The “Let’s Move” campaign is a great starting place for obesity. But, just like all current govern-ment projects, it is not flawless.

It spends too much time tell-ing us what we already know. Despite the way we look, the American public is not clueless when it comes to health, exercise and nutrition.

We know we eat too much and exercise too little. We’ve all heard we need more sleep and should drink less soda. Some of you may even know we are more sedentary today than ever before in history.

The point is we’re over-satu-

rated with health knowledge, so we just ignore it. The public is as numb to obesity-related statistics as the ever-rising death count in Afghanistan. Information is no longer helping.

We need something more, something that begins to expose and combat the true roots of the obesity epidemic. Unfortunately, “Let’s Move” glosses over these larger issues and focuses purely on the individual. You don’t need a website to figure out the public is too content, too lazy and too impatient. We need to ask the bigger question: Why?

While some may disagree, obesity is truly a societal problem with no clear solution. Sure, indi-viduals are a part of the society and make decisions that affect

it. But a society is more than the sum of its parts. A society is a complicated mess of institutions, governments, laws, religion, socioeconomic status, social norms, languages, cultures and family. These things blend togeth-er over time and space, always producing a unique result.

This complicated mess we call society has tremendous influence over what decisions we even get to make. This is especially true when it comes to health.

For example, being from a privileged, middle-class, tra-ditional Caucasian family that grew up in the suburbs, it was easy for me to go to one of five grocery stores to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. But it would be much harder for me to get healthy food if I grew up in a low-income, inner-city, single-parent family that only had access to a mini-mart because all the grocery stores fled the neighborhood.

Society does not deal every-one a fair hand, so we cannot tackle obesity with a strategy

that assumes we all have equal access to resources. Our solu-tion, then, to obesity must be more comprehensive than just telling someone to get more exer-cise. We all need to make better decisions, but we can only work within our inherited environment.

To be fair, “Let’s Move” does address some of the environmen-tal issues I previously mentioned, but only superficially. It needs to shift the majority of its focus to the messy societal issues surround-ing obesity, especially when it comes to children. There needs to be a better way to combine the necessary physical and nutri-tional advice within a frame-work of community outreach and change.

“Let’s Move” makes an attempt at this under the “Take Action” section of the website, but it falls short of connecting the dots to the larger picture. It should encourage everyone to take some time and look around his or her neighborhood. It should explain how things

like television, cars and seden-tary work environments are all interconnected.

Finally, we cannot stop at knowledge. Just like the tradition-al obesity facts, it does no good to spout off societal problems with no call to action.

Now, my favorite part of the “Let’s Move” program is the focus on doing something. It puts the information, incomplete as it is, into an action plan. It is then up to us to breath life into the plan.

“Let’s Move” is a start. It makes us think about obesity. But it will be hard to implement lasting change without complete societal buy-in because the solu-tions will be hard, expensive and slow.

I hope the first lady gets anoth-er four years to work on this plan because we need all the time we can get.David Schary is a Ph.D. candidate in exercise and sports psychology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Schary can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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Career Services

You’re graduating and ready to cel-ebrate. You deserve it! You’ve worked hard to get to this day. You’ve learned

a ton, cultivated friendships and studied until you dropped.

Maybe you completed an internship, partici-pated in a service project, conducted research, volunteered for a nonprofit or service organiza-tion, held a leadership position in a student club, played a sport, planned a large event, or held a part- or full-time job, all while completing your degree. Impressive!

So, what now? What can you do in the next few months to begin to develop your career and your life after college?

According to a study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and employers, employers plan to hire 10.2 per-

cent more from this year’s graduating class than last year’s. They also plan to hire 8.5 percent more interns. This is after a 19.3 per-cent increase from last year, so this economy is looking up. How can you take advantage of these increases and start yourself on a path to success?

Adele Scheele, a career coach and suc-cess strategist and the author of “Launch Your Career in College,” suggests creating your own opportunities.

“If there is a particular job you’re after, but one not open to you now, ask for an internship (paid or unpaid) and get assigned to a current project, an unfinished task or one that is on the back burner. If you can land it, do much more than your best job.”

The initiative you show by taking a risk and

asking for an opportunity, rather than waiting for one to appear, will impress those connec-tions you make in the process.

Working hard at whatever you do next, regardless if it’s in your field, will pay off. Casey Anderson, a merchandising manage-ment major at Oregon State University, agrees. She took on the tasks that her classmates didn’t seem motivated to do in preparation for a fashion event when she was studying abroad in London.

“When the show was about to commence, I was the only one who had really done anything productive, and it was my name the teacher knew when Vilene [the designer] exclaimed that one of their helpers didn’t show up. They needed someone to participate as an on-stage dresser during the show.”

Doing what needed to be done made Anderson stand out to her instructor, convinc-ing him to become an enthusiastic cham-pion for her career. This same instructor later offered Anderson industry contacts because he was so impressed with her work ethic. So, no matter what you do, work hard and others will notice.

Whatever you have lined up for the summer — relaxing, traveling, working a job or intern-ship, or volunteering — you can be making connections and forming relationships with people who could help guide your path. Sami Kerzel, an English major at OSU, learned this firsthand.

“I recently was speaking with a co-worker,

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Congratulations Class of 2012

College of ForestrySustaining Forests – Enhancing Lives

In spite of the fact that part of my job involves public speaking, I can’t always find the words or

the phrases to express myself well. That’s why I collect quotes that reso-nate with me — some are eloquent, others are just simple and to the point. I would like to share three of these quotes that helped me set my course.

The first is the poem “Invictus” by William ernest Henley. The begin-ning of the poem describes being beaten and bloodied by “circum-stance” and “chance,” yet the author is unafraid of all that lies ahead for him. The final stanza sums up his resolve:

“It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments

the scroll.I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.” Some of the phrases seem odd

as they were written more than 135 years ago, but the message from the last two lines is very clear to me — I decide where I will go, what I will do and how I will carry myself. Yes, cir-cumstances and chance will have an impact on my life, but those random elements do not define me. I can rise

above them and through my hard work and motivation, I can decide my own fate.

Two quotes make reference to a larger stage. First, a statement from Bono that he made during a com-mencement address eight years ago:

“But my point is that the world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”

And the second from Winston Churchill:

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

The message that you are the master of your fate becomes big-ger and more impactful when your perspective becomes bigger than just you. You can and do make a difference in the lives of the people around you — members of your family, your co-workers and others in your community that you may never have met. This message is not new. It is at the heart of the short story, “The Greatest Gift,” written by Philip Van Doren Stern, which most of us know from the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Let this idea live through you.

One last suggestion from personal

experience: Create a family based on love and let it be your safe haven. I’ll let you define “family;” maybe it is just you and your significant other, or maybe it is you, your significant other, your two biological kids and three others whom you have adopt-ed from around the world! Whatever that family looks like, make it full of love and support; encourage each other and set boundaries for what is right and wrong. Hold each other, laugh with each other, cry when things go badly, and let yourself feel each other’s triumphs so deeply you can be moved to tears of joy. When you have a home like this, and chance and circumstance do their worst, you can go home, regroup, recharge and head out the next day to conquer the next challenge.

You can do it, believe it — you are the master of your fate. With this as your mindset, take control of your life and then find places and causes where your actions can make a difference for your family, your com-munity and the world.

Good luck and Godspeed.

hal KoenigProfessor of Marketing

telling her about what I hope to do in the future and how I was looking for an internship,” Kerzel said. “The next day, she pulled me into her office and told me about an intern-ship she just learned about that would be perfect for me. Now, I have an interview and a connection!”

And face it, your career path may not turn out to be a linear progression. Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, believes the ladder model of mov-ing up through your career is outdated and suggests a new image, a jungle gym.

“Move sideways, move down, move on, move off. Build your skills, not your resume,” Sandberg says. “evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you.”

Sandberg added to a group of graduating students, “If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.”

So, be open to the possibilities that await you as you leave one chapter of your life and transition into another, and take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way to learn, grow and form connections with others. Good luck and congratulations!

Jessica baron Graduate Assistant Career Advisor at OSU Career Services

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Advice, thoughts for the future

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by don ilerTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

Gail Murphy had a dilemma. The mother of twins thought

she had to make a hard deci-sion after the date for gradua-tion was changed at Oregon State University from Saturday, June 16, to Sunday, June 17. You see, the mother had already made plans for Sunday.

One of the twins, Colleen, was to graduate from Portland State University on Sunday with a bachelor’s in business admin-istration management and human resources management, while her sister Meara was to graduate from OSU with a master’s in physical education teacher education.

But changing the date so that first lady Michelle Obama could provide the commence-ment address made it so that the family couldn’t be in both places at once.

“Changing the date threw a wrench into our joy in celebrat-ing our daughters’ successes,”

Gail Murphy said. “We didn’t want to split the family.”

Gail Murphy wrote President ed Ray asking if there was something that could be done. Ray responded to the email, and passed it on to Kent Kuo, who made arrangements so that Colleen could receive her diploma from Portland State here at OSU.

“It made our day. Kent Kuo bent over backwards for us,” Gail Murphy said.

The two twins will be sit-ting together at commence-ment and are thankful that the family didn’t get split up for

graduation.“We’re very excited and sur-

prised she’ll be able to sit with me. It’s a great day for both of us,” Meara Murphy said.

Gail Murphy especially appreciates how quickly Ray responded to her request and says so much about the university.

“We didn’t want to have to chose one daughter over the other. We are all excited to hear Michelle Obama,” Gail Murphy said.

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Meara and Colleen Murphy will be able to enjoy commencement together after the university made special arrangements.

“What will you do after you graduate?”

‘‘‘‘

Go bum around portland— choosing to by very careful calculation.

bill bedell,graduating in chemical engineering

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Congratulations to our outstanding graduating Panhellenic women!

We wish you luck on all of your future endeavors!

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Congratulations to all our incredible graduating seniors!

Thank you for all you have done these past four years and good luck on your future endeavors!

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‘‘ ‘‘i wish i knew of all the opportunities available for students — many of

which are not publicized. Looking for opportunities and ways to get involved enriches your experience here. i wish

i had known about those earlier.

Josh Makepeacegraduating in philosophy

Thoughts on Commencement

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What’s the one thing you wish you knew as an incoming student?

What advice would you give younger students?

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i would tell them that they should find a class or organization to get involved with. Find your niche. it’ll

help you last the five years.

sarah Konoldgraduating with a master’s in exercise and sports science

‘‘ ‘‘Fast — i know it’s a

boring word, but i don’t

have a brain anymore.

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You might notice something dif-ferent hanging around some of the necks of the graduating class at this year’s commencement at Oregon State University.

Those red, white and blue cords denote something special and are being worn by veterans or active duty military members who are graduating this year. This is the first time they have been used at a commencement at OSU.

According to Kyle Hatch, former Associated Students of Oregon State University veteran’s affairs task force director, there is estimated to be over 300 gradu-ates this year who are either vet-erans or are currently serving in the military. Hatch approached the faculty senate for approval of use of the honor cords during commencement as a special way to honor those who have served their country.

The cords were donated by the Office of the Vice Provost of Student Affairs and were made available to students. Hatch is seeking to make the use of them a permanent part of commence-ment ceremonies in the future, and anticipates seeing a lot more of them in the future as the wars overseas wind down and more veterans return to school.

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For the first time ever, veterans and those currently serving have been authorized to wear red, white and blue honor cords with their graduation garb during commencement.

“What are your plans after graduation?”

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Got work at boeing.

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What was your commencement cer-emony like?

It was in Gill in ’99 in June. You were only allowed four tickets. It only seats 10,000 for a basketball game and the seats on the floor weren’t all available. I was a master’s student with the bach-elor’s students and all of the graduates. School was a lot smaller back then. There weren’t as many people going through commencement.

Did you see OSU getting this big when you were here?

Actually, I did. My graduate program was in college student services working in admissions. We were actually market-ing. The university didn’t market really. It didn’t put as much of a concentrated effort into recruitment of undergrads.

When I first started advising for new media communications, it had 75 stu-dents in the program. Now it’s got like 300 more.

What is the best thing about the job you do now?

The best thing about my job is still working

with students. The people I’ve worked with for years — seeing somebody come in early in their career as a sophomore or freshman and working with them and seeing them grow, change and develop, and become the adults they want to become. That’s been the rewarding part of it.

How many students graduating on Sunday would you say you have a personal connection with?

Forty to 50 that I feel close with, be it Twitter or Facebook, and having other interactions and other things that take place along the way.

I like seeing the freshmen who come in from the very beginning…but there are so many other students who come to CLA from other areas. They come to OSU for engineering or agriculture and then they find their way toward us.

Why does liberal arts have the nick-name “the destination college”?

When we have our START sessions in the summer, we won’t be the largest group at any particular START session, but this Sunday, we’ll be the largest

group. Students come to Oregon State for whatever reason, then they gravitate toward Liberal Arts because of the facul-ty. They enjoy the classes — makes them think about things they maybe weren’t exposed to before. That’s what they like and can be successful at.

Did you come to Corvallis with the plan to stay?

That wasn’t the plan. I had been an academic adviser for a number of years. I wanted to get a master’s degree to give myself more opportunities. I came here, got the degree, met my wife, and then she got a job teaching, so we’re good. This works for us. As we started having a family, there’s no better place to raise kids. We’ve made a life here.

What are your fondest memories as a student at OSU?

I felt like the typical undergrad even though I was a grad student. When I was a student, I remember coming to football games, being able to walk right into the stadium right before game time, sit at the 40-yard line, bringing in a Beaver flag and swinging it around like it was no big deal. It was kind of stupid at the same time. The Peacock is one of those funny things, too. The Peacock has been here for like 50 years; it’s been here for a really long time.

How have you seen Corvallis change since you’ve been here?

Well, certainly there has been more of the corporate places coming in. The downtown has changed a lot… There wasn’t a lot downtown.

Don’t get me wrong, I like it that Home Depot is here, as someone who has recently purchased a house.

A lot of people consider OSU a sepa-

rate entity from Corvallis; would you say you’ve made it possible to mix the two?

You live in a college town. I don’t see how you can separate it. For me, as someone who works at the univer-sity, that’s part of my life. There’s people who complain for six Saturdays a year because of home football games, fire-works at football games. I think that’s lame. You can look at it with a couple different metaphors. I consider it’s layers of the onion — OSU is the middle of the onion and everything else comes out from it. People are starting to push away from that, but the reality is that this growth has been necessary. The university is doing well.

What are some of the life skills that OSU provided you that you’ve used throughout your career?

That’s an interesting one. My aca-demic experience was one thing, but the opportunity presented itself for me to look. It opened my eyes and exposed me to a lot more areas of the university, by coming to a larger institution. I had two jobs when I was in grad school, all at the same time. One was working in admis-sions, one was working at the Peacock, and the other was working in the athletic department. I was tutoring.

What’s something a Corvallis resi-dent or OSU alumnus gets to enjoy that other people in other parts of the world

KristenArzner by Joce deWittTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

How does Oregon compare to Michigan?

I really appreciate and love smaller towns. Being here in a university town, it has all the amenities and diversity that comes along with that. There are a lot of great outdoorsy people, so all the trails are definitely right up my alley.

Corvallis is so ideally situated. Being here, you’re an hour from the coast, if you want to go up to the mountains for skiing and whatnot, not too far from Portland or eugene if you want a little bit bigger city.

Tell me more about what you studied.

It was more on the resource side of things — a lot on water law and basi-cally just environmental issues. Being new to Oregon and starting with that degree, it shed light on the environ-mental and natural resource issues that are here locally and regionally.

What would you say is the best thing about your job?

Oh, that’s hard. Definitely I feel really fortunate that I get to do what I love to do, and it’s something I’m really passionate about. I’m very pas-sionate about food, very passionate

about beer, and I love working with people. I get to meet people every day. We’ve also created a community here at Block 15. We have over 70 employees now, employees that I’ve been with for four and a half years. To make that connection and share that passion with your local commu-nity is pretty awesome.

They seem pretty receptive to what you have to offer.

Yes, it’s been great. Being locally owned and operated, we can talk to customers and team members and see what they want from our business.

What has been the best thing about staying local after you graduated?

You’re already familiar; you’ve

already made those connections. I made a lot of friends and there are relationships you can create during your time at OSU. That really did help, especially being a restaurant owner. I felt like I knew the town and the demographics of the community well enough and I’d also been work-ing in the industry, which was helpful. Obviously having a natural resource degree doesn’t necessarily mean opening a restaurant, but being in the community and working in the indus-try, knowing people, it really helped. It’s definitely a homegrown business.

There’s an idea that college stu-dents live in their own little bubble. Would you say you were given the

Meet some alumni

Louie BottaroSynopsis: Louie Bottaro is an academic advisor for the College of Lib-eral Arts. He graduated from Willamette University and came to Oregon State for a graduate program in college student services while he worked in admissions. Originally from Winston, Ore., Bottaro now lives with his wife, Tish, and their two children.Graduation: Graduated from OSU in 1999Corvallis: Lived in Corvallis for 15 years

Kristen ArznerSynopsis: Kristen Arzner and her husband Nick are co-owners of Block 15 Brewery in downtown Corvallis. Though Nick grew up in Oregon, his family moved to the Midwest where he and Kristen met. They moved to Corvallis from Michigan, where she is originally from, to attend Oregon State for her final two years as an undergraduate. Kristen graduated from OSU with a degree in agricultural and resource economics with a focus in environmental law and natural policy. Block 15 is one of the biggest businesses in downtown Corvallis and it recently extended its ser-vices by opening a restaurant, Les Caves, next door.Graduation: Graduated from OSU in 2004Corvallis: Lived in Corvallis for 10 years

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Louie Bottaro is an adviser in the College of Liberal Arts. Bottaro got his master’s from OSU in 1999 and has lived here ever since.

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Kristen Arzner received her degree in agricultural and resource economics, but now owns Block 15 Brewery with her husband in downtown Corvallis.

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by don iler, Alex hilbornTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

We looked at the news that happened this year at Oregon State University and picked the top news stories. Of course, a lot of other things happened around the world, but here in Corvallis, these seemed to be the top stories that most affected our university and community.

January floodsIn mid-January, Governor John Kitzhaber

declared a state of emergency due to flooding caused by snowmelt and heavy rainfall that totaled 4.02 inches in a 24-hour period, getting third place for rainiest recorded day in Corvallis.

The conditions of the flood resulted in property damage, personal injuries and even loss of life. Local high schools, such as Crescent Valley High School, turned into temporary Red Cross shelters to house the displaced.

On OSU’s campus, facility service employees battled to prevent structural damage to historical buildings like the Memorial Union. University administrators canceled several hours of class, as well as an entire day during the week of flood-ing, so students did not have to travel in adverse weather conditions.

The flood had many long-term effects on the community, ranging from the possible contamina-tion of well water sources to the distribution of fish populations in the Willamette River.

Accessibility, compliance with Americans with disabilities Act

Accessibility issues on campus continue to present ongoing topics of debate for the Able Student Alliance and Oregon State University, as the Able Student Alliance tries to make the university fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In another attempt to make sure the university listens to their position on accessibility, the Able Student Alliance filed a list of 10 complaints with the Office of equity and Inclusion on Jan. 17.

“We filed complaints in 2009, and I appealed three of them to the chancellor and asked that a hearing be held,” said Jeffrey evans, head of the Able Student Alliance, about how the Able Student Alliance has made previous attempts

to get the university to address accessibility problems.

The Able Student Alliance’s complaints focus on concerns with locations such as the Milam Hall ramp or the Furman Hall entrance. Buildings constructed within the last few years and well after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, such as the Linus Pauling Science Center, even receive mention within the com-plaints as examples of the university’s failure to meet Americans with Disabilities Act compliance.

A recent independent survey that looked into the campus’s state of accessibility found over 5,000 violations of Americans with Disabilities Act policy.

bond passes for student experience Center

After a setback during last year’s legislative session when the bond for the Student experience Center was not included in the capital construc-tion bill, the bond was included in this year’s capital construction bill during the shortened legislative session in February.

The center will be built on what is now the metered parking lot next to the Memorial Union and will be the new home for many different student activities and groups, including The Daily Barometer. Students voted to approve a fee to pay for the building back in 2010, and will now be assessed a fee of $48 a term.

The building is expected to be completed by December 2015.

Asosu president impeachmentThe Associated Students of Oregon State

University spent most of the year mired in contro-versy, much of it stemming from the impeachment of ASOSU President M. Tonga Hopoi in October.

The house of representatives impeached Hopoi after she pulled ASOSU out of the Oregon Student Association over the summer and ceased attending OSA meetings, though as she was statutorily, required to.

A trial in the senate found Hopoi guilty and censured her. ASOSU returned to participating in the Oregon Student Association and Hopoi continued to act as president, though not without controversy.

The impeachment and trial provided a ran-corous backdrop to the proceedings of student government for the rest of the year. Later in the year in February, it was discovered that execu-tive cabinet members had been overpaid after Hopoi had ordered pay raises over the summer that went against the statutes. The situation was eventually rectified.

Mu president no longer elected

Based on a decision by the Memorial Union Advisory Board, for the first time in university history, the positions of MU President and MU Vice President for the 2012-2013 school year will go to individuals chosen through a selec-tion process instead of by student vote in the Associated Students of Oregon State University general elections.

The MU Advisory Board implemented the change to the positions in an attempt to make the selection process less of a student popular-ity contest and more akin to a job interview. They want to ensure the candidates taking the positions had the qualities needed to fulfill their leadership roles.

“What I heard was that there was some con-cern that this would become an internal process, that we would simply be finding internal candi-dates that would be the best choice for this,” said Robin Ryan, a representative of professional/classified staff on the Advisory Board, about opposition to the change. “We might get to the point where we are all in the same camp of think-ing, and not challenging ourselves to get out of our comfort zone and our box.”

After a search committee settled on four final-ists for MU President, each of the finalists gave a presentation on how they envisioned their role in the MU if they earned the position. Following the selection process, Michael Fashana received the position of MU President.

The MU President will no longer be a voting member of the Student Incidental Fee Committee.

university growthThe university continued its pace of break neck

growth, with enrollment for the university reach-ing new record levels.

However, President ed Ray announced dur-ing his annual state of the university address that OSU was looking at curbing the pace of enrollment growth. He also announced plans this spring to expand the university’s Cascades Campus in Bend, aiming for creation of a full four-year campus there.

Michelle obama visits CorvallisIf you’re reading this, you probably already

know that the first lady will be speaking at this year’s commencement. But the city and the uni-versity has been abuzz with preparations for the first lady’s visit.

Obama speaking at commencement has increased the visibility of the university, putting OSU on the map for its efforts in public health and will undoubtedly be talked about for years to come. It’s not every day a first lady comes to town, especially in an election year. Then again, she did come to Corvallis last summer for a pri-vate family visit.

tuition up, fees downTuition is going up again, this time by 6.9

percent, continuing the trend of ever increasing costs for higher education.

Tuition has gone up 49.5 percent since 2005, with funds received from the state blamed for needing to increase tuition.

However, the Student Incidental Fee Committee voted to lower fees this year, and students will be paying 2.8 percent less in fees than they were last year. Students overall will still be paying 5.1 percent more overall when combined with the tuition increase.

Construction on campusTo keep up with the growth of the student

body, construction continued all over campus. The university opened the Linus Pauling Science Center, the Hallie Ford Center and finished the renovation of Furman Hall.

The university also renovated many classrooms in older buildings, and plans went ahead for the Student experience Center after the bond it was approved.

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I may have been a little unique because I did come into it starting my junior year. We had already done the dorm thing out in the Midwest, but here, I wasn’t living on campus, so I think I became more rooted quickly because of that. I honestly instantly loved Corvallis, I really did.

What are some of your fondest memories at OSU?

One of my first classes, and again being new to the state and never having been here before, we took a field trip and took a bus through the Cascades. I think it was a geology class.

I also took a soil systems class, so we toured some different farms, and I loved a lot of the interactive parts of classes and being able to be outside. Instead of being in a class and them saying, “This is what this looks like,” they actu-ally took me there.

I did a lot of camping and a lot of hiking.You weren’t in a degree people take if

they’re interested in running a restaurant. You studied something you were passionate about and you’re doing something now that you’re passionate about. What did OSU pro-vide you with that you’ve used throughout your career?

Specifically tied to sustainability, environment and natural resources, I really try to carry over those ideals and beliefs to both Block 15 and Les Caves. We do a lot and working closely with local and regional farmers and we try to be organic as much as possible. I know order-ing organic stuff in a restaurant sounds cool, but I’ve actually seen those farms. OSU showed me that and took me out to those places.

We all know being environmentally friendly is good now, but [OSU] really brought it to light, especially locally. It really made the con-nection for me. And communication skills — I’m definitely not the best speaker in the world, but I was extremely timid. I took a communications class that helped me a lot.

What’s something a Corvallis resident/OSU alumna gets to enjoy about life that people in other parts of the world don’t?

Corvallis has a keen sense of community, and it’s a rare form of community. I mean, look at our downtown. It’s all locally owned and operated businesses. Most of Corvallis is made

of people who really care about people who live here. You definitely don’t find that in a lot of places, and I believe it’s genuine. When we started, people don’t embrace everything, but they were definitely willing to give us a try. It’s definitely a good place to do business from my perspective.

The downtown has changed a lot in the last 10 years that I’ve been here. Things just keep changing. There’s going to be a lot of places staying the same, but there are always new things popping up. Some things keep growing taller, we’ll see what happens with that. Things on the riverfront are really happening, I think we’ll see places down there continue to grow. I think most growth will probably be down on the riverfront. I think we have a good mix… I think we’ll continue to have a good mix.

What are things you know now that you wish you would’ve known before you graduated?

I think it’s good to have a balance. My first two years of college, I was like, “Woo, I’m in college!” and then spent the next two years making up for it. Just find that balance. It’s good to have fun and hang out, but just stay focused.

Overall, I would’ve gotten more out of it in the end if I had a better balance.

I remember being so focused in the beginning on what major and thinking, “Oh, if I pick this it means that’s what I’m doing for the rest of my life.” I think I’m a great example of that. I think you can study something that you really enjoy and obviously, I had the intentions of going to law school and doing environmental law.

Keep your eyes open. I think the possibilities are pretty endless. Take risks.They should be educated risks, but take risks.

Do you have a tip for graduating seniors?Just to be ready for the unexpected and don’t

fear it. embrace it. Be confident in yourself; don’t be afraid to take risks.

Get as much experience as possible. People come to us and they’re like, “Oh, it must be so much fun owning a restaurant and a brewery,” and it is. But we also worked in the industry between the two of us, 13 years. I’ve been a dish washer, a cook, a barista… I never would’ve been able to do it without all the things I learned — what to do and what not to do.

Joce deWitt, senior reporternews@dailybarometer.comOn Twitter: @Joce_DeWitt

ARZNERContinued from page 10

Seth Trimmer

by Joce deWittTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

Did you attend both commencement ceremonies?I went for my undergrad but not grad school. I finished

the program in July; it was a yearlong program. I wasn’t emotional, and I was engaged at the time. I got married a week after graduation, so honestly, I was a little bit more excited about that than the degree.

What would you say is the best thing about your job?I think I love being able to simultaneously serve God

and people. I love influencing influencers and leading leaders. I think that people, in particularly students, at Oregon State and a lot of people in the Corvallis commu-nity, because it is a pretty transient city, move on and do great things, and they go all over the world. They change culture and industry and business, marketplace, all that, and I have a pretty high privilege to influence people who are going to change the world.

When you were going to school, had you planned on staying in Corvallis?

Not at first; it kind of evolved. Growing up here, I kind of always wanted to leave. I stayed because of the athletic scholarship, and I think through Oregon State I discovered a whole different facet to Corvallis that, when growing up here, you don’t see. It’s kind of its own little city within a city. Honestly, the big thing for me was becoming a Christian and fulfilling a call of service to this community. Those were huge things for me.

When did that call come?It was probably toward my senior year of college,

but it really got strong and confirmed in the grad school year. It was the thing that made the most sense and it seemed to piece together all the different gifts and abili-ties and desires that I had. Although getting an education at Oregon State kind of played a piece of that, as well

as business and teaching. It was all definitely a gradual evolution of, “Man, it would be great… Man, I think I could…I think I should…and yeah, I think I will.”

This is the first job I had after college — doing campus ministry.

What are your fondest memories as a student at OSU?I think my fondest memories were football seasons

in the fall. I enjoyed my roommates and all the times of camaraderie — male bonding. I think meeting my wife is on the top of that list. A lot of memories as a student weren’t necessarily in the classroom. Although those weren’t negative by any means, it was more of the rela-tionships I formed in athletics, in church, with my future wife, the community of Oregon State.

What would you say is the best thing about staying local and being part of a community that you got to know as a student?

I think the university kind of helps keep sort of a fountain of youth for my soul and keeps a healthy pressure for me to be relevant, not artificially young, but immediately con-nected to the world. I love that. I love that I get a small town with no Walmarts or shopping malls, but also one that I like to call “culturally buoyant.” It’s a great place to raise my family. It’s so ironic that in a small city in Oregon, you can meet people from all over the world.

How has Corvallis been for raising your kids?It’s been great. It’s top-notch. Having gone through the

education program through Oregon State, I got exposed to Corvallis public schools, worked in the public schools — still do, I’m still an employee as a substitute teacher — so I got to see it firsthand. I see the classrooms and the teachers, their competency and passion. So even the worst schools in Corvallis are probably well above the average school in America, I would say. That aspect is nice.

I do like the emphasis on sustainability and people who care about the space they live in. I think there’s a natural beauty in Corvallis that is maintained with intention.

What did OSU provide you with that you’ve used throughout your career?

I think I’ve learned a way to think. I learned how to interact with a world that I don’t always see eye-to-eye with, so learning how to engage in diverse communities. I think that was pretty significant. Learning how to learn, and also just learning how much I don’t know. I think there remains just an active pursuit of wanting to grow person-ally, academically and professionally.

I think any university experience can reveal that you have a very diverse range of people in any given classroom setting, but there has always been a common thread woven through everyone’s life stories and every-one’s journey. There’s great, I think, solidarity you can

find with people. Did you feel your beliefs were welcomed at OSU?It all depends on the context and the individual person

and past experiences. By in large, I think there’s a great hunger to seek something deeper in life. In that sense, there is quite a bit of openness. There is hostility toward assump-tions. There are prejudices and bad experiences with faith or religion that don’t often represent the faith or God.

What is something you get to enjoy as a Corvallis resi-dent or OSU alumnus that other people don’t?

I enjoy my commute to work, which is a 50-minute walk, 18-minute bike ride, and seven-minute drive depending on the lights. I love, depending on the weath-er, how I get to work, or pretty much anywhere in town, that it’s just beautiful and peaceful. I think what I love about Corvallis is that it’s very seasonal. There are sea-sons here of light and rhythms, summers calm immensely on the student side of things. The weather is beautiful. You experience all different kinds of rhythms — sports seasons, midterms, dead week, finals week, stress levels, up, down, but it’s not a city that red lines 100 miles an hour. It ebbs and it flows, which I think is really nice.

Do you have any tips for graduating seniors?Yeah. Keep the first things first.

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don’t get to?every year is a cycle for

me. After commencement, and all the students move out of town, it gets kind of quiet eerily so…when the summer rolls around, it slows down. You’re not in the kind of mindset of trying to park. When September rolls around, you want that energy. To slow down for a couple of months is great, but there is something about the energy that starts up in fall. I found out myself that I work better in this annual cycle.

As an adviser, you give advice every day. What is the advice you find yourself giving out the most?

Nobody cares what your GPA was. Find something you love to do and have somebody pay you for it. enjoy the ride.

Hopefully, students can walk away knowing they had a good experience, that they learned and changed being in college, and OSU was that place that helped them get to that place they want to be. It may be about their career, it may be about love, it may be about finding a passion of where they are supposed to be and what they are supposed to do with their lives.

I think if you graduate, and you’re 23 and you don’t know what the world holds for you yet, that’s OK. Know you’ve been given some tools and that you should work toward that from pro-cess and evaluation. And you’ve got some allies.

Once you leave this place, you’re not just gone forever.

Joce deWitt, senior reporternews@dailybarometer.comOn Twitter: @Joce_DeWitt

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Former OSU football player Seth Trimmer stayed in Corvallis and is now a pastor at Grace City Church.

Seth TrimmerSynopsis: Seth Trimmer is the pastor of Grace City Church on the corner of Ninth Street and Washington Avenue in Corvallis. He went to high school at Cres-cent Valley and committed to Oregon State University with a football scholarship where he played wide receiver through the 2002 season. He completed his undergrad in business and also completed a graduate program in education at OSU. Trimmer lives in Cor-vallis with his wife, Hannah, and their three sons; the couple is also currently expecting a daughter.Graduation: Undergrad degree from OSU in 2002, graduate degree in 2003Corvallis: Lived in Corvallis for 28 years

by Levi downeyTHe DAILY BAROMeTeR

We asked all graduating seniors to submit a creative piece that represents their time here at OSU. Then using Facebook, we let the public decide which one was fit for print.

Joe Heiberg’s submission won with a total of 530 ‘likes’:

“ending year five here at OSU sure is bitter sweet. I feel like I’ve juiced this college for all it’s worth and look forward to doing the same to the real world. This picture was taken in Kristiansand, Norway, where I studied abroad my first senior year. We are sit-ting front row at the local soccer team’s home opener.”

Joe is graduating with a bach-elor’s in management & adminis-tration with and option in interna-

tional business.Special thanks to the finalists

Megan Amadon, Craig Bidiman,

Kelsey O’Sullivan and Christy Turner – see their entries at: www.facebook.com/DailyBarometer

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your temporary homes. Many of you completed research with OSU faculty members eager to share their exper-tise with the next generation of young scientists, or intern-ships related to environmental sciences in places ranging from Madras, Ore., to Fiji.

Your interdiscipl inary understanding of science and its connection to our world — and your passion for protect-ing the environment — is sore-ly needed. Noted Harvard biologist e.O. Wilson wrote, “The crisis is not long term but here and now; it is upon us. Like it or not, we are entering the century of the environ-ment, when science and poli-ties will give the highest prior-ity to settling humanity down before we wreck the planet.”

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, pro-fessor of zoology at OSU, and currently secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and administra-tor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, wrote similarly, “…humans have emerged as a new force of nature. We are modifying physical, chemical and bio-logical systems in new ways, at faster rates, and over larg-er spatial scales than ever recorded on earth. Humans have unwittingly embarked upon a grand experiment with our planet. The outcome of this experiment is unknown, but has profound implications for all of life on earth.” She called for a new social con-tract for science, which asks scientists — that is you! — to advance understanding of the

unprecedented problems that we face, communicate that understanding to the public to enhance the making of sound policies, and “exercise good judgment, wisdom and humility.”

This is your century — go forth and do good work! Good work includes making ethical-ly and environmentally sound personal choices. Good work also includes doing research in climate science, teaching middle schoolers, becoming a policy advocate on Capitol Hill, building energy-efficient buildings, working within gov-ernment agencies and agri-culture to promote sustainable practices; the opportunities for people trained in environ-mental sciences are diverse and expanding.

We live on a rapidly chang-ing planet, which requires that you be lifelong learners. The environmental problems that you work on in the future may be problems that are not yet recognized — who knew even 10 years ago that ocean acidification would be a concern?

You are the first class of environmental sciences majors to graduate under the College of earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, a college with a world-class reputation in research that has welcomed an infusion of undergraduate energy and enthusiasm to which you contribute.

Congratulations to all of you. Pursue your dreams and save the world in small ways or large!

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Women’s golfPac-12Championships: 11th

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Women’s rowingPac-12Championships: 7th (out of 7)

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Men’s rowingPac-12Championships: 4th (out of 7)

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Pac-12Championships: 9thPostseason:16th (out of 31) at

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Pac-12Championships: 8th (out of 9)Postseason:—

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Senior Earlysia Marchbanks made All-Pac-12 First Team after leading OSU in scoring, rebounding and assists in 2011-12.

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The OSU wrestling team, which finished 10th in the nation, had a lot to be excited about this year.

WrestlingPac-12Championships:1st

IndividualPac-12titles: junior Mike Mangrum (141), sophomore Scott Sakaguchi (149),

sophomore RJ Pena (157), senior Clayton Jack (HWT)Postseason: 10th at NCAA ChampionshipsAll-Americans: senior Clayton Jack (HWT),

junior Mike Mangrum (141), sophomore Scott Sakaguchi (149)

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Men’s soccerRecord: 5-11-2

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Women’s basketballRecord: 20-13Pac-12: 9-9 (T-5th)

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Sophomore Tayla Woods sets the ball for senior Ashley Eneliko during a match vs. USC on Nov. 11.

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Sports Year in Review

BaseballRecord: 40-20Pac-12: 18-12 (T-4th)Postseason: Lost to LSU in Baton Rouge Regional finalAll-Conference: freshman OF Michael Conforto (1st, Freshman of the Year), junior IF Tyler Smith (1st), freshman SP Jace Fry (HM), sophomore SP Dan Child (HM), senior IF Ryan Dunn (HM), sophomore C/IF Jake Rodriguez (HM)

Women’s soccerRecord: 13-5-3

Pac-12: 7-3-1 (3rd)Postseason: Lost to Portland in first

round of NCAA TournamentAll-Conference:

junior F Chelsea Buckland (1st), sophomore F Jenna Richardson (2nd),

senior G Colleen Boyd (HM), senior D Brittany Galindo (HM)

GymnasticsPac-12Championships: 3rd

Postseason: 12th at NCAA ChampionshipsAll-Conference: senior Leslie Mak

(Gymnast of the Year), junior Melanie Jones (1st),

junior Makayla Stambaugh (1st), senior Olivia Vivian (1st), junior Kelsi Blalock (2nd),

sophomore Brittany Harris (2nd)

Men’s basketballRecord: 21-15Pac-12: 7-11 (T-8th)Postseason: Lost to WSU in CBI semifinalsAll-Conference: junior G Jared Cunningham (1st, All-Defensive)

FootballRecord: 3-9Pac-12: 3-6 (10th)Postseason: —All-Conference: junior DB Jordan Poyer (2nd), freshman De Scott Crichton (HM), senior P Johnny Hekker (HM), senior C Grant Johnson (HM), senior S Lance Mitchell (HM), junior WR Markus Wheaton (HM)

SoftballRecord: 36-23

Pac-12: 9-14 (8th out of 10)Postseason: Lost to Oklahoma

in Norman Regional finalAll-Conference: junior IF elizabeth Santana (1st),

freshman OF Dani Gilmore (HM, All-Freshman), senior OF Mary Claire Brenner (HM),

senior IF erin Guzy (HM), senior P/DH Paige Hall (HM)

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Freshman running back Malcolm Agnew avoids Stanford linebacker Jack Lancaster during an OSU loss Nov. 5.

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Forward Melinda Ingalls was one of five senior starters for the Beavers in 2011.

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Junior guard Jared Cunningham was a highlight waiting to happen every time he touched the ball this year.

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Senior Olivia Vivian performs on the uneven bars during a meet at Gill Coliseum on March 16.

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Senior Ryan Dunn (honorable mention) was one of six Beavers to earn All-Conference recognition this spring.

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Winning is fun, something freshman Ya Garcia and the OSU softball team can attest to after a great year.

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