Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Tough competition Preparing to pa the ball. Shana Daniel . OSU ba ketball forward, look for a teammate The women ba ke«ball team lost to the Rollin' Rebel . 23 8. Thanks for coming Before the game begin. Brett Martin, vice president of the Disabled Students Organisation, give the opening jpeech. 1 The purpose of the exhibition games was to raise money to '■ purchase a handicapped van for disabled student and staff ® on campus Trapped In a 15-0 lots. Kent Riddle, of the OSU football team, hides the ball from Mike Hay , five year veteran, and Mike Morin, eight year veteran center. The ba ketball game was sponsored by the Disabled Student Organization, with proceed going to benefit handicapped student on campus. Disabled Students Basketball 13

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HOOPS Rollin' Rebels defeat opponents hose who said that people restrained to a wheelchair couldn’t play basketball were proven wrong when the members of Rollin’ Rebels played in an exhibition basketball game spring term. The first annual game was sponsored by the Disabled Students Organization. It was part of the activities planned for Handicapped Awareness Week. Proceeds benefited the handicapped people on campus. Donations were taken at the door and in return spectators received a button sporting the DSO name. The organization was trying to accomplish a longterm goal of purchasing an electric cart for the handicapped as well as injured students and staff. The Rollin' Rebels put a lot of talented athletes in an awkward position as some of Oregon States finest placed their bodies in a wheelchair in an attempt to play a game of basketball against the nationally ranked team. Members from the men’s and women’s basketball teams, gymnastics team. ROTC. staff, administration and residents from the Corvallis and Albany community tried their luck at wheelchair basketball. The women’s basketball team was the most competitive for the Rebels, but lost 23-8. Next in line was the Pac-10 co-champions, the men’s basketball team who tried and tried again, but lost 16-3. After the game the cheerleading squad and the football team decided to stick with their chosen sport after losing 14-0 and 15-0. Amazingly enough the rules were very similar to the NCAA rules with few changes. The players couldn’t rise out of their chairs without receiving a technical foul, they couldn’t push the chair forward twice between each dribble and they couldn’t touch their feet to the ground without receiving a O'-jo'v O Napot personal foul. Being in a wheelchair gave challengers a taste of what the Rollin’ Rebels and others faced everyday. DSO provided participants with six wheelchairs located in Dixon Recreation Center. They were available for practice, but what students might not have realized was the fact that those wheelchairs could be checked-out and used around campus. It was a chance for students to experience what it was like to get to class on time or just get around. After students used the wheelchairs they were encouraged to write a one-page summary on their experience. This game was an opportunity for people to see the many talents of the handicapped. So whoever said that it was impossible to play basketball in a wheelchair better think again because the handicapped students at Oregon State had a lot to offer the campus as well as the community. - S 0t»v AOd Nopo Putting it up Going (or a basket, an OSU rally member shoots over Archie Beeching, nine year member of the Rollin' Rebels. Beeching lost part of his right leg in a mine explosion in Vietnam. Two points Releasing the ball. Mike Morin, eight year veteran center, goes for a layup. Morin lost his leg in 1977 to cancer. 12 Disabled Students Basketball

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BIG BLUE Surfers ride the waves spent the night dreaming of my first wave. It was warm, about 80 degrees. 74 in the water. The waves were breaking gracefully to the right of the coastline. It took me only two attempts to get up on my first wave and just as I was about to cutback off the crest back into the wave — my alarm went off sending chills through me as the realization of the biting winter air hit my face. It was a late October morning and the cold light of the sun was just beginning to breech the snow covered peaks in the horizon. While I watched the sun rise it dawned on me that this days surfing was not going to mirror the pleasant dreams of the night before. I met the Surf Club at the Beanery at 6 a.m. with all my camera equipment in hand. As I reached the front door I noticed the window lined with the members colorful surf boards. Inside there were eight guys sitting there with looks of excited anticipation on all of their faces, bke a child on a Christmas morning. Rusty Guild, the clubs president, greeted me and introduced me to the rest of the guys. I had met a few of them two nights before, at the clubs bimonthly meeting. According to Guild, there were 15 regulars who showed up to the meetings, but the club had 45 people sign-up in early Fall. “Not everyone is dedicated enough to brave the cold waters of the Oregon Coast. he added. The surfers wore 5mm full-body suits all year round, as opposed to the 3mm suits the surfers wore in California during the winter months only. Oregon surfers also wore booties, gloves and hoods. Guild, a native Californian, has been riding waves since the eighth grade. His desire for surfing followed him to OSU and that is why he and Scott Probart, now at Florida State, started the club. The meetings served as a chance for the members Above the sea After catching a wave. Jay Hensleigh. junior In agriculture science, rides it for every last thrust. Hensleigh was from Seaside. Ore., where he learned to surf. to talk about their past experiences but more importantly they would talk about when they were going out next. “Someone in the club will go out every weekend, and I go out about every other week, said Guild. The club had surfers from California. Oregon. Washington. Hawaii. Florida and New Hampshire. Guild found the Oregon Coast to be favorable surfing territory. “The waves in Oregon are challenging because they are not consistent, they arc untamed so you really have to read each wave right. Guild said. “There are no crowds and the surfers you do meet are real friendly. You don’t find that ‘competitive localism’ you find in Southern California. he added. I finally got my chance to surf. They told me that it wouldn’t be that hard, but they were wrong, it was. 1 never even made it into the line-up. After about a half an hour of fighting the cold breaking waves I gave up — at least for now. - Grrgwy D Nap