This week, Oregon State men’s basketball prepares to play postseason basketball in the very first College Basketball Crown event in Las Vegas against Central Florida. Unfortunately for Wayne Tinkle’s group, they’ll do so without their three top players after Michael Rataj, Nate Kingz, and Parsa Fallah all entered the transfer portal. Can they still make a run at it? Your host Matt Bagley gets you ready for the event.

Plus, several Oregon State football players have a shot to get invites to NFL rookie camps, or possibly even hear their names called in this month’s NFL Draft. Joshua Gray leads an exciting group on that front. Go Beavs

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SALEM Ore. (KPTV) – Republican lawmakers in Oregon are trying to repeal the state’s longstanding vote-by-mail system.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle are preparing to debate Senate Bill 210 which would return the state to in-person voting.

The new bill was introduced in January, 2025 by David Brock Smith (R-Port Orford).

The bill would require in-person voting for most Oregon residents on election day and would require voters to present a government-issued ID when voting.

The bill does hold exemptions for military personnel overseas.

In 1998, Oregon voters overwhelmingly chose to implement vote-by-mail and in 2000 Oregon became the first state to conduct an all vote-by-mail election for the president of the United States.

The bill was set to be debated for the first time Monday at 1 p.m. in front of the Senate Committee on Rules.

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Faculty and administrators at the University of Oregon reached a deal on Sunday to avoid a strike set to begin just as students returned to campus for spring term on Monday.

The university agreed to give 4.5% raises to faculty, career instructors and researchers immediately, then offer additional increases in September of 2025 and 2026.

In the fall of 2025, tenured and instructional faculty would receive a raise of 3.25% under the proposed deal. Research faculty would get a 4.25% raise and limited-term faculty a 2% raise.

In the fall of 2026, tenured faculty would get a 2% raise, career instructors and researchers a 3% raise and limited-term faculty a 2% raise.

The United Academics faculty union, which represents some 1,800 faculty, researchers and librarians across campus still needs to present the agreement to its members, who will vote whether to ratify the contract.

The last-minute deal to avoid a strike caps off more than a year of bargaining between administrators and faculty, who argued they were underpaid compared to peers at other elite research universities.

The move means faculty at Oregon’s second and third largest public universities have won contract bumps amid recent labor unrest. Portland State administrators announced last week that the university had reached a tentative agreement. That includes a roughly 4% cost of living increase in the first year of the new contract, and a 3% increase in year two, according to the faculty union. Faculty in Portland vote on whether to approve that contract next week.

Sami Edge covers higher education and politics for The Oregonian. You can reach her at sedge@oregonian.com or (503) 260-3430.