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Socratic Club hosts morality debate

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Corinne Carver, Sophomore in pre-communication. Tonight’s Socratic Club debate will focus on the purpose of God in ethics.

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Dr. Loren Davis, associate professor of anthropology at OSU, overlooks the Cooper’s Ferry excavation site in Idaho. Davis has led the expedition since 1997, when he dug a test pit and uncovered a weapons cache dating back over 13,000 years ago.

Unearthing, recovering relics of North American history

n Two acclaimed academics argue for, against the need for God in ethics in a Socratic Club debate

by ryan dawesThe DaILy BarOmeTer

Tonight at 7 in Milam Auditorium, the Socratic Club will once again host a debate on religion chal-lenging both the academics debating, as well as the entire audience on the topic “Does Morality Require God?”

Dr. Michael Gurney, a professor of philosophy and theology at Multnomah University, will debate Dr. Austin Dacey, a philosopher and the author of “The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life” and “The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the

Sacred in an Age of Human Rights.”The debate will tackle questions such as: “Who

defines what is good and evil, right and wrong?” and “Can a satisfactory morality be constructed from a nontheist perspective?” and “Do we need God to direct our morality and understand how we ought to live?” and “Is it crucial, beneficial, misleading or even dangerous to attribute morality to God?”

“There’s a lot of discussion on the basis of eth-ics today,” said Gary Ferngren, an Oregon State University history professor and adviser of the Socratic club at OSU. “Why people act the way they do and whether we depend on our own culture to tell us what ethical, our conscience, or our God are

n International student Mishal Algari smoothly transitioned to Corvallis life from Jubail

by ryan dawesThe DaILy BarOmeTer

Since middle school, Oregon State University mechanical engineering sophomore Mishal Algari has want-ed to leave his home in Saudi Arabia and study abroad in the United States. For the past year now, he has seen this hope fulfilled.

Long before coming to America, Algari grew up in Jubail, a city with a population about the size of the Eugene-Springfield area, in the Eastern Provence of Saudi Arabia.

“Jubail is different from other Saudi Arabian cities,” Algari said. “Different people from all over the world go there for work. Due to a variety of worldviews, it’s a fairly understand-ing and accepting place to be.”

Growing up, Algari spent most of his free time hanging out on the beach, playing soccer with his friends and playing video games, all the while trying to keep cool dur-ing the heat of the summer months. Located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, Jubail can get incredibly hot and humid.

“When I say [Jubail] is hot, it’s real-ly hot,” Algari said. “From noon to 3, no labor is allowed in the city. My brother and I conducted an experi-ment one time just to see how hot it was. We cracked an egg on the side-walk, and it literally cooked.”

Other than dealing with the heat and having fun with his friends, fam-ily was also an important aspect of

Algari’s life.“When I was a kid, every weekend

my family and I would go to my grandmother’s house to spend time with my mom’s side of the family,” Algari said.

After Algari expressed interest in studying in America, the connec-tions throughout his extended family helped pave his way to coming to Corvallis. Several of Algari’s relatives had studied in America, and Algari’s father, Adel, began contacting them to decide on a school.

“My cousin had just graduated from a university in a small Oregon town called Corvallis,” Algari said. “He said the school was great and that the town was genuinely a good place to be. I did a little more research on it, and eventually the family agreed it would be the best place for Mishal to apply to.”

Algari then began his college career here. While enjoying writ-ing and reading, and considering being an English major, he settled instead on mechanical engineering. He worked hard and quickly made a group of friends here, and soon had settled down comfortably into Corvallis life.

“What I love about [Corvallis] is how people can express what they like and want to do and still be accepted without becoming an outsider,” Algari said. “I also love the contrast between Corvallis and Jubail. I love the rain and all the green here.”

Ali Al Nasser, also an international student from Saudi Arabia, also feels

From Arabia to America

n Loren Davis follows the findings in a test pit in Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, connects with sites on the west coast

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Meter by meter, centimeter by cen-timeter, Loren Davis is making history. History doesn’t care that it’s 103 degrees in the shade, but for Davis, an associate professor of anthropology at Oregon State University, it’s common practice.

For more than a decade, Davis has been doing research in the lower Salmon River canyon studying evidence that could rewrite history books. Evidence from the Cooper’s Ferry site suggests humans walked on North American soil more than 1,000 years before previously speculated.

For the past three years, Davis has directed the Cooper’s Ferry Archaeological Field School, a summer class that takes 20 university students from around the country and brings them together to learn about what archaeologists really do.

Students who apply for the class come from all over the United States, from as far away as New York and Vermont.

“The things we find here are going to transform the way we think about how people came to America,” said

Kendra Walters, a field student from the University of Oregon.

The Cooper’s Ferry site is rich with prehistoric stone tools such asblades, hammerstones, bifaces and projectile points, which are unearthed on a nearly daily basis as students patiently excavate with steady hands and bated breath.

But what makes the site particularly unusual and exciting is the type of arti-facts that are found there.

It began in 1997 when Davis dug a test pit at the Cooper’s Ferry site based on the geologic history of the area. Davis unearthed what appeared to be a purposely dug weapons cache that contained projectile points that, when tested, were proven to be 13,000 old, 1,000 years older than the oldest artifact ever found in North America.

“This site is really on the cutting edge of the reassessment of how people came to North America in the first place,” said Ian Kretzler, a graduate student from Whitman College.

Artifacts such as the ones found at Cooper’s Ferry are now being found at many other archaeological sites around the west coast and Pacific Northwest.

Two years ago, Davis worked on another site in central Oregon with University of Oregon professor Dennis Jenkins. The site, known as Paisley Caves, turned out to contain more pro-

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CalendarTuesday, Jan. 22MeetingsASOSU, 5pm, Native American Long-house. Student Town Hall.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 3-4pm, MU 206. Budget hearing for cultural centers on campus.

Student Diversity Budgeting Board, 6-7pm, MU 206. Budget hearing for cultural centers on campus.

SpeakersSocratic Club, 7pm, Milam Audito-rium. Dr. Michael Gurney will debate Dr. Austin Dacey on the question, “Does Morality Require God?” Ques-tions taken from audience; debates are always free and open to the public.

EventsOSU Campus Recycling, All day, MU Quad. RecycleMania Kickoff Display. Visit the recycled jellyfish sculpture, bottle igloo and trash display.

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The Socratic Club at Oregon State University presents a debate that is free and open to the public:

Does Morality Require God?Tuesday, Jan. 22 • 7:00 pm • Milam AuditoriumWho defines what is “good” and “evil,”“right”and “wrong”? Some argue that only God can. Others claim that God, even if he exists, is irrelevant to living a moral life and understanding ethics. Can a satisfactory morality be constructed from a non-theist perspective? Do we need God to direct our morality, to understand how we ought to live? Our speakers will address these questions, presenting divergent views.

Spirited debate is always welcome!

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Dr. Michael Gurney (PhD Aberdeen University-Highland) is a Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Multnomah University. Among his current research inter-ests are exploring the historical interaction between philosophy and theology, particu-larly in the early Modern period, developing a realist theistic epistemology in light of postmodern critical theory, and advocating a Christian ethic that is publicly plausible and relevant.

Dr. Austin Dacey is a philosopher and the author of “The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life” and “The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights.” He is a defender of a form of secularism that attempts to be neither atheist nor theist, neither anti-religious nor religious, but “orthogonal to God.” In recent years, he has worked with the International Humanist and Ethical Union and other inter-national organizations to defend the right to blaspheme at the United Nations and under international human rights law.

Dr. Michael Gurney will argue that genuine moral values and principles are ultimately grounded in God.

Dr. Austin Dacey will argue that society can engage in a vigorous, illuminating discussion of morality in exclusively secular terms.

A live stream of this event will be available for viewing at

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this way. “The picture of America in my mind is

that people are nice and polite and they treat all people well,” Al Nasser said. “I mean, no matter who you are, where are you from, the matter is you are human and respectable.”

However, both students also miss parts about home.

“Most of all, I love the food from Saudi

Arabia,” Algari said. “Also, on a different note, there isn’t really any gender dis-crimination when it comes to music. For example, in Saudi Arabia, a super tough-looking guy pulled up in a car next to me one time rocking the song ‘Barbie Girl,’ Perfectly normal in Jubail, but in America it probably would have seemed comical.”

“What I like most about my country is that there I can practice my religion’s duties more clearly and regularly,” Al Nasser added. “Here l live in a commu-nity that has a different religion and dif-ferent culture so there aren’t many. Still,

I can do whatever I want here, because l believe in the [United States] you have liberty with most things.”

Regardless, both have enjoyed their time in America.

“My time here has been great,” Algari said. “Every day I come to school, I meet someone new or gain a new experience, which is the point of studying abroad — to grow in the culture, find something new and have fun.”

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topics that will be covered in this debate.”

This will be Dr. Gurney’s fourth appearance in a Socratic Club debate. He will argue for the need of God in ethics and morality. Among his research interests, Gurney explores the historical inter-action between philosophy and theology. He is partic-ularly focused on the early modern period, developing an epistemology — the study of the nature of knowledge — in light of postmodern criti-cal theory, and advocating a Christian ethic that is pub-licly plausible and relevant.

For Dr. Dacey, coming from Florida, this will be his first time at a Socratic Club debate. Dacey, known as a defender of a form of secularism that attempts to be neither atheist nor theist, but “orthogonal to God,” will argue against the need of God in morality. In addition to writing, in recent years he has worked with the International Humanist and Ethical Union and other orga-nizations to defend the right

to blaspheme at the United Nations and under interna-tional human rights law.

As normal for Socratic Club debates, each speaker will have 25 minutes to present their side of the issue, then each will have an opportu-nity to question the other’s stances before the discussion opens up for questions from the audience.

“We’ve hosted debates on morality before, so I’m curi-ous to see a different angle taken on the issue,” said Socratic Club President Matt Rueben. “Other speakers in the past have focused more on historical aspects of the debate. While covering some of these points, both [Gurney and Dacey] have studied phi-losophy and ethics, and I’m looking forward for the issue to be addressed in a philo-sophical sense.”

The debate, which is sched-uled to last approximately two hours, will be free and open to the public.

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jectile points, and DNA evidence shows that the people who brought these points to that location were among the first people to come to North America.

Davis co-authored the paper that was ultimately published by Science Magazine, “the Oscars of the scientific world,” as Davis refers to it. The paper was released over the summer of 2012 and was accredited by many as the final nail in the coffin of the previous “Clovis first” hypothesis.

Currently, Davis and a team of graduate students from OSU are working on analyzing data from the field schools over the past few years, pouring over every single stone, piece of bone, stone flake or even bit of shell to make sure they can accurately put together what happened at this site more than 10,000 years ago.

“I think it’s the knowledge of knowing who we are and where we came from is a universal question,” Davis said. “It’s a ques-tion about all of us. We all have an innate curiosity to know where we came from and it’s a question about everyone.”

Note: Over the summer Hayden Wilcox was given the privi-lege to follow Dr. Davis and his crew out to the site as a video documentarian. For seven weeks he worked and lived with stu-dents and graduate students as an onsite cameraman to tell the story of Cooper’s Ferry. For more information, The Beaver News, KBVR’s TV news show, will run several video stories on different subjects of the field school. The videos will cover topics from everything to unpacking the dig site, to how an archeologist excavates, to a better look at the artifacts found at the site. The Beaver News will run eight different segments with one subject per episode for the next two weeks. The show can be found live on Comcast cable channel 26 and on YouTube the day after it airs at KBVR–TV/Beaver News.

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NEW DELHI (CNN) — The lawyer for one of the men accused in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman wants the trial moved out of New Delhi, where emo-tions have run high over the case.

The defense lawyer will argue before the Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday that transferring legal pro-ceedings outside the Indian capital would ensure a free and fair hearing.

The case has gripped India, prompting protests in the cap-ital and other cites over the treatment of women and criti-cism of the way sexual assault cases are dealt with.

The consequences of the case are still unfolding in the Indian news media, with calls for tougher punishment of people convicted of rape.

The five adult suspects in the December 16 incident

appeared at a closed-door hearing at a fast-track court in New Delhi on Monday. Details about what was said in court cannot be reported under a judge’s ruling impos-ing restrictions on coverage of the case.

Police allege the suspects attacked the woman and her male companion on a bus, robbed them and dumped them by the side of the road.

The woman, badly injured in the attack, died two weeks later despite being flown to Singapore for treatment. Her companion survived.

The five men are charged with murder, rape and kidnap-ping and could face the death penalty if convicted. A sixth suspect, who is believed to be too young to be tried as an adult, is facing proceedings in a juvenile court.

The case is being heard in a “fast-track” court, which

India introduced to try to expedite cases in a justice system bogged down by red tape. It means sessions of the trial, once it begins, should take place nearly every work-ing day until a verdict is reached.

The hearing Monday was a procedural step at which the charge sheet detailing pros-ecutors’ accusations against the suspects was submitted. The trial will begin once the prosecution’s arguments are made in court.

The next hearing is sched-uled for Thursday, according to defense lawyers.

The magistrates’ court that initially heard the case imposed restrictions on what the news media can report about events in court.

That practice is common in rape cases in India to pro-tect the victim’s identity, and the magistrate said it was

also necessary out of concern for the suspects’ safety amid intense media coverage and widespread anger.

Authorities have not released the name of the dead woman, but Indian protesters have been calling her Damini, which means “lightning” in Hindi.

“Damini” is also a 1993 Bollywood film whose lead female character fights for a housemaid, a victim of sexual assault.

The government has pledged to strengthen laws against sexual assaults after the outrage over the case.

The events have also focused the attention of the Indian news media on attacks against women around the huge country. Newspapers and television stations have been reporting other shocking rape allegations on an almost daily basis.

Indian court to hear request to move gang rape case outside New Delhi

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Wake up, smell the coffee: Time to pay your duesIt’s clear that attitudes

between generations are becoming drastically differ-

ent as a whole. Grandparents and even parents are often left flabber-gasted by the millennials’ (those born between the year 1980 and 2000) attitudes and actions. These children and young adults are often labeled as lazy and unappreciative.

There are outcries from the mod-ern workforce that incoming new hires from high school and college have no work ethic. Some blame modern technology. Others blame the education system. However, neither of these are the core rea-son why the generation known as “the future” are failing to impress. It really all comes down to a simple concept — entitlement.

Today’s children and young adults feel entitled to a good life. The reasons for this are threefold. First, parents are giving their chil-dren everything, often not making them put any effort into earning what they have. Second, nearly every example of successful par-ents’ children are essentially, at least in the observer’s eyes, hand-ed their riches and fame. Lastly, parents focus on raising their chil-dren’s self-esteem, making them all believe they’re something special.

No parent wants their child to suffer. We cherish children, and see-ing them in tears is often one of the hardest things to observe. As such, many parents give them everything they can to assure the least amount of suffering. Unfortunately, this is often quite volatile, as children are handed everything, and are trained that this is normal.

According to the Washington Times, only 16 percent of high school students are holding jobs. For reference, in 1990, 32 percent held jobs. Children still need to eat and clothe themselves, so this means 84 percent of parents are paying for everything.

The Fiscal Times reports 62 per-cent of college students are receiv-ing help from their parents. That

seems better, but you also have to factor in the number of parents that can’t even afford to pay (high school is much cheaper than college).

Besides being handed everything, children no longer view success as something they need to work for. It used to be that the successful people put in blood, sweat and tears to get to their position of prestige.

Now we have people like Snooki, being paid millions of dollars to essentially make a fool of her-self. Everywhere you look, people are recognized for a “talent”, and in response, are paid truckloads of money to use that talent. In response, instead of trying to work for money, people are putting all their emphasis in trying to find their talent and being recog-nized. Don’t believe me? Check out YouTube.

Of course, there are still people who work hard for their money, namely the CEOs of major companies. But these peo-ple don’t get the spotlight unless they do something wrong, and the amount of work they do is rarely talked about unless they write a book. Instead, the rich idols are people in Hollywood, sports stars and lottery winners. The media erupts with information of their lavish lives, making them seem like gods, and causing millions of chil-dren to idolize them.

The finishing blow is a nation-wide focus on self-esteem. With depression rates at record highs (one in 10 Americans), every parent wants to make sure their child is

happy, and as such focuses on mak-ing them feel unique and special. The problem with this is the child gets such an inflated ego that they think they’re too good to do basic tasks.

According to an MTV study of 2,000 young adults ages 14–24, 71 percent agree they are “too talented to punch a clock or sit in a cubicle.” Fifty years ago, the majority of jobs were manual labor, and workers were happy to put in a hard day’s work to earn money for themselves and their family. Now, teens think they’re too good to even mop a floor.

This sense of entitlement has to stop. Young adults need to wake up and realize the world doesn’t just magically function with zero

effort. Parents need to embrace and encourage their children to work for their earnings, and help them develop a sense of pride for accomplishments through labor. If we’re going to pre-vent China from basically own-ing Americans in the coming years, everyone needs to

do their part in providing construc-tive output for our country.

It starts with an attitude adjustment.

Quit fantasizing about bathing in money after winning the lot-tery, and go out and do something meaningful. Your parents are the only ones that believe you’re a beautiful snowflake who deserves the world; wake up, smell the cof-fee and put in an honest day’s work.

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See a movieGoing to the movie theater is

a chore for college students.We are busy enough as it

is, and students are notorious for being cheap. Those factors do not add up to an attractive theater-going experience. A ticket costs at least $8 — buying pop-corn and soda is $15. Justifying spend-ing more than $20 and committing two-plus hours is hard to do.

But, 2012 was one of the best years for films in recent memory for a couple reasons. For a demographic usually apathetic about seeing movies in the theater, this has to be one of the years when even those in college have made the trip.

The summer blockbusters (“The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises”) both cleared $400 million in the box office, as expected. Both were also well received, scoring better than 87 per-cent on Rotten Tomatoes. Now, Rotten Tomatoes is not the be-all and end-all of whether the movie is good or not, but it’s the best tool to understand how film critics think about any given film.

This was also a great year for the surprising movies — “Magic Mike,” “Looper” and “Moonrise Kingdom” gave a nice change of pace through-out the non-Oscar season. There were mixed opinions about “Prometheus,” but it still drew a worthwhile reaction.

The quality of films in the Best Picture category is the most notable about 2012. Since 2009, the category expanded to allow for more than the usual five nominees. This switch made room for animated films “Up” and “Toy Story 3” to be nominated, and films like “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (47 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and “The Blind Side” (66 percent) to sneak in.

The quality of nominations for Best Picture had been diluted, but 2012 is an exception. We’ve seen the French Revolution in musical form. We’ve been to the Middle East — twice. We’ve been stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a tiger. And we’ve been to the Civil War era twice, in much different contexts.

A film based on a true story has become as commonplace as seeing Mark Wahlberg in a movie trailer. But this year’s group has been exception-al, and each hits on deep issues and delivers in telling stories we already knew a lot about (“Lincoln”) or ones we knew nothing about (“Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty”). And then there’s Jamie Foxx having a kill count as high as Jack Bauer. “Django Unchained” isn’t for everybody.

The Motion Picture Association of America’s annual theatrical market sta-tistics report in 2011 (the most recent data) shows a downward trend in the 18-24 age group. College-aged indi-viduals went to 8.4 movies per year in 2009, 7.0 in 2010 and 6.8 in 2011.

This trend suggests what we already know: Students are frequenting the theaters less, and as a result, are not witnessing some of the best films of our generation.

What we’re saying is: Yes, going to the movies can be a hassle and hard on the bank account, but the talent pool for quality films this year has been exceptional.

Go see these films before they leave the theater. Because they’re worth it.

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‘‘ ‘‘today’s children and young adults feel

entitled to a good life. . . . Quit fantasizing

about bathing in money after winning the lottery, and go out

and do something.

Clear your mindNever-ending distractions

surround us and suffocate our lives. Being connected

every second to the Internet is the new norm, while the simple skill of holding focus to achieve a task has become a struggle. The impulse to check our phones every five minutes has become habitual in our everyday lives. With the first midterms of the quarter right around the corner, how can we manage to combat the desire to stay connected?

While in pursuit of ways to help achieve the focus to get work done without ingesting any harmful drugs, I found brainshiftradio.com. Brainshiftradio.com is full of music geared toward assisting the brain in accomplishing specific tasks. Want to focus more? There’s a playlist for that. There’s a playlist for increasing brain-power, too.

First-time users are taken to a web-site full of testimonies and information about the website. My initial reaction was, “Awesome, this looks promising.” After registering for a free 30-day trail, I was sent a verification email, con-taining* a link which sent me back to the website, where I logged in and was taken to the main interface of the website.

Improving focus was my primary use and I haven’t had the opportunity to play around with any of the other brain-shifting channels.

Once I adjusted to the interface of the website, the music itself was quite effective. I cannot speak in terms of long-term progress or whether the focus it granted me was the result of the placebo effect. Either way, I was in the zone; I ground out more than 50 pages of notes with ease.

While the problem of getting focused may have been a contributing factor, the one thing I struggled with most was the internal monologue that loves to interject at every given opportuni-ty. Again, I searched for methods that didn’t harm me in any way, and I dis-covered the wonders of meditation.

Meditation isn’t something which can only be accomplished in a dimly-lit room with candles and esoteric music playing in the background. All that is needed is to set aside 10 minutes of the day — that’s it. The only thing medita-tion required me to do was to focus on my breath. Each breath sequence counted as one. I counted to five and repeated the process.

My internal monologue was guaran-teed to show up. The trick was to imag-ine myself in the third-person perspec-tive, looking at my own thoughts. I just let them happen and didn’t fight them; I simply allowed them to come and go as they pleased. My only task was to focus on my breath for 10 minutes.

I won’t go on to describe all the won-derful benefits meditating has given me and others around the world.

However, I will impart one last secret regarding my ability to stay focused over long periods of time: I write every single day, at least 750 words.

Our lives are filled with emotions. Sometimes it’s hard to keep my com-posure. Simply writing down all my thoughts and feelings, knowing no one will ever read them, has helped bring clarity to my life.

The way you do things may differ from the way I do things. All I want to do is share suggestions which have worked for me. The impulse to check my phone is still there, but has signifi-cantly decreased since implementing the methods I’ve described in this col-umn. Being connected to the world 24/7 leaves little “me time.” Don’t forget to smell the roses.

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Men’s BasketballSaturday (Los Angeles)USC 69, OSU 68OSU:Nelson: 26 pts (7-15 FG, 10-10 FT)Collier: 16 pts (7-13 FG), 8 reboundsBurton: 16 pts (7-12 FG), 3 reboundsUSC:Wesley: 19 pts (7-13 FG), 3 assistsWise: 18 pts (7-12 FG), 5 rebounds

Women’s BasketballSunday (Gill Coliseum)OSU 68, Oregon 49OSU:Weisner: 14 pts (4-12 FG, 5-5 FT), 5 reboundsGibson: 14 pts (5-7 FG), 5 assists, 5 reboundsOregon:Brenner: 9 pts (3-8 FG), 7 reboundsAlleyne: 6 pts (2-8 FG), 8 rebounds

GymnasticsSaturday (Salt Lake City)(8) Utah 196.950, (16) OSU 195.950, West Virginia 192.125, Southern Utah 191.050Top OSU Participants:Vault: Blalock (2nd, 9.900), Stambaugh (3rd, 9.875)Bars: Stambaugh (T-1st, 9.900)Beam: Jones (T-2nd, 9.875)Floor: Jones (T-1st, 9.875), Stambaugh (T-1st, 9.875)

WrestlingSaturday (Gill Coliseum)OSU 32, Stanford 6Top OSU Participants:149 - Scott Sakaguchi def. Colton Dempsey (Stanford) Pin (4:46)157 - RJ Pena def. Kyle Meyer (Stanford) maj. dec. (15-5)197 - Taylor Meeks def. Michael Sojka (Stanford) maj. dec. (17-3)

n Led by tenacious defense, OSU women’s basketball takes care of Oregon, now 3-3 in Pac-12

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With the 68-49 victory over the University of Oregon on Sunday, Oregon State women’s basketball swept the Civil War series in less than one week.

After opening the game on an 11-0 run, the Beavers (9-9, 3-3 Pac-12) never lost their lead during the entire 40 minutes. The closest Oregon (2-16, 0-4) came was within three points at the end of the first half.

Oregon State’s lead increased to 14 points midway through the first half, when the Ducks went on a 14-5 run to close the gap coming into halftime.

“I felt like we lost focus a bit,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “I felt like Oregon increased intensity to get control of the game and get back in it. That has been an Achilles’ heel for us all year.”

The Beavers’ lack of focus led to three careless turnovers which the

Ducks capitalized on, and sloppiness on the defensive boards. Oregon had 11 offensive rebounds in the first half, five of which came in the last five minutes.

Defensive rebounding has been a struggle this season for the Beavers in conference play (ninth in the Pac-12). Although they are second in the conference for defensive field goal percentage, they allow other teams to grab their misses and put the ball back up.

The story was no different against Oregon, who shot only 25.8 percent from the field but grabbed 24 offen-sive boards.

“[Rebouding] is a discipline that we are OK at, I wouldn’t say we are good at it yet,” Rueck said. “To win in this league at the highest level against the best teams, that’s the difference.”

The difference maker in this game was execution from the Beavers in the second half. Going into halftime, Oregon had momentum on its side, but the Beavers quickly turned the tide.

“At halftime we talked about once we are up, don’t get comfortable and let them try to run and take a lead

on us,” said sophomore guard Ali Gibson. “And we just had to come out with intensity and finish the game strong.”

A pivotal point for the Beavers came when freshman guard Jamie Weisner hit her first 3-pointer of the game five minutes into the second half. Junior guard Alyssa Martin immediately drained another 3-pointer off a steal, making the score 44-34.

“That certainly gave us separation and I think we kind of relaxed and we executed down the stretch,” Rueck said.

Freshman forward Samantha Siegner put up a career-high of 10 points against the Ducks. While ear-lier in the season she looked a little lost on the court, the freshman is showing more poise on both ends of the floor.

“She’s given a great consistent effort from about December on, and we are seeing the fruits of that,” Rueck said. “She is highly skilled, she can score inside and out, and she

is going to those strengths against match ups.”

Gibson scored 14 points, to go along with five rebounds and five assists. She opened with the game’s first score, a 3-pointer, and never let off the gas. Gibson played a key role in the Beavers’ fast breaks, convert-ing two Molly Schwegler steals into layups, and assisting Weisner for an easy bucket.

Oregon State looked strong in its two-game series against the Ducks this week. The win on Sunday gives the Beavers five straight Civil War victories. They will need to take their momentum and confidence on the floor into their next games.

“I think we had more patience today and we figured out a way to score,” Gibson said. “Contain on defense and hopefully we can take that momentum to our next games on Washington.”

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Wednesday, Jan. 23Men’s Basketball vs. Washington, 8:30 p.m., Gill Coliseum, Pac-12 Networks (TV)

Friday, Jan. 25Women’s Track @ UW Invitational, 1 p.m., Seattle, Wash.Swimming vs. Washington State, 5 p.m., Corvallis, Ore.Women’s Basketball @ Washington, 6 p.m., Seattle, Wash.

Saturday, Jan. 26Women’s Track @ UW Invitational, 10 a.m., Seattle, Wash.Swimming vs. Idaho, 1 p.m., Corvallis, Ore.No. 10 Wrestling @ Lehigh, 11 a.m., Bethlehem, Pa.Men’s Basketball vs. Washington State, 2 p.m., Corvallis, Ore., Pac-12 Networks (TV)No. 16 Gymnastics @ Metroplex Challenge, 5 p.m., Fort Worth, Texas

Sunday, Jan. 27No. 10 Wrestling @ No. 8 Cornell, 11 a.m., Ithaca, N.Y.Women’s Basketball @ Washington State, 1 p.m., Pullman, Wash.

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Men’s basketball drops fifth straight gamen Junior forward Devon Collier missed the

potential game-winner in a one-point loss to the Trojans, OSU now 0-5 in Pac-12

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The Oregon State men’s basketball team con-tinued its losing streak in heartbreaking fashion on Saturday night — losing to USC, 69-68, in Los Angeles.

Oregon State (10-8, 0-5 Pac-12) trailed by as many as 15 points in the second half, but came back to tie the score at 48 apiece on a Roberto

Nelson layup with 12:22 left in the game. There were nine lead changes from that point on but the Beavers could not seal the deal, losing by one point on a Devon Collier miss at the final buzzer.

Three players scored 58 of OSU’s 68 points — Nelson finished with 26 points, senior forward Joe Burton had 16 and Collier finished with 16, to go along with eight rebounds.

Nelson scored 17 of his 26 in the second half and had his highest point total since Dec. 16, when he scored 34 against Chicago State.

The Beavers have now lost six out of their last

seven games, and are 0-5 to start Pac-12 play for the first time since the 2007-08 season when they went 0-18 in conference play.

There is still hope for this OSU squad though. During that dismal season, the Beavers lost their first five conference games by an average of 17 points, while this team has only lost by an average of 8.8 points per game.

OSU takes on the University of Washington in Gill Coliseum on Wednesday night at 8:30.

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n Wrestling won its first dual in Gill Coliseum this season, defeating Stanford 32-6 on Saturday

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After losing the first two duals of the season at Gill Coliseum, the No. 10 Oregon State wrestling team felt there was a lot to prove against Stanford on Saturday night.

After a dominating 32-6 vic-tory over the Cardinal (4-11, 0-2 Pac-12), the Beavers (5-3, 2-1) showed why they’re the defending Pac-12 champions and the odds-on favorite to repeat again this year.

Led by a pin from No. 8 Scott Sakaguchi, a 149-pound junior, and major decisions from No. 10 RJ Pena, a 157-pound junior and No. 8 Taylor Meeks, a 197-pound sophomore, Oregon State made sure Saturday wouldn’t end in a third straight loss at home.

After falling behind 3-0, Oregon State reeled off 19 consecutive points and never looked back, thanks to some aggressive wrestling that head coach Jim Zalesky was pleased to see.

“Some things I talk about working on is going out and scoring right away, and I think we did a lot of that,” Zalesky said. “We got out there and got a lot of the first takedowns,

which was key. I don’t think we’ve been doing that enough.”

“I felt the biggest difference was that we just kept attack-ing,” Pena added. “With my match, and with Taylor Meeks’ match, that first takedown was tough to get but we just kept coming and coming. And final-ly the guy broke.”

Getting early takedowns was something the entire Oregon State lineup did consistently Saturday night — especial-ly among OSU’s unranked weights that have been incon-sistent at times this season.

The Beavers are pleased with the progress that’s been made already this season, and are looking to continue improving as the Pac-12 Championships

approach.“I think our five weights are

strong and some of our guys are coming along,” Zalesky said. “We have to get our 125-pound-ers going, but besides that, I think we’re making progress.”

Another good sign for Oregon State was the perfor-mance from Sakaguchi. After returning last weekend from an ankle injury, Sakaguchi showed he was fully healthy in a domi-nant victory over Stanford’s Colton Dempsey.

“I thought Sakaguchi wres-tled great,” Zalesky said. “He was probably favored pretty heavily and overmatched the guy, but he did what he’s sup-posed to. He got out there and got a fall.”

Also making news was No. 4 Mike Mangrum, the 141-pound senior. Stanford forfeited the match because of an illness, giving Mangrum his 123rd career win and sole possession of eighth place in career victo-ries in Oregon State history.

Mangrum only needs two wins to pass Greg Strobel for seventh all-time, and trails OSU legend Les Gutches by only 11 wins for fifth all-time.

Oregon State now travels to Bethlehem, Pa., for a dual with Lehigh University on Saturday before taking on No. 8 Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., on Sunday.

If the Beavers wrestle the way they did against Stanford, they should return from a long road trip with two more victories.

Until then, OSU will con-tinue to focus on assertiveness on the mat.

“There are still some things we can work on, but for the most part we just kept attack-ing and attacking,” Pena said. “That’s our main philosophy here at Oregon State.”

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Gymnastics improves again, score 195.975 at Utah Saturdayn No. 16 OSU set season-high scores in

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The word to describe the No. 16 Oregon State gymnastics team’s first three meets of the 2013 season would be: progression.

The Beavers began the season with a third-place finish and a score of 193.600 in the Cancun Classic on Jan. 4. They followed it with a 195.375 on Jan. 11 against Ohio State.

In Saturday’s four-team meet with No. 8 Utah,

West Virginia and Southern Utah, the Beavers improved once again — scoring 195.975 for a second-place finish.

“Especially from where we started, we want to see those scores go up,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “It also shows the potential that they have. They still have not put a whole meet together.”

Oregon State set season-high scores in vault (49.275), balance beam (49.125) and floor exer-cise (49.100) in the meet. The team still did not “put a whole meet together,” as Chaplin put it, because of struggles on uneven bars.

The ability to overcome adversity, whether from a poor performance in one routine, or

in the entire meet, has been the way OSU has operated in the early-going this season.

“Every week we’re improving in some areas,” said senior Makayla Stambaugh. “I love the dedication the team has, and this week was really impressive to me, especially because over the years that I’ve been here, if we start off rough, we have a hard time picking it up and turning it around.”

Beyond the improvement in scoring, the per-formance on Saturday was particularly impor-tant for the Beavers because Utah’s crowd is the largest and loudest in college gymnastics. The attendance at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City for Saturday’s meet was 14,197. For

a comparison to exemplify how large that is, OSU ranked sixth in the nation in attendance last year with an average crowd of 4,097.

“It’s a fun atmosphere, the crowd gets really into it,” Stambaugh said. “I thought [the team] did an awesome job of just blocking out the crowd noise and everything that was going on.”

Transition in the lineup rotation has been in flux over the first couple meets for the Beavers, but now it seems the underclassmen are fitting into their roles.

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Oregon State swimming suffered two losses over the weekend, falling to Brigham Young University (137-95) on Friday, and Utah (157-104) on Saturday.

Despite officially losing in points scored in both competitions, the Beavers managed to post a good amount of top finishes, as well as a season-best time.

Freshman Sammy Harrison clocked her best time of the season in the 1000-

yard freestyle, and she managed to win the race against BYU. Harrison’s time of 10:11.24 was a full 36 seconds faster than the next swimmer.

Junior Crystal Kibby also earned two victories against BYU, winning the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke. Although the Beavers may have lost the meet, the swimmers still managed to show progress.

The competition against Utah played out in a similar fashion: OSU swimmers performed well individually, but the team was still unable to keep up with its oppo-nent. The Beavers had five individual wins Saturday against Utah, but were still outscored by 53 points overall.

Senior Ocean Trail had two back-to-back victories and set the tempo for Oregon State, winning the 50-yard free-style and the 100-yard freestyle.

Kibby and Harrison also contributed to the Beavers’ five wins. Kibby won the 200-yard breaststroke and came close to top-ping her best time, finishing in 2:19.95.

Harrison found her victory in the 200-yard freestyle, posting a time of 1:53.34. Junior Aya Fujimura won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:06.34, grabbing the Beavers’ fifth win.

Oregon State’s next meets are against Washington State and Idaho in Corvallis on Jan. 25 and 26, respectively.

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“Obviously a lot of our [underclassmen] are get-ting used to having expo-sure,” said senior Melanie Jones. “It’s good to get that experience out of the way.”

Beam had been the event OSU struggled with in the first two meets, so the turn-around on that event was significant for the team going forward.

“It is a big, mental appa-ratus,” Jones said. “We obviously train very well in practice, but in competi-tion it’s always a bit harder because you only have that one chance to show what you can do. It’s just impor-tant for us to keep men-tally tough, and that’s what we’ve been training.”

Saturday’s meet was the first of four consecutive road meets for the Beavers. Three of the four events were performed at a high level, scoring at least 49.100 on all apparatuses but uneven bars.

“Now we just have to keep the consistency across the board,” Chaplin said.

The Beavers will compete in the Metroplex Challenge, which will likely be their toughest regular season meet, this Saturday. OSU will face off against No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 7 LSU, No. 9 Georgia and Washington.

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gymnasticsn Continued from page 5Supersonics set for relaunch in Seattle

(CNN) — Seattle is set to welcome NBA basketball back to the city following the sale of the Sacramento Kings, in a move which is expected to relaunch the Supersonics franchise.

Chris Hansen, whose group is reported to have purchased a 65 percent share of the Kings fran-chise, valued at $525 mil-lion, plans to relocate the team to Seattle, which lost its original franchise when owners moved the team to Oklahoma City in 2008.

The deal will see Hansen take the Maloof family’s 53 percent share of the team as well as minority owner Bob Hernreich’s 12 percent stake.

The move, which is expected to be go through following lengthy negotia-tions with the Maloof family, now awaits approval from the NBA Board of Governors.

If ratified, the new own-ership group hopes to move the Kings franchise to Seattle in time for the 2013-2014 season, when they will be renamed the the Supersonics and play at KeyArena before moving to a downtown venue in two years time.

“We are happy to announce that we have entered into a binding agreement with the Maloofs

to purchase a controlling interest in the Sacramento Kings NBA franchise,” Hansen said in a statement.

“The sale is obviously sub-ject to approval by the NBA Board of Governors, and we look forward to working with the League in the com-ing months to consummate the transaction.

“While we are not at lib-erty to discuss the terms of the transaction or our plans for the franchise given the confidential nature of the agreement and NBA regula-tions regarding public com-ments during a pending transaction, we would just like to extend our sincerest compliments and gratitude toward the Maloof family.

“Our negotiations with the family were handled with the utmost honor and professionalism and we hope to continue their leg-acy and be great stewards of this NBA franchise in the coming years and decades.”

The original Supersonics, founded in 1967, won the 1979 NBA Championship and played in the city until 2008, when the team’s own-ers controversially moved the squad to Oklahoma.

Since then, investors and city officials have sought to revive the Supersonics fran-chise by relocating anoth-er NBA team, and Hansen

is confident the move will prove a success in the long-term.

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Gavin Maloof, the Kings co-owner, said the fam-ily had “always appreciated and treasured” their owner-ship of the Kings.

He said: “We have always appreciated and treasured our ownership of the Kings and have had a great admi-ration for the fans and our team members.

“We would also like to thank Chris Hansen for his professionalism during our negotiation. Chris will be a great steward for the franchise.”

The final decision remains with the NBA, which released its own statement on the matter.

It read: “The NBA received an executed Purchase and Sale Agreement for the transfer of a controlling interest in the Sacramento Kings from the Maloof fam-ily to an investor group led by Christopher Hansen.

“The proposed trans-action is subject to the approval of the NBA Board of Governors and has been referred to the Board’s com-mittee process for review.”

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Shortly after exhorting the United States to continue its “never-ending journey” to live up to the ideals of its founders, on his way off the platform at the West Front of the Capitol, President Barack Obama stopped to drink in the scene before him.

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Following performances by Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley and the Mexican rock group Mana, the first couple danced as Jennifer Hudson sang the classic song, “Let’s Stay Together,” by Al Green.

First lady Michelle Obama wore a floor-length, custom, ruby-colored chiffon and velvet gown designed by Jason Wu, the same designer behind her 2009 inaugural dress.

The celebrations came a day after Obama was sworn in on the constitutionally required date in a low-key ceremony at the White House. The flag-waving crowd that watched Monday’s event was notice-ably smaller than the throng that turned out for his first oath in 2009 but still packed the National Mall for blocks.

The waving flags, the red-white-and-blue bunting and the heralding trumpets marked the 57th such ceremony in the history of the nation, with the peaceful extension of power based on last November’s elec-tion that returned Obama to the White House.

The Sousa marches, the cer-emonial guns and the voices of James Taylor, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce having faded away, Obama headed into the Capitol for a luncheon with members of Congress. Then he led the traditional parade up Pennsylvania Avenue, stopping near the White House to walk a few blocks of the route with the first lady to the cheers of those lining the sidewalks.

“You’ve got to come out for this,” said Nick Pignone, a Washington resident. “Everyone’s excited — good vibes right now.”

Also publicly sworn in for a second term was Vice President Joe Biden, who, like Obama, also took his official oath Sunday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor performed the honors for Biden at his home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where the vice president’s extended family and a few Cabinet officials gathered to watch the ceremony.

Biden and his wife, Jill, also took some time to walk part of the parade route, with a grin-

ning Biden periodically jogging over to the sidelines to shake hands with people across the barricades. Once both couples and their families were seated at the White House reviewing stand, one of the first acts to pass was the marching band from Honolulu’s Punahou School, Obama’s alma mater.

What followed included doz-ens of military and school bands, Native American dance troupes whirling in traditional dress, war veterans, Civil War re-enactors, kilted firefighters blowing bag-pipes and Montana’s governor and congressional delegation on horseback and in cowboy hats.

Obama, the first African-American president and the 17th to win a second term, used a pair of Bibles in Monday’s cer-emony — one from Abraham Lincoln, the other from Martin Luther King Jr. His roughly 2,000-word inaugural address hearkened back to both.

“I did everything possible today to keep from crying,” said U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a onetime lieutenant of King.

Sworn in again, President Obama lingers for last look

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(CNN) — At least 37 hostages died in the ter-rorist seizure of a natural gas facility in eastern Algeria and the subsequent special forces assaults on it, the country’s prime minister said Monday.

Five other hostages are missing from the In Amenas complex and could be dead, Prime Minister Abdul Malek Sallal said.

Before Sallal’s statement, officials from other countries and companies that employed foreign workers at the sprawling plant had confirmed 29 hostage deaths.

Seven of the 37 confirmed dead haven’t been

identified yet, according to the prime minister. Those who have been identified include seven Japanese, six Filipinos, three Americans, three Britons and one Algerian, officials from those countries said.

Some 29 militants also died, while three were captured, Sallal said, according to the state-run Algerian Press Service.

The standoff ended Saturday, after four days, when Algerian special forces stormed the com-plex for the second time. The government said it did so because the militants were planning to

blow up the installation and flee to neighboring Mali with hostages.

“If it exploded, it could have killed and destroyed anything within 5 kilometers or fur-ther,” Sallal said.

Militant says Mali unrest spurred assault; oth-ers say it followed ample planning

The crisis began Wednesday when Islamist extremists in pickup trucks struck the natural gas complex some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the Libyan border, gathered the Westerners who worked there into a group and tied them up.

After taking over, the well-armed militants planted explosives throughout the complex, Sallal said. They came from eight countries: Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Canada and Mauritania.

Algeria’s military talked with the militants, but their demands that prisoners in the North African nation be released were deemed unrea-sonable, according to the prime minister. The country’s special forces waged the assaults to free the hostages and were backed by the Algerian Air Force.

At least 37 hostages killed in Algeria gas plant standoff, Algerian prime minister says

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