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Cascadia’s new location brings healthy options, good pricesn As Cascadia settles into new

location, design, students can buy produce at lower price

By Gwen ShawThe Daily BaromeTer

Whether living on campus and using the dining centers or in an off-campus apartment making food for themselves, it is assumed college students don’t know the first thing about cooking.

Sheila Ulfers, part of the team at Cascadia Market on campus, expe-rienced the issue first hand. “While I was in college, I did not know how to cook. So when I graduated, it was like ‘OK, what kind of foods do I want to cook?’ To me it was obvious: the healthy alternative. I just learned how to cook with healthy foods. It became a part of my life.”

That is exactly the idea she brought to Cascadia when she was hired last summer. Prior to working at Oregon State University, Ulfers worked at the First Alternative Food Co-op in Corvallis and was a general manager for the two stores they have. She brought all of the information she gained there to Cascadia and has helped expand it into what it is now.

Last year, Cascadia was located next to Arnold Dining Center and was only about half the size it is now.

“When we were going to do the remodel, I had my staff look at our history, and took the last 200 top items [that we sold], and we bought about 25 of them,” said George Coulter, food and beverge area manager at Arnold Dining.

But they still didn’t know how this year was going to work with the larger store. “We didn’t have the international cliental. We didn’t have the amount of people on this side of campus. We got Sheila hired about a week before we opened.”

For this coming term, Coulter said what they carry now will be based on what they’ve learned over the course of fall term. As well as all of the information that Ulters brought.

“What I noticed at First Alternative is that our customer mix kept getting older. A good way to start it is at the college level. So they get a sense that there is an alternative source out there,” Ulfers said. “Learning how to cook: That’s something our culture is getting used to.”

Ulfers’s main goal is to find “products that have more poten-tial for long-term sustainability than the short-term, buy-it-now, sort of junk. I’m looking to see if I can upgrade the ingredients to sell.”

Cascadia carries fair trade choc-olate candies, nut blend candies, as well as wheat- and gluten-free products. Just walking into the store, there are many obvious choices that are not available most other places. “Hopefully next sum-mer I can bring in some more local produce,” Ulfers said.

Another one of the big things Cascadia offers that other places on campus don’t is produce. There is a large selection coming from

n Though public transit is now free, students are hesitant due to infrequency of routes

By Kristin PugmireThe Daily BaromeTer

On Feb. 1 of last year, the Corvallis Transit System officially eliminated fares for its customers, making all Corvallis buses free to ride.

According to Tim Bates, transit coor-dinator for the CTS, the price of the bus fares is now covered by several sources: state grants, federal grants, the state’s Business Energy Tax Credit, a direct contribution from Oregon State University and the transit operations fee.

The operations fee is added to Corvallis utility customers’ monthly

City Services bill, while the fee amount depends on the type of dwelling, as the fee for a residential unit is between $2 and $3, and fees for commercial and industrial customers are decided based upon the type of business.

The decision to eliminate bus fares in Corvallis was part of a series of sustain-ability initiatives put forth by the city. This particular initiative was designed to get more Corvallis residents, includ-ing students, out of their cars and onto the bus. But is it working?

The answer is yes, according to Bates. “We have seen ridership increase

nearly 40 percent since we went fare-less,” he said. Before fares were elimi-nated, a ridership count showed that nearly 42 percent of bus riders were Oregon State students. Now that CTS is fareless, it is not possible to determine which riders are students, but the over-

all increase in ridership makes it safe to assume that students now make up at least half of all riders.

The OSU community is also trying to do its part in encouraging students to take alternative forms of transporta-tion, according to Brandon Trelstad, OSU sustainability coordinator.

“It’s a necessary component of our transit strategies here,” Trelstad said, when asked why OSU chose to make a direct donation to the CTS. “We’re trying to get people out of their cars as well…the environmental impact of driving and parking also costs us to maintain. We don’t want to invest lots of space on campus in parking lots.”

Many Corvallis residents, too, are looking for a solution to growing traffic and parking problems in the areas sur-rounding the OSU campus. At a com-munity town hall meeting on Nov. 16

of last year, several residents expressed concerns, stating their belief that pub-lic transportation could be a way to help alleviate the problem.

But if the city has made an effort to make public transportation acces-sible to all, why is heavy traffic and lack of parking space a growing problem? Though bus ridership is increasing, so is the OSU student population, and many students continue to drive their cars to and from campus. The reason for this, according to students, is lack of convenience.

Most bus routes run only once per hour, according to Bates. In areas with heavier ridership, buses run every half hour.

According to a Corvallis resident who spoke at the November town hall meet-

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After getting rid of fares for all of its customers last year, the Corvallis Transit System has seen its ridership go up in numbers. The initiative, meant to promote sustainability, encourages students to utilize public transportation.

‘‘ ‘‘I worked at Express, my aunt died of breast cancer and my

friend got thyroid cancer. The power at my house also

went off for Christmas.

Chantel Benjamin,juniorbusiness management

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I stayed in Corvallis and worked at Media Services...

And I got $350 worth of traffic tickets.

Ryan Kilda, sophomorezoology

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I went back to Dubai. It was an 18-hour flight. My family’s there, it was good to be with

the family on Christmas.

Muhammed Alnuami, sophomorecivil engineering

‘‘ ‘‘I went to see relatives in Santa Ana in Southern California. I met my aunt

and we went to San Diego for a day.

Roy Luo, Ph.D. studentoceanography

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International News From CNNMiddle east

Iran begins uranium enrichment at second site

The United Nations’ nucle-ar watchdog agency con-firmed Monday that uranium enrichment has begun at a nuclear facility in northern Iran.

On Sunday, a fundamen-talist Iranian newspaper with ties to the nation’s supreme leader said the enrichment had begun at the plant, which is “immune to any military attack.”

“Based on reports we received yesterday, Iran has begun uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility at the height of the threats by foreign enemies,” the semi-official Kayhan newspaper said.

“The IAEA can confirm that Iran has started the produc-tion of uranium enriched up to 20 percent ” at Fordo, said International Atomic Energy Agency spokeswoman Gill Tudor. “All nuclear material in the facility remains under the agency’s containment and surveillance.”

The Fordo nuclear enrich-ment plant is in the moun-tains of Qom province, where Iran says it has 3,000 centri-fuges in operation. Another nuclear facility in Natanz is said to have 8,000 of the machines enriching uranium.

Iran says there’s a medical purpose behind the nuclear program.

“In order to provide medical assistance to 800,000 cancer patients, Iran needs to enrich uranium up to 20 percent to be able to feed Tehran’s (research) reactor that pro-duces the needed radio iso-topes,” the paper reported.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said the con-firmation that Iran is enrich-ing uranium to “a level that’s inappropriate” is “obviously a problem.”

“We are closely monitoring their nuclear program in gen-eral, and this development, given their track record and what the IAEA inspectors have been able to report, it’s not a surprise to us, what we’re hearing.”

She said the IAEA has been able to get into the Fordo facil-ity “on and off.”

“They’ve been able to get into some facilities at some times, but what they’re finding, as they get in there, is that Iran is not complying with its obli-gations,” she said. “Iran plays this game with the inspectors. They let them go some places at some times when it seems to suit their purposes, but that doesn’t change the fact that what the inspectors are now reporting is that they are tak-ing the next step and esca-lating their violations of their own commitments.”

The Iranian government announced in July that it was installing a new generation of centrifuges in its nuclear facilities.

At the time, the French Foreign Ministry the develop-ment flouted UN regulations

africaNigeria faces subsidy protests, insurgency

Nigeria’s government is facing rising religious violence in the north, a long-simmering separatist movement in the oil-rich south, and now a nation-wide strike fueled by wide-spread anger over the end of fuel subsidies seen by many as one of the few ben-efits of living in the largely impoverished state.

The issues, all inter-twined in Nigeria’s compli-cated web of political, ethic and religious relationships and rivalries, add up to a difficult challenge for the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who just a few days ago prom-ised a renewed focus on economic, fiscal and edu-cation reforms in 2012.

“Jonathan is a president under fire. His actions over the last week are that of a desperate president,” Nigerian political journalist Terfa Tilley-Gyado said.

Particularly curious, Nigeria analyst John Campbell said, is why Jonathan would choose now to resurrect the Nigerian government’s repeated efforts to scuttle the fuel subsidy, which is highly popular with the country’s 155 million resi-dents — many of whom live on less than $2 a day.

“One would have thought that in an area of height-ened religious conflict that the last thing you would want to do is pro-voke a general strike,” said Campbell, a senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Whatever its reasons, finding a way out will be a trick for the government, he said.

If the government backs down and restores the sub-sidy, it may appear weak to northern militants and southern separatists, Campbell said. If it tries to wait out a strike in hopes that the protests will disin-tegrate, it risks a crippling disruption in the flow of oil, which provides 95 per-cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange and 80 percent of its government’s budget.

“The government finds itself, I think, in an extraor-dinarily difficult situation,” Campbell said.

Until the New Year’s Day announcement by Jonathan’s government that the country would end fuel subsidies that held down the cost of gasoline for Nigeria’s 155 million resi-dents, perhaps the largest immediate crisis facing the administration was the reli-gious violence in the north.

More than 30 Christians died in violence last week in Adamawa, prompting a 24-hour curfew in that northwestern Nigerian state to guard against Christian reprisals.

europePicasso, Mondrian works stolen in Athens art heist

A Pablo Picasso paint-ing given to the Greek peo-ple in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupa-tion during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens.

“Head of a Woman,” painted in 1939, was among three works taken in the early morning heist on Monday, the authori-ties said. A fourth work was dropped by the thief, or thieves, during their getaway.

The Picasso portrait, which depicts a woman in a white blouse against a blue background, is inscribed on the reverse: “For the Greek people, a tribute from Picasso.” It was donated by the artist in 1946.

Greek police say the raider, or raiders, also made off with Piet Mondrian’s “Landscape with a mill,” and a pen-and-ink sketch of San Diego de Alcala in ecstasy by Renaissance art-ist Guglielmo Caccia.

“Landscape with a farm,” a second figurative painting by Dutch artist Mondrian — who is better known for his abstract works — was left behind as the burglar ran away.

Officers say the intruder, or intruders, interfered with the alarm system several times overnight, setting it off repeatedly so that it was disabled by the museum guards.

At about 4.30am local time (06:30 GMT), the raider(s) broke into the gal-lery’s temporary exhibition area through an aluminum-framed door on a balcony.

During the theft, a motion detector was acti-vated, alerting a guard who chased one thief, but was unable to catch him.

The raid led Citizen’s Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis to criticize secu-rity at the gallery, which is home to works by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse and Peter Paul Rubens.

“I am very sorry because an artwork of huge value was stolen,” news agency Agence France-Presse quoted Papoutsis as say-ing. “This incident should prompt a re-evaluation of the National Gallery’s secu-rity arrangements.”

Athens’ National Art Gallery showcases works from the 14th to the 20th centuries, and is best known for its collections of Greek and Renaissance art, including paintings by El Greco, Tiepolo and Brueghel.

The theft took place on the final day of an exhibi-tion entitled “Unknown Treasures,” which had fea-tured prints and etchings by Albrecht Duerer and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Middle eastDual carbombs hit shiite Baghdad neighborhoods

At least 12 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in car bomb attacks on two predominantly Shiite areas in Baghdad Monday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, the latest incidents in a wave of sectarian violence.

At least five died and 32 others were wounded when a parked car bomb detonated at a Shiite mosque in an area of southwestern Baghdad, the ministry said.

In addition, the ministry said seven were killed and 19 others were wounded when a parked car bomb detonated at a market in the al-Shaab area of eastern Baghdad.

Earlier in the day, at least one Shiite pilgrim was killed and 10 others wounded in a bombing south of Baghdad, officials said.

An Interior Ministry official said a roadside bomb struck pilgrims in Mahmoudiya south of the capital on Monday morning as the pil-grims were on foot heading to the southern city of Karbala.

Hundreds of thousands of Shiites are making their way to Karbala to commemorate the Arbaeen pilgrimage this weekend.

Arbaeen is the pilgrim-age marking the end of a 40 day mourning period for the death of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, a seventh cen-tury imam and one of Shiaa Islam’s holiest figures.

Since 2003, attacks blamed on Sunni extremists have often targeted the pilgrims — many of whom make a lengthy journey on foot to the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Over recent days near daily attacks on pilgrims have left scores dead and wounded.

The official said a road-side bomb south of Hilla on Sunday wounded at least nine Afghan pilgrims.

The deadliest attack was on Thursday when a sui-cide bomber struck an army checkpoint west of the south-ern city of Nasiriya where pil-grims had gathered. The offi-cial said the death toll from that attack alone left at least 44 dead and more than 70 others wounded.

Bombings Thursday in Baghdad targeted the Shiite areas of Sadr City and Kadhimiya. The violence comes amid one of Iraq’s worst political crises since 2003. A political deadlock has the government divided along sectarian lines and is raising fears, in the wake of the U.S. military’s departure, of a return to the sectar-ian violence that gripped the country for years.

Officials say such attacks are aimed at reigniting the sectarian war.

Security on the routes used by the pilgrims has been heightened. Security at checkpoints was increased ahead of the pilgrimage.

various sources. “Sources have been Oak

Creek Farms, an organic farm managed by OSU Horticulture; Red Hat Melons, a local farm who provides melons, pump-kins and squash; Riverwood Farms, local grower who pro-vides apples and pears; and Pacific Coast Fruit in Portland who sources products both locally and otherwise,” said Rich Turnbill, associate direc-tor of University Housing and Dining Services.

Cascadia also offers a large amount of grocery options and dairy. Sysco Portland, Inc., United Natural Foods, Harbor Wholesale, Coremark and Spring Valley Dairy are the main sources. Turnbill said the prices of all products sold within University Housing and

Dining Services must cover labor costs, maintenance and repairs of the facility and equipment, custodial expens-es, utilities, grounds keeping and central OSU administra-tive expenses. Each specific

product and source may have additional mark-ups or costs.

Students on campus receive a 15 percent discount off any product sold in Cascadia, as well as other UHDS campus locations. Also, anyone using

Orange Rewards receives a 10 percent discount off of those prices.

“It is similar to Safeway’s pricing strategy,” Turnbill said. “If you have a Safeway card, you pay a little less than someone who doesn’t have one. And actually our pricing on many items is competitive with Safeway pricing. Lower on some and a little higher on others.”

“Over here in Cascadia, our prices are much lower than other stores, especially with the produce,” Coulter said. “I think it does exactly what we designed.”

Ulfers pointed out that she knows not all college students will start buying only healthier options. But, she adds, “When I see a student walk out of here with a cup of noodles and a stock of broccoli, it makes my day.”

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ing, public transit won’t be entirely successful until administra-tors recognize “the psychology of ridership.” He stated that the most successful public transit systems are those with buses that run frequently — every 15 minutes or less. “The 30 minutes you have to wait in Corvallis is not conducive to people actually using the system,” he said.

For now, the CTS is unable to step up the frequency of its routes.

“We get requests for increased frequency, but everybody has a budget,” Bates said. “With ours, we try to cover as much of the city as we can.”

The CTS and OSU hold promotional events every year, edu-cating students about the availability of public transit. According to Trelstad, OSU also provides incentives for students who take alternative forms of transportation during events such as “Drive Less Connect,” held during the months of November and December.

For more information about the Corvallis Transit System or for bus routes, visit www.corvallistransit.com.

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Bigwords.com counters textbook griefn Bigwords.com watches, reviews textbook industry,

allows students to buy their books cheap, sell onlineBy Ana Bienvenida

The Daily BaromeTer

It’s that time of year again: The time to buy textbooks, then reprimand yourself for spending too much on books you might use only once, or worse, find days later on the Internet for much cheaper.

As the new term begins, so does textbook hunting, whether at the Oregon State University bookstore or online textbook sites such as Half.com. Amid all the sites, it can be difficult to navigate between prices of textbooks. The site Bigwords.com acts as a use-ful tool for students to compare textbook prices across the web.

Thirty-nine-year-old founder Jeff Sherwood, a graduate from University of Southern California, and programmer and designer by trade, started the website in 2001. He explains that while he attended school, online textbook stores did not exist.

“When we went to buy textbooks, they were completely out of used books and you had to wait in long lines,” Sherwood said. “The site is a way for students to cut through the mumbo-jumbo hype. What students really need is an unbiased resource to get the textbooks to them.”

Bigwords.com finds the cheapest combinations of stores to save the most money and claims to be 35 to 45 percent cheaper than any other Internet site.

“It’s seeing the Internet at once instead of individually navigat-ing through the web. Students who used Bigwords in August to purchase the lowest-priced books and who later resold them through Bigwords got an average of 80 percent of their money back,” Sherwood said.

According to the New York Times, students spend an average of $1,137 on textbooks in the academic year. With an 80 percent recouping value, students look at saving more money.

Simone Anter, sociology major at the University of Oregon said, “I always buy my books from the bookstore and find myself spending a ridiculous amount.”

Therefore, the main goal of the site is to remain the smartest way to rent, buy and resell textbooks.

“We find, review and monitor the entire textbook industry from reputable stores so students get the right book and the get the best price.”

While renting may be a cheaper alternative to buying text-books, Sherwood asks the student to research carefully.

“When you look at the cost of a rental, always the lowest price, also take the time to see the buyback prices. Take a chance on buying an expensive textbook,” Sherwood said. “In general, purchase the book used and sell it online. There is much better availability and competition online.”

He added, “Always buy as early as you can and sell as early as you can, as all textbook companies have inventory targets. For example, in the beginning of the school season, there is the most inventory therefore prices are lower.”

Bigwords.com has expanded availability on mobile devices such as apps that are made available to students.

“We designed user interfaces for mobile devices,” Sherwood said. “We launched the iPhone app two years ago and the Android app last summer.”

Ana Bienvenida, staff reporter 737-2231 [email protected]

CASCAdiAn Continued from page 1

Hours before the first pri-mary vote of 2012, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney tried to recover from a poten-tial stumble Monday as his presidential rivals intensified their attacks against him.

Voters in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary begin choosing their GOP candidates as early as 12 a.m. Tuesday in two small towns— Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location— while polling sta-tions in the rest of the state open at 6 a.m. and close as late as 8 p.m. ET.

The final day of campaign-ing saw Romney under fire for a comment about health insurance that quickly became fodder for criticism.

Asked about the issue in Nashua, New Hampshire, Romney said he wanted a per-son to be able to own his or her own policy “and perhaps keep it the rest of their life.”

“That means the insurance company will have the incen-tive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don’t like what they do, you can fire them,” he said.

“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,” Romney added. “If someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say I am going to get some-body else to provide that ser-vice to me.”

Rival candidate Jon Huntsman immediately seized on the comment as an indication of Romney’s politi-cal nature.

“It has become abundantly clear over the last couple of days what differentiates Gov. Romney and me,” Huntsman said in Concord. “I will always put my country first. It seems

that Gov. Romney believes in putting politics first. Gov. Romney enjoys firing people. I enjoy creating jobs.”

The Democratic National Committee released a derisive Web video and called Romney “out of touch,” while the cam-paign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry looped Romney’s words to make a cell phone ring tone that quickly went viral.

Romney spent much of the rest of the day clarifying what he meant. At one point, Romney said he expected the comment to be taken out of context to try to hurt him, and his campaign issued a state-ment emphasizing he was talking about firing an insur-ance company, not people.

“Our opponents are tak-ing Gov. Romney’s comments completely out of context,” said a statement by Gail Gitcho, the campaign’s com-munications director. “Gov. Romney was talking about fir-ing insurance companies if you don’t like their service. That is something that most Americans agree with.”

The latest twist in the GOP presidential race came on the eve of the first primary election a week after Romney won the Iowa caucuses by just eight votes over for-mer Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

With Romney in front in polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina, the site of the first Southern state primary on January 21, rivals stepped up their attacks by question-ing the former Massachusetts governor’s business back-ground and electability.

In Manchester, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tore into Romney’s record in

the private sector at the helm of Bain Capital.

Though Romney has said his work at the Boston-based private equity firm ultimately led to the creation of 100,000 jobs, Gingrich said Romney’s pursuit of wealth exacted a huge cost.

“What you have to raise questions about is, some-body goes out, invests a cer-tain amount of money, say $30 million, takes out an amount, say $180 million — six to one return — and then the company goes bankrupt,” Gingrich said. “Now, you have to ask a question: Is capital-ism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thou-sands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that, in fact, a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw a distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighbors, and leav-ing behind a factory that should be there.”

Romney fired back that Gingrich and others were joining President Barack Obama in attacking the free enterprise system.

“As we’ll find out, free enter-prise will be on trial,” Romney said. “I thought it was going to come from the president, from the Democrats, from the left, but instead it’s coming from Speaker Gingrich and apparently others.”

Gingrich had vowed earlier to run a positive campaign. But his tone has changed since his poll numbers plunged over the past month and he came in fourth in last Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses.

“My conclusion after Iowa

was very simple,” he said Monday in Manchester in response to a question. “You could not engage in unilateral disarmament when 45 per-cent of all the ads being run were attacks on me. To do that would be to get out of the race.”

In Derry, New Hampshire, Santorum predicted the Republican field will narrow to a showdown between him-self and Romney, “and we’ll win this race.”

Responding to a reporter’s question about his electabil-ity, Santorum said the country is more likely to elect a “strong conservative” than a man who has “run (previous elections) as a liberal, a moderate, and a conservative.”

Santorum also cautioned voters to avoid the “establish-ment candidate.”

“When we’ve run establish-ment candidates, we’ve lost,” he said, referring to veteran candidates in past elections who he said were nominated because of a perception it was their due after long careers. “We lost with John McCain, we lost with Bob Dole. We lost with Gerry Ford.”

Perry, meanwhile, made fun of Romney’s comment over the weekend that he knows what it’s like to worry about getting a pink slip, question-ing whether such a wealthy man as Romney would fear losing a job.

Campaigning in South Carolina, the site of the next primary on January 21 and the first Southern state to weigh in, Perry said people there were out of work “because of what Mitt Romney and Bain Capital did.”

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According to a civilization that is no longer with us, and the History Channel

this is supposed to be the year that the world will cease to exist. While the idea of the apocalypse occurring in December may be difficult to accept for the vast majority of us, it is not so unrea-sonable to think that 2012 will have an arguably worse fate: the year we sit through an election.

In case you don’t subscribe to the Des Moines Register and were unaware of the recent Republican primary, 2012 is an election year. This means what started sometime in the weeks after President Barack Obama’s election will come to an end the first Tuesday of this November, maybe. Only a few weeks after that, the race for 2016 begins.

So prepare yourselves for hear-ing about the gaff a candidate had at an Elks Lodge in New Hampshire, or how every can-didate is going to magically cre-ate jobs for everyone and their mother while punching Iran in

the face. With all this attention toward saving, or earning, a seat in Washington, not much is likely to actually get done. But what’s new?

Sure, some unimportant legis-lation may get pushed through in an effort to promote re-election efforts. But that has the same effect of closing your window of Solitaire in favor of a blank Excel spreadsheet when the boss walks by. You look important, but don’t kid yourself, you’re not doing anything.

Most of the time and effort of politicians and media members will be devoted to smearing the president and/or candidates of the opposite party, while actual work gets put on the back burner. This is a very cynical approach

to our political system but in the past 12 months, a non-election year, the government was on the verge of a shutdown multiple times because of posturing and pandering to party bases that are vital to re-election. If representa-tives of the American people can’t actually work with members of the other party during a non-election year, why would they work with them in a year devot-ed to blasting the other party’s credentials?

The threat of a shutdown at the very least meant there was enough legislative material pres-ent to warrant a disagreement. This year, with congressional can-didates wanting to avoid another embarrassing situation, like the possibility of shutting down the most powerful government in the world over how to spend money that doesn’t exist, the possibil-ity may not even present itself. Meaning that important issues, such as funding, may go unre-solved, but no less discussed.

In the upcoming 11 months

to Election Day, we’ll get to hear all we want about how multimil-lionaires vying for roles of lead-ership are just like us, and how their opponents are just awful, awful people. But what we won’t experience is any tangible break-throughs on important politi-cal issues. The economy will go untouched, though it might work itself out, problems with public funding will be argued over but probably not addressed, and no attempt will be made to elimi-nate “flip-flopping” from public vocabulary. Instead we’ll be inun-dated with poll results and states on the map turning red or blue — a statistician’s dream.

So unless you love percentag-es, color-coded maps and mean advertisements, don’t expect much to go down this year. But hey, if the Mayans are right, maybe we won’t have to do this all again in 2016.

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As the winter break has finally come to its unfor-tunate end, many stu-

dents will return to their habits of technological communication and multitasking. What some students may have experienced over the break would be classified as face-to-face communication, in which you speak to a person while also looking directly look-ing at them. As terrifying as that thought may be, rest assured, this won’t become an epidemic anytime soon.

While multitasking is a habit that can’t really be helped nowa-days, the form in which we com-

municate with each other can be controlled. Many students may have realized — or maybe this event goes unrecognized by the majority of the student body — there has been a shift in the way people talk to each other. It is more common to communi-cate through email or text mes-sage than it is to talk to a person, whether it is on the phone or in

person.

If you visit a friend at their house, you will most likely end up watching TV while the two of you are on your phones texting, Tweeting or updating Facebook posts. Even at a movie theater, there are people texting and Tweeting instead of watching the movie. What is the point of spending $10 on a ticket if you aren’t even going to watch the movie?

At parties, students are on their phones before, during and after games of “water pong,” as if the party isn’t enough to keep the attention of the average 20-year-

old for more than 30 seconds. Going to dinner with friends and family is a funny little farce in which people try to get togeth-er to converse with the people around them, but end up pull-ing out their phones and talking to their other friends and family members through their phone rather than the ones in front of them.

It is one thing for books to become digital, but to digitize communication as a whole is detrimental to society. The way in which society is moving regard-ing means of communicating

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Amending NCLBSunday was the 10-year anniversary of

the updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as No Child Left

Behind.Despite a conservative administration and

Congressional majority, President George W. Bush signed NCLB into law to ideally eliminate the disparity between students of different income levels, races and proficiencies in the English lan-guage. Along with new curriculum plans, testing requirements, and more emphasis on faculty accountability, the law would demand massive increases in education funding and still cost bil-lions of dollars each year.

But worse, besides the costs, NCLB unfairly and (possibly) unintentionally blames many school districts for plummeting test scores, if the state chooses to set the standard (e.g., test scores) at an above-average level. One specific district may actually see improvement from year to year, but still fall short of a statewide level. If the state sets a lower standard to allow more districts to pass, it ends up bringing down schools with a high suc-cess rate, or even holding back the students who show true progress.

Moreover, beyond the unjust emphasis put on testing, (even collegiates can sympathize), the schools choose to focus on specific curriculum — test subjects — and ignore other studies many should, and will find a passion for later in life, such as history, science or liberal arts. NCLB is its own worst enemy.

However, nearly all states are beginning to cre-ate new standards, setting the bar higher, and attempting to amend the current system for a more honest result — one without skewed results due to a focus on how many minorities, disabled students, or low-income students passed their grade.

Recently, pending permission by the Federal Government, Oregon will join the other states with their own program for evaluations. The state would judge the schools by the students’ increase or decrease in reading and math scores over a year. For high schools, the schools are judged on a five-year graduation rate. While testing still plays a major role, the overall product — how many students are coming out successful or showing progress — now holds more weight.

Unfortunately, Oregon’s proposal, like many other states, doesn’t necessarily benefit tradition-ally struggling districts. Schools with a majority of low-income, minority students, oft-preoccupied outside of school, will continue to fail in the new program. Not only are the characteristics of review — test scores, specific subjects — the same, but the proposal does not consider funding. In the new system, the worse schools will be required to get “expert help,” from other more successful ones. They will pay consulting fees to the “model schools,” ones with the best graduation rates and year-to-year progress, to (possibly) receive curriculum plans or rezoning proposals to get different students into the schools. However, the mandate that failure schools must offer private tutoring — for free nonetheless — will be gone, as will the mandate for transfers.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, earlier this year, Oregon received $5.81 million for public education. Oregon applied by listing its “persistently lowest-achieving schools.” The dis-tricts then vie — fight, really — over the funds by indicating which of their schools will receive one of four following implementation plans.

A restart model would close and re-open the school as a charter school. The transformation model replaces the principal and aims to improve the school by “extending learning time” and reforming curriculum. School closure option, self-explanatory. And the turnaround model would — all at once — replace the principal, rehire “no more than half the teachers,” improve the school by “comprehensive curriculum reform, profes-sional development, extending learning time and other strategies.”

And the latter is what we keep waiting for to fix this education mess.

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Texting has replaced traditional conversation

Maria is a 20-year-old business major. She has a soft spot

for bad reality TV, loves sappy romance novels and indulges with the occasional Starbucks Frappuccino with extra whipped cream. Living in a three-bed-room townhouse with two other women, she is a laidback, ordi-nary college undergrad. And just like millions of other Americans, Maria made a New Year’s reso-lution. She is determined to become “healthy.”

Secretly, though, she really wants to lose the few pounds she gained over winter break. Although not overweight, Maria is not active and enjoys fast food a little too much. But this year will be different. She’ll start the year off right.

Maria decides to cut calories, ditch fast food and workout daily. Possibly start tanning and sleep a little more. Come spring break, Maria wants to look toned and tanned, ready for fun.

Sound familiar? The New Year always brings resolutions, peo-ple’s dreams shaped into unre-alistic goals. But while these resolutions may have the best intentions, they will likely fail. The reality is 80 percent of reso-lutions will be abandoned by Jan. 20. Only a measly 8 percent will be successful. So chances are, Maria has already given up.

Indeed, by Jan. 7, Maria called it quits. There is no doubt that

Maria wanted to achieve her resolution. If given the option, most people would always choose the option that betters their life. In fact, she probably still wants to lose weight, or rath-er, be “healthy.” But Maria, and the millions of others who suffer the same fate, quickly became disillusioned with the means of achieving her dream. While fully aware she’ll lose weight if she works hard, Maria lost the desire. Knowledge may be power, but it cannot replace action.

It takes motivation to spark action. Yet, motivation is a tricky phenomenon. It’s like the weather in Oregon, hard to clas-sify and even harder to predict. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan are professors in the department of clinical and social sciences in psychology at the University of Rochester. In an attempt to describe and harness the power of motivation, they developed a theory that describes two sepa-rate types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic.

Intrinsic motivation is doing something purely for joy or the pleasure it brings you. For example, you may read a book

because you enjoy the author or the story. Conversely, extrinsic motivation is doing something for some external means. Now you read the book because it is a class assignment. Interestingly, extrinsic motivation varies on a continuum. One extreme, your teacher assigns the book to read, and even though you despise the subject, you’ll feel guilty if you just skim it. The other extreme, your teacher assigns the book to read, and you read it thoroughly because the subject fascinates you. Intrinsic and extrinsic moti-vations determine the fate of a resolution.

Maria never had intrinsic motivation. According to Deci and Ryan, intrinsic motivation stems from a person feeling com-petent, autonomous and related (or connected) to others while doing the activity. Usually a reso-lution involves a drastic change from the status quo, like Maria’s becoming “healthy.” Typically, resolutions are drastic changes involving new actions or behav-iors. Thus, they probably do not fulfill the intrinsic motivation requirements.

In addition, most resolutions do not stem from inherent joy for an activity. If it was fun to fulfill a resolution, then one would not need the resolution to jump start the change. If Maria loved going to the gym and cutting calories gave her joy, then she would have been intrinsically motivated. But this was obviously not the case.

Maria was motivated by the results, not the behaviors required. In fact, most resolu-tioners care only about the results. People want to change something because it will bring or give them something in return. In our example, Maria changed her eating and activity habits for the promise of losing weight. She made a deal, exchanging working hard for looking good.

It is not bad to pursue the reward. In fact, sometimes that is the only way to become moti-vated to do something. I would predict that most students would not voluntarily take a final. But the reward of a grade provides ample motivation to study and take the exam. Maria, however, failed to uphold her end of the bargain. Calorie deprivation and sore muscles chipped away at the value of the reward. Losing weight was no longer worth the price of working hard.

There are numerous reasons why Maria fell short of her goal, just like there are numerous rea-sons why not everyone gets an A in calculus. Some think they are incompetent. Some don’t want to put in the work. And some just don’t care. So then what does it take to be among the successful 8 percent of resolutions? Make sure the reward is worth the effort.

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with each other, pays homage to an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Before the written word, people memorized everything: books, songs, even their class schedule if they had classes. The pharaoh was offered the written word to help advance his people allowing for communi-cation on a greater scale. Instead of advancing civilization, it hindered people. With the written word, people no longer felt the need to memo-rize everything which brought the end to a very important skill.

You may be asking how this relates to today’s society? Well, look at how communication has changed to passive-aggressive texts and emails rather than conversation, where people can understand tone and context. We now have classes to teach people how to talk to other people, how to handle a job interview; these are basic skills that previous generations never needed.

People no longer know how to communi-cate with each other the way our parents and even grandparents previously did. Unplug from technology, quit multitasking, and just talk to your friends or go for a walk through a real park, not a digital one.

This probably sounds like ranting from one of your parents to go outside and get some

fresh air or at least to put the damn phone down for a second and listen. Unfortunately, that is exactly what this is. I’m not a parent, but this is an attempt to get people to put down the technology to interact with people for an extended period of time away from phones and computers. When people can’t go a single one-hour class, scratch that, a single 45-minute class without texting, then clearly there is a problem.

Come on, students of Oregon State University, the time has come to dust off those unused vocal chords of yours and say some-thing. No one talks in class as it is, why not at least try talking to one of your friends in per-son? Put down the phones for an hour or two and develop real relationships with people, not electronic ones.

Sure, there may be some awkward silences, there may be a pause because neither one of you can think of something to say, but that is just one downside to in-person communica-tion. A positive consequence is that you may end up making a genuine friend who will be willing to drive you to the airport or help you move — the test of true friendship, which can only be obtained through real conversation. Your 500 Facebook friends and 30,000 Twitter followers won’t help you out.

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Robert Fix is a senior in business. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Fix can be reached at [email protected].

Corvallis facing issue as one communityStudents. What does the

word bring about in your mind?

For many students, I’m sure that pulls up a friend’s face or their own, alongside imag-es of studying in the library, drinking a beer at Clod’s or McMenamins, and shop-ping at Freddies. However, for those who either grew up here, “townies,” or working adults who moved here, the mention of students elicits a long list of complaints: parking, lawn fur-niture, parties, noise, garbage and crowded housing — to name a few.

In November, Oregon State University President Ed Ray and Corvallis Mayor Julie Manning hosted a town hall meeting that allowed for pub-lic comment on long-term liv-ability issues in Corvallis. And the usual complaints about students from residents fol-lowed. However, this meeting was a start of long-term dis-cussion, evidenced by a new collaboration project formed by Ray and Manning to prob-lem solve and address the long-running issues of livabil-ity in our university and small town community.

I say “community” and not “communities” because, ulti-mately, we are one communi-ty, not two; we both affect each other and need to start treat-ing each other accordingly. We need to not only change infra-structure, but also how these two distinct groups of people interact with one another. I think this new collaboration is a start for a much-needed attitude shift between the uni-versity and city communities. And I have seen plenty of atti-tude from both sides.

I have come at, and con-tinue to experience, this issue from all angles: as an under-graduate student, resident, non-traditional student, and city and university employee. I was not, and am not, a typical student: I grew up in Corvallis, graduated from OSU, trav-elled, worked at the Corvallis Public Library, and now work as a classified university staff member while attending classes on the side.

I’ve heard a lot of complain-ing from everyone, and par-ticularly from a small, but very vocal group of residents. But unlike these residents (and I am joined by many others in this opinion), I enjoy and appreciate the student pres-ence here. Without it, this town would not exist or would be like many of the other small towns of Oregon: culturally limited, stagnant and homo-geneous. Students blow in with the crisp autumn winds and allow the town to expand and breathe in a new year full of new faces.

What I’d like to hear and witness are more constructive conversations and creative problem solving, not pointing fingers and bitter complain-ing. Some residents, quite frankly, need to quiet down for a minute and recognize that many students have moved away from their homes to come here to study and there-fore, will have very different priorities than people who live here on a permanent basis.

To be clear, I am not excus-ing all bad behavior perpetrat-ed by (probably) a small group of students. Throwing multiple parties in a week that results in trash strewn down the block and drunken screams in the middle of the night is not responsible, much less neigh-borly. So please don’t be sur-prised if your older neighbors call the cops. However, when a prejudice grows and blan-kets all students, or even just younger people in general, it becomes unacceptable.

I remember when I began attending OSU, I started receiving different treatment at places of business that I had been frequenting since I was a child. Simply because I looked like a “student,” some residents looked at me with a scowl, imagining me steal-ing merchandise, partying all weekend, and breaking beer bottles in the middle of the road at three in the morning

while screaming at the top of my lungs. If I chatted with any of these older residents and if they asked me where I was from, I would reply, “Corvallis.” With that one word, their shoulders would relax and they would start to gladly inquire about my histo-ry of Corvallis. Not all residents treated me in such a manner, but it happened often enough for it to be a problem that can infect any attempts at com-promise and collaboration for solving livability issues.

Residents need to face a few certain realities to start a shift in attitude that will lead to more collaboration. Students are students. They are not going to stop renting out living rooms to save money, hosting parties that run until 4 a.m., parking their cars on the street and leaving couches in the front yard. To pretend other-wise is foolish.

Why can’t collaboration happen on a smaller level? Why can’t neighbors reach out? I am speaking to both stu-dents and residents, and par-ticularly to residents who are older with established lives. Students are busy and preoc-cupied, and sometimes just don’t realize it has been two days since the garbage was picked up. Why not help out in some small way? It could be the start of a conversation. And students, you need to understand that you are living in a city that feels like home to others.

What happens here in this small patch of the world real-ly matters; Corvallis is home for me. I don’t travel over the breaks or summer because my family and my community are right here. I want this com-munity to thrive and a little understanding on both sides will go a long way. Things might not fix themselves over-night, but an attitude shift on both sides is a step in the right direction.

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Kelly Holcomb is a non-degree seeking gradu-ate student with a bachelors of arts in English. The opinions expressed in her columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Holcomb can be reached at [email protected].

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Purposefully setting low expectationsThis year my grandfa-

ther and grandmother took us all to a com-

edy club for my grandmother’s birthday, which happens to be New Year’s Eve. Four hours of comedy is a lot, and any eve-ning that features 30 perform-ers including three aerialists is bound to have it’s highs and lows, but for the most part, it was a very entertaining show at the Curious Comedy Club in Portland.

Now my grandfather has very high standards, and because of this he tends to have very high expectations. His expectations of this particular evening were built up through anticipation, reviews and prolonged musing and they led to a less enjoyable evening for him because the entertainment didn’t live up to his preconceived notions.

This also held true when we went to breakfast the other day. We went to a place called Slappy Cakes, also in down-town Portland, where you get to grill your own pancakes right at the table. My boyfriend and I thought the whole thing was a blast, but my grandfather just wasn’t into the experience. His pancakes weren’t cooking fast enough, and in general he just wasn’t impressed.

His attitude not only detract-ed from his own experience, but it also influenced everyone’s experience who was sitting at the table. My grandmother and my aunt in particular were extremely concerned that he wasn’t enjoying his food, and they had a right to be con-

cerned, because in our family, if you don’t feed us when hungry, we turn into cranky monsters complete with fangs.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is my father. He has seen his fair share of comedy greats over the years and he was not expecting a spectacular evening on New Year’s Eve.

While this didn’t hamper his enjoyment in this particular case, I think in general having low expectations can influence the way an evening goes too. If you constantly go around thinking you’re going to have a bad time you may actually have a bad time. You also go around looking for things to complain about to support your original assumption.

However, expecting that an experience is bad isn’t neces-sarily a terrible strategy. If you’re going in for a piercing or to get a tattoo, it might be worth-while to expect the worst so that the pain is relatively less. This can be a relieving experi-ence, unless you don’t have a great imagination, and then it really does feel as bad as you had imagined that it would.

For diehard fans, expecta-tions can influence the way you feel about books or games and their screen counterparts. Instead of enjoying the film you paid at least ten dollars with popcorn to see, you nitpick every little detail that doesn’t coincide with the book.

That’s why I really admire my mother’s ability to separate the two things. She can go into an experience with only the expectation that she’s going to have a good time. So she always does. Then when everyone is pulling the experience apart later, she has no problem with bashing the movie or the res-taurant, and she has two good experiences: the actual activity and then talking about it later.

It’s important to remember that your expectations can influence more than just that party on Saturday night or your date with that new guy or gal. They can even influence the grade you get in a class. An expectation about the difficulty of a class, whether you think it’s going to be easy or hard can influence how hard you work. If you give up in a hard class you could be passing up an A whereas you may need to work harder in an easy class because it doesn’t capture your atten-tion. It’s always dangerous to make assumptions especially when they’re based on hearsay or first impressions.

On the whole, I think most of us would be more satisfied if we followed my mother’s lead and went into a class, party, or club meeting with only the resolution to have fun or learn something with no other expectations.

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Investigators have found and disarmed a possible bomb in the home of the Utah man suspected of shooting six police officers, one fatally, authorities reported Monday.

“There was a device that was fashioned in a way that con-cerned those who found it that there were materials that could have been used as a bomb,” Weber County Attorney Dee Smith told reporters.

The Saturday discovery prompted the evacuation of sev-eral neighbors as a bomb squad figured out how to disable it, and investigators are trying to determine whether the device involved in an actual explosive, he said.

The suspected bomb was found in the home of Matthew Stewart, who could be charged with killing Ogden police officer Jared Francom and wounding five others in a Wednesday night raid on his home. Smith said Stewart was under investiga-tion “for numerous offenses,” including aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and marijuana cultivation.

Stewart’s home is a “massive” crime scene, Smith said.“We’ve had crime scene investigators combing through

this hour after hour after hour for days, and it’s still being put together,” he said. He said he could release little informa-tion Monday, but “there will come a time where everything is released publicly.”

Stewart, 37, was wounded as well. He remained hospitalized and will be arrested when he’s released, Smith said.

Ogden is about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City.—CNN

Bomb found in Utah shooting suspect’s home

Snow in Alaska doesn’t usu-ally make big headlines, but even The Last Frontier has extremes.

Cordova, an isolated coastal town of about 2,000 people about 150 miles east of Anchorage, appears to be one of the hardest-hit locales, with the state National Guard reporting that it was sending Guardsmen and resources Monday after weeks of record snowfall left the city buried under 18 feet of the white stuff.

The state activated its State Emergency Operations Center on Friday to help Cordova handle the snow. The town had issued a disas-ter declaration earlier in the day.

Cordova is “isolated off the state highway system,” according to the Guard, and the sea and airport are the only way in and out of the area. The National Guard sent resources to Cordova as conditions worsened and residents scrambled to dig themselves out Monday.

“Cordova is continu-ing their outstanding job responding to several weeks of intense snowfall,” John Madden, director of the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said in a state-ment. “Cordova utilized all of their snow management resources to maintain emer-gency access but now face a new round of storms that will bring heavy snow and perhaps rain.”

The most recent storm alone brought 42 inches of snow to the town, according to a news release from the state Department of Military

and Veterans Affairs.Photos from state agencies

showed entire homes buried under snowdrifts and work-ers removing snow — 4 to 5 feet high in some places —from rooftops. The National Weather Service office in Alaska and the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management had myriad storm pictures on their Facebook pages.

Though some buildings have collapsed under the weight of snow, Cordova issued a news release say-ing that no homes had been damaged in a recent avalanche and that a major highway had been reopened, but schools remained closed Monday. The news release warned residents that condi-tions were “treacherous” and advised against any unnec-essary travel that would impede the work of snow removal and safety crews.

Furthermore, the National Guard warned that as more snow and rain fall in Cordova, “avalanche danger remains very high.”

With 39 inches in November and 82 inch-es last month, accord-ing to the Cordova Electric Cooperative, residents told the local newspaper that they haven’t seen this much snow since the 1970s. One woman told a reporter from The Cordova Times that she began sobbing uncontrolla-bly over the sight of more snow last week.

The roofs of buildings were submerged, businesses were seeing only a handful of customers, the beeping sounds from heavy equip-ment can be heard day and

night, youngsters were mak-ing money shoveling out businesses and residents, and there was a rumor that a front-end loader had picked up a Subaru, the paper reported.

Though Cordova appeared to be facing the brunt of Mother Nature this week, various other parts of Alaska have seen record tempera-tures, precipitation and snowfall in the last week:

— Nome’s Tuesday and Wednesday temperatures of -37 and -38 both broke decades-old records. On Monday, there was news that a U.S. Coast Guard cutter was helping a Russian tanker smash through ice up to 4 feet thick to deliver fuel to the iced-in locale.

— Cold Bay had 3.1 inch-es of snow on Wednesday alone.

— Galena had a record low of -54 on Saturday, beat-ing the 1997 record of -52.

— The temperature in St. Paul reached a record 0 on Saturday.

— Record precipitation was recorded Sunday at the Haines and Juneau airports.

— Bethel had a low of -32 on Sunday, tying a record set in 1952, 1963 and 1975.

— Fairbanks reported Monday that it had experi-enced snow every day for 22 consecutive days.

— And Valdez saw 15.2 inches of snow Sunday, shat-tering the 2001 record of 10.5 inches.

— The Anchorage Daily News reports that the city’s average snowfall each winter is 74.5 inches. As of Friday, it had already seen 70 inches.

—CNN

Record snow buries Alaska

The Obama administra-tion on Monday announced a 20-year ban on new mining claims on more than 1 million acres of public land near the Grand Canyon, a move meant to protect the iconic landmark from new uranium mining.

Previously approved opera-tions will be allowed to con-tinue, as will new projects on valid existing claims.

“People from all over the country and around the world come to visit the Grand Canyon. Numerous American

Indian tribes regard this mag-nificent icon as a sacred place and millions of people in the Colorado River Basin depend on the river for drinking water, irrigation, industrial and environmental use,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

“We have been entrusted to care for and protect our pre-cious environmental and cul-tural resources, and we have chosen a responsible path that makes sense for this and future generations,” he added.

—CNN

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Monday, Jan. 9 – Friday, Jan. 13

Ticket Sales for MLK, Jr. Peace BreakfastOn sale at the MU Business Office,and at the Breakfast (January 16)

Non-students $10, Students $6, Children age 5 & under free. Students may charge to their account.

Wed., Jan. 11 – Fri., Jan. 13

“Sign the Pledge” — MLK, Jr. Pledge WallReaffirm your support for nonviolent social change, equality & justice, freedom & peace.10 a.m.–3 p.m. • MU Trysting Tree Lounge

Sponsor: Panhellenic Council

Friday, January 13

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to Celebrate!All School Dance — MLK Celebration Kick-Off9 p.m.–1 a.m. • International Forum, Snell HallFREE to all OSU Students

Sponsors: Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc., Omega Delta Phi Fraternity

After Dark — MLK Celebration Kick-Off9 p.m.–1 a.m. • McAlexander Fieldhouse

■ Step and Stroll Performances by Alpha Phi Alpha and Omega Delta Phi — 9:10 p.m.

■ Live Music by “Little Rascalz” — 9:45 p.m.–1:00 a.m.■ Wii, Connect, Board Games■ Free Food and Beverages

Sponsors: Student Events & Activities Center, Recreational Sports, University Housing & Dining Services

Saturday, January 14

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to Act!Service Projects8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Check-in: McAlexander Field House

Choose from four projects in the morning; food drive in the afternoon. oregonstate.edu/cceSponsor: Center for Civic Engagement

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to ReflectInterfaith Prayer Service5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. • Memorial Union 213

Sponsors: United Campus Ministry, Lutheran Campus Ministry, Campus Coalition Builders, Baha’i Student Assn.

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to Be in CommunityCommunity Meal and Readers Theater6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. • Memorial Union Ballroom

Share a meal in community and hear the words of the World’s great leaders.Sponsors: Student Leadership & Involvement, Intercultural Student Services, Office of Equity and Inclusion

Choose in this Crucial Moment…to Learn, to Share, to EngageTime to Get Real About MLK, Jr.“A Call to Conscience” (film & discussion)7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. • Memorial Union Ballroom

Earlean Wilson-Huey and Robert Thompson will facilitate a discussion around the film and other writings by and about Dr. King. Participants will explore the fascinating correlations between events in the 60s and current events of today.Sponsors: Ethnic Studies, Ujima, Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Intercultural Student Services, University Housing & Dining Services

Tuesday, January 17

Finding Your Voice Through Student ActivismNoon–1:30 p.m. • Memorial Union 213

Helping students find their voice through activism and the importance of activism in our society.Sponsor: Associated Students of Oregon State University

Birthday Party for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. • Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 2325 NW Monroe

Sponsors: Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Tue., Jan. 17 – Wed., Jan. 18

“Sign the Pledge” — MLK, Jr. Pledge WallReaffirm your support for nonviolent social change, equality & justice, freedom & peace.10 a.m.–3 p.m. • MU Trysting Tree Lounge

Sponsor: Panhellenic Council

Wednesday, January 18

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to UnderstandWhere’s My 40 Acres?Noon–2 p.m. • Intercultural Student Services, A150 Kerr Admin

Discussion of historical and current perspectives of relationships between major racial/ethnic groups and the U.S. Government.Sponsor: Intercultural Student Services

Meditation Flash MobNoon–1 p.m. • Memorial Union

Get focused! Watch Facebook for more detailsSponsor: Interfaith Community Service @ OSU (IFCS@OSU)

Educational Opportunities Program:History Through Action6 p.m.–8 p.m. • Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center

An interactive look at the evolution of OSU’s Educational Opportunities Program through the lens of our social movementsSponsors: Educational Opportunities Program, Lambda Theta Phi, Latin Fraternity, Inc.

Thursday, January 19

Choose in this Crucial Moment… MeaningMLK: More Than Just One ManNoon–1:30 p.m.Valley Library, Willamette West Rm; 3622

Student leaders from the Cultural Centers will highlight prom- inent figures from their communities who worked to strengthen MLK’s vision and the Civil Rights Movement. A 30-minute Q & A session follows. Light refreshments provided.Sponsor: Intercultural Student Services, Diversity Development

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to EmpowerEmpowering Kenya’s Young Women while Recognizing My Privilege 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m. • Memorial Union 213

HDFS student Mary Kessler will share how her own crucial moment led to supporting Kenyan girls in continuing their education by a simple solution and in the process acknowledged her own privileges as a white, American woman.Sponsor: Women’s Center

Choose in this Crucial Moment… An Equation for Social JusticeDeconstruction + Critical Consciousness = Social Justice5:30 p.m.–7 p.m. • Centro Cultural César Chávez

Explore the components of the social justice equation.Sponsors: Counseling & Psychological Services, MeCHa (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), MASA (Meso American Student Assoc.)

“Negroes with Guns” (film & discussion)7 p.m.–9 p.m. • Internat’l Living Learning Ctr. 155

Explore a very little known chapter in the civil rights movement, an activist who advocated self-defense while working closely with the nonviolent Freedom Riders. Sponsors: Peace Studies Program, Team Liberation

Friday, January 20

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to be an AllyChoose in this Crucial Moment to be an AllyNoon–1:30 p.m. • Memorial Union 213

Through a discussion about disability within the lens of diversity, we’ll explore possible similarities between the civil rights movement and the disability rights movement, and the intersection of concepts such as ableism and privilege. We’ll also approach disability as culture, and various models of disability in society. We’ll also address how we all play an important role in effectively engaging campus, and society, to break the norms that have placed barriers in front of people with disabilities.Sponsor: Disability Access Services

Saturday, January 21

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to Serve!Interfaith Community Service ConferenceStarts at 8 a.m. • Memorial Union

IFCS@OSU aspires to initiate dialogue between religious and nonreligious individuals, bringing together students under the umbrella of community service. This conference provides a forum for students to engage with one another and share how their beliefs and values influence their decisions in life.Registration: atrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9NChmWONDMewimE Sponsor: IFCS@OSU

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to InspireSpeaking Justice: Where do we go from here?First Annual Spoken Arts Competition7 p.m.–9 p.m. • Memorial Union Main Lounge (doors open @ 6:30)

Join selected students, staff, and community members as they share spoken art performances inspired by the 1967 MLK speech “Where do we go from here”. Followed by a performance by spoken word artistsJoaquin Zihuatanejo and Natasha Carrizosa.Sponsors: Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Centro Cultural César Chávez, University Housing & Dining Services, Office of the Vice Provost for Student AffairsSunday, January 15 — Film Festival

Choose in this Crucial Moment… to Learn, to Activate!“Little Town of Bethlehem” (film & discussion)5 p.m.–7 p.m. (doors open @ 4:30)

Memorial Union Journey RoomDiscover how a courageous commitment to nonviolence is uniting Palestinians and Israelis in their quest for peace in the Middle East. This documentary looks at the conflict through the eyes of three men whose lives have been marked by the violence: a Palestinian Muslim, a Palestinian Christian, and an Israeli Jew who dare to dream that a just peace is possible.Sponsors: Spiritual Life @ OSU, United Campus Ministry, Lutheran Campus Ministry, Campus Coalition Builders, Baha’i Student Assn.

“Precious Knowledge” (film & discussion)7 p.m.–9 p.m. (doors open @ 6:30)

Memorial Union Journey RoomDisenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson’s embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program. Audience Favorite and Special Jury Award, San Diego Latino Film Festival, 2011. Honorable Mention in the Best Documentary Category, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2011.Sponsors: Centro Cultural César Chávez, Ethnic Studies

Monday, Jan. 16 — MLK Day

Choose in this Crucial Moment… Peace, Acknowledgement, Celebration30th Annual Peace Breakfast9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.Memorial Union Ballroom

Award Presentations: Phyllis S. Lee & Frances Dancy Hooks Coalition Builders AwardsMusic: OutspokenKeynote Speaker: Robert Thompson, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and African American StudiesSponsors: Office of Equity and Inclusion, President’s Office

Candlelight Vigil6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. • Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center to Memorial Union

Meet at the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 2325 NW Monroe, for the candlelight walk to the MU Steps.Sponsor: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Round Table Discussions7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. • Memorial Union 213

Sponsor: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama announced Monday that White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley is stepping down and will be replaced by Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew.

Two senior Obama aides told CNN that Daley will stay in his job through January, including the State of the Union address.

The chief of staff is in charge of White House staff and operations and is a senior adviser to the president.

A senior Obama campaign aide told CNN on Monday that Daley will serve as one of the co-chairs for Obama’s re-election campaign. The other co-chair will be announced in coming weeks, the aide said.

“He’s got a ton of political experience, knowl-edge and contacts, and we look forward to lever-aging those assets and working closely together to re-elect the president this year,” the campaign aide said of Daley, who was the campaign chair-man for Al Gore’s presidential run in 2000.

In a previously unscheduled statement Monday to reporters at the White House, Obama said Daley came to him last week and talked about stepping down to spend more time with his family.

Obama asked Daley to reconsider, but Daley decided to resign and recommended Lew as his successor, the president said.

“There is no question that I’m going to deeply miss him by my side here at the White House,” Obama said of Daley, who became chief of staff a year ago when Rahm Emanuel resigned to run

for mayor of Chicago.Daley, 63, was chosen as chief of staff last year

to bring a moderating influence to the White House in an attempt to seek a middle path with Republicans on contentious budget issues.

A Chicago native, Daley was widely regarded as the force behind getting the NAFTA agree-ment passed through the Republican-controlled Congress when he served as Commerce secre-tary in the Clinton administration.

With Obama now involved in election-year politics, the president has taken steps to appeal to his Democratic base, such as his recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of a new consumer protection agency.

According to a senior Obama aide, Daley told Obama last week that it was best for the presi-dent and the White House if Daley stepped aside.

A top Democratic congressional aide told CNN that Daley’s relations with Democratic legislators were strained. According to the aide, congressional Democrats believed Daley did a poor job of reaching out to leg-islators and listening to their ideas during contentious budget and debt ceiling negotia-tions last year.

In particular, the aide said, relations grew tense after Obama tried to cut a major deficit reduction agreement with U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and congressional Democrats learned of it by reading about it in the news media.

The aide also said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, called Obama to com-

plain about Daley after a controversy over the scheduling of the president’s jobs speech to Congress. The speech was rescheduled after Boehner complained about the initial date requested by the White House in a dispute characterized as emblematic of dysfunction in Washington.

In his resignation letter dated Jan. 3, Daley praised Obama’s efforts to address the nation’s long-term fiscal problems and said the presi-dent “made Americans aware and supportive of a balanced approach” that is needed.

He also cited Obama’s determination in end-ing the war in Iraq and “bringing Osama bin Laden to justice,” as well as the president’s efforts in getting new free-trade agreements through Congress.

“I have been honored to be a small part of your administration,” Daley’s letter said. “It is time for me to go back to the city I love.”

According to multiple Democratic sources, Daley found it hard to break in at a White House where Obama already received advice from long-time aides.

In addition, Daley was unable to get Obama to agree to staff changes that Daley thought were necessary to make the White House func-

tion better, Democratic sources said.The Democratic sources also said that

Obama’s campaign focus, which positions him as champion of working Americans, made one of Daley’s roles — improving White House rela-tions with the business community — a lesser priority.

Lew, meanwhile, will remain in place for now to finish the 2013 budget proposal, which is due in early February, said Kenneth Baer, the Office of Management and Budget communications director.

“Whatever decision the president makes about who is to lead the agency (after Lew departs), there will be a continuity of leadership at the highest levels,” Baer said of the OMB.

Lew became OMB director in November 2010, succeeding Peter Orszag. Lew also held the post in the Clinton administration and later served as deputy secretary of state for management and resources in the Obama administration.

He will be the third chief of staff under Obama, after Emanuel and Daley. In addition, Pete Rouse briefly served as interim chief of staff between Lew’s two predecessors.

— CNN

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White House chief of staff Bill Daley is stepping down

Iran sentences American to death in spy caseIran has sentenced an American

ex-Marine to death, accusing him of espionage.

A court convicted Amir Mirzaei Hekmati of “working for an enemy country,” as well as membership in the CIA and “efforts to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism,” the semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.

Hekmati’s family and the U.S. gov-ernment deny the allegations.

The sentence came down five months after Hekmati’s arrest.

The news came amid rising ten-sions between the United States and Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that uranium enrichment has begun at a nuclear facility in northern Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on a visit to Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez said the two of them were working together to stop the “impe-rial insanity” of the United States.

Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA, on its English website, said the court found Hekmati “caught red-handed in armed struggle against God” and “corrupt on Earth.”

“In the proceedings Hekmati said he had the motivation to infiltrate (the) Iranian intelligence system on behalf of the CIA,” the IRNA report said.

Hekmati’s parents said they were “shocked and terrified” by the news.

“We believe that this verdict is the result of a process that was nei-

ther transparent nor fair,” Behnaz Hekmati wrote in a statement on behalf of herself and her husband, Ali.

“Amir did not engage in any acts of spying, or ‘fighting against God,’ as the convicting judge has claimed in his sentence. Amir is not a criminal. His very life is being exploited for political gain,” the statement said.

“A grave error has been commit-ted, and we have authorized our legal representatives to make direct contact with the Iranian authorities to find a solution to this misunder-standing. We pray that Iran will show compassion and not murder our son, Amir, a natural born American citizen, who was visiting Iran and his relatives for the first time.”

The statement also said Iran was denying that Amir is a U.S. citizen.

The U.S. State Department said it was working to confirm the reports about the sentence.

“If true, we strongly condemn this verdict,” said department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland. “Allegations that Mr. Hekmati either worked for or was sent to Iran by the CIA are simply untrue. The Iranian regime has a history of falsely accusing peo-ple of being spies, of eliciting forced confessions, and of holding innocent Americans for political reasons.”

The department urged Iran “to grant the Swiss protecting power immediate access to Mr. Hekmati, grant him access to legal counsel, and release him without delay. “

In the absence of diplomatic rela-tions between the United States and Iran, Switzerland serves as the “pro-tecting power” for U.S. interests in the country.

Previously, Hekmati’s family mem-bers said he was being represented by a government-appointed lawyer, despite their repeated efforts to hire a private lawyer for him.

Hekmati was arrested in August while visiting his grandmother and other relatives, his family in Michigan said last month.

The Hekmatis said their son served in the Marines from 2001 to 2005. Later, he started his own linguistics company and contracted his services to the military as well as civilian businesses.

His military contracts included cultural competency training. He worked with troops at military bases to promote understanding and posi-tive communication with people of other cultures, his family said.

Fars reported that Hekmati said he worked for the U.S. Army for four years and later the CIA, where he was sent to Afghanistan and had access to secret documents.

Fars also reported that Hekmati told a judge he worked for the CIA and that he was to be paid for deliver-ing information to Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.

He was supposed to give his infor-mation to the Iranians in two parts — the first part for free, and if they liked it, he would ask for $500,000

for the second part, the news agency said.

Hekmati said he was to get a receipt from the ministry for the money, Fars reported. The judge speculated whether the receipt would later be used as evidence link-ing Iran to terrorist activities, the news agency said.

If Iran had paid, Hekmati told the judge, he would have kept the money and lived in Iran, according to Fars.

Iran’s notorious secretive trials have been assailed by human rights groups and governments around the globe.

The U.S. State Department’s annu-al human rights report on Iran says the court system is, in practice, “cor-rupt and subject to political influ-ence.” And while the country’s con-stitution provides a defendant the right to a public trial, presumption of innocence, and a lawyer of his or her choice, “These rights were not respected in practice.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday the United States takes the situation surround-ing Hekmati “very seriously and we are addressing it in the appropriate manner.”

Asked specifically about what actions the U.S. government might take on Hekmati’s behalf, he referred to the U.S. State Department statement.

Carney noted that the United States and other Western nations have sanctioned Tehran over its fail-

ure to cooperate on nuclear issues.“We are putting a great deal of

pressure on Iran broadly because of its rogue behavior,” Carney said, adding that Iran “won’t live up to its international obligations with regards to its nuclear program.”

Hekmati is the latest in a series of Americans to face arrest in the coun-try in recent years.

Three U.S. hikers, also accused of spying, were arrested in 2009 and ultimately released. Sarah Shourd was freed on medical grounds in 2010; Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were freed in Sept. 2011.

Journalist Roxana Saberi was arrested in January 2009 and con-victed of espionage in a one-day trial that was closed to the public. She was freed in May that year.

Reza Taghavi, an Iranian-American retired businessman, was freed by Iran in 2010 after being held more than two years on suspicion of supporting an anti-regime group, his lawyer said.

Iranian-American Kian Tajbakhsh was among many people arrested in July 2009, amid post-election protests and a massive government crackdown. Exactly what he was convicted of was not clear. In March the next year, he was allowed temporary release within the country to celebrate the Persian New Year. That temporary release was later extended, according to the web-site freekian09.org, which works for his release.

— CNN

Severe weather hit the Houston area Monday, flood-ing streets and homes and leaving thousands of people without power, emergency officials said.

Torrential rain fell across the area, causing flash flooding that left streets and highways impassable and submerged some vehicles.

“We have a lot of roadways closed, and some evacuations are going on,” said Alan Spears

of the Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management.

In the city of Richmond, Texas, rescues were conducted by boat and on foot. Spears said he believes a tornado touched down in the area.

“We had 7,000 people with-out power in the county,” he said.

Sixty miles southeast, in Texas City, a law enforce-ment officer witnessed what appeared to be a tornado strike

near the Mall of Midland, the National Weather Service reported.

The Houston/Galveston weather forecast office will examine the area and two other reported areas on Tuesday to confirm reported strikes, said Timothy Oram, an emergency response meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

As much as 6.3 inches of rain had fallen in the past day, nearly all of it during the previ-ous 12 hours, Oram said late Monday afternoon.

At Houston Hobby Airport, 4.05 inches of rain fell, which douses the previous Jan. 9 record of 2.54 inches set in 1955, according to Oram.

Though flash flood warn-ings were still in effect for Chambers County and Galveston County, the worst was over, he said. “It’s moved off to the northeast; things should be improving here,” he told CNN.

Video from Fort Bend County showed wind damage, including debris from building roofs and broken glass, and people trapped by the storm described terrifying moments.

One resident said he felt the wind pushing into his home just before the garage door fell in and the front door of his home was blown open.

“It just kept getting louder and louder and louder,” Umair Sayyed told CNN affiliate KPRC.

Sayyed said he and his mother and sister sheltered inside a closet moments before the roof fell and rain poured into his home.

Michael Walter, spokes-man for the Houston Office of Emergency Management, said the city conducted 20 to 30 high-water rescues.

The rain was falling so fast in Houston that the weather service recorded 1.6 inches in just 10 minutes.

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A legal group filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on Monday asking that videotapes showing the interrogation of a terror detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be made public.

The suit filed in the Southern District of New York is focused on interrogation tech-niques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, a man U.S. authorities have said was intend-ed to be the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks.

“From 2002 through 2003, Mr. al-Qahtani was the victim of a deliberate and cal-culated interrogation strategy involving the repeated use of torture and other pro-foundly cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment,” according to the lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

The lawsuit says al-Qahtani was sub-jected to severe sleep deprivation, isolation, 20-hour interrogations, severe tempera-tures and forced nudity. The suit says al-Qahtani also experienced “religious, sexual and moral humiliation” including instances in which female interrogators straddled

him.The lawsuit was brought against the

Department of Defense, Department of Justice, FBI and CIA. Officials at the CIA and Justice Department had no comment. Messages left for Defense Department offi-cials were not immediately returned.

During a conference call with report-ers, the center said lawyers involved with the case had seen some videotapes of al-Qahtani as the result of a 2009 federal court ruling, but they were not allowed to discuss them publicly.

“I found them extremely disturbing, sick-ening even,” said Sandra Babcock, a human rights lawyer at Northwestern Law School.

Al-Qahtani’s treatment “has been the subject of public debate and congressional inquiries, as well as internal agency inves-tigations,” according to the lawsuit. “The American public should now be permitted to see what occurred for itself.”

Babcock described al-Qahtani as a “bro-ken man” who may never recover from the psychological and physical effects of the

interrogation techniques allegedly used on him.

In a 2009 interview with The Washington Post, the Pentagon official in charge of deciding whether Guantanamo detainees would go to trial, said she concluded the al-Qahtani case could not proceed because of all the interrogation techniques used on him.

“His treatment met the legal definition of torture,” Susan Crawford, then head of the convening authority of military com-missions, told The Washington Post. “The techniques they used were all authorized, but the manner in which they applied them was overly aggressive and too persistent.” Crawford has since left that Pentagon post.

Al-Qahtani, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, tried to enter the United States at Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 4, 2001, a little more than a month before the Sept. 11 attacks. He was denied entry by immigration officials and was captured in Pakistan in December of 2001.

—CNN

Lawsuit seeks disclosure of Gitmo interrogation videos

Torrential rain causes flash flooding in Houston

Just what is Tehran up to?It sentences an Iranian-

American to death for alleged spying.

Announces it’s begun enriching uranium at a heavily fortified underground facility.

Threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, sending shivers down the spine of world oil markets.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jets off to Latin America, visiting countries that love to take pot shots at the United States.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland calls Iran “desperate,” dismiss-ing the trip as “flailing around...to find new friends.”

But some Iran-watchers are worried that desperation could cause Iran to make dan-gerous, unpredictable moves.

Karim Sadjapour with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace tells CNN “there’s a Persian say-ing that, when you have wild cat trapped in room, leave the door open to let it out.”

“Iran is cornered,” he says.Tehran is hurting, hit by stiff

economic sanctions aimed at forcing it to “come clean,” as Obama administration offi-cials put it, on its nuclear pro-gram. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on banks that deal with Iran’s Central Bank, and the European Union is close to imposing an embargo on Iranian oil exports.

Some U.S. lawmakers

want the noose tightened even more. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, says, “The Iranian threat is entering a new, even more dangerous stage.”

Pointing to Iran’s threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and to ratchet up its uranium enrichment, Ros-Lehtinen is calling for “immediate, com-prehensive, crippling sanc-tions on the regime.”

“An Iran with a nuclear breakout capability is an Iran with a nuclear weapon. We cannot delude ourselves into thinking we have time to spare.”

Internally, the Iranian regime is under severe pres-sure. Inflation is surging. The deputy economy minister says inflation could reach 22 percent by the end of March. The Financial Times reports that official unemployment for those under 25 is 29.1 percent but experts believe it could be double that.

The country holds parlia-mentary elections March 2 and, fearful of destabilization, the government is tighten-ing surveillance of its Internet users.

Sadjapour warns that insta-bility could have devastat-ing consequences. There is “legitimate concern,” he says, “that the hardliners in Tehran are purposely trying to pro-voke some type of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran in order

to repair Iran’s deep internal fissures, both between a dis-gruntled population against the regime and amongst Iran’s political elites themselves.”

Sadjapour calls that a “trap” that the United States and Israel “should be very careful about walking into.”

Although Ahmadinejad’s Latin American swing through Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador is making head-lines, several Iran experts downplay its impact. They note that the Iranian presi-dent is not visiting the region’s heavyweights, Brazil and Argentina.

“I think this is for domes-tic consumption in his own country,” Julia Sweig of the Council on Foreign Relations, tells CNN, “to show that he is not isolated, despite sanctions, and despite U.N. resolutions. In Latin America, generally, he doesn’t really have much of a political base.”

Stephen Johnson, direc-tor of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, calls the trip an “opportunity to shore up solidarity.”

“The current leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Ecuador,” he writes, “have little but praise for the Iranian leader and share the Islamic Republic’s objective of offset-ting the influence of the United States on the world stage. They will likely continue to offer a

platform to criticize Western ideas of democracy and free markets, both in meetings and as a base for Iran’s hemispheric public diplomacy efforts.”

A key figure is Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Johnson says. Chavez has helped Iran evade sanctions on banking and industries that support its military. “In private, Chavez could offer to help Iran sidestep the latest sanctions against its banks and oil exports,” Johnson says.

The countries Ahmadinejad is visiting aren’t doing it just to help him, Johnson says; they’re also hoping for more aid from Tehran.

For Cuba, for example, Iran has supplied credit and loaned funds for transporta-tion infrastructure improve-ments. Nicaragua got prom-ises of money for a hospital, hydroelectric projects, and a dry canal between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

“In Venezuela,” Johnson says, “it has gone much fur-ther, rehabilitating an old trac-tor plant, establishing a car factory, and constructing sub-sidized housing.”

Have all these projects been carried out? That’s not clear, Johnson says, but Iran’s presi-dent is likely to bring more promises to his Latin American friends. And, caught in the stranglehold of tighter world pressure, Ahmadinejad needs all the friends he can get.

—CNN

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- Grady Garrett

Pac-12 bowl flopFor all the talk over the years about an “east

coast bias,” the Pac-12 sure didn’t do itself any favors by flopping big time in bowl season. Oregon won the Granddaddy and Utah had an OT win over Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl, but the other five conference teams came up on the losing end of their bowls.

Stanford is defensible for sure, but Washington and ASU proved to have a defense akin to Pop Warner teams; UCLA was the ongo-ing joke of the bowl season, going into their bowl with a losing record. The saddest part about the Pac-12’s bowls was the fact that the best team in the conference, come bowl sea-son, were the Trojans of Southern Cal, and they were watching from their couches thanks to a two-year postseason ban.

And then there’s OSU. In their worst season in 15 years, the Beavers’ 3-9 record looked even worse with the entire conference being out-played by everyone else; and the only Pac-12 opponent the Beavers beat who actually made it to a bowl were the Huskies, who were shred-ded to the tune of 67 points and countless bowl records by RG3 and Baylor.

- Warner Strausbaugh

Bye-bye, LaMichaelEveryone saw it coming. It was no surprise

when LaMichael James, running back for the

University of Oregon, declared himself eligible for the NFL shortly after the Ducks won the Rose Bowl.

James holds numerous records at Oregon, including most career touchdowns (58), most career points (348) and most career rushing yards (5,082).

Anyone who played against James in the Pac-12 knew he was more than just a decent player. What does his early departure mean for the rest of the conference?

Statistically, Oregon may be suffering a huge loss. But they have other players, such as Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year De’Anthony Thomas — better known as “Black Mamba” by some, and senior-to-be Kenjon Barner, who rushed for 939 yards as James’s backup this fall.

So for the second year, a school in this state has lost a running back early to the NFL, but perhaps it won’t be as backbreaking for the Ducks as the loss of Jacquizz Rodgers was to the Beavers this time last year.

- Caitie Karcher

Wrestling team making noiseRecord books are being rewritten in Corvallis.

Not only is the 14th ranked wrestling team mak-ing noise on the national level, but junior Mike Mangrum, and senior Clayton Jack are current-ly ranked fifth in their respective weight classes.

Mangrum, wrestling in the 141-pound weight class, is coming off of a first-place fin-ish in the Southern Scuffle Invitational and has moved up to fifth in the nation. Mangrum won his 18th match of his career at the Invitational, propelling him to 33rd in all time wins at Oregon State.

Jack, who is massive even for the heavy-weight class in which he wrestles, had won 24 consecutive matches this year before losing his first of the year and has also moved up to fifth in the nation. His 106 career wins is good for 16th all-time as he approaches Wrestling

Hall of Famers Les Gutches and the late great Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed.

- Andrew Kilstrom

Blazer’s future is brightDec. 26’s opening night of the Portland Trail

Blazer season couldn’t have come soon enough. With Trail Blazer fans still struggling following the recent retirement of Brandon Roy and one more setback in Greg Oden’s knee rehabilita-tion, seeing the Blazers 107-103 victory over Philadelphia helped begin the fan base’s shift from grieving to dreaming. Dreaming of Jamal Crawford’s crossover pull-up jumper; dreaming of LaMarcus Aldridge lob dunks; dreaming of Wesley Matthews holstering yet another clutch 3-pointer. Although a brutal schedule awaits, the future is bright in Portland.

- Scott Campbell

More Blazer talkYou would have to be stuck in one of North

Korea’s hard labor prisons not to realize the NBA started its regular season on Christmas Day. Things began in typical fashion for Portland fans with star guard Brandon Roy announcing his retirement and injury plagued center Greg Oden suffering a season-ending injury before the season even started (insert Sam Bowie joke here). As bleak as things looked for the Blazers, the first part of the season has been highly successful for Rip City. Before they beat the Lakers last week, Charles Barkley called them the best team he’s seen in the Western Conference. They look to add another win to their (5-2) record tonight against the Lob City Clippers who are, for the first time ever, the better basketball team in Los Angeles. As a die-hard Clipper fan (I’m one of six), I wanted to focus this whole segment on the Clippers and the new additions to their team — and to

their bandwagon — but I don’t think anyone in Corvallis would have wanted to read that.

- Alex Crawford

Jacquizz Rodgers highlights over break

Jacquizz Rodgers is near and dear to Oregon State University athletics, and last year moved out and onto the big stage of the NFL to make Beaver supporters proud. As much as we all were hoping to see him have an extended stay in the playoffs, his Atlanta Falcons came up short, losing to the New York Giants in their NFC Wildcard matchup.

This is not to overlook his rookie season that ended with 57 carries, 205 total yards and one touchdown. You may have missed his most nota-ble moments on the field while you were celebrat-ing the holidays.

On Dec. 11, Jacquizz made an impressive 31-yard touchdown grab off of a wheel route to give his team the lead against the Carolina Panthers. This catch was featured on Sportcenter’s Top 10 plays, and held a spot on Youtube’s most watched for the week.

The next week, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, it was all too familiar for those that understand Rodgers’s ability to play outside of his size. It looked like just an average run, until he stutter steps a defender so bad he falls, allowing him to go for 12 more yards. This replay was quite the buzz for the NFL Network that Sunday, and fills every Beaver Believer with a sense of pride.

Lastly, Rodgers kicked off his new year with his first rushing touchdown, which came in the first quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was able to go through one defender from inside the one-yard-line, just as Oregon State taught him to.

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ent: win the whole thing. Led by reigning Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, Leslie Mak, they have the pieces to make yet another run at it.

- Warner Strausbaugh

Will youngsters step up for wrestling team?It’s no secret that Oregon State wrestling is anchored by its

highly-ranked veterans Clayton Jack, Mike Mangrum, and Scott Sakaguchi, but the Beavers continued success and hopes of winning a national championship rest largely on the shoulder’s of the young underclassmen.

Seven of Oregon State’s main wrestlers are freshmen or sophomores, and all have been highly productive this year. Freshman Pat Rollins and sophomore R.J. Pena have stood out for the young Beavers, helping the underclassmen to a com-bined record of 87-32 on the season.

Look for the young guns to step up for the rising wrestling squad as the season progresses.

- Andrew Kilstrom

GIll Coliseum excitementGill Coliseum has played host to two overtime games already

this basketball season. The women’s team lost in overtime to Washington State University at home and the men’s team lost to Stanford in four overtimes. Both teams have proven that they can compete in the Pac-12, and Gill should host many more exciting contests this year. Each weekend this term, either the women’s team or the men’s team will play at home.

Gill Coliseum doesn’t just host basketball games, either. It’s also the home of the gymnastics and wrestling teams. Both teams are ranked in the nation’s top 25, and both will hold sev-eral key contests in the confines of Gill this term.

So call it your Beaver Dam, home court, ‘our house’, or what-ever, but Gill Coliseum is where the students and the university can connect, creating the atmosphere to come.

- Jacob Shannon

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Senior Clayton Jack squaring off against Boise State’s J.T. Felix, a match Jack won 8-2. Ranked fifth in the nation for the heavyweight class, Jack is one of several Beavers off to a fast start this season.

Jeffrey Basinger | THE DAILY BAROMETER ARCHIVES

Jacquizz Rodgers scored plenty of touchdowns during his days in Corvallis. He found the endzone twice in December for the Atlanta Falcons for his first two career NFL scores.

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— @Storm34thetruth (Storm Woods) Beaver Tweet of the Day

Looking ahead at winter termLooking back at winter break

By Barometer StaffThe Daily BaromeTer

Did you lock yourself in a room and ignore society for the month we were gone? Were you too busy cruising the world to check the inter-net? In case you didn’t follow the local sports world over break, the Barometer staff has you covered. Here’s what you missed…

Fred Thompson’s deathThe tragic, sudden death of the freshman

defensive tackle on the Wednesday of finals week brought a state of devastation and grief to the Corvallis community. The 6-foot-4, 317-pound 19-year-old collapsed during a pick-up basketball game at Dixon Recreation Center shortly after 6 p.m. on Dec. 7. He was pro-nounced dead less than an hour later at Good Samaritan Hospital. A “Celebration of Life” in honor of Thompson will be held this Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Austin Auditorium at the LaSells Stewart Center. The event is open to the public.

- Grady Garrett

Four overtimesIf you didn’t come back to Corvallis until

Sunday, thinking “no need to get back earlier than that, it’s not like I’m going to miss any-thing exciting,” you were wrong. Gill Coliseum played host to one of the most exciting bas-ketball games I have witnessed in my 21 years. Stanford beat Oregon State 103-101 in four overtimes — yes, you read that right. The game had everything. There was Roberto Nelson’s back-to-back threes with only one shoe on. There was Jared Cunningham’s near “would have been better than ‘Kiss the Sky’” reverse slam, followed by Angus Brandt’s banked-in three toward the end of regulation. There was Stanford’s game-winning buzzer-beater at the end of regulation, which was initially ruled good and then waved off after a lengthy review. There was a 10-second free-for-all toward the end of the fourth overtime — I’m not sure whether it’d be best described as basketball, volleyball, football or wrestling — that result-

By Barometer StaffThe Daily BaromeTer

What are we most looking forward to about winter term? Here’s some of the bigger upcom-ing storylines in the world of OSU athletics…

Can basketball right the ship?After getting off to one of its best starts

in two decades, the Oregon State University men’s basketball team has found itself in a little bit of a slide lately, opening Pac-12 play at 1-3. Perhaps other teams have figured out the key to stopping the myriad of offensive weapons this OSU team possesses. Perhaps the ghost town that the campus becomes over the long winter break has gotten these players down in the doldrums. Perhaps the Beavers’ nonconference schedule was weaker than everyone realized. We saw the confi-dence and swagger they were playing with in late November and early December; Beaver Nation knows what this team can do when they are on point. As students return for win-ter term and begin to once again pack Gill Coliseum, here’s to hoping that this Beaver team gets back on a hot streak and starts win-ning games, “One Day at a Time.”

- Alex Crawford

Cunningham for POY?Oregon State has had five Pac-10 Players of

the Year in men’s basketball since 1975. Junior guard Jared Cunningham has all the mak-ings of number six. The Beavers will need to win and finish in the top third of the confer-ence for Cunningham to earn the honor. He currently leads the conference in points per game at 17.6 and steals per game at 2.94. So, if you’re wondering what to do on Thursday and Saturday nights this term, watching “Air Jared’s” Pac-12 Player of the Year campaign should be at the top of the list.

- Scott Campbell

How many Pac-12 teams will get invited to the Big Dance?

Pac-12 men’s basketball has been down for a few years now, but never THIS down. Not a single Pac-12 team is ranked in this week’s top 25. Stanford is the only Pac-12 team receiving any votes, and there have been weeks when the Pac-12 hasn’t received a single vote. Cal, regarded by many as the conference’s top team, has played two ranked opponents and lost each of those contests by an average of 28 points. UCLA, Arizona and Washington are all

underachieving rather significantly. Heck, the conference’s best out-of-conference win was Oregon State’s 100-95 victory over a University of Texas team that is amid a “down” year them-selves. The Pac-12 generally has gotten any-where from four to seven NCAA Tournament bids. This year? I can’t see the conference getting more than three. If that. If you don’t win the Pac-12 Tournament, you better not lose more than five regular season conference games. Which doesn’t bode well for OSU, who has already lost three in two weeks.

- Grady Garrett

Super Six for gymnasts?Six straight years, six straight nationals

appearances, six straight disappointments. That’s been the tale for the perennially impres-sive Oregon State gymnastics team. They always get close, but can never quite cap off their season with a Super Six appearance (the gymnastics equivalent of the Final Four). This year, the gymnastics team’s goal is no differ-

John Zhang | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Roberto Nelson drives on the Cardinal defense during Saturday’s 103-101 quadruple overtime loss. The game was the longest in program history.


Mike Riley spoke in a quivering, somber tone at a press conference in the Gill Coliseum basement the day after Fred Thompson’s death.

Jeffrey Basinger | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Jared Cunningham and the Beavers have their sights set high this year. But Oregon State has started 1-3 in a conference that probably won’t receive more than a few NCAA Tournament bids.

AlExANdRA TAylOR | THE DAILY BAROMETER

The OSU gymnastics team has made it to nationals six consecutive years.

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