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n Few attend sustainable campus tours via electric vehicles, plans for more tours for the future

By Jeff BasingerThe Daily BaromeTer

Only three students took advan-tage of the annual Earth Week cel-ebration’s first, and free, sustainable campus tours on Monday, April 23.

Because of these low numbers, the Sustainability Office will be offer-ing the tours again during Tuesday’s Community fair held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Memorial Union Quad.

Five electric vehicles with volun-teer drivers and tour guides were available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. by People’s Park, the first stop on the campus tour. Rather than giving tours, much of the time was spent discussing how to better advertise this free service.

Blair Belloni, administrative pro-gram specialist at the OSU Alumni Association volunteered to drive.

Originally from Newport, Ore., Belloni said, “It was great to learn about sustainability and the build-ings around campus, things I didn’t know about.”

The tour focused primarily on sus-tainable and LEED designed archi-tecture at Oregon State University. Most of the sustainable award-win-ning buildings have been construct-ed or remodeled in the last 8 years,

about the same duration Brandon Trelstad has been working as the sustainability coordinator for OSU’s Sustainability Office.

Trelstad and the sustainability office are also involved in the “Drive

Less Connect Social,” a meet-up for the new carpool/rideshare system held in MU 211 on Wednesdays at noon.

Chi Omega member Taylor Ross, senior in psychology and new media

communications, was the only tour-taker during the first hour.

“I saw the sign and wanted to ride an electric vehicle around campus,”

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Karli Olsen and Drew Hatlen, candidates for vice president and president, scrambled to divert attention away from Hatlen’s absences.

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Brandon Trelstad, OSU’s Sustainability Coordinator, drives an electric vehicle and gives a tour of sustainable hotspots around campus.

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Amelia Harris and Dan Cushing, candidates for president and vice president, unleashed a barrage of questions against Hatlen.

Electric cars zip through campus for sustainable tour

Debate shows candidates’ fiesty siden Hatlen questioned about recent

absences from the house, Harris about OSA decision from summer

By Don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer

The knives came out a little at yes-terday’s poorly attended Associated Students of Oregon State University pres-idential and vice presidential debate.

While still lacking the rancor that char-acterizes national presidential debates, the debate was a much less cordial affair than the last one, with the Amelia Harris and Dan Cushing campaign launching several barbed attacks against presiden-tial opponent Drew Hatlen and his run-ning mate Karli Olsen.

Cushing called into question Hatlen’s absence from ASOSU training over the summer as well as his absence from two recent House of Representatives meet-ings. Last week the House was unable to conduct business because of a lack of quorum. Nine representatives besides Hatlen were absent from the meeting.

“I’m not so convinced you have the ability to serve ASOSU after you took the last month off from the House of Representatives,” Cushing said.

Hatlen replied that he thought it would be counter productive being a candidate and also trying to remain neutral in the House of Representatives. He also said that by leaving the house to Kevin Dunn, speaker pro-tempore, he was giv-ing Dunn valuable training as a leader. Hatlen said he will be presiding over this week’s house meeting.

The debate gave the candidates a unique opportunity to discuss their issues and present their platforms to the few students who attended.

“We’re looking forward to building bridges between the ASOSU execu

Woman at Alpha Chi Omega identifiedn Student was a 20-year-old

psychology majorBy Joce DeWitt

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Police received a report at 1:22 p.m. Monday afternoon about a death at Alpha Chi Omega located at 310 NW 26th St. in Corvallis.

After the victim’s family was noti-fied, officials released her identity as 20-year-old Lauren Snow, a psy-chology student at Oregon State University, and will not release any further information at this time.

Lt. Tim Brewer of the Corvallis Police Department confirmed that detectives were at the sorority con-ducting a death investigation.

“There is no reason to suspect any criminal behavior,” Brewer said. Police suspect the death occurred sometime over the weekend but fur-ther investigation of cause and man-ner of death will be left to the State Medical Examiner’s Office.

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Clinton, Panetta ask congressman to stay out of AfghanistanA top Republican on the

House Foreign Affairs commit-tee was asked by the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense not to go to Afghanistan because President Hamid Karzai object-ed to the visit.

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, told Security Clearance he was ready-ing to travel with five other Republicans from Dubai to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, when the State Department requested he stay behind.

Rohrabacher then got a call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying she was hop-ing to avoid a “minicrisis” if he insisted traveled on.

“She just indicated to me that Karzai was going banan-

as when he heard I was com-ing,” Rohrabacher told Security Clearance in a phone interview from Dubai. “Apparently he believes that it is my discussing his problems that are causing his problems.”

Rohrabacher described the conversation with Clinton as “amicable” and “reasonable” requesting that he not travel on to Kabul.

“If I could help in not creat-ing another mini crisis for her while she is trying to get these other things done, and I thought that was a reasonable request,” Rohrabacher said.

The State Department con-firmed that Clinton did speak with Rohrabacher and con-veyed the message that the

government of Afghanistan preferred that he not come at this time. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a similar request, according to the State Department.

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the Karzai administration requested that one member of the congres-sional delegation not come to Afghanistan.

“The member was informed of that desire and decided to respect it,” spokesman George Little said.

Rohrabacher said his over-sight into corruption and gov-ernment policies in Afghanistan as well as his support for an alternative government to Karzai was likely what precipi-

tated the request from Clinton and the intention of the group to meet with members of the Northern Alliance.

His relationship with Karzai has been “a little rough” over the years, Rohrabacher told Security Clearance.

“But I haven’t considered him my enemy, but he obviously has considered me his enemy,” Rohrabacher said.

The rest of the Republican congressional trip continued on to Afghanistan. Those that traveled on included Rep. Louis Gohmert, Rep. Michael Burgess and Rep. John Carter of Texas; Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; and Rep. Madeleine Bordallo from Guam.

— CNN

Call it the battle for the youth vote.

As President Barack Obama heads to three battleground states this week to push for an extension of a law that cuts interest rates on a popular federal student loan program for low and middle income undergraduates, and to ener-gize young voters, his re—elec-tion campaign is also pushing for the extension with national and state events.

The president will visit the University of North Carolina, the University of Colorado and the University of Iowa on Tuesday and Wednesday. The three universities are in states Obama narrowly won in the 2008 election and are con-sidered battleground states again in 2012, meaning they are expected to be heavily con-tested by both parties in the general election.

The president blames Republicans for serving as a roadblock to make college more affordable for middle class families.

“This is a question of val-ues,” Obama said Saturday, in his weekly internet and radio address. “We cannot let America become a coun-try where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of people struggle to get by.”

The president wants to extend a provision that keeps interest rates on federally sub-sidized student loans at 3.4 percent. The rate passed with bipartisan support five years ago, but is set to expire on July 1. Without the extension, the rate would return to 6.8 percent.

Obama will also appear on Jimmy Fallon’s late night talk show Tuesday to pitch the extension.

In a midday conference call organized by the Obama campaign, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said, “This is personal for the president, first lady, and me. We all attended college on loans and worked to pay them off.”

The senator noted 70 per-

cent of all Iowa students grad-uate with a debt load averag-ing $30,000.

Harkin, the Senate Education Committee Chairman, was joined on the call with Eileen O’Leary, former president of the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and OFA Policy Director James Kvaal.

The push also includes New Hampshire, another battle-ground state.

In advance of what’s being billed by Mitt Romney’s Republican presiden-tial campaign as a major speech Tuesday night in New Hampshire, Granite State Democrats are holding an event where they will slam the all— but— certain GOP nomi-nee for supporting the House Republican budget, which Democrats say would double student loan interest rates.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who’s making his second bid for the White House, says he’s con-

cerned about the debt facing students coming out of college.

“I’m really concerned about what our kids are going to face. My parents and your parents, and your grandparents, were in the greatest generation — left us with a nation that was prosperous, creating jobs, free, strongest nation in the world — and what are we going to leave our kids? A trillion dollars of debt, an economy that’s not created the jobs that they need, student loans that are larger than their pay would sug-gest they should carry,” said Romney last week, at a cam-paign event in Pennsylvania.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois won two-thirds of the 18 - to 29-year-old vote in the 2008 presidential election, according to national exit polls. That was up 12-points from the 54 percent of the 18- to 29- year-old vote that Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, carried four years earlier.

— CNN

President makes push for younger voters

Obama targets technology in human rights abusesPresident Barack Obama announced

Monday that he has signed an executive order allowing new sanctions against com-panies that enable Syria and Iran to use technology such as cell phone monitoring to carry out human rights abuses.

The order is part of a broader strategy intended to strengthen the administra-tion’s ability to prevent atrocities, including creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board, Obama said in somber remarks at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“These technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them,” Obama said of the measure, which targets the Syrian and Iranian governments, as well as companies that provide them with high-tech equipment to use against their own people.

A White House statement said the execu-tive order signed Sunday “authorizes sanc-tions and visa bans against those who commit or facilitate grave human rights abuses via information technology ... relat-ed to Syrian and Iranian regime brutality.”

“This novel sanctions tool allows us to sanction not just those oppressive gov-ernments, but the companies that enable them with technology they use for oppres-

sion and the ‘digital guns for hire’ who create or operate systems used to monitor, track, and target citizens for killing, torture, or other grave abuses,” the White House statement said.

Obama said the new Atrocities Prevention Board will meet for the first time on Monday at the White House.

It will have members from several gov-ernment departments, including State, Defense, Treasury, Justice and Homeland Security, as well as other agencies, to help the United States improve its ability to identify and respond more quickly to threats of atrocities, according to the White House statement.

“Across government, alert channels will make sure that information about unfold-ing crises and dissenting opinions reach decision-makers, including me,” Obama said.

Other steps include what Obama called the first-ever intelligence assessment on the risk of mass atrocities and genocide, saying the goal is to “institutionalize the focus on this issue.”

“Our Treasury Department will work more quickly to deploy its financial tools to block the flow of money to abusive regimes,” the president said. “Our military

will take additional steps to incorporate the prevention of atrocities into its doctrine and its planning. The State Department will surge our diplomats and experts in a crisis.”

He received applause from the audience of Holocaust survivors and others when he said, in clear reference to the situation in Syria, that “national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.”

Obama has come under heavy criti-cism on foreign policy issues recently from Republicans, including his certain opponent in the November election, Mitt Romney, and the president’s comments appeared aimed at defending a range of acts by his administration that he said saved “countless lives” around the world.

Monday’s visit to the Holocaust memori-al museum was Obama’s first as president. He was accompanied by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, who urged Obama and world leaders to prevent atrocities such as attacks on citi-zens occurring in Syria.

In particular, Wiesel said threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel must be confronted.

— CNN

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n Alumnus, former Barometer editor wins ethics award from University of Oregon for reporting on ritual infanticide of “cursed” children in Southern Ethiopia

By Don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer

A story sometimes needs to be told so badly that one will do anything they can to tell it. Journalists understand this; the public’s right to know is sometimes worth going out on a limb, even if it means paying for it out of your own pocket.

That is exactly what Matthew LaPlante, a 2001 graduate of Oregon State University and former news editor of The Daily Barometer, did to tell the story of the cursed “mingi” children of the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia. LaPlante cashed in his vacation days, used his savings, and begged and borrowed from friends and relatives to pay for the trip to tell the story of ritual infanticide practiced by the Kara, Banna and Hamar tribes of Southern Ethiopia.

For his efforts, LaPlante, along with his part-ner in the project Rick Egan, will be awarded with the 2012 Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. He will be honored in a ceremony at the University of Oregon May 17.

LaPlante and Egan first found out about the “mingi” chil-dren after Egan ran into a Utah based entrepreneur in Ethiopia that the two had tried to speak to during their time in Iraq in 2005. The entrepreneur told them how he was working on a project to stop the infanticide problem among the tribes of the Omo River Valley.

Tribes in this valley practice a ritualized form of child infan-ticide, where if a child is born with deformities, out of wedlock or without the right ceremony being performed before his birth, or even if his top teeth come in before the bottom, he will be killed by one of the village elders. This is done because these “mingi” children are believe to bring bad luck to the vil-lage and will stop the rains, which will bring no water or food.

Egan and LaPlante discovered there was almost nothing written about this, and what was written was several decades

old. LaPlante and Egan then approached their editors at The Salt Lake Tribune for permission and money to work on the project.

Their editors rejected the idea, saying there wasn’t money in the budget to send the two to Africa, but they did release the two from their non-compete clause and allowed them to take vacation time to pursue the project.

LaPlante ended up quitting early to take a professorship at Utah State University, but cashed in his vacation days to pay for the trip.

The pair only had a few weeks in Ethiopia and had a few dif-ficulties working on the project.

LaPlante had to work through several lay-ers of translators to speak with the people of the Kara tribe, as neither he nor Egan spoke Amharic, the most common language in Ethiopia, which was also not spoken by the villagers.

“Working the story through several layers of translators slows down the interview process,” LaPlante said. “It’s like playing a game of tele-phone where you have to ask the same ques-tion over and over again differently to make sure what they were expressing was truly what was being said.”

The pair originally sold the story to Christianity Today, but the magazine gra-ciously opened up their freelance policy and

allowed the pair to sell the story to CNN, to give it more exposure.

Before traveling to Ethiopia to work on the story, LaPlante went to Iraq three times as national security correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune, and worked at the McMinnville News-Register, The Gazette-Times, The Lebanon Express and the Oakland Tribune.

But LaPlante got his start at The Daily Barometer, serving as news editor during one of the newspaper’s most illustri-ous years. During his tenure, the newspaper won the Society of Professional Journalists national award for best all-around daily student newspaper, as well as the national award for feature writing. The award for best all-around newspaper was the first time the award had been given to a university without a journalism program.

LaPlante credits his experiences at the Barometer for help-ing to set him up for his future success.

“Nothing prepared me more,” LaPlante said. “Since OSU doesn’t have a journalism program, it meant learning by doing and learning by screwing up. There is no better teacher than working without a safety net.”

LaPlante also said he was in the right place at the right time, that the best mix of people came to Oregon State at the right time to make it an award winner.

“I got to Oregon State at a time when there was a motley mix of people that for whatever reason chose to be journalists there. We learned a lot there,” LaPlante said.

While the story of the “mingi” children has been told, LaPlante plans on returning to Ethiopia this summer with three students.

“That place is swimming in stories,” LaPlante said. “Everywhere you look, everywhere you step, there are more stories.”

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Ross said. “Also, my friend goes to a pretty green school, and I wanted to know how our school compares.”

OSU compares well. The university is one of only a handful of colleges and uni-

versities in the United States to attain a Gold rating in STARS, and last week it was rated among the top 16 green schools, earning a place in the “honor roll” for The Princeton Review.

At one stop on the tour, Trelstad pointed out the OSU Energy Center, the greenest building of its kind in the United States.

“Half the electricity on campus comes from here,” Trelstad said.

Every event during Earth Week is free, but for the campus tours, spreading the word was the problem.

Sonja Mae, the new Sustainability Project specialist as of January 2012, and other sustainability leaders said that next time would be better.

While waiting by the electric cars for tour participants, the group brainstormed. One person suggested asking teachers to give extra credit for going on the tour.

“If they advertised it better, a lot of people would partici-pate,” Ross said. After returning from the half-hour tour, she said, “I have a lot of environmental engineer friends that would love a tour like this.”

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Branches as well as build-ing bridges between ASOSU and the student body,” Harris said.

Harris added that if elected, she will be looking at re-eval-uating the positions of task force directors and looking at current programs to make sure they are being finan-cially responsible, as well as making sure subordinates are being good stewards of the money they are tasked with.

Hatlen emphasized his service in the House of Representatives, citing his two years of service as Speaker of the House and a year as a representative.

“It’s given me a lot of tools to repair the image of ASOSU that has been lost this year,” Hatlen said.

During rebuttals, Hatlen questioned whether Harris and Cushing wanted ASOSU to remain a part of the Oregon Student Association. Current President M. Tonga Hopoi had temporarily removed ASOSU from the Oregon Student Association, a deci-sion that led to her impeach-ment and a censure from the Senate. Harris, as executive director of services, at the time had voted with Hopoi to remove ASOSU from Oregon Student Association during a cabinet meeting over last summer.

“I regret moving out of

OSA,” Harris said, using the acronym for Oregon Student Association.

Cushing said that he voted multiple times to reinstate funding for OSA as a senator.

Both sides were questioned about the Human Services Resource Center and how they would continue to pro-vide funding for services that were in greater demand by students. The Human Services Resource Center provides many programs, including Mealbux, a food pantry and temporary hous-ing assistance.

Harris said that it was a unique service and that she will continue to work with Human Services Resource Center to apply for grants to fund the center. Harris said that student fee dollars could not support much more, and that other funding sources were needed.

Hatlen said the center’s budget had been re-evaluat-ed to allocate more money that was previously thought unavailable. He said that it gave back 78 percent of its budget to students in the form of subsidies. Hatlen also said he was excited about the future prospect of a building which will incorporate many different services to students in one location, such as Our Little Village childcare, the Human Services Resource Center and Vetaran’s Affairs officials.

Both sides said they sup-ported the DREAM act and

tuition equity. Karli Olsen emphasized her service working with the govern-ment affairs team and work-ing with the Oregon Student Association on voter registra-tion and lobbying training. Cushing was then questioned whether he had any experi-ence lobbying at the state-house. Cushing replied that he did not have any experi-ence at the statehouse.

Hatlen concluded the debate by saying that he had a unique ability to work with student leaders on campus and has been working as a mentor, helping student lead-ers to develop skills.

“We need to be showing students that we care, we lis-ten and their needs are being met,” Hatlen said.

C u s h i n g , h ow e v e r, disagreed.

“I’m questioning your role as a mentor when public con-fidence in the legislature is at an all time low,” Cushing said.

Hatlen replied by listing off his achievements, including support for Oregon Student Association and the textbook reserve act. He also said that he had mandated a sign in procedure for house meet-ings and under his tenure a bill was passed, which man-dated that representatives

hold office hours.Both sides were pleased

with how the debate went.“I’m looking forward to

supporting students in a way we haven’t before,” Harris said.

“We are prepared to take over this leadership role the day we are elected,” Cushing said.

Hatlen and Olsen were also pleased.

“We should focus on stu-dent needs and not our own personal agenda,” Hatlen said. “If we don’t go out and talk to students how will we know what their needs are?”

ASOSU general elections begin Wednesday at 10 p.m. and conclude Friday at 10 p.m. on Blackboard.

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day’s Barometer entitled “No crying over spilled milk here,” the manager of OSU’s dairy farm was incorrectly identified. His name is Ben Krahn.

The Daily Barometer regrets the error.

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These days I am continually re-thinking health. I want to come up with new ways

to put health into action, especially when it comes to health education. Something bothers me about the current status of health education. Something just seems to be missing.

But I am getting ahead of myself; let’s first understand today’s health paradox.

We are living in a unique time. While our health knowledge is expanding, our actual health is fail-ing. Scientists and doctors contin-ually discover the functions of the human body in microscopic detail, ever-refining the behaviors and food that are optimal for maintain-ing long-term health. This infor-mation is readily available; it is fre-quently on the news, published in books and taught in classes. Today, probably more than any other time in history, people know what is healthy for them.

The frustrating part is few seem to care. Even though the knowl-edge is there, the public’s overall health is declining. People still eat fast food, even though they know it’s not good for them. People still smoke cigarettes, even though they know it causes lung cancer. People still sit too much, even though they know physical activity is good for them.

Sadly, people were more physi-cally fit and ate a healthier diet before the health knowledge

renaissance. It just does not get any more frustrating.

Somehow, somewhere, health education is missing the integral step that connects knowledge to action. Frequently left out of the conversation is a person’s motiva-tion to choose healthy behaviors. Without the motivation to want to change, an individual will continue with bad habits. It does not matter how many classes we teach or how many books we write, if someone does not feel it is worth their time to change, then we’re just wasting time.

By understanding and integrat-ing motivation, educators can begin to tap into the driving force of an individual. However, getting to the core of an individual is no easy task. No two circumstances are alike and what motivates one population might de-motivate another. Thus, health education needs to break away from a one-size-fits-all approach and tailor the information to whoever is listening.

For example, talking about heart disease to college students produc-es more yawns than change. But

driving home the point that just a small increase in physical activity can help lower stress and increase concentration, re-energizing your brain for that midterm in 30 min-utes, might help influence a few more people to get out of their chair and take a walk. While this approach skips the details on heart disease prevention, it has a much better chance of producing activ-ity now. The more educators can get people active now, the more likely it will become a habit.

The classroom and textbooks are not the only problem. Books, magazines and the Internet are rich sources of excit-ing, new health information that fails to inspire people to become healthier. Unlike classrooms, these sources have specific message for their targeted audiences.

For example, there are websites devoted to increasing nutrition awareness in teenagers or physical activity guidelines for the elderly. Sure, it might get a few people to change behaviors, but for the majority, these do not tap into the core motivation, so people remain unchanged.

It would be easy to say that as a society, we are willing to sacrifice the long-term health of our bodies for the instant gratification of fast-food and Netflix. While this is true, the sacrifice is not always clear. It is like we are signing a contract without reading the fine print. We are just enjoying the benefits of our technically-rich lifestyle, while neglecting our basic physical and

p s y c h o l o g i c a l needs to eat well and move often.

It is possible to have both and we should. There is nothing wrong with the Internet, TV and iPhones, but we have to encourage a bet-ter relationship between our sed-entary and physi-cal behaviors, and break down the barriers prevent-

ing us from enjoying the benefits of both.

Unfortunately, I do not have the answers to this problem. I just have a message that we need to think differently, because our current approach to health is not working.

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David Schary is a Ph.D. candidate in exercise and sports psy-chology. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Schary can be reached at [email protected].

“If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, I will either

be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

Ted Nugent, the musician turned political activist, insinu-ated the threat against President Barack Obama at a recent NRA convention. The comments come after a long line of past remarks against the president, many of which are more implicit in inten-tion — one instance at a concert, he held up an AK-47 and said, “Hey, suck on this, Obama.”

Generally, the comments are abject and unworthy of even the slightest examination. And though Nugent’s most recent attack may be ambiguous, his history of dis-pleasure doesn’t give room for excuse — particularly for security purposes.

The Secret Service contacted Nugent prior to a concert last week, clearing up any potential threat to the commander-in-chief. Better safe than sorry, but investigating a public figure with a big mouth and political animosity only pro-motes a more restricted purview of speech, espe-cially politically-motivated forms.

First, Nugent broke no law.

One may argue Nugent’s com-ments suggest a possible “threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President,” which would violate the federal statute, but the court has seen far worse, and knows much better than to restrain any semblance of political speech. We should not attempt to cull simple allusions and assumptions from words; it would only lead to a more confined interpretation of intentions.

Political discourse often gets irrelevant and embellished rather quickly — it’s all about impact as fast as possible. But when the fed-eral government takes Nugent’s opinions as a legitimate risk to the president’s life, they’re obligated to take every other political rally, website or symbolism and imag-ery presented to the public just as seriously.

In America, no one wants that and the courts certainly would not entertain the thought of such infringement.

In 1966, at a public rally at the Washington Monument, Robert Watts, an 18-year-old male, raised his voice in the discussion on police brutality in response to another protestor that suggested young people should receive more education before fully expressing

their views: “They always holler at us to get an edu-cation. And now I have already received my draft classification as 1-A and I have got to report for my physical this Monday coming. I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.

They are not going to make me kill my black brothers.”

Watts was soon arrested and accused of violating the afore-mentioned federal statute. The Supreme Court took the case after two failed appeals — both courts reaffirmed the judgment and found Watts violated the statute

even without the intention of actu-ally carrying out the threat.

The Supreme Court, however, saw it different; the (Chief Justice Earl) Warren Court would reject the initial rulings. In a 5-1 deci-sion, the Court found Watts’ state-ment was merely “political hyper-bole,” and that the “language of the political arena...is often vitu-perative, abusive and inexact,” and in context — considering both the speaker’s emotions and listeners’ reactions — they found Watts was wrongfully charged.

Watts’ remarks were no different than Nugent’s — they both insinu-ate and merely allude to violence. And frankly, Watts’ threat is much clearer than Nugent’s, yet it estab-lished the foremost precedent in protecting political speech, espe-cially the impassioned moments.

Generally, the slightest hint in a threat on the president’s life should be taken seriously, no matter the individual who says it. Given that threats against our standing presi-dent have increased by nearly 400 percent since President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of “In the President’s Secret Service”, the situation is particu-larly suspect.

However, if every public threat toward the president — particu-larly obscure and ambiguous com-ments that don’t directly demand violence — were taken seriously, at least in the manner in which Nugent’s remarks were, we’d have one hell of a restriction on speech.

Take Sarah Palin’s previous “crosshairs” imagery during the 2010 November mid-term elec-tions — even at the time, given the Arizona Jared Loughner shooting had just occurred, many pundits blamed Palin for perpetuating such violence.

For many of us in college, we delved into politics during a time of serious hate and disapproval; the variety and degree to which people voiced their displeasure — both in humor and rage — of George W. Bush knew no bounds.

We grew up seeing such rhetoric — and maybe we’ve grown numb to such claims.

Nevertheless, while Nugent may not have broken the law, there is a legitimate case to be made that his words do not deserve First Amendment protection.

In 1942, in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court found that “the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or ‘fighting’ words — those which, by their very utter-ance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace,” do not fit into the well defined classes of free speech. These “fighting words” do not serve any legitimate purpose or expression of ideas — they are of “slight social value,” as the Court put it — and therefore do not earn constitutional protection.

Are Ted Nugent’s words “fight-ing words?” It’s simply a matter of opinion and perspective. One may see it as a joke, another a serious ploy for action.

In this case, the Secret Service saw Nugent’s recent comments as only another mark on his resume and felt it deserved investigation. But those at the convention, or at any political rally for that matter, come to be roused and galvanized. These remarks are certainly not of “slight” value to them.

There remains a fine line between keeping our freedoms intact — absolutely devoid of exception — and protecting the public from actual harm. When that line skews ever so slightly, so too does the prestige of our avail-able forms of speech.

Ideally, Nugent should be repressed — few could encourage such language. Yet, some words, though low, must be protected in principle to keep liberties straight.

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Armand Resto is a senior and editor of the forum. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Resto can be reached at [email protected].

Nutritional regulation meets

the mandateRecently, there’s been much talk

about the constitutionality of the 2014 Affordable Care Act, particu-

larly the individual mandate that requires every citizen to purchase insurance or face a financial penalty. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this year and a decision is expected come June.

At the same time, there’s been much talk about expanding the idea of “sin” taxes to unhealthy foods and products, such as sugar taxes.

Though it may not be obvious yet, the two discussions are one and the same, especially in a few years when the ACA ultimately goes into place — if the court does not strike down any portions of it.

When the entire country is required to purchase insurance something must be done to enforce a healthier lifestyle for everyone. At the least, there’s a legitimate argument to make more incentive for healthier foods.

The main argument against the man-date is the blatant violation of personal choice — this legislation requires indi-viduals to do something. In a similar vein, regulating nutritional content in foods could be seen as an infringement in per-sonal liberty — freedom to make whatever product you wish and allow any consumer to purchase said product.

In a way, regulating and taxing unhealthy food products is the recipro-cal response to the individual mandate. Forcing individuals into a shared insur-ance plan forces all individuals to make a conceited effort to keep premiums low.

Of course, many already unhealthy and apathetic members could care less about their lifestyle or how the incoming healthy individuals bring their insurance costs down, but possible regulations and taxes on unhealthy foods are nevertheless a fair compromise to the mandate.

Theoretically, these new regulations and taxes could spur new growth in the food industry; manufacturers may choose to create healthier foods — less sodium and sugar, for instance — thereby creating an entirely new brand for the company to sell.

Consumers, in turn, may wean off the traditionally unhealthy foods readily available to them — i.e. fast food — now that they are just that much “less cheap” than the other available option. Or, fast food may no longer be the cheap food, and that’s the ultimate goal in creating a healthier society. Here in America, a free market is really a manipulated market.

There’s a lot to be determined before 2014 rolls around, when the ACA is set to go into full effect. Either way, we should continue the discussions on making, and keeping, health care affordable for everyone.

While forcing individuals into a large insurance plan may be the wrong way to solve our national health care woes, it may also be the much-needed spark to intro-duce some new, stricter methods of get-ting our society healthier. Until our society actually gets healthier — not more widely covered — America will always have high insurance costs and the healthy will con-tinue to get the short end of the stick.

tEditorials serve as a means for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale or diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board’s majority.

DavidSchary

Focusing on health

‘‘ ‘‘it does not matter how many classes we teach or how many books we write, if someone does not feel it is

worth their time to change, then we’re just wasting time.

‘‘ ‘‘there remains a fine line between keeping our

freedoms intact — absolutely devoid

of exception — and protecting the public from actual harm.

Armand Resto

Considering the Horizon


Hockey playoffs a fresh form of entertainmentBasketball, boring.

Football, long over. Baseball, just start-

ing. Soccer, irrelevant. Aside from the occasional

exciting UFC fight, sports entertainment hits their spring slump right around this time. The sun is out and shining, the air is warm — sitting inside watching televi-sion is the last thing on most people’s minds.

But when night finally falls and the monotony of spring-time television is boring everyone to sleep at an early hour, what can possibly save us? Stanley Cup Hockey has the answer.

For two months straight, a game every night has allowed sports fans everywhere a brief reprieve from the incessant ennui of basketball, the long, sleepy games of the start of baseball season, and the painful wait that accompa-nies the football offseason. Not only this, but hockey is respected everywhere for its fast-paced play, hard-hitting physical contact and exciting playoff atmosphere.

For people who prefer the television turned off over a third rerun of the “Jersey Shore,” I can finally tell you that there is hope.

I never used to enjoy watching hockey, but that was only due to my ignorance of the rules. Just like someone playing a child in monopoly, when the rules aren’t known or followed, things can get really frustrating really fast. But after reading up on how the game of hockey is played, I gained a new appreciation for a sport often overlooked.

One of the main compo-nents of hockey that makes it

so interesting to watch is the freedom the puck has in mov-ing across the ice. In no other sport does the ball move so far and so fast on its own, and this freedom of movement can be cause for some of the most exciting, athletic plays in all of sports.

Secondly, as a fan of foot-ball, rugby, professional fighting and the like, some of the hits in hockey are so fero-cious, so violent, so sudden, that they put any football hit or flash knockout in boxing to shame.

I am a guy’s guy. I love the outdoors, I love to drink with my friends, I love the change in clothing the sun brings about and most of all, I love sports. As someone who loves sports, I was wonderfully shocked to find out that only in hockey is open brawling not only allowed, but encour-aged. So much do hockey teams love to fight that most even employ a teammate whose single responsibility is to be an “enforcer,” to start a fight with any opponent who needs to be straightened out.

When I learned this, I was happily stunned. I sat there, watching two grown men throw haymakers like they were five rounds into a fight with Mike Tyson and simply could not believe that this was allowed. There were the referees, circling these two athletes like a pair of vultures, merely waiting for one play-er to get so rocked from the punches to his head that he goes down to the ice. That is really the only thing that

stops a fight in hockey and for that, I am eternally thankful.

Additionally, I was elated to see how loyal teammates are to one another. Watching basketball, a sport for whin-ers, where players are more concerned with their image and their paycheck than the integrity of their team, I get fed up with the childishness I see.

Hockey is another story. Touch a team’s goaltender,

prepare to get blasted by the closest person to you. Cheap shot an opponent, get ready to get blindsided by their teammates at every opportu-nity presented. Injure some-one intentionally and you will have a swarm of opposing players each trying vigorously to land just one punch on your face.

Where, in all of sporthood, is this kind of loyalty found? Where else will teammates start a fight for any perceived slight they pick up on? You just won’t find it anywhere else.

If you are looking for something to entertain you at night, if you love sports, or maybe are just looking for something that still values teamwork, loyalty and good old fashioned hitting, I would highly recommend turning on any playoff hockey game you can find. The good thing is, you won’t have to look far to find one. With two months of playoffs, and literally two to three games every single day, hockey is one sport that you have to try to avoid.

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Sudanese warplanes strike at South Sudan border townsSudanese warplanes crossed

a disputed border region to strike Monday in South Sudan, escalating fighting that threat-ens to return the neighboring African countries to full-scale war, a witness said.

A Sudanese military com-mander, Kamal Marouf, was quoted by Radio Sudan’s web-site as saying that more than 1,200 South Sudanese had been killed.

A Sudanese military spokes-man denied that Sudan had used military aircraft to bomb the south. “We have nothing to do with what’s going on in Unity state,” he said, implying that militias or South Sudanese rebels were behind any fighting.

The report of the bomb-ing of the towns of Bentiu and Rubkona came days after South Sudan pulled its troops at the request of the United Nations from the disputed oil-rich region of Heglig, though Sudan says its soldiers retook the area from South Sudanese soldiers.

Two fighter jets fired four missiles at the neighboring towns, divided by a river, hit-ting an open-air market and

killing at least one person, said journalist Alan Boswell, who is in Bentiu.

Boswell was in his car cross-ing the bridge between the two towns when anti-aircraft fire erupted. That was followed, he said, by missile strikes.

“I saw one boy about 10 years old who was completely burned, he said. “There are other casualties.”

The remains of thatch-cov-ered stalls in Rubkona smol-dered for hours after the morn-ing bombing, Boswell said.

In a statement, South Sudan Information Minister Banaba Marial Benjamin said that three bombs had struck a market in Bentiu, killing two civilians, including a 12-year-old boy.

“The Security Council must take its responsibility and pun-ish the Republic of Sudan for continuing this aerial bom-bardment and the violation of the airspace of Sudan,” he said.

Soon after, the United Nations called for Sudan to halt the aerial bombings after what it described as four morning attacks, including one on the capital of oil-rich Unity state.

“These indiscriminate bombings resulting in the loss of civilian lives must stop,” said Hilde F. Johnson, special representative of the secretary-general for South Sudan, in a statement.

Ban Ki-moon condemned the bombardment and called on Sudan to cease all hostilities immediately, a spokesman for the secretary-general said in a statement.

He called on Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir “to stop the slide towards further confrontation and urges both sides to return to dialogue as a matter of urgency,” the statement said.

The U.N. peacekeeping mis-sion said one of its helicopters was in the air during the 8:30 a.m. attack on Bentiu, the Unity state capital.

“The U.N. helicopter was in the vicinity at the time of the bombing, and it took off and landed without damage,” said Josephine Guerrero, a spokes-woman for the mission.

In the hours after the air-strikes, the military presence

in the area increased, Boswell said. Two South Sudanese gen-erals who were arriving near the towns said the airstrikes marked “a clear escalation” by Sudan, he said.

In addition to the airstrikes, fighting continued Monday in several areas of the border region, said South Sudan’s mili-tary spokesman, Philip Aguer.

The attacks came a day after South Sudan said the Sudan Armed Forces had crossed into its territory and attacked two army bases. Southern troops had withdrawn there after occupying Heglig for more than a week. South Sudan said it was complying with a request from the U.N. Security Council to pull troops out, while Sudan said it had defeated the southern army and forced it to retreat.

“There will be no negotia-tion with the South,” Bashir said Monday in Arabic on Sudanese government radio. “We have spoken to them now with guns and bullets. ... We will teach the government of South Sudan a lesson.”

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NBA reviews World Peace’s less than peaceable act

As the world knows, peace can sometimes be fleeting.

One-time basketball bad boy Ron Artest, who changed his name to Metta World Peace and said it was mean-ingful and inspirational, was ejected Sunday from the Los Angeles Lakers-Oklahoma City Thunder game for hitting James Harden in the head with his elbow.

After scoring against the Thunder in the second quar-ter, World Peace was cheering

his own shot when he hit the Oklahoma City guard in the back of the head, knocking him down.

Harden was on the floor for several minutes, and did not return to the game after being diagnosed with a concussion, according to the Thunder.

World Peace was ejected from the game and faces pos-sible suspension. The Lakers won 114-106 over the Thunder in double overtime.

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time, but right now it’s just focusing on the fundamentals of our defense.”

Starting defensive tackle Castro Masaniai is one of the players the Beavers are looking to get healthy. Masaniai broke his leg last October and missed the rest of the season. He returns as a starter once more, and his rehabilitation in the off-season will determine how big of a role he has.

“Castro’s definitely one of our main guys and I can’t wait to have him back,” Seumalo said.

It’s still months until games begin, but the defensive line can be looked at as a more cohesive unit than most right now for the Beavers. Injuries aren’t a nagging issue and neither is inexperience. With a solid spring leading into fall, this unit could be a force for quarterbacks and offensive lines to be reckoned with.

“I like how we’ve been progressing,” Wynn said. “Where we are at right now isn’t ready for season and I think that’s fair to say, especially during spring ball. We’ll be better than last year.”

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(behind Crichton) in sacks with 3.5. While not a starter, Fernando will definitely be in the rota-tion on the defensive front, especially on third downs given his pass rushing ability. Coach Mike Riley talked about his improvement since last fall, “Rusty Fernando I think is really having a good spring and I think you all have noticed how much bigger he is. I bet there’s a good 15 pounds more — which he needed. And I thought he was playing fast.”

Stock down: Desmond Collins, Fr.Collins was expected to emerge as a big part

of this defensive line this spring, but ended up showing up the first day in crutches due to a broken bone in his foot he suffered in a pickup basketball game. The young DT was listed as Seumalo’s backup in the middle, but will have to build up his stock in fall camp as he won’t be a participant this spring.

— Warner Strausbaugh

Softball hosts doubleheader vs. PSUn The Beavers will step out

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By Jacob shannonThe Daily BaromeTer

After a series win over the University of Washington this past weekend, the Oregon State softball team will take a quick break from conference competition to play a cou-ple make-up games against Portland State University.

The games were originally scheduled for early March but were postponed due to wet weather conditions. OSU (29-15, 6-8 Pac-12) will face the Vikings (21-21, 11-5 Pacific Coast Softball Conference) in a doubleheader today at the OSU Softball Complex begin-ning at 2 p.m.

The Beavers took yesterday away from practice to regroup but have every intention of keeping their momentum going.

“It’s pretty standard to have some nonconference double-headers mixed into the reg-ular season. Our focus is to continue to keep playing and doing what we are doing,” head coach Kirk Walker said last month before OSU was originally supposed to play PSU. “Doesn’t matter who is in the other dugout.”

The Beavers are fairly famil-iar with the in-state opponent.

“We’ve played them a lot. Obviously we know them pretty well having played them in the summer and fall,” Walker said. “They are a pretty familiar team to us and defi-nitely have some talent. They are a legit team, and can beat us if we do not come to play.”

When the two teams met last May, Oregon State lost 1-0. To make matters more personal, Portland State pitcher Karmen Holladay, a former OSU student, pitched a three-hit shutout that day.

“I know a lot of girls on this

(PSU) team, they’re tough and beat us last year,” senior pitcher/designated batter Paige Hall said. “A couple of my really good friends pitch for them and so it makes me want to beat them even more.”

The team’s mental approach could be the dif-ference when sizing up elite competition that is the Pac-12, and this matchup against the Vikings is direct reflection of that mental approach.

“It’s tough to go from playing really good teams and then playing unranked teams,” Hall said. “It’s even harder for us to not play to their level.”

“I think it is going to help us,” freshman pitcher Aryn Feickert said. “We keep the same mindset as if it were a conference game and not give in to their status, and picture it just like a conference game.”

Jacob shannon, sports writerTwitter: @shannon_app

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The Oregon State softball team, pictured here in a game vs. Washington this past Saturday, will play two against Portland State today.

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Riley is Mister Rogers reincarnated — the kind of guy that still yells ‘jiminy crickets!’ when he stubs his toe and never loses his cool.

Last season, the Beavers went 3-9 and, inev-itably, many orange and black faithful were critical of Riley.

While some criticism is due, let’s recall the last time a major scandal came to the Oregon State football program.

Thinking about it...*crickets*That’s right, never.There have been a few player conduct issues

— but all of those incidents have been minor and have been player related, not coach related.

Riley did leave Oregon State for the NFL after the 1998 season, returning as head coach in 2003. Unlike the previously mentioned slime-ball coaches, Riley left in a respectable manner. He informed Oregon State officials, players and the media the way a professional would.

When Petrino left the Atlanta Falcons, he did so with three games remaining in the season and informed his players with a four-sentence note taped to their lockers.

I think it’s safe to say Riley would never do that.

While Oregon State fans may want more than a combined 8-16 record over the last two seasons, they must realize how lucky they are to have respectable head coach like Riley.

I’d be willing to bet Riley will never get caught speeding on a motorcycle in the hills of north Corvallis and Riley will never lock a player in a closet in the Valley Football Center.

It might not be ‘cool’ these days to be the quintessential nice guy like coach Riley.

But Beaver fans shouldn’t care because they can go to sleep tonight knowing that Oregon State is better off with a solid individual like Riley as a head coach over any other sleazebag out there, regardless of wins and losses.

alex crawford, sports writerTwitter: @dr_crawf

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end tandem will look to wreck havoc again this upcoming fall

By Warner strausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer

There were not too many things to be excited about with the Beavers last fall. However, there was an emer-gence of two young defensive ends that OSU fans can look forward to for the next three seasons.

Sophomores Scott Crichton and Dylan Wynn came on strong as out-side rushers for the Beavers and will continue to improve upon their good seasons this spring.

Wynn was especially unexpected in his great first year. Since Wynn took over as a starter about one-third into last season, he can use his spring camp to hone his skills even more.

“Dylan has definitely gotten a lot better,” said senior defensive tackle Andrew Seumalo. “Dylan has become

more aware. He’s become more of a complete football player, I think, if anything. He’s still that guy that’ll go out there and beat up on the tight ends or beat up on the O-line, but now he knows what’s coming, he knows what’s happening. He’s defi-nitely a lot better player this year.”

When asked about the progress of the defensive line this spring, Wynn was the first player head coach Mike Riley brought up.

“I think Dylan Wynn has definitely stepped up,” Riley said. “He’s bigger, and he’s really a physical force on the edge and he always plays so physi-cally hard.”

For Wynn, the biggest thing he’s doing for himself is just improving and being smarter out on the field. That’s what he’s using his time in the spring to do.

“It’s not like I was just fighting for a spot, I’m trying to learn how to do the defense,” Wynn said. “And I’m trying to perfect all of that. Even last year

I did not play at the level I wanted to play at and I definitely should’ve done the fundamentals and the main things better.”

The defensive line may be one of the areas of the team that coaches have the least to worry about. They’re returning all four of their starters from a year ago, and the defensive line is probably one of the deepest parts of the team. The ends and tack-les can go three deep when you look at their rotation and who will get into games.

They know where they stand and now they’re just all trying to take their games to the next level to be much better in 2012.

“It’s getting back to the focus on fundamentals in terms of getting guys ready to play for the upcom-ing season, especially getting guys healthy and ready to play,” Seumalo said. “We’ll just take it one step at a

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Ryan Dunn (#2) and the Oregon State baseball team will face the Ducks at 6 p.m. in Eugene tonight. The last time the Beavers played in Eugene, they were swept in a three-game series that cost them the Pac-10 title.

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Dylan Wynn (front left) emerged as a star defensive end last year and will look to cause fits for opposing offensive linemen again as a sophomore.

Beavers seek some revengen The Beavers will get their first shot

at Oregon, who prevented OSU from winning a Pac-10 title last year

By andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer

Heading into Eugene last year for the last three games of the regular season, the Oregon State baseball team needed only one victory to win the Pac-10 conference championship.

Not only did the Beavers lose the series, but they were swept and finished tied for second place as well.

The first chance for Oregon State (26-12, 8-7) to get revenge comes tonight in a nonconference game against the No. 10 Ducks (27-12, 11-7) at 6 p.m. in Eugene. Though there are a lot of new faces on both squads in 2012, but the newcom-ers have already learned about the intense rivalry and last year’s outcome.

“I know it’s a huge rivalry,” said freshman left-fielder Michael Conforto. “I’ve heard countless stories about sweeping them and being swept last year from some of the older guys. That’s another thing that guys are ticked off about. There’s a bone to pick with the Ducks.”

Today’s game is unique in that it’s actually a nonconference game, which will have no impact on either team’s Pac-12 record. The Beavers will

travel to Eugene again May 8 for the second nonconference game, and the Ducks will invade Corvallis for the three-game conference series May 25-27 — the last week of the regular season.

Oregon State hopes to ride the momentum of a big series win against No. 12 UCLA this past weekend into today’s game against the equally talented Ducks.

“Oregon is a very good team just like every other Pac-12 opponent, and I think we’re ready for them,” said head coach Pat Casey. “It doesn’t matter who you play; it’s how you play, and you need to get up for everybody. I think the guys are really going to get up for this one after Oregon got the best of us last year.”

The first of five meetings between the rivals promises to be a highly competitive one consid-ering the two team’s records differ by only half a game. The similarities continue with the style of play that both schools utilize.

Oregon has accumulated its 27 wins through great pitching and solid defense, posting a team ERA of 2.99 and fielding percentage of .970. This could pose a problem for an Oregon State team that has struggled to find offense at times.

OSU will likely counter the tough pitching through small ball, an offensive strategy that the Beavers executed to perfection just this past weekend against the Bruins.

“We have not been a tremendous offensive

club, so sometimes we have to do things to man-ufacture runs,” Casey said. “Bunting guys over and taking advantage of opportunities is some-thing we’re good at and how we can make up for when we’re not swinging the bats well.”

This style of play was on display in Sunday’s 7-6 win over the Bruins, when OSU managed to put up seven runs on the scoreboard while only mustering five hits.

Despite a lack of major offensive production, Oregon State hitters have managed to get timely hits to drive in runs when it matters most. Senior designated hitter Ryan Gorton was the perfect example of this, driving in two runs with one swing to get OSU the final lead in Sunday’s rubber match.

“We play the short game, getting bunts down really well,” Gorton said. “We get guys in scoring position and then just need one hit from there. Getting clutch hits is a testament to our team and shows that we can win any kind of ball game.”

No matter what style of play the team uses today, Oregon State just hopes to return to Corvallis with the first baseball Civil War victory of the season.

“This is a new year and a new team,” Gorton said. “Of course we didn’t like getting swept (last year), but that was a completely different team.”

andrew Kilstrom, sports writer Twitter: @andrewkilstrom [email protected]

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Rising above the sleazinessOn March 31, Bobby Petrino

crashed his motorcycle.On April 10, the University

of Arkansas fired Petrino because upon said motorcycle was a 25-year-old, fair-ly attractive Arkansas employee with whom Petrino was having an affair.

Petrino had also, at one point, given her $20,000 and during the course of their relationship exchanged as many as 90 text messages a day. I’ve never come close to that number with any woman and I am a college student, not a 51-year-old football coach.

Petrino hired this woman to a job within the Arkansas athletic depart-ment that she apparently was not in the least bit qualified for — a job that paid over $56,000 a year.

Outside of this affair, Petrino — a father of four — has lied to the press and has lied to employers numerous times throughout his coaching career.

Plain and simple, Bobby Petrino is the sleaziest coach in all of college sports. He is slimier than the green ghost from Ghostbusters — whose name is Slimer.

I bring all this up because, in a con-ference home to some of the least trustworthy coaches in the game, Mike Riley remains the ultimate example of character and virtue.

Riley is the lighthouse on the cliff amid the slimey sea of sleazebag coaches.

Think about it. The Pac-12 is home to Rich Rodriguez, Mike Leach, Lane Kiffin and Chip Kelly

Rich Rodriguez dipped out from West Virginia overnight and took a job at Michigan, where he was fired three years later following numerous NCAA violations and a 15-22 record.

At Texas Tech, Mike Leach once locked a player in an electrical closet as punishment.

If you Google “Lane Kiffin is,” the top two results will be “Lane Kiffin is a douche” and “Lane Kiffin is an idiot.”

As for Chip Kelly, I just don’t like the guy. Between the Willie Lyles scan-dal and his contempt for local media, Kelly comes across as a smug, shady individual.

Amidst all this stands Riley.

AlexCrawford

Cut me Mick

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