The Daily Barometer Sept. 28, 2012

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Hydrophiles celebrates new water year, previous accolades OSU Alumni and 2010 Hydrofiles members Mark

Ingman, Pat Burns, Sarah

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The group floated from Peoria

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n OSU releases applications for campus reference, acclimation to surrounding university backdrop

By Chloe TullTHE DAILY BAROMETER

Students have likely noticed the over-whelming presence of smartphones among their peers. With enrollment up to 26,000, Oregon State University has curbed the growing number of stu-dent queries about the campus via the development of reference smartphone applications.

Currently, there are seven apps in existence specifically for OSU. One app made popular before fall term was OSUConnect, which lists all the events that occurred during last week’s CONNECT. There is even an app called The Tree Tour, which provides students with a comprehensive list of all tree species on campus with information including their names and locations. Some students have found these apps

helpful for expanding their campus knowledge.

“The apps are great. They are conve-nient and you can easily find informa-tion,” said Jeffrey Tsang, junior.

In particular, an iPhone app called iOSU has proved highly useful to students of all ages. iOSU provides students with access to campus information while on the go. From the app they can see which res-taurants are open on campus, access cam-pus phone numbers and locate buildings on campus.

Developed by the school of electrical engineering and computer science, the app is not limited to just iPhone users; Android users can access the app under the name “aOSU.”

“If I don’t know where a building is,

I can just plug in the building to the app and get directions,” said Genevie Guevara, Junior. “It’s a great app, prob-ably one of the most useful I have.”

The iOSU and aOSU apps take about as much memory to install as the average gam-ing app through either platform. For students without smartphones, these apps can also be downloaded for the iPod Touch. This may limit the inherent con-venience of the apps, but they still provide a compact grouping of resources for fellow students.

The complete list of apps can be found online at http://oregonstate.edu/main/mobile.

Chloe Tull, reporternews@dailybarometer,com

nOSU Hydrophiles starts off academic, water years with social event for community

By James ShrieveTHE DAILY BAROMETER

Today from 4 to 7 p.m. the Oregon State University Hydrophiles and the Institute for Water and Watersheds will be hosting a celebration at the Brew Station for the new water year.

Last year the IWW hosted a cel-ebration for the new water year and their 50th anniversary. The event brought together many people in the water science community.

“We thought it would be good to continue the tradition and the IWW agreed to help organize it,” said Kim Ogren, president of OSU Hydophiles.

While the organization has other events which are education based, this one is primarily a social and networking event designed to kick off the school year and the water year. It will be a place to talk to the water community, including faculty, gradu-ate students and undergraduates.

In the United States, the “water year” is from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 the following calendar year. This event celebrates the end of the 2011 water year and the beginning of 2012. The calendar year begins and ends in the middle of the wet season, which makes analysis from year to year dif-ficult. By following the water year, hydrologists have a much more sta-ble reference point for their work.

“I celebrate the end of a water year because it represents a new begin-ning — you never know what a new wet season in this area could bring, and that’s exciting for someone that studies hydrology,” said Hazel Owens, graduate student and trea-surer for OSU Hydrophiles.

OSU Hydrophiles is a student sponsored organization that focuses on all things water related. The group is a student chapter of the American Water Resources Association and has been acknowledged by OSU for the last 15 years. The group tries to unite a community around water related research, which involves

Smartphone applications supply students with campus knowledge

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‘‘ ‘‘The apps are great. They are convenient and you can easily

find information

Jeffrey TsangJunior

See HYDROPHILES | page 2

Students concerned with blackout n Students worried wearing black at games could result in racially insensitive behavior

By Don IlerTHE DAILY BAROMETER

For two home football games this year, Oregon State University is encouraging game attendees to wear black to the game.

However, the Associated Students of Oregon State University and many other student leaders are worried about the unintended consequenc-es of encouraging students to wear black to home games versus Utah and UC Berkeley, and have asked the university to not follow through with the campaign to encourage people to wear black.

While many universities encour-age game attendees to wear the same color shirt, to give the stadium a

unified feel and to build team spirit, when students have been encour-aged to wear black in the past at Oregon State University, there have been inadvertent effects resulting in some students feel-ing threatened and offended.

In 2007, there was a Facebook group and a cam-paign to encourage students to wear black to the Arizona game. According to an Oct. 5, 2007 Daily Barometer article, the group had 2,600 members and a Barometer writer encouraged students to wear black. Unfortunately, the article also included a photo illustration that

portrayed a man with his face and hands painted black, wearing a black shirt, black leggings and also wearing an Afro wig.

“Paint your face black, it scares Wildcats,” the dia-gram said next to the picture of a man in blackface.

The incident, commonly referred to as “Black Out Reser,” caused a stir on campus, as many students were offended at the sug-gestion of encourag-ing students to wear blackface and an Afro wig. Many stu-

dents ended up attending the game dressed like that, which further upset many student populations.

Since then, further attempts to encourage students to wear black to football games have been met with opposition. Many student leaders continue to worry that because of a lack of education, that students may do racially insensitive things — like wearing blackface — at the game, which would be upsetting to many people in the Oregon State community.

“I’m not sure the university com-munity is ready for it,” said Amelia Harris, president of ASOSU. “Black Out Reser was the result of a lack of education and cultural sensitivity.”

In an email to Steve Clark, the vice president of university market-ing and relations, Harris said ASOSU would actively oppose the campaign unless university marketing “high-lights the injustices that occurred several years ago during Black Out Reser through educational forums,

posters and PSAs to prepare for this new campaign, as well explicitly highlighting what not to wear during the games.”

However, Clark has said that he believes peer-to-peer training that highlights role models on what to wear to the game is the best route.

“We should use role models and educate on how to be good fans, not how to be bad fans. We should encourage and inform [students about] appropriate fan behavior,” Clark said.

Harris doesn’t think that peer-to-peer education will work.

“Peer-to-peer education is good when there isn’t a power differential between groups,” Harris said.

Many students are also worried about what could happen if a black-out happens at Reser Stadium, fear-ing that students may wear blackface

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‘‘ ‘‘I’m not sure the university community is ready for it. Black out Reser was the result of a lack of

education and cultural sensitivity.

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or other racially insensi-tive items.

“It’s an unfortunate situ-ation. Students don’t real-ize what they are doing is hurtful to other students,” said Yohanna Abraham, internal coordinator for the Black Cultural Center.

Abraham said she thinks more education is need-ed before the university encourages students to wear black.

“I’m frankly surprised they’re doing this again. It’s upsetting to many popu-lations,” said Erin Cahill, internal coordinator for SOL, the lesbian, gay, bisex-ual and transgender multi-cultural support network.

Wearing blackface was common during min-strel and vaudeville shows from about the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. White perform-ers would paint their faces black and mimic what they felt were African-American stereotypes. The shows — which were incredibly popular at the time, espe-cially in northern cities — perpetuated many racial stereotypes and are highly offensive.

While Oregon State will take the field against Utah on Oct. 20 for its home-coming game, it remains to be seen what will be worn to the game and whether there will be an education campaign before the game.

“We’re continuing the conversation with universi-ty marketing,” Harris said. “Hopefully we can create an amazing campaign for the student community.”

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many disciplines on campus. This objective is acheived by hosting social events, which provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information while developing networking opportunities among its members.

“Hydrophiles is best at bringing peo-ple together,” Owens said. “Most mem-bers are academically and professionally connected to water resources through research or general interest at OSU. Our organization is a way for all of those indi-viduals to share ideas, learn something new, network, and have a good time.”

Members have access to professional and research development, informa-tion, alternative education and other Hydrophiles members.

“Being surrounded by a community of people with passion and ingenuity

regarding water resources is a helpful reminder that my research is important,” Owens said. “So in that sense, the com-munity that Hydrophiles brings together encourages my sense of purpose.”

The group began in 1997, when gradu-ate students who knew what was going on in their own department, in regards to water, took classes in other departments. They soon discovered a whole other set of students working on water with com-plementary research and interests. The goal was to bridge those departments in order to foster those relationships. The fact that there were so many of them so far apart brought them together as a commu-nity. Ogren says that one of the best-known achievements of the Hydrophiles is the role they played in creating the water resources program, which is well known around the country.

This year they are hoping to incorporate more service learning so when members

graduate they can find good jobs.

“We are trying to build on last year’s model by continuing to grow and facili-tate the types of events our members are most interested in,” Owens said. “We have made a few adjustments to the organizational structure of Hydrophiles, increased the number of service learning opportunities, and improved our web outreach.”

Next Thursday there will be a brown-bag event called Welcome to the Willamette, where students will explain what they are researching in the Willamette Valley. It will provide context to new students about water issues in the places they live.

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HYDROPHILESn Continued from page 2

BLACKOUTn Continued from page 1

Draconian laws, brutal attacks against bloggers and politically motivated surveil-lance are among the biggest threats to Internet freedom emerging in the last two years, according to a new report from free speech advocates, Freedom House.

“Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media,” looked at barriers to access, limits on content, and violations of user rights in 47 countries across the globe. Estonia was rated as having the greatest degree of Internet freedom, while Iran, Cuba and China were viewed as the most restrictive.

While social media was key in the uprising in Egypt, cen-sorship there continues apace, says Freedom House, a U.S.-based independent watchdog organization.

Although online activ-ism is increasing, the report said authoritarian regimes were employing a wider and

increasingly sophisticated arsenal of countermeasures.

According to Freedom House, China has the world’s largest population of Internet users, yet the authorities operate the most sophisticat-ed system of censorship. Its “great firewall” has become notorious for literally shut-ting down Internet “chatter” it views as sensitive. Earlier this year, censors blocked related search terms to prevent the public from obtaining news on prominent human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who caused a diplomatic storm when he escaped house arrest to seek refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

Major web portals and social networking sites, though not state-owned, have had to comply with strict govern-ment censorship rules — or risk being shut down. After launching a campaign to clean up “rampant online rumors,” Chinese authorities in March

ordered the country’s leading micro-blogging sites — includ-ing Sina Weibo — to disable their comment function for three days. In China, bloggers are also required to register their real names — though it’s not clear how many have com-plied with the rules.

“It’s a typical response by officials and quite a successful strategy in making it extremely difficult to spread information beyond some small circles of activists,” Jeremy Goldkorn, a leading commentator on China’s social media, told CNN at the time.

Freedom House claims Beijing’s influence as an “incu-bator for sophisticated restric-tions” has not gone unnoticed, with governments such as Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Iran using China as a model for their own Internet controls.

Unrest across the Middle East prompted increased cen-sorship, arrests, and violence against bloggers as authori-

tarian regimes look to quell calls for reform. Social media was widely accepted to have played a key role in popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Fearing a similar “revolution” in Saudi Arabia, the authorities there took immediate steps to respond to what they regarded as a national security threat.

According to the Freedom House report, the Saudi gov-ernment has issued warn-ings banning protests — even using the BlackBerry multi-media message service (MMS) to discourage protesters from participating in demonstra-tions. They say the authorities have detained and intimidated hundreds of online political activists and online commen-tators, blocked and filtered sensitive political, religious or pornographic content from entering the Saudi Internet, and even recruited support-ers online to campaign against calls for protests.

—CNN

Internet censorship up according to Freedom House

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tonight at Dixon Recreation Center from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be food, mov-ies activities and prizes and the event is open to all students.New polls of likely voters

in three battleground states show President Barack Obama with a lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, and with a slight advantage in Nevada and North Carolina.

The NBC News/Marist/Wall Street Journal polls show Obama 7 points ahead of Romney in New Hampshire, 51 percent to 44 percent, a difference outside of the poll’s sampling error of 3.1 percent-age points.

In Nevada and North Carolina, Obama’s advantage was two points and within the sampling error. Obama had 49percent to Romney’s 48 per-cent in Nevada, and 48 per-cent to Romney’s 46 percent in North Carolina.

Obama won all three states in 2008.

Two other recent surveys of New Hampshire voters have found a close race. A WMUR Granite State Poll which contacted likely voters dur-ing and after the Democratic National Convention earlier this month found Obama at 45percent and Romney at

40percent with a sampling error of plus or minus four points. An American Research Group sampling of registered voters found the candidates locked up, separated by only two points.

The NBC poll released Thursday found 4percent were undecided in their vote and 86percent strongly sup-ported the candidate they had identified. The earlier WMUR survey showed 15 percent were undecided or favoring a non-major candidate.

Both tickets have dis-patched their vice presiden-tial candidates and surrogates to the Granite State recently. Vice President Joe Biden cam-paigned there Friday and Saturday, and GOP vice presi-dential candidate Paul Ryan plans to visit the state this Saturday. The Romney cam-paign has also sent surrogates in Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.

The NBC poll of Nevada likely voters is in keeping with other polls there show-ing a close race. The CNN/ORC International poll con-

ducted from September 14-18 showed Obama with a three point advantage over Romney, 49percent to 46percent, and the ARG poll conducted September 20-23 showed Obama at 51 percent and Romney at 44 percent. Both polls are within their respec-tive sampling errors.

Nevada voters, like those in New Hampshire and North Carolina, are split on who would best handle the econ-omy, and were also split on who best would handle for-eign policy. Likely voters in New Hampshire and North Carolina gave an edge on for-eign policy to Obama.

The poll also found a tight race between the states two candidates for a U.S. Senate seat out of the state, although the incumbent had the advan-tage. Sen. Dean Heller, at 49 percent and a Republican, will face Rep. Shelley Berkley, at 43 percent and a Democrat, in a debate Thursday night.

Likely voters in Nevada were the only amongst the three where more planned to or already had voted ahead of Election Day. Nevada and

North Carolina both allow early in-person voting, while New Hampshire allows voters to cast absentee ballots early by mail.

Romney was the most recent candidate to campaign in the Silver State when he attended a rally in Las Vegas on Friday.

The North Carolina survey was in keeping with other polls there showing a tight race. The state, like New Hampshire and Nevada, is rated a toss-up on the CNN Electoral Map.

The Democratic National Convention was held in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September and of the three included in Thursday’s poll, North Carolina was the closest in the 2008 election. Obama won the state by only 14,000 votes of the over 4.2 million ballots cast.

Obama’s job-approval rat-ing approached the halfway mark in the three states, and touched 50 percent in New Hampshire. In North Carolina 48 percent approved of his job as president, and in Nevada, 47 percent approved.

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Bridging the gap between science and religion

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Alex Crawford Sept. 26 articleOn Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, an arti-

cle entitled “Doing the Right Thing” by Alex Crawford was printed in The Daily Barometer. In his article, Crawford chastises OSU stu-dents that sport University of Oregon apparel and calls for the “loyal” portion of the student body to ostracize the supposed traitors.

Crawford emphasizes that, as students of Oregon State University, we have a moral obligation to reject enemies of our school,

and that doing otherwise would make us traitors. He reminisces on a country of old, in which patriotism and loyalty truly meant something and were not simply words that could be warped into fitting a message.

I, too, miss that culture. A culture in which the color of our clothes and our favorite sports teams were not enough to break our bonds of brotherhood. Can we find no sense of communal identity? Are we truly unable to support our peers and fellow countrymen without being branded as blasphemers? Must our vision remain so clouded that we cannot

see the ties that bind us as Oregonians? As Americans? As a generation?

Crawford lamentingly suggests that, “Our country is the most divided than it has been since the Civil War.” Unfortunately, I must agree. When the practice of social tribalism become so entrenched that simply attending a different school qualifies someone as an enemy, I cannot help but fear for the future of our school, state, country, and planet.

Daniel W. Persson

Freshman, Pre-Environmental Engineering

The effort to provide an inclusive environment for people of all ideologies

has long been a part of student life at Oregon State University, as evidenced by the countless number of student clubs and organizations, all of which play an enormous role in maintaining a welcoming atmosphere for all students regardless of creed.

Religious and philosophical organizations exist all over cam-pus, some of who are the Baha’i Campus Association, Campus Crusade For Christ, the Muslim Student Association, the OSU Socratic Club, and Advocates for Freethought and Skepticism. I myself have participated in such clubs across campus from time to time, and have had only pos-itive experiences. I made new friends and further realized that OSU has a lot to offer in terms of increasing tolerance of human ideological diversity.

Nonetheless, Oregon State University can only do so much in terms of fostering social acceptance. The state of a uni-versity depends primarily on its students, and therefore only you can help further change.

As humans, we are highly curi-ous and naturally inclined to make sense of our world and the universe we live in. Our ability to understand, to solve problems, draw conclusions from available evidence, and make novel infer-ences and predictions from past events is what sets us apart from most other organisms on Earth. Does this statement seem a bit anthropocentric? Maybe it is. But anyone would agree the majority of the human races’ vast accom-plishments are a product of human ingenuity. Almost every-thing we enjoy or rely on, such as cities, buildings, cars, art, and technology in every form, was first a thought in someone’s mind that eventually became a reality.

There are infinite ways of mak-ing sense of the world, and real-ity itself. In the broadest sense, reality is made up of two cat-egories: physical reality, or that which can be fully interpreted via a combination of the five senses and logical reasoning

— the scientific method — and spiritual reality, or that which exists beyond the five senses and cannot be explained by logic, but instead comprises the vast array of inner religious experi-ences and the intersubjectivity of human consciousness. Many choose to rely on one or the other throughout the course of life. However, I believe both go hand in hand and are integral to the human experience. Just as the scientific method is a tool for understanding physical reality, religion is a tool for experiencing spiritual reality.

But science and religion are just that: tools. Neither hold absolute truth in and of them-selves, but both are catalysts for furthering our understanding of the absolute truth. While we will never reach full understanding of the absolute truth, the fuzzy boundary that divides physi-cal reality and the spiritual will become ever more clear as we continue to sharpen the tools of science and religion. How do we go about doing this? With the continuing development of technology, new scientific dis-coveries are being made every

day. Similarly, the development of our “spiritual technology,” or our collective intuitive wisdom, will enable us to increase our spiritual consciousness via per-sonal religious experiences.

I am not affiliated with any particular religion, nor am I an unabashed atheist. I am what one might call a spiritual agnos-tic. I believe that the existence of the supernatural cannot be proven or disproven and is beyond the level of reason, but should not be ignored. My inten-tion as a student of Oregon State University is to narrow the gaps between science and religion by emphasizing unity amongst the two seemingly disparate or even conflicting topics. I believe doing so is very important — especial-ly in the context of a university environment, which nurtures the lives of a vast diversity of stu-dents and faculty from all over the world with a wide array of beliefs, worldviews, and cultural backgrounds.

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Sean Carrigg is senior in bioresource research. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Carrigg can be reached at [email protected].

Yeas & NaysYea to sunshine and being back in

school. We missed all of you.Nay to almost getting run-over

by a wayward skateboarder while trying to navigate through the lanyard-wearing masses wandering with lost faces. Stay off the side-walk longboarder bro.

Yea to all the open houses the cultural centers put on this week. Great food, great people, great times.

Nay to the wear black at Reser campaign. We’re worried about the offensive things that could happen as a result. We also really like orange, it’s in our veins.

Yea to the parking lot next to the bookstore getting new lines painted. We like things look-ing nice, especially with all those mommies and daddies around the last week or two.

Nay to wasting money painting a parking lot that is going to get torn up in a few months because of the construction of the Student Experience Center. We can think of 100 things that money could have been spent on, like say improvements to accessibility on campus.

Yea to hybrid classes, it’s fun not going to class.

Nay to not realizing that you were sup-posed to have completed assignments before the first meeting of your hybrid class. Guess we’ll write week one off as a loss.

Yea to being 2-0. Go Beavers.Nay to finding a cockroach in your office.Yea to having an impromptu dance party

with 1990s pop music in your house and front lawn.

Nay to uptight people without a sense of humor.

Yea to Topanga from “Boy Meets World.” We still have a crush on you after all these years.

Nay to censorship. Steal our paper again and see what happens. We have a guy we can call.

Yea to nostalgia. You can tell we’re feeling a lot of it lately.

Nay to wearing Ducks gear if you go to OSU. Burn your clothes and just leave already.

Yea to turning 21, and birthdays in general.Nay to how some people will feel after their

21st birthday. We don’t condone feeling like that and encourage people to participate in healthy activities like bowling, cleaning your room or hiking a mountain instead. We have other tips for you in case none of those sound like any fun.

Yea to being early to class.Nay to being early to the wrong class.Yea to being in class with friends.Nay to those friends potentially finding out

how bad of a student you are. We’re worried we won’t be able to call anyone out for any-thing anymore.

Yea to riding elevators.Nay to cramming 18 people into an eleva-

tor and getting it stuck.Yea to getting lectured by advisers, admin-

istrators, officials and student leaders. We’re glad you have opinions and things to say. We love listening to them. You’re all so smart and we’re glad you realized that us kids here at the Barometer have no idea what we’re doing. Without you, we have no idea what we would do with the newspaper. Continue with the encouragement, we appreciate it.

Nay to a convicted sexual predator mov-ing near the OSU campus.

Yea to the police who do a great job of protecting us and informing us about dangerous individuals. We appreciate all the hard work and long hours you put in to keep us and our community safe. You don’t get thanked enough.

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Letter to the Editor

Smoke-free policy on campus is outrageousWith a new school year underway,

we have a new policy on cam-pus affecting many students. The

Oregon State University Smoke-Free Policy bans smoking on campus. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, and don’t plan to, but this new policy is outrageous.

First, OSU is a public university, and there-fore should never enact a policy, rule, etc., restricting anyone’s freedom. By saying stu-dents can’t smoke on campus, our freedom to do as we wish has been taken away.

Second, making a rule in an effort to stop a certain behavior doesn’t work. To genuinely think a rule will stop people is childish. If rules had such an impact on our behavior, why don’t we ban unemployment so the economy will thrive?

In years past, smokers, by law, had to stand 20 feet from the door, but rou-tinely smoked not even 20 inches from it. The law doesn’t stop anyone.

The reason the ban doesn’t stop people from smoking is because tobac-co has inelas-tic demand. I n e l a s t i c demand means there are no substitutes and the consumer will pay almost any price, assuming the con-sumer has the money to pay a high price, for the product.

Tobacco, a highly addictive product, has no substitute for its users, so they continue

to consume it. The school could make a rule saying no food on campus, but we would all still eat because we need to — just like smok-ers need to smoke.

Third, a smoke-free campus doesn’t mean there won’t be any smoke on campus. Students, instead of smoking on campus, simply walk to Monroe Avenue or Western Boulevard to smoke. Coupled with this is a crazy thing called wind. Wind can easily blow smoke onto the campus and bring us back to square one.

The government’s Center for Disease Control posts onl ine that 443,000 people die annually from smok-ing in the U.S. The govern-ment also posts onl ine that there are over 314 mil l ion people in the U.S. Is this real-ly a huge issue? Approximately 450,000 people out of 314 mil-lion is .0014 percent of the population. Not even 1 percent,

not even half a percent, not even a quar-ter of a percent of people in the U.S. die from smoking annually, according to the government.

So why does OSU implement a policy that

tackles such a minor issue? Well, mainly because OSU is a government-run entity, and like the government, it pushes agendas to take away our freedoms. What policy does any government or government institution put in place to help us? None.

Every time a new policy becomes rule, law, etc., our freedoms are cut. I don’t smoke cigarettes, but I want anyone who does to have the right to smoke on campus, in the buildings, and in their rooms.

I’m not saying we all should smoke, but we all should be able to smoke where we want, especially on a public campus. I even have a proposal to improve the “smoking problem” on campus. Let people smoke wherever they want.

Since smoking is not a problem for any-one, just an action that upsets those who don’t partake, let’s allow everyone to smoke any place they please. If you don’t like smoke or smokers, don’t go near them, don’t talk to them, don’t befriend them, etc.

If you don’t bother smokers, they won’t bother you. Smokers don’t chase non-smok-ers down and blow smoke in their face to annoy them. Smokers all stand together and blow smoke at each other.

The new smoke-free campus initiative is outrageous. If the school really is concerned with our health, we should all get free food, classes, housing, etc., so we aren’t stressed about paying bills and won’t be stressed about paying back loans. Instead, the uni-versity focuses on an irrelevant issue and pushes an agenda that actually hurts the students. Instead of reinstating smoking on campus, we need to reinstate freedom.

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Five Facts You should know about the game1. Since 1999, Oregon State is 11-2 against Arizona, and has won

their last five meetings in Tucson, Ariz.2. The Beavers rank second in the nation in run defense, holding

2011 Heisman finalist Montee Ball and 2012 Heisman candidate Johnathan Franklin to a combined 106 yards rushing.

3. Arizona and Oregon State rank 11th and 12th, respectively, in

the NCAA for passing yards. Expect Sean Mannion and Matt Scott to air it out.

4. The Beavers are tied for first in the nation in red zone effi-ciency, scoring 100 percent of the time in the red zone.

5. Markus Wheaton and Brandin Cooks rank third and fifth, respectively, in receiving yards per game.

oregon state: keYs to the game• Secondary: Arizona is averaging 329

passing yards a game, 11th in the nation, and the secondary of OSU showed some poten-tial weaknesses last week, allowing 372 yards through the air against Brett Hundley and UCLA. Preventing the big play through the air will be key for the Beavers.

• Play of the running backs: Oregon State has struggled running the ball in its first two weeks, averaging only 100 yards per game as

a team. If Storm Woods and Malcolm Agnew can get things going on the ground it will do wonders for the offense on play action and in the red zone.

• Kicking game: Keith Kostol is the reigning Pac-12 special teams Player of the Week after downing four punts inside the 20 and flipping field position multiple times. In a game that could come down to one possession, the punt-ers could be the difference.

n After knocking off two ranked teams, Beavers not getting overconfident, know Arizona will be a dogfight

By Andrew KilstromTHE DAILY BAROMETER

Not since 2002 has an Oregon State football team started 3-0, and that team only had to deal with the likes of Eastern Kentucky, Temple and UNLV — who are not exactly powerhouses in college football.

No. 18 Oregon State (2-0, 1-0 Pac-12) has a chance to start a perfect three-for-three this weekend against a hungry Arizona team that is coming off of a 49-0 loss at No. 2 Oregon.

Fast starts are something that Oregon State teams haven’t been accustomed to in recent memory, so an undefeated start — including wins against two ranked opponents — would be huge for a program coming off their worst

season in 15 years. “Coaches have to pay attention, just like the

players do, to the detail and just keep working on what’s next,” said Oregon State head coach Mike Riley. “We can’t get complacent, and the players know that. That is the most motivating thing about [what] we do.”

Complacency is something that the entire Oregon State team is determined to not suc-cumb to.

“We just have to make sure we don’t become satisfied with ourselves,” said senior corner-back Jordan Poyer. “In reality, we haven’t done anything yet. We’ve just played two games, and we won them. What happens next is most important.”

Even though the Beavers are running on all cylinders after their win over UCLA, and facing an Arizona team that just suffered a brutal loss, Oregon State isn’t taking anything for granted come Saturday.

OSU fully expects a tough game from the Arizona Wildcats (3-1, 0-1), who have shown they can be a very dangerous team offensively, averaging 46 points per game prior to being shutout in Eugene.

“They lost to Oregon, but they had a lot of mistakes,” said sophomore wide receiver Brandin Cooks. “Every game [from] here on out is going to be a shootout, and a heavy-weight battle, and I’m excited to play those guys. They have a lot of athletes, a lot of great players.”

Arizona has accumulated many of their yards through the air this year, averaging 329 per game, and will provide yet another chal-lenge for the Oregon State defense.

Oregon State credits its vastly improved run defense and the maturation of its players as the main reasons for the 2-0 start to the season.

“Run defense, that’s the biggest deal,” Riley said. “And then I think we get in better third-

down situations, and therefore we’ve done real well on third down. . . . Most all of [the defen-sive starters] are bigger, faster, stronger, which helps a lot.”

While Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez’s new offense — which was averaging 605 total yards of offense before being shut out by Oregon — has been the talk of the program, it was the defense that impressed last weekend, despite being blown out on the scoreboard.

The Wildcats held the potent Oregon offense to only 13 points in the first half before senior quarterback Matt Scott threw two intercep-tions that went the other way for Oregon touchdowns, essentially blowing the game wide open.

“The Ducks are explosive, so it doesn’t take them long to pile it up, but I thought Arizona played a lot of good football,” Riley said.

arizona: keYs to the game• Rushing attack: Arizona is averaging

208 yards per game on the ground, but is facing a much-improved OSU run defense that has held two Heisman candidates to a combined 106 yards.

• Red zone efficiency: Last week, Arizona stalled three times inside the 20-yard line in the first quarter. Oregon State might not be quite as explosive as the Ducks offensively, but the Beavers

have proven they can put the points on the board with big plays, so maximizing red zone possessions will be key for the Wildcats.

• Turnover battle: The Wildcats turned the ball over five times in defeat last week compared to only two turnovers on the season for Oregon State. If Arizona can take care of the football, they will have a very good chance in this game.

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By Sarah KerriganTHE DAILY BAROMETER

After a promising pre-season start, the Oregon State men’s soccer team is heading into their first con-ference game against the University of Washington with confidence.

“Any time things are going well, it is easier to play,” said senior captain Chris Harms. “I think we are confident and think we can beat anybody.”

OSU (5-2-1) takes on the Huskies (5-3-1) Sunday after-noon at 4 p.m. in Seattle. It will be their first of three road games to open up Pac-12 play. While the Beavers are 4-0-0 at home, their road record of 1-2-1 is subpar.

Preparation for the first

conference game against the Huskies was business as usual for the Beavers as they took the field for prac-tice on Wednesday, after a day of rest following the Hensor/Zaher Nike Classic last weekend.

“I think it starts with our practice this week,” Harms said. “I think we need to focus . . . and try and hit our stan-dards at practice every day.”

“I think this week at training will really set the tone for [con-ference play],” said senior for-ward Emery Welshman, who was named Pac-12 Player of the Week. “We are going to hit the ground running right now and hopefully we can carry on our momentum into this weekend.”

The team is coming off a three-game winning streak and is hoping to maintain that standard of excellence now that they begin to take on Pac-12 opponents.

Start of conference play

means new challenges for the players on and off the pitch as well. With this being the first week of classes for stu-dents, the challenge of balanc-ing school and sports begins. The upperclassmen expressed confidence in their team and their ability to get the job done.

“I think the first day of class is not that hard so it shouldn’t affect us that much, and if it does then we have a problem,” said Harms. “I think we will be fine this week.”

The on-field product will have its own challeng-es for the Beavers against Washington. Oregon State can expect a good physi-cal match from the Huskies. Washington also has a long throw-in tactic that the Beavers will need to be pre-pared for. “They do have a kid who can do a flip throw, or who can throw the ball in from forty yards away into the goal box,” said Harms. “So pretty much anytime the

ball goes out of bounds we have to come alive and be ready to win the ball in the air.”

All things considered, the team is looking at the first con-ference game the same way as any other. Nerves may be running high on game day as the Beavers open the Pac-12 conference play, but the play-ers know the job they face for Sunday’s game.

“I don’t think nerves are an issue at all,” said freshman Mikhail Doholis, “We just need to go in there with the appropriate approach, and the right mentality, and we can get business done.”

Oregon State has already matched its win total of five from a year ago. The Beavers finished with a 3-6-1 record in the Pac-12, a number they undoubtedly want to improve on.

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Roberto Farfan and the OSU men’s soccer team played well in their nonconference games. Now conference play begins in Seattle on Sunday against the Huskies.

No. 2 Stanford trounces OSU in Palo Alto 5-1n OSU came in to Palo Alto with

high hopes, came away empty as Stanford proves its ranking

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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Considering Stanford’s women’s soccer team entered Thursday having shut out each of its last five opponents, falling behind early was about the worst thing that could happen to Oregon State.

That’s exactly what happened, and the result wasn’t pretty.

OSU gave up three goals in the game’s first 25 minutes as No. 2 Stanford (8-1-1, 2-0 Pac-12) won 5-1 to easily extended its conference winning streak to 33 games and its unbeaten-at-home streak to 60 games.

“I think Stanford came out tonight and they were firing on all cylinders,” said head coach Linus Rhode. “We started flat and they took advantage of that. I do think some of those goals were our errors that we should have been sharper on, but at the end of the day we have to learn from it and bounce back for our game Sunday [against Cal].”

The Cardinal, the reigning national champions and winners of the last three Pac-10/Pac-12 titles, dominated early on, and benefited from a few defensive hic-cups by the Beavers, who also couldn’t get anything going whatsoever on the offen-sive end until the game was out of hand.

For the No. 23 Beavers (9-2, 1-1), it was their first loss since falling 1-0 to UC

Irvine on Sept. 2. OSU had outscored its last five opponents 10-1, and was coming off a 2-0 win over Utah in its conference opener, but learned very quickly that Stanford was an entirely different beast.

Just three minutes in, Stanford sopho-more forward Chioma Ubogagu caught the Beavers’ defense napping and put one past a flat-footed Audrey Bernier-Larose to give the Cardinal a 1-0 lead.

It was the first goal of the season for Ubogagu, who scored 10 goals last year, but missed Stanford’s first six games this season because she was in Japan playing for Team USA at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.

Junior Courtney Verloo, a product of Tualatin High School, put Stanford up 2-0 in the 21st minute and freshman Haley Rosen made it 3-0 shortly after that to all but seal things before the first half was

even halfway over.Stanford tacked on two more in the

second half and Oregon State got a late goal by freshman Gwen Bieck to make the final score 5-1.

The Beavers will have to regroup quick-ly, as they’ll go on the road to face Cal at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The matchup will be televised on Pac-12 Network.

The Golden Bears (7-3) play their first conference game today against Oregon, and were one of three teams (along with Stanford and UCLA) picked ahead of the Beavers in the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

“We have to [move on] because that’s the name of the game,” Rhode said. “We have to get ready for the game on Sunday and learn from our errors [Thursday] and move forward.”

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1 2 FOSU 0 1 1Stanford 3 2 5

Goal SummaryFirst Half2:12 – Ubogagu goal, Quon assist

(Stanford 1, OSU 0)20:36 – Verloo goal (Stanford 2, OSU 0)24:27 – Rosen goal (Stanford 3, OSU 0)

Second Half

45:51 – Watkins goal, Garciamendez assist (Stanford 4, OSU 0)

53:35 – Nogueira goal, Griffen assist (Stanford 5, OSU 0)

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The prime minister thanked President Obama for his speech before the United Nations two days earlier in which he warned he would do what it takes to prevent Iran from going nuclear. The attempt to show solidar-ity with the U.S. leader belied a fundamental argument, becoming ever more public, over when military action would be required to take out the nuclear program.

Diagrams in hand during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu drew an actual red line through the level at which Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons would be irreversible. By next spring or summer, he said, Iran will have enriched enough urani-um to build a nuclear weapon and a “clear red line” must be drawn to make clear to Iran it must halt its uranium enrich-ment before then.

Netanyahu was referring to Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity, a level it says is required for medical isotopes but which also brings it close to bomb-fuel grade. Iran maintains it is not try-ing to develop nuclear weap-ons and insists the uranium enrichment program is meant for peaceful purposes.

Equating the threat posed by a nuclear armed Iran to a nuclear-armed al Qaeda, Netanyahu urged the world to act.

Israeli and U.S. officials have said the two countries are in 100 percent agreement of the pace and scope of the development of the Iranian effort.

The debate between the United States and Israel cen-ters on a decision by Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb ver-sus its “breakout capacity” to do so.

Netanyahu said Thursday that Iran’s enrichment pro-gram should be the barom-eter for the point of no return because with Iran moving much of its nuclear work underground, the enrichment facilities are the only visible nuclear installations that can be credibly targeted.

Israel worries that Iran’s nuclear development will progress past a point where

the Israelis can stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The United States, with its superior military capabilities, has greater latitude to decide how far is too far. The Obama administration has not laid out the U.S. threshold and offered a “we’ll know it when we see it” explanation of the “so-called breakout move.”

Actually, President Obama has laid out a red line of sorts, saying a decision by Iran to go nuclear and a move to assem-ble a bomb would prompt him to act. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month the United States had no intelli-gence to indicate a decision by Iran to go after the bomb. But Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and oth-ers argue Iran can continue to develop the expertise and technology needed to make a bomb and gain this breakout capacity without having made an official “decision.”

In this scenario, Israel’s greatest fear is Iran will have all its ducks in a row and can quickly assemble a nuclear weapon after a decision is made. Panetta said once Iran has made the decision to build a bomb; the United States believes it would take Iran “about a year” to complete the required work to finish it.

Netanyahu argued that final stage could take as little as “a few months, possibly a few weeks.”

But he said, “I believe that faced with a clear red line, Iran will back down.”

This week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad told reporters he did not rule out a negotiated settlement in talks with the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany.

The world powers known as the P5 plus 1 met Thursday night to discuss how to move forward on their two-track policy of seeking talks with Iran while turning up the pressure on the Iranian regime with sanctions in the face of continued nuclear antics

When a senior administra-tion official briefed report-ers after the meeting, it was clear the only progress the group could cite was that it was unified in its belief that a nuclear-armed Iran was not acceptable.

That’s little comfort for Netanyahu, who soon will have to make some tough decisions as to whether the red line he so artfully drew is close to being crossed.

—CNN

Analysis: Israel’s red line not in line with U.S. view

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man allegedly behind the inflammatory film “Innocence of Muslims,” was ordered held without bail Thursday after being arrest-ed in California and accused of violating his probation.

“He engaged in a likely pattern of deception both to his probation officers and the court,” Judge Suzanne Segal said in issuing her ruling.

The preliminary bail hear-ing began with Segal asking the defendant — dressed in gray slacks and a white and yellow striped T-shirt, with handcuffs and chain around his waist — what his true name was.

“Mark Basseley Yousseff,” he replied.

The judge then asked again, what is your name?

“Mark Basseley,” he said this time, again without spelling the name out.

The lawyer for the suspect, who has used at least 17 false names, according to court documents, but is mostly referred to as Nakoula, then argued for $10,000 bail.

Attorney Steve Seiden said his client had always main-tained contact, in person and by telephone, with probation officers who have been mon-itoring him since his 2010 bank fraud conviction. But the main reason Nakoula shouldn’t be jailed, his lawyer argued, was for safety rea-sons, saying the anti-Islam film would make him a target of fellow inmates.

“It is a danger for him to remain in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles because there are a large number of Muslims in there,” Seiden said. “We are extremely concerned about his safety.”

Making no mention of aliases, the lawyer added that Nakoula had made no attempt to flee Southern California and never would.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale then addressed the judge, claim-ing the man — who he referred to as Nakoula or Bassil — had engaged in a “pattern of deception” and “a person who cannot be trusted.”

Dugdale pointed to a pro-bation report citing eight allegations in which Nakoula had allegedly violated his probation. One of those was a requirement not to use aliases without permission from his probation officer, something the prosecutor said Nakoula did on at least three instances: during his

fraud case, when he tried to get a passport in 2011, and during the making of the film. Dugdale said Nakoula had deceived the cast of the film, as well as his probation officers.

The prosecutor also noted that Nakoula was able to afford to make payments during the making of the film, saying it further raised concerns about his pos-sibly fleeing the area while the legal case against him proceeds.

“He poses a flight risk and poses a danger to others,” Dugdale said, alluding to the probation report’s recom-mendation that Nakoula be sentenced to 24 months in prison.

The prosecutor added that he had received assur-ances from the Metropolitan Detention Center that Nakoula would be placed in protective custody if he was ordered jailed, meaning he would not have contact with other inmates.

The judge, who ordered a future identity hearing to determine the defendant’s actual name, cited the many instances in which he mis-represented his name. She also noted his “unstable” residence and work history, referring to the film project, as also among the reasons for denying him bail.

When asked if he under-stood the nature of the hear-ing, Nakoula answered, “Yes.”

The judge then waived his right to a preliminary hear-ing and left open a future date for a revocation hear-ing. Immediately following Thursday’s hearing, Nakoula was escorted away by the U.S. Marshall service in a three-car caravan and driven two blocks to the Metropolitan Detention Center.

Earlier this month, Nakoula met with a proba-tion officer in the wake of a federal review of his five-year supervised probation in the 2010 case.

Nakoula was coopera-tive at that voluntary inter-view, authorities said. He was bundled up in a coat, hat and white scarf when he was escorted from his house for that interview. He wasn’t under arrest at that time.

Having served one year in federal prison at Lompoc, California, officials couldn’t determine this month whether Nakoula paid any of the court-ordered restitu-tion of $794,700, according to probation department offi-cials and court records.

—CNN

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Actress in “Innocence of Muslims” sues producer of film

One of the actresses in “Innocence of Muslims,” the anti-Islam film that ignited a firestorm in the Muslim world, is taking her civil case against the producer of the film, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, to federal court.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles, Cindy Lee Garcia, an ordained minister and actor, asserts that Nakoula violated copyright law over her performance in the film, lead-ing her to believe the movie was a historical adventure titled “Desert Warrior.” When Nakoula allegedly posted a trailer on YouTube in July, it falsely portrayed Garcia as a character who made incen-diary accusations against the Prophet Mohammed, the suit says.

According to the suit, Garcia did not sign a model release transferring her intellectual property rights to Nakoula or any production company. The film portrays the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, child molester and barbarian. The video has been widely condemned in the United

States, most recently during President Obama’s address to the United Nations General Assembly this week.

On Monday, a California state court judge rejected an earlier claim by Garcia that she was a victim of fraud, invasion of privacy and mis-appropriation of her likeness. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin cited Garcia’s failure to provide a contract agreement to the court. He also rejected her request for an emergency injunction to remove the trailer from YouTube, in part because Nakoula, a two-time felon, was not served with a copy of the lawsuit.

Nakoula was held with-out bail on Thursday in Los Angeles after being accused of violating probation in a 2010 bank fraud case. He had been on probation since being released from prison in June 2011 after serving 21 months. As a condition of his proba-tion, Nakoula is prevented from using any other name or any computer-related devices without consent of his proba-tion officer.

Garcia’s modified federal suit asserts infringement of copyright, fraud, unfair busi-ness practice, libel and inflic-

tion of emotional stress. “Ms. Garcia and her attorneys are making every effort to locate Nakoula and personally serve him with the lawsuit so that he will be held accountable for the claims made by Ms. Garcia,” according to her attorney, M. Cris Armenta.

Shooter opens fire, kills two in Minnesota

A man opened fire Thursday at a Minneapolis business, killing at least two people and wounding four others, three of them critically, before killing himself, police said.

The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. ET) at Accent Signage Systems in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood, said Sgt. Steven McCarty of the Minneapolis Police Department.

“There are a number of fatalities,” he said. “Not as high as five.”

The wounded were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center.

“I can confirm that the shooter is dead,” Deputy Chief Kris Arneson told reporters. “And he died by a gunshot wound — self-inflicted.”

Raymond Thomas “R.T.” Rybak Jr. said he visited the business about a month ago and that it was rapidly expand-ing around the world “because they have such cutting-edge technologies.”

In a statement, Gov. Mark Dayton deplored the “sense-less” shooting. “There is no place for it anywhere in Minnesota,” he said.

President of Yemen visits White House

President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi of Yemen visit-ed the White House Thursday, but is “not meeting with” President Obama, a senior administration official said.

The two leaders met in New York on Tuesday, when Obama dropped by a meet-ing between Hadi and John

Brennan, the homeland secu-rity and counterterrorism adviser to Obama.

Hadi told the world body on Wednesday that his country, long a base for al Qaeda, will continue to fight terrorists but will also talk with them. There have been violent protests in Yemen recently, as have occurred in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere.

Hadi was to meet again Thursday night with Brennan, the official said.

CNN spotted Hadi and his support staff arriving at the White House around 6 p.m.

In recent months, Hadi has tried to restructure Yemeni security forces and to dismiss from their jobs those who are loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was forced from power early this year in reaction to Arab Spring-inspired protests.

Texas man pleads guilty to attempting to extort money from QB

A Waco, Texas, man pleaded guilty on Thursday to attempt-ing to extort money from Robert Griffin III, the new quarterback of the Washington Redskins.

Richard Khamir Hurd, 25, admitted to approaching one of Griffin’s agents in June and threatening to give the media information that would hurt Griffin’s reputation unless he was paid $1 million. According to court documents, Griffin’s agent negotiated the demand, at the direction of the FBI, and agreed to pay the man $120,000. In return, Hurd was to turn over the information concerning Griffin and sign a nondisclosure agreement.

The government said Hurd went to a Waco law office on June 22 to sign the agreement and pick up his $120,000 check, where FBI agents arrested him.

Hurd is scheduled to be sen-tenced November 21 and faces up to three years in prison for receiving extortion money and two years for interstate com-munication of a threat.

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“Especially on the defensive side of the ball.”Offensively, Oregon State is encouraged because of the

increased production from the running attack, but could need even more improvement if they want to knock off the Wildcats.

Redshirt freshman running back Storm Woods had 96 yards rushing last week, including a touchdown, and expects to have even more success this Saturday.

“We’re not where we want to be [running the football], but we’re doing some good things, so that’s positive. We didn’t run it out the house [against UCLA], we just ran okay in my opinion. I definitely know we’re going to get better running the football.”

Both Woods and sophomore running-back Malcolm Agnew were a little banged up early in the week, but practiced Tuesday through Thursday and are at 100 percent going into Saturday’s matchup.

The 7 p.m. start makes it the first night game for the Beavers since the Arizona State game last year — the better teams in college football are generally scheduled for late night contests. However, if the Beavers continue winning, it likely won’t be the last.

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NEIL ABREW THE DAILY BAROMETER

Massachusetts is appeal-ing a federal judge’s ruling that the state must pay for the sex-change surgery of a transsexual prison inmate.

“Following a thorough review of the decision, we believe the court failed to give due deference to the fact that the Department (of Correction) has and con-tinues to provide adequate medical treatment to address inmate Kosilek’s gender identity disorder,” said Diane Wiffin, public affairs direc-tor for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, in a statement Wednesday.

In an unprecedented court order earlier this month, U. S. District Court Chief Judge

Mark L. Wolf determined that sex-reassignment sur-gery was the “only adequate treatment” for Michelle Kosilek, who was previously known as Robert. Kosilek has been incarcerated in an all-male prison, serving a life sentence without parole for murdering his wife in 1990.

Wolf ruled “that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged vio-lation of Kosilek’s Eighth Amendment right to ade-quate medical care.”

Kosilek’s attorney’s office declined to comment Thursday, citing the pending appeal.

The ruling Sept. 6 sparked some heated reaction.

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, said the court’s decision was “an out-rageous abuse of taxpayer dollars.”

State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr com-mended the Department of Correction in a statement Wednesday “for standing up and opposing this outra-geous request and for tak-ing the necessary action to prevent it from being legiti-mized by a legal decision.”

There was no immediate reaction from the office of Gov. Deval Patrick.

Many from the transgen-der community say the rul-ing should stand.

—CNN

Mass. appeals ruling on prisoner sex change

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