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n Corvallis Boxing Club seeks to build community, character inside, outside of the club
By Ryan DawesThe Daily BaromeTer
At 6:15 p.m. sharp every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, practice flares to life for the Corvallis Boxing Club. A fast two-mile run for a warm-up is followed by an intense workout including sparring, punch-ing bags and plyometric exercises
such as pushups, situps and squats. The Corvallis Boxing Club is a per-fect place to build one’s character and a close community with fellow teammates.
The Corvallis Boxing Club began last year when a couple ROTC stu-dents expressed interest to a former boxing coach. It became active at the start of the school year.
“I was looking for an intensive sport outlet,” said OSU ROTC stu-dent Caleb Lau, history major and team captain of the Corvallis Boxing
Club. “One of my instructors, [Major Jessica Dunn], had a husband who was a boxing coach. Her husband Dan and I started meeting and plan-ning out the club.”
Dan Dunn, who has been boxing since age 13, and is also certified in Thai Kickboxing and as a second-degree black belt in Jujitsu, had for-merly owned Victor Gym where he worked as a coach. However, after taking a few years off from coaching, he knew he wanted to start up again.
“I just loved coaching and couldn’t stop,” Dunn said. “I love the energy of the young adults and youth.”
Over the summer, he and a hand-ful of students began planning the club. Dale Butler, the pastor of Life Community Church, where Dunn attends, offered to help support the club and let them use a large garage owned by the church for a practice place. The club then set to remodel-ing the garage into a perfect box-ing gym, including adding a massive 20 by 22-foot boxing ring, punching bags and a patriotic OSU mural on the wall, all financed by Dunn.
The club also became approved through USA Boxing to ensure the safety and well-being of members.
From there the club quickly grew. Two of the members, Lau and OSU student Ashley Clarke, took an initia-tive to recruit members. They would often go to Dixon and tell random people they met about the club.
Now more than 50 members of the Corvallis community, 38 of which are OSU students, are members of the Corvallis Boxing Club, and that num-ber is increasing. With four interna-tional students actively participating, and a diversity of worldviews present
in the team, the club is an example of a number of different people uniting together as a close-knit family.
“What I love about this club is that it’s not just about boxing,” Lau said. “It’s about developing relationships, close friendships, and developing each other in every aspect of life, not just boxing.”
Clarke also agrees. “Often as we’re in the hardest parts
of the practice, the coach will yell at
n Marketplace West dining center celebrates the Chinese New Year with a celebrity chef appearance
By Megan CampbellThe Daily BaromeTer
Red decorations displayed on the village doors froze the dragon-like creature in fear. Cautiously resuming its hunt for children and livestock, the monster moved closer. Then, by beating drums, lighting firecrackers and burning candles the vil-lagers scared the monster back into the mountains.
Fending off the mythical creature, Nian, sparked the traditions of the Chinese New Year. The 15-day event is the longest and most important event in the Chinese calendar.
In celebration of this holiday, Ring of Fire, located in Marketplace West, will serve a special menu on Thursday, Feb. 7, prepared by celebrity chef Jet Tila from Los Angeles.
Tila has appeared on Iron Chef America and the Food Network. Even with running his own restaurants in California and Nevada, and juggling various appearances on radio and television, Tila will make time to come to Oregon State University.
“It’s all because of Jay Perry,” Tila said during a phone interview.
Perry is Chef de Cuisine at Marketplace West. He met Tila two years ago at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Tila was one of the lead chefs in the World Chef Culinary Conference.
“[Coming to OSU] is something that’s fun and offbeat,” Tila said.
University Housing and Dining Services’ “Lunar New Year: A Journey Through Culture and Cuisine” is part of a series of cultural dinners. Last year, University Housing and Dining Services held three cultural dinners featuring Mediterranean, soul food and indigenous cuisine. This year, however, Perry was looking for something “more eventful.” That’s when he emailed Tila.
“That’s why I like OSU,” said Mikalyn Martinez, a student employee at Southside Station in Arnold dining center. “Students have more access to try new things.”
Pulling from his traditional Thai and Chinese cooking background, Tila will teach and prepare lunch and dinner alongside Ring of Fire staff.
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Dan Dunn, Corvallis Boxing Club coach, instructs Caleb lau, oSU history major and team captain.
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Caleb lau jabs at Dan Dunn’s gloves during a Corvallis Boxing Club session. The club meets three times a week at life Community Church.
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Chef Jet Tila is coming to oregon State University. Pulling from his experience with traditional Thai and Chinese cooking, he will prepare lunch and dinner at marketplace West’s ring of Fire on Feb. 7.
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Local sports league starts with a dreamn OSU students, local businesses
collaborate on sports league for handicapped children
By Gabriella MorrongielloThe Daily BaromeTer
On Oct. 1, 2012, a team of inno-vative students from Oregon State University were awarded first place at the first annual Oregon Social Business challenge for their social business idea, STAR Sports. Now, four months later, these young entrepreneurs have turned that same business model into a reality.
The concept of STAR Sports began like any other business venture: with a dream. After developing a close relationship with a friend’s sister, who is affected by down-syndrome, OSU senior Alli Stangel dreamt of creating a sports league for children with physical disabilities.
Children with physical disabili-ties do not have as many oppor-tunities to actively participate in sports leagues as their peers do. Often times, parents of children with disabilities tend to be more hesitant in letting their child partic-ipate because of the potential range of obstacles their child is likely to encounter.
According to the STAR Sports business proposal, the primary goal of the program is to create a fall, winter and spring sports league in Benton County for children with disabilities and their parents, who often feel isolated and alone.
“The league will provide children with disabilities the opportunity
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to get involved, learn new skills and develop long-term, meaningful relationships,” the proposal explains. “These programs promote healthier lifestyles and encourage chil-dren to compete to the best of their individual abilities.”
Pitching the idea at the Oregon Social Business Challenge was the first big step toward the actual estab-lishment of STAR Sports.
“I came up with [the idea] in October, and the compe-tition gave us momentum,” Stangel said. “We decided we wanted to get it running by the end of the year.”
Meeting that deadline came easier with the help of several OSU students and members of OSU’s student sponsored organization Enactus, which is “committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better, more sustain-able world,” according to its national website.
One of the the students eager to get STAR Sports run-ning was Eric Steensen, an OSU senior majoring in exer-cise and sports science, who has past experience working with disabled children.
Prior to attending OSU, Steensen volunteered at the Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch in Bend, Ore., where he worked
with emotionally and physi-cally disabled children.
“At my high school there was a boy with Down’s Syndrome who was always super shy,” Steensen said. “Whenever he came to the ranch he was a completely different person, so outgoing and in his element. When I heard [about] this program I really wanted to get involved because I hoped to create that same type of environ-ment, free of judgment.”
Steensen, who is the ini-tiative lead for STAR Sports, has been patiently collabo-rating with local businesses and schools to promote the program and expand interest.
“We are reaching out to schools in Linn and Benton Counties, and getting a flyer approved to distrib-ute to them,” Steensen said. “As well as the IMPACT [Individualized Movement and Physical Activity for Children Today] program, which extends to children on campus, Boys and Girls Club, and Special Olympics in this area.”
Corvallis Sports Park and TOPSoccer are two local busi-nesses that have been gener-ous in lending their support to the STAR Sports initiative.
Blake Leary of Corvallis Sports Park has offered up the CSP facility and equip-ment for STAR Sports to use free of charge.
“We are interested in the STAR Sports because it is a community organized pro-gram,” Leary said. “It meets a need in the community and we want to give back to groups that need help in the community. This program is right in line with our phi-losophy and mission state-ment and we hope that this becomes a long-term part-nership and that this pro-gram grows.”
Lindsay Barnum, an executive member of OSU’s Enactus, has won awards working for TOPSoccer, an Oregon outreach soccer pro-gram specifically for children with disabilities. TOPSoccer has offered training materials and input on how to run the spring soccer league STAR Sports will be putting on beginning next term.
“Everybody we have talked to and reached out to has responded, whether it be parents, friends, the OSU Athletics department, or ran-dom passerbys,” Steensen said. “They all welcome the program with open arms ask-ing if there is anything they can do.”
Since they are a non-profit social business, the program will be sustained by partici-pant registration fees, esti-mated to be around $30 per child per term, or season. The fall, winter and spring sea-sons reflect the OSU terms in
order to make volunteering more accessible to students.
STAR Sports will make its debut with the first of four open gym days for children between the ages of 7 to 14, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the Corvallis Sports Park. Open gym days are free as they hope to generate inter-est and create a rapport with the parents and children. Come spring term, STAR Sports will begin its spring soccer league, which will run for eight weeks and allow participants to play against each other in a structured environment.
“The goal is not to foster competition or focus on scor-ing or winning, but rather to promote physical activ-ity and peer collaboration,” Stangel said.
Since Stangel’s initial dream of creating an athletic league for disabled children to the development of STAR Sports, a lot of progress has been made.
“Knowing I can be a part of helping children with dis-abilities to live a more normal life is so fulfilling and is the most humbling experience,” Stangel said.
If you are interested in vol-unteering for STAR Sports, or want more information, email Eric Steensen at [email protected].
Gabriella Morrongiello, news [email protected]
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CalendarThursday, Jan. 31MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. The Equality of Women - Devotions and discussion on the role women are playing in the progress of the global society.
College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107. General meeting.
EventsCru, 7:30pm, Re!New Church, 1677 SW 35th St. I am second. Who is first? Come hear fellow students tell their stories of life, priorities and who is first in their life.
Friday, Feb. 1EventsLonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Noon-1pm, Snell 427 (BCC). Cupcake Kick-off! Find out what events will be held throughout Black History Month - The Evolving History of Today.
Gamma Alpha Omega, 5-8pm, MU Basement. Bowling Night with informa-tional presentation regarding student involvement opportunities.
OSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la Carte: The Tardis Ensemble. A 6 pc. chamber ensemble featuring winds and strings.
Saturday, Feb. 2MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 2pm, MU Journey Room. The Memorial Union and Music Department will be presenting their budgets.
Monday, Feb. 4MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU Journey Room. Edu-cational Activities and Athletics will be presenting their budgets.
Tuesday, Feb. 5MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU 213. Student Sustain-ability Initiative and Our Little Village will be presenting their budgets.
ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211EventsCareer Services, 11am-Noon, Val-ley Library, Willamette East & West Rooms, 3rd Floor. WEBINAR - Landing Your Dream Federal Job or Internship.
Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez & CAPS, 5-7pm, MU 206. Stress-relief event. We will be presenting and doing a few exercises to relieve stress.
Wednesday, Feb. 6MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.
Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6:45-8pm, Dixon Recreation Center. ASOSU will be presenting their budget.
EventsCareer Services, Noon-3pm, MU Ball-room. Nonprofit & Volunteer Fair: Rep-resentatives from more than 50 local and national nonprofit and government organizations representing a wide variety of fields who are seeking OSU volunteers, interns and employees.
Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU 206. Marketing Your Service Experience: Meet a panel of nonprofit professionals who will share tips and strategies on marketing your service and volunteer experience to potential employers.
Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU Journey Room. Pursuing a Nonprofit Career: Gain insight into the nonprofit industry.
Career Services, Noon-1pm, MU 208. International Service Workshop: Explore international nonprofit intern-ships and service opportunities.
Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, 6-7:30pm, Snell 424, 4Cs Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez. The/Los Afro-Latinos.
Thursday, Feb. 7MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Rethinking Prosperity - Devotions and discussion on the meaning of prosperity and our search for it.
College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107. General meeting.
Friday, Feb. 8EventsOSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la carte: The Lyric Trio. A musical journey through English and American Poetry.
Saturday, Feb. 9MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 2pm, MU 213. Student Diver-sity and Recreational Sports will be presenting their budgets.
Monday, Feb. 11EventsLonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 5-7pm, Snell 424, 4Cs Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez. Cultural Taboos. Discuss the stereotypes of Black people and how it affects their every-day lives.
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responding to assaults on campus,” did not say on which day the question and answer event, sponsored by the Women’s Center, will occur. The session with an officer from the Department of Public Safety will be in the Memorial Union journey room today from 10 to 11 a.m. The Daily Barometer regrets any confusion.
us one of his most favorite quotes: ‘Nothing in life will meet you halfway, you have to go and work for it,’” Clarke said. “This applies to really everything in life, whether it be in school or going on a hard run or anything. This club helps you to push beyond your normal limits and take control of life.”
The club, currently a stand-alone organization, soon hopes to become an official voluntary student organization of OSU. The club’s goal is to continue its journey of building fellowship and character through boxing.
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ASOSU Representatives pass two resolutionsn Opposition to tuition
hikes passed, first year experience tabled
By Ricky ZippThe Daily BaromeTer
With a red square freshly pinned to his lapel, Speaker of the House Jacob Vandever announced the passing of the “Resolution to Oppose Tuition Hikes.” The resolution was introduced to the House last week by graduate representa-tive Matthew Palm and voted on Tuesday night, passing 15-0-0.
In opposition to future tuition hikes here on campus, the resolution is asking the university to stand behind ASOSU in requesting the state to follow the $850 million pro-posal put forth by the Oregon University System.
Currently, Governor Kitzhaber has proposed a $750 million budget for OUS, but this is directly being opposed by ASOSU.
“[OSU] is a state school for affordable, accessible, educa-
tion for all,” Palm said. “And we are slowly inching away from that.”
According to Palm, the difference of $100 million between OUS’s request and the Governor’s proposal would mean an eight percent tuition hike pending no major cuts by OSU. The passing of an $850 million budget will not even freeze tuition, but increase it by only three percent.
The legislation contains reasoning behind the request by ASOSU, the first three sec-tions saying:
“WHEREAS: Oregon spends $4,331 per student on its two major research institutions and, WHEREAS: this puts us 46th in the nation among states in terms of research institution funding per stu-dent and, WHEREAS: the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education gave Oregon an ‘F’ for higher education affordability ...”.
The resolution closes out by addressing issues with mandatory minimum sen-tencing, saying the proposed
prison budget by the gover-nor “remains several hun-dred million dollars greater than the baseline state fund-ing proposed for the Oregon University System.”
According to Palm, the pro-jected budget for mandatory minimum sentencing will have to increase by $600 mil-lion to the prison system — double its current position.
The second piece of leg-islation brought forth to the House of Representatives, “Resolution for Student Involvement in First Year Experience,” was tabled for next week. The resolution was introduced last week in response to this term’s first town hall, when students, many from the Greek com-munity, expressed their desire for student involvement in the First Year Experience plan.
Larry Roper, Vice President of Student Affairs, will attend next week’s Senate meeting to provide clarification and dis-cuss the First Year Experience plan with ASOSU and stu-dents who wish to attend.
Because of this, the House chose to table the bill for next week’s meeting.
The third and final piece of legislation, the “Friendly Neighborhood Speaker Act” was a small clarification in the contact information of the Elections Committee. The email address originally was given as the House and will be changed to the election committee.
After two unanimous votes and one tabling, the meet-ing wrapped up with a series of announcements for SIFC meetings and next week’s all-officer meeting.
Vice President Dan Cushing announced the rally for #WearTheSquare, which will be Monday, Feb. 4 in the MU Quad. Cushing said all stu-dents are welcome to help support the fight against tuition increases proposed by the university and are invited to Monday’s rally.
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Rights and privileges
Rights can’t be taken away from us, privileg-es can. Groups like Basic
Rights Oregon and the National Organization for Women fight for “gay rights,” “women’s rights,” or rights for any other group that feels slighted by the government. But if we believe rights come from the government, we are wrong. The gov-ernment shouldn’t grant us rights, they can, only grant privileges.
An overarching authority doesn’t give us our rights. We are born with the rights of life and liberty, and the U.S. Constitution throws in pursuit of happiness. I am free because I say so; we are all free because we say so. If I demand someone work for me, I have taken his or her right to life and liberty. I can’t take those rights from them though, and neither can the government.
When activist groups fight for the “rights” they’re denied, they don’t target the source — the govern-ment. Government tries to restrict each group, one at a time. New York has a size limit for soda, restrict-ing consumers from buying more than 16 oz. Drugs are illegal even though ingesting a drug into one’s own body does not harm anyone else. The government doesn’t allow same-sex marriages in many states. The hungry, drug users and same-sex couples are just a few of the groups the government restricts.
Years ago, people got married because they wanted to. Now there are marriage licenses, tax incentives or disadvantages, and constant reg-ulation from the government. The government says two people are married, because two people can’t legally do it on their own.
Privileges shouldn’t, but can be taken away at any moment. Computers, phones, pencils, cars and other material possessions we
‘Windows and Mirrors’ art exhibit
Does not blame veteransThe comments in the Barometer
and the letter sent to the curator of the exhibit deserve some com-ment from veterans who have been in active combat. For me, I am a disabled combat veteran from the Vietnam War.
The Windows and Mirrors exhibit shows art that reflects the results of the war in Afghanistan. The aware-ness is important for all of us to see. It is a good reminder that we know the true cost of war in terms of human suffering.
The Windows and Mirrors art does not blame our veterans for their actions, or the memorial for veterans.
The blame lies with the selling of war by the corporate media con-glomerates which filter out the truth. The blame also falls on those who lied to us during the Bush adminis-tration. Blame also falls on each one of us for not insisting that diplomacy is what we needed, not shock and awe.
Our country and Afghanistan would be much better off if we had not invaded a sovereign nation under false pretense. Thousands of civilians have been killed. There is no evidence that Afghanistan or Iraq were involved with 9/11. I do won-der why Building 7 in New York was demolished professionally.
Every bomb we drop only adds recruits to al-Qaida. Let us not filter the truth that everyone should see.
EugEnE RussEllU.S. Army veteran
Sexual assaults
Familiar vs. stranger assaultsSexual assault is a serious issue that
requires university attention, and in light of the recent assaults near and on campus, the issue is on the minds of many students.
Before continuing, I must say that I do not intend to belittle or down-play the severity of the assaults that occurred; they are terrifying, sobering and worthy of attention and under-standing. However, on rural college campuses like OSU, 95 to 99 percent
of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone familiar to the survivor — also known as familiar assault.
When various emails and news articles are spread throughout the university on the topic of “strang-er” assaults, they become the only story that students hear about sexual assault, and frankly, those widely-spread reports are not congruent with the reality of sexual assault. As stated above, only one to five percent of assaults are perpetrated by “Scary Larry” on the street. Although the frequency of “stranger” assaults is so low, it is still important to practice safety measures, such as not walking alone at night, not using headphones when walking alone, learning self-defense, etc.
However, since the reality of sexual assault is that someone familiar is usually the perpetrator, a more valu-able safety protocol would include: How to recognize coercive situations, especially when alcohol is involved, and how to be an effective bystander in the case of emergency.
Next fall, OSU is offering an accred-ited class on Effective Bystander Education. There is also a student-based sexual assault prevention group called Every1 Peer Educators. Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has a program called Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS), which provides confidential counseling and support for survivors. If you are interested in more informa-tion on preventing sexual assault, or if you or someone you know is in need of support, OSU has the resources to help you.
sona HodaiEHistory, senior
Response to Murga’s Jan. 30 article
Morality of FirearmsPlato, the Greek philosopher, said,
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” If we as Americans were to increase gun laws, would it make much of a difference? Criminals will switch to an alternative weapon like bombs. Contrary to popular belief, they are not some out-of-reach device that must be bought on the
black market. The true answer to pro-tecting people from events of mass murder is to teach them the value of human life. It is not a weapon prob-lem. It is a people problem.
Our society glorifies violence. Have you ever heard people laughing over a kill or death in a video game or movie? Sure, it’s a video game or movie, but still the implication is the same. A living being, whether real or animated, is losing its life. We no lon-ger look at life as something sacred, but rather as a punch line.
Hunter Murga wrote an article on Jan. 30 which, either through lack of research or virtue, plays on a person’s lack of knowledge about firearms. In his article, he subtly advocates for tighter gun control, saying it is “sen-sible to prevent these tragedies.” He also says in his article that suppres-sors, silencers in layman’s terms, do not dampen the noise produced by firearms of most calibers, with the exception of .22s or .45 ACPs.
Most people do not know what that even means. I have asked people and watched their faces go blank. He says that the idea of suppressors low-ering audible noise “. . . fails miserably with the physics of exit velocity.” That is both true and misleading. Bullets make a sonic boom when they fly downrange because they exceed the speed of sound, so any bullet going over the speed of sound will make a cracking noise suppressors cannot prevent. What he does not mention is people using suppressors buy low velocity ammunition, which allows the bullet to travel under the speed of sound. So in essence, .22 caliber and .45 caliber firearms can reach velocities both above and below the speed of sound, depending on ammo selection.
Firearms are dangerous. We live in a dangerous world of dangerous things. Fear is natural. It is important though, that we are not taken over by fear and ignorance, otherwise we will be led and influenced by people who are either ignorant themselves, or by people who are comfortable exploiting others. If we wish to see change, we must teach people the value of life.
J. R. McnaiRBusiness
Proofread before you press sendIn 2012 more than 140 bil-
lion emails were sent per day, according The Radicati Group
study.Face-to-face communication is
dwindling as digital communica-tion increases. With social media, text messages, email, instant mes-saging and smartphone applica-tions, proper grammar and com-munication etiquette has faded.
We receive and send emails regu-larly. It’s an important form of com-munication, and one we appreci-ate. We do not, however, appreciate careless writing or a “wise guy.”
Tone is often lost through email. Unfortunately there isn’t a sarcasm font. Unless the receiver knows the sender, it’s best to keep email com-munication both straightforward
and courteous. P r o f e s s i o n a l c o m m u n i c a -tion begins with a subject line and a for-mal greeting.
In today’s world, espe-cially if you need to contact a professional, email seems like a safe venue for com-m u n i c a t i o n . It’s less intimi-dating than a phone call or a p p r o a c h i n g someone in public. We at the Barometer use emails to set up inter-
views, and to communicate with reporters and staff. Outside of work, we use it to communicate with pro-fessors, family and friends.
It’s important to know when you are allowed to forget to capitalize an “I,” and when it would be aca-demic or professional suicide. Mom or Suzy from third grade may not care, but anyone in the professional world — any editor — will.
We’ve heard professors rant about students casually addressing them through email. Professors have a title they’ve earned through more schooling than you’ll probably ever have to suffer through. Unless they have given you explicit permission to use their first name, you should really show your respect for that excessive schooling — which you are benefiting from — by using it when you address them. An email is not a text message, and you don’t have the excuse of typing with your thumbs to fall back on.
Often email or digital communi-cation are a first impression. First
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n Swimmer Sammy Harrison has performed well in her first year at OSU, breaking her own career-best last Friday vs. Washington State
By Darryl oliver iiiThe Daily BaromeTer
Freshman swimmer Sammy Harrison has been a pleasant surprise in the pool so far this season for the Oregon State women’s swimming team.
Head coach Larry Liebowitz says it’s no surprise at all.
“She’s just showing that she’s the athlete I thought she was when I recruited her,” Liebowitz said.
Harrison was recruited out of Coronado High School in Henderson, Nev. — 931 miles away from Corvallis. She has been swimming for 14 years, and it was in high school that she realized it was her passion.
“My freshmen year of high school, that’s when I real-ized I needed to make a commitment,” Harrison said.
After her freshman year in high school, Harrison became a standout in the pool and grew accustomed to winning. For three years in a row, Harrison managed to win two state events, a feat many swimmers may never hope to accomplish.
The thrill of achieving those accolades in high school was obviously something substantial for her.
“When I broke the state record for Nevada at the state meet my senior year, that was very exciting,” Harrison said.
Harrison posted a time of 4:49.82 in the 500-yard freestyle, nine seconds faster than the second-fastest time — which also happens to be held by Harrison (4:58.25). The third-fastest mark on the all-time list is still a stunning seven seconds slower than Harrison, at 4:51.89, and it was posted 28 years ago, in 1985.
After being in the spotlight for most of her high school career, it did not take long for Harrison to find it again at the collegiate level.
Earlier in the season, against BYU, Harrison found victory and posted a season-best time in the 1,000-yard freestyle — beating her closest competitor by more than 36 seconds.
“In college, [the best moment] so far . . . was just this past weekend, doing 1,000 and the 200 back to back,” Harrison said.
Last weekend, the Beavers faced off against rival Washington State in the first of a back-to-back, facing Idaho the next day.
It was the display put on by Harrison on Friday that impressed her coach.
“Her performance in the 1,000-yarder against Washington State was hands down one of the greatest displays of swimming I’ve ever seen,” Liebowitz said.
Harrison won three races that night, two of them coming one right after the other. In the 1,000-yard
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What to watch for tonight: Cal vs. OSU
Langston Morris- Walker’s return home
Haas Pavilion, the site of tonight’s game, is 0.6 miles from Berkeley
High School, where OSU fresh-man Langston Morris-Walker played his prep ball.
Robinson said that’s not neces-sarily a good omen.
“You’ve heard me say this before, no one ever plays well when they go home,” Robinson said. “But [Morris-Walker’s] prog-ress up to this point has been ter-rific, so it’ll be interesting to see how the pressures of going home right when he’s playing well will affect him.
“He is a hard worker, he listens to what we say, he has gotten bet-ter every single day in practice. We need him to play well.”
Interesting. You don’t often hear a coach say he “needs” someone to play well two games after the player didn’t get off the bench — Morris-Walker did not play in last Wednesday’s win over UW.
I don’t think the Beavers “need” any of their freshmen to play well. They need their top contributors to play well.
If Morris-Walker thrives under the pressure of playing in front of hundreds of friends and fam-ily, then consider his contribu-tions an added bonus. If he plays poorly, he won’t stay on the court — and it’s not like OSU can’t win with Morris-Walker on the bench.
Because of this, I think Morris-Walker’s return home is a low-risk, high-reward situation.
Cal’s offense, beyond Crabbe and Cobbs
Cal has scored 443 points in seven conference games.
OSU’s freshman phenomGrady Garrett
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Beavers hope to turn season around at Caln OSU will need to win its second true
road game of the season if it wants to avoid falling to 1-7 in conference
By alex CrawfordThe Daily BaromeTer
The Oregon State men’s basketball team hasn’t won a true road game since defeating Portland State 79-74 on Dec. 12.
In fact, that’s the Beavers’ only true road win this season. Every other win has come in Gill Coliseum or at a neutral site.
That statistic doesn’t bode well for the Beavers (11-9, 1-6 Pac-12) as they prepare to face Cal tonight in Berkeley, Calif.
Cal (11-8, 3-4) is in the bottom half of the conference standings, but head coach Craig Robinson said that doesn’t mean anything for his struggling Beaver squad.
“It doesn’t take any weight off because, with our record, you have to win now,” Robinson said. “You have to put together some wins and turn this thing around. Our guys are handling this about as well as they can.”
Freshman Langston Morris-Walker, who scored a career-high nine points in last Saturday’s loss to WSU, expressed his dissatis-faction with the Beavers’ record, but seemed to be handling adversity with poise.
“I definitely didn’t picture us being 1-6 at this point, but Coach likes to say we’re just the little things away from being a very good team,” Morris-Walker said.
Cal, an NCAA Tournament team last year, was picked third by the media in this year’s Pac-12 preseason poll. But the loss of 2011-12 Pac-12 Player of the Year Jorge Gutierrez, who is currently playing in the NBA D-League, has affected the Golden Bears more than most anticipated.
Robinson knows this is still a capable Cal squad, though.
“They are always a tough team to play at their place,” Robinson said. “They are not the team that they have been in the past, but they are still capable of putting together a good string of games, especially at home.”
Despite their losing conference record, the Golden Bears come into tonight’s game with two of the top offensive players in the league — junior guards Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs.
Crabbe is the leading scoring in the Pac-12, averaging 20 points per game, and Cobbs is 10th in scoring (14.7 PPG) and fourth in assists (4.2).
The Golden Bears don’t have a player in the top 10 statistically in rebounds per game in the conference, but neither does Washington State — and the Cougars still managed to
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OSU vs. CalWhere: Haas Pavilion (Berkeley, Calif.)When: Tonight, 7 p.m. PSTTV: ESPNU
Daily Barometer c o r r e s p o n d e n t Brittany Held, for-merly of the Oregon State women’s soc-cer team, caught up with OSU men’s basketball guard Roberto Nelson, a junior from Santa
Barbara, Calif. In his fourth year at OSU, Nelson leads the Beavers in scoring with 16 points a game. But, this is all about what Nelson is like off the court.
Q: Summer or winter?A: SummerQ: Blondes or brunettes?A: BrunettesQ: Lakers or Clippers?A: LakersQ: Kobe or LeBron?A: Kobe, easyQ: Morning or night?A: MorningQ: Scary movies or chick flicks? A: Scary moviesQ: Would you rather be liked or feared?A: Feared, actuallyQ: Jessica Alba or Megan Fox? A: Jessica AlbaQ: Coffee or tea?A: TeaQ: Dog or cat?A: Dog, I got a dogQ: Bath or shower?A: Bath, if I fitQ: French toast or pancakes?
A: French toastQ: Boxers or briefs?A: BoxersQ: Quote you live by?A: “It’s not the skill of the man, it’s the
will of the man,” from “He Got Game,” one of my favorite movies.
Q: Describe yourself in three words.A: Funny, different, psycho.Q: You were an all-state wide receiver
in high school ... why basketball over football?
A: In football, you don’t get a chance to play too long, I just think basketball has a longer career. And I love basketball, so I just stuck with basketball.
Q: Favorite player?A: For basketball it’s Kobe. For football
it’s Ray Lewis.Q: Would you rather break a backboard
or make a trick shot off a wall?A: After breaking a backboard I don’t
think I want to do it again, so definitely a trick shot off a wall.
Q: You were a main character in the book “Play Their Hearts Out” … tell me a little about that
A: That was a good book, by [Pulitzer Prize winner] George Dohrmann, a good friend of mine. He was writing about our team, team Cali. Joe Burton was in it, too. It was a really cool book, something to reflect back on. It brings back some memories, and it’s something I can show my kids when I get older.
Q: You’ve said your team would beat the OSU women’s soccer game in a soccer
scrimmage ... why do you think that?A: I just know ... we go out and kick —
Ahmad [Starks], [Daniel] Gomis, Challe [Barton] — with the men’s soccer team. I think it would be a good game. I would love nothing more than to take the wom-en’s soccer team down.
Q: Why number 55?A: It was kind of random. When I got
here I always wanted to be 20, but it’s retired, or 21, and I think that’s retired, too. So I just told Coach to give me the highest number possible, he said 55 ... I don’t think the number makes a player, I think the player makes the number.
Q: Why do you blow a kiss before you shoot a free throw?
A: I’ve done it since freshman year of high school. It was for my mom, but now it’s for both my parents because they both got a little jealous. For my sister, too. Gotta show love to my family watching me on the tube.
Q: What do you look for in a girl?A: A lot of things ... long hair, personality.
I like someone I can just hang out with, because I’m a boring kind of guy, so I don’t do too much. So someone who’s cool and I can enjoy spending time with.
Q: Does she need to be an athlete?A: I love athletic girls, someone who’s
competitive. I think it’d be better for both of us.
Q: Super Bowl pick?A: I’m going with my man Ray Lewis and
the Ravens, my team. Well, they’re my other team ... the Ravens and the Raiders. The Raiders haven’t been fortunate to make the postseason in quite some time. So I’m stick-ing with the Ravens. Hopefully Ray Lewis will go out with a bang.
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Junior guards Allen Crabbe (129 points) and Justin Cobbs (82) account for 211, or 47.6 percent, of those 443 points.
Outside of Crabbe’s 20 points per game (tops in the conference) and Cobbs’ 14.7 (10th in the conference), the Golden Bears don’t pose much of a threat offensively.
Robinson said the key to the game is stopping Crabbe and Cobbs.
“We have to limit the two guys who are averag-ing 20 and 15,” Robinson said. “If we limit those two guys, and then keep the other guys right where they are, we’ve got a good chance of winning the game.”
I’m not so sure I agree.Crabbe and Cobbs have
averaged 30 points in Cal’s three conference wins. In Cal’s four conference loss-es, the two averaged 30.3 points — virtually no dif-ference. They’re going to get their buckets, whether Cal’s winning or losing.
The Golden Bears’ suc-cess is tied more to their third-through-fifth scor-ers. When those guys are held in check, Cal struggles.
Take freshman guard Tyrone Wallace, for example.
Cal is 3-0 in confer-
ence games when Wallace scores at least 10 points, and 0-4 when he doesn’t. He’s averaging 12.7 points per conference win and 5.3 points per conference loss.
So yes, I am saying
Tyrone Wallace may have a bigger impact on tonight’s outcome than the confer-ence’s top and 10th lead-ing scorers.
Grady Garrett, managing editoron Twitter @gradygarrett
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Freshman langston morris-Walker and the Beavers will play at haas Pavilion tonight, which is less than a mile from where morris-Walker went to high school.
freestyle, Harrison once again posted a season-best, and this time a career-best with a time of 10:05.24, five seconds faster than her previous time posted at BYU.
“I didn’t expect to go as fast as I did, so when I looked up at the clock and saw a 10:05 I was really happy that I could go that fast without putting my full self into it,” Harrison said.
Before the races, Harrison and Liebowitz shared a moment in confidence.
“He said it will be really challenging,” Harrison said. “But I took it on head first and he said I did really well.”
Aside from constantly breaking her own records and the goals she sets for herself, Harrison has also achieved a high number of individual wins so far this
season. Although Harrison makes it look easy, she insists collegiate swimming is not as easy as it seems.
“[Swimming] is a lot tougher, and a lot more competitive — which is how I like it,” Harrison said, “It’s been a little challenging so far, but I like it and it has definitely been worth it.”
Despite this being only her inaugural year in collegiate swimming, Harrison has large goals.
“I want to go to the Olympics in 2016,” Harrison said.
With such large aspirations, it’s no wonder Harrison does so well in the pool.
It isn’t only her achievements that drive Harrison, but also the support received from her coach and teammates.
“We have the greatest seniors, and they’re really inspirational because they show up to practice every day, they work
hard, and they do everything that I would like to do,” Harrison said. “They make sure we don’t fall behind; they take care of us and get us ready to go fast.”
Not only does Harrison have three more years left in her collegiate swim-ming career at OSU, she also has three years until her coveted goal of swimming in the Olympics has a chance at becom-ing a reality.
But before any of that can happen, Harrison has to swim in the team’s next meet — the Pac-12 Championships on Feb. 27.
That event won’t be for three weeks, but regardless, Harrison will have to bring her “A” game because nothing is guaranteed in the pool.
Darryl oliver iii, sports reporteron Twitter @[email protected]
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out-rebound OSU 33-22 last Saturday. Rebounding has been a struggle for the Beavers in Pac-12 play this year, and they enter tonight third-to-last in the con-ference in rebounding margin.
“We work on it a lot in practice, but it’s really just more of want-ing the ball,” said sophomore forward Eric Moreland. “We’ve just got to go get the board and try to go, and that’s going to be our Achilles’ heel, if we don’t start getting rebounds.”
At the beginning of the sea-son, Robinson and his players said their goal was to make it to the NCAA Tournament. However unlikely, Robinson said that is still the goal for this squad.
“The goal is still the same, but the shorter-term goal is to win the next game you play,” Robinson said. “Our game is still the same, and because we play a conference tournament, we still have an opportunity to do that.”
The Beavers might still have lofty goals, but right now they are just trying to get over the hump, and break out of a slump that dates back to a nonconference loss to Towson on Dec. 29.
“We’re right there,” Moreland said. “You can only get so much from saying that, but we see it and we believe. We believe in the coaching staff and we believe in each other so we just got to keep on grinding it out.”
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The govern-ment controls our lives in many places, like mar-riage, business, property and taxes. Maryland, Indiana and W a s h i n g t o n don’t a l low phosphorus in soaps and deter-gents fearing it might hurt the environment. This ban on phosphorus in detergents started in 1970 and has grown to include 17 states.
Companies like Proctor and Gamble simply stopped producing detergents with phosphorus for some states, but keep it in their detergent for others. Susan Baba, from Proctor and Gamble, said the following in a December 2010 interview with NPR, “You know, this isn’t really a huge environmental win.”
If companies found remov-ing phosphorus from deter-gents important to their cus-tomer base, they would’ve made that change years ago. However, Phosphorus is the chemical in detergents that does the cleaning. Try wash-ing clothes or dishes with-out the phosphorus powder mixed into the soap, and then try it again with the phos-phorus. Phosphorus makes everything cleaner.
Along with banning phos-phorus, the government recently banned plastic bags in Corvallis. The government really made a great decision on that one. Jonathan Klick and Joshua D. Wright, from University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason School of Law respectively, studied counties with and without plastic bag bans.
The study saw increases in emer-gency room visits in counties with the ban compared to neighboring counties without the ban. The increased ER visits and risk for illness stem from the reus-able bags. Leaking juices from various foods sit in the bags trip after trip to the store and pile up. The cross contami-nation of fluids in the bags can lead to
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Reason Magazine and Business Week reported on the study, suggesting washing reus-able bags — I endorse that idea as well.
But hold on just one sec-ond, didn’t the government ban phosphorus in soaps and detergents? Exactly.
Yes, plastic and reusable bags are material things, or privileges as defined previous-
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Businesses have their liberty taken away when the government tells them they can’t use plastic anymore. My lib-erty as a consumer is taken away if I want to use plastic. The government revokes choice and liberty when it tries
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Plastic bags don’t hurt people and shouldn’t be banned. For those who say it’s an environmen-tal issue, there is no such thing. E n v i r o n m e n t a l issues are prop-erty rights issues. If someone owned the ocean where the BP oil spill took place, they
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Environmental issues don’t exist, and therefore cannot be the basis for legisla-
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If you want to protest for equality, don’t demand that someone else’s rights be taken away. Demand that you get yours back from the government. If the government has taken some rights, who’s to say they won’t take the rest.
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The lack of accountability and the anonymity both the Internet and digital communication provide has hindered the communication skills of our generation and of generations to come. The digital age shouldn’t free us from the responsibility of under-standing grammar, crafting a com-plete sentence, using proper punc-tuation or adopting a formal tone.
We are paid to catch misplaced punctuation, therefore it’s incredibly annoying to us to read an email that lacks periods.
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you have taken at OSU?A: All of them. No, just any 400-level
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champions?A: I don’t eat breakfast, I don’t like break-
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athlete who would you date?A: Oh, Matt Bersano [goalkeeper on the
men’s soccer team]. [He’s] so fine, so fine. Q: Who on the team are you closest
too?A: I would probably say Quortni
[Fambro], yeah.Q: What physical and nonphysical
attribute do you look for in a significant other?
A: Height, and he’s got to be funnyQ: What is your favorite part about
playing basketball?A: Defense, allowing people to get
frustrated.
sarah kerrigan, sports reporteron Twitter @skerrigan123
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Radio Row at Super Bowl Media Day in the Superdome
NEW ORLEANS ( Jon Huffman / WGNO) — NEW ORLEANS – It is the big-gest turnout of interna-tional media the Super Bowl has ever seen. More than 5,000 reporters, photogra-phers and technicians have jammed into the Morial Convention Center to set up for their Super Bowl coverage.
If New Orleans needed positive publicity, that wish is coming true today. The media hoard is here and so far they’ve had nothing but good things to say about New Orleans food and nightlife.
Tuesday on Radio Row, hundreds of sports radio reporters from all over the nation were set up and broadcasting live, non-stop. Since there’s been no action with players so far (not even any practices yet) about the only thing these reporters
can report on is the city’s nightlife.
Drew Forrester does the morning show on Baltimore radio station WNST: “We’re asking if they might want to make this a regular thing. Any way we can keep coming back down here, particularly if it’s going to be 70-degrees. When we left Baltimore it was 15, so we’re pretty happy with that.”
They’re here from San Francisco, New York, St. Louis … just about every cor-ner of the nation. And all are quick with their predictions of what will happen Sunday.
“I actually think the Ravens are going to win,” Forrester says.
Most of the media is in town already, however the fans are not expected to start pouring into town until Thursday and that’s when the town will really start to go crazy.
U.S. star Altidore suffers racial abuse (CNN) — U.S. star Jozy Altidore has
said he will “pray” for those who subjected him to racist abuse during a Dutch cup game Tuesday.
The 23-year-old American internation-al was the target of racist chanting during AZ Alkmaar’s 5-0 win at nine-man Den Bosch.
Referee Reinold Wiedemeijer suspend-ed the game during the first half follow-ing “jungle sounds chanted at Altidore,” according to AZ’s official twitter feed. But AZ players, including Altidore, persuaded him not to.
Wiedemeijer asked host club Den Bosch to put a message over the public address system, warning the crowd he would stop the match if the abuse car-ried on.
The contest was also briefly stopped after the interval after home fans threw snowballs at the linesmen.
Altidore was adamant the game should not be stopped and in a post-match inter-view with Dutch television he explained his stance.
He said: “It’s a bit disappointing that these things still happen at this time but what are you going to do?
“You just have to hope that these peo-ple find a way to improve themselves. You can only pray for them.
“I feel like as a football player that I have an obligation, to my team, to my club, to my family to not react to things like this.
“I want to show them that club stands better than that and that I was raised bet-ter than that than respond to such ridicu-lous behaviour.
“It’s a bit disappointing because you would hope as human beings that humanity can grow from these types of times.
“But at the end of the day, it’s still alive
racism and all we can do is try and edu-cate ourselves and the young kids coming up to be better than that.
“All I can do is pray for them and hope they become better people.”
Altidore, who scored from the penalty spot during the contest, also insisted he would not rise to those who had insulted him from the stands.
He added: “I’m not going to fight them. They just have some issues and need some help. You can only pray for them and hope they get better.
“We were in a good rhythm and it was important for us to keep going. I think we started the New Year right and you have to look at the bigger picture.”
AZ soccer director and former U.S. mid-field player Earnier Stewart, also spoke of his disgust, telling Dutch television’s Eredivisie Live: “It is terribly sad that this can happen for those involved and for lov-ers of football in the Netherlands.
“You hear that and wonder what on earth is going on.’’
Stewart also revealed that Den Bosch officials are “ashamed’’ of the fans involved. The club told fans to stop the chants over the public address system, but that failed to stop a small section of supporters.
Alkmaar player Viktor Elm added: “The fans that misbehaved towards Altidore should be ashamed.
“I, like everybody else, am really disap-pointed in these supporters. It is a bad time for professional football. It is not something I have experienced in my career before.
“Jozy handled it really well. He has not been tempted to respond. He was emo-tional after his penalty.”
Meanwhile, in Italy, Lazio booked its place in the final of the Coppa Italia cour-
tesy of a 2-1 win over Juventus.With the tie poised at 1-1 following last
week’s first leg in Turin, Lazio took the lead through Alvaro Gonzalez’s header.
The home side looked set for its first final since 2009, but Juventus grabbed a dramatic equalizer in the 91st minute when Arturo Vidal lashed home.
The tie looked destined for extra-time, but with just seconds remaining, Sergio Floccari netted a late winner to take Lazio through.
Vladimir Petkovic’s side will now face city rival Roma or Inter Milan in the final.
In the English Premier League, Manchester City endured a frustrating night as it was held to a goalless draw by bottom of the table QPR.
On a day dominated by speculation linking City striker Mario Balotelli with a move to AC Milan, manager Roberto Mancini might have hoped for a victory to concentrate on instead.
But his side was unable to find a way past a stubborn and determined Rangers defense, which managed to hold on for a precious point in its fight against relegation.
Instead, Mancini was left to focus on the impending departure of the enigmatic Balotelli, who is set to undergo a medical at Milan Wednesday before completing a move to Italy.
Mancini told Sky Sports News: “He had this big chance to come back to Italy and play for another top club like Milan.
“I hope Mario can continue to improve and show he’s always ready because I think he can, if he works hard, continue growing and become one of the best play-ers in the world.
Aston Villa’s nightmare run of form continued with a 2-1 home defeat by Newcastle.
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“He’s a teacher of food,” said Perry. “[Tila] will be able to teach our staff his experience in the Asian cuisine, and he’ll be able to demo that to all of us.”
From 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. and from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Tila will demonstrate his knowledge of Asian cuisine.
“We don’t really know what to expect,” said Perry. “We’re pulling out all the stops on this. We’re even trying to get Benny the Beaver.”
The event is open to the pub-lic. Perry has reached out to the culinary programs at Linn-Benton Community College and even University of Oregon.
“If [Tila] showcases what Chinese New Year is about — and it’s not Americanized — it’ll be good,” said Shaele Wesely, a history major working at the Asian & Pacific Cultural Center.
This year, the first day of Chinese New Year is Feb. 10. Most people in Asia take time off, and most government agencies will close for the break to celebrate the Year of the Snake.
“It’s like the American holi-day break,” said Mai-Yee Yuan, a microbiology major working
in the Asian & Pacific Cultural Center. “It’s a really festive time.”
Traditionally, the holiday is about coming together with family and the community to share food.
“It was the only holiday my family would stop and actu-ally share it together,” Tila said. “The Chinese New Year is tra-dition. You get your hair cut before the new year. You pay off all your debt. It’s a time to reflect.”
Tila grew up in his father’s Thai restaurant in Los Angeles. Throughout his childhood his grandmother also exposed
him to traditional Chinese cooking. With these inspira-tions, Tila attended Le Cordon Bleu to complete his culinary education.
“Food is the least political and confrontational way to introduce someone to culture,” said Tila. “If one student comes away with learning Chinese culture, I’ve done my job.”
Megan Campbell, forum editor
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Teen who performed at Obama inaugural events shot to death in Chicago
CHICAGO (CNN) — A teen who performed at events around President Barack Obama’s inauguration was shot to death in Chicago this week, and now her story has become part of the debate in Washington over gun violence nationwide.
The shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton came up in a U.S. Senate hearing and a White House press briefing Wednesday.
“She was an honor student and a majorette,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. Performing at inaugural events last week “was the highlight of her young, 15-year-old life,” he said.
Speaking at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Durbin mentioned Pendleton’s death as he argued that more must be done to stop gun crimes.
“Yesterday, in a rainstorm after school, she raced to a shelter. A gunman came in and shot her dead,” he said. “Just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life, she’s gone.”
The park shelter where she was shot is just a mile from Obama’s home in Chicago.
White House spokesman Jay Carney described her death as a “terrible tragedy.”
“The president has more than once, when he talks about gun violence in America, referred not just to the horror of Newtown or Aurora or Virginia Tech or Oak Creek but to shootings on the corner in Chicago or other parts of the country,” Carney told reporters. “And this is just another example of the problem we need to deal with.”
2013 is off to a deadly start in Chicago — Pendleton was the year’s 42nd murder victim. No arrests have been made in the case, police said.
In 2012, 506 people were slain in the city.Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel described
Pendleton Wednesday as “what’s best in our city, a child going to school who takes a final exam, who had just been to the inaugural.”
“We have a responsibility to see a stop to this,” he said. “And all of us are responsible.”
Pendleton was shot just blocks away from her high school on the south side of Chicago, CNN affiliate WGN reported.
Police told CNN affiliates that the teenager had no gang affiliation and likely was not the intended target.
Suspect sought in fatal Phoenix office shootingPHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Phoenix police
were searching Wednesday for a 70-year-old man suspected in the shooting of three people, one of whom died, in an office building.
Arthur Douglas Harmon had gone to the building to discuss “some type of litigation,” Phoenix Police Public Information Officer Tommy Thompson told CNN affiliate KTVK.
After the meeting, at about 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET), Harmon shot Steven Singer, 48; a 43-year-old man who was in critical condition, and a 32-year-old woman, Thompson said.
The law firm of Osborn Maledon identified one of its attorneys, Mark Hummels, as one of the victims. He was involved in a client media-tion when he was shot, the Phoenix firm said.
“We believe the two men were his targets,”
Thompson said. The woman, whose injury was not life-threatening, “just happened to be in the way when the shooting occurred.”
Harmon then fled in a 2013 Kia Optima, Arizona license plate AVS-2052, he said. Harmon shot at a witness who was following him, Thompson said. “Anybody who contacts him needs to be aware that he is armed and danger-ous,” he said.
Two other people who were not shot were also taken to a hospital, one for “some other type of injury not related to gunfire,” and the other “may have been related to stress,” Thompson said.
Former astronaut Mark Kelly referred to the shooting during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on gun violence. “There’s 50 or so police cars on the scene,” he said.
Teacher accused of having sex with studentsATLANTA (CNN) — A
Georgia high school teacher was arrested Tuesday after being accused of having sex with seven students, one of whom was 15.
The Charlton County dis-trict attorney charged DaNita Wilson, 32, with seven counts of sexual assault, and more charges may still be pending, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
“After we began the inves-tigation, there was enough that developed to arrest Ms. Wilson,” bureau assistant special agent in charge Stacy Carson said. “The investiga-tion is still ongoing.”
Six of the victims are over the age of 16, the legal age of consent in Georgia, while the seventh was 15 years old, Carson said. One was a for-mer student who has since graduated.
“Some of the (relation-ships) had been going on for at least one year or longer,” Carson said.
Wilson has also been sus-
pended with pay, in accor-dance with regulations, until she has a formal hearing regarding her employment.
District officials began the inquiry Monday after receiv-ing a complaint about the teacher.
“We received informa-tion within the school sys-tem,” said Charlton County Schools Superintendent John Lairsey. “The main meetings continued on Tuesday. At that point, we got the sher-iff’s office and GBI involved, and (Wilson) was removed from class before lunch.”
Lairsey, who used to be the principal at Charlton County High School where Wilson worked, said he knew her.
“There was no reason, no indication, that this would occur,” he said.
Wilson has been at the school for a decade, he said. She typically taught ninth-grade math.
Lairsey escorted Wilson to waiting local and state inves-tigators, he said.
“I gave her a letter explain-ing her suspension, and I transferred her to their cus-tody,” he said. “There was very little dialogue.”
High school Principal Joshua M. Howard sent a letter Wednesday informing all parents of “inappropriate conduct by an employee,” offering counseling services to students and assuring par-ents of their children’s safety.
“We are dedicated to the well-being to all of our stu-dents and are fully cooperat-ing with the GBI and their investigation,” Lairsey said. “Anytime a school system employee or teacher com-mits an act that is inappropri-ate, that gives us a black eye on educators everywhere.”
Wilson’s bond was set at $35,000, $5,000 for each count of sexual assault. No other court dates have been set.
Lairsey said a hearing regarding Wilson’s job would be scheduled within 10 days.
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