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Students from Oregon State University’s acapella groups Divine and Outspoken, as well as the Glee Club, perform at winter term’s final Music a la Carte session in the Memorial Union Lounge on Friday afternoon.
Student singers draw crowd in memorial union OSU scientist helps investigate damage by Japan tsunami n Harry Yeh of OSU shares about
analysis, land survey project of damage to Fukushima
By James ShrieveThe Daily BaromeTer
Just over a year ago, citizens of Japan were struck with one of the most devastating natural disasters ever documented.
An Oregon State University scien-tist is part of a team that became the first to investigate the scale of dam-age to Fukushima, Japan, after it was hit by a tsunami last March.
No one had been allowed within a 20 mile radius of the city for the last 11 months due to radiation coming from the damaged power plant.
The team was composed of three scientists, including Harry Yeh, a civil engineer from OSU, two civil engi-neers from the Fukushima Prefecture and two employees from a local con-struction company to help guide them through the area. The team conducted their analysis on Feb. 6 and 7.
They surveyed the entire area to within two kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, investigating 27 points in total.
“In the 40 km span [20 km radi-us], we found the run-up height at Fukushima was higher than the southern part of Japan, but also slightly higher than the northern-most part of Japan, yet the earth-quake source was north of the power plant,” Yeh said.
One conjecture they have, and this has yet to be determined, is that a wave from the north and the south combined before they hit Fukushima, causing even more dam-age to the area than the rest of Japan. “We cannot say yet whether this is true or not,” Yeh said. “If it is, the con-sequences are very severe because of the power plant.”
Their data join an ever-increasing amount of information collected from the tsunami and the damage done to Japan. As useful as the data are for understanding the damage done to Japan, there is a larger goal in mind for the tsunami experts at work.
“Using the numbers from the coast analysis, we might be able to deter-mine what happened seismically. Knowing the earthquake time and run-up height, we may be able to find the tsunami source. With run-up heights, we can get initial estimates for the movement of the sea floor. We can connect this with the seismic data and create a better model,” Yeh said. “With a better model, we can get a better prediction of tsunamis. This would be used for future warn-ing systems.”
Their ultimate goal, he continued, is to develop a better understanding of these events so that when they happen in the future, we will be bet-ter prepared to handle them.
The simulations of the waves that hit Fukushima specifically could determine the height of the waves that hit the power plant, which would help to improve protection measures for nuclear plants in the future. Sadly, the team was not able to get near enough to the power plant to check the run-up heights.
Corvallis Youth Symphony takes it to Broadway
Combining ethics with managementn Keith Leavitt discusses
research, how it could alter the facade of business profession
By Tony SantilliThe Daily BaromeTer
Keith Leavitt is an assistant pro-fessor at Oregon State University in the College of Business. Leavitt uses ethics research to create a positive environment in classes, organiza-tions and workplaces. He, along with his colleagues, have recently had an ethics paper accepted for publica-tion in the Academy of Management Journal.
Q: What was it like to be a pro-fessor at West Point? Is it similar to OSU?
A: West Point was a very interest-
ing experience. It was definitely a lot more structure than OSU students have to their lives. Everything that happens at West Point is planned out for them; their day is highly structured. They are motivated, but lack the creativity that OSU students have.
West Point students have been on that life path for a while, and it was their goal to get there. The point of that institution is to really [prepare] people for being Army officers, but at a state land grant like OSU, our job is to not only uphold standards, but to help people find what they should be equipped to be. That’s one big difference.
Also, when I was there I was work-ing in the Army’s ethic center. So rather than just being a professor at
West Point, I was specifically assigned to the ethics think tank. My job was a little different there too. I taught some, but [mostly did] research on ethical issues in the army. All in all, I enjoy being at OSU.
Q: Can you describe the accom-plishment you had a few days ago?
A: My colleagues and I just got an ethics paper accepted at the Academy of Management Journal. Academy Management is our biggest and premier journal. For manage-ment, you may see one ethics paper a year on average, so it kind of was an uphill battle to do an ethics research paper in there. The focus of that paper is on multiple occupational identities, people who are engineers
n High school students in symphony performed their annual spring cabaret Saturday at the alumni center on campus
By Annecy BeaucheminThe Daily BaromeTer
On Saturday, March 10, the Corvallis Youth Symphony performed at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center in “Cabaret Does Broadway.”
The spring cabaret is the symphony’s annual fundraiser. The event begins with dinner and an auction, then moves on to the Youth Symphony’s performance, along with dessert.
The Corvallis Youth Symphony is made up of several different age groups. Of these, the high school orchestra performed Saturday; a group of around 80 students.
This year, the band Opus 7 played dance music after the performance for those who wanted to stick around. What made this year’s performance unique was the Broadway themes.
conTriBuTed phoTo | KEITH LEAvITT
Leavitt is an assistant professor in business at OSU. See LeAViTT | page 3
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Audience members who attended the performance by the Corvallis Youth Symphony, which con-sists of multiple age groups, also enjoyed dinner and an auction Saturday evening. See JApAn | page 3See Symphony | page 3
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U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killing spreeAn American soldier went
on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in south-ern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan’s president called an “unforgiv-able” crime.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the soldier acted alone and turned himself in after opening fire on civilians. U.S. President Barack Obama called the kill-ings “tragic and shocking,” and offered his condolences to the Afghan people in a phone call to his counterpart in Kabul, Hamid Karzai, the White House said.
But the attack is likely to fur-ther more anger at internation-al forces following deadly riots over the burning of Qurans by U.S. troops.
“The Afghan people can withstand a lot of pain,” Prince Ali Seraj, the head of the National Coalition for Dialogue with the Tribes of Afghanistan, told CNN. “They can with-stand collateral damage. They can withstand night raids. But murder is something that they totally abhor, and when that happens, they really want justice.”
In a statement issued by his office, Karzai said the killings took place in the district of Panjwai, about 25 km (15 miles) southwest of Kandahar, south-ern Afghanistan’s major city. Haji Agha Lali, a member of the provincial council, told CNN the soldier had attacked four houses in two nearby villages.
“We call this an intentional act,” Karzai said. He said the dead included four men, three women and nine children, call-ing the killings “acts of terror and unforgivable.” Another five people were wounded, he said.
Capt. Justin Brockhoff, an ISAF spokesman, said the wounded Afghans were being treated in ISAF facilities. The allied command did not give its own estimate of casualties.
Brockhoff said officials do not yet have a motive for the shooting, which is under investigation by both NATO and Afghan officials. And Maj. Jason Waggoner, another ISAF spokesman, said the soldier “was acting on his own.”
There were no military oper-ations in the area, either on the ground or in the air, at the time, according to two senior ISAF officials who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. They said only one soldier, an Army staff sergeant, is believed to have been involved.
A third ISAF official said Afghan troops spotted the sol-dier leaving his combat outpost around 3 a.m. Sunday and noti-fied their American counter-parts. The U.S. military did an immediate headcount, found the soldier was missing and dis-patched a patrol to go look for him, the official said.
The officials said they have no knowledge at this point whether he had any previous medical or mental health issues in his record.
The patrol met him as he returned and took him into custody. He said nothing, and it was unclear whether they knew what had happened, the official said.
“We don’t know what moti-vated this individual, and we’re not sure where this is going to take us,” Capt. John Kirby, an ISAF spokesman, told CNN. But he said ISAF’s commander, Gen. John Allen, “has made it clear this investigation is going to be thorough. It’s going to be
done rapidly, in an expeditious way, and we’re going to hold the perpetrator of these attacks to account.”
The news brought a wave of condemnations from top American officials. In a state-ment issued by the White House, Obama said the U.S. military will “get the facts as quickly as possible and to hold accountable anyone responsible.”
“I am deeply saddened by the reported killing and wounding of Afghan civilians. I offer my condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, and to the people of Afghanistan, who have endured too much violence and suffering,” Obama said. “This incident is tragic and shocking, and does not repre-sent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan.”
In a separate statement, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he was “shocked and sad-dened” by the attack and said the suspect was “clearly act-ing outside his chain of com-mand.” Allen called the kill-ings “deeply appalling,” and acting U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham said his country was “saddened by this violent act against our Afghan friends.”
“We deplore any attack by a member of the U.S. Armed Forces against innocent civil-ians,” he said in a video state-ment, assuring “the people of Afghanistan that the individual or individuals responsible for this terrible act will be identi-fied and brought to justice.”
But Seraj, a member of Afghanistan’s former royal fam-ily, said the killings are likely to play into the hands of the Taliban, the Islamic funda-
mentalist movement that has battled the U.S.-led coalition for a decade.
“They are really going to milk this for all it’s worth,” Seraj said, adding, “This is playing right into their program of psy-chological warfare against the Afghan people.”
The Taliban has already said that the deaths were the result of a night raid by several sol-diers and put the death toll at 50, but it regularly exaggerates casualty figures.
Seraj called for a joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the killings, saying Afghans will want to see “quick and decisive justice.”
“We cannot whitewash this and get this young man out of Afghanistan and send him back to the Untied States. That is the worst thing we can do at this time,” he said. And he questioned how the soldier left his post in the pre-dawn hours, adding, “I know the Kandahar base. A fly cannot get in without being searched.”
Kandahar and the sur-rounding region is the home of the Taliban, and eight of the 69 coalition troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year died in the province. But Kirby said the area has been “a big success story” for the allied campaign, and he said Allen has made clear that the coalition strategy won’t be affected by Sunday’s killings.
“As tragic as this incident is, it would be a larger tragedy to affect the mission at large and what we’re trying to do for the country,” he said.
“We’re going to continue to be out there among the popu-lace,” he added. “We’re going to contiue to try to beat back this insurgency.”
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Coming off another vic-tory in conservative territory, Rick Santorum on Sunday rejected arguments that frontrunner Mitt Romney’s lead in the delegate count for the Republican presiden-tial nomination was virtually insurmountable.
“This isn’t a mathematical formula — this race has a tre-mendous amount of dynam-ics,” Santorum told the NBC program “Meet the Press” the day after winning the Kansas caucuses to bolster his sec-ond-place standing behind Romney.
According to CNN’s esti-mate, Romney had 458 del-egates, compared with 203 for Santorum, 118 for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 66 for Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
A candidate needs 1,144 delegates at the Republican convention this summer to secure the nomination to face President Barack Obama in November.
Romney’s campaign said the candidate won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Saturday to bolster his delegate lead despite los-ing Kansas to Santorum.
However, the Kansas loss showed Romney’s continued inability to win a conserva-tive state, and results gen-erally show that combining the support of conserva-tives Gingrich and Santorum exceeds the backing for Romney.
The focus of the campaign shifts to the conservative Deep South for Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, while Hawaii and
American Samoa will hold caucuses on the same day.
On Monday, comedian Jeff Foxworthy — who is popu-lar among Southern conser-vatives for his redneck jokes and Blue Collar Comedy Tour — will campaign for Romney in Mississippi and Alabama.
Santorum and Gingrich are vying to oust the other to become the sole con-servative challenger to the more moderate Romney as the campaign heads into a series of contests in coming weeks including major states such as Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and Wisconsin.
Gingrich insisted Sunday he was in the campaign for the long haul, despite calls from Santorum backers for him to drop out so that con-servative voters can coalesce around one candidate.
So far, Gingrich has won two Southern states — South Carolina and Georgia — in a strategy focused on building a Deep South stronghold.
Santorum’s Super Tuesday victory in Tennessee dent-ed Gingrich’s plan, and a Gingrich spokesman said last week the candidate had to win both Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday to remain credible. Gingrich, however, sounded intent on dispelling that notion Sunday.
“I think we’ll win both,” he told “Fox News Sunday,” adding that he started from behind but “I think we’re probably polling ahead in both states right now.”
Later on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Gingrich sounded less certain of a double victory but equally
determined to remain in the race well beyond Tuesday.
“We’re going to get a lot of delegates in both Mississippi and Alabama, and I think the odds are pretty good that we’ll win them,” Gingrich said, later adding that he was “committed to going all the way to Tampa” for the Republican convention in Florida in August.
An American Research Group survey last week of likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi showed Gingrich with 35 percent sup-port to 31 percent for Romney, 20 percent for Santorum and 7 percent for Paul. The poll’s four percentage-point sam-pling error meant Gingrich and Romney were in a statis-tical tie.
Gingrich is focusing his campaign on energy policy, complaining that Obama is bowing to foreign oil suppli-ers such as Saudi Arabia and the environmental lobby by not fully exploiting U.S. oil reserves.
He also took aim at Santorum on Sunday, say-ing on CBS that the for-mer Pennsylvania senator was part of big spending in Congress while Gingrich’s record involved balancing the budget.
“I represent the Reagan tra-dition of very large ideas,” Gingrich said. “He represents being a team player on a Washington team.”
Santorum campaigned in Mississippi after his talk show interview Sunday, tell-ing an event in Tupelo that he can win enough delegates to secure the nomination ahead of the convention, or at least
prevent Romney from reach-ing the winning threshold.
“We feel good we’re in a position to win it,” Santorum said, adding “if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well.”
He took exception with the media reporting Romney as holding a wide lead in del-egates won so far, saying “the news agency apportion del-egates that have nothing to do with the reality of where the delegates are going to be.”
For example, Santorum said he expected to win a strong majority of Iowa’s del-egates despite a narrow vic-tory in the state’s caucuses back in January.
“These numbers are going to change dramatically and as you also know, a lot of these delegates are uncom-mitted,” Santorum said.
Santorum’s victory in Kansas — which his top rivals essentially ceded — came on the heels of his three victories on Super Tuesday last week. His campaign said tea party loyalists and conservatives continue to rally around him, and he went after Romney on Sunday as a shifting candi-date with no loyalty to con-servative principles.
“He went out and mis-led voters that somehow or another he was not for man-dates at the federal level when in fact he was,” Santorum told NBC of Romney’s position on health care reform. “ ... He’s repeatedly had big gov-ernment solutions and then gone out and told the public bald-faced that he didn’t do the things that he did.”
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and managers, or people who are soldiers, but they are also medics. They have these different hats that they put on, and what we found was that there were very sudden cues, including watermarks on the page or sentence-sentence scrambling tasks. We were able to bring those identi-ties to the surface of the conscious awareness.
People’s moral judgments change quite a bit because of that. So we like to think of ethics as character, or who you are. But what this paper really demonstrated is that it is much more who you are in the moment.
Q: Do you have current research that you are working on?
A: Yeah, I have a lot of ongoing research. One thing in particular that I’m working on is researching people who lie online. We actually don’t have a good understanding from psychol-ogy or management why people lie in the workplace. Our argument is basi-cally for other people, or on behalf of people, to smooth over social processes.
There are times in which that group can be more effective, it can be facili-tated for a positive thing. There are
conditions in which people being dishonest can cause an awful lot of harm in organizations even if it’s well-intended or well-motivated.
Also, I’m continuing my research on rudeness. There is a lot of research that shows that rudeness kills creativ-ity in teams and it harms people’s per-formance, making them disengage from team processes. So we are trying to figure out what allows people to recover from moments of rudeness in the workplace.
Q: What else can you add about ethics and teaching?
A: One of my passions with my research and my teaching is on orga-nizational ethics. Increasingly in a modern world, for businesses to be successful they need to not only be financially responsible, but need to use markets to put good into the world and positive things, such as treating employees well by taking care and developing them, that’s really how successful organizations and communities operate.
Part of my mission in management is to make it something that people see as a honorable profession rather than having a negative impact on society.
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LeAViTTn Continued from page 3
When the team began developing a plan for where they would go in Fukushima, the exceptionality of their endeavor came to light.
Alicia Lyman-Holt, education and out-reach coordinator for the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at OSU, described the particular circumstances as “a unique exam-ple because of the exclusion zone the local government established due to the radiation. Normally, scientists try to get in as soon as possible after the event, as the data is very time-sensitive.”
Over time, the city had become marshy and much of the debris still remained. There was no way of knowing which roads were inacces-sible or which buildings were still standing.
The team used a novel approach to form a plan. “It used to be much more difficult to determine where to go in these damaged areas. We used Google Earth to help guide us to the places, see the road conditions and flooding,” Yeh said.
The government has said the plant is now stable, although it will take decades to decon-taminate the area. It is not known when the residents of Fukushima will be able to move back in, or when the city itself will be com-pletely rebuilt.
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JApAnn Continued from page 3
Usually, the Youth Symphony performs classical music at events, but this year, they decided to go with songs from musi-cals that most people can recognize.
Songs performed included medleys of several songs from a single musical or several, including “West Side Story,” “Oliver!” and “Broadway Showstoppers,” the show’s opening piece, which blend-ed music from “Cabaret,” “Mame,” “The Band Wagon” and “Annie Get Your Gun.”
Single songs from musicals were also per-formed, many including student vocalists and dancers taking the stage to act out the scene from the original show, such as in “You’re Nothing Without Me” from “City of Angels.”
Kristen Herlihy, a student in the Youth Symphony performing at Saturday’s event said, “It was really fun to play all the Broadway songs.”
Student Makenna Carrico added that she enjoyed how “people could recog-nize all the songs.” When asked what her favorite was from the performance,
she answered, “For me, it was definitely ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’” referring to an instrumental medley of songs from the musical. “It was really diverse, real-ly spread out — and the cellos got the melody.”
Herlihy’s favorite was also “Fiddler on the Roof”. Another student, Margaret Hyde, claimed that her favorite to per-form was “probably ‘West Side Story’...It was really well arranged.”
Annecy Beauchemin, staff reporter737-2231 [email protected]
Symphonyn Continued from page 3
The idea of a gun ban on campus makes sense on paper. If people aren’t
allowed to bring guns on cam-pus, there will be less chances of an individual going ballistic and shooting people.
However, that isn’t exactly the case. A person who has already committed to the idea of shooting people isn’t going to be deterred by a simple gun ban. Along the same lines, allowing people with a concealed weapons permit on campus does not make campus any safer.
In Oregon, an extensive back-ground check, fingerprinting pro-cess and even steps to remove permits from convicted felons may make the concealed weap-ons permit process seem safer. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case everywhere in the United States. Florida, for example, is overbur-dened with requests from fel-ons that they don’t always follow proper procedure to make sure only the “law-abiding” citizens are the ones with permits. In fact, Florida has had several incidents of concealed weapons carriers just pulling their gun out and shooting people.
The New York Times wrote an article on gun bans, pointing out that many of the people who are allowed to have concealed weap-ons permits have also had seri-ous problems with alcohol and drug abuse. While that may only be a small percentage of the permit-carrying population, it doesn’t exactly help support the cause. That shouldn’t cause the
anti-gun groups to cheer, say-ing that Oregon State University did the right thing, because you can’t hold a few misguided people responsible for the actions of the entire group.
I’m sure by now, the Second Amendment activists are arguing about how this ban infringes on their constitutional right, and so on and so forth. While that may be true, they should ask them-selves: do they really need to take a concealed gun to their philoso-phy class?
The Second Amendment was established to give the people the right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government or home invaders. Sure, some crimes could have been prevented if ol’ dead eye was there to gun the felon down. Even Virginia Tech University may have been able to end the mas-sacre in 2007 much sooner if there was a Dirty Harry-type person there to shoot the gunman. But those with concealed weapons could just as easily miss and harm more people by shooting back at the gunman, especially if the tar-get was in a crowd.
Nevertheless, the campus gun ban is pointless, because a crimi-nal isn’t going to care about some sort of ban when they’ve already decided to commit a crime. There is no causal evidence to suggest that owning guns reduce crime rates. Several studies have shown that when everyone and their mother had a gun, crime rates dropped significantly.
On the other hand, Japan has a complete ban on firearms — from automatics to handguns — and their crime rates are almost non-existent. That might also have to do with their culture and the idea of community — people sharing, trying to get along — unlike the American way of ignoring neigh-bors and everyone else around you. Not to say that such a thing doesn’t occur in Japan, but the
distinctions are key when cor-relating crime rates and firearm bans.
However, an even bigger issue here is that guns are altogether pointless today. First, physically, there is a lot less skill in shooting a fully automatic weapon to take down your opponent than there is in hand-to-hand or even sword-to-sword combat. It has essential-ly become more of a hobby than a requirement to be able to handle a gun. I’ve shot rifles, handguns and even a full-auto M16, but I still find guns to be lacking in rel-evance and application.
Going hiking with my grandfa-ther to go shoot cans and bottles, we brought along his .22 or his Weatherby; that is some of the best fun I’ve had. But it never required much skill or purpose — only for good fun. Sure, there are people who do trick shooting like the TV show “Top Shot” or the military operations — which do require training — but that’s about all the use we have for guns nowadays.
Unless you are in the military, defending your home or practic-ing trick shooting, you don’t really need to be carrying a gun. Finding ways to limit the availability of guns to criminals will do much more than a silly little ban on guns on campus.
In comparison, the smoking ban wasn’t put into place to help anyone quit, but rather desired by a few people who are inconve-nienced by a little smoke on their walk to class. As a non-smoker, but occasional cigar smoker, and as an individual who doesn’t own guns, I find both bans to be point-less and misguided.
Before the gun ban, how many lives were saved by people car-rying a concealed weapon? In my four years here, I have yet to hear of a case where a concealed weapons permit carrier heroically saved the day. There’s simply no way to determine that.
Let us be honest here: the gun ban might be a pointless endeav-or, but firearms have also become a pointless object of society.
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Campus gun ban a pointless endeavor and guns are a pointless possession
We’ve seen the federal failures in solar projects – unfortunately becoming a smoking gun for the financial
gambles on renewable energy — and Japan’s nuclear disaster has only frightened more away from the transitional potential of nuclear ener-gy. Wind, however, remains renewable energy incarnate; the image of a windmill still inspires hope of a solution to our energy predicament.
But wind brings its share of environmen-tal hazards as well, and until we scientifi-cally address the situation — through research and policy — wind may ultimately fail like its counterparts.
Unlike Europe, the United States has not seen wind energy make a serious impact in the financial marketplace. According to the 2010 World Wind Energy Association Report, Denmark, Portugal and Spain lead the world in wind power, and the European Wind Energy Association estimates employment in the wind industry in the EU will nearly double by 2020.
Now, the United States is still second in the world in total wind capacity behind China, and some states, like California, have found a niche for wind, possibly hinting at an even-tual market for the renewable. But generally, in the United States, wind energy is still lagging behind.
One possible reason: the economics of
renewable energy has been eroded to a point of no return, a stalemate — one side lives in the now and expects fossil fuels to remain market-able for the foreseeable future, and the other realizes it takes financial sacrifice to jump-start a new energy sector, one that will (ideally) dominate the future.
But another cause for concern is the effect turbines have on the environment, especially given the assumption that renewables lessen the impact on our planet. And in a hypocriti-cal sort of manner, true conservationists have seemingly avoided this one particular issue.
The American Bird Conservancy estimates nearly 440,000 birds are killed each year by windmills — about 14 birds per megawatt of wind energy. According to the WWEA, the United States added roughly 5,600 MW of wind energy in 2010 alone. It’s a situation that could get out of hand fairly quickly.
Of course, it’d be naïve to suggest wind tur-bines are the end-all to the avian community — as silly as it sounds, planes, power lines, win-dows, cats and habitat destruction all demand the same amount of attention. Particularly, the latter resonates with the Oregon community.
Just over twenty years ago, the federal gov-
ernment put the Northern Spotted Owl on the Endangered Species list. The move left many in the timber industry concerned over future legislation and regulations in the business. It has since been an off-and-on battle between human and animal welfare — neither side pleased with the ultimate decision.
Even worse, over the past 25 years, the spot-ted owl has seen a 40 percent decline. And now, the Oregon legislature is considering a new plan that involves killing off barred owls, the spotted owls’ habitat competitor in the region. It makes the timber industry question if their practice was the main culprit of the spotted owls’ decline in the first place.
In short, we’ve seen an industry hampered by the unforeseen environmental impacts before — no matter if it is in fact the main cause for concern. And wind energy may follow a similar theme.
Today, many energy developers are required to set initial guidelines for their turbine proj-ects, incorporating some mitigation plan for these endangered species that may be at risk once the turbines go up.
Just last month, the government began to review a permit for a 52-turbine wind farm project for a California-based wind energy company, West Butte Wind Power LLC, in Deschutes County, Oregon. According to the
company, the project could power as many as 50,000 homes.
The permit would allow for their project to “take” — meaning “to harass, harm…kill, trap…or collect” an endangered species, according to the ESA — three protected golden eagles over the next five years, as long as the company meets the conservation commitments cited in its proposal. If ultimately issued, the permit requires the company to be certain there is no “net loss” of the golden eagle population — i.e., if one bird is killed, the company must be sure they contribute to the breeding of another.
The jury is still out on the reality — or at least significance — of turbines and the effects on migratory bird populations. However, if the spotted owl and timber industry’s clash foreshadows the future, wind may face a much more daunting task than overcoming a com-petitive market.
Renewable energy, conservation and protec-tion of our resources — they go hand in hand. But as of now, wind doesn’t fit that mold. Until it does, we won’t weed out the hypocrisy in finding a sustainable and low-impact energy source for the future. And that’s the ultimate goal, isn’t it?
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Rebel without a pulse
Why Obama’s won election 2012The fight for GOP front-runner
has been a vicious battle, a gruesome spectacle complete
with blood and gnashing teeth, leav-ing behind little more than a pile of deceased campaigns and the survivors posturing for position. Voters are torn about who the right person for the job is in the 2012 Republican nomination race.
With no candidate able to maintain a firm grasp on the majority vote, the hopeful elects have resorted to differ-entiating their meager campaigns by means of malignity and defamation of their same-sided opponents. Voters seem weary of whom to put their faith in and vote for. Meanwhile, Democrats have their man along with a bolstered confidence in the direction our president is taking us.
Assuming one of the candidates is left standing after the nomination pro-cess, there lingers another, larger ques-tion — will the elected nominees’ cam-paign maintain credibility, and will it be good enough to defeat President Barack Obama?
Everyone remembers the 2008 Obama campaign slogans of “hope” and “change” — proudly optimistic, yet vague enough to be rendered indefin-able all at once. It was the perfect cam-paign with the perfect person to back it.
Now, sit back and think hard about this — what are the 2012 Republican campaign slogans? Exactly.
This is not the 2008 election. A large majority of the population still has hope that the promised change is on its way. According to “RealClearPolitics,” 49 percent of Americans are satisfied with Obama’s performance and wish to keep him on board. As of now, only 44 percent find Romney, the current Republican front-runner, to be a favorable substitute.
In a poll measuring satisfaction of Americans in major issues and policies such as health care reform, immigration laws and unemployment, a near-even split of approval to disapproval of major issues handled in Obama’s presidency suggests feelings of contention among the people of America.
This has been ugly warfare fought by the Republican candidates. More is known about the personal lives and shortcomings of Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin and Herman Cain than about their qualifications to presidency. These past and present can-didates spend so much time attempting to point out each other’s flaws; they are failing to realize the simultaneous impli-cations arising from their own actions, creating a public relations disaster.
It shouldn’t be a secret to anyone that the majority of voters are extremely
uneducated on the issues the respected politicians endorse. Decisions are often based on personal voting history, or a stumbled-upon fragment of information about a candidate, on which grounds often constitute for the complete deci-sion. A simple and powerful statement or expressed feeling often can build better sentiments among society than either words or actions.
Optimism is a difficult beast to bring down. The 2008 Obama campaign brought an optimism people believed in, with many still carrying those unwaver-ing sentiments around with them like an old gift card you don’t want to admit is no longer worth its weight.
It often seems that whether or not a current president is re-elected often hinges on if the president has done any-thing terrible enough to not warrant a re-election. While mistakes were made in George W. Bush’s first term, none of them were bad enough to hinder the approbation of a second term. The 2012 Republican Party nominees are plagued by foolish misstatements, easily inter-preted as a reflection of incompetence.
There’s also security in the familiar. Obama has earned that familiarity with the people. I don’t think anyone still believes the world is on the brink of catastrophe. He has, so far, proved he can guide a country without driving it off a cliff or getting himself into trouble.
Look around; is America really much different than it was three years ago? With the exception of a few bills that could be reversed in a few years, Obama has done nothing outside the norms of any presidency to suggest a sign of worse things to come. A lot of people approve of what is happening in America, and that will be a difficult thing for the Republican Party to counter.
Experience goes a long way with vot-ers. Those who are satisfied with the direction, or lack thereof, in which Obama has taken us will likely vote for him again, even if for no other reason than maintaining a current state of com-fort in the familiar actions of a seasoned leader.
Romney has been moving ahead of the pack, distinguishing himself as the most likely face for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Still, a large number of voters would prefer the bit-tersweet familiarity of an Obama-run America than take a chance with the unknown in a mild-flavored Republican.
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In consideration of nihilism
Does not preclude morals
Contrary to what you would expect, I’m not here to tell you off for being an atheist; I actually agree with you for the most part.
What I’m responding to is your dragging of nihilism through the mud by equating it with mugging people out-side of bowling allies. Just as atheists don’t require religion to be moral, being a nihilist doesn’t preclude a person from being moral (whatever that entails).
Bertrand Russel, widely considered to be a great man, possessed a subjectivist outlook on morality comparable to moral nihilism. Yet he lived a very moral and honest life.
I won’t attack your insistence on science giving any more purpose or meaning to life than religion, but please, next time, think of nihilists.
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‘Cyber court’ and far-reaching effectsSince when did people
like to get themselves so involved with the
issues of others? Over recent years, I’ve noticed the indif-ference people have shown to others, particularly over the Internet. I’m beginning to think that people just do not care about each other in this day and age.
But recently, there has been an increase in cases where individuals without any sort of connection to an incident or humanitarian issue will come to the aid of the group or person in need of help. It’s quite surprising to see that people have left their bubbles of “individuality” or personal space and have begun roam-ing around acting like vigilan-tes of the digital world.
Although many of the con-cerns released on the Internet are blurred out by stories of other similar themes — the “damsel in distress” or “the tragic hero and/or heroine” — some cases actually manage to make it into this “cyber-courthouse” of the web.
An example of such a case would be one concerning Judge William Adams which happened during 2004, but was not posted until Oct. 27 , 2011, by his daughter. The videos posted contained foot-age of Judge Adams and his wife crossing over the bounds of corporal punishment by beating their daughter with belts.
The response of the Internet community was quite impres-sive. A number of phone calls were made to the office of the judge; letters were sent to various media outlets ranging from Internet blogs to news-papers and magazines, which immediately requested cover-age of the issue at hand. On a lighter note, though still tell-ing, countless images of the
judge cracking jokes about his aggressive tendencies were incorporated into Internet “memes.” Even though the Judge had not received any kind of charges for the inci-dent, the fact remains that the event has left him in an extreme-ly difficult position.
A n o t h e r case, which is similar to the afore-mentioned, is that of Paul Christoforo from Ocean M a r k e t i n g who had caused uproar in the web community and more specifi-cally, the gaming community, roaming around the net.
The issue began with an e-mail from a customer who ordered a new type of gaming controller named the “aveng-er” and Paul Christoforo, who happened to be the marketing representative of this prod-uct. Responding to the e-mail with a certain viciousness unfit for customer service and in a sequence of bad deci-sions, Christoforo’s actions involved “dreadful customer service, false claims, anger, curses, bravado, promises that couldn’t be kept, an abso-lute refusal to back down and an apology for getting caught [rather than an apology for the actual actions],” accord-ing to Mike Masnick of Tech Dirt.
The issue was first posted on a popular gaming comic, “Penny Arcade,” and then spread out like a brushfire through various sites and
sources. With an amazing show of force, the community continued to bombard the media for coverage of the issue and even went to the point of individuals hacking into Christoforo’s blog. In a matter of a few hours, Christoforo’s company had collapsed, his ties with his remaining clients had severed and according
to “Kotaku,” another site c o v e r i n g the issue, Christoforo h i m s e l f claimed, “At the end of the day, I’m a human being, and it feels like the entire world was bullying me.”
These two issues have shown the extent of power that the Internet has upon issues near and far. In see-ing the various arguments surrounding such issues, it almost reminds one of court processions, where one side, usually the sympathizers, defend their side with accu-mulated evidence and sup-port, and the other side, doubting the need of going so far with such an issue, acts as the jury, reading and analyz-ing the overall argument.
This “cyber-court” has stepped up to the plane of international issues with the introduction of the Kony
2012 movement spreading throughout the net. Up until now, the court has focused on small-scale cases of indi-viduals committing miscon-ducts, which could be seen as being more of an individual or national issue. However, with Kony 2012, it has begun recruiting members to bring an actual off-shore warlord to justice.
Looking at the result of the previous incidents, it is quite clear that this Internet criti-cism and concern will not necessarily result in any dras-tic actions from the govern-ment on this issue, and will probably not end up the way everyone wants it to. However, we can see that this “cyber-court” can have a definite effect on the publicity and attention toward the issue at hand.
The “cyber-courthouse” stationed within the digital confines of the web are acces-sible by anyone wanting to take part in being an active jury member from their own house on issues others are fac-ing without having to pay any money to have a voice. This new idea of a digital court is steadily spreading throughout the net, with many partak-ing in justice. Anyone can get their voice heard for the great-er good — according to those who “speak up” online.
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Jun Yoon is a junior in English. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Yoon can be reached at [email protected].
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A recent rash of killings of people perceived to be gay or emo in Iraq has stoked fear within those communities, which worry the government might be unwilling or unable to protect them.
At least 14 such victims were killed in Baghdad in the past three weeks, according to a senior Interior Ministry offi-cial, who was not authorized to talk to the media.
Rights activists claim the number is actually much higher, with some suggesting dozens or more than 100 have been killed since February.
The killings appear to target people perceived to be gay, or emo -- shorthand in Iraq for an in-your-face style of Western dress that favors tight clothes, long hair and the color black.
Most of the killings have taken place in Shiite neighbor-hoods like Sadr City, Shulaa, Ameen and Tariq, activists said.
“Ten days ago, I received a letter from militiamen threat-ening me that if they found me then they will not kill me like other ‘perverts,’ but they will cut my body into pieces,” a gay activist told CNN on Sunday.
The activist, who spoke on the condition of anonym-ity because of safety concerns, showed CNN a copy of a letter he said was distributed in Sadr City, identifying 33 potential “gay and emo” targets.
“We strongly warn every male and female debauchee,
if you do not stop this dirty act within four days, then the pun-ishment of God will fall on you at the hands of Mujahideen,” it read.
CNN could not confirm the authenticity of the letter.
The anonymous threats and murders come less than a month after the Interior Ministry released a statement on the so-called emo phenom-enon, blasting it as Satanic.
It said the movement, which it described as young people wearing “strange and tight clothes with graphics such as skulls,” is being monitored by authorities with the goal of eliminating it.
To that end, community or “moral police” will be allowed to enter schools in the capital, the statement read.
The campaign and violence have had an immediate chill-ing effect among youth com-munities in Baghdad.
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Saad said a group of men, who identified themselves as community police, entered his classroom two weeks ago and asked students to tell them about other students’ suspi-cious behavior.
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Carlyle became the first Beaver track athlete to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She broke her own school record for the mile three separate times this season.
Carlyle competed in the preliminary round for the mile run at the NCAA Indoor Championships today. She finished the race with a time of 4:46.93, but was unable to qualify for the finals. Due to the altitude and the banked track, many distance run-ners run a slightly slower time than usual because of the differences.
“She is disappointed and she feels like she didn’t react when she needed to,” head coach Kelly Sullivan said. “She was on the rail for most of the race and then the group took off and she got boxed in. She didn’t really have an opportunity to get out of the box, and by the time she did the first four or five had already gotten away.
That was the first time she has ever run on a 300 meter banked-track, so it is totally different from the track up in Washington that she is used to. But this was a big accomplishment because they only bring 16 athletes for each event to this thing.”
Carlyle will earn All-American honors for the second time in her career. She received All-American honors during the 2011 outdoor season
when she qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
“We know that she want-ed to make the final and a chance to score,” Sullivan said. “We don’t really emphasize indoor much, but she still is one of the best middle-distance kids in the country. A bunch of media people grabbed her right after the race because her story is so great about her not running in high school
and only running collegiately for a short time.
It is amazing what she has accomplished to this point and I am just really proud of her. I am disap-pointed for her because she does so many things right and she works so hard. She is the one who has gone from never doing this sport to someone who is qualifying for the NCAAs on a regular basis. We will get hungry and start focusing on outdoor, so we will both go back to the drawing board and make a great plan for this spring.”
Carlyle and the rest of the Beaver track and field team will return to action March 18 when they head to Eugene, Ore. for the Oregon Preview.
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DENVER, Colo. — Even though Oregon State didn’t win its final road meet of the season, the Beavers showed improvement by posting their second-best team score away from home this year.
No. 22 University of Denver won the meet on Saturday with a score of 196.725, and the No. 9 Beavers closely followed with 196.325. And Texas Women’s University finished third with
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Stambaugh, who suffered a lower leg injury last Friday, returned to all four apparatuses for the meet in Denver. Her return to all-around was a pleasant surprise, as it was unsure whether she would be able to. In the previous meet at No. 7 University of Utah, Stambaugh was only able to do vault and
uneven bars. It was sophomore
Brittany Harris who had the biggest night for the Beavers. A 9.850 on vault and a 9.825 on uneven bars led Harris to her 39.200 all-around score, good for the best on Oregon State University’s side, and the third best overall in the meet.
Senior Olivia Vivian’s 9.950 on the bars was the highlight of the night for Oregon State; the bars and beam tied for the best unit of the meet with 49.125. Melanie Jones also had a notable floor routine, a 9.925.
Oregon State will have one final tune-up before postseason begins. The Beavers will host New Hampshire and Seattle Pacific for Senior Night this Friday. It will be the last time performing at Gill Coliseum for seniors Leslie Mak and Vivian.
Brittany Harris 39.200 all-around
Makayla Stambaugh Competed on all-around
Laura Carlyle Competed at NCAAs
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Baseball rallies Sunday, finishes weekend 3-1n OSU score 11 straight Sunday
to top No. 22 Oklahoma day after losing to Connecticut
By Andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer
Going into the bottom of the seventh inning of the Oregon State baseball team’s fourth game of the Nike College Showcase against No. 22 Oklahoma, only one thing had been worse than the steady downpour mixed with a relentless hail storm — Oregon State’s play.
After a barrage of errors and men-tal mistakes, something happened during the seventh inning stretch. With OSU trailing 7-3, the clouds began to part, and the rain and hail were suddenly replaced with sun. As if the baseball gods themselves were smiling down on the strug-gling Beavers, Oregon State exploded with an incredible five-run inning to grab hold of a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
The improbable win came after a disappointing loss to Connecticut the previous night in which the Beavers blew a 3-1 lead.
“We didn’t play very good funda-mental baseball yesterday or today, but the one thing we did today that we didn’t do yesterday was compete,” said head coach Pat Casey. “If you’re not playing good baseball and not competing, you’re assured a loss, but if you play bad baseball but compete you have a chance and that’s what we did today.”
The decisive inning started with a lined double by junior centerfielder Max Gordon, followed by a single from junior second baseman Tyler Smith, and then back-to-back dou-bles by freshman outfielder Michael Conforto and freshman pitcher/des-ignated hitter Dylan Davis. Junior first baseman Danny Hayes then drove in the fifth and final run of the inning when he reached on an error.
Oregon State tacked on three insur-ance runs in the eighth behind back-to-back homeruns by Davis and then senior shortstop Ryan Dunn, which proved to be the final blow for the Sooners.
Besides the comeback, Davis was the story of the game. The right-handed pitcher walked three batters
and allowed two earned runs while only recording one out in the first inning. He was replaced by righty Scott Schultz, but remained in the game as the designated hitter.
Davis more than made up for his struggles on the mound, compiling three hits, five RBI’s, and homerun in five at bats.
“I’ve done a lot of growing up as a player,” said Davis. “I’m pretty even keeled but I used to let little things get to me. I would let nega-tive things carry over into other parts of my game. Today I didn’t have my best stuff on the mound but I knew that those two runs were mine so I tried to help out my team in other ways.”
Freshman righty Riley Wilkerson
was key in relief for Oregon State, earning his first win as a Beaver. Despite walking three batters, Wilkerson managed to escape the sixth inning unscathed and had a big strikeout in the seventh to retire the side.
Freshman southpaw Carlos Rodriguez was also big in relief pitching three scoreless innings that included only one hit, and junior right hander Tony Bryant earned the save after a dominating ninth inning that featured two strikeouts includ-ing the last out of the ballgame.
“It’s unusual for a starter to only last one inning and the one thing about that is that we were kind of out of bullets,” said Casey. “When you have to take your starter out in
the first inning, it’s tough to win ball games, but our relief guys did a fan-tastic job today.”
The win gave OSU a record of 3-1 for the weekend, and 11-5 on the sea-son. Oregon State beat West Virginia 11-0 on Friday, and Illinois 8-2 on Saturday before falling to the Huskies during the night game.
The victory on Sunday was a huge momentum boost for the Beavers as they travel to the University of California Friday to take on the No. 25 Golden Bears.
“It’s a huge confidence booster just to see what we can do as a team,” said Conforto. “We really competed today which was what coach’s biggest thing was for this game. That was the biggest difference between yesterday
and today, and hopefully we can con-tinue this momentum against Cal.”
Friday’s matchup is especially important because it’s Oregon State’s first game of Pac-12 play. In a confer-ence loaded with top 25 teams, get-ting out to a fast start will be impor-tant. Though pitching and defense are still an area of concern, OSU has shown they could be a contender late in the season.
“We’ll get better,” said Casey. “We will get better, we will figure out the things we’re doing wrong and hope-fully it’s a sign that we’re a decent club if we can play that poorly and still find a way to win.”
Andrew Kilstrom, sports writerTwitter: @andrewkilstrom
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Oregon State played its first set of home games over the weekend. The Beavers finished with wins over West Virginia, Illinois and Oklahoma and a loss to Connecticut.
Beavers accept CBI bidn It’s the 3rd CBI appearance in
4 years for the Beavers, who lost in Pac-12 semis Friday
By Alex crawfordThe Daily BaromeTer
The Oregon State men’s basketball team accepted an invitation to play in the College Basketball Invitational yesterday.
OSU (19-14, 7-11 Pac-12) will host Western Illinois at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the 16-team tournament.
The Beavers, who had zero chance of receiving an at-large NCAA bid, did not receive an invitation to the 32-team NIT.
For about 24 hours last week, a large portion of the Oregon State University student body truly believed that the Beavers could win the Pac-12 Tournament.
And then the joyride that had Corvallis treating the Beavers and Jared Cunningham like Jimmy Chitwood and Hickory High School came to an end.
The guys simply just ran out of gas against Arizona, falling 72-61.
For now they will rest up their aching bodies and tired legs.
“We’ll have days off Saturday, Sunday, probably Monday. Wait around and see
if we’re invited to play in anything and then start practicing then,” coach Craig Robinson said Friday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. “But I might even give them an extra day off, and they deserve it. These guys come to work every day.”
All season long, Robinson has talked about how hard the team practiced every day, whether they lost or won the previous weekend.
Although the team — and Beaver Nation — would have liked to see that hard work translate into a few more regular season wins, the hard work did seem to pay off in the Pac-12 Tournament.
“Usually our losses have been five points and under this year. I think we lost seven games that way,” Robinson said Friday. “And each time my team came back to practice that next Monday as if they had won the game. They were working hard. So they deserve some time off.”
If Oregon State beats Western Illinois, they’ll advance to face the win-ner of Milwaukee vs. Texas Christian University on Monday, March 19.
The semifinals will take place March 21, and a best-of-three championship series will begin March 26.
Alex crawford, sports writerTwitter: @dr_crawf
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Beaver fans will get another opportunity to watch Jared Cunningham and the Beavers play at Gill Coliseum. OSU will host Western Illinois Wednesday at 7 p.m.